CSE590F: Computing and the Developing World Seminar

This quarter we will be reading a selection of recent ICTD and DEV papers.

The seminar meets Tuesdays, 1:30-2:30 in CSE 203.

Schedule

WeekDateDiscussion LeadersPaper
1January 5 --- Planning and disorganization
2January 12 Sam The Challenges of Scaling WISPs (PDF)
3January 19 Annie Revisiting CGNet Swara and its impact in rural India (PDF)
4January 26 Hunter Building citizen engagement into the implementation of welfare schemes in rural India (PDF)
5February 2 Conner Internet Media Upload Caching for Poorly-Connected Regions (PDF)
6February 9 Trevor Texting and sexual health: experimental evidence from an information intervention in Kenya (PDF)
7February 16 Collin Janayuja: A People-centric Platform to Generate Reliable and Actionable Insights for Civic Agencies (PDF)
8February 23 Fahad Revisiting the State of Cellular Data Connectivity in India (PDF)
7March 1 Waylon ICTs in Rural Education: Let the Game Begin (PDF)
10March 8 Niall Learning to fix: knowledge, collaboration and mobile phone repair in Dhaka, Bangladesh (PDF)

Candidate Papers from ACM DEV 2015

  1. The Challenges of Scaling WISPs Shaddi Hasan (UC Berkeley), Yahel Ben-David (De Novo / UC Berkeley), Max Bittman (Sudo Mesh), Barath Raghavan (ICSI) (PDF)
  2. ICTs in Rural Education: Let the Game Begin Adele Botha (CSIR Meraka), Marlien Herselman (CSIR Meraka) (PDF)
  3. Revisiting the State of Cellular Data Connectivity in India Asheesh Sharma (IIT Delhi); Manveen Kaur (IIT Delhi); Zahir Koradia (IIT Delhi); Rahul Nishant (IIT Delhi); Sameer Pandit (IIT Delhi); Aravindh Raman (IIT Delhi); Aaditeshwar Seth (IIT Delhi) (PDF)
  4. Internet Media Upload Caching for Poorly-Connected Regions Paul Schmitt (University of California, Santa Barbara), Ramya Raghavendra (IBM Research), Elizabeth Belding (University of California, Santa Barbara) (PDF)
  5. Suhrid: A Collaborative Mobile Phone Interface for Low Literate People Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed (Cornell University), Maruf Hasan Zaber (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology), Mehrab Bin Morshed (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology), Md. Habibullah Bin Ismail (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology), Dan Cosley (Cornell University), Steven J. Jackson (Cornell University) (PDF)
  6. Janayuja: A People-centric Platform to Generate Reliable and Actionable Insights for Civic Agencies. Tridib Mukherjee (Xerox Research Center India), Deepthi Chander (Xerox Research Center India), Sharanya Eswaran(Xerox Research Center India), Mridula Singh (Xerox Research Center India), Preethy Varma (Xerox Research Center India), Amandeep Chugh (Xerox Research Center India), Koustuv Dasgupta (Xerox Research Center India) (PDF)

Candidate Papers from ICTD 2015

  1. Learning to fix: knowledge, collaboration and mobile phone repair in Dhaka, Bangladesh Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Steven J. Jackson, Md. Rashidujjaman Rifat (PDF)
  2. The persistence of paper: a case study in microfinance from Ghana Ishita Ghosh, Jay Chen, Joy Ming, Azza Abouzied (PDF)
  3. Texting and sexual health: experimental evidence from an information intervention in Kenya Risa Kitagawa (PDF)
  4. Revisiting CGNet Swara and its impact in rural India Meghana Marathe, Jacki O'Neill, Paromita Pain, William Thies (PDF)
  5. Building citizen engagement into the implementation of welfare schemes in rural India Dipanjan Chakraborty, Aaditeshwar Seth (PDF)