Technology for Developing Communities : Assignments

Technology for Developing Communities
16-871 / 08-790

Lectures:

Tuesday Aug 28 The state of the world and technology trends I	Thursday Aug 30 The state of the world and technology trends II
Tuesday Sep 4 Capacity building I	Thursday Sep 6 Capacity building II
Tuesday Sep 11 History and politics of development	Thursday Sep 13 Challenges of poverty I
Tuesday Sep 18 Challenges of poverty II	Thursday Sep 20 Economics I
Tuesday Sep 25 Economics II	Thursday Sep 27 Planning for sustainability
Tuesday Oct 2 TFDC examples I	Thursday Oct 4 TFDC examples II
Tuesday Oct 9 Evaluating impact	Thursday Oct 11 NGOs
Tuesday Oct 16 Mid-course update and in-class debate	Thursday Oct 18 Technological Infrastructure & Case Analysis I
Tuesday Oct 23 Technology design	Thursday Oct 25 Case study analysis II
Tuesday Oct 30 Case study analysis III	Thursday Nov 1 Microfinance/access to markets
Tuesday Nov 6 Fortune at the BOP discussion	Thursday Nov 8 Intellectual Property, Open Source, and Legal/Political Context
Tuesday Nov 13 No Class: Project work	Thursday Nov 15 No Class: Project work
Tuesday Nov 20 No Class: Project work	Thursday Nov 22 No Class: Thanksgiving Holiday
Tuesday Nov 27 No Class: Project work	Thursday Nov 29 No Class: Project work
Tuesday Dec 4 Student discussion on lessons learned and future directions	Thursday Dec 6 Final lecture: lessons learned and future directions