Reading Assignments
The course will have short reading assignments and readings designated as required should be completed before class. This page will also have
resources and background reading which may be useful at various times. Copyrighted works may require UWNETID.
- Monday, March 30
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- Required
- Lina Lilsson, Toward a new field of Development Engineering: Linking technology design to the demands of the poor (PDF)
- Development Engineering (PDF)
- Monday, April 6 (Immunization, Richard Anderson)
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- Required
- Digital Square: Global Goods Guidebook
- Principles for Digital Development
- Global Goods Software for the Immunization Cold Chain, W. Brunette, R. Anderson, et al., Under submission. (PDF)
- Monday, April 13 (Community Cellular Networks, Kurtis Heimerl)
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- Required
- A Longitudinal Study of Local, Sustainable, Small-Scale Cellular Networks, Heimerl et al., Information Technologies & International Development, 11(1), 1–19, 2014.
- Recommended
- Scaling Community Cellular Networks with CommunityCellularManager, Heimerl et al., NSDI 2019.
- Additional Readings
- Trust and Technology Repair Infrastructures in the Remote Rural Philippines: Navigating Urban-Rural Seams, CSCW 2019.
- dLTE: Building a more WiFi-like Cellular Network, HotNets 2018.
- Monday, April 20 (Remote Temperature Monitoring, Martin Lukac, Nexleaf)
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- Required
- Beyond Monitoring and Evaluation, Nexleaf
- ColdTrace, Nexleaf
- Why Fridges Fail, Nexleaf
- StoveTrace, Nexleaf
- Recommended
- Decentralized Human Milk Banking with ODK Sensors, Chaudhri et al., DEV'13.
- Monday, April 27 (Election Monitoring, James Long, University of Washington)
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- Required
- Protecting Election Integrity in Emerging Democracies
- Recommended
- DevEng on VIP:Voice in South Africa (DEVENG 20_Final). Mostly technical and engineering stuff.
- Additional Readings
- Working paper on VIP:Voice in South Africa.
- Published paper by Callen and Long on Photo Quick Count in Afghanistan, which was the first country study.
- Published paper on PQC in Uganda by Callen Gibson Jung and Long (which is shorter than Afghanistan), which was the second country study.
- Monday, May 4 (Global Goods, Skye Gilbert, PATH)
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- Required
- The Struggle for District-Based Health Information Systems in South Africa
- The DHIS2 Open Source Software Platform: Evolution Over Time and Space
- Monday, May 11 (Voice based social networks, Aditya Vashistha, Cornell)
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- Required
- The Internet of Orals, Vashistha, Saif, and Raza
- Sangeet Swara: A Community-Moderated Voice Forum in Rural India, Vashistha et al.
- Additional Readings
- Respeak: A Voice-based, Crowd-powered Speech Transcription System, Vashistha et al.
- ReCall: Crowdsourcing on Basic Phones to Financially Sustain Voice Forums, Vashistha et al.
- Threats, Abuses, Flirting, and Blackmail:
Gender Inequity in Social Media Voice Forums
- Monday, May 18 (Open Data Kit, Waylon Brunette, University of Washington)
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- Required
- Open Data Kit: Tools to Build Information Services for
Developing Regions, Hartung et al.
- Open Data Kit 2.0: A Services-Based Application
Framework for Disconnected Data Management, Brunette et al.
- Additional Readings
- Computer Security for Data Collection Technologies, Cobb, Sudar et al.
- Tuesday, May 26 (Affordably removing arsenic from drinking water, Ashok Gadgil, University of California, Berkeley)
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- Required
- Strategies for successful field deployment in a resource-poor region: Arsenic
remediation technology for drinking water, Hernandez et al.
- Additional Readings
- Addressing Arsenic Poisoning in South Asia, Gadgil et al.
- Electro-chemical arsenic remediation: Field trials in West Bengal, Ambrose et al.
- Monday, June 1 ( Fintech for rural markets, Jenny Akers, Tufts)
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- Required
- Payment Mechanisms and Anti-Poverty Programs: Evidence from a Mobile Money Cash Transfer Experiment in Niger, Aker et al.
- Additional Readings
- Cash Transfers, Blog Post, Jenny Aker
- An Introduction to Development Engineering: Fintech for Rural Markets in sub-Saharan Africa, Jenny Aker
- Promises and Pitfalls of Mobile Money in Afghanistan: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial, Blumenstock et al.
- Engaging Identity, Assets,and Constraints in Designing for Resilience, Karusala et al.
- Monday, June 8 (Course wrapup)
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- Required
- A Framework for Development Engineering, Temina Madon