Technology for Developing Regions

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Morgan G. Ames

Morgan Ames

Assistant Adjunct Professor
Alumni (MIMS 2006)
Science and technology studies; education; anthropology; youth technocultures; ideology and inequity; critical data science
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Joshua Blumenstock

Assistant Professor
Alumni (PhD 2012)
Development Economics, Data Science, Machine Learning, Econometrics, ICTD
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Jenna Burrell

Associate Professor
technology appropriation in non-Western societies, technology and socio-economic development, qualitative research methods
AnnaLee (Anno) Saxenian

AnnaLee Saxenian

Professor
Regional economic development, Entrepreneurship, Silicon Valley.

Recent Publications

The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child, by Morgan G. Ames
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.

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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

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Technology for Developing Regions news

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

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“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.

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Josh Blumenstock Uses Phone Data to Reveal Socioeconomic Status
Feb 23, 2019
Shazeda Ahmed
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.

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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.

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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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