[change] Tata mKrishi service for farmers

2008-10-01 Thread Gaetano Borriello
http://satellite.tmcnet.com/topics/satellite/articles/41495-tcs-mkrishi-earns-wall-street-journal-it-award.htm -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/private/change/attachments/20081001/8ebd433f/attachment.html

[change] CACM article of Dev World research

2009-05-20 Thread Gaetano Borriello
By Dias and Brewer: http://mags.acm.org/communications/200906/?CFID=669198CFTOKEN=78697787 - Gaetano Borriello Jerre D. Noe Professor Department of Computer Science Engineering 572 Allen Center, Box 352350 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195-2350 +1.206.685.9432 gaetano

[change] IBM in Vietnam

2009-05-28 Thread Gaetano Borriello
http://www.eetasia.com/ART_8800573589_480200_NT_8697cf62_2.HTM IBM Boosts Vietnam IT With New Innovation Center EE Times Asia (05/26/09) IBM recently opened the first IBM Innovation Center in Vietnam to help local communities build skills and develop new technologies to support demand for

[change] new course (Mobile/Cloud Applications for Emerging Regions)

2009-09-18 Thread Gaetano Borriello
: Final demos Grading: based on Week 2-4 assignments and project (including documentation, design rationale, interaction in group meetings, and demonstration) Instructors: Yaw Anokwa and Carl Hartung, CSE graduate students and ODK developers (supervised by Gaetano Borriello

[change] FW: AAAI Artificial Intelligence for Development (AI-D)

2009-09-24 Thread Gaetano Borriello
-Original Message- From: Nathan Eagle [mailto:nat...@mit.edu] Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 12:00 PM To: Shawndra Hill; Ravi Jain; Saleema Amershi; Gaetano Borriello; Ferguson, Neil M; Ashish Kapoor; Roni Rosenfeld; John Quinn; Kentaro Toyama; Peter Waiganjo Wagacha Cc: Eric

[change] REGISTER for Change seminar/lunch

2009-10-02 Thread Gaetano Borriello
, and what you do are in harmony. - Mahatma Gandhi Gaetano Borriello Jerre D. Noe Professor Department of Computer Science Engineering 572 Allen Center, Box 352350 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195-2350 +1.206.685.9432 gaetano at cse.washington.edumailto:gaetano at cse.washington.edu http

[change] The Center for Global Field Study: Training environmental stewards worldwide

2009-10-09 Thread Gaetano Borriello
http://uwnews.org/uweek/article.aspx?visitsource=uwkmailid=52556 -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/private/change/attachments/20091009/4a89cc5a/attachment.html

[change] IBM interns saving the world

2009-12-17 Thread Gaetano Borriello
http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/zachary-wilson/and-how/are-your-interns-saving-world-ibms-are -- Forwarded message -- From: James A. Landay lan...@cs.washington.edu Date: Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 5:51 AM Subject: assume you guys saw this or already know about it... but just in case:

[change] importance of ICT in low-resource settings

2010-05-14 Thread Gaetano Borriello
women in developing countries, and people of both sexes with low incomes or poor education, were most influenced emotionally by their access to technology http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/10108551.stm

[change] Fwd: Imagining the Future: Technology and Development

2010-05-27 Thread Gaetano Borriello
-- Forwarded message -- From: The Rockefeller Foundation me...@rockfound.org Date: Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:54 AM Subject: Imagining the Future: Technology and Development Having trouble viewing this? Try the web

[change] Fwd: Boren Scholarship Fellowship Information Session (fwd)

2010-09-24 Thread Gaetano Borriello
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 09:59:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Robin Chang rob...@u.washington.edu Subject: [Advisers] Boren Scholarship Fellowship Information Session Dear Advisers, Please distribute widely to students, faculty and staff: Susan Sharp, from the

[change] Fwd: 10/7: invite-Social Return on Investment reception session

2010-09-29 Thread Gaetano Borriello
-- Forwarded message -- From: Wren McNally wre...@uw.edu Date: Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 3:50 PM Subject: 10/7: invite-Social Return on Investment reception session To: Gaetano Borriello gaetano at cs.washington.edu Dear Gaetano, As a GSEC supporter, I would like to offer you

