Culturally
Situated Design Tools:
a two-way bridge across
the digital divide
While solutions to the "digital
divide" are often imagined as a one-way bridge,
there are a variety of ways in which we can create a two-way bridge
alternative. Culturally situated design tools use information technology
to "translate" from local knowledge and low-tech practice, to high-tech domains
such as math, computer graphics, architecture, etc. Culturally-situated design
tools allow knowledge to move in both directions across the digital divide.