Technical Program
| Sunday, October 11 | |
| 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM | Breakfast |
| 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM | Session 1: Keynote & Introduction |
| 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Break |
| 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM | Session 2: Money and Power |
| 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Lunch |
| 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | Session 3: Eyes and Ears (and Mouth and Nose) |
| 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Break |
| 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Session 4: Plowing the Road Ahead |
| Presentation length: | 20 minutes each. 15 minutes for the presentation and 5 minutes for questions. |
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Download papers: | You can download all papers (as a tarball of PDF files) here. |
Session 1: Keynote & Introduction
| Keynote: Reflections on Educational Technology for Low Resource Environments |
| Richard Anderson (Univ. of Washington) |
Session 2: Money and Power
| Signet: Low-cost Auditable Transactions Using SIMs and Mobile Phones |
| Michael Paik (NYU) and Lakshmi Subramanian (NYU) |
| The C-LINK System for Collaborative Web Usage: A Real-World Deployment in Rural Nicaragua |
| Sibren Isaacman (Princeton) and Margaret Martonosi (Princeton) |
| An Energy-Flow Model for Self-Powered Routers and its Application for Energy-Aware Routing |
| Veljko Pejovic (UCSB), Elizabeth Belding (UCSB), and Mahesh Marina (Univ. of Edinburgh) |
| Implementation and Evaluation of a TDMA MAC for WiFi-based Rural Mesh Networks |
| Ashutosh Dhekne (IIT Bombay), Nirav Uchat (IIT Bombay), and Bhaskaran Raman (IIT Bombay) |
Session 3: Eyes and Ears (and Mouth and Nose)
| Message Phone: A User Study and Analysis of Asynchronous Messaging in Rural Uganda |
| Kurtis Heimerl (UC Berkeley), RJ Honicky (UC Berkeley), Eric Brewer (UC Berkeley), and Tapan Parikh (UC Berkeley) |
| Lo3: Low-cost, Low-power, Local Voice and Messaging for Developing Regions |
| Bhaskaran Raman (IIT Bombay) and Kameswari Chebrolu (IIT Bombay) |
| Crowd Translator: On Building Localized Speech Recognizers through Micropayments |
| Jonathan Ledlie (Nokia Research), Billy Odero (Nokia Research), Einat Minkov (Nokia Research), Imre Kiss (Nokia Research), and Joseph Polifroni (Nokia Research) |
| Development and Implementation of a Loosely Coupled, Multi-Site, Networked and Replicated Electronic Medical Record in Haiti |
| William B Lober (Univ. of Washington), Stephen Wagner (Univ. of Washington), and Christina Quiles (Univ. of Washington) |
Session 4: Plowing the Road Ahead
| Beating Netbooks Into Servers: Making Some Computers More Equal Than Others |
| Anirudh Badam (Princeton) and Vivek Pai (Princeton) |
| MyMANET: A Customizable Mobile Ad hoc Network |
| Ashwin Paranjpe (Georgia Tech) and Santosh Vempala (Georgia Tech) |
| Challenges In Communication Assisted Road Transportation Systems for Developing Regions |
| Rijurekha Sen (IIT Bombay), Vishal Sevani (IIT Bombay), Prashima Sharma (IIT Bombay), Zahir Koradia (IIT Bombay), and Bhaskaran Raman (IIT Bombay) |
| Secure Branchless Banking |
| Ashlesh Sharma (NYU), Lakshmi Subramanian (NYU), and Dennis Shasha (NYU) |
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