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• Lecture 1, April 2, Course Introduction
  • The Virtues of Mundane Science, Daniel Kammen and Michael Dove, Environment, Vol 39, No 6, (July/August 1997). (PDF)
  • The Case for Technology for Developing Regions. Eric Brewer, Michael Demmer, Bowei Du, Kevin Fall, Melissa Ho, Matthew Kam, Sergiu Nedevschi, Joyojeet Pal, Rabin Patra, and Sonesh Surana. IEEE Computer. Volume 38, Number 6, pp. 25-38, June 2005. (PDF)
  • The Challenges of Technology Research for Developing Regions. Eric Brewer, Michael Demmer, Melissa Ho, R.J. Honicky, Joyojeet Pal, Madelaine Plauché,and Sonesh Surana. IEEE Pervasive Computing. Volume 5, Number 2, pp. 15-23, April-June 2006. (PDF)
• Lecture 2, April 9, Internet Kiosks
  • Review of Research on Rural PC Kiosks, Renee Kuriyan and Kentaro Toyama, Working draft, April 14, 2007. (PDF)
  • Why is Connectivity in Developing Regions Expensive: Policy Challenges more than Technical Limitations? Rahul Tongia, WWW 2006, pp. 991-992. (PDF)
  • Post-Conflict Communications: The Case of Liberia, Michael Best, Kipp Jones, Illenin Kondo, Dhanaraj Thanur, Edem Wornyo, adn Calvin Yu, CACM October 2007, pp 33-39.(PDF)
  • Wiring the Wilderness in Alaska and the Yukon, Seymour Goodman, James Gottstein and Diane Goodman, CACM June 2001, pp 21-25. (PDF)
• Lecture 2, April 9, Supplementary Readings
  • Integrating Social Development and Financial Sustainability: The Challegenes of Rural Computer Kiosks in Kerala, R. Kuriyan, K. Toyama, and I. Ray, ICTD 2006. (PDF)
  • eChoupals: A Study on the Financial Sustainability of Village Internet Centers in Rural Madhya Pradesh, Richa Kimar, ITID, Volume 2, Number 1, Fall 2004, 45-73. (PDF)
  • Bringing Internet connectivity to rural Zambia using a collaborative approach. K. Matthee, G. Mweemba, A. Pais, G. van Stam, and M. Rijken. ICTD 2007. (PDF)
  • Kiosk Usage Measurement using a Software Logging Tool, R. Veeraraghavan, G. Singh, K. Toyama, and D. Menon, ICTD 2006.
  • DakNet: Rethinking Connectivity in Developing Nations, A. Pentland, R. Flitcher and A. Hasson, IEEE Computer, January 2004. (PDF)
  • What works: First Mile Solutions' Daknet takes rural communities online. C. Chyau, J-F Raymond, World Resources Institute, October 2005. (PDF)
  • Design and Implementation of the KioskNet System, Srinivasan Keshav, ShiminGuo, Hossein Falaki, Earl Oliver, Aaditeshwar Seth, Sumair Ur Rahman, Matei Zaharia and Usman Ismail, ICTD 2007. (PDF)
• Lecture 3, April 16, Telemedicine
  • Analysis of Information and Communication Needs in Rural Primary Health Care in Developing Countries, A. Martinez, V. Villarroel, J. Seonane, and F. del Pozo, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, Vol. 9, No. 1, March 2005 (PDF)
  • A Study of a Rural Telemedicine System in the Amazon Region of Peru, A. Martinez, V. Villarroel, J. Seonane, and F. del Pozo, IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics 2006: Assessing Information Technologies for Health. (PDF)
  • Rethinking Wireless for the Developing World, L. Subramanian, S. Surana, R. Patra, S. Nedevschi, M. Ho and A. Sheth, Hotnets, 2006 (PDF)
  • Beyond Pilots: Keeping Rural Wireless Alive, S. Surana, R. Patra, S. Nedevschi, M. Mamos, L. Subramanian, Y. Ben-David, and E. Brewer, NSDI 2008, (PDF)
• Lecture 3, April 16, Supplementary Readings