[change] Sana (from MIT)

2010-10-05 Thread Gaetano Borriello
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/itw-sana-0927.html

[change] Water flow Android app

2010-10-24 Thread Gaetano Borriello
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/innovation/10/22/water.flow.app/index.html

[change] Fwd: IEEE R6: Call for Papers - 2011 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference

2011-01-17 Thread Gaetano Borriello
-- Forwarded message -- From: conference-servi...@ieee.org Date: Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 2:00 PM Subject: IEEE R6: Call for Papers - 2011 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference To: gaetano at cs.washington.edu http://www.ieee.org/ Dear IEEE Members, On behalf of the

[change] Fwd: NSDR 2011: 5th ACM Workshop on Networked Systems for Developing Regions

2011-01-25 Thread Gaetano Borriello
Ledlie, Nokia Research Margaret Martonosi, Princeton Tapan Parikh, UC Berkeley Bhaskar Raman, IIT Bombay Umar Saif, LUMS Lakshmi Subramanian, NYU Steering Committee Elizabeth Belding, UC Santa Barbara Gaetano Borriello, U. Washington Eric Brewer, UC Berkeley Ravi Jain, Google Umar Saif, LUMS

[change] Great NYT opinion piece on rural health

2011-02-16 Thread Gaetano Borriello
Great article about community-based health education and care. Inspiring. -- Forwarded message -- From: Beth Kolko bko...@u.washington.edu Date: Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:58 AM if you have a chance to take a look --

[change] NYU Center for Tech and Econ Dev

2011-03-06 Thread Gaetano Borriello
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[change] interesting video

2011-04-07 Thread Gaetano Borriello
Got this from Carl Ebeling. I thought it may be interesting to some of you. About what motivates http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

[change] CSE481K Capstone Presentation/Demos (2 events) - Wed, June 1, 5pm in Gates Commons and Wed, June 8, noon in Atrium

2011-05-31 Thread Gaetano Borriello
Environments Project Presentations DATE: Wednesday, June 1, 2011 TIME: 5:00pm - 6:30pm PLACE: Gates Commons (6th floor), Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science Engineering, UW Campus http://www.washington.edu/maps/?l=CSE http://www.cs.washington.edu/news/maps.html HOSTS: Gaetano Borriello

[change] REMINDER: Eric Brewer (UCB) to give Change talk TODAY, June 6 at 10:30 in Gates Commons

2011-06-06 Thread Gaetano Borriello
Reminder. On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Gaetano Borriello gaetano at cs.washington.edu wrote: Here is the promised title and abstract - hope to see you there: Technology, The Cloud, and Developing Regions Eric Brewer UC Berkeley Google Information and Communications Technologies

[change] Fwd: Updated CFP, ICTD2012, Atlanta. Submission site is open, papers due 22 July

2011-06-23 Thread Gaetano Borriello
-- Forwarded message -- From: Program Chair prog...@ictd2012.org Date: Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 11:42 PM Subject: Updated CFP, ICTD2012, Atlanta. Submission site is open, papers due 22 July To: Gary Marsden gaz at cs.uct.ac.za This is a reminder that the submission deadline for

[change] Fwd: 2011 mHealth Summit - Call for Abstracts Presentations, 11 Days Remaining!

2011-06-28 Thread Gaetano Borriello
-- Forwarded message -- From: 2011 mHealth Summit eve...@fnih.org Date: Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 9:00 AM Subject: 2011 mHealth Summit - Call for Abstracts Presentations, 11 Days Remaining! To: Gaetano Borriello gaetano at cs.washington.edu Cc: sgilmore at cs.washington.edu sgilmore

[change] Fwd: International Conference on Wireless Technologies for Humanitarian Relief (ACWR2011)

2011-08-11 Thread Gaetano Borriello
-- Forwarded message -- From: P. Venkat Rangan ven...@amrita.edu Date: Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 9:46 AM Subject: International Conference on Wireless Technologies for Humanitarian Relief (ACWR2011) To: gaetano at cs.washington.edu Dear Dr. Gaetano Borriello, Greetings from Amrita

