@misc{17155,
  keywords = {Child Marriage, Mobile App, ICT4D, Digital Illiterate Users, Developing Countries, Low-Literate Users},
  author = {Ilaria Crivellari and Letizia Jaccheri and Jose Pat{\'o}n-Romero},
  title = {Designing and Testing a Mobile App to Fight Child, Early, and Forced Marriage in Developing Countries},
  abstract = {Child marriage is still a severe issue in developing countries. Among the strategies that work most to fight it, is empowering girls with information combined with the education of parents and community. As smartphones are more accessible year after year in developing countries, we want to investigate how a mobile app could effectively fight child marriage and which characteristics such an app should have. The research was organized into three main phases. The first phase was focused on 4 expert semi-structured interviews to understand if an app could be a good solution to help in fighting child marriage. The second and third phases were based on a case study with young girls in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The second phase had focus groups with 26 girls to test and improve the requi- sites of the app, and the third phase had a questionnaire that 14 girls had to fill out after trying the app. The study shows that girls in developing countries have access to smartphones, and most can use the developed app satisfactorily and that it is worth continuing to study this problem as an app could be a new instrument to use alongside traditional tools.},
  year = {2023},
  journal = {14th Scandinavian Conference of Information Systems (SCIS 2023)},
  publisher = {AIS eLibrary},
}