The Collaboration Paradox: Confronting Colonial Legacies in South-North Projects

• doi:10.1145/3678884.3687138

Companion Publication of the 2024 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

This special interest group invites participants to critically examine the complex interplay between interventionist Information and Communication Technology (ICT) projects and (historical) contexts of conflict and colonialism. It aims to open conversations on the multitude of challenges, barriers, and lessons learned around South-North collaborations, particularly in contexts with a colonial past and present, including researchers and research participants safety, data “security”, applied ethics, and methodologies. This SIG aims at jointly developing ideas on how we, as academic researchers, can navigate and reframe the power dynamics inherent in global South-North collaborations.