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Technology Targeted at Social Issues
Fall 2006


Instructor: Suresh Lodha
Office: E2-361
Phone (831) 459-3773
email: lodha@soe.ucsc.edu
Office Hours: Th 10-11:30am, F 5-5:30 and by appointment
Class Time: Friday 2-5
Place: E2 (Engineering 2) 180
Class Number: 24146
Class ID: CMPS-80J-01


Course Overview

Concepts/Topics

Social entrepreneurship, Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, Co-Creation, Network Society, History of Information Technology Revolution
Microcredit/Microfinancing, Grameen Bank, Kiva
Blog (Weblog), Wiki, eCommerce (Services vs. Products), Web 2.0, Domain Name, Web Feed/Syndication
Info-Projects ($100 Laptop, ICT, Kiosks, IT backbone for personalization)
User needs, Product and Services Design, Innovation
GreenTec (Health, Energy, Environment)
Intellectual Property
Entrepreneurship and Globalization
Creating Web 2.0 web site inlcuding buying and hosting domain names, creating web pages using XHTML and CSS
Creating blogs, RSS feeds, wikis, analyzing and maximizing web traffic
Social-Info Projects at UCSC, UCB, Stanford, SCU

Schedule:

Week 1: September 22

New Heroes (Social Entrepreneurship), 2-3pm
Overview and Motivation, 3-4pm
Organic Team Formation, 4-5pm

Resources:
Ashoka Fellows
ChangeMakers
Tech Musuem Awards
Long Tail


Additional Resources:
New Heroes DVD 2816 (can be viewed at Film and Music Center, McHenry Library Basement).
Teamwork and Project Management by Karl A. Smith (Science Lib Reserves)

Week 2: September 29

Microfinancing, 2-3pm
GIIP (Guest Lecture by Adam Thomson), 3-4pm
Team skills, 4-5pm


Resources:
wikipedia
Grameen Bank
Kiva

Additional Resources:
Teamwork and Project Management by Karl A. Smith (Science Lib Reserves)

Week 3: October 6

Web 2.0 (blog, wiki, folksonomy, social networking, web feed/web syndication, eCommerce), 2-3pm
Web 2.0 (Guest Lecture by Ian Myers), 3-4pm
Cross-Gender and Cross-Cultural Communication, 4-5pm


Resources:
wikipedia
He said she said (Videorecording) by Deborah Tannen (also books "Thats not what I meant" and "You dont understand")

Week 4: October 13

Info-Projects, 2-3pm
$100 Laptop Project and 50x15 initiative by AMD
Childrens' Audio-Visual Language-Learning Book Project (supported by Google.org)
Communication Technology for Hard-to-Reach Rural Areas (Patented Technology)
Information Kiosk Project (Several awards including Most Promising Social Enterprise Award, 2002-3)
Almost All Questions Answered (Manthan Award, 2005)

Projects at TIER, UC, Berkeley (Guest Lecture by Joyojeet Pal), 3-4pm

Non-Violent Professional Communication, 4-5pm

Resources:
Basics of Non-Violent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg (book and/or video)
Video is available for viewing at McHenry Library Film and Music Center until October 26, Thursday, 5:00pm and Book is at McHenry Reserves

Week 5: October 20

Design and User Needs, 2-3pm
Projects at Stanford (Guest Lecture by Clara Shih), 3-4pm
Project Management, 4-5pm

Resources:

All Marketers are Liars by Seth Godin
Creating Your Own Web Page
"The Future of Competition: Co-Creating Unique Value with Customers" by C. K. Prahalad and Venkat Ramaswamy, Harvard Business School Press, 2004.
Democratizing UCSC

Week 6: October 27

Final Projects Discussion, 2-3pm
Product and Service Design, 3-4pm
Silicon Valley Culture, Networks, and Innovation (Guest Lecture by Kyle Eischen, Santa Clara University), 4-5pm


Resources:
What is Web 2.0? Deep Dive (Video at Film and Music Center, McHenry)

Week 7: November 3

Art of Entrepreneurship, 2-3pm
Buying Domain Names and Hosting WebSites
Primer on copyrights, patents, and global innnovations, 3-4pm
Talk by Raj Abhyanker on Intellectual Property, 4-5pm


Resources:
"The Art of the Start" by Guy Kawasaki
"New Venture Creation: Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century" by Jeffrey Timmons
Buying Domain Names

Web Applications Lab
November 4, Saturday, 9am to 4pm
Kresge 317

Week 8: November 10

GreenTec and Innovations, 2-3pm
Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, 3-4pm
Talk by Miguel Aznar, CEO, KnowledgeContext on Innovations, 4-5pm

Resources:
The Next Industrial Revolution (DVD 1553 at Film and Music Center, McHenry)
"Getting to Yes" by Roger Fisher
Negotiation and Conflict Management

Week 9: November 17

TBA
Final Projects Question and Answers, 4-5pm

Resources:
"The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century" by Thomas Friedman, 2005.

Week 10: November 24

No Class; Work on Final Projects

Week 11: December 1

Students Presentations
Final Projects Due

Maintained by Suresh Lodha