Technology for Developing Regions

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Morgan G. Ames

Morgan Ames

Alumni (MIMS 2006)
Assistant Professor of Practice
Science and technology studies; computer-supported cooperative work and social computing; education; anthropology; youth technocultures; ideology and inequity; critical data science
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Jenna Burrell

Adjunct Professor
how systematically excluded communities adopt technology and adapt it to their needs, human control over algorithms, ethnography
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John Chuang

Professor
Biosensory computing; climate informatics; information economics and policy

Recent Publications

Material Ecosystems: Theorizing (Digital) Technologies in Socio-Economic Development
Predicting Poverty and Wealth from Mobile Phone Metadata
The Myth of Market Price Information: Mobile Phones and the Application of Economic Knowledge in ICTD
From Farm to Farmville: Circulation, Adoption, and Use of ICT between Urban and Rural China
Revisiting the Fishers of Kerala, India
MobileWorks: Designing for Quality in a Managed Crowdsourcing Architecture
The Evolving Braid: An Ethnography of Technology Change in Uganda
Invisible Users: Youth in the Internet Cafes of Urban Ghana.
Essays on the Economic Impacts of Mobile Phones in Sub-Saharan Africa
Mobile Phone Tools for Field-Based Health care Workers in Low-Income Countries

Technology for Developing Regions news

Shazeda Ahmed
Shazeda Ahmed on the Messy Truth About Social Credit

Ph.D. student Shazeda Ahmed writes that foreign media has painted a dystopian portrait of China’s social credit system. The reality is both less coherent and more complex.

Josh Blumenstock at the Artifical Intelligence for Economic Development conference
Josh Blumenstock Honored for Research in the Public Interest

Prof Blumenstock received the Faculty Award for Research in the Public Interest for his research at the intersection of machine learning and development economics.

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Joshua Blumenstock: The Knowns and Unknowns of Big Data and Poverty Alleviation

Joshua Blumenstock cautions that new digital methods of approaching issues of poverty must be used as a complement to more traditional approaches.

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Josh Blumenstock Uses Phone Data to Reveal Socioeconomic Status
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To reach the world’s poorest, Josh Blumenstock says to design for dumb phones
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Alumna’s Nonprofit Start-up Seeks to Break the Cycle of Illiteracy

Dost, cofounded by alumna Sindhuja Jeyabal (MIMS ’16), is an educational nonprofit providing India’s illiterate mothers regular audio calls with instructions to prepare their children for kindergarten.

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Novel Information System Addresses Unemployment in India's Informal Labor Market
Five School of Information students are developing a system to solve one of the biggest challenges of India’s market for household domestic workers, and to help a whole community that isn’t being served.
Tapan Parikh
Tapan Parikh Is a Sloan Foundation Rising Star
Parikh is transforming the world’s poorest areas by designing, evaluating, and deploying appropriate information systems that support sustainable economic development.
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How Government Documents Enable Transparency and Accountability
New research presents case studies from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake; Rajasthan, India, at the turn of the 20th century; and a present-day Indian welfare system.
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Scholars Present New Research into Technology Use and Development
Faculty, Ph.D. students, and alumni present over a dozen papers, notes, demonstrations, and workshops at the international Information and Communication Technologies and Development conference in Cape Town, South Africa.