ORGANISATION OF THE WORKSHOP
Participants will be asked to submit a two-page position or experience paper addressing the workshop theme. We will arrange for accepted papers to be published on a Wiki so that participants can read the papers ahead of time – in this way we will encourage participants to arrive at the workshop with a good understanding of the issues to be raised. During the workshop, each participant will be given a short opportunity to present their experiences in the form of a story. The organizers will assign particular roles to some key participants ahead of time. These people will be asked, not only to read the papers but also, to provide a short presentation. For example, one person might focus on reading the papers that talk about experiences in developing countries and make a list of all the challenges. Another could make a list of all the special opportunities that such venues provide. Another might read papers on participatory design and try to develop a “translation table” or dictionary of terms; a kind of beginning ontology. A small number of these overriding theme discussions will be presented during the workshop to stimulate discussion.
The second half of the workshop will be an interactive discussion session using card-sorting and clustering techniques to identify key references, challenges, opportunities, solutions and research questions in this field. The outcome of these discussions will be developed into a poster to communicate the key issues to the wider CHI audience.

RECRUITING PARTICIPANTS
We will promote the workshop worldwide, using our existing networks and our wide international connections. The audience for this workshop will go beyond the traditional boundaries of the CHI community. In particular, we will seek to attract a mix of practitioners who are engaged in development projects, and experienced researchers and designers who would wish to learn more about doing so. In Britain, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has recently funded a number of projects under the "Bridging the Global Digital Divide" banner and all of these are premised on PD philosophy, so there will be interest in this group and their international partners, among others. We expect considerable cultural diversity within the workshop group. We shall be seeking funding from other
sources to support bursaries to support the costs of researchers from less developed countries to attend the conference. We have already had considerable interest expressed from colleagues around the world, including in the US, UK, Africa, and Asia.

SELECTING PARTICIPANTS
We will select participants based upon their position papers and their statement of interest and background. While we will attempt to choose participants whose written submissions are of high quality, we will also be attempting to construct a workshop whose participants have a wide variety of experiences both in terms of methods used and in terms of the locations and types of systems that they have been involved with.

AFTER THE WORKSHOP
While we certainly have every intention to make the workshop itself an educational and enjoyable experience, we view the workshop as only the beginning of an effort in this direction. In the short term, we will present a poster based on the findings of the workshop to the wider CHI community. In addition, we hope to use this workshop to begin to build an international community of "engaged scholars and thoughtful practitioners" who understand each other and who can bridge between disciplines and boundaries to create appropriate, effective and sustainable community development solutions.
We also hope to publish a piece in the Forum of the journal Information Technologies and International Development and, if there is sufficient interest and quality, we may publish additional papers or possibly,
organize a special issue of this journal. In 2005, two of the organizers were part of the team that ran the"Quality, Value(s) and Choice: Exploring Deeper Outcomes for HCI Products" workshop (Light et al 2005), which has now led to a special issue on the topic. We would be pleased if this workshop had a similar outcome, as part of the process of building knowledge and sharing learning.