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Kentaro Toyama
W K Kellogg Professor of Community Information and Professor of Information, School of Information
University of Michigan
Education/Degree:
1 Computer Science (Yale University)
About
Kentaro Toyama is W.K. Kellogg Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information, a fellow of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT, and author of Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology. In previous lives, Kentaro taught at Ashesi University in Ghana and co-founded Microsoft Research India, where he did research on the application of information and communication technology to international development.
Current Work
- non-technological requirements of novice entrepreneurs in Detroit
- public libraries as a hub for local community development
- reduction of bias against ethnic minorities through perspective-taking and value elicitation
- evidence for technological amplification in global society
- causes of cross-cultural differences in gender engagement with STEM subjects
- religious organizations as partners for humanistic social change etc.
Research Area Keyword(s)
Aspiration-based development, technology and social change