pretty exciting stuff from cse grad student (and change founder) brian derenzi.
-- Forwarded message --
From: Brian DeRenzi bdere...@gmail.com
For those who haven't seen it, CommCare has had some press lately:
former uw grad student and change member, tapan parikh, has been
featured in esquire.
http://www.esquire.com/features/best-and-brightest-2008/third-world-cell-phone-data-1208/
has the story.
CALL FOR DEMOS - International Conference on Information
and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD 2009)
The 3rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and
Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD 2009) will be held
17-19 April 2009 at Carnegie Mellon's
make that monday the 9th. the deadline is 02/09 at midnight.
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 15:46, Yaw Anokwa yanokwa at gmail.com wrote:
to ramp up for our upcoming change events, gaetano has decided to
subsidize t-shirts for all change members!
we are going to order dark gray american apparel
great opportunity for uw grad students!
The 2009 Bonderman Travel Fellowship application deadline is rapidly
approaching this Monday, February 16, at 11:59pm. All application
materials must be submitted online by this time to the Catalyst
dropbox noted on the application
-- Forwarded message --
From: Jahanzeb Sherwani jahan...@gmail.com
Date: Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 17:25
Subject: [gshci4d] Young Researchers Workshop at ICTD 2009
To: gshci4d at googlegroups.com
Hello all,
It gives me great pleasure to announce the Young Researchers Workshop
at ICTD
Apologies for duplicate postings.
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Human-Centered Computing in International Development
Workshop at CHI '09 Conference (http://www.chi2009.org/)
April 4-5, 2009
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
From Kansas to Kigali, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)
have evolved to
for those interested in the intersection of development and human
computer interaction, check out the hci4cid workshop (
http://mikeb.inta.gatech.edu/HCI4CID/ ) at chi 2008.
even if you can't make the conference,
http://mikeb.inta.gatech.edu/HCI4CID/program.html has copies of all
the papers
In this special issue, IEEE Computer presents articles from four
leading international research groups in the multidisciplinary field
of information and communication technologies for development. In
addition, a special section describes the experience with the
development of significant ICT
The John Templeton Foundation is conducting a series of Big
Questions essays among leading scientists and scholars. They recently
did one on 'Will Money Solve Africa's Development Problems?' which was
a good read. Go to
http://www.templeton.org/questions/africa/pdfs/bq_africa.pdf to read
them.
From: Joaquin Blaya joaquin_bl...@hms.harvard.edu
Subject: [Ict4dev] GHDonline Summer Internships
To: ict4dev at lists.csail.mit.edu
Message-ID: C41BD3B5BF8842F99A5C1D0C6A56BDA1 at JBLAYA
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Hi
The GHD online team at the Brigham and Women?s Hospital is
Every week we hold an open meeting to discuss ICTD at UW. This week,
we have no set agenda so come and touch base with your fellow ICTDers.
Abstract
The community's work to date has been focused on the so-called
'developed' world ? contexts where there are already well-established
technical infrastructures and digital resources. These contexts have
users who are relatively highly computer literate, typically have high
degrees of
The Open Mobile Consortium (of which UW's CommCare and ODK are a part)
will be having a hackathon at the MIT Media Lab on July 1st and 2nd.
The goal of the two days is to have some fun programming together to
extend one or more open source tools supported by the Open Mobile
Consortium or other
Change members Chris Coward and Yaw Anokwa will be speaking at an
event organized by the Young Professional?s International Network, the
World Affairs Council and co-sponsored by CIS entitled: ?The Cell
Phone Revolution in the Developing World?.
What: There are 4.1 billion cell phones
hey all,
sammie runs lumana credit, a micro-credit organization that focuses on
serving rural and underserved populations in ghana. they are having
their big launch next week. i can't make it, but if you are interested
about micro-finance, go check it out.
yaw
-- Forwarded message
hey all,
hope everyone had a great summer. as school starts, so do the weekly
change meetings. our first will be next week thursday, october 1st at
noon. we'll be in the cse building, room 403.
as always, you can follow all the change events at
our first change meeting is tomorrow at noon in the paul allen center,
room 403. hope to see you all there!
yaw
The Grameen CKW project (recently featured in the Economist) is
looking for a new project lead.
