Required Textbooks
Norris, Pippa. Digital Divide: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780521002233.
Wresch, William. Disconnected: Haves and Have-nots in the Information Age. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780813523705.
Required readings for each class session are included in the table below.
| WEEK # | TOPICS | READINGS |
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1 |
Introduction and Logistics for Class |
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2 |
Case Study: The MIT OpenCourseWare Story WSIS Discussion |
Goldberg, Carey. “Auditing Classes at MIT, on the Web and Free.” The New York Times, April 4, 2001. Vest, Charles M. “Why MIT Decided to Give Away All Its Course Materials via the Internet.” The Chronicle of Higher Education: The Chronicle Review, January 30, 2004. Lerman, Steven R., and Shigeru Miyagawa. “Open Course Ware: A Case Study in Institutional Decision Making.” Academe (September-October 2002). Diamond, David. “MIT Everywhere.” Wired Magazine, August 27, 2003. |
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3 |
Bridging the Digital Divide: Is There Anything to Bridge? Is It Worth It? |
Friedman, Thomas. The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2005, pp. 3-47. ISBN: 9780374292881. Norris, Pippa. Digital Divide: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001, chapters 1-2, pp. 3-38. ISBN: 9780521002233.
Alden, Christopher. “Let Them Eat Cyberspace: Africa, the G8 and the Digital Divide.” Millennium: Journal of International Studies 32, no. 3 (2003): 457-476. |
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4 |
Effective Proposal Writing |
Proposal Writing: Internet Resources - pay close attention to the following sections: Friedman, Thomas. The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2005, pp. 309-336. ISBN: 9780374292881. |
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5 |
Case Study: ICT Projects at MIT: A Student Panel |
Binur, Yaron, and Manish Gaudi. “A Student-Teaching-Student Model in Kenya: A Case Study Following the Progress of the MIT-Africa Internet Technology Initiative.” Working paper. Gaudi, Manish, and Bryant Harrison. “MIT-AITI Executive Summary: September 2005.” Working paper. Wresch, William. Disconnected: Haves and Have-nots in the Information Age. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, Preface, Introduction, and Part I. ISBN: 9780813523705. |
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6 |
The Relationship between ICTs and Entrepreneurship |
Prahalad, C. K. The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty through Profits. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Wharton School Publishing, 2004, chapters 1, and 3. ISBN: 9780131467507. |
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7 |
ICTs for Development: Past Projects |
Annamalai, Kuttayan, and Sachin Rao. What Works: ITC’s e-Choupal and Profitable Rural Transformation. Case Study by World Resource Institute. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, 2003. Phipps, Keisha, Genevieve Sangudi, and Steven Woolway. What Works: Healthnet Uganda’s Evolution from NGO to Sustainable Enterprise. Case Study by World Resource Institute. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, 2003. Cohen, Nevin. What Works: Grameen Telecom’s Village Phones. Case Study by World Resource Institute. 2001. Casas, Cynthia, and William LaJoie. Voxiva. Case Study. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, 2003. |
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8 |
Case Study: ICT Projects at MIT: A Faculty Panel |
Larson, Richard C., and M. Elizabeth Murray. “Distance Learning as a Tool for Poverty Reduction: A Focus on Two Countries, China and Mexico.” Submitted as a Working Draft through the Learning International Networks Consortium (LINC). Cambridge, MA: MIT, 2005. Hardison, J., D. Zych, J. A. del Alamo, V. J. Harward, S. R. Lerman, S. M. Wang, K. Yehia, and C. Varadharajan. “The Microelectronics WebLab 6.0 - An Implementation Using Web Services and the iLab Shared Architecture.” Presented at the Exploring Innovation in Education and Research Conference. Tainan, Taiwan, March 1-5, 2005. Del Alamo, J., et al. “iLab: A Scalable Architecture for Sharing Online Experiments.” International Conference on Engineering Education. Gainesville, FL, October 16-21, 2004. Wresch, William. Disconnected: Haves and Have-nots in the Information Age. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, part II. ISBN: 9780813523705. |
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9 |
ICTs and Healthcare |
Aanestad, Margunn, et al. Strategies for Development and Integration of Health Information Systems: Coping with Historicity and Heterogeneity. Working Papers in Information Systems. Oslo, Norway: University of Oslo Information Systems group, 2005. Adeyemi, Ao, Ayegboyin. A Study on the Use of Information Systems to Prevent HIV/AIDS in Lagos State, Nigeria. Informedica: Information and Communication Technologies in Healthcare Development. 3rd Virtual Congress in Internet: March 1-30, 2004. Braa, Jørn, and Calle Hedberg. Developing District-based Health Care Information Systems: The South African Experience. MS. |
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10 |
WSIS Wrap-Up ICTs and Nations |
Chan, Anita. “Coding Free Software, Coding Free States: Free Software Legislation and the Politics of Code in Peru.” Anthropological Quarterly 77, no. 3 (2004): 531-545. |
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11 |
ICTs and Democracy |
Norris, Pippa. Digital Divide: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001, parts II and III. ISBN: 9780521002233. |
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12 |
Evaluation Open Office Hours: Projects |
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13 |
Final Project Presentations |
