), where available, have been added to each of the sessions listed on this page.All talks and sessions at Sibley Auditorium
Onsite registration opens at 7:45 a.m. on Thursday, 5/25, at Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center. If you have not yet registered online, we strongly recommend that you arrive at the time registration opens. We are able to accept payment by check or cash--$300 Standard Registration, $75 Student w/Banquet Registration, $50 Student Registration.
THURSDAY, MAY 25
8.30 - 8.45 AM
Welcome Note: Raj Reddy, Professor of Computer Science, CMU, and Conference Co-Chairperson.
Conference Review: Kentaro Toyama, Associate Director, Microsoft Research India, and Organizing Committee Chair
8.45 - 9.30 AM
Keynote Presentation: Same Language Subtitling for Mass Literacy,
Dr. Brij Kothari, Founder, PlanetRead
Session 1: A Macro View of ICTD
9.45 AM - 10.45 AM
Audio Recording (including Brij Kothari Keynote) [MP3 / 100 MB] Session Chair: Kenneth Keniston, Professor, Science, Technology, and Society, MIT
The Missing Piece: Human-Driven Design and Research in ICT and Development
Paul Braund, Anke Schwittay
Computing Devices for All: Creating and Selling the Low-Cost Computer
Rodrigo Fonseca, Joyojeet Pal
Session 2: ICT in Agriculture
11.00 AM - 12.00 PM
Audio Recording [MP3 / 67 MB] Session Chair: Michael Watts, Professor, Department of Geography, UCB
COMMON-Sense Net: Improved Water Management for Resource-Poor Farmers via Sensor Networks
Jacques Panchard, Seshagiri Rao, Prabhakar T.V, H.S. Jamadagni and Jean-Pierre Hubaux
Innovative ICT Tools for Information Provision in Agricultural Extension
Krithi Ramamritham, Anil Bahuman, Subhasri Duttagupta, Chaitra Bahuman and Srividya Balasundaram
Lunch Break 12.00 Noon - 2.00 PM
Session 3: The Economics of ICTD
2.00 - 3.30 PM
(Audio recording for session 3 is not currently available.)
Session Chair: Beth Kolko, Associate Professor, College of Engineering, University of Washington
ICT usage and its impact on profitability of SMEs in 13 African Countries
Christoph Stork, Steve Esselaar, Ali Ndiwalana and Mariama Deen-Swarra
Mobile phones and Economic Development: Evidence from the Fishing Industry in India
Reuben Abraham
How the Telecommunication Market in Developing Countries Differ from That in Developed Countries
Ligang Yan, Hengyuan Zhu, Guisheng Wu
Poster Session 3.30 - 5.30 PM
Location: South Hall Foyer
Banquet 6.30 - 8.30 PM
Location: Bancroft Hotel
Welcome Talk: "Open Access Publishing and ICTD"
Michael Best and Ernest J. Wilson III, Co-editors, Information Technologies and International Development
Keynote Presentation: The New Global Order of Poverty Management, or Why Everybody Loves Microfinance,
Prof. Ananya Roy, Associate Dean, International and Area Studies & Associate Professor, City and Regional Planning, UC Berkeley
FRIDAY, MAY 26
8.45 - 9.00 AM
Welcome Note: AnnaLee Saxenian, Dean, School of Information, UC Berkeley, and Conference Co-Chairperson.
