Agency and Extraction in Emerging Industrial Drone Applications

Benjamin V. Hanrahan; Carleen Maitland; Timothy Brown; Anita Chen; Fraterne Kagame; Beatrice Birir

doi:10.1145/3432932

Agency and Extraction in Emerging Industrial Drone Applications

Benjamin V. Hanrahan, Carleen Maitland, Timothy Brown, Anita Chen, Fraterne Kagame, Beatrice Birir

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Rapidly diffusing 'industry 4.0' technologies stand to impact a broad range of stakeholders. Prior to implementation, forward looking formative analyses can identify systems and policy designs to promote equitable benefit. We investigate this potential through an analysis of stakeholders to a potential drone implementation on a small commercial farm in Rwanda. Translating stakeholders' imaginaries within a post-colonial frame, we identify hopes and concerns related to agency and influenced by global and local systems of power. The findings highlight constraints that recommend system designs promoting local agency and control and policies designed to balance local data management against potentially 'extractive' multinational data transfer processes.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	233
Journal	Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
Volume	4
Issue number	CSCW3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3432932
State	Published - Jan 5 2021

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Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Networks and Communications

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