The ICTD2012 Program Chairs announce that the following papers have been accepted for plenary presentations and posters for the conference. 129 papers were submitted to ICTD2012, of which 94 were submitted to double-blind review by three or more peers. 38 Papers were selected: 18 for Plenary Talks and 20 for Poster Presentations. Thus acceptance rates for ICTD2012 can be calculated as 18 of 94 reviewed submissions for plenary talks (19%) and 38 of 94 reviewed submissions for poster presentations (40%). The 38 accepted papers represent 34 academic institutions and organizations on five continents.
Paper Sessions
- Facilitated Video Instruction in Low Resource Schools
- Design of a Phone-Based Clinical Decision Support System for Resource-Limited Settings
- Improving Community Health Worker Performance Through Automated SMS
- The Changing Field of ICTD: Content Analysis of Published Research, 2000-2010
- Considering Failure: Eight Years of ITID Research
- See No Evil? Ethics in an Interventionist ICTD
- ICTs and Development in the Thai Bureaucracy: An Examination of Decentralization and Organizational Change
- Anthropology, Development and ICTs:Slums, Youth and the Mobile Internet in Urban India
- Social Networking in Developing Regions
- On the Relationship Between Socio-Economic Factors and Cell Phone Usage
- Reporting Water Quality – A Case-study of a Mobile Phone Application for Collecting Data in Developing Countries
- Measuring Water Collection Times in Kenyan Informal Settlements
- A Prepaid Architecture for Solar Electricity Delivery in Rural Areas
- The Role of ICTs in Downscaling and Up-Scaling Integrated Weather Forecasts for Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Emergent Practices Around CGNet Swara, A Voice Forum for Citizen Journalism in Rural India
- Power to the Peers: Authority of Source Effects for a Voice-based Agricultural Information Service in Rural India
- The Mobile Phone as a link to Formal Financial Services: Findings from Uganda
- An Analysis of Screen Reader Use in India
Posters
VillageCell: Cost Effective Cellular Connectivity in Rural Areas, Abhinav Anand, University of California, Santa Barbara; Veljko Pejovic, UC Santa Barbara; Elizabeth Belding, University of California, Santa Barbara; David Johnson, University of California, Santa Barbara
Software for National Level Vaccine Cold Chain Equipment Management, Richard Anderson, University of Washington; John Lloyd, PATH; Sophie Newland, PATH
Sharing in Public: Working With Others in Ghanaian Cybercafés, Michael Best, Georgia Tech; Bence Kollanyi, Georgia Tech; Sunil Garg, Georgia Tech
WATER Alert!: Using Mobile Phones to Improve Community Perspective on Drinking Water Quality in South Africa, Deana Brown, Georgia Institute of Technology; Gary Marsden, University of Cape Town; Ulrike Rivett, University of Cape Town
The Midwife’s Assistant: Designing Instructional Software for Diagnostic Ultrasound, Waylon Brunette, University of Washington; Ruth Anderson, University of Washington; Beth Kolko, University of Washington; Alexis Hope, University of Washington; Jacqueline Keh, University of Washington; Wayne Gerard, University of Washington; Michael Kawooya, Ernest Cook Ultrasound Research and Education Institute, Uganda; Laura Schlenke, University of Washington; Rob Nathan, University of Washington.
ICTD Interventions: Trends over the Last Decade, Christopher Chepken, UCT; Raymond Mugwanya, UCT; Gary Marsden, University of Cape Town; Edwin Blake, University of Cape Town
Network Traffic Locality in a Rural African Village, David Johnson, UC, Santa Barbara; Elizabeth Belding, UC, Santa Barbara; Gertjan van Stam, Linknet
Participation through Mobile Phones – A Study of SMS Use during the Ugandan General Elections 2011, Anna Karefelt, Uppsala University; Johan Hellström, Stockholm University
PhonePeti: Exploring the Role of an Answering Machine System in Community Radio, Zahir Koradia, Indian Institute of Technology; Aaditeshwar Seth, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Grassroots Mobilization of Internet NGOs in China: The Cases of www.1kg.org and www.geshanghua.org, Tian Luo, Ohio University
The Role of Gender in Mobile Phone Use: Quantitative Evidence from Rwanda, Ashley Nguyen, U.C. Berkeley; Anita Mehrotra, U.C. Berkeley; Viraj Mohan, U.C. Berkeley; Joshua Blumenstock, U.C. Berkeley School of Information
Assistive Technology and the Employment of People with Vision Impairments in India, Joyojeet Pal, University of Michigan; Meera Lakshmanan, Cambridge
Local-Language Digital Information in India: Challenges and Opportunities for Screen Readers, Joyojeet Pal, University of Michigan; Vrutti Vyas, NYU Poly; Anjali Vartak, NYU Poly; Avinash Vutukuri, NYU Poly; Yeswanth Gogineni, NYU-Poly; Kunjan Sanghavi, NYU Poly; Vivek Veeraiah, NYU Poly; Kiran Bartakee, NYU Poly
ICT Access and Use by Microentrepreneurs in Mumbai, India: A Value Chain Model Analysis, Vigneswara Pandian, IIT Delhi
ICT Diffusion in the Republic of Armenia, Katy Pearce, U.C., Santa Barbara
Communicating About Users in ICTD: Leveraging HCI Personas, Cynthia Putnam, DePaul University; Beth Kolko, University of Washington; Siri Wood, PATH
Viral Entertainment as Vehicle for Disseminating Speech Based Services to Low Literate Users, Agha Ali Raza, Carnegie Mellon University; Roni Rosenfeld, Carnegie Mellon University; Jahanzeb Sherwani, Carnegie Mellon University; Christina Milo, Carnegie Mellon University; Guy Alster, Carnegie Mellon University; Umar Saif, Lahore University of Management Sciences; Mansoor Pervaiz, Lahore University of Management Sciences; Samia Razaq, Lahore University of Management Sciences
CVDMagic: A Mobile Based Study for CVD Risk Detection in Rural India, Pushpendra Singh, IIIT-Delhi; Amarjeet Singh, IIIT-Delhi; Vinayak Naik, IIIT-Delhi; Sangeeta Lal, IIIT-Delhi
Natural Obsolescence or Cultural Evolution? A Multidisciplinary Case Study of Village Phone, Kentaro Toyama, UC Berkeley; Sara Boettiger, UC Berkeley; Rezwana Abed, UC Berkeley
Designing a Voice-Based Employment Exchange for Rural India, Jerome White, IBM; Mayuri Duggirala, IBM; Saurabh Srivastava, IBM; Krishna Kummamuru, IBM