Computing and the developing world is a research area that explores how information and communication technologies can be used to address fundamental problems in health,  education and livelihood in resource constrained environments .    CSE 590f is a weekly seminar   for students and faculty interested in the area.  This fall Joyojeet Pal and I will be leading the seminar.     The seminar will provide an introduction to the area by reading the basic papers in the area.  The format will be discussion,  with discussion leaders responsible for guiding  a discussion (but not giving a full recap of the paper).

A list of topics is available from the seminar website:

http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/cse590f/CurrentQtr/

We will be working out paper selection and specific topics shortly.

For Wednesday,  would like people to read:

The Case for Technology for Developing Regions. Eric Brewer, Michael Demmer, Bowei Du, Kevin Fall, Melissa Ho, Matthew Kam, Sergiu Nedevschi, Joyojeet Pal, Rabin Patra, and Sonesh Surana. IEEE Computer. Volume 38, Number 6, pp. 25-38, June 2005.

Readings will be available on:

http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/cse590f/CurrentQtr/readings.html

The readings are password protected for cse590f students.   To access them,  the user is: cse590f and the password is: student

If you are taking the seminar,  please sign up for the cse590f mailing list.

A note on mailing lists:  the change mailing list,  change@cs.washington.edu should be used for general communication about computing and the developing world.  The cse590f list will be used only for seminar specific information.

- Richard