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Weekly_schedule_2012

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CLICK on the link in the first column (Date) to see further activities and resources for that week's topic.

 

Date
Topic
Learning Objectives
Readings and Resources
Week of Sept. 10
Introduction to the course, format, tools, tutorials, readings, assessments and expectations

Overview of topics covered in the course; what students need to do to succeed in the course; Structure of the course and progression; Setting the context: linking knowledge and development

Poverty, is there an app for that? A blog post by Tate Watkins.

Can technology save the developing world? by Brock Read. Chronicle of Higher Education. July 2006.

Week of Sept. 17
From Industrial to Networked Society

Roots of uneven development; fundamental social and institutional changes from industrial economy to networked economy; implications for development

Castells, M. (2002). The Contours of the Network Society. Foresight , 2 (2), 151-157.

 

Peters, M. (2010). Three Forms of the Knowledge Economy: Learning, Creativity and Openness. British Journal of Educational Studies, 58 (1), 67-88.

 

 


Week of Sept. 24
Discourse on knowledge and ICT for development
Challenging the assumptions of ICT for development; understanding the means and ends of ICT4D; emerging models of technology in development based on the design principles of Web 2.0

Required Readings:

Thompson, M. (2008). ICT and development studies: Towards development 2.0. Journal of International Development, 20(6), 821-835.

 

Zheng, Y. (2009). Different spaces for e-development: What can we learn from the capability approach? Information Technology for Development, 15(2), 66-82.

 

Additional readings:

Stiglitz, J. (1999). Knowledge as a Global Public Good. In I. Kaul, I. Grunberg, & M. A. Stern (Eds.), Global Public Goods: International Cooperation in the 21st Century (pp. 308-325). New York: Oxford University Press.

 

Schech, S. (2002). Wired for change: the links between ICTs and development discourses. Journal of International Development , 13-23.

Week of Oct. 1


Knowledge production and consumption in the digital age
Knowledge representation as system of power; Are Wikipedia and Google distorting human knowledge?

Ford, H. (2011). The Missing Wikipedians. Critical Point of View: A Wikpedia Reader. Geert Lovink and Nathaniel Tkacz (eds), Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2011, p. 258 (page 131 in the PDF)

 

Zuckerman, E. (2005). Meet the Bridgebloggers. Who's speaking and who's listening in the International Blogosphere. Presented at“The Power and Political Science of Blogs” University of Chicago.

 

 

Week of Oct. 8
Peer production and open development
Is the Internet expanding Human freedom through social participation and peer production? What is Openness? Implications for development

Benkler, Y. (2006). Justice and Development. In The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom (pp. 301-328). New Haven: Yale University Press.

 

Kapczynski, A. (2010). Access to Knowledge: A Conceptual Genealogy. In A. Kapczynsk, & G. Krikorian (Eds.), In Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property (pp. 17-56). New York: Zone Books.

 

Week of Oct. 15
Open Education and Development
Extending the notion of Openness to Education; Open Educational Resources; Learning, higher education and infrastructure development

Keats, D. & Schmidt, J. P. (2007). The genesis and emergence of Education 3.0 in higher education and its potential for Africa. First Monday, 12, 3.

 

Dore, R. (1997). The argument of the diploma disease: A summary. Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 4, 1.

 
Week of Oct. 22
Mobile technologies and rural economic development
Potential and realities of mobile technologies in developing countries; Examples of successful cases;

Duncombe, R. (2011). Researching impact of mobile phones for development: concepts, methods and lessons for practice. Information Technology for Development, 1-21.

 

Matthew L, R. Spence, A. T. Rashid (2011). Mobile Phones and Expanding Human Capabilities. Information Technology and International Development, 7(3): 77-88

 

Week of Oct. 29

Intellectual Property Right, Biopiracy and the development agenda


Changing conceptions of ownership and control;  indigenous knowledge and property rights; social justice and development

Ismail, Z., & Fakir, T. (2004). Trademarks or trade barriers?: Indigenous knowledge and the flaws in the global IPR system. International Journal of Social Economics , 31 (1/2), 173-194.

 

debeer, J., & Gupta, V. K. (2009, October 23). Traditional knowledge, instant film, and online borders. CBC Spark. (N. Young, Interviewer) Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. http://www.cbc.ca/spark/2009/10/spark-89-october-25-27-2009/. (Time 0:00-15:00)

 

 

Week of Nov. 5

Copying, piracy and cultural production in the new commons

Piracy as failed business model ;  new forms of licensing and sharing; alternative business models

Rizk, N. (2009). Notes from Egypt's Alternative Music Scene: Business Models, Commons and Copyright. The Journal of World Intellectual Property. 13(3), 474-501.

 

Liang, L. (2005). Copyright, Cultural Production and Open-Content Licensing.  The Indian Journal of Law and Technology. Vol. 1


Week of Nov. 12 OPEN TOPIC   To be determined
Week of Nov. 19 Digital journalism, citizen journalism and changing media landscape From media concentration to participatory media? Transparency and accountability, the case of Wikileaks. Social media and governance, the cases of the Iranian revolution, the Arab spring, and the occupy movements.

Lawrence Lessig (2009) Against Transparency: The perils of openness in government. The New
Republic. Oct. 9 

 

Henry Farrell (George Washington University) September 13, 2011. The Internet’s Consequences for Politics.

 

 

 
Week of Nov. 26 Synthesis and integration of key concepts and debates Mapping and linking key concepts and case studies covered in the course. What have we learned about the subject matters, and also about online learning.
 

 

 

 

 

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