ICTD - Information and Communication Technologies for Development
We will meet
on Tuesdays 1:30-2:20 in CSE203.
Also consider
attending and registering for the Change
Seminar/Lunch on Thursdays 12:00-12:50 in CSE203. This is a less formal and more
inter-disciplinary seminar where we’ll be hosting some external speakers
as well as discussions of some of the work going on in the many ICTD-related
groups at UW. Check out UW Change.
Interested
students meet weekly to discuss recent research in the ICTD field. The format is fairly standard for
research seminars in the department.
First, all participants read a research paper (see the table below for
the readings selected for this quarter) chosen from recent publications. A discussion leader is chosen to present
a short summary of the paper (15-20 minutes) and close with a series of
questions raised by the paper. The
summary should include the larger context of the paper (research group,
evolution of the work, context in which it is being applied, etc.). The questions raised by the discussion
leader serve as a starting point for discussion of the work among all the
participants.
Typically,
students register for a single credit and are expected to lead or co-lead one
session and participate in each of the meetings. Students may register for more credit by
prior arrangement with the instructor.
Please sign
up for the seminar mailing list. You can find the mail archives here
and links to the webs of earlier quarters here.
This quarter
will be split into two parts.
First, we will provide feedback on projects from the undergraduate ICTD
capstone course (CSE490D:
Technology for Resource-Constrained Environments). We will read project reports from the
winter quarter – which define and scope the projects – and then
discuss the ideas and provide feedback to the students in the spring quarter
who will be implementing the projects. This will occupy the first three
or four weeks and we will be doing two projects per week. Second, we will read and discuss papers
selected from the ITID Journal. This will give us a chance to contrast
journal papers in the field with the conference papers we read the past two
quarters. There will not be an
organizational session. We will
start with the review of two CSE490D projects on the first day (Tuesday, March
29).
|
Date |
Leader |
Paper |
|
29 Mar |
Organizational
|
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|
05 Apr |
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12 Apr |
CSE490D
projects: ODK
Tables and NatureMapping |
|
|
19 Apr |
CSE490D
projects: Global2Local
and Paper2Digital |
|
|
26 Apr |
Karen |
Decentralizing
the Mobile Phone: A Second ICT4D Revolution? |
|
03 May |
Nell |
Empowering
Women Through ICT-Based Business Initiatives: An Overview of Best Practices
in E-Commerce/E-Retailing Projects |
|
10 May |
Waylon |
eChoupals: A Study on the Financial Sustainability of
Village Internet Centers in
Rural Madhya Pradesh |
|
17 May |
Rohit |
Open Source
Biotechnology Platforms for Global Health and Development: Two Case
Studies |
|
24 May |
Yaw |
What
Constitutes Good ICTD Research? |
|
31 May |
Sam |
Transparency
and Development: Ethical Consumption through Web 2.0 and the Internet
of Things |