-- Forwarded message --
From: Eric Cantor ecan...@grameenfoundation.org
Date: Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 12:10 AM
Subject: Seeking a CKW Leader
Hi guys,
I hope all is well, wondered if you
The School of Information (SI) seeks a faculty member at the Assistant
Professor level who will establish a vigorous research and teaching
program in information and communication technology for development
(ICT4D), emphasizing applications relevant to environmental
sustainability and developing
This Thursday at Change, Amit Saxena will be presenting on his work
with Digital StudyHall.
The Digital StudyHall (DSH) project aims to improve education for
students in rural and slum schools in India. The researchers video
record classes taught by experienced teachers, distribute these videos
Open Data Kit (ODK) (http://code.google.com/p/open-data-kit/) is an
open-source mobile data collection toolkit for the citizen science,
public health, and environmental monitoring.
ODK developers (and Change members), Yaw Anokwa and Carl Hartung have
just released ODK Collect v1.1 (http://is.gd
-- Forwarded message --
From: Lindsay Michimoto linds...@cs.washington.edu
Date: Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 08:36
Subject: [Cs-grads] FW: EWB-UW reaching out to CSE graduate students
To: cs-grads - Mailing List cs-grads at cs.washington.edu
Hello student of Computer Science
just a friendly reminder,
the deadline for the global social entrepreneurship competition that
wren talked about yesterday is nov 11th. i have attached a brochure
describing the competition.
if anyone is looking for a team/team members the business school will
have a information networking
This Thursday at Change, we will be trying something special for CSE
Affiliates Day. We will be hosting the ?Technology for Under-Served
Regions? session. Please note the change in time and place.
11:40-11:45: Introduction and Overview, Carl Hartung
11:45-12:00: Digital Study Hall Evaluation
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/global/me-africa/mhealth.aspx
Mobile Healthcare for Africa
Overview
Few technologies have seen such wide adoption in the developing world
as the mobile phone, and few have shown themselves to be as adaptable
to local cultural, social, and
spatialdev is seattle based, and they are doing incredible work
building local capacity in east africa.
-- Forwarded message --
From: jubal harpster jharps...@spatialdev.com
Date: 2009/11/4
Subject: AGCommons
To: Yaw Anokwa yanokwa at gmail.com
Yaw,
Also, if you have not seen
-- Forwarded message --
From: GSEC g...@u.washington.edu
Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition (GSEC)
University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Calling all students: Do you have an innovative,
commercially-sustainable business idea that addresses a problem of
poverty in
http://www.ictforafrica.org/call-for-papers.html
ICIA 2010 Call for Papers | Print
|http://www.ictforafrica.org/call-for-papers.html?tmpl=componentprint=1page=
The International Conference on ICT for Africa 2010 (ICIA 2010) is themed ?*ICT
for Development ? Contributions of the South*?.
This
From: Robert Rattle [mailto:rrat...@alumni.uwaterloo.ca]
Sent: November 4, 2009 1:06 PM
Subject: call for papers - session on ICT and sustainability at the
ISEE conference
Dear Colleagues,
Attached is a call for papers for the ISEE 2010 conference in
Bremen/Oldenburg August 22 - 25, 2010. Feel
hey all,
i've been looking at the change website stats and i wanted to share a
few interesting things since we launched the site in february.
we've had 7k visits came from 100 countries. the top ten countries are
america, india, britain, canada, thailand, netherlands, australia,
singapore, spain
can anyone recommend someone (student/faculty/staff) in the evans
public school who is interested in global development or ictd?
yaw
This Thursday at Change, Brent Roraback will be presenting on his work
on Microsoft?s OneApp (http://www.microsoft.com/oneapp/)
Brent Roraback (a UW Jackson School graduate) is a Principal Program
Manager in the Microsoft Startup Business Group?s Mobile team. Brent
joined Microsoft in 2007 after
thanks to all that sent me names. i'm going to put together a post of
the information you all sent so everyone can have access to the
information. i had no idea there were so many ictd/development people
in the evans school...
