The challenge of deployment
Srinivasan Keshav · 2013
Deploying a low-cost network in the field is not just a technological challenge, but an exercise in the introduction of technology in a particular social, cultural, and economic context. As designers, we are all too focussed on the technical aspects of the problem, but we ignore these other contexts at our peril, because these ultimately determine whether the technical solution will be adopted. To have any hope of successful adoption, the solution needs to be tailored to the needs of the ultimate users.