Graduate School

For about half of a year now, I have been researching graduate schools. I realize that the best way to enter the field of ICT4D is to learn from some of the best ICT4D researchers in the world. One thing I realized with the field of ICT4D is that it is not about finding degrees in ICT4D it is about finding you niche and making a contribution to the ICT4D field. ICT4D is a broad field, there are many sectors with the field (m4d, health informatics, agriculture, etc) My contribution is HCI!

Here is a list of schools with great ICT4D resources in the US. Please suggest more if you know any!

• Georgia Institute of Technology - Michael Best is world renowned for his work with sustainability and human computer interaction in the ICT4D context - http://mikeb.inta.gatech.edu/
• University of California, Berkeley - Name should say enough, quality school =quality education! Within the iSchool there is the ICTD center. - http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/centersandclinics/ictd 
• Carnegie Mellon University - TechBridgeWorld @ Carnegie Mellon University does some great work - http://www.techbridgeworld.org/
• Michigan State University - Kurt Demaagd, Jenny and thier work in Tanzania - http://tc.msu.edu/ict4d
• University of Colorado, Boulder - A degree in ICTD - http://www.colorado.edu/atlas/
• Indiana University - Purdue University, Indianapolis - Currently working on an Open MRS project - http://informatics.iupui.edu/
• University of Michigan - Graduate degree's with specialization's in Community Informatics (ICT4D) - http://www.si.umich.edu/
• University of Washington - Technology and Social Change Group - http://cis.washington.edu/

And there are many many more schools that offer ICT4D resources. I'm still searching myself. There are many more schools outside the US as well! I will post as I find. 

My professor once told me that as long as a graduate program as ONE classes related to ICT4D, the program was worth researching. Here is a list of ICT4D classes compiled by Revi Sterling of the ATLAS institute. 

• https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AjCm4tlQ5fSrdHdxLVV6d1d1aGxhdzdnQkt3cGgxN0E&hl=en#gid=0