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Joyojeet Pal is an NSF Computing Innovation fellow at the Univ. of Colorado, Boulder and an Affiliate Instructor with the School of Information. He received his PhD in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California at Berkeley. Joyojeet has examined from a public policy perspective various uses of computers in developing regions - these include computer uses in Indian primary schools, in public internet centers in urban Brazil, and in telecenters in India. He has also worked on design issues around technology interventions in developing regions, studying how young children seat themselves in front of computers and share the mouse and keyboard in situations where one computer per child is beyond affordability. His design collaborations include work on shared screens, and shared input devices for children’s computing, and online applications for tracking development aid. His current theoretical work is in the use of computers as aspirational discourse in popular Indian cinema, and in the use of technology and technocracy in electoral politics. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce and Economics from Sydenham College, University of Mumbai. He currently teaches CSE 590 PMP (Information and Communication Technology in the Developing World).

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