[change] Fwd: HotMobile 2012 - Call for Papers

2011-08-18 Thread Gaetano Borriello
:59pm PDT Acceptance Notification: ??December 7th, 2011 Camera Ready Deadline:?? TBD - Organizing Committee: - General Chair ?? Gaetano Borriello, University of Washington, US Program Chair ?? Rajesh

[change] Georgia Tech Researchers Demo Disaster Communications System

2011-08-22 Thread Gaetano Borriello
Georgia Tech Researchers Demo Disaster Communications System Georgia Institute of Technology (08/16/11) Liz Klipp Georgia Tech researchers have developed LifeNet, a wireless communication system that is designed to help first responders manage disaster zones. LifeNet is a mobile ad-hoc network

[change] TR-35's ICTD presence

2011-08-23 Thread Gaetano Borriello
See: Aishwarya Ratan, 30 Converting paper records to digital in real time Yale http://www.technologyreview.com/tr35/profile.aspx?trid=1087 Umar Saif, 32 Improving connectivity in poor nations Lahore University of Management Sciences http://www.technologyreview.com/tr35/profile.aspx?trid=1106

[change] TR-35's ICTD presence

2011-08-23 Thread Gaetano Borriello
Make that a fourth one (thanks to Joyojeet Pal and Bill Thies for pointing out my omission): Piya Sorcar, 33 Software that can be localized to teach taboo topics TeachAIDS http://www.technologyreview.com/tr35/profile.aspx?trid=1102 On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Gaetano Borriello gaetano

[change] Smartphones as Helpers During Disasters

2011-09-09 Thread Gaetano Borriello
Scientists at the Technische Universit?t Darmstadt have developed software, with which smartphones can automatically and autonomously organize an energy-efficient, ad-hoc network. Rapid organization of such a communications network can be vital in the event of disasters where normal communications

[change] Fwd: FW: 2011 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference - Status

2011-09-28 Thread Gaetano Borriello
Our CSE ICTD group will have two papers at this conference: Brian DeRenzi, et al.: A Framework for Case-based Community Health Information Systems Waylon Brunette, Ruth Anderson, et al.: Reducing Maternal Mortality: An Ultrasound System for Village Midwives Of course, both papers have authors as

[change] Fwd: Please distribute: GSEC 2012 application announcement

2011-10-05 Thread Gaetano Borriello
-- Forwarded message -- From: Wren McNally wre...@uw.edu Date: Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 9:59 AM Subject: Please distribute: GSEC 2012 application announcement To: Gaetano Borriello gaetano at cs.washington.edu Dear Gaetano, We could use your help to distribute the application

[change] Phone Tech Transforms African Business and Healthcare (New Scientist)

2011-10-12 Thread Gaetano Borriello
Phone Tech Transforms African Business and Healthcare New Scientist (10/10/11) Melissae Fellet Homegrown innovation in the developing world is leading to new technologies that are helping less advantaged societies improve the lives of their citizens. For example, the MedAfrica mobile application,

[change] Paper2Digital in GeekWire

2011-10-20 Thread Gaetano Borriello
It also won people's choice for best poster at UW-CSE Affiliates Day http://www.geekwire.com/2011/typing-walking-cool-stuff-uw-students

[change] Fwd: CFP: NUIs4D workshop @ CHI2012

2011-11-30 Thread Gaetano Borriello
-- Forwarded message -- From: Ed Cutrell cutr...@microsoft.com Date: Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 2:52 AM Subject: [change] CFP: NUIs4D workshop @ CHI2012 To: change at change.washington.edu change at change.washington.edu, hci4d (hci4d at googlegroups.com) hci4d at googlegroups.com, dub

[change] 521 Seminar: Traceability Systems for Coffee Farmers: A Key to Sustainability and Food Security (1/6)

