1. Class Website: i190spring2014.sanng.com
i190 Spring 2014: Information and Communications Technology
for Development (ICTD) in Practice
University of California Berkeley, School of Information
LECTURE 4: 3 Feb 2014
Instructor: San Ng (www.sanng.com)

2. Review: Last 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
Theories of Development
Measurement of Development
Does Development work?
Careers in Development
Management
W9: Intro to Project Management
W10: Break
W11: Planning and Assessment
W12: Budgeting, Scheduling,
Fundraising
W13: Implementation
W14: Monitoring and Evaluation/
Next Cycle

3. Theories of International Development
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Liberalism
Critics of Liberalism
Modernization
Dependency
Post-Modernization
Neo-Liberalism
Globalization
Institution
Civil Society Sustainable development
Rights Based Approaches Gender Based
Development as Freedom

4. Theories of International Development
A Very Simple Framework
MARKET
Liberalism
Modernization
Neo-Liberalism
Globalization
Institutions
STATE/
PEOPLE
Post-Modernization
Civil Society
Critics of Liberalism
Sustainable development
Development as Freedom
Rights Based Approaches
Gender Based
Dependency

5. Theories of International Development
You are a top level Fill-in-your-theory-of-belief donor trying
to address Country A’s low skill worker migration issues.
There are no jobs at home- workers migrate and work in
rich countries to send home remittances. Families are
broken up and the trends results in massive social and
economic issues in the country. You have $10M to design
a program that works based on your International
Development belief system. What are the most important
activities of that program, and why?
(15 mins group exercise, then presentation)

6. Theories of International Development

7. Agenda
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
Theories of Development
Measurement of Development
Does Development work?
Careers in Development
Management
W9: Intro to Project Management
W10: Break
W11: Planning and Assessment
W12: Budgeting, Scheduling,
Fundraising
W13: Implementation
W14: Monitoring and Evaluation/
Next Cycle

8. Measurement of International Development
•http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_reveals_
new_insights_on_poverty.html
Mortality vs Population?
•Some typical index/indicators:
•Well Being ? Happiness?
GDP, GINI, Mortality Rate, Population,
Education, Security, etc, etc, etc, etc…

9. Measurement of International Development
In Practice, mainly:
• Human Development Index (HDI)
http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/hdi
• World Bank’s World Development Indicators (WDI)
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/all

10. Measurement of International Development

11. Does International Development Work?

12. Careers in International Development