  • WiLDNet: Design and Implementation of High Performance WiFi Based Long Distance Networks, R. Patra, S. Nedevschi, S. Surana, A. Sheth, L., Subramanian, and E. Brewer, NSDI 2007, (PDF)
  • Asynchronous Remote Medical Consultation for Ghana, R. Luk, M. Ho, and P. Aoki, CHI 2008, (PDF)
  • Diagnosis, access and outcomes: update of a systematic review of telemedicine services, W. Hersh, D. Hickam, S. Severance, T. Dana, K. Krages, and M. Helfand, Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, 2006, (Suppl. 2): S2: 3-31 (PDF)
  • Experiences in Using WiFi for Rural Internet in India, B. Raman and K. Chebrolu, IEEE Communications Magazine, January, 2007, pp. 104-110. (PDF)
• Lecture 4, April 23, Rural Networking, SMS based applications
  • Warana Unwired: Replacing PCs with Mobile Phones in a Rural Sugarcane Cooperative, R. Veeraraghavan, N. Yasodhar, and K. Toyama, ICTD 2007. (PDF)
• Lecture 4, April 23, Supplementary Readings
  • The First Mile Project, IFAD, (PDF)
  • Internet for the Developing World: Offline Internet Access at Modem-speed Dialup Connections, Umar Saif, A. Chudhary, S. Butt, N. Butt, G. Murtaza, ICTD 2007, (PDF)
  • Searching the World Wide Web in Low-Connectivity Communities, W. Thies, J. Prevost, T. Mahtab, G. Cuevas, S. Shakhshir, A. Artola, B. Vo, Y. Litvak, S. Chan, S. Henterson, M. Halsey, L. Levison, and S. Amarasinghe, Searching the World Wide Web in Low-Connectivity Communities, WWW2002, Global Communities Track, (PDF)
• Lecture 5, April 30, ICT and Agriculture
  • Digital Green: Participatory Video for Agricultural Extension, R. Gandhi, R. Veeraraghavan, K. Toyama, and V. Ramprasad, ICTD 2007. (PDF)
  • Tutored Videotape Instruction: A New Use of Electronics Media in Education, J. F. Gibbons, W. R. Kincheloe and K. S. Down, Science, Volume 195, Mar 18, 1977, pp 1139-1146. (PDF)
• Lecture 5, April 30, Supplementary Readings
  • How do mobile phones promote economic growth? Economist, May 10, 2007. (PDF)
  • The Digital Provide: Information (Technology), Market Performance, and Welfare in the South Indian Fisheries Sector, Robert Jensen, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 2007, Issue 3, pp 879-924. (PDF) Slides from a talk by Jensen (PDF)
  • aAqua: A Database-backended Multilingual, Mulitmedia Community Forum, K. Ramamritham, A. Bahuman, and S. Duttagupta, SIGMOD 2006 Demo. (PDF)
  • ICT markets in East Africa and the Indian Ocean, Nov@Tech, 2007, (PDF)
  • Information Systems and Developing Countries: Failure, Success, and Local Improviations, Richard Heeks, The Information Society, 18:101-112, 2002. (PDF)
  • Wireless Techologies and Development in Africa, Catherine Adeya, Working Paper, 2005, (PDF)
• Lecture 6, May 7, Portable devices
  • e-IMCI: Improving Pediatric Health Care in Low-Income Countries, B. DeRenzi et al., CHI 2008 (PDF)
• Lecture 6, May 7, Supplementary Readings
  • The Economic Lives of the Poor, A. Banerjee and E. Duflo, MIT Working Paper, October 2006, (PDF)
  • The use of personal digital assistants for data entry at the point of collection in a large household survey in southern Tanzania, K. Shirima et al., Emerging Themes in Epidemiology, 2007, 4:5 (PDF)
  • Participant and Interviewer Attitudes towards Handheld Computers in the Context of HIV/AIDS Programs in Sub-Saharan Africa, K. Cheng, F. Ernesto, and K. Truong, CHI 2008, (PDF)
  • Designing a Graphical User Interface for Healthcare Workers in Rural India, S. Grisedale, M. Graves, and A. Grunsteidl, CHI 97, (PDF)
