Drew Cogbill | Thesis Blog

Articles

• Banks, Ken. “Anthropology’s Technology-driven Renaissance.” PC World, 17 July 2008, http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/148564/anthropologys_technologydriven_ renaissance.html.
• Bloch, Matthew, Shan Carter, and Robert Gebeloff. “Immigration and Jobs: Where U.S. Workers Come From.” The New York Times, 7 April 2009. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/04/07/us/20090407-immigration-occupation.html#view=all.
• Brown, Charlie. “Open Sourcing Social Solutions.” innovations (summer 2007): 125-136.
• Buley, Taylor. “Facing Up To Facebook’s Value.” Forbes.com, 07 April 2009. http://www.forbes.com/2009/04/06/facebook-advertising-rates-technology-internet-facebook.html.
• Cohen, Noam. “The Freedoms that Technologies Help Bring.” The New York Times, December 7, 2008. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/08/technology/personaltech/08link.html.
• Colvin, Jill. “You’ve Got Voice Mail, but Do You Care?” The New York Times, 1 April 2009. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/02/fashion/02voicemail.html?_r=4.
• Eagle, Nathan. “Behavioral Inference Across Cultures: Using Telephones as a Cultural Lens.” IEEE Intelligent Systems 23, no. 4: (2008): 62-64.
• Galperin, Hernán and Judith Mariscal. “Poverty and Mobile Telephony in Latin America and the Caribbean.” PDF, DIRSI, November 2007, http://www.dirsi.net/files/regional/REGIONAL_FINAL_english.pdf.
• Hay, Timothy. “VoIP Start-Ups Scramble To Find Niche.” The Wall Street Journal, 4 March 2009. http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2009/03/04/voip-start-ups-scramble-to-find-niche/.
• Hoefer, Micheal, Nancy Rytina, and Bryan C. Baker. “Estimates of the Unauthorized Immigrant Population Residing in the United States: Januaray 2008. Department of Homeland Security Department of Immigration Statistics, February 2009. http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/statistics/publications/ois_ill_pe_2008.pdf.
• Honicky, R.J, Omar Bakr, Micheal Demmer, and Eric Brewer. “A message oriented phone system for low  cost connectivity.” Working paper, CS Berkeley / Intel Research. http://reality.media.mit.edu/pdfs/Honicky.pdf.
• Jordans, Frank. “World’s Poor Drive Growth in Global Cell Phone Use.” Wireless Week, 02 March 2009. http://www.wirelessweek.com/article.aspx?id=166612.
• Kim, Ryan. “Cell phone firms’ dream demographic: Latinos.” SFGate, 4 May 2008. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/03/BULL10CIL1.DTL.
  
• Manjoo, Farhad. “Do You Think Bandwidth Grows on Trees?” Slate, 14 April 2009. http://slate.com/id/2216162.
• Mallalieu, Kim. “Pro Poor Mobile Capabilities: Service Offering in Latin America and the Caribbean.” PDF, DIRSI, http://www.dirsi.net/files/finals/070216–mallalieu.pdf.
• “The Meek Shall Inherit the Web.” The Economist, 4 September 2008, print edition, http://www.economist.com/science/tq/displayStory.cfm?source=hptextfeature&story_id=11999307.
• Peña-López, Ismael. “Mobile Communication and Society: Interview with Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol, coauthor.” ICTlogy, Issue #38, November 2006. http://ictlogy.net/review/20061128-mobile-communication-and-society-interview-with-mireia-fernandez-ardevol-coauthor/.
• Perry, Alex. “10 Ideas Changing the World Right Now: Africa, Business Destination.” Time.com.  http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1884779_1884782_1884769,00.html.
• “Recent immigrants driving advanced mobile phone use, both in Europe and in the US.”  putting people first, 4 May 2008, http://www.experientia.com/blog/recent-immigrants-driving-advanced-mobile-phone-use-both-in-europe-and-in-the-us/.
• Rubin, Andy. “The Future of Mobile.” The Official Google Blog. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/future-of-mobile.html.
• Rytina, Nancy. “Estimates of the Legal Permanent Resident Population in 2007.” Department of Homeland Security Department of Immigration Statistics, Feburary 2009. http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/statistics/publications/lpr_pe_2007.pdf.
• Stone, Brad and Miguel Helft. “In Developing Countries, Web Grows Without Profit.” New York Times, 26 April 2009. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/technology/start-ups/27global.html?_r=2.
  
• Timmer, John. “Google puts wallet behind African wireless broadband effort.” ars technical, 10 September 2008, http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080910-google-puts-wallet-behind-african-wireless-broadband-effort.html.
• Timmons, Heather. “Third World Telecom Moves to the Front.” New York Times, 27 May 2008. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/business/worldbusiness/27telecom.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1219519550-iIwBf0eKWR3DTMT8EiZuxg.
• Unwin, Tim. “Shaping effective higher education ICT4D partnerships: challenges and opportunities.”  Paper presented at UK UNESCO Chairs Colloquium on Higher Education and International Development, Nottingham, 17-18 January 2008.
• Verclas, Katrin. “ITU Predicts 4 Billion Mobile Subscriptions at the End of 2008.” MobileActive.org, 26 September 2008.
• “VNL Launches Solar-Powered GSM System for Remote / Rural Areas.” TMCnet.com, 24 July 2008, http://hdvoice.tmcnet.com/news/2008/07/24/3566547.htm.
• Walji, Aleem. “Information Poverty.” The Official Google Blog. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/information-poverty.html.
• — — —. “Why Local Content Matters.” Google Africa Blog. http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2008/11/why-local-content-matters.html.
• Waters, Darren. “Social networks ‘are new e-mail’.” BBC News, 15 March 2009. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7942304.stm.
• Watkins, Kevin. “Human Development Report 2007/2008.” United Nations Development Program, 2007. http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDR_20072008_EN_Complete.pdf.
• Zachary, G. Pascal. “Inside Nairobi, the Next Palo Alto?” New York Times, 20 July 2008. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/20/business/worldbusiness/20ping.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin.

