[change] Panel on Interactive Voice Response Systems in the Developing World

[Aditya Vashistha]

Hi All,

If you are attending ICTD conference, please consider checking out Interactive
Voice Response Systems in the Developing World
panelhttp://bitly.com/ivrictd2013 on
Dec 7.

We have experts from Freedom Fone, IVR Junction, Awaaz.De, GramVaani and
EngageSpark to share their experiences with you. The session will explore
the role of IVR systems to collect data from, provide information to and
create knowledge communities for marginalized communities. Panelists and
the audience will discuss specific ICTD application areas for IVR
platforms, success and failure stories of deployments in the developing
world, lessons learnt and future challenges.

Best,
Aditya
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[change] Call for papers @ IndiaHCI'15 - 17-19 December 2015 IIT Guwahati

[Aditya Vashistha]

Please find below the CFP for India HCI 2015 conference.

Aditya

-- Forwarded message --
From: Aditya Vashistha adit...@cs.washington.edu
Date: Wed, May 27, 2015 at 8:53 AM
Subject: Call for papers @ IndiaHCI'15 - 17-19 December 2015 IIT Guwahati
To: change@change.washington.edu


--- call for papers @ IndiaHCI'15 ---



We are pleased to inform you that that HCI Professionals of India have
partnered
with Department of Design, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati to
organize “7th International Conference on HCI – IndiaHCI 2015” during
17-19, December, 2015 at IIT Guwahati, Guwahati, India.



This premier research event proposes to bring together the best minds in
academia, research and industry to discuss the recent developments and
innovations in HCI. Technical sessions will cover topics like gestural,
tangible, persuasive interfaces, user research and usability studies, novel
interaction methods, approaches and systems, cognitive psychology,
evaluation methods and frameworks and HCI in education, health,
agriculture, e-governance and accessibility. There will be full and short
papers, workshops, industrial case studies, PhD consortium, panel
discussion and student presentations of latest works from the HCI
community. Links for each track is given below.



The last conference proceedings have been published by ACM proceedings, and
we hope to continue the tradition this year as well. The conference
presents a forum for direct contact with eminent academicians, researchers
and students in the area of HCI, from India and abroad.



We invite researchers, industry professionals, students, scholars and
faculty members from your organization to actively contribute research
activities to this prestigious event.



Conference website: http://indiahci2015.com/

Full papers: http://indiahci2015.com/fullpapers.html

Short papers: http://indiahci2015.com/shortpapers.html

Industrial case studies: http://indiahci2015.com/ics.html

PhD consortium: http://indiahci2015.com/phd.html

Student Research Consortium: http://indiahci2015.com/src.html

Student Design Consortium: http://indiahci2015.com/sdc.html
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[change] [Change] Job opportunities with engageSPARK

[Aditya Vashistha]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Temina Madon tma...@berkeley.edu
Date: Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 5:09 AM
Subject: [TIER] Job opportunities with engageSPARK
To: t...@tier.cs.berkeley.edu


Check out these job opportunities with engageSPARK.com, a non-profit
software startup based in the Philippines:

engageSPARK enables anyone, anywhere to build and launch SMS and Voice Call
alerts, surveys, reminders, educational curriculums, and on-demand
information campaigns to 200+ countries - within minutes.

Fellowship Program
We are looking for talented people who are passionate and ready to step up
to make change in our world - to help us tackle global poverty at scale by
building new businesses around the world. This is an unpaid volunteer
position that offers the unique opportunity to contribute to and learn
about building social businesses while working with a distinguished and
diverse team. Find out more:
http://engagespark.com/static/media/uploads/jd-fellows-tech.pdf

Java Software Engineer
Does Java mean more than coffee to you? We are looking for a Java Software
Engineer to help us architect, build and launch the engageSPARK platform.
Find out more: http://engagespark.com/static/media/uploads/jd-java-dev.pdf

Python Software Engineer
Do you love solving problems at scale using Python? We seek a Python
Software Engineer to help us build and launch the engageSPARK platform.
Find out more: http://engagespark.com/static/media/uploads/jd-python-dev.pdf



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[change] OppLabs Fellowships: Business Operations, Marketing, Software Engineer

[Aditya Vashistha]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Ravi Agarwal 
Date: Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 9:25 AM
Subject: OppLabs Fellowships: Business Operations, Marketing, Software
Engineer
To: "adityavashistha.j...@gmail.com" 


Hi Aditya,



We’re searching for unique people that are passionate and ready to step up
to make change in our world – to help us tackle global poverty at scale by
building not-for-profit social businesses that impact the lives of millions
around the world.



engageSPARK is a groundbreaking platform that empowers organizations to
dramatically extend the reach and effectiveness of their pro-poor programs.
engageSPARK is the *EASIEST* to use engagement platform that empowers
non-IT staff at organizations of any size to build interactive Automated
Call (IVR) & 2-Way SMS programs to engage their beneficiaries at scale,
quickly, and affordably. Unlike all other tools that require training or IT
people, have implementation or monthly subscription fees, and lack global
telco integration, engageSPARK is used to build programs in minutes,
cheaper, and in any of the 200+ countries.



engageSPARK’s global customers include UN’s World Food Programme, Asian
Development Bank, Mercy Corps, Intel, and a global top 5 Internet company
(we can’t name them).  These organizations and many others have used
engageSPARK in 90+ countries to make social change in the areas of
Agriculture, Health, Finance, Elections, Refugee Services, Disaster
Planning & Response, and even increasing access to jobs for people living
in remote areas with very limited opportunities. We’re a not-for-profit
social enterprise.



