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Learning Objectives |
Readings |
Sept. 3 |
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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. |
Tutorial |
No Tutorial |
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Understanding the Net and the Network Society |
Design principle of the Internet and the WWW and implications for social and political organizations |
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 |
Mechanics, file transfer, domains, pathways, etc. |
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Understanding Wikipedia and its Communities |
What is a Wiki? How is Wikipedia possible? Does it represent the “Sum of all 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) |
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How to edit Wikipedia pages and understand the community structure |
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Discourse on knowledge and ICT for development |
More on web enabled collaboration, peer production, social coordination, crowdsourcing, and what these means for development |
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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Peer production, open access, academic power structure, open development |
Is academic knowledge production a form of peer based production? What is the political economy of academic knowledge production? |
Open Access versus Academic Power |
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Tutorial |
Open data and what you can do? |
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Open education, MOOC, and development |
Extending the notion of openness to education; Open Educational Resources; Learning, higher education and infrastructure development |
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Oct. 15 |
Reading Week |
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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 |
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 |
Creating Creative Commons Licenses |
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Project review and presentations |
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Tutorial
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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? |
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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Social Media, Digital journalism, citizen journalism and changing media landscape |
From media concentration to participatory media?; Transparency and accountability |
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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Social Media and the “Arab Spring”, Case study on Wikipedia |
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 |
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. |