Development
The MD4SG Development working group fosters collaboration and discussion amongst practitioners and academics to understand and tackle issues pertaining to the role and application of technology in addressing challenges in emerging nations and under-resourced settings. We study how techniques from algorithm and mechanism design, computational social science, and optimization can inform and help advance existing development policies and practices.
Ongoing Projects
- Rediet Abebe, Irene lo, Dina Machuve, Francisco Marmolejo-Cossío, Moses Namara, Ezinne Nwankwo, and Mwiza Simbeya. “Market and Mechanism Design Challenges in African Agriculture”. In preparation.
- Ezinne Nwankwo, Chinasa T. Okolo, Cynthia Habonimana. “Topic Modeling Approaches for Understanding COVID-19 Misinformation Spread in Sub-Saharan Africa.” In the AI for Social Good Workshop (Harvard University CRCS), 2020.
- Chinasa T. Okolo*, Michelle Gonzalez Amador*. “ACIPS: A Framework for Evaluating Patient Perception in the Introduction of AI-enabled Healthcare.” Accepted to the Data4Good: Designing for Diversity and Development workshop at the International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI).
Selected Readings
- Okolo, Chinasa and MD4SG Working Group on Development. COVID-19 in the Global South Part 1. https://medium.com/@md4sg/covid-19-in-the-global-south-4ceefeb09165
- Newman, Neil, et al. "Designing and evolving an electronic agricultural marketplace in Uganda." Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies. 2018.
Talks Given
- What Not to Expect (from ICTD research and interventions)by Araba Sey, United Nations University. Date: Friday, April 24, 12:00-1:15 PM EST
- Lessons from ICTD -- Information & Communication Technologies and Development, Kentaro Toyama, University of Michigan. Date: Friday, October 25, 12:00-1:30 PM EST
Working Group Organizers
Working Group Members
| Rediet Abebe |
Junior Fellow |
Harvard University |
| Yves Dusenge |
Software Engineer and ML Engineer |
Eltoro |
| Michelle González Amador |
Ph.D. Fellow in Economics and Governance |
UNU-MERIT / Maastricht University |
| Cynthia Habonimana |
Undergraduate Student |
California State University-Long Beach |
| Lynn Kirabo |
Ph.D. Student in Computer Science |
Carnegie Mellon University |
| Irene Lo |
Assistant Professor in Management Science & Engineering |
Stanford University |
| Dina Machuve |
Lecturer in Information and Communication Science |
Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science and Technology |
| Lindiwe Malobola |
Masters Student in Computer Science |
University of the Witwatersrand |
| George Musumba |
Lecturer in Computer Science |
Dedan Kimathi University of Technology |
| Believe Ohiozua |
Undergraduate Student |
University of Benin |
| Francisco Marmolejo |
Fellow |
University of Oxford |
| Moses Namara |
Ph.D Student |
Clemson University |
| Ezinne Nwankwo |
Ph.D. Student in Statistics |
Duke University |
| Regina Rex |
Undergraduate Student |
University of Wisconsin-Superior |
| Jean-Michel Sarr |
Ph.D. Student in Computer Science |
University of Dakar |
| Raesetje Sifala |
Masters Student |
University of the Witwatersrand |
| Michael Yimer |
Undergraduate Student |
HiLCoE School of Computer Science and Technology and Addis Ababa Univeristy |
| Ahmed Olanrewaju |
Lecturer |
University of Ibadan |
| Ilenin Kondo |
Assistant Professor |
Stanford University |
| Pradeep Balachandran |
Technical Consultant |
Independent |
| Mwiza Simbeye |
Machine Learning Researcher and Engineering Fellow |
AgriPredict and Major League Hacking |
| Meareg Hailemariam |
AI Researcher and Programmer |
Hanson Robotics |
| Edwin Lock |
DPhil Candidate in Computer Science |
University of Oxford |
| Jacob Jonnerby |
DPhil Candidate in Physics |
University of Oxford |
| Ninad Rajgopal |
DPhil Candidate in Theoretical Computer Science |
University of Oxford |