Technology and Development Cases
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A new prime minister seeks to set India on the path to sustainable growth via an ambitious new plan for digital inclusion. Filmed on location in Delhi, Bangalore and Mumbai, this case explores India’s massive campaign to create a biometric database of its 1.2 billion citizens, and bring banking and other services to India’s rural masses.
Web-based technologies offer promising opportunities to improve health services and lower costs. While here in the US, legal and bureaucratic barriers hold back the spread of “tele-medicine,” in India an exciting experiment aims to take online medicine to the masses. Filmed on location in NY, Chennai and rural Tamil Nadu.
This SIPA Technology, Media and Communications class project explores the ways that digital tools are changing politics and activism. The film profiles student political activists at Columbia and Temple University in Philadelphia, and follows their work in the lead up to the 2018 US Mid-Term elections.
This spring 2018 Capstone project studies an innovative “off line internet” device that allows Wikipedia and other educational content to be brought to students in the Peruvian Andes and Amazon regions.