Information and Communications Technologies for Development (ICT4 Development)
Research and Projects
We are broadly interested in information and communication technologies — in particular the internet — in low-income countries especially in Africa and South Asia. We are always on the look-out for new and exciting research prospects!
Research Topic Areas
- Last Mile Initiatives
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We are exploring, with support from USAID, new technologies, business models, and public policies for provisioning of the internet in rural, low-income, and under-resourced areas.
Please view our book: Last Mile Initiative Innovations: Research Findings from the Georgia Institute of Technology
- Peace, Post-conflict, and Reconciliation
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With support from the MacArthur Foundation, we are researching the role of ICT's in post-conflict reconciliation and reconstruction. We are currently exploring activities in Rwanda and may expand to places such as Mozambique, Liberia, and Afghanistan.
- SARI
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The Sustainable Access in Rural India project is a multi-year effort designed to understand financial self-sustainability of rural internet kiosks in India. Recently, we have been exploring the social and political sustainability of these rural internet facilities.
- Liberia
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A new project, with support from the Open Society Institute, studies the information and communication landscape within post-conflict Liberia. We are also analyzing the process towards developing a national ICT policy for Liberia.
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Material from 13 Sep 2006 visit of President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf » - HCI/ICT4D
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Research within human-computer interactions has rarely touched on the topic of information and communication technologies for development. In other words, the HCI community rarely asks how digital artifacts should be designed for low-income countries.
- Democracy
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Studies the way that information and communication technologies relate to democratization and civil and political liberties.
- Wireless
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New terrestrial wireless technologies are revolutionizing the costs and capabilities of broadband networks in low-income, low-infrastructure settings.
- Memetics
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We are studying evolutionary theoretic models of information transmission between humans.
- Threads in Context
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We propose to examine how the Threads approach to computing education, pioneered at Georgia Tech, might be adapted to the African context. We will begin our study by examining university training in computing broadly across Sub-Saharan Africa. We will then propose specific interventions at one university.