1. 1. Sep. 5, Overview of the CIC program and seminar - Atkins. As time permits begin self-introductions and recording of them.
   pdf of SLIDES From Atkins Presentation  (less photos)
   
   ASSIGNMENT FOR SEP 19 CLASS:  I want us to work together to build an annotated bibliography of literature defining or characterizing what people are calling community informatics.  At the next class come with three such citations to either material that helps define community informatics and/or programs that are developing or supporting people to practice community informatics. Submit all this electronically to Lisa McLaughlin via a route she will specify. ASSIGNMENT FOR SEP 12 CLASS: Prep your 3 min introduction to be presented and recorded (optional); read back ground material for presentations by Lisa and Greg.
   
   ASSIGNMENT FOR SEP 12 CLASS: See item #2. below and review material before the class.
   
   

2. 2.  Sep. 12, Self introductions and video recording of them.  (Atkins in UK, Lisa McLaughlin coordinating) Greg Grossmeier will be giving a presentation about his experience interning at Creative Commons (CC) in San Francisco last summer.  Read the following FAQ section and background video on CC for the Seminar Friday:
   

    Frequently Asked Questions - Creative Commons

    "Wanna Work Together?" Video

Video of Greg’s Talk

Lisa McLaughlin will also be presenting about her work with Nigel Melville, a BIT Professor at the Business School, on using Design Thinking methods in Business.  I will be presenting the method we used and suggesting applications for the Nonprofit Sector.  Read the following recent Harvard Business Review piece on Design Thinking methods written by IDEO CEO Tim Brown, as background material on the method. 

    HBR-Timbrown.pdf

NOTE: Atkins is participating this day in the Oxford eResearch Conference 2008. This conference brings together an interesting set of papers and people around socio-technical issues of e-science, aka cyberinfrastructure-enabled science.  The following link with take you to the conference homepage. Suggest you browse the titles of the talks and panels:

Oxford Internet Institute - eResearch 08 - Home

ASSIGNMENT FOR SEP 26 CLASS: Readings that will be made available by Lisa working with Vlad.

3. 3. Sep. 19, Speaker, Vlad Weilbut, Director of Informatics and Computing Services, UM School of Public Health, Pushing IT: $15,000 Phone Bill and Other Adventures With Technology in a Global(izing) Context. Vlad will talk about the various projects he has been involved with: Reprolatina, Global Product Development, GIS Seminar, IARC, Regional Learning Centres, etc. , with a focus of what worked well and what didn’t (and why) in terms of technology.
   

4. 4. Sep. 26, Moderated by Dan Atkins, we will explore the definition of community informatics through the class literature search. Goal is to prepare an initial taxonomy of a field and build a reference database that will inform refinement and details of curriculum options at SI. Submit all your citations to Lisa McLaughlin lmclaug@umich.edu
   
   We will also brainstorm some about  a response to this Google challenge:
   Got an idea to help the world? Here is $10 million.
   
   

5. 5. Oct. 3, Speaker: Kevin B. Thompson, Senior Program Manager, Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs, IBM Corporation. Reading assignment is posted on class CTools site.
   

6. 6. Oct. 10, Social Entrepreneurship. We will be joined by Prof.Thomas Zurbuchen, Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at the UM College of Engineering. He will give an overview of the Center and its programs and entrepreneurship in general to help inform a discussion about social entrepreneurship and how it might more persistently link with CIC. Reading/viewing assignment for this class: 1) watch the talk by Larry Brilliant at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNhiHf84P9c, and 2) read the paper titled Social entrepreneurship - a new look at the people and the potential by Thompson, Alvy, and Lees available on our CTools site.
   
   ASSIGNMENT for Oct. 17 Class:
   Go to The Next 4 Billion: Market Size and Business Strategy at the Base of the Pyramid | World Resources Institute
   Read Executive Summary and All of Chapter 1, plus  all of any other chapter in a sector of interest to you.
   

7. 7. Oct. 17, Dr. Allen Hammond, Senior Entrepreneur in Residence, Ashoka International: Innovators for the Public
   Title: Rural Connectivity and the Transformation of Poverty
   Abstract: New technologies and innovative approaches promise to make rural broadband nearly ubiquitous and affordable in developing countries within the next decade. That in turn will make access to financial services, such as mobile banking, widespread--connecting billions of people to the global economy--and enabling "last-mile" access to a disruptive set of new world-class diagnostic technologies that can deliver quality healthcare.  
   
   Oct. 22 (Wed) - Attend JSB Lecture presented by Brewster Kahle - The Closing of Library Services.. The Opening of Library Services.
                  Time: 3:00 PM-5:30 PM
                   Location: Biomedical Science Research Building Auditorium
                  109 Zina Pitcher Place
   A related talk by Brewster can be found at
   http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/brewster_kahle_builds_a_free_digital_library.html
   

8. 8. Oct 24, Speaker: Cathy Casserly, Director of Open Education Resources Programs, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The OER Movement: Status and More Opportunities.
   Reading assignment BEFORE  this class session are all taken from the new book Opening Up Education available at http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11309&mode=toc . Read Chapter 17 "Revolutionizing Education through Innovation: Can Openness Transform Teaching and Learning?" starting on page 261 and the concluding chapter on page 429.
   

9. 9. Oct 31, Professor Steve Jackson, UM SI,  IT and International Development. There are two papers you should read BEFORE this session.  They are posted on our CTools site. The first is tiled Information and Communication Technologies, Poverty and Development: Learning from Experience by Kerry S. McNamara. This report is a quite thoughtful piece by someone with long involvement in the World Bank's information programs - it's a nice honest assessment, and also a useful summary of work in the field circa 2004.
   
   The second reading Growing out of Poverty by Barnevik and Borelius is just out and more general, and is a better review not so much of IT & development, but new directions in development thinking, esp. social entrepreneurship-type stuff.  It de-centers IT, i.e., reminds people that IT is a relatively small piece within a much wider development story.  It's also easily readable and touches on some empirical projects. Although SOME of the claims of the social entrepreneurship / base of the pyramid crowd are vastly oversold, this particular piece is a bit more moderate in the way it balances large-scale government / aid endeavors with the importance of market forces.  This would be good for us to talk through with the seminar as a whole
   

10. 10. Nov. 7, Panel on status and impact of Open Educational Resources movement: Joseph Hardin, Ted Hanss, Garin Fons, Pieter Kleymeer.
    

11. 11. Nov. 14, Speaker: Paul Resnick, UM School of Information,  Experience with analytic work with the Obama campaign
    

12. 12. Nov. 21, (NOTE TOPICS FOR NOV 21 and DEC 5 have been swapped.) Speaker: Gail McClure, VP for International Programs, and Ted Chen, Program Officer, W. K. Kellogg Foundation.
    

13. 13. Dec. 5, Speaker: Presentation of your retrospective.
    

OTHER

Monica and Dan Atkins will host a CIC dinner towards the middle of the term on a date to be arranged.

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