We’ve made quite a bit of progress since our launch a year ago: the GSBI
Social Enterprise Accelerator
 accepted us
as one of the top 17 social enterprises globally for its program. The
Mulago Foundation  awarded us its Rainer
Fellowship for 2016. DBS-NUS named us a top 12 Social Venture in Asia
.  And
Forbes Magazine recognized engageSPARK as a “Leading Startup.”



The positions are based in beautiful Cebu City, Philippines – which was
ranked #4 in 6 Global Alternative Cities to Silicon Valley to Start Your
Company !



Thank you for forwarding to your networks!



Cheers,

-Ravi

http://linkedin.com/in/raviagarwal

World’s EASIEST Automated Phone Call (IVR) and 2-Way SMS:
www.engageSPARK.com 



“*Leading Startup*” by Forbes Magazine.

Trusted by Intel Corp, Asian Development Bank, UN WFP, Mercy Corps, etc. in
90+ countries!



*Read about the results of our work with Mercy Corps to help 20,000
survivors of Typhoon Haiyan – **Hitting it home: Soap opera campaigns
encourage financial literacy in the Philippines*

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[change] Fwd: [TIER] Bill Thies wins Macarthur Fellowship`

[Aditya Vashistha]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Joyojeet Pal 
Date: Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 1:46 PM
Subject: [TIER] Bill Thies wins Macarthur Fellowship`
To: t...@tier.cs.berkeley.edu


Great news for ICTD - Bill Thies of Microsoft Research Bangalore is one of
this year's MacArthur fellows. Many of this list may already know of
http://99dots.org/ and http://cgnetswara.org/ and Bill's legendary
reputation as a mentor of young scholars in technology and development.

https://www.macfound.org/fellows/973/

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[change] Talk by Nimmi Rangaswamy (IIIT Hyderabad) on 5/19

[Aditya Vashistha]

Hi all,

Nimmi Rangawamy is visiting UW on May 19th. Nimmi has done
​fascinating
 work in examining digital practices of low-income, low-literate youth in
urban India. She will give a talk (details below) at 2:30 in CSE 503.
Please consider attending it. Also, please sign-up here

if you would like to meet with her.

*Title:* The Surplus Self at the Digital Margins: Case Studies of Digital
Life from Urban India
*​Date:* May 19 (Friday) 2:30pm
*Place:* CSE 503, Paul G Allen Center

*Abstract:*
In this talk, I will briefly outline my journey as a social anthropologist
in the field of HCI and ICTD and working beside software Industry
specialists , techies and currently among AI scientists. Through my
research projects, I will trace the evolution of the anthropological lens
in understanding and broadening technology adoption in the context of
developing nations. Having spent the last decade doing ethnographic
fieldwork on the use of new information technologies in emerging markets,
I’ve encountered time and again a host of media practices that flagrantly
defied stereotypical understanding and framing of ICT use in the global
south displaying rich, informed and focused use of mobile and internet
technologies
Some of the questions I try to unpack in this talk are the following: As
even the less-privileged in developing countries become ambient
broadcasters to stay connected, how will these digital broadcasting
behaviors seep through to impact other lived spheres of life, lifestyles
and opportunities? Will the social dimension of the surplus digital self
play out, how and where? Is it an artifice to draw boundaries between the
digital and other dimensions of the social when we discuss impact,
outcomes, empowerment and social mobility?

*Short Bio:*
Nimmi Rangaswamy works at the interface of Digital HCI and Anthropology.
She recently joined as Professor at the the Kohli Centre on Intelligent
Systems, Indian Institute of Information Technology, IIIT, Hyderabad.
​ ​
Formerly, she was a Senior Researcher and Area Manager of Human
Interactions research at the Xerox Research Centre India, Bangalore. Nimmi
is also currently Adjunct Professor at the Indian institute of Technology,
Hyderabad teaching several courses on HCI and the Social Sciences.
​
Best,
Aditya
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[change] MD4SG workshop at EC'19

[Aditya Vashistha]

Hello everyone,

Please consider submitting your work to Mechanism Design for Social Good
workshop  at ACM Conference on
Economics and Computation (EC ’19) to be held in Phoenix, AZ, USA on 28
June 2019.  The submission deadline is tomorrow.  New, ongoing, and
previously published work can all be submitted. Submissions from all
disciplines related to the theme of the workshop welcome!