2012-01-04 Thread Gaetano Borriello
-- Forwarded message -- From: Anne E. Hilton ahil...@u.washington.edu Date: Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 9:14 AM Subject: [dub] 521 Seminar: Traceability Systems for Coffee Farmers: A Key to Sustainability and Food Security (1/6) To: hcde-community at uw.edu hcde-community at uw.edu, dub

[change] Reunite project at U Manchester

2012-01-06 Thread Gaetano Borriello
http://mlo.cs.man.ac.uk/reunite/ *Smart Way of Saving Lives in Natural Disasters* *University of Manchester (01/04/12) Daniel Cochlin* University of Manchester researchers have developed REUNITE, a mobile and Web platform that features tools designed to quickly and accurately locate missing

[change] Fwd: [DEV 2012] conference dates: March 11-12

2012-01-12 Thread Gaetano Borriello
-- Forwarded message -- From: Date: Thursday, January 12, 2012 Subject: [DEV 2012] conference dates: March 11-12 To: Gaetano Borriello gaetano at cs.washington.edu Dear Gaetano Borriello, We are writing to clarify the dates of the DEV conference. The conference will be held

[change] Fwd: Call For Papers: IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference 2012

2012-01-13 Thread Gaetano Borriello
-- Forwarded message -- From: conference-servi...@ieee.org Date: Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 7:00 PM Subject: Call For Papers: IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference 2012 To: gaetano at cs.washington.edu ** [image: IEEE logo] http://www.ieee.org/ [image: GHTC

[change] Registration for DEV 2012 is now active

2012-01-23 Thread Gaetano Borriello
At: http://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1054967 or: dev2012.org

[change] CFP: DataDev - Workshop on Mobile Data Collection in the Developing World

2012-02-06 Thread Gaetano Borriello
-- Forwarded message -- From: Bill Thies th...@microsoft.com Date: Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 2:30 AM Subject: CFP: DataDev - Workshop on Mobile Data Collection in the Developing World To: Jaiswal, Sharad (Sharad) (sharad.jaiswal at alcatel-lucent.com) sharad.jaiswal at

[change] Joshua Blumenstock (UCB) talk 2/13 @ noon

2012-02-08 Thread Gaetano Borriello
Joshua Blumenstock from the Berkeley TIER group is giving at talk in the iSchool this Monday, Feb 13 @ 12:00 in MGH 420. http://www.jblumenstock.com/ -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

[change] Fwd: NSDR 2012 Call for Papers

2012-02-26 Thread Gaetano Borriello
-- Forwarded message -- From: Lakshminarayanan Subramanian laks...@cs.nyu.edu Date: Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 1:53 AM Subject: NSDR 2012 Call for Papers To: sig-dev at googlegroups.com, tier at tier.cs.berkeley.edu, change at cs.washington.edu, ict4dev at csail.mit.edu, cater-dev at

[change] Code for America?

2012-03-26 Thread Gaetano Borriello
Coding peace core for US government needs. http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_c2#/video/tech/2012/03/24/natpkg-orig-ideas-jennifer-pahlka.cnn

[change] Fwd: Call for papers: DEV 2013

2012-04-29 Thread Gaetano Borriello
Bhaskaran Raman, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Bill Thies, Microsoft Research India Brian DeRenzi, University of Washington Elizabeth Belding, UC Santa Barbara Emma Brunskill, Carnegie Mellon University Etienne Barnard, University of Pretoria Gaetano Borriello, University of Washington James Davis

[change] Fwd: [GlobalWACh_News] Tonight! Dr. Zulfiqar Bhutta: Impact of Community Based Approaches on MCH (fwd)

2012-05-10 Thread Gaetano Borriello
Late notice, but I just learned about this. Just a reminder that we hope you will join Global WACh, GAPPS, the South Asia Center, and the Department of Global Health as we welcome Dr. Zulfiqar Bhutta for a lecture titled: Social Determinants and the Impact of Community Based Approaches

[change] Fwd: [Ihmeseminars] IHME Seminar 5/23: Dr. Ross Donaldson

2012-05-18 Thread Gaetano Borriello
-- Forwarded message -- From: Dane Boog dan...@uw.edu Date: Fri, May 18, 2012 at 8:52 AM Subject: [Ihmeseminars] IHME Seminar 5/23: Dr. Ross Donaldson To: ihmesemin...@uw.edu ihmesemin...@uw.edu [image: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description:

[change] CCC/CRA workshop on emergency management

2012-05-21 Thread Gaetano Borriello
http://www.cccblog.org/2012/05/20/emergency-management-incident-resource-and-supply-chain-management/ ___ change mailing list change@change.washington.edu http://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/change

[change] Presentations of 3 student senior projects

2012-05-31 Thread Gaetano Borriello
tomorrow, Friday, June 1, at 2:00-3:30pm in CSE503. Here are abstracts: Open Data Kit Tables Hilary Worden Tables are used to organize data in a wide variety of situations, but the spreadsheet applications that are commonly used to store tables lack features that many organizations might like

[change] Tablet PCs preserve indigenous knowledge

2012-06-20 Thread Gaetano Borriello
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21428696.400-tablet-pcs-preserve-indigenous-knowledge.html ___ change mailing list change@change.washington.edu http://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/change

[change] New IBM Research Lab to Open In Kenya

2012-08-13 Thread Gaetano Borriello
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ibm-research-lab-open-kenya-11305.html ___ change mailing list change@change.washington.edu http://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/change

[change] Congratulations to Abie Flaxman

2012-08-21 Thread Gaetano Borriello
for being named to 2012's TR-35 list. http://www.technologyreview.com/tr35/profile.aspx?trid=1323 ___ change mailing list change@change.washington.edu http://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/change

[change] Code for America

2012-08-31 Thread Gaetano Borriello
*A Peace Corps for Civic-Minded Geeks* *Wall Street Journal (08/26/12) P. C12 Holly Finn* The new nonprofit Code for America (CfA), a kind of peace corps for geeks, has led the way in bringing online efficiency to offline government systems, handpicking a team of tech stars each year to take time

[change] ‘Mobile Moms’ to boost health of women in Timor-Leste

2012-08-31 Thread Gaetano Borriello
http://www.washington.edu/news/2012/08/31/mobile-moms-to-boost-health-of-women-in-timor-leste/ ___ change mailing list change@change.washington.edu http://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/change

[change] Fwd: HCI Interpretivism positions at UM

2012-09-19 Thread Gaetano Borriello
-- Forwarded message -- From: Joyojeet Pal joyoj...@gmail.com Date: Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 8:57 AM Subject: HCI Interpretivism positions at UM To: Gaetano Borriello gaet...@cs.washington.edu, Eric Brewer bre...@cs.berkeley.edu, Richard Anderson ander...@cs.washington.edu, Tapan

[change] WinSenga: A mobile ear for pregnancy problems

2012-10-10 Thread Gaetano Borriello
WinSenga: A mobile ear for pregnancy problems A new smartphone app aims to provide a cheaper alternative to ultrasound in Africa by bringing an old technique into the 21st century. http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120927-mobile-ear-for-pregnancy-problems

[change] Interesting motivation for geo-tagged photo collection: Costal Fishing

2012-10-11 Thread Gaetano Borriello
-- Forwarded message -- From: James Fogarty jfoga...@cs.washington.edu Subject: Costal Fishing Interesting motivation for geo-tagged photo collection http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/oct/11/west-africa-fishing-pirate-trawlers?intcmp=122 A group of 23 impoverished west

[change] Students win $100K for 3-D printer to turn waste plastic into composting toilets, rainwater harvesting systems

2012-10-25 Thread Gaetano Borriello

[change] Fwd: [dub] HCDE 521, October 31 - Kate Starbird

2012-10-29 Thread Gaetano Borriello
-- Forwarded message -- From: Jan H. Spyridakis ja...@u.washington.edu Date: Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 10:36 AM Subject: [dub] HCDE 521, October 31 - Kate Starbird To: Hello, Please come and hear HCDE Assistant Professor Kate Starbird present at the HCDE Autumn Seminar Series (HCDE

[change] Another step to the tricorder - at a reasonable price?

