3. ICTD 2009: Doha, Qatar
M. Bernardine Dias, Richard Heeks, Rahul Tongia (Eds.): 2009 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, ICTD 2009, Education City, Doha, Qatar, April 17-19, 2009. IEEE 2009 ISBN 978-1-4244-4662-9
Introduction
Victoria Stodden, Patrick Meier: A global empirical evaluation of new communication technology use and democratic tendency. 3-16
Jonathan Donner, Marcela Escobari: A review of the research on mobile use by micro and small enterprises (MSEs). 17-26
David Hollow, Paola Masperi: An evaluation of the use of ICT within primary education in Malawi. 27-34
Melissa Ho, Emmanuel K. Owusu, Paul M. Aoki: Claim Mobile: Engaging conflicting stakeholder requirements in healthcare in Uganda. 35-45
Beth E. Kolko, Cynthia Putnam: Computer games in the developing world: The value of non-instrumental engagement with ICTs, or taking play seriously. 46-55
Sheetal K. Agarwal, Arun Kumar, Amit Anil Nanavati, Nitendra Rajput: Content creation and dissemination by-and-for users in rural areas. 56-65
Somani Patnaik, Emma Brunskill, William Thies: Evaluating the accuracy of data collection on mobile phones: A study of forms, SMS, and voice. 74-84
Arun Kumar, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Himanshu Chauhan, Sheetal K. Agarwal, Nitendra Rajput: FOLKSOMAPS - towards community driven intelligent maps for developing regions. 85-94
Aditi Sharma Grover, Madelaine Plauché, Etienne Barnard, Christiaan Kuun: HIV health information access using spoken dialogue systems: Touchtone vs. speech. 95-107
Dorothea Kleine: ICT4What? - using the Choice Framework to operationalise the capability approach to development. 108-117
Rowena Luk, Matei Zaharia, Melissa Ho, Brian Levine, Paul M. Aoki: ICTD for healthcare in Ghana: Two parallel case studies. 118-128
G. Ayorkor Mills-Tettey, Jack Mostow, M. Bernardine Dias, Tracy Morrison Sweet, Sarah Belousov, M. Frederick Dias, Haijun Gong: Improving child literacy in Africa: Experiments with an automated reading tutor. 129-138
Matthew Kam, Anuj Kumar, Shirley Jain, Akhil Mathur, John Canny: Improving literacy in rural India: cellphone games in an after-school program. 139-149
Aishwarya Lakshmi Ratan, Sambit Satpathy, Lilian Zia, Kentaro Toyama, Sean Olin Blagsvedt, Udai Singh Pawar, Thanuja Subramaniam: Kelsa+: Digital literacy for low-income office workers. 150-162
Kelly Hutchinson, Alemayehu Molla: Mapping the dynamics of social enterprises and ICTD in Cambodia. 163-172
Jennifer Bussell: Political incentives and policy outcomes: Who benefits from technology-enabled service centers? 173-182
Subhash C. Bhatnagar, Nupur Singh: Results from a study of impact of e-government projects in India. 183-191
Michael L. Best, Dhanaraj Thakur, Beth E. Kolko: The contribution of user-based subsidies to the impact and sustainability of telecenters - the eCenter project in Kyrgyzstan. 192-200
Poster papers
Tirthankar Dasgupta, Anuparn Basu: A speech enabled Indian language text to Braille transliteration system. 201-211
Prabath Gunawardane, Erin Middleton, Suresh Lodha, Ben Crow, James Davis: Analyzing statistical relationships between global indicators through visualization. 212-221
Michael Paik, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian: ATMosphere: A system for ATM microdeposit services in rural contexts. 222-232
Ruth E. Anderson, Anthony Poon, Caitlin Lustig, Waylon Brunette, Gaetano Borriello, Beth E. Kolko: Building a transportation information system using only GPS and basic SMS infrastructure. 233-242
Edwin Nyella: Challenges in health information systems integration: Zanzibar experience. 243-251
Faheem Hussain, Rahul Tongia: Cross technology comparison for information services in rural Bangladesh. 252-266
Björn-Sören Gigler: Decentralization, clientelism and Popular Participation - Is there a role for ICTs to improve local governance? 267-279
Stephen Thomas, Adebola Osuntogun, John Pitman, Bright Mulenga, Santosh Vempala: Design and deployment of a blood safety monitoring tool. 280-287
Sherif M. Aziz: Dimensions of IT literacy in an Arab region: A study in Barkha (Oman). 288-299
Farida Khan, Rehana Ghadially: Empowering Muslim youth through computer education, access, use: A gender analysis. 310-319
