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Required Textbooks


Amazon logo Norris, Pippa. Digital Divide: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780521002233.

Amazon logo Wresch, William. Disconnected: Haves and Have-nots in the Information Age. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780813523705.

Required readings for each class session are included in the table below.


WEEK #TOPICSREADINGS
1Introduction and Logistics for Class
2Case Study: The MIT OpenCourseWare Story

WSIS Discussion
Goldberg, Carey. "Auditing Classes at MIT, on the Web and Free." The New York Times, April 4, 2001.

Vest, Charles M. "Why MIT Decided to Give Away All Its Course Materials via the Internet." The Chronicle of Higher Education: The Chronicle Review, January 30, 2004.

Lerman, Steven R., and Shigeru Miyagawa. "Open Course Ware: A Case Study in Institutional Decision Making." Academe (September-October 2002).

Diamond, David. "MIT Everywhere." Wired Magazine, August 27, 2003.
3Bridging the Digital Divide: Is There Anything to Bridge? Is It Worth It?Amazon logo National Telecommunications and Information Administration. "Falling through the Net: Defining the Digital Divide." In The Digital Divide: Facing a Crisis or Creating a Myth? Edited by Benjamin M. Compaine. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001, pp. 17-46. ISBN: 9780262531931.

Amazon logo Friedman, Thomas. The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2005, pp. 3-47. ISBN: 9780374292881.

Amazon logo Norris, Pippa. Digital Divide: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001, chapters 1-2, pp. 3-38. ISBN: 9780521002233.

Amazon logo Compaine, Benjamin, ed. "Information Gaps: Myth or Reality?" In The Digital Divide: Facing a Crisis or Creating a Myth? Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001, pp. 105-118. ISBN: 9780262531931.

Amazon logo Compaine, Benjamin, and Mitchell J. Weinramb. "Universal Access to Online Services: An Examination of the Issue." In The Digital Divide: Facing a Crisis or Creating a Myth? Edited by Benjamin M. Compaine. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001, pp. 147-177. ISBN: 9780262531931.

Alden, Christopher. "Let Them Eat Cyberspace: Africa, the G8 and the Digital Divide." Millennium: Journal of International Studies 32, no. 3 (2003): 457-476.
4Effective Proposal WritingProposal Writing: Internet Resources - pay close attention to the following sections:
- Basic Elements of Grant Writing
- GrantProposal.com
- Proposal Writing Short Course
- Proposal Writing Budgeting Basics

Amazon logo Friedman, Thomas. The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2005, pp. 309-336. ISBN: 9780374292881.
5Case Study: ICT Projects at MIT: A Student PanelBinur, Yaron, and Manish Gaudi. "A Student-Teaching-Student Model in Kenya: A Case Study Following the Progress of the MIT-Africa Internet Technology Initiative." Working paper.

Gaudi, Manish, and Bryant Harrison. "MIT-AITI Executive Summary: September 2005." Working paper.

Amazon logo Wresch, William. Disconnected: Haves and Have-nots in the Information Age. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, Preface, Introduction, and Part I. ISBN: 9780813523705.
6The Relationship between ICTs and EntrepreneurshipAmazon logo Prahalad, C. K. The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty through Profits. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Wharton School Publishing, 2004, chapters 1, and 3. ISBN: 9780131467507.
7ICTs for Development: Past ProjectsAnnamalai, Kuttayan, and Sachin Rao. What Works: ITC's e-Choupal and Profitable Rural Transformation. Case Study by World Resource Institute. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, 2003.

Phipps, Keisha, Genevieve Sangudi, and Steven Woolway. What Works: Healthnet Uganda's Evolution from NGO to Sustainable Enterprise. Case Study by World Resource Institute. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, 2003.

Cohen, Nevin. What Works: Grameen Telecom's Village Phones. Case Study by World Resource Institute. 2001.

Casas, Cynthia, and William LaJoie. Voxiva. Case Study. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, 2003.
8Case Study: ICT Projects at MIT: A Faculty PanelLarson, Richard C., and M. Elizabeth Murray. "Distance Learning as a Tool for Poverty Reduction: A Focus on Two Countries, China and Mexico." Submitted as a Working Draft through the Learning International Networks Consortium (LINC). Cambridge, MA: MIT, 2005.

Hardison, J., D. Zych, J. A. del Alamo, V. J. Harward, S. R. Lerman, S. M. Wang, K. Yehia, and C. Varadharajan. "The Microelectronics WebLab 6.0 - An Implementation Using Web Services and the iLab Shared Architecture." Presented at the Exploring Innovation in Education and Research Conference. Tainan, Taiwan, March 1-5, 2005.

Del Alamo, J., et al. "iLab: A Scalable Architecture for Sharing Online Experiments." International Conference on Engineering Education. Gainesville, FL, October 16-21, 2004.

Amazon logo Wresch, William. Disconnected: Haves and Have-nots in the Information Age. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, part II. ISBN: 9780813523705.
9ICTs and HealthcareAanestad, Margunn, et al. Strategies for Development and Integration of Health Information Systems: Coping with Historicity and Heterogeneity. Working Papers in Information Systems. Oslo, Norway: University of Oslo Information Systems group, 2005.

Adeyemi, Ao, Ayegboyin. A Study on the Use of Information Systems to Prevent HIV/AIDS in Lagos State, Nigeria. Informedica: Information and Communication Technologies in Healthcare Development. 3rd Virtual Congress in Internet: March 1-30, 2004.

Braa, Jørn, and Calle Hedberg. Developing District-based Health Care Information Systems: The South African Experience. MS.
10WSIS Wrap-Up

ICTs and Nations
Chan, Anita. "Coding Free Software, Coding Free States: Free Software Legislation and the Politics of Code in Peru." Anthropological Quarterly 77, no. 3 (2004): 531-545.
11ICTs and DemocracyAmazon logo Norris, Pippa. Digital Divide: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001, parts II and III. ISBN: 9780521002233.
12Evaluation

Open Office Hours: Projects
13Final Project Presentations

 








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