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

Jenna Burrell

Adjunct Professor

how systematically excluded communities adapt technology, algorithmic fairness and transparency, human control over algorithms, ethnography

John Chuang

Professor

Biosensory computing; climate informatics; information economics and policy

Recent Publications

Assessing the burden of COVID-19 in developing countries: systematic review, meta-analysis and public policy implications

May 1, 2022

Machine learning and phone data can improve targeting of humanitarian aid

Mar 16, 2022

Here we show that data from mobile phone networks can improve the targeting of humanitarian assistance.

Micro-Estimates of Wealth and Poverty for all Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Jan 3, 2022

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.

Don't forget people in the use of big data for development

Dec 30, 2018

Why Do Defaults Affect Behavior? Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan

Dec 10, 2018

Mapping poverty using mobile phone and satellite data

Feb 1, 2017

Airtime Transfers and Mobile Communications: Evidence in the Aftermath of Natural Disasters

Dec 10, 2016

Material Ecosystems: Theorizing (Digital) Technologies in Socio-Economic Development

Mar 1, 2016

Predicting Poverty and Wealth from Mobile Phone Metadata

Dec 10, 2015

Technology for Developing Regions news

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.

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.