Lecture 1- Information and Communications Technology for Development (ICTD or ICT4D) in Practice, UCB iSchool i190 Spring 2014

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

2. Agenda
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Introductions and Your Goals
About our Class
Logistics
Our Core Values
Your Recommendations for Me

3. Introductions and Your Goals
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Name/Department/Year
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Your background/
Why your interest in this class?
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Top 3 most pressing things you
wish to learn

4. About our Class
Conceptual
Week1: Introduction to Course
W2: What is Development?
W3: What is ICTD
W4: Who Does What in Practice?
Mapping the ICTD Landscape
ICTD in
Practice:
Core Skills
Technical (Applications)
W5: Overarching Issues of Technical
Applications
W6:
Infrastructure, Telecenters, Agricultur
e,
W7: Health, Education, Microfinance
W8: Governance and Law
Management
W9: Intro to Project Management
W10: Break
W11: Planning and Assessment
W12:
Budgeting, Scheduling, Fundraising
W13: Implementation
W14: Monitoring and Evaluation/
Next Cycle

5. About our Class
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Overview
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Schedule and Course
Materials
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About the Instructor
I190spring2014.sanng.com
www.sanng.com

6. Assignments
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http://i190spring2014.sanng.com/assignments
Possible blog posts
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Look at Development blogs as examples
Based on upcoming week’s topic in class or a topic of
your choice
Possible live projects
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ICTD Donor landscape (live and interactive?)
iSchool’s ICTD Center
Donation of global eBooks
Social Enterprise for International Development/ROL
training e-courses
Start up social enterprise for global therapeutic online
support

7. Our Core Values
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Open, collaborative, inclusive, community
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Ideas and innovation in learning
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AGILE method of teaching/learning
Learning in all directions (not just instructor to students)
failure ok
Tech Curious
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Share class resources (especially) with developing world
Walk the talk- try technology and social networks, see
what sticks
FUN and interesting
WHAT ABOUT YOU?

8. Our Core Values (from you)
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Mindful development ICTD? Being Realistic

9. Logistics
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Class Ecosystem
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Class Website, ICTD Blog, Email
lists, Facebook, Twitter, Project collaboration
platforms, project/time management tools
Videos and class materials
Uganda MUBS (Makerere University Business
School)
ICTD Communities
MDP and others with conflict (Mon/Wed schedules)

10. Your Recommendations
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Suggestions to make this one of the best courses
you have ever taken? 

11. Summary
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Introductions and Your Goals
About our Class
Our Core Values
Logistics
Your Recommendations for Me

12. Next Week
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More introductions and ice breakers
Sign up for email list and Facebook closed group
Read Week 2 readings on International
Development
Look out for announcements
Help market this course virtually (and at Cal)!

13. Questions?