15-502 Technology and Global Development

Spring 2009 - Qatar Edition
 
 
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Resources:

  1. United Nations Development Program - UN's Global Development Network
    http://www.undp.org

  2. HDR 2009 - Human Development Reports
    http://hdr.undp.org/en/reports/global/hdr2009/

  3. Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
    http://www.oecd.org

  4. State of the World - Human Development Index
    http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDR_20072008_EN_Indicator_tables.pdf

  5. Gapminder
    http://www.gapminder.org

  6. TED talk by Hans Rosling, founder of Gapminder
    http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/hans_rosling_reveals_new_insights_on_poverty.html

  7. United Nations Millennium Declaration
    http://www.un.org/millennium/declaration/ares552e.htm

  8. Millennium Development Goals
    http://www.undp.org/mdg

  9. Human Development Report 2001 - Making New Technologies Work for Human Development
    http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/completenew1.pdf

  10. World Bank - Poverty Trends
    www.worldbank.org/poverty/

  11. Surviving in the Slums
    http://www.ifrc.org/publicat/wdr2004/chapter7.asp

  12. Positive Deviance Initiative
    www.positivedeviance.org

  13. Dollar Street - GapMinder.org
    http://www.gapminder.org/downloads/flash-presentations/dollar-street/

  14. Real Lives - Educational Simulation
    http://www.educationalsimulations.com/eval.php

  15. Real Lives - Educational Simulation
    http://www.educationalsimulations.com/eval.php

  16. Calculating the Human Development Indices
    http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDR_20072008_Tech_Note_1.pdf

  17. Qatar Millennium Development Goals
    http://www.gsdp.gov.qa/portal/page/portal/GSDP_Vision_Root/GSDP_EN/GSDP_News/GSDP%20News%20Files/MDG_2REPORT_EN.pdf

  18. Dialog on Poverty Prevention in Qatar
    http://www.gsdp.gov.qa/portal/page/portal/GSDP_Vision_Root/GSDP_EN/GSDP_News/GSDP%20News%20File s/Poverty%20Prevention%20Seminar%20Summary_FinalReport.pdf

  19. Development Gateway Foundation
    http://www.developmentgateway.com

  20. UNDP Report:: Capacity Development: Empowering People and Institutions
    http://www.undp.org/publications/annualreport2008/pdf/IAR2008_ENG_low.pdf
  21. TechBridgeWorld V-Unit Program
    www.cs.cmu.edu/~vunit

  22. TechBridgeWorld - Project Kane: Impact of an Automated English Reading Tutor in Ghana
    http://www.techbridgeworld.org/kane

  23. TechBridgeWorld - Braille Writing Tutor
    http://www.techbridgeworld.org/brailletutor

  24. TechBridgeWorld - Education E-Village
    http://www.techbridgeworld.org/programs/evillage

  25. aAqua - Agricultural Portal
    http://www.aaqua.org

  26. Multiple Mice for Computers in Education in Developing Countries
    http://tier.cs.berkeley.edu/docs/ict4d06/multiple_mice-jp.pdf

  27. Text-Free User Interfaces for Illiterate and Semi-Illiterate Users
    http://research.microsoft.com/enus/ um/india/groups/tem/presentations/text-freeui.pdf

  28. Tamil Market - Speech Recognition for Illiterate Access to Information and Technology
    http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dgroup/papers/TamilMarket.pdfe

  29. MILLEE: Mobile and Immersive Learning for Literacy in Emerging Economies
    http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~mattkam/millee/portfolio.html

  30. Cell-Life: Development of a Cellphone-Based Monitoring and Management Support System for ART
    http://www.cell-life.org/

  31. PlanetRead: Same Language Subtitling for Literacy - Small Change for Colossal Gains
    http://www.planetread.org/

  32. CyberTrackers - Bushmen and Information Technology
    http://www.cybertracker.org/

  33. First Mile Solutions - Rethinking Connectivity in Developing Nations
    http://www.firstmilesolutions.com/

  34. Babajob
    http://www.babajob.com