2012-12-07 Thread Gaetano Borriello
http://gizmodo.com/5965143/holy-spock-the-star-trek-medical-tricorder-is-real-and-its-only-150?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_facebookutm_source=gizmodo_facebookutm_medium=socialflow ___ change mailing list change@change.washington.edu

[change] Fwd: Professor advert, UWC South Africa

2012-12-11 Thread Gaetano Borriello
Department of Computer Science University of the Western Cape Professor The Department of Computer Science invites applications for a full-time position tenable at the rank of Professor in the field of Artificial Intelligence, Mobile and Internet Computing, Software

[change] Fwd: Call for Papers and Notes – ICTD2013, Cape Town, Dec 7-10 2013

2012-12-13 Thread Gaetano Borriello
SENIOR PROGRAM COMMITTEE (PRELIMINARY) Jenny Aker, Tufts University Richard Anderson, University of Washington Michael Best, Georgia Institute of Technology Joshua Blumenstock, University of Washington Gaetano Borriello, University of Washington Jenna Burrell, University of California, Berkeley Ed

[change] ICTD 2013 CFP - Spread the word

2013-02-19 Thread Gaetano Borriello
It is T-12 weeks to the ICTD deadline. The link the latest CFP can be found here: http://ictd2013.info/ Call for Papers and Notes – ICTD2013 Sixth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD2013) Cape Town, South Africa Conference dates:

[change] Scaring away lions - a 13-yo's invention

2013-02-26 Thread Gaetano Borriello
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/26/tech/richard-turere-lion-lights/index.html?hpt=hp_c2 ___ change mailing list change@change.washington.edu http://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/change

[change] CFP Website for ICTD2013, Cape Town, Dec 7-10

2013-03-05 Thread Gaetano Borriello
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 9:58 PM Subject: CFP Website for ICTD2013, Cape Town, Dec 7-10 We are pleased to announce that the submission site is now open for ICTD2013. Held in cooperation with ACM SIGCHI and ACM SIGCAS, the Sixth International Conference

[change] Global Health Events April 15-20

2013-04-04 Thread Gaetano Borriello
April 15-20, 2013 (Monday through Saturday) i.Monday, April 15: 1-2 p.m., HUB 332, “Not Just Docs: Building a Career in Global Health Outside the Health Sciences” 3:30-4:20 p.m., Foege Auditorium, Gina Zanolli, assistant to Paul Farmer at Partners

[change] Fwd: [Wahifp-members] Call for research papers in ehealth/mhealth

2013-04-12 Thread Gaetano Borriello
-- Forwarded message -- From: Ime Asangansi imeasanga...@gmail.com Date: Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 1:13 PM Subject: [Wahifp-members] Call for research papers in ehealth/mhealth To: wahifp-memb...@wahifp.org Dear colleagues, Please prepare to submit. Deadline is May 6. Apologies for

[change] Fwd: Grameen Fellowship in Africa

2013-04-27 Thread Gaetano Borriello
Subject : We’re Sending Programmers, like you, to Africa Are you a software engineer with strong Java or C# skills and experience with start-ups? Then Grameen Foundation wants you to join the innovation, on the ground in Africa for a one-year Fellowship! For more than a decade,Grameen

[change] Stanford Design for Extreme Affordability course

2013-05-18 Thread Gaetano Borriello
http://extreme.stanford.edu/ Today on CNN at 2:30 PDT. ___ change mailing list change@change.washington.edu http://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/change

[change] [ACM DEV-4] Call for Papers: 4th Symposium on Computing for Development

2013-05-20 Thread Gaetano Borriello
ACM DEV-4 4th Symposium on Computing for Development Co-located with ICTD December 6-7, 2013 Cape Town, South Africa http://dev4.acmdev.org/ Important Dates: Thursday July 18: Full paper deadline (11:59pm UTC) firm deadline. Friday Sept 13: Notification of authors Friday Nov 1: Camera-ready

[change] Fwd: APPLICATION CYCLE NOW OPEN: AAAS ST Policy Fellowships (Please Distribute Widely)

