SIV 861, Fall 2010: Introduction to ICTD - Short
Short module, Fall 2010
This course will introduce students to the use of information and communication technologies for development. Most teaching will be through case studies of projects in different areas such as communication networks, education, healthcare, and community media.
Prerequisites: None.
Contact hours: 14
Grading:
- Paper presentations, rebuttals, and reviews: Each student will present one or two papers to the rest of the class, and another student will rebutt the paper. All students will also review the paper as done for conference submissions.
| Presenters | Readings |
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| Introduction to ICTD [Presentation] |
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High-tech systems for connectivity of rural and remote areas |
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| Aaditeshwar Seth [Presentation] |
A.Seth,D.Kroeker,M.Zaharia,S.Guo,S.Keshav,"Low-cost communication for rural Internet kiosks using mechanical backhaul",In MobiCom ’06: Proceedings of the 12th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking,page 334-345,2006 Optional KioskNet |
| Roh Jaekeun [Presentation] |
Rabin Patra,Sergiu Nedevschi,Sonesh Surana,Anmol Sheth,Lakshminarayanan Subramanian,Eric Brewer,The Challenges of Technology Research for Developing Regions , 4th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design & Implementation, 2007 Sonesh Surana , Rabin Patra , Sergiu Nedevschi , Manuel Ramos , Lakshminarayanan Subramanian , Yahel Ben-david , Eric Brewer Beyond Pilots: Keeping Rural Wireless Networks Alive,5th USENEX Symposium on Network System Design and Implementation(NSDI '08), Pp. 119–132, 2008 Optional Rabin Patra , Sergiu Nedevschi , Sonesh Surana , Anmol Sheth , Lakshminarayanan Subramanian , Eric Brewer WiLDNet: Design and Implementation of High Performance WiFi Based Long Distance Networks 4th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design & Implementation, 2007 |
Improvising traditional-tech |
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| Neil Patel (guest lecture) |
N. Patel, D.Chittamuru, A.Jain, P. Dave, T.S.Parikh "Avaaj Otalo - A Field Study of an Interactive Voice Forum for Small Farmers in Rural India" In Proceedings of ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2010) Optional S. K. Agarwal, D. Chakraborty, A. Kumar, A.A.Nanavati, N. Rajput,"HSTP : Hyperspeech Transfer Protocol",Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia,Proceedings of the eighteenth conference on Hypertext and hypermedia,HT’07, September 10–12, 2007 |
| Zahir Koradia (guest lecture) | Z Koradia,A.Premi,A.Seth,Balachandran C,"Using ICTs to Meet the Operational Needs of Community Radio Stations in India",ACM DEV 2010 Optional S.Bailur,Complexities of Community Participation in ICT for Development Projects: The Case of "Our Voices",Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries,May 2007 |
| Bill Thies (guest lecture) |
K. Gaikwad, G. Paruthi,W. Thies, Interactive DVDs as a Platform for Education, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, December 2010 |
| Rikin Gandhi (guest lecture) |
R. Gandhi,R.Veeraraghavan,K.Toyama,V.Ramprasad, "Digital Green: Participatory video for agricultural extension",ICTD 2007. |
User interface design for developing region users |
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| Nitesh Mor [Presentation] |
Medhi, I., Sagar, A. and Toyama K. "Text-Free User Interfaces for Illiterate and Semi-Literate Users." IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, Berkeley, USA, (2006) |
| Siddharth Telang and Rohit Agarwal [Presentation] |
T.S. Parikh, K.Ghosh, "Understanding and Designing for Intermediated Information Tasks in India", Pervasive Computing,Volume 5,Issue:2, pages 32-39, IEEE,April-June2006 |
Involving the user in the design of ICT tools for microfinance, education, etc |
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| Ankush and Saurabh Gupta | Tapan S. Parikh Using Mobile Phones for Secure, Distributed Document Processing in the Developing World IEEE Pervasive Computing archive Volume 4 Issue 2, April 2005 |
| Anupam and Vikas Prajapati [Presentation] |
