ICT for Socioeconomic Development (ICT4SD)

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ICT for Socioeconomic Development (ICT4SD)

• CS 671 / Tu-Fri 500 to 630 pm
• http//www.cse.iitb.ac.in/cs671
• Course Coordinators
• U. B. Desai and Krithi Ramamritham

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Objectives

• Provide exposure to the already existing benefits
  of ICT for the masses
• ICT for social development is indeed an exciting
  area of research
• A forum for generating ideas in this new and
  important domain --- we believe that no one has
  really cracked this domain
• Motivate the younger lot to do R and D in ICT4D
• Contribute to the cause through
• The creation of portals
• Studies
• Projects

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Course Structure

• Two 1.5 hrs lectures per week
• 7 to 8 weeks lectures by 7 to 8 faculty from IITB
• 2-3 weeks (4 to 6) invited lectures from people
  working in the area of ICT for development
• 3-5 weeks (9 to 10 hrs) of student presentation
• At least one site visit (possibly Pabal in
  Maharashtra)

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Faculty contributing to the Course

• U B Desai and Krithi Ramamritham Introduction
  to the course, motivation, expectations
• Krithi R. ongoing projects in KReSIT and
  elsewhere in IIT on ICT4D
• U. B. Desai --- Access Technologies, rural kiosk,
  sustainable ICT in rural areas
• IIT B faculty and researchers

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Tentative list Invited Speakers

• People from ICICI bank (Nachiket) on Microfinance
• Arun Mehta on Telecom Policy in India
• Ashok Jhunjhunwala
• SEWA Ahmedabad
• ITC e-Choupal
• M. S. Swaminathan foundation (Pondichery)
• Hindustan Lever on how they have approached the
  rural market
• Anil Gupta from IIM-Ahmedabad
• Anupam Basu IIT KGP
• Ananthakrishnan -- Literacy
• Kadarbhai KVK Baramati
• Yogesh Kulkarni Vigyan Ashram
• Rekha Jain from IIM-Ahm. (heads the center on
  telecom policy studies)
• Bhoomi project in Karnataka (Maybe Mr. Rajeev
  Chawala)
• Secretary IT Mr. K. K. Jaswal
• Group in Hyderabad Project COW Computers on
  Wheel
• Some grass root workers people who have been
  working in the field on ICT
• Rajesh Jain (Net-core Tech.)
• Zero Tech (Hiranandani Sudershan SOM)

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Aim to make a difference!