TEK Publications

The best overview of TEK is in this PDF presentation from March, 2007. Additional papers, theses, talks, citations, and press coverage appear below.

Papers

• Searching the World Wide Web in Low-Connectivity Communities.   (PDF version)
  William Thies, Janelle Prevost, Tazeen Mahtab, Genevieve T. Cuevas, Saad Shakhshir, Alexandro Artola, Binh D. Vo, Yuliya Litvak, Sheldon Chan, Sid Henderson, Mark Halsey, Libby Levison, and Saman Amarasinghe.
  Proceedings of the 11th International World Wide Web Conference, Global Community Track.
  May, 20002.

• Providing Web Search Capability for Low-Connectivity Communities.
  Libby Levison, William Thies, and Saman Amarasinghe.
  Proceedings of the 2002 International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS'02):
  Social Implications of Information and Communication Technology.
  June, 2002.

• The TEK Search Engine.
  Libby Levison, Bill Thies, and Saman Amarasinghe.
  Proceedings of the 2001 Workshop on Development by Design.
  July, 2001.

Theses

• Low-Bandwidth Web Access with Tandem Proxies.
  Samidh Chakrabarti.
  M.Eng Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 2002.
• A Reliable Low Bandwidth Email-based Communication Protocol.
  Janelle Prevost.
  M.Eng Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 2001.

Talks

• Providing Internet Search for Low-Connectivity Regions.   (abstract)
  William Thies.
  Princeton University, March 2007.

• Providing Internet Search for Low-Connectivity Communities.   (abstract)
  William Thies, Google New York, July 2005.
  Saman Amarasinghe, Berkeley TIER Workshop, October 2005.

• Searching the World Wide Web in Low-Connectivity Communities.
  Libby Levison.
  11th International World Wide Web Conference, Global Community Track.
  May, 2002.

Citations

• The Impact of ICT on Rural Development in Solomon Islands: The PFNet Case.   (See page 42)
  Anand Chand, David Leeming, Edo Stork, Alan Agassi, and Randall Biliki.
  ICT Capacity Building at USP Project, the University of the South Pacific.
  March, 2005.
  

Press Coverage

• Science Search Made Easier in Developing Nations.
  CNET News.
  December 13, 2005.

• Elsevier Collaborates with MIT Researchers to Increase Access to Scientific Web across the Developing World.
  Elsevier Press Release.
  December 13, 2005.

• Radio Mail Links Pacific Islands.
  BBC News.
  April 6, 2004.

• October 2003: The World radio program includes TEK in their feature on the digital divide.

• July, 2003: Radio 10 of Buenos Aires, Argentina features TEK in this interview (3MB WAV file, in Spanish) with radio host Pinky. Thanks to Juan Reyes for representing TEK!

• July, 2003: BBC News publishes an article about TEK, and TEK is featured in this segment of the BBC Go Digital radio program. (The article is also available in Spanish, and for low-bandwidth users).

• Search with TEK.
  The Deccan Herald.
  May, 2003.