This document summarizes the key points from the first lecture of an ICTD course at UC Berkeley. It introduces the instructor and discusses the course goals, structure, assignments and values. The class will cover conceptual frameworks around development as well as practical ICT project management skills. It also describes an activity where students positioned statements about development on a "low tech analog spectrogram" to explore opinions. The summary recapped the main topics that will be covered in upcoming classes, including theories of development and measuring impact.

1. i190 Spring 2014: Information and Communications Technology
for Development (ICTD) in Practice
University of California Berkeley, School of Information
LECTURE 2: 26 Jan 2014
Instructor: San Ng (www.sanng.com)

2. Agenda
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Revisit Last Week’s Class/New students
Low Tech Analog Spectrogram
Theories of International Development
(How do you measure Development)
Summary and Next Class

3. Revisiting Last Week’s Class:
Introductions and Your Goals
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Name/Department/Year
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Phd, Graduate, Undergraduate (Senior),
MIMs, Urban Planning, ERG, CS, MDP
Practitioners & students from US, Ethiopia,
India, Rwanda, Zimbabwe…

4. Revisiting Last Week’s Class: Most pressing
things you want to learn
•What projects out there?
•What works, what doesn’t?
•Enough theory but practical tools important
•Dumping of technology to developing
countries
•Who is funding what?
•Urban groups and other target groups
•Job opportunities and career directions in
ICTD
•Intellectual property/legal
•Trends in development
•Mobile development
•Impact sourcing
• Technical aspects of ICTD
•Rural technologies
•Applications in different sectors?
•How to determine needs? And make sure
solutions match?
•How to prevent forever pilot and scale
up? Why do they fail?
•Management of project
•How to start an ICT project
•Planning a project
•Business models
•Fundraising
•Implementation
•Operationalize ICT projects

5. Revisiting Last Week’s Class: 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,
Agriculture,
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

6. Revisiting Last Week’s Class: About our
Class
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Class website
I190spring2014.sanng.c
om
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I190spring2014.sanng.com
Overview
Schedule and Course
Materials
About the Instructor
www.sanng.com
www.sanng.com

7. Revisiting Last Week’s Class: 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

8. Revisiting Last Week’s Class: 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?

9. Revisiting Last Week’s Class: Our Core
Values (from you)
Mindful/zen development ICTD?
 Being Realistic
 Apply theory to practice
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10. Revisiting Last Week’s Class: Logistics
•Class Ecosystem:
Blog
(public: for blog
assignments and
discussions, hope to
migrate to iSchool’s ICTD
Center website)
Class Website
Facebook Closed Group
(public: syllabus, materials)
(private: class discussions/network/meaning of life)
Twitter #
Social Networks (Linkedin, Other FB groups, other ICTD groups, etc)
Email lists
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Videos and class materials
Uganda MUBS (Makerere University Business
School)
ICTD Communities
MDP and others with conflict (Mon/Wed schedules)

11. Your Recommendations
Suggestions to make this one of the best courses you have ever taken? 
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Build an enthusiast and passionate culture in class (including caring for non-native English
speakers)
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Fun- work hard, but have fun!
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Don’t be disconnected from real world: link our studies in class with real word projects and reality
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Job and real life
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Theory –balance,
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Needs assessment/management
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See a project happen, current
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Start a project, moves with class- applies project
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Project design- factors

12. Summary of Lecture 1
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Introductions and Your Goals
About our Class
Our Core Values
Logistics
Your Recommendations for Me

13. What is International Development
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Theories of International Development (Today?)
Measurement of International Development (Wed?)
Does International Development Work? (Wed)
Development Career and Jobs (Wed)

14. What is International Development?
Low Tech Analog Spectrogram
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Every tool in Development deserves an acronym:
The Incredible Low Tech Ultra Rare Analog Spectrum Survey
(TILT UR ASS)
Because sometimes low tech is pretty useful and fun too!
RULES:
 Interpret the statements anyway you want
 There are NO right and wrong answers- only your opinions
 Opinions will be plotted and mapped on the Spectrogram,
and can be changed at anytime by moving up or down (or
by TILTing UR ASS)
 We will respect everyone’s opinion, we WILL critique but
stop at fist fights
Demo

15. Low Tech Analog Spectrogram S1
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International Aid should be stopped and
taxpayers should not waste anymore
money. Large projects or massive grand
strategies often fail to help the
vulnerable; money can often be
embezzled away.

16. Low Tech Analog Spectrogram S2
US is often the largest
donor in dollar terms, but
ranks amongst the lowest in
terms of meeting the stated
0.7% target. The US should
increase its aid.

17. Low Tech Analog Spectrogram S3
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If poor people do not have shelter,
education or health, they do not need
technology.

18. Low Tech Analog Spectrogram S4
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We should start with policy before the
technology. For example, getting people
connected through mobile phones and internet is not
enough. New and ‘shiny’ those tools first require better
policies to provide telecommunications at a faster rate
and lower cost.

19. Low Tech Analog Spectrogram (S5?)
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ICT4D is a powerful solution to poverty: It
is self-evident that social and economic
development can be accelerated and
reinforced by access to information
resources and the ability to better
communicate different kinds of
information.

20. What is International Development
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Theories of International Development (Wed)
Measurement of International Development (Wed)
Does International Development Work? (Wed?)
Development Career and Jobs (Wed?)

21. What Is International Development
•http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you
_ve_ever_seen.html
•http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_reveals_new_insights_on_p
overty.html

22. Next Class
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See class website i190spring2014.sanng.com
Sign up for Facebook closed group
Sign up for blog posts dates, think about projects
Look out for announcements
Read rest of Week 2 readings on International
Development
Help market this course virtually (and at Cal)!