2013-05-26 Thread Gaetano Borriello
Call For Applications - AAAS Science Technology Fellowships The 2014-2015 AAAS Science Technology Policy Fellowships online application system is now open. http://fellowships.aaas.org/04_Become/04_Application.shtmlBeginning this application cycle, the application portal will open May 1 and

[change] CSE481K Capstone: posters/demos, Monday, June 10th noon-1:30, CSE Atrium

2013-06-07 Thread Gaetano Borriello
You are invited to the: CSE481K Designing Technology for Low-Resource Settings (the ICTD Capstone) POSTER AND DEMO SESSION Monday, June 10, noon-1:30 in the CSE Atrium Each winter and spring, students from CSE and HCDE collaborate on a set of projects to design and prototype technology solutions

[change] Open Data Kit is hiring!

2013-06-25 Thread Gaetano Borriello
Please see our ad for an open software engineer position in our ICTD group: https://uwhires.admin.washington.edu/eng/candidates/default.cfm?szCategory=jobprofileszOrderID=96426 ___ change mailing list change@change.washington.edu

[change] Announcing CSE590F - The Computing for Development (ICTD) Seminar

2013-09-22 Thread Gaetano Borriello
Please join us this fall in CSE590F, the ICTD Seminar, on Tuesdays, 1:30-2:20, in CSE 203, http://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse590f/13au/ (to be filled in after first meeting). The first meeting is on TUESDAY, 10/1, 1:30-2:20, in CSE 203 where we will organize assignments for the quarter.

[change] FWD: RFA for CommTrack Proof of Concept Grants in India and Nepal

2013-11-05 Thread Gaetano Borriello
-- Forwarded message -- From: Gillian Javetski gjavet...@dimagi.com To: change@change.washington.edu Cc: poc-applicati...@dimagi.com poc-applicati...@dimagi.com Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 16:27:56 +0200 Subject: RFA for CommTrack Proof of Concept Grants in India and Nepal Hi everyone,

[change] Fwd: Call for Papers - Humanitarian Technology 2014 | 13 - 15 May | Boston, MA

2013-12-09 Thread Gaetano Borriello
-- Forwarded message -- From: HumTech2014 NewsWire newsw...@humanitariantechnology.org Date: Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 4:36 AM Subject: Call for Papers - Humanitarian Technology 2014 | 13 - 15 May | Boston, MA To: i...@humanitariantechnology.org Humanitarian Technology:

[change] Fwd: Job Posting: Senior Project Manager, Community Forest Monitoring

2013-12-11 Thread Gaetano Borriello
-- Forwarded message -- From: Jon Parsons j.pars...@globalcanopy.org Date: Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 8:12 AM Subject: Job Posting: Senior Project Manager, Community Forest Monitoring JOB POSTING: SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER, COMMUNITY FOREST MONITORING Location: Central Oxford Type:

[change] Fwd: HumTech2014 - Call for Papers | Early Registration

2014-01-07 Thread Gaetano Borriello
-- Forwarded message -- From: Humanitarian Technology 2014 newsw...@humanitariantechnology.org Date: Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 5:26 PM Subject: HumTech2014 - Call for Papers | Early Registration To: i...@humanitariantechnology.org Humanitarian Technology: Science, Systems and

[change] Fwd: GHTC 2013: Proceedings Papers now in IEEE Xplore database; CFP for GHTC'14

2014-01-24 Thread Gaetano Borriello
This has developed into a decent conference for ICTD work. Technologists from many areas of engineering participate. Paper deadline is March 31 for this year's conference in San Jose, CA in October. Gaetano -- Forwarded message -- From: Wan, Gim g...@vicr.com Date: Thu, Jan

[change] IBM Watson for Africa

2014-02-10 Thread Gaetano Borriello
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26065991 IBM's Watson in Africa to Help Solve Problems BBC News (02/06/14) IBM has launched Project Lucy, a 10-year, $100 million initiative to leverage IBM's Watson supercomputer to give Africa a boost in agriculture, education, health, and other areas.

