ICTD - Information and Communication
Technologies for Development
We will meet on Tuesdays 1:30-2:20 in CSE 203.
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.
The focus of the seminar will be on
software toolkits for ICTD. Each
week someone will lead the discussion by presenting the principal components of
the toolkit and their major interfaces and standards. The objective is to get a sense of the landscape of software
toolkits as well as their salient properties and, ideally, what makes them more
or less successful.
Tentative
Schedule
|
Date |
Toolkit |
Discussion Leader(s) |
|
January 3 |
Organizational |
|
|
January 10 |
OpenMRS |
Yaw |
|
January 17 |
Digital Green CoCo |
Praveen |
|
January 24 |
Frontline |
Rohit |
|
January 31 |
CommCare HQ |
Carl |
|
February 7 |
Ushahidi |
Ben |
|
February 14 |
Vumi/TextAlert |
Mayank |
|
February 21 |
District Health
IS |
Nicki |
|
February 28 |
Mifos |
Nathan |
|
March 6 |
Summary |
Waylon |