GENERAL READINGS:

• "Hans Rosling shows the best stats you've ever seen" (Video) http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/92  
• "Voices of the Vunerable" http://voicesofthevulnerable.com/?PROCESS=GET&ACTION=GET&file=content/GIVAS_Brochure_English.pdf&filename=GIVAS%20Brochure%20(English).pdf
• Roadmap for Open ICT Ecosystems http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/epolicy/roadmap.pdf

TECHNICAL READINGS:

• Intro to extreme programming and agile development: "Refactoring with Martin Fowler" http://www.artima.com/intv/refactor.html
• "The New Methodology" http://martinfowler.com/articles/newMethodology.html
• Intro to working as distributed teams: "Using an Agile Software Process with Offshore Development" http://martinfowler.com/articles/agileOffshore.html
• "Distributed Agile Development and the Death of Distance" http://www.thoughtworks.com/pdfs/distributed-agile-article-MS.pdf

• Applied Technology to Crisis Mapping and Early Warning in Humanitarian Settings By Patrick Meier and Jennifer Leaning (more: http://www.hhi.harvard.edu/programs-and-research/crisis-mapping-and-early-warning)

BOOKS:

• "Here Comes Everybody" by Clay Shirky
• "Mystery of Capital" by Hernando DeSoto
• "The Bottom Billion" by Paul Collier
• "Beautiful Data" by Toby Seagaran