Aug. 29

Sept. 5

• State of the world and developing world today
• What is poverty? Technical and non-technical issues for the developing world; developing vs. developed world links; corruption and ethical issues; community planning and development; sustainable appropriate technologies, etc.
• The Millennium development goals: definition, goals, targets, role of engineers.

• How the US Census Bureau Measures Poverty 
• Introduction to Poverty Analysis (World Bank): Read Chapters 1 and 2. 
• The 2005 UNDP Development Report http://hdr.undp.org/reports/global/2005/ (read the executive summary).
• Jens Martens, "A Compendium of Inequality: The Human Development Report 2005," (Global Policy Forum and Friedrich Ebert Foundation: October 2005), available online at: http://www.globalpolicy.org/eu/en/publ/fespaper4hdr2005.pdf
• The MDGs report 2006
• The 2006 Human Development Report: Power, Poverty and the Global Water Crisis
• The World Development Report 2007 (World Bank)

• Watch the following videos
  - Lecture by W. Easterly, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_H0g30YwQ8
  - Lecture by J. Sachs, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNn2LlINoRA
• 2005 UNDP Development Trends (animation): http://www.gapminder.org
  
  Imagine that you have to give a 10 minute presentation to a group of influential and wealthy individuals about the state of the world. What are the most surprising trends in the state of the developing world, as well as general patterns over the past twenty years that you would have identified. Can we foresee the end of poverty soon?
   
• As a regular and continuous assignment for CVEN 4838/5838, contribute at least one video per week to the www.approvideo.org web site (Video or Project Blogs). Select one or several categories or subcategories that you are interested in and search for interesting existing videos on the web. Then, upload the video on the ApproVideo web site. The Approvideo web site allows a direct uploading of YouTube video clips. For non-YouTube clips, enter a web site link where the video is located and a short write-up. Google is a great place to search for UN videos, World Bank Videos, etc…

• The Ideology of Development, by W. Easterly, Foreign Policy, July/August 07
• Inaugural address of Harry S. Truman, January 20, 1949

• The Five Stages of Growth--A Summary by W.W. Rostow, from The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1960).
  These two papers present a vision of development for the world that has shaped the world from WWII until recently.

• Declaration of Alma Ata (1978)

• Our People, Our Resources. Read Section 1.1 The interactive relationship of population, environment, and development

• The Future of Hope. Read the Introduction

• Websites to peruse:
  - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED).
  - IIED Strategic Planning and Assessment (SPA)
  -  International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
  -  Foundation for Sustainable Development
  - UN Development Program (UNDP)
  - US Agency for International Development (USAID)
  - History of USAID
• Google "Sustainable Community Development" and explore the different definitions that have been given for SCD. Be ready to come to class and propose a detailed definition of SCD.
• As a regular and continuous assignment for CVEN 4838/5838, contribute at least one video per week to the http://approvideo.org web site (Video or Project Blogs).

• Lecture by Max Gold on Rwanda projects in Muramba and Muganaro
• Lecture by Prof. Dipankar Chakravarti (Leeds School of Business) on social entrepreneurship in developing countries
• Lecture by Marco Kulhmann on Telemedicine project in Peru

• Whose Fortune is at the Bottom of the Pyramid
• Read the article on the EWB work in Rwanda: https://webfiles.colorado.edu/ethomas/www/BYOWPaperJournalSubmission.pdf
   

• Go to the http://approvideo.org web site and explore the various posted videos dealing with Telemedicine
• Go to the http://approvideo.org web site and explore the various posted videos dealing with Bottom of the Pyramid
• As a regular and continuous assignment for CVEN 4838/5838, contribute at least one video per week to the http://approvideo.org web site (Video or Project Blogs).
• Revisit and edit the various write-ups that have been uploaded for the book project so far.

• Read the Overview chapter in "Field Guide to Appropriate Technology" by B. Hazeltine and C. Bull (pp. 1-16)

Oct. 3

• Watch the following video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEW2Y2JYojI
• Get started with projects. You should have selected a project by now.
• Read the Bad or Good Technology Exercise. To be discussed in class.
• In class, we will review the book contributions that have been posted so far and create a revised extended book outline.
• As a regular and continuous assignment for CVEN 4838/5838, contribute at least one video per week to the http://approvideo.org web site (Video or Project Blogs).

