First Day of Class

Intros:

Let’s go around the room and introduce ourselves, our interests and expertise (will help us organize into groups).

Basic Premise of this Course:

The future is already here – it’s just not very evenly distributed. 

– William Gibson

A Digital Divide

• Home Broadband in the U.S.
• Mobile Access in the U.S.
• Global Broadband

Syllabus:

Let’s go over the Syllabus.

Basic Tools:

• Twilio Account
• TCNJ Web Account (or other web account)
• Github Sample Code Repositories

Assignment:

Create a Google Presentation on Google Drive and name it “Design Notebook”.

Read

• Stop Trying to Save the World
• Ken Banks’ call for a Donor Funding Charter

Write

• Create a slide in your Design Notebook and name it “ICT4Dev Design Context” with today’s date.
• Keeping your response to one slide, consider the two articles above and discuss how the PlayPumps project may have benefitted had it’s donors applied a Donor Funding Charter?
• On another slide, discuss how the application of a Donor Funding Charter might mitigate “unintended consequences” in “complex adaptive systems” as described in Stop Trying to Save the World.
• Be sure to share your Google Presentation and post a link to it as a comment to this blog post below.

*Assignments are due before class begins on Mondays. Be prepared to present your work in class for discussion.