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

Chuang, John

303A South Hall
(510) 642-7253

Associate Professor

Focus: Computer networks, Internet economics

Saxenian, AnnaLee

102 South Hall
(510) 642-9980

Dean of the iSchool and Professor (iSchool and Dept. of City and Regional Planning)

Focus: Information technology, organization, and economic development

Burrell, Jenna

312 South Hall
(510) 642-7584

Assistant Professor

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

Parikh, Tapan

303B South Hall
(510) 642-4583

Assistant Professor

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

Projects

The Moral Economy of the Mobile Phone in Sub-Saharan Africa

A Cross-Cultural Perspective on the Concept of Information

Technology and Transnationalism

OpenROSA Consortium

Related Courses

INFO 280. Information and Communication Technologies and Development: Context, Strategies and Impacts

INFO 290. Designing Rural Computing Applications

INFO 290. Graduate Reading Seminar on Information & Communication Technologies and Development

INFO 190. Technology and Poverty