IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD2007)

December 15-16, 2007

Bangalore, India

http://research.microsoft.com/workshops/ictd2007

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Day 1: December 15^th 2007

AM 7:30 Breakfast and Registration

8:30 Introduction: Kentaro Toyama, Conference Chair

8:45 Opening Keynote: Anirudh Krishna, Duke University

9:45 Break

10:00 Session I: Designing Applications

Session Chair: John Canny, UC Berkeley

Iterative Design of A Braille Writing Tutor

Tom Lauwers (Carnegie Mellon University), Nidhi Kalra (RAND), M. Bernardine Dias (CMU), Daniel Dewey (CMU) and Tom Stepleton (CMU)

Design of Early Warning Flood Detection Systems for Developing Countries

Elizabeth Basha (MIT) and Daniela Rus (CSAIL, MIT)

Digital Green: Participatory Video for Agricultural Extension

Rikin Gandhi, Rajesh Veeraraghavan and Kentaro Toyama (Microsoft Research India) and Vanaja Ramprasad (GREEN Foundation)

11:30 Coffee Break

Noon Session II: Extending the Boundaries of ICTD

Session Chair: Heather Hudson, University of San Francisco

The Post Consumptive Residues of Information and Communication Technologies - Transnational E-waste Flows and Developmental Dilemmas

Janani Vasudev (Siemens Corporate Technology) and Balaji Parthasarathy (International Institute of Information Technology)

PM 12:30 Lunch

1:30 ‘Fast-forward’ Poster Session

Session Chair: Tapan Parikh, UC Berkeley

2:15 Poster Presentations

3:45 Coffee Break

4:15 Session III: Telecenters

Session Chair: Ken Keniston, MIT

Constructing Class Boundaries: Gender and Shared Computing

Renee Kuriyan (UC Berkeley) and Kathi Kitner (Intel)

Bringing Internet connectivity to rural Zambia using a collaborative approach

Adrian Pais (LinkNet), Karel Matthee (Meraka Institute), Gregory Mweemba (LinkNet), Marijn Rijken (TNO, Netherlands) and Gertjan Van Stam (LinkNet)

Examining e-literacy Using Telecenters as Public Spending: The Case of Akshaya

Joyojeet Pal (UC Berkeley)

5:45 Panel Discussion: Meaningful Research for ICT and Development

Moderator: Ravi Gupta, CSDMS

Panelists:

Pankaj Agrawala, Government of Uttar Pradesh

Anita Gurumurthy, IT for Change

Richard Heeks, University of Manchester

Karishma Kiri, Microsoft

6:30 Break

8:00 Banquet

Day 2: December 16^th 2007

AM 8:00 Breakfast and Registration

9:00 Session IV: Alternatives to Real-Time Internet

Session Chair: Krithi Ramamritham, IIT-Bombay

Advancement through Interactive Radio

S. Revi Sterling, John O'Brien and John Bennett (University of Colorado)

Offline Internet Access at Modem-speed Dialup Connections

Umar Saif, Nabeel Butt, Shakeel Butt, Ahsan Chudhary and Ghulam Murtaza (LUMS)

Warana Unwired: Mobile Phones replacing PCs in a rural sugarcane cooperative

Rajesh Veeraraghavan (UC Berkeley), Naga Yasodhar (Cognizant Technologies) and Kentaro Toyama (Microsoft Research India)

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 Session V: Meta-ICTD

Session Chair: Balaji Parthasarathy, IIIT-Bangalore

Comparing Models of IT and Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation

Kurt DeMaagd (Michigan State University) and Scott Moore (University of Michigan)

Designing for Development: Understanding /One Laptop Per Child/ in its Historical Context

Mike Ananny (Stanford University) and Niall Winters (University of London)

Welfare, agency and ICT for development

Aishwarya Ratan (Microsoft Research India) and Savita Bailur (London School of Economics)

PM 12:30 Lunch

1:30 Session VI: Literacy and Language

Session Chair: John Bennett, University of Colorado, Boulder

HealthLine: Speech-based Access to Health Information by Low-literate Users

J Sherwani, Roni Rosenfeld, Rahul Tongia (CMU), Nosheen Ali (Cornell University), Sarwat Mirza (Health and Nutrition Development Society), Anjum Fatma (Health and Nutrition Development Society), Yousuf Memon, Mehtab Karim (Aga Khan University)

Full-Context Videos for First-Time, Non-Literate PC Users

Indrani Medhi and Kentaro Toyama (Microsoft Research India)

Why Don’t People Use Nepali Language Software?

