As researchers working in different subareas, we explore alternative approaches to designing with communities. In particular, we are enthusiastic about moving away from focusing on a community's needs toward building on its strengths. However, our varied experiences with assets-based design across …

ICTD interventions targeting practitioners fit into a common typology that can be understood as how these interventions interact with the situated and social aspects of practice. I discuss how a Communites of Practice lens may intersect with other theoretical lenses in ICTD and related fields, to …