9.00 - 9.45 AM
Keynote Presentation: Empowering 800 Million People through Low-cost IT,
Prof. Zhiwei Xu, Professor and Deputy Director of the Insitute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Audio Recording [MP3 / 62 MB] Session 4: Innovative User Interfaces
10.15 AM - 12.00 Noon
Audio Recording [MP3 / 93 MB] Session Chair: Heather Hudson, Director, Telecommunications Management and Policy Program, USFCA
Multiple Mice for Computers in Education in Developing Countries
Udai Pawar, Joyojeet Pal, Kentaro Toyama
Text-Free User Interfaces for Illiterate and Semi-Literate Users
Indrani Medhi, Aman Sagar, Kentaro Toyama
Speech Recognition for Illiterate Access to Information and Technology
Madelaine Plauché, Udhyakumar Nallasamy, Joyojeet Pal, Chuck Wooters, and Divya Ramachandran
Lunch Break 12.00
Noon - 2.00 PM
Program Committee to meet in South
Hall during lunch break
Session 5: ICT in Rural Service Delivery
2.00 - 3.30 PM
Audio Recording [MP3 / 75 MB]
Session Chair: Balaji Parthasarathy, Professor, IIIT-Bangalore
The Livestock Guru: Transmitting demand-led information to decision-makers and the poor
Claire Heffernan
Changed governance or computerised governance: Computerised property transfer processes in Tamil Nadu
Radha Vasudevan
Augmenting Rural Supply Chains with a Location-Enhanced Mobile Information System
Paul Javid, Tapan S. Parikh
Session 6: Kiosks and Telecenters
4.00 PM - 5.30 PM
Audio Recording [MP3 / 82 MB]
Session Chair: Peter Evans, Professor, Department of Sociology, UCB
Integrating Social Development and Financial Sustainability: The Challenges of Rural Kiosks in Kerala
Renee Kuriyan, Kentaro Toyama, and Isha Ray
E-governance services through Telecentres - Role of Human Intermediary and issues of Trust
Kiran Gopakumar
Social Entrepreneurship as Critical Agency: A study of Rural Internet kiosks
Nimmi Rangaswamy
Reception 5.30
PM -
7.00 PM
Location: South Hall
ICTD2006 POSTER DISPLAYS
Posters will be displayed at the Sibley Auditorium and at the School of
Information Foyer. All papers and posters will be published in the
conference proceedings.
E-Karaoke Learning for Gender Empowerment in Marginalized International Settings
Payal Arora
Human Capital as a Basis of Comparative Advantage Equations in Services Outsourcing: A Cross Country Comparative study
Shailey Dash
Cultural Assessment for Sustainable Kiosk Projects
Judd Antin
Mobile phone in Cote de Ivoire: Uses and Self-fulfilment
Osee Kamga
Technologies and Business Models that Work in Developing Countries
James L. Koch, Thomas M. Caradonna
ICT for poverty alleviation: A study on Bangladesh
Mohammad Shakil Akther, Takashi Onishi, Tetsuo Kidokoro
Political Economy and ICTs for Development: India's Space Program 1975-2000
Siddhartha Raja
An Empirical Investigation of Innovation and Community Development through Information and Communication Technology
Michael Gordon, Vijay Dakshinamoorthy, Li Wang, Allen Hammond
Rural Microfinance Service Delivery: Gaps Inefficiencies and Emerging Solutions
Tapan S. Parikh
Cell Phone Based Microcredit Risk Assessment using Fuzzy Clustering
Saket Sathe, Uday Desai
Information and Communications Technology for Development (ICT4D) - A Design Challenge?
Rahul Tongia, Eswaran Subrahmanian
Designing Wireless Sensor Networks as a Shared Resource for Sustainable Development
Nithya Ramanathan, Laura Balzano, Deborah Estrin, Mark Hansen, Thomas Harmon, Jenny Jay, William Kaiser and Gaurav Sukhatme
The Global Diffusion Patterns of Successive Technology Generations: Modeling Analog and Digital Wireless Phone Growth
Robert Kauffman, Angsana Techatassanasoontorn
Bayesian Networks: An Exploratory Tool for Understanding ICT Adoption
Sergiu Nedevschi, Jaspal Sandhu, Joyojeet Pal, Rodrigo Fonseca, Kentaro Toyama
Use of ICTs for Encouraging Participative Development: A Critique of the Indian Experiment
Amit Prakash, Rahul De
Policies for Universal Access to Telecommunications in Rural Areas of Developing Countries - An Institutional Economics Approach
Thorsten Scherf
Rural Telephony: A Socio-Economic Case Study
Sayandeep Sen, Sukant Kole, Bhaskaran Raman
MorfWeb: A New Way of Living the Web Access
Marco Santambrogio, Christina Tziviskou, Gesualdo Le Moli
Kiosk Usage Measurement using a Software Logging Tool
Rajesh Veeraraghavan, Gauravdeep Singh, Kentaro Toyama, Deepak Menon
ICT Strategies for Gender Empowerment: Actionable Approaches and Recommendations
Claudia Morrell, Revi Sterling
Impact of the Insertion of Modern Information and Communication Technologies in Brazilian Rural Communities
Marco Figueiredo, Mauro Camara, Roberta Sabin
A Fragile Link: Disaster relief, ICTs and development
Carleen F. Maitland, Nicolai Pogrebnyakov and Annemijn F. van Gorp
