ICTD - Information and Communication Technologies for Development
We will meet
on Tuesdays 1:30-2:20 in CSE203. We have a different format every quarter
just to keep things interesting.
This spring, interested
students will 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 DEV and ICTD
conference (held in Atlanta in March 2012). 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. Since many students
may have actually attended these presentations at the conferences, we’ll
also get a perspective on the presentation rather than just the paper.
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.
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 for a calendar of
events.
Please sign
up for the seminar mailing list. You can find the mail archives here
and links to the webs of earlier quarters here.
|
Date |
Leader |
Paper |
|
27 Mar |
Nicki |
DEV: Shreddr: pipelined paper digitization for low-resource
organizations |
|
03 Apr |
Carl |
DEV: Motivation
and Design of a Content Distribution Architecture for Rural Areas |
|
10 Apr |
Melissa |
DEV: Experiences
of Deploying and Commercializing a Community Radio Automation System in India |
|
17 Apr |
Nathan |
DEV: Short
message communications: users, topics, and in-language processing |
|
24 Apr |
Ben |
ICTD: On the Relationship Between Socio-Economic
Factors and Cell Phone Usage Vanessa Frias-Martinez,
Jesus Virseda (Telefonica
Research) |
|
01 May |
Yaw |
ICTD: Reporting Water Quality - A Case-study of a
Mobile Phone Application for Collecting Data in Developing Countries Michael Champanis,
Ulrike Rivett (University of Cape Town) |
|
08 May |
Rohit |
ICTD: Measuring Water Collection Times in Kenyan
Informal Settlements Julio Miles, James Davis, Ben Crow (UC Santa
Cruz) |
|
15 May |
Waylon |
ICTD: A Prepaid Architecture for Solar Electricity
Delivery in Rural Areas Daniel Soto, Matt Basinger,
Sebastian Rodriguez-Sanchez, Vijay Modi (Columbia
University) |
|
22 May |
Adam |
ICTD: Anthropology, Development and ICTs: Slums,
Youth and the Mobile Internet in Urban India Nimmi Rangaswamy, Edward Cutrell
(Microsoft Research India) |
|
29 May |
Mayank |
ICTD: Power to the Peers: Authority of Source Effects
for a Voice-based Agricultural Information Service in Rural India Neil Patel, Krishna Savani,
Scott Klemmer (Stanford University), Tapan Parikh (UC Berkeley) |