Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD)

Overview

Research on ICTD at the School of Information follows several distinct trajectories:

1. First, to understand current processes of technology diffusion and adoption in developing regions.
2. Second, to act through the design and deployment of information systems in close collaboration with the communities they are meant to support.
3. Finally, to reshape the dialogue about the role of technology in the global economic and political processes that affect developing regions.

Affiliated Faculty

Jenna Burrell 312 South Hall (510) 642-7584

Assistant Professor Focus: technology appropriation in non-Western societies, technology and socio-economic development, qualitative research methods

John Chuang 303A South Hall (510) 642-7253

Professor Focus: Computer networks, Internet economics

Tapan Parikh 303B South Hall (510) 642-4583

Assistant Professor Focus: HCI, ICTD, information systems supporting microfinance, smallholder agriculture and public health

AnnaLee Saxenian 102 South Hall (510) 642-9980

Dean of the I School and Professor (I School and Dept. of City and Regional Planning) Focus: Information technology, organization, and economic development