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The MIT Reading Group on Information and Communication Technologies for Development is an open group that meets weekly to discuss applications of technologies to international development. Interests of the group include theories and case studies of development, new technologies for development, technology in education, and economic sustainability.

We are currently an all-student group from many different departments, and not limited to MIT. Please come and join us!

Upcoming meetings

Date/Time Location Topic
   

Previous meetings

Topic Date
Two case studies:
  • Mobile Interactive Geographical Information System (MIGIS), China.
  • Global Voices, Nairobi, Kenya.
    		• Thur 5/22/03
    Dinner outing. Fri 5/16/03
    Reconceptualizing the Digital Divide, Mark Warschauer, First Monday, July 2002. Thur 5/8/03
    Design Axes for the Indian Language Computing Market, The Indic-Computing Project, 2003
    		 Thur 5/1/03
  • Communication + Information ≠ Organization: A missing dimension, Cornelius Hopmann, April 2003.
  • The Internet and Economic Growth in Least Developed Countries: A Case of Managing Expectations?, Charles Kenny, UNU/WIDER Discussion Paper, August 2002.
    		• Thur 4/24/03
    Talk at Harvard:
    Information and Communication Technologies for Development: Fostering International Cooperation, Talal Abu-Ghazaleh.     		Thur 4/17/03
    Daryl's presentation on Goa Computers for Schools Project.
    Optional reading: Low-end equipment, open-source, and community participation to build rural information infrastructure by Daryl Martyris, DYD'02.     		Thur 4/10/03
    Discussion of ICT and Broad-Based Development: A Partial Review of the Evidence by J. Grace, C. Kenny, and C. Qiang.   (Focus on Section 2) Thur 4/3/03
    Discussion of Headstart education program; readings available in mailboxes of The Cube. Tue 3/11/03
    Presentation by Iqbal Quadir on Grameen Telecom.
    Readings on Grameen Telecom, available here.     		Tue 3/4/03
    Presentation by Neeti on Global Classmates. Tue 2/25/03
    Community Internet Access in Rural Areas by Michael L. Best and Colin M. Maclay.
    Everybody Loves a Good Drought by P. Sainath (selections), available in E51-070.     		Fri 2/7/03
    Recommendations for Improved Development by Design
    Krista Donaldson, DYD'02. More information online.     		Fri 12/6/02

    Reading list

    The following have been recommended by members of the group, possibly for discussion at a future meeting:

    Papers

    Books

    Mailing list

    Our mailing list is a low-traffic list for sending meeting announcements and occaisional discussion items. If you have an Athena account at MIT, you can add yourself to the ict4dev list via this     webpage or by typing this exact command from the Athena prompt:

    blanche ict4dev -add $USER

    If you come from outside of MIT (or you're having problems with Athena!) please send e-mail to ict4dev-admin@cag.lcs.mit.edu and we will add you to the list.

    Links

  • Journal of IT for Development

  • Technology and Sustainable Economic Development Reading Group (UC Berkeley)

  • Reading List from MIT Development Technologies class, Fall 2000

  • Electronic Journal on Information Systems in Developing Countries

    Last updated 10/26/03