Intel/India Community Technology Center

Our Team: Jim, Neha, Jessie (Coach- Annie)

Intel Contacts: Ashwini Asokan-- ashwini.asokan (at) intel.com, Muki Hansteen-Izora--muki.hansteen-izora (at) intel.com

Timeline:

May 2nd- formalize persona

May 16- complete scenario

Contact info:

Jim Cell 512.538.8168

Jessie Cell 760.271.7422

Neha Cell 650.793.2899

Intel Meeting Notes

Intel Research And Articles

Intel Personas

Field Trip-- Intel Computer Clubhouse

Intel Scenarios

Intel Layout

Internet Cafe Activities:

• chatting online/email
• looking for jobs
• studying/cheatsheets for high-stakes exams/checking exam results
• basic PC applications- Word, etc
• social networking
• news
• daily horoscopes
• phone calls/skype

CyberCafes can be limiting: quiet, segregated,

Ideas for Center:

• common meeting space, community information displayed
• bulletin boards- job postings, marriage proposals, coordinating transportation, distributing products, market info/transport
• common kitchen- demonstrating aspects of digital home
• distribute teacher/school info- incentives to help improve teach absenteeism

Images of cyber cafes in india and beyond

May 5th- Field Trip to Intel Computer Clubhouse- EPA Boys and Girls Club

Pictures

Vera Mihalchik article on cultural transmission and learning. Not exactly what you are talking about but in the same ballpark as how learning and culutural transmission happens or doesn't happen:

Michalchik, V.S. (1997). The display of cultural knowledge in cultural transmission: Models of participation from the pacific island of Kosrae. In G. D. Spindler (ed.) Education and Cultural Process: Anthropological Approaches. Waveland Press, Inc. Prospect Heights, IL. Pp. 393 – 426.

layout.pdf

Our final report is located at http://simula.stanford.edu/~neha/report.pdf

(It is a 100MB file)