Dr. Chris Mwashekele

A futurist and scholar exploring alternative futures with indigenous and rural communities. Areas of focus include Indigenous knowledge, emerging technologies, local innovation, green energy and appropriate business models for rural African communities, amongst other subject domains such as conservation management and community development. 

Research Interests His Research interest in the development of socially and economically applicable technology for Namibia as well as Indigenous knowledge, Participatory design, Co-design, Technology design, Rural communities.

Publications: 
Muashekele Chris , Winschiers-Theophilus Heike, Kapuire Gereon. 2019. Co-Design as a Means of Fostering Appropriation of Conservation Monitoring Technology by Indigenous Communities. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Communities & Technologies - Transforming Communities (C&T '19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 126–130. https://doi.org/10.1145/3328320.3328383 

Winschiers-Theophilus Heike , Zaman Tariq , Maasz Donovan ,Muashekele Chris , Mbinge, Garen Jengan Uariaike , Stanley Colin , Ab Hamid Khairuddin. 2022. Indigenous Knowledge Fairs: a new approach to pluralistic knowledge dissemination in HCI. In Adjunct Proceedings of the 2022 Nordic Human-Computer Interaction Conference (NordiCHI '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 49, 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1145/3547522.3547687

Winschiers-Theophilus Heike , Zaman Tariq, Maasz Donovan , Muashekele Chris, Mbinge Uariaike, Jengan Garen, Stanley Colin, Ab Hamid Khairuddin. 2022. Indigenous Knowledge Fairs: a new approach to pluralistic knowledge dissemination in HCI. In Adjunct Proceedings of the 2022 Nordic Human-Computer Interaction Conference (NordiCHI '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 49, 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1145/3547522.3547687