Ruy Cervantes

I am working on my Ph.D. on Informatics. I do ethnographic work. I am interested in how socio-technical infrastructures support people when learning, working and collaborating, and in how digital media can be used to extend these infrastructures. For my dissertation I doing a study of the emerging Internet industry in Mexico, and how it is transtioning from a providing services to the local market towards an innovation-based industry. My goals is to understand technological innovation happens in mid-income countries.

I am also interested in education. I did a study of low-cost laptops use for learning in Mexican elementary schools, were I became aware of the complexities of building the socio-technical infrastructures to make digital media technologies truly useful for learning and working.