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ICT for Socioeconomic Development (ICT4SD)

ICT for Socioeconomic Development (ICT4SD). IT 625 / MW 5:00 to 6:30 pm http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/~it625 Course Coordinators: U. B. Desai and Krithi Ramamritham. Objectives. Provide and exposure to the already existing benefits of ICT in rural and small town India

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ICT for Socioeconomic Development (ICT4SD)

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  1. ICT for Socioeconomic Development (ICT4SD) IT 625 / MW 5:00 to 6:30 pm http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/~it625 Course Coordinators: U. B. Desai and Krithi Ramamritham

  2. Objectives • Provide and exposure to the already existing benefits of ICT in rural and small town India • ICT for social development is indeed an exciting area of research • A forum for generating ideas in this new and important domain --- we believe that no one has really cracked this domain • Motivate the younger lot to do R and D in ICT4D • Acknowledge CTARA --- they have been looking at technology alternatives for rural development for more than 20 years.

  3. Course Structure • Open to IT, CSE, EE, SOM and IDC post graduate and dual degree students • Two 1.5 hrs lectures per week • 7 to 8 weeks lectures by 7 to 8 faculty from IITB • 5 to 6 weeks (10 to 12) invited lectures from people working in the area of ICT for development • 3 weeks (9 to 10 hrs) of student presentation • At least one site visit (possibly Pabal in Maharashtra) • Grading: • Class participation 10% • Weekly Critique, HWs, Term Paper 30 % • Presentation 30 % • Final exam 30 %

  4. Faculty Associated with the Course and Tentative sequence of lectures • U B Desai– Introdcution to the course and motivation • Krithi R. – ongoing projects in KReSIT and elsewhere in IIT on ICT4D • Anirudha Joshi --- Interactive and contextual design, language interfaces • Anand Patwardhan – Policy and business models, profits at the bottom of the pyramid • Krithi R. --- Data Bases, Content Creation • U. B. Desai --- Access Technologies, rural kiosk, sustainable ICT in rural areas • Pushpak B. --- Languages technologies • Karandikar --- Networking • Dinesh Sharma / Rakesh Lal --- Affordable Devices; Affordable Computing • A Q Contractor --- Bio-X • D. B. Phatak: whenever he is available --- Open Source • Invite A. W. Date (Mech.) to share experience in rural technology • Sivakumar --- Each faculty will lecture for at least one week (2 1.5 hr lectures). The sequence will be interspersed with invited lectures.

  5. Tentative list of People to Invite • People from ICICI bank (Nachiket) on Microfinance • Arun Mehta on Telecom Policy in India • Ashok Jhunjhunwala • SEWA – Ahemdabad • ITC – e-Choupal • M. S. Swaminathan foundation (Pondichery) • Hindustan Lever on how they have approached the rural market • Anil Gupta from IIM-Ahemdabad • Anant Krishnan (TCS – e-literacy) • Anupam Basu • Rekha Jain from IIM-Ahm. (heads the center on telecom policy studies) • Bhoomi project in Karnataka (Maybe Mr. Rajeev Chawala) • Secretary IT – Mr. K. K. Jaswal • Group in Hyderabad – Project COW – Computers on Wheel • Some grass root workers – people who have been working in the field on ICT • Rajesh Jain (Net-core Tech.) • Zero Tech (Hiranandani –Sudershan SOM) • One Village One Computer (Navi Mumbai) • Yogesh Kulkarni (Vigyan Ashram) • …

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