Instructor: Nicki Dell, nixdell [at] cornell [dot] edu (please use slack instead of email if at all reasonable!)
Course slack channel: info6600.slack.com (sign up with your Cornell email address)
Lecture: Thursday 10:10am-1.10pm, Ithaka (NYC) Gates 405 (Ithaca)
Office Hours
By appointment
Grading and course deliverables (subject to change if necessary)
In-class exercises and participation 30%
Reading summaries 30%
Assignments 40%
Course Material (subject to change if necessary)
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8/25 |
Intro, Course Overview, Logistics, Background |
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9/1 |
Domain: Agriculture |
Reading: The next phase of ICT for Development |
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9/8 |
Domain: Education |
Reading: The four digital divides |
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9/15 |
Domain: Data Collection |
Reading: What constitutes "good" ICTD research? |
A1 due |
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9/22 |
Domain: Paper-Digital Divide |
Reading: Can One Laptop per Child Save the World's Poor? |
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9/29 |
Domain: Social Media |
A2 due October 3rd |
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10/6 |
Domain: Health |
Reading: Technology as Amplifier in International Development |
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10/13 |
Domain: Repair and Maintenance (Guest lecture: Ishtiaque) |
Reading: Stories from the Field |
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10/20 |
Domain: Finance |
Reading: Postcolonial Computing: A Lens on Design and Development |
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10/27 |
Domain: Accessibility |
Reading: Participant Response Bias in HCI |
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11/3 |
Domain: Activism (guest lecture: Vibhore) |
Reading: See no evil? ethics in an interventionist ICTD |
A3 due |
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11/10 |
Domain: Entertainment |
Reading: Considering Failure |
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11/17 |
NO CLASS - Nicki away |
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11/24 |
NO CLASS - Thanksgiving |
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12/1 |
Domain: Security+Privacy |
Reading: The Ins and Outs of HCI4D |
A4 due |
Acknowledgements
Many of the materials posted here and used in the course have been shared and refined by other instructors and TAs in previous offerings and at other schools.