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Current Research ProjectsEconomic development was originally understood as a science of labor and capital relations that would be successfully worked out by macroeconomists. Technology was a part of this formula from the very beginning with emerging interest in the field after World War II. Originally the simple transfer of Western technologies was envisioned as an... 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... 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...
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... This is an on-going collection of projects related to market structure in what traditionally were separate industries—voice telephony, data communications, video delivery, and internet access. Specific assignments have included: |
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