Technology and Infrastructure for Emerging Regions

TIER is in Doha! If you are in Doha, too, presumably for the ICTD2009 conference, come meet our colleagues and check out everyone's demos and posters. Alas, the workshops have already happened (woohoo, TIER people featured in all three workshops, with me in the Curriculum workshop, Matt Kam and Divya in the Young Researchers' Workshop, and Rowena organizing the "What is Research" workshop), but you still have time see the posters and demos:

• ICTD State of the Union: Where have we Reached and Where are we Headed? Sergiu Nedevsci, Rabin Patra, Joyojeet Pal
• Rajnikant?s Laptop: Computers and Development in Popular Indian Cinema Joyojeet Pal
• Improving Data Quality With Dynamic Forms Kuang Chen, Harr Chen, Neil Conway, Heather Dolan, Joseph M. Hellerstein, and Tapan S. Parikh
• Metamouse: Multiple Mice for Legacy Applications Kurtis Heimerl, Divya Ramachandran, Joyojeet Pal., Eric Brewer and Tapan Parikh

And of course don't miss the TIER ICTD papers:

• Political Incentives and Policy Outcomes: Who Benefits from Technology Enabled Serivice Centers? Jennifer Bussell
• Improving Literacy in Rural India: Cellphone Games in an After-School Program Matthew Kam, Anuj Kumar, Shirley Jain, John Canny
• ICTD for Healthcare in Ghana: Two Parallel Case Studies Rowena Luk, Matei Zaharia, Melissa Ho, Paul Aoki
• E for Express: "Seeing" the Indian State through ICTD Renee Kuriyan, Isha Ray
• Claim Mobile: Engaging Conflicting Stakeholder Requirements in Healthcare in Uganda Melissa Ho, Emmanuel Owusu, Paul M Aoki

If I'm good I'll take notes during the keynotes and post them on my blog. =) In the meantime you can download the proceedings temporarily from the ICTD2009 website (warning I think it is 35MB). Melissa