15-502 Technology and Global Development
Spring 2009 - Qatar Edition
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Resources:
United Nations Development Program - UN's Global Development Network
http://www.undp.org
HDR 2009 - Human Development Reports
http://hdr.undp.org/en/reports/global/hdr2009/
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
http://www.oecd.org
State of the World - Human Development Index
http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDR_20072008_EN_Indicator_tables.pdf
Gapminder
http://www.gapminder.org
TED talk by Hans Rosling, founder of Gapminder
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/hans_rosling_reveals_new_insights_on_poverty.html
United Nations Millennium Declaration
http://www.un.org/millennium/declaration/ares552e.htm
Millennium Development Goals
http://www.undp.org/mdg
Human Development Report 2001 - Making New Technologies Work for Human Development
http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/completenew1.pdf
World Bank - Poverty Trends
www.worldbank.org/poverty/
Surviving in the Slums
http://www.ifrc.org/publicat/wdr2004/chapter7.asp
Positive Deviance Initiative
www.positivedeviance.org
Dollar Street - GapMinder.org
http://www.gapminder.org/downloads/flash-presentations/dollar-street/
Real Lives - Educational Simulation
http://www.educationalsimulations.com/eval.php
Real Lives - Educational Simulation
http://www.educationalsimulations.com/eval.php
Calculating the Human Development Indices
http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDR_20072008_Tech_Note_1.pdf
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
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
Development Gateway Foundation
http://www.developmentgateway.com
UNDP Report:: Capacity Development: Empowering People and Institutions
http://www.undp.org/publications/annualreport2008/pdf/IAR2008_ENG_low.pdf
TechBridgeWorld V-Unit Program
www.cs.cmu.edu/~vunit
TechBridgeWorld - Project Kane: Impact of an Automated English Reading Tutor in Ghana
http://www.techbridgeworld.org/kane
TechBridgeWorld - Braille Writing Tutor
http://www.techbridgeworld.org/brailletutor
TechBridgeWorld - Education E-Village
http://www.techbridgeworld.org/programs/evillage
aAqua - Agricultural Portal
http://www.aaqua.org
Multiple Mice for Computers in Education in Developing Countries
http://tier.cs.berkeley.edu/docs/ict4d06/multiple_mice-jp.pdf
Text-Free User Interfaces for Illiterate and Semi-Illiterate Users
http://research.microsoft.com/enus/ um/india/groups/tem/presentations/text-freeui.pdf
Tamil Market - Speech Recognition for Illiterate Access to Information and Technology
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dgroup/papers/TamilMarket.pdfe
MILLEE: Mobile and Immersive Learning for Literacy in Emerging Economies
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~mattkam/millee/portfolio.html
Cell-Life: Development of a Cellphone-Based Monitoring and Management Support System for ART
http://www.cell-life.org/
PlanetRead: Same Language Subtitling for Literacy - Small Change for Colossal Gains
http://www.planetread.org/
CyberTrackers - Bushmen and Information Technology
http://www.cybertracker.org/
First Mile Solutions - Rethinking Connectivity in Developing Nations
http://www.firstmilesolutions.com/
Babajob
http://www.babajob.com