Announcements CSE 590f seminar Wednesday, 4pm, CSE 403 CSE 477, - PDF document

1/6/2009 Announcements • CSE 590f seminar – Wednesday, 4pm, CSE 403 CSE 477, Winter/Spring 2009 – UW Speakers on Technology for the Developing World World – 1/7/09: Gaetano Borriello Richard Anderson, Joyojeet Pal Design Studio CSE 477 Projects, 2008 [uw ‐ cse]/education/courses/cse477/08sp/projectwebs/ Problem Domains • Health Computing and the Developing • Education • Livelihood World CSEP 590B, Spring 2008 Lecture 1 Richard Anderson 1

1/6/2009 Global Health Challenges Education • Basic Health Care • Literacy Rates – Life Expectancy: Zambia 43 yrs, Germany 79 yrs – Mali 19%, Pakistan 49%, Laos 69% – Infant Mortality: Niger 109, Italy 5 • School Attendance, Primary Enrolment • Control of Major Diseases C t l f M j Di – Somalia 17%, Sudan 60%, Congo 88%, S li 1 % S d 60% C 88% – HIV/Aids: Namibia 20%, Canada 0.3% – India 116%, Rwanda 120%, Cambodia 134% – Malaria: 500M infections, 2M deaths per year • Teacher Absenteeism • Improved Health Practices • Language Study – 1.1 B people lack access to safe drinking water • Vocational Training Livelihood UN Millennium Development Goals • “The reason most poor people are poor is • Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger because they don’t have enough money” • Achieve universal primary education • 180 Million Smallholder Farmers in Sub ‐ • Promote gender equality and empower women Saharan Africa earning under 1$ a day g $ y • Reduce child mortality R d hild t lit • Costs of being poor • Improve maternal health – Many goods more expensive for poor • Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases • In Africa the informal sector accounts for 20% • Ensure environmental sustainability of the GDP and employs 60% of the urban workforce • Develop a global partnership for development Key themes in Computing for the Resource Constraints / Cost Realism Developing World • Defining nature of the domain is bound on cost • Economics are fundamental 2

1/6/2009 Electrical and physical infrastructure Different Usage Models • “The utility of the computers is diminished by • Don’t expect usage models will be the same as the lack of power” in the developed world • Off the grid • Mediated use of technology • Irregular availability of power l il bili f – Involving people in solutions is important I l i l i l ti i i t t – Labor often readily available • Poor quality power Hostile PC Infrastructure Sustainability • Every flash drive in Africa is infected by • Upkeep and business model viruses. WHY??? • Potential to Scale • Computing Realities – Can project be replicated to address problems on a large scale a large scale – Poor computing practices P ti ti – Additional issues occur when thinking big – Older hardware – Software of dubious provenance – Difficulty of getting updates Problem identification • Identify key problems by sector • What would a solution achieve CSE 590F • What role might ICT have in the solution Computing and the Developing World Creating a research agenda Problem Inventory 3

1/6/2009 Sectors Education A. Education I. Transportation B. Medicine J. Environment Problem: C. Agriculture K. D D. Finance Finance L. L Solution metric: S l ti t i E. Government M. F. Entertainment N. ICT Role: G. Family O. H. Goods and services P. Medicine Agriculture Problem: Problem: Solution metric: S l ti t i S l ti Solution metric: t i ICT Role: ICT Role: Finance Government Problem: Problem: S l ti Solution metric: t i S l ti Solution metric: t i ICT Role: ICT Role: 4

1/6/2009 Entertainment Family Problem: Problem: S l ti Solution metric: t i S l ti Solution metric: t i ICT Role: ICT Role: Goods and Services Transportation Problem: Problem: Solution metric: S l ti t i S l ti Solution metric: t i ICT Role: ICT Role: Environment Winter 2007 Inventory I • Medicine Problem: – Medical Record Keeping – Logistics of Drug Delivery S l ti Solution metric: t i – Out of pocket payments / insurance Out of pocket payments / insurance – Availability of Medicine – Patient Compliance ICT Role: – Isolation of Rural Health Care Worker 5

1/6/2009 Winter 2007 Inventory II Winter 2007 Inventory III • Agriculture • Education – Farmer price information (buying and selling) – Migration of educated to other regions – Advertising to promote products – Lack of modern infrastructure (books) • Goods and services Goods and services • Governance G – Distribution of medicines to rural clinics – Reducing bureaucracy (reducing cost of services) • Women’s Issues – Trustworthy Elections – Availability of health information – Reducing corruption – Empowerment – Family planning Winter 2007 Inventory Project Idea Pitches • Finance • Two (or at most three ppt slides) – Increasing Trust in Transactions • Components – Reduce loan turn around – Credit ratings – Basic problem that is being addressed • Environment • Environment – Overview of technological solution O i f h l i l l i – Waste management – Technologies that are involved – Water purification – What would be built – Monitoring Environment – Making companies accountable – Major challenges – Preserving wildlife – How it would be evaluated – Preventing poaching Video Testimonials Video Testimonials • Technologies: Digital Video, Editing, Video • Problem: Village women end up in urban Transmission, Replay prostitutions after migrating to cities. Provide • Challenges a mechanism for giving villages more – Technology : low cost (especially reply) information about urban migration information about urban migration. – UI: Editing videos, replay by illiterate users UI: Editing videos replay by illiterate users (Suggested by an Indian Social Worker) – Social: handling sensitive topics • What to build • Technology solution – digital video of – Emphasize editing or replay interviews, which are then replayed in village • Evaluation – Facilitator based or privately – Feedback from social workers 6

1/6/2009 Robust Record Keeping Robust Record Keeping • Technologies: Approximate matching in networks, • Problem: Keeping records when people don’t possible Android implementation have unique identifiers, and information is • Challenges poor (for example, people don’t know their – Developing robust algorithms, designing interview, UI birthdates names are inconsistent spelling is birthdates, names are inconsistent, spelling is for mobile field use not available) • What to build • Solution: Collect a range of information (e.g., – Interview system and database for maintaining relationships), develop algorithms for identity, Android implmentation • Evaluation approximate matching of identities – Feedback from IHME, Comcare Project Every flash drive in Africa is infected Anti virus software with viruses • Challenges • Problem: Wide spread computer viruses in an environment with limited internet – Legacy software, understanding threats, many generations of systems, avoiding creating new connectivity, pirated software and no updates threats • Solution: Transport mechanisms for virus • Solution: Transport mechanisms for virus • What to build updates via flash drives – Prototype system that allows virus updates to be • Technology: Anti virus technology, high propagated via flash drives latency networking • Evaluation – Data collected from Africa 7