Best,
Aditya
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[change] [CFP] CHI2021 workshop on Disability Design & Innovation in the Global South

[Aditya Vashistha]

Dear All,



We are running a workshop on Disability Design and Innovation in the Low
Resource Setting at the ACM Conference on Human Computer interaction
CHI2021 on May 16 2021. The workshop aims to co-create a community of
researchers and practitioners working in the areas of technology,
disability and international development. Together we will work to identify
challenges, strategies and resources to support scholars who are interested
in conducting studies with people with disabilities in the Global South. We
are calling on researchers and practitioners in HCI, accessibility
disability studies, ICT4D and HCI4D to submit their contributions by the*
28**th **of February 2021*. You can find all the relevant information on
the workshop website https://www.disabilityinnovation.com/projects/chi2021


Don’t hesitate to get in touch if you are interested.



Thanks,

Aditya
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[change] ICTD2022: Call for Open Sessions

[Aditya Vashistha]

Hi all,


Please find below the call for submissions for open sessions at ICTD 2022.
Apologies for cross posting. I'd appreciate it if you can forward it in
your networks.


Call for Submissions for Open Sessions

12th  International Conference on Information & Communication Technologies
and Development (ICTD 2022) <https://ictd.org/>, June 27-29, 2022

University of Washington in Seattle, USA

--

The 12th International Conference on Information and Communication
Technologies and Development (ICTD) invites you to submit two-page
proposals for open sessions by April 1, 2022. ICTD 2022 will be hosted at
the University of Washington in Seattle, USA on June 27-29 2022. ICTD as a
field aims for inclusivity and ICTD 2022 as a conference aims to include
perspectives and participation from industry, policymakers, civil society,
practitioners, academia, and government. The Open Sessions provide this
opportunity to ensure the representation of projects, experiences, and
viewpoints that will benefit the ICTD community, especially where they do
not fit the full papers or notes formats.

Open sessions
<https://ictd.org/ictd2022/participate/call-for-open-sessions/> typically
include multiple presenters convening around important, cross-cutting
themes. They may take the form of panels, workshops, “ignite” talks,
debates, participatory activities, or other types of communication and
exchange. Successful proposals will work towards inclusiveness, relevance,
and excellence, and examples from some previous conferences can be found
here: ICTD 2016 <https://ictd2016.info/schedule/> and ICTD 2012
<http://ictd2012.org/open-sessions/>. Session organizers may extend
invitations to particular participants to attend, or present based on
emerging themes in ICTD; likewise, participation is open to any conference
attendee who wishes to join in on the day of the session.

To propose an open session, please fill out this Google form
<https://forms.gle/XWC2kj6rr84TrkQDA>, providing a 75-word summary and an
additional 2-page description detailing your goals for the session and how
you plan to achieve them.  The deadline for submission is April 1, 2022, at
11.59 pm Anywhere on Earth (AoE).
Guidelines

Open Sessions welcome a variety of submissions and formats. We invite
extended abstracts that include proposals for panels, workshops, doctoral
colloquium submissions, young researchers meet-ups, and more.



Open sessions will be 90 minutes in length by default. They can also be 180
minutes long, but only if there is sufficient justification. Although
sessions (and session proposals) will be held in English, we are also open
to proposals for sessions in other languages. In such cases, please note
the proposed language and indicate why it is important to the session
topic. Given the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we also expect some attendees
to be joining the open sessions remotely. So, please describe an
appropriate plan to make open sessions inviting and accessible to both
remote and in-person attendees.



Proposals for sessions will be reviewed and assessed according to the
criteria below.

   -

   They should be accessible to a highly interdisciplinary ICTD audience.
   -

   They should be lively, inclusive, and participatory in style and content.
   -

   They should be on topics relevant to the ICTD community.
   -

   They should demonstrate careful planning and a clear agenda.


Examples of sessions and formats, based on prior years are indicated below.

   -

   A panel of researchers and practitioners to discuss and brainstorm
   post-PhD opportunities for ICTD researchers.
   -

   A workshop organized by 2-3 researchers to discuss in small breakout
   sessions the role of gender (what it is and what it should be) in ICTD
   projects.
   -

   A short course on co-design in research areas pertaining to global
   health.
   -

   A workshop to set an agenda for future research on digital financial
   services.
   -

   An ice-breaker session for ICTD researchers and practitioners to learn
   about and from each other and their work.
   -

   A series of short, lightning talks followed by an open discussion, where
   each talk represents an extended abstract on a common, chosen topic such as
   caste-related inequities in ICTD contexts.

Dates

April  1, 2022: Deadline for submission of Open Sessions (using this form
<https://forms.gle/XWC2kj6rr84TrkQDA>)

April  8, 2022: Notifications sent
Open Session Chairs

   -

   Aditya Vashistha (adit...@cornell.edu)
   -

   Agha Ali Raza (agha.ali.r...@lums.edu.pk)


If you have any questions, please reach out to both the chairs via email.
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