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TIER Workshop 2008
Location: 112 Wurster Hall
Friday, October 17 - Saturday, October 18, 2008
Please register for the workshop (no fee) so we can get a headcount for food: http://www.citris-uc.org/TIER
Note: The agenda is subject to change.
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Overview
Welcome to the TIER Workshop! As you can see from other pages on our web site TIER is a multi-disciplinary research group dedicated to understanding the role of and developing innovative information and communications technologies for developing regions. We have a number of students graduating, as well as a number of new research projects, so this workshop will be our opportunity to send off the graduates, and to show off the new generation of TIER students and TIER projects. The TIER Workshop is sponsored by CITRIS, Blum Center for Developing Economies, the School of Information, College of Engineering, and the National Science Foundation.
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Goals
- To inform people on TIER’s projects and achievements, as well upcoming research and plans.
- To tell the UC Berkeley and wider communities about cutting edge research for developing regions, telling them both what we have learned, and what questions are being asked, to start thinking in new ways about how to approach technologic solutions for poverty relief.
- To invite wider collaboration within the UC Berkeley community, and with outside organizations and other academic communities around technology for developing regions
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Agenda
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Friday, October 17, 2008 |
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| Opening | ||
| 08.30 | Registration and Breakfast | |
| 09.00 | Introductions and Welcome -- Eric Brewer | |
| 09.15 | Opening Keynote -- Tim Unwin, UNESCO Chair in ICTD | |
| Session 1: History of TIER Technologies | ||
| 10.00 | Sharing Information Across Intermittent Networks: Delay Tolerant Networking and TIERStore
-- Bowei Du |
[ppt][pdf] |
| 10.20 | WiLDNet Around the World
-- Rabin Patra |
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| 10.40 | Panel Discussion: Case for Technology Research in Developing Regions
-- Moderator: tbd |
[ppt][pdf] |
| Session 2: Partnerships and Sustainability | ||
| 11.00 | MILLEE: Mobile Immersive Learning for Literacy in Emerging Economies
-- Matthew Kam |
[website] [ppt][pdf] |
| 10.20 | The Ghana Consultation Network: a remote medical consultation and social networking system for Ghanaian doctors
-- Rowena Luk |
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| 10.40 | Aravind Eye Hospitals: Connecting Rural Eye Clinics with long distance wireless
-- Sonesh Surana |
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| Lunch | ||
| 12.00 | Lunch with Birds of a Feather Break-out Tables
-- Location TBD | |
| Panel 1: Globalization and ICTD | ||
| 1.00 | Introduction -- Moderators: Eric Brewer, Jenna Burrell -- Participants: Rajesh Veeraraghavan, Melissa Ho, Renee Kuriyan, Jennifer Bussell, Rabin Patra, Joyojeet Pal, Tapan Parikh, and others TBD |
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| 1.10 | Discussion | |
| 1.30 | Questions | |
| Session 3: Making Things That Work | ||
| 1.45 | N-SMARTS: Networked Suite of Mobile Atmospheric Real-Time Sensors
-- R.J. Honicky |
[website] [ppt][pdf] |
| 2.00 | Cellscope: Telemicroscopy for Disease Diagnosis
-- Erik Douglas |
[website] [ppt][pdf] |
| 2.15 | Demo/Poster Madness: Quick Overview of Posters and Demos to be presented during reception and coffee breaks | |
| Coffee Break | ||
| 2.30 | Coffee Break, Demos, and Poster Session
-- Location TBD | |
| Session 4: Governments, Policy, and Infrastructure | ||
| 03.30 | Political Corruption and the Implementation of Community Information Kiosks in India -- Jennifer Bussell |
[ppt][pdf] |
| 03.45 | Deploying Wireless Networks in West Africa -- Melissa Ho and R.J. Honicky |
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| 04.00 | Outsourcing Development:
The State, Entrepreneurship, and Information Technologies in India -- Renee Kuriyan |
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| 04.15 | An Overview of Telecommunications Policy in Developing Regions -- Glenn Woroch |
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| ICTD Social | ||
| 4.30 | Wine Reception, Demos, and Poster Session
-- Location TBD | |
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Saturday, October 18, 2008 |
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| Opening | ||
| 08.30 | Registration and Breakfast | |
| 09.00 | Welcome -- Eric Brewer | |
| Session 5: Advances in Technologies | ||
| 09.15 | WiLDNet
-- Sergiu Nedevschi |
[ppt][pdf] |
| 9.45 | Steerable Antennas
-- Omar Bakr |
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| 10.00 | Rural Power: Issues and Solutions
-- Sonesh Surana |
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| 10.15 | tbd
-- tbd |
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| Panel 2: Disputed Devices | ||
| 10.15 | Panel Discussion -- Moderator: Tapan Parikh -- Participants: Rabin Patra, Sergiu Nedevschi, Joyojeet Pal, Paul Aoki, Yahel Ben-David, Melissa Ho | |
| Session 6: Disruptive Technologies: Insights on User Perspectives | ||
| 11.00 | Persuasive Speech Technologies for Maternal Health Care in Orissa, India
-- Divya Ramachandran |
[ppt][pdf] |
| 11.15 | Classroom Computing, Aspiration, and Globalization in Rural India
-- Joyojeet Pal |
[ppt][pdf] |
| 11.30 | Mobile Phones, Health Information Management, and Output-Based Aid
-- Melissa Ho |
[ppt][pdf] |
| 11.45 | Cellphone and Landline Communication in a Mexican Migrant Sending Village
-- Tricia Wang (UCSD) |
[ppt][pdf] |
| Lunch | ||
| 12.00 | Location TBD | |
| Panel 3: The Future of Research in ICTD | ||
| 1.00 | The objective of this panel is to provide a forum for some open discussion around where ICTD is headed. Panelists are selected for their individual insights into various areas of ICTD research, and are invited to make bold claims about the future of research in ICTD, where they think we are headed, possibly proposing some clear steps or visions for establishing ICTD as a research field. We would expect some discussion of the future of the ICTD Certificate program, the role of UC Berkeley and other universities in ICTD research, as well as discussion on how to apply ICTD research. -- Moderator: Jenna Burrell -- Participants: TBA | |
| Closing | ||
| 02.00 | Closing Remarks -- Eric Brewer | |
