{"id":15418,"date":"2019-08-12T12:04:16","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T16:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=15418"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:21","slug":"designing-social-technology-for-rural-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2019\/08\/12\/designing-social-technology-for-rural-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"Designing social technology for rural areas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube aligncenter wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Social Technology Fails Rural America\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/siNBbWOR_ME?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When we think about the technological divide between urban and rural communities, our minds likely go to infrastructure\u2014a lack of a physical grid, wiring, or towers to connect those in remote communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While this is a large part of the issue, School of Information doctoral student&nbsp;<strong>Jean Hardy<\/strong>&nbsp;says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.umich.edu\/news\/designing-social-technology-rural-areas\">a bigger concern is the lack of innovation in the way technological platforms are designed<\/a>, which currently favors the urban. The tech products that emerge from so-called &#8220;superstar cities&#8221; such as San Francisco and New York take an urban-centric approach to the technological needs of everyday people, creating hand-me-down solutions that just don&#8217;t work in rural settings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hardy says the funding model driving social technology design has concentrated the wealth from innovation into the hands of very few and  that locally driven, nonprofit models of social technology are best served to address the needs of smaller populations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we think about the technological divide between urban and rural communities, our minds likely go to infrastructure\u2014a lack of a physical grid, wiring, or towers to connect those in remote communities. While this is a large part of the issue, School of Information doctoral student&nbsp;Jean Hardy&nbsp;says a bigger concern is the lack of innovation in the way\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2019\/08\/12\/designing-social-technology-for-rural-areas\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[69,21,188,65],"class_list":["post-15418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-apps","tag-innovation","tag-people","tag-social"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Jean-Hardy.jpg",549,366,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Jean-Hardy-200x133.jpg",200,133,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Jean-Hardy-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Jean-Hardy.jpg",549,366,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Jean-Hardy.jpg",549,366,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Jean-Hardy.jpg",549,366,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Jean-Hardy.jpg",549,366,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Jean-Hardy-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Jean-Hardy-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Jean-Hardy-549x300.jpg",549,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Jean-Hardy.jpg",549,366,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Jean-Hardy.jpg",375,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"When we think about the technological divide between urban and rural communities, our minds likely go to infrastructure\u2014a lack of a physical grid, wiring, or towers to connect those in remote communities. 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