ICT for Socioeconomic Development ICT 4 SD IT

Objectives n n n Provide and exposure to the already existing benefits of ICT

Course Structure n n n n Open to IT, CSE, EE, SOM and IDC

Faculty Associated with the Course and Tentative sequence of lectures n n n n

Tentative list of People to Invite n n n n n People from ICICI

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ICT for Socioeconomic Development (ICT 4 SD) IT 625 / MW 5: 00 to 6: 30 pm http: //www. it. iitb. ac. in/~it 625 Course Coordinators: U. B. Desai and Krithi Ramamritham

Objectives n n n Provide and exposure to the already existing benefits of ICT in rural and small town India 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 ICT 4 D Acknowledge CTARA --- they have been looking at technology alternatives for rural development for more than 20 years.

Course Structure n n n n Open to IT, CSE, EE, SOM and IDC post graduate and dual degree students Two 1. 5 hrs lectures per week 7 to 8 weeks lectures by 7 to 8 faculty from IITB 5 to 6 weeks (10 to 12) invited lectures from people working in the area of ICT for development 3 weeks (9 to 10 hrs) of student presentation At least one site visit (possibly Pabal in Maharashtra) Grading: n n Class participation 10% Weekly Critique, HWs, Term Paper 30 % Presentation 30 % Final exam 30 %

Faculty Associated with the Course and Tentative sequence of lectures n n n n U B Desai– Introdcution to the course and motivation Krithi R. – ongoing projects in KRe. SIT and elsewhere in IIT on ICT 4 D Anirudha Joshi --- Interactive and contextual design, language interfaces Anand Patwardhan – Policy and business models, profits at the bottom of the pyramid Krithi R. --- Data Bases, Content Creation U. B. Desai --- Access Technologies, rural kiosk, sustainable ICT in rural areas Pushpak B. --- Languages technologies Karandikar --- Networking Dinesh Sharma / Rakesh Lal --- Affordable Devices; Affordable Computing A Q Contractor --- Bio-X D. B. Phatak: whenever he is available --- Open Source Invite A. W. Date (Mech. ) to share experience in rural technology Sivakumar --- Each faculty will lecture for at least one week (2 1. 5 hr lectures). The sequence will be interspersed with invited lectures.

Tentative list of People to Invite n n n n n People from ICICI bank (Nachiket) on Microfinance Arun Mehta on Telecom Policy in India Ashok Jhunjhunwala SEWA – Ahemdabad ITC – e-Choupal M. S. Swaminathan foundation (Pondichery) Hindustan Lever on how they have approached the rural market Anil Gupta from IIM-Ahemdabad Anant Krishnan (TCS – e-literacy) Anupam Basu 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) One Village One Computer (Navi Mumbai) Yogesh Kulkarni (Vigyan Ashram) …