Happening in one hour in CSE 203. On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Nicola Dell <nixd...@cs.washington.edu>wrote:
> (Please note that this is the last email that we will send to the cs and > dub mailing lists. To remain updated please subscribe to the Change mailing > list here: http://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/change) > > Join us on Tuesday for the first Change seminar of the fall quarter. We're > excited to have Jonathan Donner from MSR speak about Mobile Internet and > Digital Inclusion in the Developing World. > > What: Jonathan Donner (MSR): Everybody’s Internet? Mobile Internet and > Digital Inclusion in the Developing World > > When: Tuesday, October 1st at 12 noon > > Where: The Allen Center, CSE 203 > > Wireless broadband will soon cover 85% of the world’s population. This > talk, taken from a book in preparation, details the growing importance of > ‘mobile-centric internet use’ in the developing world, raising questions > and challenges for policy and design In the talk I describe studies > illustrating the remarkable potential of the mobile phone in three domains > of socioeconomic development: microenterprises and livelihoods, citizen > journalism, and secondary education. Yet, in each case, I use a ‘digital > repertoires’ lens to illustrate how the capacity to generate and manipulate > digital information remains concentrated among those with access to digital > tools beyond the mobile phone. Some of these persistent digital > stratifications can be reduced with combined inputs from technologists, > researchers, practitioners, and policymakers. From natural user interfaces > to language support to bandwidth pricing, there are concrete ways in which > more empathetic design and policy can help a greater proportion of the > world’s inhabitants participate in the information society, even if, for > many, the primary device will remain an inexpensive mobile phone. > > Jonathan Donner is a researcher in the Technology for Emerging Markets > Group (TEM) at Microsoft Research. For the last decade, Jonathan has > published research on the growth in mobile telephony in the developing > world, focusing on its implications for socioeconomic development and its > uses in everyday life. His projects at TEM include Microenterprise > Development, Mobile Banking, Citizen Journalism, Mobile Health, and Youth > and New Media. > > Prior to Joining Microsoft Research, he was a Post-Doctoral Research > Fellow at the Earth Institute at Columbia University, and worked with > Monitor Company and the OTF Group, consultancies in Boston, MA. In addition > to dozens of scholarly articles, he is the author, with Richard Ling, of > Mobile Communication, and co-editor, with Patricia Mechael, of mHealth in > Practice: Mobile Technology for Health Promotion in the Developing World. > > His Ph.D. is from Stanford University in Communication Research. Jonathan > is based in South Africa and is a visiting academic at the University of > Cape Town’s Centre in ICT4D. Further details on Jonathan’s research are at > jonathandonner.com and via twitter as @jcdonner. > > > > _______________________________________________ > change mailing list > change@change.washington.edu > http://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/change > >
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