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 07:24, Yaw Anokwa yanokwa at gmail.com wrote
-- Forwarded message --
From: tier-requ...@tier.cs.berkeley.edu
Date: Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 04:56
Subject: TIER Digest, Vol 74, Issue 6
To: tier at tier.cs.berkeley.edu
Student Design Contest Aims at Humanitarian Challenges (The Institute,
http://www.ieee.org/theinstitute)
Any
While Change has historically been based in the Department of Computer
Science and Engineering, it is a campus wide organization that cares
about more than just the technical parts of global development. To
help expose more of what the University of Washington has to offer in
global development, I
figured i should add a link to this...
http://www.blueprintforaction.org/
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:44, Yaw Anokwa yanokwa at gmail.com wrote:
-- Forwarded message --
From: Chad Skeers chadskeers at gmail.com
Date: Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 08:44
Subject: Opportunity for Input
-- Forwarded message --
From: van Greunen, Darelle (Ms) (Summerstrand Campus North)
Darelle.vanGreunen at nmmu.ac.za
Date: Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 04:34
Subject: [hci4d] AFRICOMM 2009 - Call for Participation
To: hci4d at googlegroups.com hci4d at googlegroups.com
AFRICOMM 2009
1st
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From: Dearden, Andrew M a.m.dear...@shu.ac.uk
Date: Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 09:26
Subject: [hci4d] 2nd CfP - Interaction Design International
Development Conference / India HCI
To: hci4d at googlegroups.com hci4d at googlegroups.com
Interaction Design
This Thursday at Change, we have an open discussion. Come share
whatever it is you are working on! There will also be a brief recap of
the mHealth Summit that took place in Washington, D.C.
this one is due today. sorry about the extremely short notice.
Nokia Research is looking for a technical intern to work on a project
in the US and Kenya during 2010.
Self-help groups are a large-scale phenomenon in Africa.
Participation varies by country, typically from 50-90% of the total
Information and Communications for Development 2009: Extending Reach
and Increasing Impact takes an in-depth look at how ICT, and
particularly broadband and mobile, are impacting economic growth in
developing countries. The data section includes at-a-glance tables for
150 economies of the latest
if you missed the talk, i've updated the blog post with a quick video
explaining agcommons. watch it at
http://change.washington.edu/2009/12/jubal-harpster-and-todd-slind-on-agcommons/
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 10:29, Yaw Anokwa yanokwa at gmail.com wrote:
This Thursday at Change, Jubal Harpster
Radio, Convergence and Development in Africa
Call for concept notes - Deadline January 8, 2010
Carleton University?s Centre for Media and Transitional Societies
(CMTS), in collaboration with Canada?s International Development
Research Centre (IDRC), is pleased to launch a call for concept notes,
This Thursday at Change, Sylvain Cibangu will be discussing his
upcoming research on the contributions of cell phones to development
in Africa.
The last few decades, cell phones have been making unprecedented
advances in developing countries. To this end, extensive literature
has shown cell
thanks trina. i'll put the list on the change website with links.
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 13:44, Trina Gorman trinajeangorman at yahoo.com wrote:
Though not specific to health, below is the book review list from Diana
Fletschner?s class titled ?Economics of International Development? (PB AF
I've worked with PIH in this capacity and it was life-changing job...
Partners In Health is a non-profit corporation based in Boston,
Massachusetts, whose mission is to provide a preferential option for
the poor in health care. Through service delivery, training, research,
and advocacy, PIH works
for ruggedized mobile devices of the kind you are describing, your
best bet is http://www.trimble.com or http://www.symbol.com.
you could also try a netbook with a gsm slot paired with a usb receipt
printer and a usb scale would get you 90% of the way there. the
netbook could likely power both of
Starting next quarter, you can take the weekly Change meeting as one
credit seminar (CSE590C1, SLN:19923).
Like other seminars, those who register for the class should attempt
some contribution (presenting a paper, working on a project, leading a
discussion, etc.) to the seminar. We want to keep
? ?Are there reasonably
priced solar options which could provide a sufficient power source while the
sun is shining?
Thanks again for the thoughts.
Cory
-Original Message-
From: Clint Tseng [mailto:cxlt at cs.washington.edu]
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 8:52 PM
To: Yaw Anokwa
Cc: Bush
interesting idea from a colleague of mine. if you have feedback about
the idea, send it on to teddy.
