CS 598c Technologies for the Developing World

(Spring 2005)

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  introduction   *
1. C. K. Prahalad and Stuart L. Hart. The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid. stategy+business, issue 26. first quarter, 2002. pdf   
2. The New York Times. Dot-Com Saviors, Tilting at the World's Ills. March 16, 2003. pdf  
slides: Introduction. pdf avi, 53MB
  background: technology options and experiences          
3. Georg Caspary and David O'Connor. Providing Low-Cost Information Technology Access to Rural Communities in Developing Countries: What Works? What Pays? OECD Development Center, Working Papers No. 229. November, 2003. pdf  
4. Kerry S. McNamara. Information and Communication Technologies, Poverty and Development: Learning from Experience. A Background Paper for the infoDev Annual Symposium, The World Bank. December, 2003. pdf  
5. Pravin Bhagwat, Bhaskaran Raman, and Dheeraj Sanghi. Turning 802.11 Inside-Out. Second Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets-II). November, 2003. pdf  
slides: Technology options: connectivity, devices, power, and organizational structures. pdf avi, 76MB
slides: Experiences: myths, principles, promises, and challenges. pdf avi, 78MB
slides: Experiences: continued. avi, 53MB
  DTNs and Postmanet    
6. Kevin Fall. A Delay Tolerant Networking Architecture for Challenged Internets. Proc. SIGCOMM 2003. August, 2003. pdf  
7. Randolph Y. Wang, Sumeet Sobti, Nitin Garg, Elisha Ziskind, Junwen Lai, and Arvind Krishnamurthy. Turning the Postal System into a Generic Digital Communication Mechanism. Proc. SIGCOMM 2004. August, 2004. pdf  
slides: Postmanet: introduction. pdf avi, 11MB
slides: Postmanet. avi, 82MB
slides: Postmanet: finishing up. avi, 287MB
slides: Projects. avi, 256MB
  learning and technology    
8. The New York Times. India's Poor Bet Precious Sums on Private Schools. November 15, 2003. pdf  
9. B. S. Bhatia. Satcom for Extension Training. Information and Communication Technology in Development: Cases from India. Edited by Subhash Bhatnagar and Robert Schware. 2000. pdf  
10. J. F. Gibbons, W. R. Kincheloe, and K. S. Down. Tutored Videotape Instruction: A New Use of Electronics Media in Education. Science, 195(3). 1977. pdf  
11. John Dutra, James F. Gibbons, Robert L. Pannoni, Michael J. Sipusic, Randall B. Smith and William R. Sutherland. Virtual Collaborative Learning: A Comparison between Face-to-Face Tutored Video Instruction (TVI) and Distributed Tutored Video Instruction (DTVI). Technical Report TR-99-72, Sun Microsystems Labooratories. January, 1999. pdf  
12. Richard Anderson, Martin Dickey, and Hal Perkins. Experiences with tutored video instruction for introductory programming courses. Proceedings of the thirty-second SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer Science Education. 2001. pdf  
13. M. Suzanne Donovan, John D. Bransford, and James W. Pellegrino, editors. How People Learn: Bridging Research and Practice. Committee on Learning Research and Educational Practice, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council. National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 1999. pdf  
14. Randolph Wang, Urvashi Sahni, Sumeet Sobti, Nitin Garg, Jaswinder Pal Singh, Matthew Kam, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Thomas Anderson. The Digital StudyHall. Technical Report TR-723-05, Computer Science Department, Princeton University. March, 2005. pdf  
slides: Background of education in India. avi, 78MB
slides: Education in India: continued. avi, 39MB
slides: The Digital StudyHall: phttp. avi, 24MB
slides: The Digital StudyHall: phttp continued. avi, 8.9MB
slides: The Digital StudyHall: EdTV. avi, 40.3MB
slides: The Digital StudyHall: content and pedagogy. avi, 93.7MB
slides: The Digital StudyHall: pedagogy and conclusion. avi, 43MB
  talks    
15. Peter Bell. Where the End of Poverty Begins. February 22, 2003.   avi, 133MB
16. Student talks: Seamus Abshere, Interface for the Digital StudyHall content repository. Frank Battaglia, Pedagogy for EdTV. Jenny He and Sonya Nikolova, Pedagogy for the Ditital StudyHall. Amit Bose, Solar Power Generation in India: Solving the Power Crisis. Archer Batcheller, Information and Communication Technologies in Developing Regions: Promoting Economic Opportunities. Joel Diamond, Bringing Information to Kashmir and Other Regions of India. April 28, 2005. avi, 81MB
       


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