Lecture 9
From CSEP590TU
Contents
ICT For Rural Development
- Webcast: http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/csep590tu/04au/lectures/
- Thursday, December 9th 630-930PM
Guest Lecturer
Readings
General Background on ICT and Development
- Bhoomi: Online Delivery of Land Titles in Karnataka India, World Bank Case Study, Rajeev Chawla and Subhash Bhatnagar, December 2001
- What Works: ITC's E-Choupal and Profitable Rural Transformation, What Works Case Study, Kuttayan Annamalai and Sachin Rao, August 2003
- Leveraging technology for micro banking , Bindu Ananth and Bastavee Barooah, January 2004
- Design Axes for the Indian Language Computing Market, Joseph Koshy, Indic-Computing Project, 2003
- Grassroots ICT Projects in India: Some Preliminary Hypotheses, Kenneth Keniston, MIT, 2002
- Critical Success Factors for Rural ICT Projects in India: A Study of N-Logue Projects in Pabal and Baramati, Vivek Dhawan, Masters Thesis, IIT-Bombay School of Management, March 2004 (Optional)
- Social, Governance and Economic Impact Assessment of Information and Communication Technology Interventions in Rural India, Rajendra Kumar, Masters Thesis, MIT Program in City Planning, June 2004 (Optional)
SHGs and Microfinance in India
- Can Rural Banks Reduce Poverty? Evidence from the Indian Social Banking Experiment, Rohini Pande and Robin Burgess, American Economic Review, 2004
- Linking Banks and (Financial) Self-Help Groups in India - An Assessment, Dr. Erhard W. Kropp and Dr. B.S. Suran, NABARD Case Study, November 2002
- Grameen Bank Groups and Self-help Groups; what are the differences?, Malcolm Harper, PlanetFinance, 2002 (Optional)
- Design Studies for a Financial Management System for Micro-credit Groups in Rural India, Tapan Parikh, Kaushik Ghosh, Apala Chavan, Puneet Syal and Sarit Arora, ACM CUU 2003 (Optional)