Aishwarya Lakshmi Ratan, Sunandan Chakraborty, Pushkar V. Chitnis, Kentaro Toyama, Keng Siang Ooi, Matthew Phiong, and Mike Koenig, Managing Microfinance with Paper, Pen, and Digital Slate, Proc. of the 4th IEEE/ACM Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and International Development (ICTD) 2010 Optional A. Ratan Deconstructing 4 Microfinance MythsMicrosoft Research,December 2006 Aishwarya Lakshmi RatanAs Assessment of Pradan's 'Computer Munshi' Intervention to Improve Microfinance Accounting Practices September 2007 |
| Abhinav Uppal and Kanav Goyal [Presentation] Collage Demo1 Collage Demo2 |
Saurabh Panjwani, Navkar Samdaria, Aakar Gupta, Edward Cutrell, and Kentaro Toyama,Collage: A Presentation Tool for the K-12 Classroom , ICTD, December 2010 |
Other opportunities for ICTs -- agriculture information systems, data collection, financial transactions, sensor networks, etc |
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| Ankit Agarwal and Harshvardhan [Presentation] |
Matthew Kam, Akhil Mathur, Anuj Kumar, John CannyDesigning Digital Games for Rural Children: A Study of Traditional Village Games in IndiaProceedings of the 27th international conference on Human factors in computing systems, 2009 |
| Shivendra Tiwari and Arvind Kr Mahala [Presentation] |
Samhaa R. El-Beltagy, Ahmed Rafea, Said Mabrouk and Mahmoud RafeaAn Approach for Mining Accumulated Crop Cultivation Problems and their SolutionsAssociation for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, 2009 |
| Shraddha Gupta and Lissy Verma [Presentation] |
Anokwa, Y., Hartung, C., Brunette, W., Borriello, G., Lerer, A.,Open Source Data Collection in the Developing World IEEE Computer Society,Pg. 97 - 99, Oct. 2009 Kuang Chen, Chen H., Conway N., Hellerstein J.M., Parikh T.S., USHER: Improving Data Quality with Dynamic Forms Data Engineering (ICDE), 2010 IEEE 26th International Conference,Pg. 321 - 332, April 2010 |
| Saurabh Gupta and Sandeep Gupta [Presentation] |
Saurabh Panjwani, Edward Cutrell,Usably Secure, Low-Cost Authentication for Mobile Banking Proceedings of the Sixth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security, 2010 |
| Venkatesh [Pr student will present one or two3E | Ashlesh Sharma, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Dennis Shasha, Secure Branchless BankingACM SOSP Workshop on Networked Systems for Developing Regions (NSDR), 2009 |
| Abhishek Katyal and Rohit Bhatia [Presentation] |
S Patnaik, E Brunskill and W Thies,"Evaluating the Accuracy of Data Collection on Mobile Phones: A Study of Forms, SMS, and Voice",ICTD, 2009 |
| Deepak Martin [Presentation] |
T.s. Parikh,"Voice as Data: Learning from What People Say",Proceedings of AAAI Artificial Intelligence for Development (AI-D'10) E. A. Basha, S. Ravela, D. Rus, "Model-Based Monitoring for Early Warning Flood Detection",SenSys '08 |
Social and policy considerations in technology deployment |
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| Richa Kumar (guest lecture) |
Richa Kumar,“Empowering” Farmers in the Soyabean Marketplace: Misleading Expectations from Information Technology |
| Ankit Narang and Amit Maniyar [Presentation] |
M.L. Best, R. Kumar,"Sustainability failures of rural telecenters: Challenges from the sustainable access in rural india (sari) project",Journal of Information Technologies and International Development, Volume 4 Issue 4, Fall/Winter 2008 Michael L. Best and Colin M. Maclay, "Community Internet Access in Rural Areas: Solving the Economic Sustainability Puzzle",UNESCO,2002 |
| Ankit sharma and Piyush Goyal [Presentation] |
Bussell. J,"Political incentives and policy outcomes: Who benefits from technology-enabled service centers?",ICTD 2009 |
The big picture of how ICTs fit into the development debate |
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| Ambuj Sagar (guest lecture) |
Interplay between Science, Technology, and Policy |
| Summary and conclusions[Presentation] | R. Heeks,"ICT4D 2.0: The Next Phase of Applying ICT for International Development ", Computer Journal,Volume: 41, Issue:6,pages 26-33,June 2008 J Donner, R Gandhi, P Javid, I Medhi, A Ratan, K Toyama, and R Veeraraghavan,"Stages of design in technology for global development",Computer Journal,June 2008 (vol. 41 no. 6) |
