Selected Talks

Kentaro Toyama, School of Information, University of California, Berkeley

 

Computing and Global Development

·         2011 10 20      Reflections on the 10 Myths of ICT for Development (University of Washington Change, Seattle) [invited]                                 

·         2011 08 18      ICT *or* Development (iHub, Nairobi) [invited]                                 

·         2010 11 10      (Some of the) Ten Myths of ICT for International Development (slides) (talk) (UC Berkeley, CITRIS) [invited]                                 

·         2010 06 23      Ten Myths of ICT4D (MSR India Summer School, Bangalore) [invited]                                 

·         2010 05 15      The Myth of Scale (TEDxTokyo, Tokyo) [TEDx talk]                                 

·         2008 11 01      Computing for Development at Microsoft Research India (various locations)

·         2008 03 13      Fieldwork and Analogies in Emerging Markets Research (Redmond)                                 

·         2008 01 09      TCS Excellence in Computer Science Week (Pune): Technology and Design for Socio-Economic Development [invited]


·         2007 08 02      4th Convention of the National Alliance for Mission 2007 (Delhi): End-to-End Services (for Rural ICT) [invited]

·         2007 08 01      eIndia (Delhi): Rural Kiosks: Real Challenges, Potential Opportunities

·         2007 07 17      Microsoft Research Faculty Summit (Redmond): Technology for Emerging Markets Overview

·         2007 06 29      8th International Workshop on Internationalisation of Products and Systems (Merida, Mexico): The Advantages of Being There [keynote]

·         2007 06 18      User Software Interface Design Conference (Hyderabad): User Experience Research in India for India [invited]

·         2007 05 09      16th Int’l World Wide Web Conference (Banff, Canada): Low-Cost High-Latency Unlimited-Bandwidth Communication [panel]

·         2007 01 06      IJCAI Tutorial on Exploring Non-Traditional Benefits of AI to the Global Society (Hyderabad): Resolving User Contradictions through Fieldwork

·         2006 07 12      Fourth IEEE Workshop on Technology for Education in Developing Countries (Iringa, Tanzania): Computing for Education at MSR India [keynote]

·         2005 05 04      ADBI/CPSC workshop on "Managing Sustainable e-Community Centers" (Agra): Challenges of Sustainability

·         2005 03 13      Workshop on Policy Options and Models for Bridging Digital Divides (Tampere, Finland): PC Kiosk Trends in Rural India

·         2005 02 06      Int'l Conf. and Expo. on Communications and Computing (Kanpur): A Closer Look at Rural Computing

·         2005 01 12      MSR India's inauguration (Bangalore): Frequently Asked Questions about Rural Computing [keynote]

 

Indian Institute of Science, SERC (2005-2006)

·         2005 09 19      A brief introduction to Social Networks

·         2005 08 10      Robert Axelrod’s Evolution of Cooperation


Miscellaneous

·         2007 05 23      George Mason University, Masters Program in Technology Management (Bangalore): Technology Research in India

·         2006 09 22      Consortium of Students in Management Research (Bangalore): Guardians of Culture: Case Study of HR in a Research Organization

·         2005 10 28      [Pre-ICTD2006] Workshop on ICTD (Berkeley, CA): Funding ICTD Research

·         2005 02 04      National Seminar on Higher Education (Bangalore): Liberal Arts Education

·         2004 11 19      Int'l Conf on Speech and Language Systems for Human Communication (Delhi): Interaction between Academia and Microsoft in Speech and Language Systems

·         2004 11 04      TiE Con Bangalore: Opportunities in India