Technology and Global Development
15-502
Instructors:
M. Bernardine Dias and Yonina Cooper
TA: Aysha Siddique
Spring 2009
Lecture 8
ICTD/TFDC Examples
Outline
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Logistics
Readings and Viewings
Some ICTD examples
Campaign assignment
strategy discussion
Your assignments for
next week
Logistics
• Questions about the
media assignment?
• Any other
questions/comments?
Readings & Viewings
Richard Heeks Article
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What lessons were learned from the
ICT4D 1.0 projects?
In what areas will hardware innovations be required
for ICT4D 2.0?
What are the 4 main development roles ICT4D is
slowing moving toward?
What are the pro-poor, para-poor, and per-poor innovation
efforts? Examples?
What are the three areas or disciplines involved in
creating ICT4D success? What is the role of each?
Why is each needed?
What is the most prominent difference between
ICT4D 1.0 and ICT4D 2.0?
Indrani Medhi & Kentaro Toyama
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What are the problems for non-literate
PC users?
How were full-context videos used to
overcome perceived problems?
Why was the job application concept
selected as the means of testing the fullcontext video concept?
Sterling et al.
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Why was a project for empowering
women in Kenya chosen? Why do you
agree (or disagree) with their rationale?
Why did the authors choose to
use radio?
What are some factors that contributed
to the success of this project?
Videos
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Video 1
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Was this a full story? Why? Why not?
Video 2
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What was the speaker’s answer to “Why does
poverty persist?”
What was his solution? i.e. How can citizens
be empowered?
Why did he believe that telephones would
aid/empower citizens?
How was this ultimately implemented in Bangladesh?
What are some of the myths about the poor pointed out
the speaker?
Some ICTD Examples
aAQUA – Agricultural Portal
K. Ramamritham, A. Bahuman, S. Duttagupta, C. Bahuman, and S. Balasundaram,
Innovative ICT Tools for Information Provision in Agricultural Extension, ICTD 2006
www.aaqua.org/
Multiple Mice
Udai Singh Pawar, Joyojeet Pal and Kentaro Toyama, Multiple Mice for
Computers in Education in Developing Countries, ICTD 2006
http://tier.cs.berkeley.edu/docs/ict4d06/multiple_mice-jp.pdf
Text-Free User Interfaces
Indrani Medhi, Aman Sagar, and Kentaro Toyama, Text-Free User
Interfaces for Illiterate and Semi-Literate Users, ICTD 2006
http://research.microsoft.com/enus/um/india/groups/tem/presentations/text-freeui.pdf
Tamil Market
Madelaine Plauché, Udhyakumar Nallasamy, Joyojeet Pal, Chuck Wooters,
and Divya Ramachandran, Speech Recognition for Illiterate Access to
Information and Technology, ICTD 2006
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dgroup/papers/TamilMarket.pdf
Literacy Games
Matthew Kam, MILLEE: Mobile and Immersive Learning for Literacy in
Emerging Economies, Ph.D. Dissertation, U. C. Berkeley, 2008
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~mattkam/millee/portfolio.html
CellLife
Samir Anand, Development of a Cellphone-Based Monitoring and ManagementSupport System for ART, Masters Thesis, University of Capetown, 2005
http://www.cell-life.org/
PlanetRead
Brij Kothari and Joe Takeda, Same Language Subtitling for Literacy: Small
Change for Colossal Gains, Chapter 13, Information and Communication
Technology in Development: Cases from India, 2000
http://www.planetread.org/
CyberTracker
Stephen L. Talbott, CyberTrackers: Bushmen and Information Technology,
NetFuture, Technology and Human Responsibility, Issue #154, 2004
http://www.cybertracker.org/
First Mile Solutions
Alex (Sandy) Pentland, Richard Fletcher, Amir Hasson, DakNet: Rethinking
Connectivity in Developing Nations, Computer, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 78-83, 2004
http://www.firstmilesolutions.com/
babajob
Sean Blagsvedt
http://www.babajob.com/
Campaign Assignment
Other References
• 15502 lecture slides from 2006 and 2007 –
jointly prepared by Rahul Tongia, Joe
Mertz, Jay Aronson, and Bernardine Dias
• Most images are from TechBridgeWorld
(www.techbridgeworld.org)
What Next?
• Evaluation and Sustainability
• Homework 4 (Capacity Building Assignment)
• Reading/viewing assignments:
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Read http://www.i4donline.net/nov05/ictdnewsletter.pdf
View http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW3c1QHvSqc
View http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBmWlI16JM8
View http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIuRbiX9px4
Due Thursday
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Read http://tier.cs.berkeley.edu/docs/ict4d06/social_development_kerala-rk.pdf
View http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DygAgWi4Tbo
View http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDyN2yux_NY
View http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vpqO8Fnq9E&NR=1
– Preparation questions on all reading and viewing assignments are available
on the course website in the
“assignments” section.
• Special note: first do the reading/viewing and then look at the questions and
come prepared to discuss them in class.