Technology for Developing Regions

Related Faculty

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Joshua Blumenstock

Assistant Professor
Alumni (PhD 2012)
jblumenstock@berkeley.edu
Website
Focus: Development Economics, Data Science, Econometrics, Machine Learning, ICTD
(510) 642-4583
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Jenna Burrell

Associate Professor
jenna@ischool.berkeley.edu
Website
Focus: technology appropriation in non-Western societies, technology and socio-economic development, qualitative research methods
(510) 642-7584
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AnnaLee Saxenian

Dean of the I School and Professor (I School and Dept. of City and Regional Planning)
dean@ischool.berkeley.edu
Website
Focus: Regional economic development, Entrepreneurship, Silicon Valley.
(510) 642-9980
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Xiao Qiang

Adjunct Professor
Website
Focus: Technology and human rights: China, censorship, surveillance, digital activism and information politics

Recent Publications

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Mapping poverty using mobile phone and satellite data
Feb 1, 2017
Material Ecosystems: Theorizing (Digital) Technologies in Socio-Economic Development
Mar 1, 2016
The Myth of Market Price Information: Mobile Phones and the Application of Economic Knowledge in ICTD
Apr 22, 2015
From Farm to Farmville: Circulation, Adoption, and Use of ICT between Urban and Rural China
Dec 20, 2013
Revisiting the Fishers of Kerala, India
Sep 1, 2013
MobileWorks: Designing for Quality in a Managed Crowdsourcing Architecture
Oct 1, 2012
The Evolving Braid: An Ethnography of Technology Change in Uganda
May 11, 2012
Invisible Users: Youth in the Internet Cafes of Urban Ghana.
May 1, 2012
Essays on the Economic Impacts of Mobile Phones in Sub-Saharan Africa
Apr 30, 2012
Mobile Phone Tools for Field-Based Health care Workers in Low-Income Countries
May 1, 2011

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Technology for Developing Regions news

Joshua Blumenstock
To reach the world’s poorest, Josh Blumenstock says to design for dumb phones
Mar 8, 2018
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Alumna’s Nonprofit Start-up Seeks to Break the Cycle of Illiteracy
May 1, 2017

Dost, cofounded by alumna Sindhuja Jeyabal (MIMS ’16), is an educational nonprofit providing India’s illiterate mothers regular audio calls with instructions to prepare their children for kindergarten.

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Novel Information System Addresses Unemployment in India's Informal Labor Market
May 9, 2014
Five School of Information students are developing a system to solve one of the biggest challenges of India’s market for household domestic workers, and to help a whole community that isn’t being served.
Tapan Parikh
Tapan Parikh Is a Sloan Foundation Rising Star
Feb 18, 2014
Parikh is transforming the world’s poorest areas by designing, evaluating, and deploying appropriate information systems that support sustainable economic development.
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How Government Documents Enable Transparency and Accountability
Feb 6, 2014
New research presents case studies from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake; Rajasthan, India, at the turn of the 20th century; and a present-day Indian welfare system.
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Scholars Present New Research into Technology Use and Development
Dec 11, 2013
Faculty, Ph.D. students, and alumni present over a dozen papers, notes, demonstrations, and workshops at the international Information and Communication Technologies and Development conference in Cape Town, South Africa.
Rajesh Veeraraghavan
Can Open Government Initiatives Combat Corruption?
Oct 8, 2013
Ph.D. student Rajesh Veeraraghavan is analyzing the effects of an Indian “open government” initiative, which uses information transparency to fight corruption in the distribution of government benefits.
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I School Faculty & Students Head to Paris for CHI 2013
Apr 25, 2013
Eight I School faculty and students will be presenting their research at the upcoming CHI Conference in Paris, France.
Elisa Oreglia
Ph.D. Student Honored for Research on Internet Use in Rural China
Mar 27, 2013
Elisa Oreglia honored for the best graduate student paper on China and inner Asia at the Association for Asian Studies annual conference.
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Social Enterprises Launch From the Classroom to the Real World
Oct 25, 2012
Updates on five student projects from the course “Information and Communications Technologies for Social Enterprise” that have already become full-fledged companies serving the developing world — plus a web platform that is just about to to open its doors to the public.

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