Mamello Thinyane, Alfredo Terzoli, Peter Clayton: eServices provisioning in a community development context through a JADE MAS platform. 320-327
Arul Chib, A. L. E. Komathi: Extending the Technology-Community-Management model to disaster recovery: Assessing vulnerability in rural Asia. 328-336
Gerry Chu, Sambit Satpathy, Kentaro Toyama, Rikin Gandhi, Ravin Balakrishnan, S. Raghu Menon: Featherweight multimedia for information dissemination. 337-347
Sofiane Sahraoui: ICT governance in higher education: Case study of the rise and fall of open source in a Gulf university. 348-356
Rabin K. Patra, Joyojeet Pal, Sergiu Nedevschi: ICTD state of the union: Where have we reached and where are we headed. 357-366
Uduak A. Okon: Information communication technology and sustainable communities in Africa: The case of the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. (Feb. 2009). 367-378
J. Saeb, Edem Kwame Kossi, Romain Tohouri Golly-Kobrissa, Ola Hodne Titlestad, Jørn Braa, Johan Sæbø: Integrating health information systems in Sierra Leone. 379-391
Augustin Chabossou, Christoph Stork, Matthias Stork, Pam Zahonogo: Mobile telephony access and usage in Africa. 392-405
Gursharan Singh, Leah Findlater, Kentaro Toyama, Scott Helmer, Rikin Gandhi, Ravin Balakrishnan: Numeric paper forms for NGOs. 406-416
Joyojeet Pal: Rajnikant's laptop: Computers and development in popular Indian cinema. 417-426
Annemijn van Gorp, Carleen F. Maitland: Regulatory independence and wireless market development: A comparative analysis of two African nations. 427-436
Paul Javid, Kentaro Toyama, Manna Biswas: Social Enterprises: A vocational entrepreneurship framework for street youth. 437-446
Jahanzeb Sherwani, Sooraj Palijo, Sarwat Mirza, Tanveer Ahmed, Nosheen Ali, Roni Rosenfeld: Speech vs. touch-tone: Telephony interfaces for information access by low literate users. 447-457
Michael Paik, Ashlesh Sharma, Arthur Meacham, Giulio Quarta, Philip Smith, John Trahanas, Brian Levine, Mary Ann Hopkins, Barbara Rapchak, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian: The case for SmartTrack. 458-467
Michael L. Best, Edem Wornyo, Thomas N. Smyth, John Etherton: Uses of mobile phones in post-conflict Liberia. 468-477
Demos
M. Bemardine Dias, M. Freddie Dias, Sarah Belousov, Mohammed Kaleemur Rahman, Saurabh Sanghvi, Imran Fanaswala, Wael Ghazzawi, Ameer Abdulsalam, Noura El-Moughny, S. Raghu Menon: An automated braille writing tutor with multilingual exercises and educational games. 478
Saskia Harmsen: Boosting European market access to Malian Mango growers. 479
Yibo Lin, Claire Heffernan: Creating a mobile-phone based geographic surveillance system for avian influenza. 480
Adebola Osuntogun, Stephen Thomas, John Pitman, Sridhar Basavaraju, Bright Mulenga, Santosh Vempala: Design of a blood flow system. 481
Mohit Jain, Aakar Gupta, Navkar Samdaria, Praveen Shekhar, Joyojeet Pal: DISHA: Disease and health awareness for children on multiple input devices. 482

Annie Bertrand: Global Youth Connectivity (GYC) - using ICT for peaceful recovery and long-term change. 485
Kuang Chen, Harr Chen, Neil Conway, Heather Dolan, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Tapan S. Parikh: Improving data quality with dynamic forms. 487
Jun Yu, Claire Heffernan: Livestock, learning and diagnostics: New directions in veterinary tele-medicine. 489
Kurtis Heimerl, Divya Ramachandran, Joyojeet Pal, Eric A. Brewer, Tapan S. Parikh: Metamouse: Multiple mice for legacy applications. 490
Amber Houssian, Mohammad Kilany, Jacob Korenblum: Mobile phone job services: Linking developing-country youth with employers, via SMS. 491
Sunil Garg, Charlotte Robinson, Clint Tseng, Heather Underwood, Richard J. Anderson, Joyojeet Pal: MultiMath: Numeric keypads for math learning on shared personal computers. 492
Yaw Anokwa, Carl Hartung, Adam Lerer, Brian DeRenzi, Gaetano Borriello: A new generation of open source data collection tools. 493
Sai Gopal Thota, Rabin K. Patra, Murali Medisetty, Sivananda Reddy, Vivek Mungala, Joyojeet Pal: Ruralscope: An information system for tracking rural disbursements. 494
Artur Dubrawski, Maheshkumar Sabhnani, Michael Knight, Michael Baysek, Daniel B. Neill, Saswati Ray, Anna Michalska, Nuwan Waidyanatha: T-Cube Web Interface in support of real-time bio-surveillance program. 495



