This page presents selected videos and slides for classroom lectures and case study presentations, plus student-led discussions of assigned readings. Where a video is provided on a particular topic, the corresponding slides will be found on that linked video page. PDF files linked in the table below are the slides for the associated topic, but no video is available. Some topics are also listed below but no further content is available.
Videos, slides and other materials on individual projects can be found on the projects pages.
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LECTURES AND CASE STUDIES |
READINGS DISCUSSIONS |
| 1 |
Introduction to NextLab
Video and Slides
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| 2 |
Proposal selection process (PDF)
Project proposal presentations
Video and Slides
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Needs assessment (Guest lecture by Rachel Hall-Clifford)
Video and Slides
Team formation
Video and Slides
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| 4 |
Class logistics
Video and Slides
Planning ICT4D Interventions
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Heeks. "ICT4D 2.0: The Next Phase of Applying ICT for International Development."
Donner et al. "Stages of Design in Technology for Global Development."
Pentland et al. "DakNet: rethinking connectivity in developing nations."
Video and Slides by Michael Gordon
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Economic and social conditions
Technology survey / ICT penetration
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Banerjee and Duflo. "The Economic Lives of the Poor."
Video and Slides by Sreya Sengupta
Jensen. "The Digital Provide: Information (Technology), Market Performance, and Welfare in the South Indian Fisheries Sector."
Video and Slides by anonymous MIT student
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Milestone 1: Elevator pitch, including related work |
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Social and cultural considerations (PDF)
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Malink. "Design of Health Care Technologies for the Developing World."
Video and Slides by Santiago Alfaro
Caldwell. "Cultural and Social Factors Influencing Mortality Levels in Developing Countries."
Video and Slides by Jon Varsanik
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Milestone 1 continued |
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| 9 |
ICT4D history
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Kumar. "eChoupals: A Study on the Financial Sustainability of Village Internet Centers in Rural Madhya Pradesh."
Video and Slides by anonymous MIT student
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Milestone 3 requirements
Video and Slides
Milestone 2: Presentations on needs assessment results
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Milestone 2 results (continued) |
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Interfaces
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Parishk et al. "Design studies for a financial management system for micro-credit groups in rural India."
Video and Slides by anonymous MIT student
Parikh and Lazowa. "Designing an architecture for delivering mobile info services to rural developing world."
Video and Slides by Oliver Wilder-Smith
Mehdi et al. "Text-Free User Interfaces for Illiterate and Semiliterate Users."
Video and Slides by Ted Chan
Mehdi and Toyama. "Full-Context Videos for First-Time, Non-Literate PC Users."
Video by Scot Frank
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Two guest lectures:
1) An Introduction to the GSMA’s Mobile Innovation Market and Development Fund. (Guest lecture by Andy McGuire, GSMA.)
2) Microsoft Innovation Partnership Program (Guest lecture by Smeeta Hirani, Microsoft.)
Video and Slides
Milestone 3: Presentations on system design and initial implementation results
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Health (PDF) (Courtesy of Gari Clifford. Used with permission.)
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Clifford, G., et al. "Medical information systems: A foundation for healthcare technologies in developing countries."
Video and Slides by anonymous MIT student
Blaya et al. "A web-based laboratory information system to improve quality of care of tuberculosis patients in Peru: functional requirements, implementation and usage statistics."
Video and Slides by anonymous MIT student
Anantraman et al. "Handheld computers for rural healthcare: Experiences from research concept to global operations."
Video and Slides by Crystal Mao
Sherwani et al. "HealthLine: Speech-based Access to Health Information by Low-literate Users."
Video and Slides by anonymous MIT student
Fraser et al. "An information system and medical record to support HIV treatment in rural Haiti."
Video and Slides by Clark Freifeld
Malkin, "Technologies for clinically relevant physiological measurements in developing countries."
Video and Slides by Sameer Hirji
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Milestone 3 results (continued) |
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Disaster management
Health (continued)
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Szot et al. "Diagnostic Accuracy of Chest X-rays Using a Digital Camera for Low-Cost Teleradiology."
Video and Slides by anonymous MIT student
Plauché and Nallasamy. "Speech interfaces for equitable access to information technology."
Video and Slides by Anastasios Dimas
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Milestone 4: Sustainability and financial factors |
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Milestone 4 continued |
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Education
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Leach. "DEEP IMPACT: an investigation of the use of information and communication technologies for teacher education in the global south."
Video and Slides by Rashmi Melgiri
Kam et al. "Localized iterative design for language learning in underdeveloped regions."
Video and Slides by anonymous MIT student
Kremer and Miguel. "Worms: Identifying Impacts on Health & Education in Presence of Treatment Externalites."
Video and Slides by anonymous MIT student
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Mobile money and transactions
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Wishart. "Micro-Payment Systems and Their Application to Mobile Networks."
Video and Slides by anonymous MIT student
Vodafone and Nokia. "The Transformational Potential of M-Transactions."
Video and Slides by anonymous MIT student
Obopay
Video by M. Ehsan Hoque
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Milestone 5: Demo |
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Milestone 5 continued
Nextlab Final Presentation Template
Video
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Milestone 6: Final presentation practice |
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Milestone 6 continued |
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Conclusion |
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Final presentation event
Opening remarks by Jhonatan Rotberg and Luis Sarmenta
Video
For individual project presentations and demonstrations, see the Projects pages.
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