Are you intrigued by Design thinking? mobile technology? Nairobi? In Designing Liberation Technologies at the d.school, we'll dive into the design process while addressing real-world challenges such as health, entrepreneurship, and access to drinking water. We're looking for adventurous students from different departments across campus to join each other in a Spring quarter d.school class: Designing Liberation Technologies<http://hci.stanford.edu/courses/cs379l/>, cross listed as CS379L , POLISCI337T, LAW498.
In this class, small interdisciplinary project teams will work jointly with students from the University of Nairobi and local partners in Kenya to design new technologies for development and health. The course is primarily for graduate and professional students and the teams combine skills from disciplines as diverse as African Studies, Business, Anthropology, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Human Biology, Law, Management Science and Engineering, Microbiology and Immunology, Political Science, Science Technology and Society, and Symbolic Systems. Some of the students will travel with faculty to Nairobi over Spring break to do initial need finding with our partners. We will decide on them based on the applications, and discussion at the March 5 session. They will form the nuclei of four teams, which will continue to collaborate remotely with our partners throughout the quarter, using remote tools to collaborate on observations and interviews, identify needs, generate concepts, create prototypes, and test their ideas. At the end of the quarter, students will present their projects to a panel including partner representatives who come to Stanford to review the projects and identify possibilities for further development. During the summer, students from projects that are identified as having potential for further development and deployment will travel to Kenya to take the next steps towards further testing, pilot studies, and feasibility studies in preparation for long-term project implementation. The course will meet at the d.school Monday/Wednesday 5:15-7:15 pm. The teaching team includes *Joshua Cohen*<http://politicalscience.stanford.edu/faculty/cohen.html>, Political Science, Philosophy, and Law, *Sally Madsen*<http://www.ideo.com/people/sally-madsen>, IDEO, and *Terry Winograd* <http://hci.stanford.edu/winograd/>, Computer Science, with industry participation from *James Higa*<http://venturesfoundation.wordpress.com/2012/09/27/james-higa-former-senior-director-of-apple-joins-philanthropic-ventures-foundation-as-executive-director/>, Philanthropic Ventures, *Jofish Kaye* <http://labs.yahoo.com/author/jofish/>, Yahoo!, and *Zia Yusuf* <http://dschool.stanford.edu/bio/zia-yusuf/>, Streetline Inc, as well as coaches from local industry and staff from the d.school. *APPLICATIONS* Enrollment limited to 16 students. Applications close February 28. *Apply at **http://bit.ly/libtech2014 <http://bit.ly/libtech2014>* *IMPORTANT DATES* Friday, February 28 Application Deadline Monday, March 3 Notification of acceptance Wednesday, March 5 Design orientation session - 5-8 pm at the d.school March 22-30 (approx) Selected students travel to Nairobi for need finding Monday, March 31 First course session Saturday, April 5 All day design experience Mon/Tues, June 2-3 Final presentations to partner representatives Wednesday, June 4 Last day of course. No final exam *PAST PROJECTS* To learn about past projects from the course, see the *2012 course description* <http://hci.stanford.edu/courses/cs379l/2012/2012-index.html>. Three projects from past years have continued: *M-Maji*<http://mmaji.wordpress.com/>, helping people find clean water in Kibera; *Nishauri*<http://hci.stanford.edu/courses/cs379l/2011/projects/nishuari.html>, texting for sexual health counseling; and *Salama Documents*<http://www.salamadocuments.com/>, providing safe on-line document storage. *QUESTIONS* *[email protected] <[email protected]>*
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