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 6: 10 Feb 2014
Instructor: San Ng (www.sanng.com)

2. Agenda
Conceptual
Week1: Introduction to Course
W2: What is Development?
•Guest Lecturer (Ishita)
W3: What is ICTD
•Theories of ICTD
•Origins, History & Future
•Does ICTD work?
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

3. Theories of ICT4D
(Some Distinctions First: Technology vs ICT)
Good Ol’ Development Theory from Development Studies,
including new concepts such as Globalization & Knowledge Societies?
(Unwin)

4. Theories of ICT4D
State of ICT4D Theories (Articles: Heeks? Unwin? Raita?
Wikipedia?)
•From what disciplines?
•Development Studies? Governance? Knowledge
Societies?
•Criticisms of current state of literature
•Relevance to us?

5. Theories of ICT4D
•From what disciplines?

6. History and Future ICT4D
-Origins?
-ICT4D 0.0-1.0-2.0
-ICT4D 2.0
- Priorities?
-Innovation Models?
-Implementation Changes?
-Theories/Worldviews?
-What would YOU recommend?

7. History and Future ICT4D

8. History and Future ICT4D- Teaching ICTD
From Heeks, 2009
From i190, 2014
Conceptual
Week1: Introduction to
Course
W2: What is Development?
W3: What is ICTD
W4: Who Does What in
Practice?
Mapping the ICTD
Landscape
Technical (Applications)
W5: Overarching Issues of
Technical Applications
W6: Infrastructure,
Telecenters, Agriculture,
W7: Health, Education,
Microfinance
W8: Governance and Law
ICTD in
Practice:
Core
Skills
Management
W9: Intro to Project
Management
W10: Break
W11: Planning and
Assessment
W12: Budgeting, Scheduling,
Fundraising
W13: Implementation
W14: Monitoring and
Evaluation/
Next Cycle

9. Does ICT4D Work?
Courtesy of Inveneo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/inveneo/6252235953/in/photostream
/
Heeks, 2002 (http://ictlogy.net/bibliography/reports/projects.php?idp=199)

10. Does ICT4D Work?
http://failfaire.org

11. Agenda
Conceptual
Week1: Introduction to Course
W2: What is Development?
•Guest Lecturer (Ishita)
W3: What is ICTD
•Theories of ICTD
•History & Future of ICTD
•Does ICTD work?
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