-Original Message-
From: Teddy Svoronos [mailto:teddy.svoro...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 2:55 PM
To: Teddy Svoronos
Subject: microgrants
Hi all,
I'm sure you're all
The United Nations Foundation has released a new report on New
Technologies in Emergencies and Conflicts: The Role of Information and
Social Networks. It looks at innovation in the use of technology
along the timeline of crisis response, from emergency preparedness and
alerts to recovery and
You can download any attachments from the Pamoya website
(http://www.pamoya.com/node/13061#attachments)
Carleton University's (Ottawa, Canada) Centre for Media and
Transitional Societies (CMTS) has launched a call for concept notes
outlining proposed research examining the impact of convergence
more partners in health hiring. the job posting is at
http://pih.org/youcando/join/Malawi_EMR_Manager_0809.pdf.
-- Forwarded message --
From: Hamish Fraser hamish_fra...@hms.harvard.edu
Date: Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 6:27 PM
Asking for a little help here. We at PIH are looking for a
Apply now!
UNICEF is looking to hire a Technical Team Adviser for the the newly
created Technology 4 Development Coordination Unit in Uganda.
More information can be found at:
http://share.unicefinnovation.org/terraw/technology-specialist-t4d-unit-kampala+1190
Richard Heeks (http://is.gd/593mM) has entered the ITU data on mobile
phone penetration for all countries from 1998-2008 into a Google Docs
spreadsheet, and then added the Motion Chart visualization (the same
engine made famous by Hans Rosling and TED). Play with the
visualization
Little research has been done to understand how investments in girls
impact economic growth and the health and well-being of communities.
This lack of data reveals how pervasively girls have been overlooked.
For millions of girls across the developing world, there are no
systems to record their
The Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest, an
annual competition begun in 2006, offers a $10,000 award to a software
developer who has made, in the spirit of open source computing, an
outstanding contribution to the nonprofit world and the ongoing work
of social change.
-- Forwarded message --
From: Richard Heeks richard.he...@manchester.ac.uk
Date: Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 15:45
Subject: PhD/DBA in Development Informatics (inc. Scholarship Info.)
at Univ. Manchester
To: Richard Heeks mzdssrbh at manchester.ac.uk
The Centre for Development
it's not explicit in this call, but i know the yahoo folks are also
interested in ictd applications of these areas, so if interested, apply!
-- Forwarded message --
*From:* Jamie Lockwood [mailto:jamieloc at yahoo-inc.com]
*Sent:* Friday, January 08, 2010 7:31 AM
*To:* Jamie
it's not explicit in this call, but i know the yahoo folks are also
interested in ictd. if interested, apply!
*From:* Jamie Lockwood [mailto:jamieloc at yahoo-inc.com]
*Sent:* Friday, January 08, 2010 7:31 AM
*To:* Jamie Lockwood
*Subject:* Announcing the 2010 Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges
LIDC is contributing thousands of pounds towards field costs for five
three-year PhD Studentships.The funds will support research projects
in a range of innovative and specialised areas including using mobile
phones to help monitor infectious disease, analysing sexual behaviour
among young women
*From:* Brittany Hinchliff [mailto:Brittany.Hinchliff at vodafone.com]
*Sent:* Monday, January 11, 2010 1:51 PM
*To:* Brittany Hinchliff
*Subject:* Deadline for Vodafone Wireless Innovation Project is February 1st
Hi,
This is a reminder that the deadline for submitting an application to the
the poverty action lab out of mit is a group does a lot of evidence
based approaches to development.
their core activities are:
1. running randomized trials of specific policies and programs to
generate evidence about what works;
2. building the capacity of others to run randomized trials further
this sounds like a very relevant talk from our friends at the ischool.
i've added it to the change calendar.
-- Forwarded message --
From: Madeline Sanabria m...@u.washington.edu
Date: Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:06
Subject: [dub] iSchool Research Conversations - 'Evaluating outcomes
This Thursday at Change, UW CSE professor Richard Anderson will
presenting on his work building an ICT Portfolio at PATH.
PATH is a Seattle based NGO with the mission to ?improve the health of
people around the world by: advancing technologies, strengthening
systems, and encouraging healthy
Carnegie Mellon University's Qatar Campus is hiring CS professors, and
the Asian University for Women (a newly established institution in
Bangladesh) is looking for Undergraduate Faculty and Visiting Faculty
on Sabbatical. Both have interests in graduates with a background in ICTD.
Please join the Department of Human Centered Design Engineering
(HCDE) this Friday for our Winter 2010 Usability Issues in HCDE
Seminar Series. The presentation format is a 30-minute talk followed
by a QA session. Members of the UW community and the public are
welcome.
