'Technology is Everywhere, we have the Opportunity to Learn it in the Valley': The Appropriation of a Socio-Technical Enabling Infrastructure in the Moroccan High Atlas

Rueller, Sarah, Aal, Konstantin, Holdermann, Simon, Tolmie, Peter, Hartmann, Andrea, Rohde, Markus, Zillinger, Martin and Wulf, Volker . 'Technology is Everywhere, we have the Opportunity to Learn it in the Valley': The Appropriation of a Socio-Technical Enabling Infrastructure in the Moroccan High Atlas. Comput. Support. Coop. Work. DORDRECHT: SPRINGER. ISSN 1573-7551

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DOI:10.1007/s10606-021-09401-8

Abstract

This paper describes the appropriation processes involved in establishing a socio-technical enabling infrastructure in a valley in the High Atlas of Morocco. We focus on the challenges of co-establishing such an intervention in a rural/mountainous region that is already undergoing a process of continuous development and profound transformation. We reflect upon the changes and unforeseen appropriation by our local partners and inhabitants in the valley of a computer club primarily used as an informal learning centre for school children. We followed an ethnographic approach and combined research perspectives from both socio-informatics and anthropology. This paper sheds light on what a successful cooperation and intervention in this kind of challenging environment can look like. It does this by taking seriously competing expectations, fragile infrastructural foundations and the socio-cultural context. Despite the challenges, the intervention managed to lead to the establishment of a socio-technical enabling infrastructure that plays a particularly valuable role in local educational endeavours and that is now moving towards supporting other members of the community. The paper thus provides insights regarding what has to be considered to create a mutually beneficial cooperation with all relevant stakeholders as well as a sustainable intervention.

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Creators	Email	ORCID	ORCID Put Code
Rueller, Sarah	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Aal, Konstantin	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Holdermann, Simon	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Tolmie, Peter	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Hartmann, Andrea	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Rohde, Markus	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Zillinger, Martin	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Wulf, Volker	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED