Meetups

• Presentation on 10 Tips to Succeed in Mobile Competitions in November 2012 (slides)

Videos by Forum Nokia (2011), IBM Smarter Cities (2011), and MobileActive (2009)

Pace University: Creating applications with impact, Blackberry Academic Spotlight. December 2011.

IBM Jazz: Supporting communities, speeding development, July 2011

IBM's Focus on Developer Communities Supports a Greater Cause, August 2011

Professor Christelle Scharff Teaches Mobile Tech in Senegal. Pace Press. http://www.pacepress.org/news/professor-christelle-scharff-teaches-mobile-tech-in-senegal-1.1166991. February 2010.

Pace Professor on the Forefront of Efforts to Train Students in Africa in Mobile Technologies. Pace Press Room. http://www.pace.edu/page.cfm?doc_id=14128&frame=/news/read.cfm?id=870, December 2009.

Mobile Bootcamps and Training the Next Generation of Mobile Application Developers in the Global South. Mobileactive.org. http://mobileactive.org/profile-series-christelle-scharff-teaching-mobiles, November 2009.

A New Generation of Mobile Developers: Mobile Camps in Africa, .org, http://mobileactive.org/mobile-camps-africa-bringing-next-generation-mobile-programmers, September 2009

Christelle Scharff, PhD, Develops Mobile Computer Applications to Promote Entrepreneurial Activity in Senegal. Pace University Seidenberg E-communique. http://www.pace.edu/pace/seidenberg//news-announcement/news-2009-2010/christelle-scharff-phd-develops-mobile-computer-applications-to-promote-entrepreneurial-activity-in-senegal, September 2009.

Conferences

• 2012

  • Scharff, Heng and Kulkarni. On the Difficulties for Students to Adhere to Scrum on Global Software Development Projects: Preliminary Results. Proceeding of the 2012 community building workshop on Collaborative teaching of globally distributed software development (CTGD), Workshop part of ICSE (International Conference on Software Engineering), Zurich, Switzerland, June 2012.

  • Scharff and Kulkarni. Global Software Development Projects as a Model for Capacity Building in M4D. Mobile for Development Conference (M4D), New Delhi, India, February 2012.

• 2011

  • Scharff, C. “An evolving collaborative model of working in students' global software development projects.”, Proceeding of the 2011 community building workshop on Collaborative teaching of globally distributed software development (CTGD), Workshop part of ICSE (International Conference on Software Engineering), Hawai, USA, May 2011.

  • Scharff, C. "Guiding Global Software Development Projects using Scrum and Agile with Quality Assurance." Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEET) 2011, Hawai, USA, May 2011.

  • Phal, P, Kong, M., Khim C., Srun, S., Khy, O, Smae, M.L., Por, H, Traxler, J.,and Scharff, C. "Awareness On Sexual Transmitted Diseases (STDs): Showcasing A Mobile Solution Designed for Young Cambodian People", Japan-Cambodia Joint Symposium on Information Systems and Communication Technology (JCAICT 2011), Phnom Penh, Cambodia, January 2011.

  • Scharff, C., Preira, J.M., and Tamgno, J. "Mobile Innovations for Improving Students Life on Campus: Showcasing Mobile Solutions Designed for Students by Students in Senegal" Mobile for Development (M4D), Kampala, Uganda, November 2010.

• 2010

  • Gotel, O., Kulkarni, V., Say, M., Scharff, C. and Sunetnanta, T. (2010) "Quality Indicators on Global Software Development Projects: Does "Getting to Know You" Really Matter?" Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice, Wiley InterScience, DOI: 10.1002/smr.474, ISSN: 1532-060X, June 2010. (Best paper award)

  • Transitioning to Distributed Development in Students’ Global Software Development Projects: The Role of Agile Methodologies and End-to-End Tooling, Scharff, Gotel, and Kulkarni, Proc. of the International Conference on Software Engineering Advances (ICSEA 2010), Nice, August 22 - 25, 2010.

  • Java ME for Emerging Markets and the Developing World. Scharff. Bird Of a Feather. Java One 2010, September 2010.

    • slides

• 2009

  • Mobile Innovations for Improving Students’ Life on Campus: Showcasing Mobile Solutions Designed for Students by Students in Senegal, Scharff, Preira, Tamgno, IASTED Ubiquitous Learning Conference, Boston, USA, December 2009.

  • A Model for Teaching Mobile Application Development for Social Changes: Implementation and Lessons Learned in Senegal, Scharff, Wasilewska, Wong, Bousso, Ndiaye, Sarr, 1st International Symposium on Intelligent Mobile Technologies for Social Change (IMT4SC'09), International Multiconference on Computer Science and Information Technology, Mrągowo, Poland, 10/11/2009 [Abstract] [Slides]

  • Developing Template Applications for Social Advancement, Wasielewska and Wong, 1st International Symposium on Intelligent Mobile Technologies for Social Change (IMT4SC'09), International Multiconference on Computer Science and Information Technology, Mrągowo, Poland, 10/11/2009.

  • Mobile Applications for Informal Economies, Tapsie Giridher, Raksik Kim, Divya Rai, Adam Hanover, Jun Yu, Fatima Zarinni, Christelle Scharff, Anita Wasilewska begin_of_the_skype_highlighting     end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting     end_of_the_skype_highlighting, Jennifer L. Wong, 1st International Symposium on Intelligent Mobile Technologies for Social Change (IMT4SC'09), International Multiconference on Computer Science and Information Technology, Mrągowo, Poland, 10/11/2009.

  • A Competition-based Model for Fostering Community Building in International Collaborations, Scharff, E-learning Africa 2009, Dakar, Senegal, 5/27-29/2009 [Abstract] [Slides]

  • A Bootcamp on Mobile Phone Application Development: Implementation in Senegal and Model for Replications, Scharff and all, NCIIA Conference 2009, Washington DC, 3/19-21/2009 [Abstract] [Poster]

  • Sustainable Technology-based Entrepreneurship for the Senegalese Market, Scharff and all, NCIIA Workshop on Sustainable Vision, Washington DC, 3/18/2009 [Slides]

  • Mobile Computing for Informal Economies, February Mobile Tech 4 Social Change New York: A Barcamp, New York City, 2/31/2009 (Anita Wasilewska, Jennifer Wong and the Stony Brook students: Raksik Kim, Jun Yuan, Tapsie Giridher, Justin Lapre, Fatima Zarinni) ( slides)

    • Blog post Don't bury failures, share them in Global Health Report by journalist Christine Gorman at http://globalhealthreport.blogspot.com/2009/02/dont-bury-failures-share-them.html

• 2008

  • Preparing Students in Africa for Social Entrepreneurship in Mobile Technology: Current and Future Efforts in Senegal, Mobile for Development (M4D), Karlstad, Sweden, 12/13/2008 [Abstract] [Poster]

  • Students to Develop Applications to Empower Women in Senegal. Mobile Active 2008, Johannesburg, South Africa, 10/14/2008 [ Abstract] [Slides]