Sunday, June 13: Welcome to the summer school
| 0800 – 0900 | Breakfast | ||
| 0900 – 1030 | Lecture | Ed Cutrell | Welcome and overview PDF |
| 1030 – 1100 | Tea/Coffee | ||
| 1100 – 1230 | Activity | Ed Cutrell | Introductions and icebreakers |
| 1230 – 1400 | Lunch | ||
| 1400 – 1530 | Exercise | TEM staff | Small-group discussion on goals of development |
Monday, June 14: What is development?
| 0800 – 0900 | Breakfast | ||
| 0900 – 1030 | Lecture | Revi Sterling | History of Development Theory and Practice PDF |
| 1030 – 1100 | Tea/Coffee | ||
| 1100 – 1230 | Exercise | Aishwarya Ratan | Development Practice Examined through Case Studies PDF |
| 1230 – 1400 | Lunch | ||
| 1400 – 1415 | Lecture | Jonathan Donner, Aishwarya Ratan, Bill Thies |
Overview of Field Activity PDF |
| 1415 – 1800 | Activity | Students | Field activity in small groups DOC |
Tuesday, June 15: ICTs & development
| 0800 – 0900 | Breakfast | ||
| 0900 – 1030 | Lecture | Jonathan Donner | Understanding Technology & Society through Mobile Phone Behaviors PDF
Reading: [1] |
| 1030 – 1100 | Tea/Coffee | ||
| 1100 – 1230 | Activity | Michael Best | Why Focus on ICTs for Development PDF |
| 1230 – 1400 | Lunch | ||
| 1400 – 1530 | Excercise | Revi Sterling | Informed Consent in ICTD Projects PDF |
| 1530 – 1600 | Tea/Coffee | ||
| 1600 – 1730 | Panel | Ed Cutrell | Panel on Informed Consent (Michael Best, Revi Sterling, Jonathan Donner, Nimmi Rangaswamy) Informed consent in ICTD projects |
Wednesday, June 16: Projects in ICTD
| 0800 – 0900 | Breakfast | ||
| 0900 – 1030 | Conference Talks | Nimmi Rangaswamy | Entrepreneurship and ICTD PDF |
| Revi Sterling | Advancement through Interactive Radio PDF | ||
| Mike Best | Impact of ICTs in Post-Conflict Liberia | ||
| 1030 – 1100 | Tea/Coffee | ||
| 1100 – 1230 | Conference Talks | Saurabh Panjwani | Secure and Usable Authentication for Mobile Banking PPT |
| Jonathan Donner | Mobile Use by Micro and Small Enterprises PDF | ||
| 1230 – 1400 | Lunch | ||
| 1400 – 1800 | Field Activity | Students | Continuation of field activity |
Thursday, June 17: Qualitative methods
| 0800 – 0900 | Breakfast | ||
| 0900 – 1030 | Lectures | Isha Ray | Qualitative Methods & Social Science PDF
Reading: [1] |
| Nimmi Rangaswamy | The Art of the Interview PDF
Reading: [2] |
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| 1030 – 1100 | Tea/Coffee | ||
| 1100 – 1230 | Lectures | Isha Ray | Designing Surveys PDF |
| Nimmi Rangaswamy | Conducting Ethnographies PDF | ||
| 1230 – 1400 | Lunch | ||
| 1400 – 1730 | Exercise | Students | Practice with Qualitative Methods |
Friday, June 18: Design: What to build, why and how?
