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Topics
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Learning Objectives
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Sept. 3
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Introduction to the course, format, tools, tutorials, readings, assessments and expectations
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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
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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.
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Tutorial
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No Tutorial
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Sept. 10
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Understanding the Net and the Network Society
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Design principle of the Internet and the WWW and implications for social and political organizations
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ICT Policy Handbook, pg. 19-50
Castells, M. (2002). The Contours of the Network Society. Foresight , 2 (2), 151-157.
How the Internet Works. EDRI Papers.
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Tutorial
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Mechanics, file transfer, domains, pathways, etc.
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Sept. 17
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Collaborative space on Google Doc
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Understanding Wikipedia and its Communities
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What is a Wiki? How is Wikipedia possible? Does it represent the “Sum of all human knowledge”?
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Wikipedia FAQ
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)
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Tutorial
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How to edit Wikipedia pages and understand the community structure
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Sept. 24
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Google doc for this week
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Discourse on knowledge and ICT for development
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More on web enabled collaboration, peer production, social coordination, crowdsourcing, and what these means for development
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Thompson, M. (2008). ICT and development studies: Towards development 2.0. Journal of International Development, 20(6), 821-835.
Submit Wikipedia news in different languages
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Tutorial
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Web 2.0, read-write web, kinds of publications, quality assessment
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Oct. 1
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Peer production, open access, academic power structure, open development
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Is academic knowledge production a form of peer based production? What is the political economy of academic knowledge production?
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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.
Open Access versus Academic Power
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Tutorial
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Open data and what you can do?
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Oct. 8
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Google Doc
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Open education, MOOC, and development
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Extending the notion of openness to education; Open Educational Resources; Learning, higher education and infrastructure development
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Tutorial
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Oct. 15
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Reading Week
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Oct. 22
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Understanding intellectual property, copyright, licensing, their linkage to development
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Changing conceptions of ownership and control; indigenous knowledge and property rights; social justice and development
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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)
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Tutorial
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Creating Creative Commons Licenses
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Oct. 29
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Project review and presentations
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Tutorial
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Nov. 5
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Google Doc
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Mobile technologies and rural development
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Mobile access to the Internet, Wikipedia, and other resources. Educational and economic implications?
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Pádraig Carmody (2012). The Informationalization of Poverty in Africa? Mobile Phones and Economic Structure.
Information Technology and International Development. Volume 8, Number 3, Fall 2012, 1–17
http://itidjournal.org/index.php/itid/article/view/911/382
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Tutorial
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Cell phone designs for various access models
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Nov. 12
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Google Doc for today
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Social Media, Digital journalism, citizen journalism and changing media landscape
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From media concentration to participatory media?; Transparency and accountability
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The Political Power of Social Media : Technology, the Public Sphere, and Political Change, by Clay Shirky
Foreign Policy, Jan/Feb. 2011
Henry Farrell (2012), “The Consequences of the Internet for Politics,” Annual Review of Political Science 15:35-52. (We will be discussing this article in further detail next week as well)
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Tutorial
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Peer review of concept notes
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Nov. 19
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Social Media and the “Arab Spring”, Case study on Wikipedia
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Is social media making governance more transparent? What roles did social media play in the change of regimes in the Middle East and North Africa in the Spring of 2011?
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Tutorial
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Nov. 26
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Synthesis and integration of key concepts and debates
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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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