Ph.D. Dissertation
Refereed Journal Publications
Refereed Conference Publications
- Tapan S. Parikh and Edward D. Lazowska, Designing an Architecture for
Delivering Mobile Information Services to the Rural Developing
World, WWW 2006, May 23-26, 2006, Edinburgh,
Scotland
- Paul Javid and Tapan S. Parikh, Augmenting Rural Supply Chains with a Location-Enhanced Mobile Information System, ICTD 2006, May 25-26, 2006, Berkeley, CA
- Tapan S. Parikh, Rural Microfinance Service Delivery: Gaps, Inefficiencies and Emerging Solutions, Poster, ICTD 2006, May 25-26, 2006, Berkeley, CA
- Tapan S. Parikh, Paul Javid, Sasikumar K., Kaushik Ghosh and
Kentaro Toyama, Mobile Phones
and Paper Documents: Evaluating a New Approach for Capturing
Microfinance Data in Rural India, ACM Conference on Computer-Human
Interaction (CHI), April 24-27, 2006, Montreal, Canada
Refereed Workshop / Short Publications
- Yael Schwartzman and Tapan S. Parikh, Using CAM-equipped Mobile Phones for Procurement and Quality Control at a Rural Coffee Cooperative, MobEA V, Mobile Web in the Developing World, May 8th, 2007, Banff, Canada
- Yael Schwartzman and Tapan S. Parikh, Establishing Relationships for Designing Rural Information Systems, Experience Report, ACM Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (CHI), April 30-May 3, 2007, San Jose, CA
- Yael Schwartzman and Tapan S. Parikh, Establishing Relationships for Designing Rural Information Systems, CHI Workshop on User-Centered Design and International Development (UCD4ID), April 28, 2007, San Jose, CA
- Tapan S. Parikh, Position Paper: Mobile Phones may be the Right Devices for Supporting Developing World Accessibility, but is the WWW the Right Service Delivery Model?, International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility (W4A), May 22-23, 2006, Edinburgh, Scotland
- Tapan S. Parikh, Designing an Architecture for Delivering Mobile Information Services to the Rural Developing World, Doctoral Consortium, IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (WMCSA / HotMobile), April 6-7, 2006, Semiahmoo Resort,
Washington
- Tapan S. Parikh, CAM: A
Mobile Interaction Framework for Digitizing Paper Processes in the
Developing World, Doctoral Symposium, ACM Symposium on User
Interface Software and Technology (UIST), October 23-26, 2005, Seattle,
Washington
- Tapan S. Parikh and Paul Javid, CAM: A Mobile Interaction
Framework for Digitizing Paper Processes in the Developing World,
Demonstration, ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and
Technology (UIST), October 23-26, 2005, Seattle, Washington
- Tapan S. Parikh, CAM: A Mobile
Paper-based Information Services Architecture for Remote Rural Areas
in the Developing World, Doctoral Consortium, IEEE Symposium on
Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC), September 20-24, 2005,
Dallas, Texas
Other Papers
- Sasi Kumar, Tapan S. Parikh and Vijay Pratap Singh Aditya, Enabling Banking for Rural
Communities using CAM ICT Framework, CAB Calling Magazine, College of
Agricultural Banking (CAB), Reserve Bank of India (RBI),
April-June 2006
- Tapan S. Parikh, Rural
Microfinance Service Delivery: Gaps, Inefficiencies and Emerging Solutions, Book Chapter, Electronic Banking With the Poor: Increasing the Outreach and Sustainability of Microfinance through ICT Innovation, Foundation for Development Cooperation, 2005
- Tapan S. Parikh, Vijay Pratap Singh Aditya and Muthu Velayutham, Automated Forms Processing and Paper User Interfaces for Data Collection from Village Microfinance Groups, Unpublished Draft, 2003
Popular Press
- Steve Barth, Give A Village A Phone...How Mobility Is Revolutionizing Microfinance, Mobile Enterprise, December 2007
- Will Lemke, "Cells Making Cents", Current TV, November 28, 2007
- Pierre Prakash, "Le téléphone s'invente au Sud", Libération, November 27, 2007
- Sujata Dutta Sachdeva, "Future stock", The Times of India, September 9, 2007
- James Surowiecki, "Simple, powerful mobile tools for developing economies", Technology Review, September 2007
- Seema Singh, "Connecting to progress", The Telegraph, August 27, 2007
- Jessica Marshall, "Smartphones are the PCs of the developing world", New Scientist, August 1, 2007
- Frederick Noronha, "Taking hi-tech solutions to poor villages", Indo-Asian News Service, June 21st, 2007
- Will Mari, "UW student connects technology, social issues", The Daily, March 8th, 2007
- Bellamy Pailthorp, "Cell Phone as Computer", KPLU News, March 8th, 2007
- Hannah Hickey, "High tech for global justice: UW computer scientist designs custom cell phones", University Week, March 1, 2007
- Alex Hutchinson, "Cellphones answer the call for computers in rural India", Ottawa Citizen, April 27, 2006
- Rob Knies, "Making Cellphones Enhance Village Economies in Rural India", Microsoft News and Highlights, March, 2006
- Mason Inman, "Welcome to the open source cellphone", New Scientist, March 11, 2006