CSE 590F, Computing and the Developing World, Spring 2007

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Mailing list If you are attending the seminar, please sign up for the mailing list. Spring 2007 The seminar meets Wednesdays, 3:30-4:20 pm, in EEB 042. The course organizers are Richard Anderson (Anderson@cs) and Tapan Parikh (tapan@cs). We will start out the term by reading The End of Poverty by Jeffrey Sachs and then turn our attention to several papers focusing on technology. Schedule Date Topic Discussion Leaders References Slides 3/28/07 The End of Poverty I   Chapters 1-3   4/4/07 The End of Poverty II   Chapters 10-14   4/11/07 Internet use (and non-ues) among urban microenterprises   Jonathan Donner, AOIR 7.0   4/18/07 SMS Brian DeRenzi Adrian Mukhebi, KACE   4/25/07 Long distance wireless networking Colin Dixon WiLDNet   5/2/07 Wireless Networking Natalie Linnell   Slides 5/9/07         5/16/07 From Computer Scientist to Global Health Techie Neal Lesh   PPT 5/23/07 Cell phones in education TBD Matthew Kam, CHI 2007   5/30/07 e-Governance Case Studies Volodymyr Lysenko Case Studies PPT 6/6/07

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