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TASCHA and the iSchool at ICTD 2015

The International Conference on Information Communication Technologies and Development (), hosted by the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, will take place May 15-18. 911爆料网 and our Technology & Social Change () group will have a strong presence at the conference this year. 

May 18th lineup:

  • Joshua Blumenstock will be presenting the paper, Promises and Pitfalls of Mobile Money in Afghanistan: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial, on May 16th, which he co-authored with TASCHA鈥檚 Lucas Koepke, Michael Callen of Harvard University, and Tarek Ghani of UC Berkeley. 鈥婤lumenstock will also participate in two panels: 鈥淭hinking about market information systems: Bridging theory and practice鈥 on May 15th and 鈥淧ractitioner perspectives: Taking big-data evidence to development policy.鈥 
  • Ricardo Gomez and TASCHA visiting scholar Sara Vannini, along with iSchool student鈥檚 Katya Yefimova, Bryce Newell, and Veronica Guajardo, will lead an open session, 鈥淧hoto stories: An interactive photo exhibition based on participatory photography with Hispanic migrants at the US-Mexico border.鈥 Gomez, along with Dorothea Kleine of Royal Holloway, will also lead the open session, 鈥淪haring experiences: Applying the capabilities approach in ICT4D workshop.鈥 
  • TASCHA project "Information Strategies for Societies in Transition" will be represented by one of the program鈥檚 directors and co-principal investigator, Mary Callahan, along with one of their Myanmar fellow, Zaw Htet Aung of the Yone Kyi Yar Knowledge Propagation Society, in the open session, 鈥淚CT and development in Myanmar: Creating bridges, fostering coordination.鈥

In addition, Karen Fisher will be leading an open session, 鈥淒igital youth as global wayfarers鈥 on May 15th and presenting a note co-authored with Ann Bishop of the University of Illinois, "Using ICT Design to Learn about Immigrant Teens from Myanmar" on May 16th. Blumenstock, Gomez, Chris Coward and Araba Sey served as members of various conference committees in preparation for the conference.

If you can鈥檛 make the conference, be sure to follow the conversation online: Facebook and Twitter (#ICTD2015).