1. Class Website: i190spring2014.sanng.com
i190 Spring 2014: Information and Communications Technology
for Development (ICTD) in Practice
University of California Berkeley, School of Information
LECTURE 11: 5 Mar 2014
Instructor: San Ng (www.sanng.com)

2. Agenda
•Guest Lecturer (Ruha)
•ICT Policy
•Appropriate Technology
•Innovation
•Theories of International
Development
•How do we measure it?
•Does it work?
•Careers in International
Conceptual
Development Lecturer: Ishita
- Guest
Week1: Introduction to Course
W2: What is Development?
- Theories of ICTD
W3: What is ICTD
- Origins, History and Future
W4: Who Does What in Practice?
- Does it work?
Mapping the ICTD Landscape
Technical (Applications)
W5: Overarching Issues of
Technical Applications
W6: Infrastructure,
Telecenters, Agriculture,
W7: Revisiting
Agriculture, Education,
W8 /9Health, Microfinance ,
Governance and Law
-Crowdsourcing Exercise:
ICTD landscape
i190
ICTD in
Practice:
Core Skills
Management
W9: Intro to Project Management
W10: Break
W11: Planning and Assessment
W12: Budgeting, Scheduling,
Fundraising
W13: Implementation
W14: Monitoring and Evaluation/
Next Cycle

3. ICT in Agriculture (continued)
•Skew of disciplinary research
(econ, ethnographic, ENR, energy, geog…etc)
•Jensen work: - neat econ study:
•People:=only 2
•Tech: = 1 function
•Welfare= income
•Burrell et al. – making a mess:
•Other players:/relationships auctioneer,
fish waste vendor, gender etc
•Tech: lots of other usage
•Context: n/s, types of terrain, boards
•Welfare= WAY more than income
•Can it be generalized then?
•What to do in practice?
•Be cognizant of debates
•Local context
•Don’t start with tech
•Same old foundational factors in design
and implementation
•Usually dynamic, changing, needs,
messy, ‘it’s complicated’
Heeks, ICTD 2.0