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... Ismail and Kumar, who have worked significantly in this space, find motivations of self-empowerment in the online experience of ASHA workers positioned at the margins in their communities of practice such as their familial units, workplaces, networks of health workers, etc. [41]. Other works have included participatory accompaniment techniques with AWWs using mobile devices [96], exploratory co-design research with frontline healthworkers dealing with pregnancy care [31], and on the ground work examining the material infrastructural arrangements that impact the work of anganwadi workers in the field [100]. While ASHA workers, who come under the ministry of health, serve the general population, AWWs, who come under the ministry of women and child development, focus exclusively on women and children. ...
Data collection on the population is a key mode of public health management in the Global South. This information is seen as a means to improve health metrics through welfare programs. In this study, we examine the changes brought about by an ICT-based Real-Time Monitoring System to the infrastructure of a welfare program and the nature of work of Anganwadi workers in India. Anganwadi workers, traditionally serving as daycare providers and community health workers, are increasingly being asked to serve primarily as data collectors for the new digital system. We ask the question 'cui bono?' to this system by drawing attention to the precarity of Anganwadi workers whose care-work is standardized through this app for 'efficient' monitoring by the Indian state but remains contingent on their relationship with the local community and ability to mobilize resources on the ground. Using auto-ethnographic and interview methods, we find that Anganwadi workers are caught between conflicting demands of state bureaucracy and the situated nature of their care work resulting in forms of ambivalent care. We find that the real-time monitoring apps intended to collect data for efficient delivery of state services end up serving the state's need for performing care through data rhetorics produced at the expense of the professional and personal well-being of the workers, and arguably the communities they serve.
... The field trips included thirty-seven researchers each representing different disciplines from across the globe, including Australia, China, Denmark, Finland, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, the U.K., and the U.S., as well as nine student volunteers from India and one from Germany. The field trip approach proved to be a versatile method where useful insights were revealed around, for example, ways to support sustainable fishing practices using a mobile app (4), perspectives on personalization and privacy (21), and the role of mobile devices for workers conducting day to day tasks (23). ...
Understanding people's attitudes towards and uses of technology is an essential aspect of a successful design process. Ethnography is a proven method for acquiring this understanding. However, there are challenges to incorporating fieldwork, most notably the time factor, considered by some as the greatest barrier. This is especially true for many technology companies whose turn-around time from concept to design to implementation is accelerated. We propose a solution to the dilemma between acquiring the benefits of fieldwork with the compressed timescales of many technology projects by using focused field trips as a method for gaining rich insights into peoples' uses of and attitudes towards technologies in real-world settings. In a short amount of time (one or two days), field trips sensitize design teams to the priorities of stakeholder groups. We outline a systematic approach to incorporating field trips as a method for developing rich, qualitative insights using rapid qualitative studies.
