5. ICTD 2012: Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Michael L. Best, Ellen W. Zegura, Jonathan Donner, Beki Grinter, Gary Marsden (Eds.): Fifth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, ICTD '12, Atlanta, GA, USA, March 12-15, 2012. ACM 2012 ISBN 978-1-4503-1045-1
Supporting practice
Richard Anderson, Chad Robertson, Esha Nabi, Urvashi Sahni, Tanuja Setia: Facilitated video instruction in low resource schools. 2-12
Yaw Anokwa, Nyoman Ribeka, Tapan S. Parikh, Gaetano Borriello, Martin C. Were: Design of a phone-based clinical decision support system for resource-limited settings. 13-24
Brian DeRenzi, Benjamin E. Birnbaum, Leah Findlater, Joachim Mangilima, Jonathan Payne, Tapan S. Parikh, Gaetano Borriello, Neal Lesh: Improving community health worker performance through automated SMS. 25-34
Reconsidering stances
Radaphat Chongthammakun, Joyojeet Pal: ICTs and development in the thai bureaucracy: an examination of decentralization and organizational change. 36-45
Andy Dearden: See no evil?: ethics in an interventionist ICTD. 46-55
Leslie L. Dodson, S. Revi Sterling, John K. Bennett: Considering failure: eight years of ITID research. 56-64
Ricardo Gomez, Luis Fernando Baron-Porras, Brittany Fiore-Silfvast: The changing field of ICTD: content analysis of research published in selected journals and conferences, 2000-2010. 65-74
Understanding behaviors
Vanessa Frías-Martínez, Jesus Virseda: On the relationship between socio-economic factors and cell phone usage. 76-84
Nimmi Rangaswamy, Edward Cutrell: Anthropology, development and ICTs: slums, youth and the mobile internet in urban India. 85-93
Azarias Reda, Sam Shah, Mitul Tiwari, Anita Lillie, Brian Noble: Social networking in developing regions. 94-103
Utilizing elements
Michael Champanis, Ulrike Rivett: Reporting water quality: a case study of a mobile phone application for collecting data in developing countries. 105-113
James Davis, Ben Crow, Julio Miles: Measuring water collection times in Kenyan informal settlements. 114-121
Muthoni Masinde, Antoine B. Bagula, Nzioka J. Muthama: The role of ICTs in downscaling and up-scaling integrated weather forecasts for farmers in sub-Saharan Africa. 122-129
Daniel Soto, Edwin Adkins, Matt Basinger, Rajesh Menon, Sebastian Rodriguez-Sanchez, Natasha Owczarek, Ivan Willig, Vijay Modi: A prepaid architecture for solar electricity delivery in rural areas. 130-138
Expanding participation
Ishita Ghosh: The mobile phone as a link to formal financial services: findings from Uganda. 140-148
Ted McCarthy, Joyojeet Pal, Tanvi Marballi, Edward Cutrell: An analysis of screen reader use in India. 149-158
Preeti Mudliar, Jonathan Donner, William Thies: Emergent practices around CGNet Swara, voice forum for citizen journalism in rural India. 159-168
Neil Patel, Kapil Shah, Krishna Savani, Scott R. Klemmer, Paresh Dave, Tapan S. Parikh: Power to the peers: authority of source effects for a voice-based agricultural information service in rural India. 169-178
Poster presentations
Abhinav Anand, Veljko Pejovic, Elizabeth M. Belding, David L. Johnson: VillageCell: cost effective cellular connectivity in rural areas. 180-189
Richard Anderson, John Lloyd, Sophie Newland: Software for national level vaccine cold chain management. 190-199
Ruth E. Anderson, Beth E. Kolko, Laura Schlenke, Waylon Brunette, Alexis Hope, Robert Nathan, Wayne Gerard, Jacqueline Keh, Michael Kawooya: The midwife's assistant: designing integrated learning tools to scaffold ultrasound practice. 200-210
Michael L. Best, Bence Kollanyi, Sunil Garg: Sharing in public: working with others in Ghanaian cybercafés. 211-220
Deana S. Brown, Gary Marsden, Ulrike Rivett: WATER alert!: using mobile phones to improve community perspective on drinking water quality in South Africa. 230-240
Christopher K. Chepken, Raymond Mugwanya, Edwin H. Blake, Gary Marsden: ICTD interventions: trends over the last decade. 241-248
Johan Hellström, Anna Karefelt: Participation through mobile phones: a study of SMS use during the Ugandan general elections 2011. 249-258
P. Vigneswara Ilavarasan, Mark R. Levy: ICT access and use by microentrepreneurs in Mumbai, India: a value chain model analysis. 259-267
David L. Johnson, Elizabeth M. Belding, Gertjan van Stam: Network traffic locality in a rural African village. 268-277
Zahir Koradia, Aaditeshwar Seth: PhonePeti: exploring the role of an answering machine system in a community radio station in India. 278-288
Tian Luo: Grassroots mobilization of internet NGOs in China: the cases of www.1kg.org and www.geshanghua.org. 289-296
Anita Mehrotra, Ashley Nguyen, Joshua Evan Blumenstock, Viraj Mohan: Differences in phone use between men and women: quantitative evidence from Rwanda. 297-306
Joyojeet Pal, Meera Lakshmanan: Assistive technology and the employment of people with vision impairments in India. 307-317
Joyojeet Pal, Yeswanth Gogineni, Kunjan Sanghavi, Vrutti Vyas, Kiran Bartakke, Ted McCarthy, Anjali Vartak, Avinash Vutukuri, Vivek Veeraiah: Local-language digital information in India: challenges and opportunities for screen readers. 318-325
Katy E. Pearce: ICT diffusion in the Republic of Armenia. 326-337
Cynthia Putnam, Beth E. Kolko, Siri Wood: Communicating about users in ICTD: leveraging HCI personas. 338-349
Agha Ali Raza, Mansoor Pervaiz, Christina Milo, Samia Razaq, Guy Alster, Jahanzeb Sherwani, Umar Saif, Roni Rosenfeld: Viral entertainment as a vehicle for disseminating speech-based services to low-literate users. 350-359
Pushpendra Singh, Amarjeet Singh, Vinayak S. Naik, Sangeeta Lal: CVDMagic: a mobile based study for CVD risk detection in rural India. 359-366
Jerome White, Mayuri Duggirala, Krishna Kummamuru, Saurabh Srivastava: Designing a voice-based employment exchange for rural India. 367-373



