Technology in everyday life photography assignment

Time to let us know where to find the pictures for your first photo assignment. Go to https://catalysttools.washington.edu/collectit/dropbox/bkolko/8874 and turn in the url (just the url, not the actual pics!).

Thanks!

Winter Quarter

Hi folks. We'll use this as our course website for winter. Bookmark this page and check here for information on syllabus, assignments, etc.

Reading for 11/03/2009 - Digital Green

Our reading for next week will be on the Digital Green project:

Digital Green: Participatory Video for Agricultural Extension

Rikin Gandhi, Rajesh Veeraraghavan, Kentaro Toyama, Vanaja Ramprasad (ICTD 2007)

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/india/projects/digitalgreen/docs/dg_ictd_121507.pdf

http://www.digitalgreen.org/

Catalyst GoPost board is live!

I've created a Catalyst GoPost board for us.

https://catalysttools.washington.edu/gopost/board/rea2000/13588/

I'll create a discussion area for each week. Whoever is in charge of summarizing the discussion for each week should post their summary under the discussion area for that week.

Please feel free to post follow up questions or things of related interest here.

Paper for Oct 27

Our paper for next week, Tues Oct 27th will be:

Veeraraghavan, R., Yasodhar, N., & Toyama, K. (2007). Warana Unwired: Replacing PCs with Mobile Phones in a Rural Sugarcane Cooperative. International Conference on Information & Communication Technologies for Development. Bangalore.(pdf)

http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~rajesh/index_files/WaranaUnwired

Our reading for next week, Oct 20th will be:

Stages of Design in Technology for Global Development (HTML)

June 2008 (vol. 41 no. 6)

pp. 34-41

Jonathan Donner, Microsoft Research India

Rikin Gandhi, Microsoft Research India

Paul Javid, Microsoft Research India

Indrani Medhi, Microsoft Research India

Aishwarya Ratan, Microsoft Research India

Kentaro Toyama, Microsoft Research India

Rajesh Veeraraghavan, University of California, Berkeley

http://www.computer.org/plugins/dl/pdf/mags/co/2008/06/mco2008060034.pdf?template=1&loginState=1&userData=anonymous-IP%253A%253A128.208.4.110

Reading for 10/13

For next week we'll read "The Case for Technology in Developing Regions"
by Brewer et.al.
tier.cs.berkeley.edu/docs/CFT-ieee.pdf

Discussion will be led by Kelley. (Thanks, Kelley!)