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March |
Development Solutions Organization (DSO) expanded
to the Carnegie Mellon Doha campus in Fall 2009. DSO-Qatar started off the Spring
2010 semester by organizing an extensive fundraising initiative for victims of the
Haiti earthquakes. The fundraising initiative
spanned one week and included the help of other student organizations and student
volunteers. During the fundraising week, students held events and manned donation
booths across Education City. The students raised QAR 20,556, which was given to the
Qatar Red Crescent campaign to support 5,000
families in Haiti for over 12 months.
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February |
TechBridgeWorld's iSTEP mini course
is wrapping up this week. The iSTEP 2010 interns along with Carnegie Mellon students from the
Pittsburgh and Doha campuses learned about Bangladesh, Chittagong, iSTEP 2010 projects and
partners (Asian University for Women and
Young Power in Social Action), and ICTD field research.
The outcomes of the mini course will be deployed in Bangladesh this summer through the
iSTEP internship.
The ICTD2009 website has been updated with conference
proceedings, videos to the keynote speeches, and pictures from the conference.
Royal Holloway, University of London will be hosting the
next conference, ICTD2010, from December 13 - 16 in London.
The calls for Papers and
Workshop Sessions are now open and the deadline
for submission is April 2, 2010. Please see the ICTD2010 website
for more details.
Patrick G. Awuah Jr., Founder and President of
Ashesi University in Ghana will be
visiting Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar as a 2010 Distinguished
Lecturer. His lecture will be on Tuesday, February 16th at 6:00PM in the
Four Seasons Hotel in Doha, Qatar. For more information on Awuah's
lecture please visit the Distinguished Lecture Series
event page.
We welcome Hend Gedawy to the TechBridgeWorld
team! Hend just joined our Assistive Technology
project team where she will be working on the
Braille Writing Tutor,
DeSIGN, and more. She graduated from
Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar's
Computer Science program in 2009 and will be pursuing her Masters degree in
Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh starting summer 2010.
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January |
We express our sincere appreciation to Daniel Freeman who worked
as TechBridgeWorld's Web Intern since his freshman year in 2007. Daniel was primarily
involved with maintaining and updating the TechBridgeWorld website, the
ICTD 2009 conference website, and the
iSTEP program website. We wish
Daniel the best of luck in his future endeavors!
Please join us for our
Spring 2010 V-Unit Presentation to be held Thursday, January 28th from
10:00 - 11:00a.m. in Newell-Simon Hall 1507. Ph.D. student W. Ben Towne will
present his work on "The Open Source Policy Project," which has
been advised by MIT faculty member Mark Klein. The V-Unit program is open
to proposals for new graduate student projects - we encourage you to attend
this presentation to learn more about how to get involved.
iSTEP 2009 participant Hatem Alismail is featured in the January
issue of Carnegie Mellon Today
magazine. The story, titled
"Winning Phone Call"
features Hatem's experience field testing the Literacy Tools project with the
Mlimani Primary School students and teachers in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Carnegie Mellon Human-Computer Interaction faculty
Matthew Kam will be teaching a
new course in the Spring 2010 semester: The Role of Technology in Learning in the
21st Century (05-438/05-838). The class will be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays
from 12:00 - 1:20pm in the Gates-Hillman Center Room 4301. The 12-unit course,
open to undergraduate and graduate students with technical or non-technical backgrounds,
will discuss how learning theories can be drawn on to impact global poverty.
TechBridgeWorld student and DSO Co-President
Saurabh Sanghvi will be co-teaching a
StuCo in the Spring 2010 semester:
Introduction to International Development (98-141). The class, which will be held on
Mondays from 6:30 - 7:50pm, will introduce students to different global development
areas and allow students to debate and formulate their ideas on what should be done
to alleviate these issues.
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