[change] Fwd: IEEE Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference 2014 (R10 HTC) Call-for-Papers

2014-03-20 Thread Gaetano Borriello
-- Forwarded message -- From: IEEE eNotice enot...@ieee.org Date: Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 12:29 PM Subject: IEEE Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference 2014 (R10 HTC) Call-for-Papers To: gaet...@cs.washington.edu IEEE Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference 2014 (R10 HTC)

[change] Beth Kolko (HCDE) in USAToday

2014-07-10 Thread Gaetano Borriello
Third-world ideas that are changing first-world lives http://www.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fe973b3b920588765945ea2a4id=4c0ff29299e=ccd9e44f37 http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/07/09/ozy-third-world-innovation/12401465/ ___ change mailing

[change] Fwd: [DEV-5] ACM DEV Deadline Extension (August 8th)

2014-07-18 Thread Gaetano Borriello
-- Forwarded message -- From: *ACM DEV* dev5c...@gmail.com Date: Friday, July 18, 2014 Subject: [DEV-5] ACM DEV Deadline Extension (August 8th) To: Gaetano Borriello gaet...@cs.washington.edu Dear Gaetano Borriello, We have decided to extend the DEV deadline by one week

[change] Researchers Develop a Wikipedia of Fact-Checking During Natural Disasters

2014-07-22 Thread Gaetano Borriello
http://www.southampton.ac.uk/mediacentre/news/2014/jul/14_135.shtml#.U82b6o1dUZF *Researchers Develop a Wikipedia of Fact-Checking During Natural Disasters* *University of Southampton (United Kingdom) (07/18/14)* Social media is often flooded with information in the wake of natural disasters

[change] Fwd: Humanitarian Technology 2015 | 12 - 14 May | Boston, MA USA

2014-09-22 Thread Gaetano Borriello
-- Forwarded message -- From: HumTech2015 NewsWire i...@humanitariantechnology.org Date: Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 7:29 AM Subject: Humanitarian Technology 2015 | 12 - 14 May | Boston, MA USA To: gaet...@uw.edu Humanitarian Technology: Science, Systems and Global Impact 2015 |

[change] RA position at UT-Austin School of Information in ICT4D

2014-10-08 Thread Gaetano Borriello
*The University of Texas at Austin School of Information* *Research Assistant Position for ICT4D Research* A graduate research assistant position in ICT4D research is available at The University of Texas at Austin School of Information for a new doctoral student entering the PhD program in

[change] Fwd: Fulbright - Humphrey Networking event (Oct 24th - 6-9pm - Sieg 233)

2014-10-22 Thread Gaetano Borriello
-- Forwarded message -- From: Koen De Couck kdeco...@uw.edu Date: Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 9:05 AM Subject: Fulbright - Humphrey Networking event (Oct 24th - 6-9pm - Sieg 233) To: Dear UW faculty and students, This friday (October 24th), we will have our first Fulbright - Humphrey

[change] Fwd: OMPT Joins CDC in Ebola Effort

2014-11-18 Thread Gaetano Borriello
Projecting Health (one of Richard Anderson's research projects) is inspiring others. -- Forwarded message -- From: One Media Player per Teacher (OMPT) ad...@tracking.whatcounts.com Date: Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 1:28 PM Subject: OMPT Joins CDC in Ebola Effort To:

[change] Fwd: Deadline Approaching - Call for Papers - HumTech2015

2014-12-02 Thread Gaetano Borriello
-- Forwarded message -- From: HumTech2015 NewsWire i...@humanitariantechnology.org Date: Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 7:44 AM Subject: Deadline Approaching - Call for Papers - HumTech2015 To: gaet...@uw.edu Humanitarian Technology: Science, Systems and Global Impact 2015 |

[change] Fwd: Call for bids MobileHCI 2017

2015-01-19 Thread Gaetano Borriello
-- Forwarded message -- From: aquig...@st-andrews.ac.uk Date: Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 3:59 AM Subject: Call for bids MobileHCI 2017 To: gaet...@cs.washington.edu Dear Gaetano Borriello, Thank you again for your MobileHCI 2014 paper. We are writing to you to ask if you