The week's featured
Since the early 1990s, there has been an increasing interest in
technology training centers to build employability options of socially
excluded groups in Latin America.
Four researchers ? Joyojeet Pal, Jay Freistadt, Michele Frix, and Phil
Neff ? from the Technology Social Change (TASCHA) group
dimagi is one of those companies that is connected to pretty much
every good ictd project i've heard off. a lot of us at uw use them to
implement much of the research we end up scaling. e-imci, commcare,
open-data-kit, etc are all successful thanks to the work dimagi does.
more importantly, they
This Thursday at Change, Kushal Chakrabarti will be discussing his
work bringing student loans to the developing world through the power
of person-to-person microfinance. Please note the new room number.
Kushal is the co-founder and CEO of Vittana. Vittana makes it
possible for students around
A long-term Web/ICT4D volunteer position (includes room and board)
just opened up with organization, AIDG, in Guatemala.
---
WEB DEVELOPER / IT GURU (Guatemala) - VOLUNTEER DESCRIPTION
OVERVIEW
The Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group (AIDG) works to
provide rural villages in
Richard Heeks asks and answers an important question ?How big is the
ICT4D research field?? Any thoughts on his numbers?
http://ict4dblog.wordpress.com/2010/02/08/ict-for-development-research-size-and-growth
This Thursday at Change, Sylvain Cibangu will be discussing his
upcoming work on the contributions of cell phones to economic
development in Africa. Specifically, he is doing an information study
of corn growers? experiences in the Congo.
The last few decades, information and communication
the slides and audio from sylvain's talk have been added to
http://change.washington.edu/2010/02/sylvain-cibangu-on-contributions-of-cell-phones-on-corn-growers-in-the-congo/
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 06:50, Yaw Anokwa yanokwa at gmail.com wrote:
This Thursday at Change, Sylvain Cibangu
The 2nd International Conference on M4D - Mobile Communication
Technology for Development (M4D2010)
The conference is the second international conference in M4D following
the inaugural conference in Karlstad, Sweden in 2008
(http://m4d.humanit.org/) and M4D in East-Africa 2008
CALL FOR PAPERS
SAICSIT 2010 ? Fountains of Computing Research
The 2010 Annual Research Conference of the South African Institute for
Computer Scientists and Information Technologists
11 to 13 October 2010, Bela Bela, South Africa
Conference website is accessible via the SAICSIT website:?
The following CARE internship might be of interest to students in the Bay Area.
ICT/Corporate Partnerships Internship opportunity with CARE in San
Francisco office
CARE USA is a leading international humanitarian organization
dedicated to eliminating poverty by empowering women and girls to
if you have a chance, check out this talk. eduardo and instedd do
great work all over the world...
-- Forwarded message --
From: Connie Ivey-Pasche con...@cs.washington.edu
Date: Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 09:58
Subject: [Cs-grads] FW: MEBI 590 Lecture Series for March 2, 2010
To:
-- Forwarded message --
From: Lindsay Michimoto linds...@cs.washington.edu
Date: Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 15:19
Subject: [Cs-grads] FW: International Development Certificate
information sessions
To: cs-grads - Mailing List cs-grads at cs.washington.edu
Dear Students,
If you are
if you have an hour and like the economics of development, check out
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2010/01/spence_on_growt.html.
Nobel Laureate Michael Spence of Stanford University's Hoover
Institution and the Commission on Growth and Development talks with
EconTalk host Russ Roberts about
thanks to gaetano, we'll also have sandwiches for lunch during this talk!
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 16:44, Eleanor O'Rourke
eorourke at cs.washington.edu wrote:
This Thursday at Change, Nell O'Rourke will provide an overview of the key
points of Kentaro Toyama's talk Ten Myths of Technology and
This Thursday at Change, UW grad student Rohit Chaudhri will
presenting his work on A Programmable Accessory for Cell Phones. Like
last week, we'll provide food for attendees.
Rohit says, ?Low-tier cell phones like the Nokia 1100, 1200, 2600 etc,
are commonly used by individuals from low-income
-- Forwarded message --
From: Anirudha Joshi anirudha...@gmail.com
Date: Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 01:50
Subject: [hci4d] India HCI 2010 / IDID 2010 - less than 2 weeks away
To: hci4d hci4d at googlegroups.com
It is less than 2 weeks to go for the India HCI 2010 / Interaction
Design
This Thursday at Change, Samuel Clark on Data Systems and Information
Scientists in Africa. As always, we'll have sandwiches.