| 0800 – 0900 | Breakfast | ||
| 0900 – 1030 | Lecture | Tapan Parikh | Development as Design PDF |
| 1030 – 1100 | Tea/Coffee | ||
| 1100 – 1230 | Lecture | Indrani Medhi | Design Challenges in Working with Low-literate Users PDF |
| 1230 – 1400 | Lunch | ||
| 1400 – 1530 | Lecture | Tapan Parikh | Techniques for working with NGOs and other field partners PDF |
| 1530 – 1600 | Tea/Coffee | ||
| 1600 – 1800 | Field Activity | Students | Continuation of field activity |
Saturday, June 19: Understanding poor communities
| 0800 – 0900 | Breakfast | ||
| 0900 – 1030 | Lecture | Indrani Medhi | A portrait of everyday life in a village PDF |
| 1030 – 1100 | Tea/Coffee | ||
| 1100 – 1230 | Lecture | Geeta Menon | Life in an urban slum |
| 1230 – 1400 | Lunch | ||
| 1400 – 1800 | Field Trip | Indrani Medhi | Guided tours of slum communities |
Sunday, June 20: Rest Day
Monday, June 21: Projects in ICTD
| 0800 – 0900 | Breakfast | ||
| 0900 – 1030 | Conference Talks | Prof. Jamadagni | You and Your Research PDF |
| Ed Cutrell | Intermediated Technology Use in Developing Communities PDF | ||
| 1030 – 1100 | Tea/Coffee | ||
| 1100 – 1230 | Conference Talks | Yaw Anowka
Carl Hartung |
Open Data Kit: Building Information Services for Low-Income Regions PDF |
| David Hutchful | Cloze: An Authoring Tool for Teachers PDF | ||
| Bill Thies | Interactive DVDs for Education | ||
| 1230 – 1400 | Lunch | ||
| 1400 – 1530 | Poster Session | Students | Poster presentations based on results from field activity |
| 1530 – 1600 | Tea/Coffee | ||
| 1600 – 1800 | Group Activity | Students | Research proposal preparation – session 1 PDF |
Tuesday, June 22: Study methodologies, study design and evaluation issues
| 0800 – 0900 | Breakfast | ||
| 0900 – 1030 | Lectures | Aishwarya Ratan | Quantitative Data Analysis PDF |
| Nimmi Rangaswamy | Analyzing Qualitative Data PDF | ||
| 1030 – 1100 | Tea/Coffee | ||
| 1100 – 1230 | Lecture + Exercise | Aishwarya Ratan | Impact Evaluation PDF
Reading: [1] |
| 1230 – 1400 | Lunch | ||
| 1400 – 1530 | Lectures | Ed Cutrell | Fundamentals of User Studies PDF |
| Aishwarya Ratan | Paper Discussion (The Digital Provide: Information Technology, Market Performance and Welfare in the South Indian Fisheries Sector)
Reading: [2] |
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| 1530 – 1600 | Tea/Coffee | ||
| 1600 – 1800 | Activity | All | Movie & discussion |
Wednesday, June 23: Pessimism & optimism in ICTD
| 0800 – 0900 | Breakfast | ||
| 0900 – 1030 | Lecture | Kentaro Toyama | Ten Myths of ICTD PDF |
| 1030 – 1100 | Tea/Coffee | ||
| 1100 – 1230 | Lecture | Rikin Gandhi | The Digital Green Story PPSX |
| 1230 – 1400 | Lunch | ||
| 1400 – 1530 | Discussion | Kentaro Toyama | Paper discussion (What Constitutes Good ICTD Research) |
| 1530 – 1600 | Tea/Coffee | ||
| 1600 – 1800 | Group Activity | Students | Research proposal preparation – session 2 |
Thursday, June 24: From government policy to development outcomes
| 0800 – 0900 | Breakfast | ||
| 0900 – 1030 | Lecture | Ashok Desai | Economic policy and implications for technology and development PDF |
| 1030 – 1100 | Tea/Coffee | ||
| 1100 – 1230 | Lecture | Joyojeet Pal | Technology and Disability in the Developing World PDF |
| 1230 – 1400 | Lunch | ||
| 1400 – 1530 | Lecture | Solomon Jaya Prakash | Labournet PDF |
| 1530 – 1600 | Tea/Coffee | ||
| 1600 – 1800 | Panel | Bill Thies | Professional development advice on pursuing a research career (Kentaro Toyama, Isha Ray, Joyojeet Pal, Solomon Jay Prakash, Ed Cutrell) |
Friday, June 25: Beyond research
| 0800 – 0900 | Breakfast | ||
| 0900 – 1030 | Lecture | Sean Blagsvedt | Sustaining development interventions beyond pilot phase— the Babajob Case PDF |
| 1030 – 1100 | Tea/Coffee | ||
| 1100 – 1230 | Lectures | Rikin Gandhi | Spinning Out: How hard can this be? PPSX |
| Kentaro Toyama | Make it Memorable: A Presentation on Presentations PPT | ||
| 1230 – 1400 | Lunch | ||
| 1400 – 1530 | Short Presentations | Students | “Open mic” feedback session on students’ research projects |
| 1530 – 1600 | Tea/Coffee | ||
| 1600 – 1800 | Group Activity | Students | Research proposal preparation – session 3 |
Saturday, June 26: Professional development/conference day
| 1100 – 1230 | Short Presentations | Students | Single-track, 5-minute presentation of research proposal + 5-minute Q&A per group |
| 1230 – 1400 | Lunch | ||
| 1400 – 1530 | Short Presentations | Students | Single-track, 5-minute presentation of research proposal + 5-minute Q&A per group |
Sunday, June 27: Wrap up and farewell
| 0800 – 0900 | Breakfast | ||
| 0900 – 1030 | Activity | Group | Feedback and Wrap-Up |
| 1030 – 1100 | Tea/Coffee | ||
| 1100 – 1230 | Lecture | Ed Cutrell | Open discussion |
| 1230 – 1400 | Lunch |