CSE590F 2021 Winter: Computing and the Developing World Seminar

The seminar meets this quarter Tuesdays, 1:30-2:30 on UW Zoom.

Schedule

WeekDateDiscussion Leaders Topic
1Jan 5 Matt J. & Naveena Planning and organization
2Jan 12 Sudheesh + Matt J.
The "Opaque Panopticon": Why publishing data online doesn't make the State transparent? The case of India's livelihood program

Rajesh Dinesh Hanbal. 2020. The "opaque panopticon": Why publishing data online doesn't make the State transparent? The case of India's livelihood program. In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 307–309. DOI:https://doi-org.offcampus.lib.washington.edu/10.1145/3378393.3402267

Supplement: Rajesh Dinesh Hanbal, Amit Prakash, Janaki Srinivasan. 2020. Who drives data in data-driven governance? The politics of data production in India’s livelihood program. In Proceedings of the 13 th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV 2020), 23-25 September 2020, Athens, Greece, 9pages.

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3Jan 19 Esther + [Kurtis???]
Women and the Sustainability of Rural Community Networks in the Global South

Nicola J. Bidwell. 2020. Women and the Sustainability of Rural Community Networks in the Global South. In Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD2020). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 21, 1–13. DOI:https://doi-org.offcampus.lib.washington.edu/10.1145/3392561.3394649

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4Jan 26 Naveena + Ruotong
Designing Digital Safe Spaces for Peer Support and Connectivity in Patriarchal Contexts

Mustafa Naseem, Fouzia Younas, and Maryam Mustafa. 2020. Designing Digital Safe Spaces for Peer Support and Connectivity in Patriarchal Contexts. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 4, CSCW2, Article 146 (October 2020), 24 pages. DOI:https://doi-org.offcampus.lib.washington.edu/10.1145/3415217

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5Feb 2 Matt Z.
Building technology-enabled capacity for small-scale fishers in South India

Chapter 3 of this FAO report on ICT’s and small-scale fisheries: Building technology-enabled capacity for small-scale fishers in South India

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6Feb 9 Miranda
Winners Take All pt. 1/4 [Prologue, Chapter2] (pp 1-59)

Giridharadas, A. (2018). Winners take all : The elite charade of changing the world (First ed.). New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

Available online via UW libraries: https://alliance-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/kjtuig/CP71286964890001451

7Feb 16 Jason
Winners Take All pt. 2/4 [Chapter3, Chapter4] (pp 60-128)

Giridharadas, A. (2018). Winners take all : The elite charade of changing the world (First ed.). New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

Available online via UW libraries: https://alliance-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/kjtuig/CP71286964890001451

8Feb 23 Emmanuel
Winners Take All pt. 3/4 [Chapter 5, Chapter 6] (pp 129-200)

Giridharadas, A. (2018). Winners take all : The elite charade of changing the world (First ed.). New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

Available online via UW libraries: https://alliance-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/kjtuig/CP71286964890001451

9Mar 2 Kyle
Winners Take All pt. 4/4 [Chapter7, Epilogue] (pp 201-263)

Giridharadas, A. (2018). Winners take all : The elite charade of changing the world (First ed.). New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

Available online via UW libraries: https://alliance-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/kjtuig/CP71286964890001451

10Mar 9 Matt J. + Jason
Non-portability of Algorithmic Fairness in India

Sambasivan, N., Arnesen, E., Hutchinson, B., & Prabhakaran, V. (2020). Non-portability of Algorithmic Fairness in India. ArXiv, abs/2012.03659.

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