thanks to gaetano, we'll also have sandwiches for lunch during this talk!
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 16:44, Eleanor O'Rourke <eorourke at cs.washington.edu> wrote: > This Thursday at Change, Nell O'Rourke will provide an overview of the key > points of Kentaro Toyama's talk "Ten Myths of Technology and Development" > and lead a discussion about this material. ?Please take a brief look at the > slides > (http://change.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/2009-11-19-Ten-Myths-of-ICTD-Toyama.pdf), > thinking about which myth you agree with and disagree with most, and come > prepared to share your ideas. > Kentaro?Toyama?is a visiting scholar at the School of Information at the > University of California, Berkeley, and until 2009 he was the?assistant > managing director of Microsoft Research India, which he co-founded in 2005. > "In the same world where there are 1.4 billion Internet users, a very > different 1.4 billion people live below the World Bank's poverty line. As if > in sudden recognition of this gap, the past decade has seen incredible > interest in applying information and communication technologies for global > development, an endeavor often abbreviated "ICT4D." How do you design user > interfaces for an illiterate migrant worker? Can you keep five rural > schoolchildren from fighting over one PC? What value is technology to a > farmer earning $1 a day? > > Interventionist ICT4D projects seek to answer these kinds of questions, but > the excitement has also generated a lot of hype about the power of > technology to solve the deep problems of poverty. In this talk, I will > present 10 myths of ICT4D which continue to persist, despite increasing > evidence to the contrary. My hope is to temper the brash claims of > technology with realism about its true potential." > > What: Nell O'Rourke discussing?Kentaro Toyama's talk "Ten Myths of > Technology and Development" > When: Thursday, March 4th at Noon > Where: UW, Paul Allen Center, Room 203 > _______________________________________________ > change mailing list > change at change.washington.edu > http://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/change > >
