Human-Computer Interaction for Development: The Past, Present and Future. Melissa Ho, Thomas Smyth, Matthew Kam, and Andy Dearden. In Information Technology and International Development (ITID), Vol. 5, No. 4. (attached, hci4d_history.pdf)
Improving English Education Among Low Income Children Via Cellphones (invited proposal to Pearson Foundation)
One of the very first NSF-funded IT-4D projects was an ITR (very large nsf grant) out of UC Berkeley, where I was a PI/faculty at the time. This is optional reading, but an interesting perspective on the CS issues that folks thought were important almost a decade ago. (ICT4B-nsf.pdf)
Matt's slides
Mankoff & etc Ubicomp 2009 and 2010 low income papers
http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/
http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/Born_Into_Brothels/60034778
http://www.amazon.com/Half-Sky-Oppression-Opportunity-Worldwide/dp/0307387097/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1282826809&sr=8-1
http://www.amazon.com/Imagining-India-Idea-Renewed-Nation/dp/0143116673/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1282826862&sr=8-1
http://www.techbridgeworld.org/index.html
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/tcingc/contact.html
http://www.cmu.edu/news/archive/2009/January/jan30_frazerfaculty.shtml
http://ict4djester.org/
I didn't mention local resources for e-health (Pitt) and e-agriculture. I'll be happy to dig up some contacts if students are interested.