Books

• Katz, James, ed. Handbook of Mobile Communication. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008.
• Manuel Castells. Mobile Communication and Society. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006.
• Unwin, Tim, ed. ICT4D: Information and Communication Technology for Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

PhD Dissertation

• Burd, Leo. “Technological Initiatives for Social Empowerment: Design Experiments in Technology-Supported Youth Participation and Local Civic Engagement.” PhD. diss., MIT, 2007.

Videos and Presentations

• Brewer, Eric. “Technology For Developing Nations.” Guest lecture at Stanford University’s Human-Computer Interaction Seminar.  Video podcast on iTunesU. http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/itunes.stanford.edu.1357580459?i=1884055081.
• Chipchase, Jan. “Our Cell Phones, Ourselves.” TED lecture. MP4. http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/190.
• Friedman, Thomas. “The World Is Flat 3.0.” Guest lecture, MIT Open Courseware. Video podcast on ITunesU. http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/mit.edu.1472692963?i=1575640770.
• Hersman, Erik.  Mobile Phones in Africa. Presentation. http://whiteafrican.com/2008/09/26/if-it-works-in-africa-it-will-work-anywhere/.
• Jenson, Scott. “Why Phones Aren’t Computers.” Guest lecture at Stanford University’s Human-Computer Interaction Seminar (CS 547). Video podcast on iTunesU. http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/itunes.stanford.edu.1357108180.01432528356.1430871610?i=1397060561.
• Roettgering, Mark. “The Economics of Mobility.” Emerging Communications Conference, March 2009. http://ecommmedia.com/blog/2009/04/video-economics-of-mobility.html.
• Shirky, Clay. Presentation at Web4Dev, 12 Feb 2009.
• Veeraraghavan, Rajesh. Warana Unwired. Presentation slides. http://research.microsoft.com/~rajeshv/Warana Unwired/Warana Unwired.pdf.
• Zuckerman, Ethan. Skype Presentation at Mobile Tech 4 Social Change New York, 21 Feb 2009.

Websites

• Asterisk. http://www.asterisk.org/.
• AT&T. “GoPhone Pay As You Go.” http://www.wireless.att.com/cell-phone-service/cell-phone-plans/pyg-cell-phone-plans.jsp?wtSlotClick=1-0016EU-0-1&WT.svl=calltoaction&_requestid=357847.
• B Corporation. http://www.bcorporation.net/.
• Chipchase, Jan. The Future Perfect. http://www.janchipchase.com/.
• Dial2Do. http://www.dial2do.com/.
• Digital Study Hall, The. http://dsh.cs.washington.edu/.
• Eagle, Nathan.  txteagle. http://txteagle.com/index.html.
• Google Voice. http://www.google.com/voice.
• IDEO. “Human-Centered Design Toolkit.” http://www.ideo.com/work/item/human-centered-design-toolkit/.
• International Telecommunication Union. “ICT Eye.” ICT Statistics broken down by country. http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ICTEYE/Default.aspx.
• Jott. http://www.jott.com/.
• Jyngle. http://www.jyngle.com/.
• Kiva. http://www.kiva.org/.
• Ledlie, Jonathan. “Mosoko.” http://wiki.nrcc.noklab.com/Mosoko.
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “EPROM - Entrepreneurial Programming and Research on Mobiles.” http://eprom.mit.edu/index.html.
• MobileActive.org. “Mobile Data.” ICT Statistics broken down by country. http://www.mobileactive.org/countries/.
• Open Mind. “The Question Box.” http://www.questionbox.org/.
• Phonevite. http://www.phonevite.com/.
• RadioActive. http://smg.media.mit.edu/projects/Radioactive/.
• Rebtel. http://www.rebtel.com.
• Reliance Global Call. http://www.relianceindiacall.com/web/globalhome.aspx.
• Tatango. http://www.tatango.com/.
• Telemegaphone. http://www.unsworn.org/telemegaphone/index.php.
• Telephone Trottorie. http://mediashed.org/?q=trottarticle.
• Telephone Trottorie. http://mediashed.org/trottoire.
• TextMarks. http://www.textmarks.com/.
• Twitter. http://www.twitter.com/.
• Utterli. http://www.uterli.com/.
• Voxeo. “VoiceXML and CCXML Developer Site.” http://evolution.voxeo.com/.

cogbill_21_sept_brief

cogbill_14_sept_brief.pdf

My summer paper argues why I belive investigating how innovative commuication technology can improve the lives of people living in poverty will create a worthwhile thesis for me this year by summarizing and analyzing the prototypes and other research found on this blog: summer thesis research paper (and presentation as an interactive mov).