Theses and Dissertation
- Tapan S. Parikh, Designing an Architecture for Delivering Mobile Information Services to the Rural Developing World, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Washington, 2007
- Tapan S. Parikh, WIL: A Compiler Intermediate Language with Explicit Support for Representations, Masters Thesis, University of Washington, 1999
- Tapan S. Parikh, Cation Binding Selectivity of EF-Hand Sites: Perturbation Dynamics of Galactose Binding Protein, Honors Thesis, Brown University, 1996
Refereed Journal Publications
Refereed Conference Publications
- Brian DeRenzi, Neal Lesh, Tapan Parikh, Clayton Sims, Marc
Mitchell, Werner Maokola, Mwajuma Chemba, Yuna Hamisi, David
Schellenberg and Gaetano
Borriello, e-IMCI: Improving
Pediatric Health Care in Low-Income Countries, ACM Conference
on Computer-Human Interaction (CHI), April 7-10, 2008, Florence,
Italy
- Tapan S. Parikh, Neil Patel and Yael Schwartzman, A Survey of Information Systems Reaching Small
Producers in Global Agricultural Value Chains, ICTD 2007, December 15-16, 2007, Bangalore, India
- 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, 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
- Tapan S. Parikh, Kaushik Ghosh, Apala Chavan, Puneet Syal and
Sarit Arora, Design Studies for a
Financial Management System for Micro-credit Groups in Rural
India, ACM Conference on Universal Usability (CUU), November 10-11,
2003, Vancouver, Canada, Best Paper Award
Refereed Workshop / Short Publications
- Neil Patel and Tapan S. Parikh, Designing a Farmer-centric Organic Certification System, CHI Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction for Community and International Development (HCI4CID), April 5-6, 2008, Florence, Italy
- Yaw Anokwa, Christian Allen and Tapan Parikh, Deploying a Medical Record System in Rural Rwanda, CHI Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction for Community and International Development (HCI4CID), April 5-6, 2008, Florence, Italy
- Brian DeRenzi, Tapan Parikh, Neal Lesh, Marc Mitchell, and Gaetano Borriello, Striking a Balance between User Comfort and Maximizing Benefit in Developing World Information Systems, CHI Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction for Community and International Development (HCI4CID), April 5-6, 2008, Florence, Italy
- Brian DeRenzi, Krzysztof Gajos, Tapan Parikh, and Gaetano Borriello, Opportunities for Intelligent Interfaces Aiding Healthcare in Low-Income Regions, IUI Workshop on Intelligent User Interfaces for Developing Regions (IUI4DR), January 13, 2008, Canary Islands, Spain
- Brian DeRenzi, Yaw Anokwa, Tapan Parikh, and Gaetano Borriello, Reliable Data Collection in Highly Disconnected Environments using Mobile Phones, SIGCOMM Workshop on Networked Systems for Developing Regions (NSDR), August 27, 2007, Kyoto, Japan
- 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
- Emma Brunskill and Tapan S. Parikh, Lessons from Prototyping a Microfinance Distance Learning Tool, CHI Workshop on User-Centered Design and International Development (UCD4ID), April 28, 2007, San Jose, CA
- Tapan S. Parikh, 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
- Kaushik Ghosh, Tapan Parikh and Apala Chavan Design Considerations for a Financial
Management System for Rural, Semi-literate Users, Short Paper, ACM
Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (CHI), April 5-10, 2003, Fort
Lauderdale, Florida
Other Papers
- Tapan S. Parikh, Kannaiyan Sasikumar and Sundarmoorthy
Olaganathan, Promoting Quality Bookkeeping in Self-help Groups:
The Mahakalasm Management Information System, Learning Paper,
SEEP Network, November 2006
- Tapan S. Parikh and James Dailey, XML-based Data Standards for Microfinance Information Exchange, Chapter, IT @ Financial Services, ICFAI (Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India), December 2006
- 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, Chapter, Electronic Banking With the Poor: Increasing the Outreach and Sustainability of Microfinance through ICT Innovation, Foundation for Development Cooperation, 2005
- Tapan S. Parikh, "Tech-tip: Mo-Ap", ICT Update, Issue 13, September, 2003
- Tapan S. Parikh, "A Synthesis of Complexity", Deccan Herald, June 15th, 2003
- 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
- Vijay Pratap Singh Aditya and Tapan S. Parikh, Mahakalasm Management Information System - A Functional Study, Unpublished Draft, 2003
- Pat Hall, Tapan S. Parikh, Shailey Minocha and Venkatesh Hariharan, Localisation in South Asia, International Journal of Localisation, 2003, Localisation Research Center, Dublin
- Tapan S. Parikh, Knowledge Network for Augmenting Grassroots Innovations, IICD / InfoDev ICT Stories, April 2001
