Projects
The following projects are associated with both the Technology and Empowerment research area and the SCAI center.
Learn2Earn is a project that encourages learning through incentives that are delivered using a mobile phone.
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This project explores the impact of different forms of money and financial technologies on financial inclusion for low and variable income communities. It includes a number of interrelated initiatives from understanding the impact of digital money on auto-rickshaw drivers loan payments…
In the Harnessing AutoMobiles for Safety (HAMS) project, we use low-cost sensing devices to construct a virtual harness for vehicles. The goal is to monitor the state of the driver and how the vehicle is being driven in the context…
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Developing a smartphone-based paid crowdsourcing platform that offers local-language digital work and is accessible to people in rural communities