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  1. Needs Versus Aspirations, or Why Mobile Phone Apps to Save the World Rarely Work

    February 17, 2015 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

    The funding for a community-radio program intended to address agricultural needs is cut off when the community decides it most wants to air local music. A computer-based program intended to improve language skills ends up enabling a career upgrade. A mobile operator in India says that while people claim to need health and education, what they pay for are the “ABCs”: astrology, Bollywood, and cricket.

    These examples could be interpreted as a clash between the two sides of “needs and aspirations,” a phrase that is commonly invoked to indicate the areas that social policies and interventions should address. In this talk, Professor Kentaro Toyama will present some preliminary thoughts on the difference between needs and aspirations, and he suggest that while needs are well-understood and operationalized, they are not as powerful a motive force as aspirations, which are under-theorized and often overlooked in practice.

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