https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse490c/18au/

There is an exciting new course that is open to all CSE majors who have completed CSE 143.  If you want to know how to have a huge impact on the world this is a very special opportunity with fantastic projects that can help real people. I highly encourage you to consider registering, there are 15 open spaces now.

SLN 23346  meets MWF 130-220 with Thurs sections at 130 or 230

Counts as a CSE senior elective course

CSE 490c, Information and Communication Technology for Development, Autumn 2018

This is an engineering course teaching the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to address specific needs of developing countries. While ICTs are having an enormous impact on livelihoods worldwide, deployment environments vary dramatically based on available infrastructure and technologies accessible to people. The goal of this course is provide background to develop and deploy technologies in a global setting that address development challenges. Specific topics will include: health information systems, data collection technologies, applications for basic mobile phones, user interface design for low literate populations, behavior change communication, voice based social networks, community cellular networks, open source projects for global good, low-cost smartphones, satellite image analysis and mobile financial services. The course will consider a wide range of application domains including health, education, agriculture, finance, and livelihood.

The class sessions will be a lecture / discussion format with readings and assignments. There will be a series of small group implementation projects to gain familiarity different technologies and software systems and to explore the design space for various applications.