Human-Computer Interaction for Development: The Past, Present and Future. Melissa Ho, Thomas Smyth, Matthew Kam, and Andy Dearden. In Information Technology and International Development (ITID), Vol. 5, No. 4. (attached, hci4d_history.pdf) Improving English Education Among Low Income Children Via Cellphones (invited proposal to Pearson Foundation) OptionalOne of the very first NSF-funded IT-4D projects was an ITR (very large nsf grant) out of UC Berkeley, where I was a PI/faculty at the time. This is optional reading, but an interesting perspective on the CS issues that folks thought were important almost a decade ago. (ICT4B-nsf.pdf) Other resources you might find usefulhttp://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/ http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/Born_Into_Brothels/60034778 http://www.amazon.com/Half-Sky-Oppression-Opportunity-Worldwide/dp/0307387097/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1282826809&sr=8-1 http://www.amazon.com/Imagining-India-Idea-Renewed-Nation/dp/0143116673/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1282826862&sr=8-1 http://www.techbridgeworld.org/index.html http://www.cs.cmu.edu/tcingc/contact.html http://www.cmu.edu/news/archive/2009/January/jan30_frazerfaculty.shtml http://ict4djester.org/ I didn't mention local resources for e-health (Pitt) and e-agriculture. I'll be happy to dig up some contacts if students are interested. |