Throughout the developing world today health and welfare decisions
are being made largely through guesswork. The primary reason for this
is a lack of data describing
pretty cool. you can join the idid conference virtually...
-- Forwarded message --
From: Dearden, Andrew M a.m.dear...@shu.ac.uk
Date: Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 07:17
Subject: [hci4d] Interaction Design for International Development:
Annual General Meeting
To: hci4d at googlegroups.com
Information Technologies International Development (ITID), an
interdisciplinary open-access journal that focuses on the intersection
of information and communication technologies (ICTs) with the ?other
four billion? has just published its Spring 2010 issue under the
guidance of Roxana Barrantes.
i've put the slides at
http://change.washington.edu/2010/03/samuel-clark-on-data-systems-and-information-scientists-in-africa/
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 15:51, Yaw Anokwa yanokwa at gmail.com wrote:
This Thursday at Change, Samuel Clark on Data Systems and Information
Scientists in Africa
folks who might know are are http://vittana.org, http://www.mifos.org,
and http://www.lumana.org. all three are seattle based and i'm glad to
make intros if needed.
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 13:30, Rosalyn Mahashin
rosalyn7 at u.washington.edu wrote:
Change folks,
Are you aware of any MFI or
The Earth Awards - Call for Entries
DEADLINE: MAY 10, 2010
Submit your project here: http://www.theearthawards.org/portal/members/login
The Earth Awards is a global search for creative, sustainable
solutions and innovations designed for the 21st century. It provides a
platform for individuals
Vittana is looking for a scrappy, experienced Marketing PR Manager
who will help shape our public personality and take our mission to the
next level. You will join a passionate, award-winning team (HuffPo:
#1 Game-Changer in Philanthropy; Fast Company: Top 10 Most
Innovative Finance Companies in
if you are interested in this gig, might also want to check out
http://www.boozallen.com/consulting/civil-government-consulting/international-development-diplomacy.
--
From: Edwin Shao es...@eshao.es
To introduce myself, I have
Job Description:
We are looking for a PhD (not necessarily a fresh graduate) in the
area of Mobile HCI to work on the Spoken Web project. Details of the
project are mentioned in the next paragraph. The candidate is expected
to work in New Delhi in the area of mobile interactions, multi-modal
questions about this position should be directed to: nitendra rajput
at rnitendra at gmail.com
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 12:11, Yaw Anokwa yanokwa at cs.washington.edu wrote:
Job Description:
We are looking for a PhD (not necessarily a fresh graduate) in the
area of Mobile HCI to work
always interesting work from heeks...
-- Forwarded message --
From: Richard Heeks richard.he...@manchester.ac.uk
Date: Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 06:15
Subject: ICTs, Climate Change and Development: New Concept Paper and
Scoping Study
To: richard.heeks at manchester.ac.uk richard.heeks
Partners in Health is looking for a full-time Java EE developer to
join its Medical Informatics team in Boston. This person will focus on
developing functionality in OpenMRS for their sister organization in
Haiti, Zamni Lasante (ZL), including modules for clinical programs and
functionality
great work from richard heeks on ict stats.
-- Forwarded message --
From: Richard Heeks richard.he...@manchester.ac.uk
Date: Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 01:04
Subject: Rich v. Poor Country ICT Statistics and Charts Online
To: richard.heeks at manchester.ac.uk richard.heeks at
Jolkona (www.jolkona.org) is a start-up non-profit organization that
lets people choose how to impact the world through small donations
(starting at just $5!), and unlike other micro-giving websites, they
provide tangible proofs of impact for every donation. For example, if
you spend $40 to
Say you want to make loans to millions of poor women in the developing
world, to help them climb out of poverty. Is it OK to raise money from
rich investors, who expect to make a profit?
Muhammad Yunus, the father of microfinance, says no. If you have
investors who expect profits, you'll
-style thing for banking?
--Colin
-- Sent from my Palm Pre
--
On Sep 30, 2010 8:50 AM, Yaw Anokwa yanokwa at gmail.com wrote:
Say you want to make loans to millions of poor women in the developing
world, to help them climb out of poverty. Is it OK to raise money
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