Beyond Traditional Ethics when Developing Assistive Technology for and with Deaf People in Developing Regions - Ethical Engineering for International Development and Environmental Sustainability - page 287

Chapter 10
Beyond Traditional Ethics when Developing
Assistive Technology for and with Deaf People
in Developing Regions

William D. Tucker

Acronyms

ACM Association of Computing Machinery

AT Assistive technology

BCS British Computer Society

CBCD Community-based co-design

CIRN Community Informatics Research Network

CODA Children of Deaf adults

CoE Centre of Excellence

DCCT Deaf Community of Cape Town

DEAFSA Deaf Federation of South Africa

DEV Computing for Development, an ACM conference

DPO Deaf People's Organisation (dedicated organisation similar to a non-

governmental or non-profi t organisation)

ECLD European Computer Driver's License

HCI Human computer interaction

ICDL International Computer Driver's License

ICT Information and communication technology

ICTD ICT and Development, a conference (and fl avour of research and

practise related to ICTD; see Sterling and Rangaswamy 2010 )

ICT4D ICT for Development

IEEE-CS Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers Computer Society

IM Instant Messaging

IRB Institutional review board

ITU International Telecommunications Union