Current Research ProjectsThis project is sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Background & RationaleThe 2008 World Development Report identifies agriculture as the primary engine for economic growth and poverty reduction in the agriculture-based developing economies. This applies to most of sub-Saharan Africa where two-thirds of... This study asks how the experience of migration shapes the use of a range of technologies including mobile phones, the Internet, and video camcorders. How does the diasporic network of West Africans in the Bay area participate in events in their homeland? A study of how the mobile phone is incorporated into relations between husbands and wives, children and parents, peers, and neighbors in Uganda and Ghana. This project looks at the mobile phone as a gift, as a device for transferring money, and as a shared community resource. How are the benefits of mobile phone access distributed according... Cheshire3 is a fast XML search engine, written in Python for extensability and using C libraries for speed. It is feature rich, including support for XML namespaces, unicode, a distributable object oriented model and all the features expected of a digital library system. Standards are foremost, including SRW/U and CQL, as well as Z39.50 and OAI... From file-sharing to mobile ad-hoc networks, community networking to application layer overlays, the peer-to-peer (p2p) networking paradigm promises to revolutionize the way we design, build and use the communications network of tomorrow. The fundamental premise of p2p systems is that individual peers voluntarily contribute resources to the system...
The 100x100 Project brings together economists, security and networking experts, network operators, and policy specialists to create blueprints for a network that goes beyond today's Internet. Drawing on technology trends and the experience of the past 30 years, these scientists are re-prioritizing the fundamental principles that underlie... New methods and tools are needed to improve how bioscience researchers search for and synthesize information from textual descriptions of bioscience research. We are building a flexible, efficient, platform-independent database system infrastructure specifically geared towards supporting the advanced and particular search needs of bioscience... Does the concept of 'information' translate between languages and cultures? If not, what are the implications for Western development interventions that focus on information delivery? This project seeks to explore the concept of information in different formats (ranging from market prices to football/soccer scores) and to consider what... Bailando means dancing in Spanish. The goal of the UC Berkeley BAILANDO projects is to make access to information seem as graceful and effortless as the dances that we have named our projects after. That is, we want to provide BAILANDO or "Better Access to Information using Language Analysis and New Displays and Organizations... Assistant Professor Tapan Parikh is a member of the OpenROSA Consortium, which creates open source, standards-based tools for mobile data collection, aggregation, analysis, and reporting. By developing open source solutions and conforming to standards based on the XForms specification, OpenROSA makes it... |
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