Technology for Developing Regions

Related Faculty

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

Engineering Rural Development: Improving the Performance and Accountability of Civil Society Organizations

Jan 1, 2009

e-IMCI: Improving Pediatric Health Care in Low-Income Countries

Apr 10, 2008

A survey of information systems reaching small producers in global agricultural value chains

Dec 1, 2007

Designing an architecture for delivering mobile information services to the rural developing world

May 26, 2006

Technology for Developing Regions news

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.

I School Faculty & Students Head to Paris for CHI 2013

Apr 25, 2013

Eight I School faculty and students will be presenting their research at the upcoming CHI Conference in Paris, France.

Ph.D. Student Honored for Research on Internet Use in Rural China

Mar 27, 2013

Elisa Oreglia honored for the best graduate student paper on China and inner Asia at the Association for Asian Studies annual conference.

Social Enterprises Launch From the Classroom to the Real World

Oct 25, 2012

Updates on five student projects from the course “Information and Communications Technologies for Social Enterprise” that have already become full-fledged companies serving the developing world — plus a web platform that is just about to to open its doors to the public.

Elisa Oreglia Profiles Rural Chinese Internet Users

May 24, 2012

New research by Ph.D. student Elisa Oreglia looks under the surface of rural Chinese Internet use and reveals a rich nuanced relationship between older, less-educated Chinese villagers, computers, and the Internet.

Neha Kumar Awarded Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship

May 4, 2012

Ghana, Online Scamming, and the Internet’s Broken Promises

Apr 27, 2012

New research by Jenna Burrell looks under the surface of Internet culture in Ghana, exploring why many Ghanaians have struggled to form connections with foreigners and to share in the prosperity of the information age.

Grad Student Celebrates Failure

Mar 15, 2012

“If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you ever tried.” Doctoral student Melissa Densmore is defying this conventional wisdom, hosting a session that welcomes — and attempts to learn from — experiences of failure.

Tapan Parikh Speaks at TEDxBerkeley

Jan 30, 2012

TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience of “ideas worth spreading.” At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group.

Five Ph.D. Students to Present at 4S Conference

Oct 31, 2011

Ph.D. students Megan Finn, Elisa Oreglia, Stuart Geiger, Christo Sims, and Bob Bell present their research on technology circulation in China, information dissemination for humanitarian relief efforts, online communities in physical space, gender and identity in digital youth culture, and African entrepreneurship, in at the annual meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science.