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Looking Past the Miracle Box: An Exploration of Tools and Practices along the e-waste Value Chain in Ghana

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Sandra Juliet Ahiataku,

Godson Rashid Dawuni,

Konstantin Aal,

Volker WulfAuthors Info & Claims

Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Volume 7, Issue GROUP

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3567565

Published: 29 December 2022 Publication History

Abstract

This paper focuses on tools to approach the practices inherent to the formal and informal e-waste value-chains in Ghana. Our series of field trips and interviews with e-waste collectors and scrap workers, repairers and retailers at their respective workplaces, as well as with domestic electronics users captured a situation in flux, where local authorities had implemented their decision to demolish the Agbogbloshie scrapyard site in Accra in July 2021 and relocate the workplaces within the city. In this situation, our exploratory perspective on tools and practices serves as a lense to identify possibilities of socio-technical support for repairing and upcycling and related community building.

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Looking Past the Miracle Box: An Exploration of Tools and Practices along the e-waste Value Chain in Ghana
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