Technology for Developing Regions

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Morgan Ames

Assistant Professor of Practice
Alumni (MIMS 2006)

Science and technology studies; computer-supported cooperative work and social computing; education; anthropology; youth technocultures; ideology and inequity; critical data science

Joshua Blumenstock

Associate Professor
Alumni (PhD 2012)

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

Jenna Burrell

Professor

how marginalized communities adapt technology, algorithmic fairness and opacity, human control over algorithms, ethnography

Recent Publications

The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child

Nov 12, 2019

In The Charisma Machine, Morgan Ames chronicles the life and legacy of the One Laptop per Child project and explains why — despite its failures — the same utopian visions that inspired OLPC still motivate other projects trying to use technology to “disrupt” education and development.

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

Technology for Developing Regions news

Blumenstock’s Research Brings Cash Aid to to Togo’s Poorest

Dec 11, 2020

Charity Worked with Josh Blumenstock to Identify Aid Recipients in Togo Using Mobile Phone Data

Dec 11, 2020

Campus Gift Guide Recommends New Books by Two I School Faculty

Dec 3, 2019

Interview with Morgan Ames on “The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop Per Child”

Oct 7, 2019

Morgan Ames’ The Charisma Machine: A Deep Dive into One Laptop per Child

Oct 15, 2019

Morgan G. Ames explores the rise and fall of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project in her new book, The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop Per Child.

Santamaria Ots locating cities in need of relief supplies.

“Data for Good” Fellowship Awardee Aims to Empower Puerto Rican Citizens

Sep 18, 2019

In the summer of 2019, Daniel Santamaria Ots received the Jack Larson Data for Good Fellowship for his research in Puerto Rico.

Josh Blumenstock Uses Phone Data to Reveal Socioeconomic Status

Feb 23, 2019

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 received 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.