Hi All,
I had posted to the group earlier a plan I had of teaching a class this year on IT for Development at University of California, Berkeley. We have started teaching the class (I will post the syllabus and slides shortly, and can mail them offline to anyone who wants them). At this point, I am looking for projects for my students which are both worth their time, as well as useful to the general body of knowledge on IT and Development.
If there is anyone out there who is interested in research in a specific direction, and would like to have me get a few students to work on it for you (gratis), please drop me an email. I have a group of highly competent and qualified students (evenly split between masters, doctoral and bachelors), and am going to assign class projects over the coming weeks. Essentially a typical project would be a short research document (15-20 pages), including a presentation of the project and a defense in front of the class of research design and conclusions.
If you have projects in mind that you are interested in having people work on, please send me a short _one or two-page description_ on what you would like done, and specify whether you would consider being a mentor for the project. Also include any contact information students would need to get in touch with you and discuss the project to greater detail. Please cc this reply to joyojeet(at)berkeley.edu.
If a proposal interests a group of students, they will use the initial brief to work on a paper, and update you from time to time on their work, and perhaps seek some guidance (and access to information if the project centered around a topic to which propreitary information is needed). I will give preference to projects for which the research is in the public domain.
Thanks,
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