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Specializations

  • Digital Skills
  • Future of Libraries
  • Problematic Information

Research Areas

Biography

Charles Bugre is a PhD candidate at the University of Washington Information School. His research focuses on digital skills of persons with low-levels of literacy. His research provides crucial insights for comprehensive digital skills strategies across governments, NGOs and international organizations. He collaborates with public librarians to co-design services that are inclusive of under-served populations and empower their communities against problematic information. He also works with librarians to meet their community information needs and prepare for future community needs using the asset-based approach. Before coming to UW iSchool, Charles has worked as an academic librarian for over nine years and as a lecturer in Computer Science for over three years.

Education

  • MS, Information Science, University of Washington, 2023
  • MSC, Information Technology, Sikkim Manipal University, 2016
  • BA, Information Studies & French, University of Ghana, 2010

Memberships

  • Association for Information Science and Technology

Publications and Contributions

Presentations

  • Making Ends Meet in a Pandemic: African Library Initiatives During COVID-19 (2023)
    86th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science & Technology - London, United Kingdom
  • How Does Adult Digital Literacy Curricula Address Problematic Information? (2022)
    2022 ASIS&T Annual Meeting - Pittsburgh, PA