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Lunch Seminar – Designing Technology for the “Other” 5 Billion
November 10, 2016 | 12:45 pm – 2:00 pm
Speaker: Prof. Umar Saif, Chairman of the Punjab Information Technology Board
With the advent of $50 smartphones, we can finally design software applications to fight poverty, disease and illiteracy for the “other” 5 billion people in the developing-world. In this talk, Prof. Umar Saif will share a series of systems designed for the 120 million citizens in the province of Punjab in Pakistan. These systems have been used for targeting 13 million Dengue containment activities, monitoring 53,000 schools in Punjab, tracking 3,700 vaccinators and collecting feedback from 11 million citizens.
Each system highlights a unique set of challenges and opportunities for designing systems for the developing-world. Prof. Saif will conclude by explaining the challenge of measuring socio-economic impact of projects in the developing-world and present a new smartphone-based platform aimed at democratizing data collection, surveys and randomized controlled trails at a large scale.
Buffet lunch served. No RSVP required. Space available on a first-come, first-served basis.