Design for UNICEF Fall '09 with Clay Shirky

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Class Title Design for UNICEF
Taught By Clay Shirky
Homepage Location
Semester offered Fall
Course ID H79.2758
call number 76837
Year Offered 2009
Area of Focus Applications
Is in classroom 447
start time 09:30am
on day of week Thursday
Additional Keywords Democratizing Media, Teamwork


Presentation Slides

Week Two: Presentation slides from the the first assignment. The homework was to come up with three ideas for projects which focused on either education, safety or health. The constraints were that the end user would only have FM Radio or mobile phone to access or interact with the design are available here.

Week Three: Presentation slides are available here.


Resources:

Clay sent the class these links about IDP camps: 

 * A brief but illuminating article: KENYA: IDP children falling through protection cracks
 * Guides to IDP practicalities: UNICEF's guidelines
 * Brookings Institute proposals for improving IDP Camps
 * Practical Protection
 * The data source for these articles is Internal Displacement

Other links & resources:

  • RapidSMS - UNICEF's SMS framework used in projects like PlumpyNut, etc
  • Maker Faire Africa
  • Afrigadget - a good survey of technology made for and by Africans
  • Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group - a group working on related issues in Guatemala & Haiti
  • Grameen Foundation's AppLab - their tagline is "Transforming Lives through Innovation in Information Access"
  • FrontlineSMS - another SMS framework, similar to RapidSMS
  • KickStart - from their website: "a non-profit organization that develops and markets new technologies in Africa. These low-cost technologies are bought by local entrepreneurs and used to establish highly profitable new small businesses."
  • Innovations for Poverty Action - "a nonprofit organization that creates and evaluates approaches to solving development problems, and disseminates information about what works and what does not to policymakers, practitioners, investors and donors around the world."
  • Straight Talk Foundation - content provider for Google SMS & Grameen Foundation's AppLab service in Uganda
  • Marie Stopes Foundation - content provider for Google SMS & Grameen Foundation's AppLab service in Uganda
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