Lecture 9

ICT For Rural Development

Guest Lecturer

• Eric Brewer, UC Berkeley
• Tapan Parikh, UW

Readings

• Bhoomi: Online Delivery of Land Titles in Karnataka India, World Bank Case Study, Rajeev Chawla and Subhash Bhatnagar, December 2001 http://www1.worldbank.org/publicsector/egov/bhoomi_cs.htm
• What Works: ITC's E-Choupal and Profitable Rural Transformation, What Works Case Study, Kuttayan Annamalai and Sachin Rao, August 2003 http://www.digitaldividend.org/pdf/echoupal_case.pdf
• Bindu Ananth and Bastavee Barooah, Leveraging technology for micro banking, January 2004, http://www.i4donline.net/issue/jan04/leveraging_full.htm
• Design Axes for the Indian Language Computing Market, Joseph Koshy, Indic-Computing Project, 2003, http://indic-computing.sourceforge.net/designaxes/index.html
• Grassroots ICT Projects in India: Some Preliminary Hypotheses, Kenneth Keniston, MIT, 2002, http://web.mit.edu/~kken/Public/PDF/ASCI_Journal_Intro__ASCI_version_.pdf

Slides

• Lecture materials