Technology for Developing Regions

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Joshua Blumenstock

Assistant Professor
Alumni (PhD 2012)

Development Economics, Data Science, Econometrics, Machine Learning, ICTD

Jenna Burrell

Associate Professor

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

AnnaLee Saxenian

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

Regional economic development, Entrepreneurship, Silicon Valley.

Recent Publications

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

Technology for Developing Regions news

Shazeda Ahmed on the Messy Truth About Social Credit

Apr 23, 2019

Ph.D. student Shazeda Ahmed writes that foreign media has painted a dystopian portrait of China’s social credit system. The reality is both less coherent and more complex.

Josh Blumenstock at the Artifical Intelligence for Economic Development conference

Josh Blumenstock Honored for Research in the Public Interest

Apr 16, 2019

Prof Blumenstock will receive the Faculty Award for Research in the Public Interest for his research at the intersection of machine learning and development economics.

Joshua Blumenstock: The Knowns and Unknowns of Big Data and Poverty Alleviation

Mar 18, 2019

Joshua Blumenstock cautions that new digital methods of approaching issues of poverty must be used as a complement to more traditional approaches.

To reach the world’s poorest, Josh Blumenstock says to design for dumb phones

Mar 8, 2018

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.