Info 290-17: Graduate Reading Seminar on ICT and Development
Professors Isha Ray (ERG) and Anno Saxenian (I School)
Mondays 12-2pm, Rm. 205 South Hall
2/4 -- Week 1: Technology and Development: A Background
2/11 -- Week 2: Technology and Development in Practice: The Green Revolution
2/25 -- Week 3: The Postwar Project: Theories of Economic Development
3/3 -- Week 4: New Paradigms in Economic Development
3/10 -- Week 5: The Digital Divide and the Bottom of the Pyramid
3/17 -- Week 6: Technology in Emerging Regions: Low Cost and Shared Access Computing
3/31 -- Week 8: Technology in Emerging Regions: Telecommunications and Network Infrastructure
4/7 -- Week 9: Technology in Emerging Regions: Mobile Devices as Platform
4/14 -- Week 10: Applications: Agriculture and Health Care
4/21 -- Week 11: Applications: E-governance and Micro-finance
4/28-- Week 12: The Future of ICTD
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Kumar, Richa “eChoupals: A Study on the Financial Sustainability of Village Internet Centers in Rural Madhya Pradesh” Information Technologies and International Development. Vol. 2:1. Spring 2004 [URL]
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Veeraraghavan, Rajesh, Naga Yasodhar, and Kentaro Toyama “Warana Unwired: Replacing PCs with Mobile Phones in a Rural Sugarcane Cooperative” ICTD2007, Bangalore, India [URL]
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Donner, Jonathan “Innovations in Mobile-Based Public Health Information Systems in the Developing World: An Example from Rwanda” Mobile Technologies and Health: Benefits and Risks, Udine Italy 2004 [URL]
Constantinides, Panos and Michael Barrett “Negotiating ICT development and use: The case of a telemedicine system in the healthcare region of Crete” Information and Organization 16, 2006: 27-55 [URL]
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Parikh, Tapan, Kaushik Ghosh and Apala Chavan “Design Studies for a Financial Management System for Micro-credit Groups in Rural India” Proceedings of the Conference on Universal Usability 2003 [URL]
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