Sarah Kiden

I am a design researcher, OpenDoTT PhD student and Mozilla Foundation Fellow. My research usesSarah is a technologist and researcher working on technology solutions for communities and teaching networking for development. She was a 2017-2018 Ford-Mozilla fellow hosted by Research ICT Africa and working on broadband performance and internet measurements. Sarah is on the core engineering team at Research and Education Network for Uganda, coordinating capacity building for universities and research institutions. She has worked in various technical capacities in academia in Uganda. She volunteers with Internet Society and ICANN’s At-Large Advisory Committee, representing the interests of Internet end-users. She holds an MSc in Information Systems. a feminist ethic of care as inspiration to investigate how ‘care’ might be used as an analytic, design, and advocacy framework for domestic IoT as a means to move towards further defining and realizing more equitable and responsible home technologies. I use participatory, co-speculative, and first-person methods as part of a research-through-design-approach.