Pat Hall, Ganesh Ghimire (MPP) and Maria Newton (OU)

3:00 Break

3:30 Session VII: Children and PCs

Session Chair: Richard Anderson, University of Washington

Usage Models of Classroom Computing in Developing Regions

Rabin Patra (UC Berkeley), Joyojeet Pal (UCB), Sergiu Nedevschi (UCB), Madelaine Plauche (ICSI) and Udai Pawar (Microsoft Research India)

“My Child Will Be Respected”: Parental Perspectives on Computers in Rural India

Joyojeet Pal (UCB), Meera Lakshmanan and Kentaro Toyama, (Microsoft Research India)

4:30 Closing Keynote: Paul Polak, International Development Enterprises (IDE) and Design Revolution (D-Rev).

5:30 Closing Comments: Kentaro Toyama, Conference Chair

5:45 Closing Reception

Poster Papers (1:30-3:45pm on Dec 15^th, Sat)

Village Knowledge Centers and the Use of GIS-derived Products

V Balaji, Dileep Kumar G, Nagarajan R and Kesavarao AVR

A Developmental Model of Basic ICT Skills for Pre-Service Trainee Teachers

Julian Bass

Performance Models for Virtual Scanning Keyboards: Reducing User Involvement in the Design

Samit Bhattacharya, Anupam Basu and Debasis Samanta

Sahayika: A Framework for Participatory Authoring of Knowledge Structures for Education Domain

Plaban Bhowmick, Sudeshna Sarkar, Devshri Roy, Anupam Basu and Sudipta Bhowmick

Samvidha: A ICT System for Personalized Offline Internet Access for Rural Schools

Plaban Bhowmick, Samiran Sarkar, Sudeshna Sarkar, Anupam Basu and Sunandan Chakraborty

A Shared ICT Infrastructure for Indian SME Clusters

Shantanu Biswas and Soumya Roy

Electoral Competition and Digital Development in India and South Africa

Jennifer Bussell

Shikshak: An Intelligent Tutoring System Authoring Tool for Rural Education

Sunandan Chakraborty, Tamali Bhattacharya, Plaban Bhowmick, Anupam Basu and Sudeshna Sarkar

Devising Neutral Tools for Development Decision-Making: The Poverty Assessor

Claire Heffernan and Jun Yu

Community Radio for Development in South Asia: A Sustainability Study

Faheem Hussain and Rahul Tongia

Exclusivity of the ICT Direct Employment: A Case of Indian software workforce

Vigneswara Ilavarasan

User Centered IT for the Public: A Corporate Partnership in e-Governance

Jhumkee Iyengar and Ranjit Gadgil

Evaluation of a single radio rural mesh network in South Africa

David Johnson

The Social Complexities of User-Centered Design in ICTD: Experiences from Four Schools in India’s Villages and Slums

Matthew Kam, Siddharth Bhagwani, Anuj Kumar, Siddhartha Lal, Akhil Mathur, Anuj Tewari and John Canny

Design and Implementation of the KioskNet System

Srinivasan Keshav, ShiminGuo, Hossein Falaki, Earl Oliver, Aaditeshwar Seth, Sumair Ur Rahman, Matei Zaharia and Usman Ismail

Public-Private Partnerships and Information Technologies for Development in India

Renee Kuriyan and Isha Ray

Designing Interactive Systems for the Developing World - Reflections on User-Centred Design

Andrew Maunder, Gary Marsden, Dominic Gruijters and Edwin Blake

Towards a Bilingual SMS Parser for HIV/AIDS Information Retrieval in Botswana

Dimane Mpoeleng, George Anderson, Sampson Asare, Yirsaw Ayalew, Deepti Garg, Bontle Gopolang, Audrey Masizana-Katongo, Opelo Mogotlhwane and Henry Nyongesa

A Survey of Information Systems Reaching Small Producers in Global Agricultural Value Chains

Tapan Parikh, Neil Patel, and Yael Schwartzman

The role of trustworthiness in information service usage: The case of Parry information kiosks, Tamil Nadu, India

Janaki Srinivasan

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