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The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals, like other mechanisms for conceptualizing societal wellbeing, center problems that are of immediate and pervasive importance: gender equality, world hunger, global health, quality education, and more. ...

Nearly 100 million families across the world rely on cotton farming for their livelihood. Cotton is particularly vulnerable to pest attacks, leading to overuse of pesticides, lost income for farmers, and in some cases farmer suicides. We address this ...

The developing world has increasingly relied on data driven policies. Numerous development agencies have pushed for on-ground data collection to support the development work they pursue. Many governments have launched their own efforts for frequent ...

We introduced Product Line Engineering (PLE) [1] with the objectives of 1) achieving shorter release cycles, 2) improving product quality, and 3) increasing cost-effectiveness.

This paper shares our experiences in adopting PLE, describing the challenges ...

In 2010 the first edition of ACM DEV was held at Royal Holloway, University of London. The conference was co-located with the ICTD conference, but the idea was to facilitate a more technical conversation between researchers about the state of the art in ...

Classes in social innovation, technology-for-development and design thinking have become increasingly popular in recent years. On the one hand, this might be seen as a good thing. After all, the world needs as many smart, engaged citizens as it can get, ...

Global development organizations rely on the essential affordances provided by both paper and digital materials to navigate hurdles posed by poor infrastructure, low connectivity, linguistic differences, and other socioeconomic constraints that render ...

There are hundreds of millions of stray dogs roaming the streets all over the world. These dogs are seen by some as scourges and by others as objects of pity. Roving dogs have mauled humans and spread rabies, and stray dogs have also been the victims of ...

Software development projects often utilize global resources to reduce costs. Typically a large volume of unstructured office documents are involved. Unfortunately, in many cases the low quality of unstructured documents due to various location-related ...

The variability model is a central artifact in product line engineering. Existing approaches typically treat this as a single centralized artifact which describes the configuration of other artifacts. This approach is very problematic in distributed ...

Global Development has become a mainstream trend. Many companies today conduct development projects in teams which are distributed across sites and countries. While Global Development brings several advantages such as proximity to markets and customers, ...

The report presents the essence of experience from hundreds of development projects distributed over locations in eight countries with different languages and culture. The report distinguishes between distributed projects within the own organisation and ...

CatePoverty and the associated su erings remain a global challenge, with over a billion people surviving on less than a dollar a day. Technology, applied appropriately, can help improve their lives. Despite some clear examples of technical research ...

Distributed team processes are becoming more pervasive because of geographically distributed development and complex Software-Intensive Systems of Systems (SISOS) with many layers of breadth and depth. Software is developed collaboratively in multiple ...

FreeBSD is a sophisticated operating system developed and maintained as open-source software by a team of more than 350 individuals located throughout the world. This study uses developer location data, the configuration management repository, and ...

We report on the experiences of Siemens Corporation in nine globally-distributed software development projects. These projects represent a range of collaboration models, from co-development to outsourcing of components to outsourcing the software for an ...

Global software development challenges traditional techniques of software engineering, such as peer reviews or teamwork. Effective teamwork and coaching of engineers highly contribute towards successful projects. We will evaluate within this case study ...

The global computer-mediated communication network is growing rapidly, but it is concentrated in the affluent parts of industrialized nations. While this could widen the income gap between industrialized and less industrialized areas, it also presents ...