Andrew Babson is a doctoral candidate in the School of Education at the University of Michigan. He studied social anthropology at the London School of Economics (MSc., 2002) and liberal arts at the University of Paris IV- Sorbonne and Xavier University (Honors A.B., 1998). Currently Andrew is working with Jay Lemke at the University of Michigan and Dan Wagner at the University of Pennsylvania, managing the BFI project in South Africa. Through his affiliation with Professor Wagner and ILI, he has presented his work on BFI at the CIES, Penn Forum, WSIS and ICT4D conferences. His dissertation research is in South Africa's Limpopo province on multilingualism, the role of technology in social change, and the history of education.   Other research interests include socio-cultural considerations in software development, the impact of ICTs for literacy among disadvantaged, rural, low-literate populations.