Tucker, William David2013-05-032013-05-032004Tucker, W. D. (2004). Connecting bridges across the digital divide. CHI ’04 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing, pp. 1039–1040, Vienna, Austria1-58113-703-6http://hdl.handle.net/10566/591Connecting people across the Digital Divide is as much a social effort as a technological one. We are developing a community-centered approach to learn how interaction techniques can compensate for poor communication across the Digital Divide. Preliminary trials have yielded interfaces that deal with poor quality by adapting Instant Messaging techniques for multiple modalities, providing improved semi-synchronous communication. Lessons learned suggest new ways to design user interfaces specifically for the developing world.enCopyright ACM. This file may be freely used for educational purposes, as long as it is not altered in any way. Acknowledgement of the authors and the source is required.Community-centredDigital divideInstant messagingMultimodalSemi-synchronousUser interfaceConference Proceedings