  • Handheld computers for rural healthcare: Experiences from research concept to global opertions, V. Anantraman et al., (PDF)
  • Scientific Measure of Africa's Connectivity, M. Zennaro et al., Information Technologies and International Development, 3, 1, Fall 2006, 55-64. (PDF)
• Lecture 7, May 12
  • "My child will be respected": Parental Perspectives on Computers in Rural India, J. Pal, M. Lakshmanan, and K. Toyama, ICTD 2007. (PDF)
• Lecture 8, May 21, Education
  • Multiple Mice for Computers in Education in Developing Countries, U. Pawar, J. Pal., and K. Toyama, ICTD 2006. (PDF)
• Lecuter 8, Supplemental Readings
  • Mischief, Supporting remote teaching in developing regions, Neema Moraveji, Taemie Kim, James Ge, Udai Singh Pawar, Kori Inkpen, and Kathleen Mulcahy, CHI 2008, (PDF)
  • Remedying Education: Evidence from two randomized experiments in India, Banerjee, Cole, Duflo, and Linden, Poverty Action Lab, (PDF)
  • Designing e-Learning games for rural children in India: A format for balancing learning with fun, M. Kam et al., DIS 2008, (PDF)
  • Usage Models of Classroom Computing in Developing Regions, R. Patra, J. Pal, S. Nedevschi, M. Plauche, and U. Pawar, ICTD 2007, (PDF)
  • OLPC: There is quite a bit of current news on the OLPC project including press reviews and reports on recent deployments and project turmoil. The Wikipedia entry is a good starting point. Recent blog posts include Ivan Krstic, Richard Stallman, and James Utzschneider
  • Using Randomization in Development Economics Research: A Toolkit, E. Duflo, R. Glennerster, and M. Kremer, Poverty Action Lab report, MIT, Dec, 2006, ( PDF)
• Lecture 9, May 28, Data collection / User Interface
  • Mobile Phones and Paper Documents: Evaluationg A New Approach for Capturing Microfinance Data in Rural India, T. Parikh, P. Javid, Sasikumar K., K. Ghosh, CHI 2006 (PDF)
  • Why don't people use Nepali Language Software, P. Hall, G. Ghimire, M. Newton, M. P. Pustakalaya, P. Dhoka, ICTD 2007, (PDF)
• Lecture 9, Supplemental readings
  • Designing a Graphical User Interface for Healthcare Workers in Rural India, S. Grisedale, M. Graves, and A. Grunsteidl, CHI 97, (PDF) (HTML) You may want to look at the html version for the pictures.
  • Text-Free User Interfaces for Illiterate and Semi-Literate Users, I. Medhi, A. Sagar, and K. Toyama, (PDF)
  • Understanding and Designing for Intermediated Information Tasks in India, T. Parikh and K. Ghosh, Pervasive Computer, April-June 2006, (PDF)
• Lecture 10, June 4, Non-literate UIs
  • Design Studies for a Financial Managment System for Micro-credit Groups in Rural India, T. Parikh, K. Ghosh., and A. Chavan, CUU 2003. (PDF)
  • Text-Free User Interfaces for Illiterate and Semi-Literate Users, I. Medhi, A. Sagar, and K. Toyama, ICTD 2006, (PDF)
• Lecture 10, Supplemental readings
  • Challenges in Computerized Job Search for the Developing World, Medhi, I., Menon, G., and Toyama, K., CHI 2008 Case Studies (PDF)
  • Full-Context Videos for First-Time, Non-Literate PC Users, Indrani Medhi and Kentaro Toyama, ICTD 2007, (PDF)
  • Social Dynamics of Early Stage Co-Design in Developing Regions, D. Ramachandran, M. Kam, J. Chiu, J. Canny, and J. Frankel, CHI 2007, (PDF)
  • Speech Recognition for Illiterate Access to Information and Technology, M. Plauche, U. Nallasamy, J. Pal, C. Wooters, and D. Ramachandran, ICTD 2006, (PDF)

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