Summer 2016 | Volume 22, No. 4
Technology is not stagnant, it moves from place to place and person to person. In this issue of XRDS, we observe what happens when computing, culture, and postcoloniality collide. A major theme of the "Cultures of Computing" issue is how dominant narratives frame technology in terms of development for the global South—as opposed to from, or of, or with the global South.
The authors in this issue address how to decolonialize computing, the participation of Africans in the global HCI community, and the ways in which the globalization has changed cultures and given rise to new identities, new practices, and new systems. You will find representation of a variety of views. Not only from cultures around the world, but from different disciplinary cultures as well. We hope this issue will spark thoughtful and reflective discussions and debates about the role of computing in these fluid times.