Community Address Book

Presentation by Jan Chipchase and Lokesh Bitra drawing on research between 2004 and 2006 in India, Nepal and Uganda that documents phone kiosk owner’s use of paper notebooks to record the phone numbers used by their customers - the combination of the book and the kiosk operator effectively becomes the community address book and call log for the members of the community that use that kiosk. An essay on Shared Phone Use appears http://www.janchipchase.com/sharedphoneuse and related publications appear http://www.janchipchase.com/publications All photos that appear in this presentation were taken during the course of exploratory field work Photo: Village phone kiosk wall. Jan Chipchase, Uganda, 2006