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