Technology and Global Development
15-502
Instructors:
M. Bernardine Dias and Yonina Cooper
TA: Aysha Siddique
Spring 2009
Lecture 9
Evaluating Impact
Outline
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Logistics
Videos
Some ICTD Examples
Reading
Monitoring and evaluation I
Capacity building assignment
Campaign assignment strategy
Your assignments for
next class
Logistics
• Questions about the
media assignment?
• Research assignment
follow-up
• Any other
questions/comments?
Videos
Microsoft Research Project: Mischief
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What novel approach did Microsoft use in its
Multipoint project?
Social Entrepreneur of the Year in India 2008
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How was same language subtitling (SLS) used
to increase literacy?
What was Brij’s contribution?
Patrick Awuah ’89 on Leadership in Africa
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Why did Patrick feel that education of leaders
is of utmost importance particularly in
developing communities?
Why should we strive for perfection (even
though it is impossible)?
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/
Reading
Impact Assessment of ICT
for Development Projects
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What are the difference between monitoring
and evaluation? Why are both needed?
Why are participatory techniques necessary for
evaluations to be effective?
What is e-Governance? Why is a ‘rational
assessment framework’ important for eGovernance projects? What is the purpose of
the assessment?
Monitoring & Evaluation I
The Need
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Project managers, donors, and other stakeholders
need to know the extent to which their projects are
meeting their objectives and leading to their
desired effects.
M&E build greater transparency and accountability
in terms of use of project resources.
Information generated through M&E provide project
staff with a clearer basis for decision-making.
Future project planning and development is
improved when guided by lessons learned from
project experience.
http://www.passia.org/seminars/2002/monitoring.htm
Relationship Between M&E
http://www.passia.org/seminars/2002/monitoring.htm
Logical Framework Approach
http://www.passia.org/seminars/2002/monitoring.htm
Methods and Tools
http://www.passia.org/seminars/2002/monitoring.htm
Methods and Tools
http://www.passia.org/seminars/2002/monitoring.htm
Methods and Tools
http://www.passia.org/seminars/2002/monitoring.htm
Methods and Tools
http://www.passia.org/seminars/2002/monitoring.htm
Methods and Tools
http://www.passia.org/seminars/2002/monitoring.htm
Methods and Tools
http://www.passia.org/seminars/2002/monitoring.htm
Selecting M&E Methods
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What information is needed?
Of this information, how much can be collected and analyzed in a lowcost and practical manner?
How accurate will the information be?
Will the methods get all of the needed information?
What additional methods should and could be used if additional
information is needed?
Will the information appear as credible to decision makers?
Are the methods appropriate for the target group? If group members are
illiterate, the use of questionnaires might not be appropriate unless
completed by the evaluators themselves.
Who can administer the methods? Is training required?
How can the information be analyzed?
http://www.passia.org/seminars/2002/monitoring.htm
New Assignment
Capacity Building Assignment
Campaign Assignment
Your Strategy?
Other References
• World Bank Guide to M&E
(http://lnweb90.worldbank.org/oed/oeddoclib.ns
f/b57456d58aba40e585256ad400736404/a5efbb5
d776b67d285256b1e0079c9a3/$FILE/MandE_to
ols_methods_approaches.pdf)
• 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?
• More on M&E and Sustainability
• Assignments:
– 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
• Media assignment
– 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.