Oct. 10

• Check the Stylus Publishing Catalog on Development and Third World Studies
• The Role of Technical Capacity Building in Accelerating the Development of Nations
• Multiple definitions of capacity building (from EWB-USA 2004 Conference). Several definitions were proposed and compared with an official definition proposed by Hatch (2004): Capacity Building as ".. the building (strengthening) of human, institutional and infrastructure capacity to help societies develop secure, stable and sustainable economies, governments, and other institutions through mentoring, training, education, physical projects, the infusion of financial and other resources, and most importantly, the motivation and inspiration of people to improve their lives."
• Read the Planning and Implementation chapter in "Field Guide to Appropriate Technology" by B. Hazeltine and C. Bull (pp. 17-29)

• Study the ICRISAT report "Farmer Participatory Integrated Watershed Management: Adarsha Watershed, Kothapally India". Why do you think this community project was successful?
• As a regular and continuous assignment for CVEN 4838/5838, contribute at least one video per week to the http://approvideo.org web site (Video or Project Blogs).

• Read article What is Participatory Research by A. Cornwall and R. Jewkes (1995).
• Read the Planning and Implementation chapter in "Field Guide to Appropriate Technology" by B. Hazeltine and C. Bull (pp. 29-35)
• Our People, Our Resources. Read chapter 3 and Annex B on PAR.
• NCDC Plan (pages 1-8)
• Beginning Social Change: the Principles of Seed Scale

• What are the four modes of participation emphasized in the article by Cornwall and Jewkes?
• Check the Participatory Development Forum web site and the last newsletter entitled Dialogue on Participation.
• As a regular and continuous assignment for CVEN 4838/5838, contribute at least one video per week to the http://approvideo.org web site (Video or Project Blogs).

• Guidelines for Preliminary Project Review
• Our People, Our Resources. Read chapters 4,5 and 6.

• Preliminary Project Review presentations. Upload your presentations and write-ups on the 4838 Blog (respective project categories).
• After reading chapters 4,5 and 6 in Our People, Our Resources, apply the PAR principles described in those chapters to your respective case studies. Use the "Amanda" case study as an example. For each case study, develop decision matrices (similar to those in chapters 4-6) and corresponding problem-cause-consequence- solution-action trees.
• As a regular and continuous assignment for CVEN 4838/5838, contribute at least one video per week to the http://approvideo.org web site (Video or Project Blogs).

• Smart Water Solutions, published by the Netherlands Water Partnership (2006)
• Prospectus for National Knowledge Assessment, The National Academies Press (1996).
• Knowledge Assessment in Prince Edward Island, The National Academy Press (1999)
• Chapter 8 in Field Guide to Appropriate Technology

• Smart Water Solutions presents examples of innovative, low-cost technologies for wells, pumps, storage, irrigation, and water treatment. For each technology presented in the document, several web sites are mentioned. Select one technology and explore the corresponding web sites. Be ready to summarize what you have read to the rest of the class on October 31 and to upload your findings in book chapter 8 (see Approvideo web site).
• As a regular and continuous assignment for CVEN 4838/5838, contribute at least one video per week to the http://approvideo.org web site (Video or Project Blogs).

Nov. 7

• Water Purification Hypothetical case Study in Nigeria (distributed in class on 10/31)
• Micro-Hydro lecture notes

• Check the various video clips in Approvideo pertaining to micro-hydro power.
• As a regular and continuous assignment for CVEN 4838/5838, contribute at least one video per week to the http://approvideo.org web site (Video or Project Blogs).

Nov. 14

• CARE Project Design Handbook (2002)
• DME Presentation
• Matrices and Tools for Projects
• Intro to Hydropower (Part 1 distributed in class on Nov. 7)
• Intro to Hydropower (Part 2 distributed in class on Nov. 7)
• Micro-Hydro (part II) lecture notes

• As a regular and continuous assignment for CVEN 4838/5838, contribute at least one video per week to the http://approvideo.org web site (Video or Project Blogs).

• Micro Hydro Basics
• Intro to Hydropower (Part 3)
• Smart Sanitation Solutions presents examples of innovative, low-cost technologies for toilets, collection, transportation, treatment, and use of sanitation products. For each technology presented in the document, several web sites are mentioned. Select one technology and explore the corresponding web sites. Be ready to summarize what you have read to the rest of the class on November 28 and to upload your findings in book chapter 9 (see approvideo web site).
• As a regular and continuous assignment for CVEN 4838/5838, contribute at least one video per week to the http://approvideo.org web site (Video or Project Blogs).

• Information and Communication Technology for Sustainable Development (read the 2-page executive summary only)
• Review of Research on Rural PC Kiosks
• Using Stakeholder Theory to Analyze Telecenter Projects
• Farm Radio Network in developing countries
• What is Podcasting?
• Podcasting in Peru: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/1/hi/technology/4688882.stm
• Podcasting pilot project
• Communication for Development: www.comminit.com; www.afronets.org; www.itu.int/;  www.itu.int/ITU-D/index.asp
• You Can Hear Me Now by N. Sullivan (2007) (Video Clip)

• Assignment
• As a regular and continuous assignment for CVEN 4838/5838, contribute at least one video per week to the http://approvideo.org web site (Video or Project Blogs).