This quarter we will be reading "classic" papers from ICTD. These are papers that have had a significant influence on the field and warent a checkin to see how they have aged. Discussion each week will focus on the context of the original paper and work that has been done since. A Google Doc for organizing topics and selecting can be found here.
The seminar meets Tuesdays, 1:30-2:30 in CSE 203.
| Week | Date | Discussion Leaders | Paper |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oct 4 | --------- | Planning and disorganization |
| 2 | Oct 11 | Trevor | Warana unwired: Replacing PCs with mobile phones in a rural sugarcane cooperative Veeraghavan, Yasodhar and Toyama (PDF) |
| 3 | Oct 18 | Fahad | Mobile phones and paper documents: evaluating a new approach for capturing microfinance data in rural India. Parikh, Jvaid, Sasikumar, and Ghosh (PDF) |
| 4 | Oct 25 | Aditya | Mobile-izing health workers in rural India. Ramachandran et. al (PDF) |
| 5 | Nov 1 | Matt | A Delay-Tolerant Network Architecture for Challenged Internets Fall(PDF) |
| 6 | Nov 8 | Group Meeting On Fraud | |
| 7 | Nov 15 | Sam & Tony | Evaluating and improving the usability of Mechanical Turk for low-income workers in India Khanna et. al (PDF) |
| 8 | Nov 22 | DEV | |
| 9 | Nov 29 | Samia | Intermediated technology use in developing communities Sambasivan, Cutrell, Toyama, and Nardi (PDF) |
| 10 | Dec 6 | Esther | Design and Implementation of the KioskNet System S. Guo et al. (PDF) |