Invited Presentations / Exhibitions
- Establishing
Relationships for Designing Rural Information Systems, May 29,
2008, Innovators and Geniuses event, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
- Establishing
Relationships for Designing Rural Information Systems, February
28, 2008, IConference Panel, University of California, Los Angeles,
CA
- Designing Appropriate Computing Technologies for Rural Development, March 5, 2008, Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS), Berkeley, CA Video
- Designing Appropriate Computing Technologies for Rural Development, May 24, 2007, Media Lab, MIT, Cambridge, MA Video
- Designing Appropriate Computing Technologies for Rural Development, April 25, 2007, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
- Designing Appropriate Computing Technologies for Rural Development, April 19, 2007, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas, Austin, TX
- Designing Appropriate Computing Technologies for Rural Development, April 5, 2007, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT, Cambridge, MA
- Designing Appropriate Computing Technologies for Rural Development, March 30, 2007, Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom
- Designing Appropriate Computing Technologies for Rural Development, March 28, 2007, Department of Computer Science, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY
- Designing Appropriate Computing Technologies for Rural Development, March 26, 2007, Department of Computer Science, Tufts University, Somerville, MA
- Designing Appropriate Computing Technologies for Rural Development, March 22, 2007, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Designing Appropriate Computing Technologies for Rural Development, March 19, 2007, School of Information, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
- Designing Appropriate Computing Technologies for Rural Development, March 14, 2007, Department of Computer Science, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA
- Designing Appropriate Computing Technologies for Rural Development, March 13, 2007, School of Information, University of California, Berkeley, CA
- Designing Appropriate Computing Technologies for Rural Development, March 1, 2007, Department of Informatics, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA
- Designing Appropriate Computing Technologies for Rural Development, February 27, 2007, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA Video
- Designing Appropriate Computing Technologies for Rural Development, February 20, 2007, School of Information, University of Texas, Austin, TX
- WIRED Nextfest,
September 2006, Jacob Javits Center, New York, NY
- Technologies for Communities: Managing Information from the Grassroots, UNIDO Bridging the
Divide, April 2006, University of California, Berkeley, CA
- Technologies for
Communities: Managing Information from the Grassroots, People,
Computers and Design Seminar,
February 2006, Stanford University, Palo Alto,
CA Video
- Technologies for
Communities: Managing Information from the Grassroots, Developing Regions Seminar, February 2006, Intel Research, Berkeley, CA
- Technologies for Communities: Managing Information from the Grassroots, October 2005, Google, Mountain View, CA
- Technologies for Communities: Managing Information from the Grassroots, August 2005, Human Factors International, Mumbai, India
- Technologies for Communities: Managing Information from the Grassroots, Microfinance MIS Workshop: Innovations and Experiences, August 2005, Madurai, India
- Technologies for Communities: Managing Information from the Grassroots, July 2005, Microsoft Research, Bangalore, India
- Technologies for Communities: Managing Information from the Grassroots, June 2005, Ricoh Innovations, Menlo Park, CA
- Technologies for
Communities: Managing Information from the Grassroots, UNIDO Bridging the
Divide, April 2005, University of California, Berkeley, CA
- MobileTeller: A Mobile Phone Application for Capturing Remote Financial Transactions, ICT4B Workshop, August 2004, University of California, Berkeley, CA
- Multimedia Localisation in the Indic Context, LRC 2002, November 2002, University College, Dublin, Ireland
- Moderator, Indic-Computing Workshop, September 2002, Hewlett-Packard Indian Software Operations, Bangalore, India
- HISAAB: An Experiment
in Numerical Interfaces, Panel Discussion, Baramati Initiative on ICT and Development, May 2002, Baramati, India
- HISAAB: An Experiment in Numerical Interfaces, Demo, UN ICT Task Force Asia Regional Meeting, March 2002, Vigyan Bhavan, Delhi, India
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
- Frederick Noronha, "Microfinance to Get the IT Edge", Express Computer, July 1st, 2002