Fall 2012 ICTD Reading Group

We will meet informally for a non-credit reading group to explore issues related to ICTD. The reading group will meet regularly for an hour on Fridays at 3 PM in HBK 4113 in the Fall 2012 semester (only the organizing meeting had been on a Thurssday, September 6, at 3:30 PM in that same room). The expectations for participants are: We will agree on paper a few weeks in advance and add them to this Web page as we do. Someone should volunteer to lead the discussion each week.
Session Date Topic Discussion Leader Reading Notes
1
Sep 6 at 3:30
Low-Literacy Users
Doug
 Indrani Medhi, Somani Patnaik, Emma Brunskill, S. N. Nagasena Gautama, William Thies and Kentaro Toyama, Designing Mobile Interfaces for Novice and Low-Literacy Users, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 18(1)2:1-2:28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1959022.1959024 (Abailable from off campus with campus credentials from the University of Maryland Libraries)  
2
Sep 14
HCI
Kays
 Kentaro Toyama, 2010. Human-Computer Interaction and Global Development. Foundations and Trends in Human-Computer Interaction, 4(1):1-79.  
3
Sep 21
Mobile
Kanti
 World Bank. 2012. IC4D 2012: Maximizing Mobile (read executive summary and chapter 1)  
4
Sep 28
M-PESA
William
 Nick Hughes and Susie Lonie, M-PESA: Mobile money for the 'Unbanked', Innovations, Winter & Spring 2007, pp 63-81.  
5
Oct 5
Agribusiness
Yining
 M. Ntaliani, C. Costopoulou and S. Karetsos, Mobile government: A challenge for agriculture, Government Information Quarterly, 25(4): 699-716, 2008  
6
Oct 12
Health Care
Leah
 Kapadia-Kundu, N., Sullivan, T.M., Safi, B., Trivedi, G., Velu, S. (2012). Understanding Health Information Needs and Gaps in the Health Care System in Uttar Pradesh, India. Journal of Health Communication, 17:sup2, 30-45.  
7
Oct 19
Storytelling
Doug
 Thomas Reitmaier, Nicola J. Bidwell and Gary Marsden, Situating digital storytelling within African communities, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 69(10): 658-668, 2011.  
8
Oct 26
Mobile
Stella
 Jonathan Donner, Research Approaches to Mobile Use in the Developing World: A Review of the Literature, The Information Society, 24:140--159, 2008.  
9
Nov 2
NO MEETING
(CIKM IKM4DR Workshop)
 
    
10
Nov 9
Learning
William
 Kumar, Tewari, Shroff, Chittamuru, Kam and Canny, An Exploratory Study of Unsupervised Mobile Learning in Rural India, CHI 2010.  

Useful Resources

Some places to get started in thinking about what to read.
ICTD Conference (Proceedings are in ACM DL)
ACM DEV Symposium
Berkeley iSchool ICTD Group
University of Washington Change Group
DC-area ICTD Meetups
University of Maryland Center for International Development and Conflict Management
University of Maryland AREC 345 Course Reading List
World Bank ICT page
Doug Oard
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