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Week
Date
Readings
1
8 Sep

Reading Assignment 1:
-Excerpts from Small is Beautiful, Ernst Schumaker [pdf] [ps]
-Kofi Annan's Astonishing Facts, Barbara Crosette

10 Sep
Reading Assignment 2:
-Power to the People, Peter Hawthorne [pdf] [ps]
-Mastering the Machine, pp 3 - 34, 86 - 103
2
13 Sep
Reading Assignment 3:
-Mastering the Machine Revisited, pp 35 - 66
-Beyond Couch Potatoes, G. Fischer
15 Sep
Reading Assignment 4:
-Mastering the Machine Revisited, pp 69 - 85
17 Sep
Reading Assignment 5:
-Water for People, Water for Life, UNESCO [pdf]
3
20 Sep
Reading Assignment 6:
-Managing Water in the Home: Accelerated Health Gains from Improved Water
Supply by M. Sobsey pp 1 - 49 [pdf]
24 Sep

Reading Assignment 7:
-Disacare Case Study [low res-323kb] [high res-2.92mb]

4
27 Sep

In Class Reading & Discussion:
Disacare Case Study Supplement [word doc-27kb]

Reading Assignment 8:
-Manufacturing Enterprise, ITDG
-Mastering the Machine Revisited, pp 171 - 186

29 Sep
Reading Assignment 9:
-Reconceptualizing the Digital Divide, Mark Warschauer
5
4 Oct
Reading Assignment 10:
-Serving the Poor, Profitably, A. Hammond & C.K. Prahalad [pdf]
8 Oct
Reading Assignment 11:
-Grameen Bank: Taking Capitalism to the Poor, E. Mainsah, S. Heuer, A. Kalra and Q. Zhang [pdf]
6
15 Oct
 
7
18 Oct
Reading Assignment 13:
-Mastering the Machine Revisited, pp 104 - 136
20 Oct

Reading Assignment 14:
-Case Study: Meeting a Pressing Need, A. Hynd
[low res-308kb] [high res-1.04mb]
-The Case for Genetically Modified Crops with a Poverty Focus, H. Atkinson, J. Green, S. Cowgill and A. Levesley
-The GM Mirage Will Not Help the Poor, A. Wijeratna

22 Oct
8
25 Oct
Reading Assignment 16:
-Mastering the Machine Revisited, pp 137 - 153
27 Oct
Reading Assignment 17:
-World Energy Assessment, ch 1 [pdf] & ch 2 [pdf]
9
1 Nov
Reading Assignment 18:
-The Energy Balance of Corn Ethanol
-Subsidized Food Burning
3 Nov
Reading Assignment 19:
-Inheriting the World: The Atlas of Children's Health and the Environment, B. Gordon, R. Mackay and E. Rehfuess[pdf]
10
8 Nov
Reading Assignment 20:
-Smoke: The Killer in the Kitchen, H. Warwick, A. Doig
10 Nov
Reading Assignment 21:
-Mastering the Machine Revisited, pp 200 - 213
12 Nov
Reading Assignment 22:
-Supporting Women's Use of Information Technologies for Sustainable Development, N. Hafkin, N. Taggart
11
15 Nov
Reading Assignment 23:
-Mastering the Machine Revisited, pp 189 - 199
17 Nov
Reading Assignment 24:
-Mastering the Machine Revisited, pp 214 - 245
12
22 Nov
Reading Assignment 25:
-Artisan Profiles, Aid to Artisans
13
29 Nov
Reading Assignment 26:
-Mastering the Machine Revisited, pp 154 - 170
1 Dec
Reading Assignment 27:
-Mastering the Machine Revisited, pp 246 - 261

Contact Information

D-Lab is part of the Curricular Initiative for Development Design at MIT, and is sponsored by the Edgerton Center and a grant from the Alumni Funds. This year's class is organized the Edgerton Center, Setu, the Brazilian Students Association and the MIT Haitian Alliance. Contact Amy Smith (mmadinot@mit.edu) for more information.