[change] World Bank embraces Open Access

>From > In support of the new Open Access Policy, the World Bank is adopting a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) copyright license for content published by the B

[change] posters and pictures are online

if you missed the poster session last thursday, we've put the posters, abstracts and pictures on http://change.washington.edu/. yaw

[change] slides and photos from yesterday's talk

we had about 60 attendees to yesterday's talks, so thanks for the great turnout! if want access to the slides and photos from the talk, you can find them on http://change.washington.edu/ we have a number of events next week, including a talk on a large medical record system in haiti as well as a

[change] building web 2.0 support for global health

this may be a timely opportunity for those interested in how web 2.0 can drive global health. pat is a clinician working at partners in health in rwanda. i worked with him a few years ago and he is an all around good guy. send him an email if you are interested. -- Forwarded message --

[change] thursday weekly meeting

hello all, just a reminder that change holds a weekly meeting to discuss ictd at uw. the meetings will always be on thursdays from 12-1 and everyone is welcome. please put this weekly meeting on your schedule or subscribe to our calendar at http://change.washington.edu/about/events/ this week, we

[change] ask kentaro a question

hey all, kentaro toyama is presenting at colloquium this thursday at 3.30 in eeb 105 on 'computer science research for global development'. see http://www.cs.washington.edu/htbin-post/mvis/mvis?ID=803 for details. kentaro has agreed to answer any questions we submit to him about the field and his

[change] thursday weekly meeting

hello all, just a reminder that change holds a weekly meeting to discuss ictd at uw. the meetings will always be on thursdays from 12-1 and everyone is welcome. please put this weekly meeting on your schedule or subscribe to our calendar at http://change.washington.edu/about/events/ for the agenda

[change] thursday weekly meeting

sorry folks. the date for this week's meeting is march 19. On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 17:50, Yaw Anokwa wrote: > hello all, > > just a reminder that change holds a weekly meeting to discuss ictd at > uw. the meetings will always be on thursdays from 12-1 and everyone is > welc

[change] cs research for development video

for those who missed kentaro toyama's cse talk on computer science research for global development, i've put the video and the slides online at http://change.washington.edu/ hope everyone is having a great spring break, yaw

[change] Computing at the Margins symposium, Georgia Tech

Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 21:41:23 -0400 From: emma brunskill Subject: [Ict4dev] Computing at the Margins symposium, Georgia Tech To: ict4dev at csail.mit.edu Message-ID: ? ? ? ? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 -- Forwarded message -- You Are Cordially Invited Findin

[change] New ITID Issue Published

-- Forwarded message -- From: Arlene Luck Date: Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 13:57 Subject: [itid-announce] [ITID] New Issue Published To: Fran?ois Bar , Michael Best Dear ITID Reader: Information Technologies and International Development has just published its latest issue at http://

[change] thursday weekly meeting

Every week we hold an open meeting to discuss ICTD at UW. This week, we will have Anthony Poon presenting "*bus: Building a Public Transportation Information System in Kyrgyzstan". The *bus team just arrived from their tests in Bishkek. Come hear how their bottom-up, transportation information inf

[change] nandan nilekani in seattle

nandan nilekani is going to be in seattle on thursday (april 2nd) and there are a number of events that you can attend to hear him speak. the first is at the hub from 3.30-4.30 and is free. http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=56435523796 the second is in montlake at 7pm and is not free http://w

[change] partners in health - rwanda programmer

partners in health is looking for a programmer to live and work in rural rwanda. if you are interested in working on an open source project designed for the most rural environments while hanging out with the movers and shakers in the hiv/tb world, partners in health is the place to be. i was fortu

[change] Fwd: CommCare press

pretty exciting stuff from cse grad student (and change founder) brian derenzi. -- Forwarded message -- From: Brian DeRenzi For those who haven't seen it, CommCare has had some press lately: http://www.thestandard.com/news/2009/01/05/new-mobile-phone-applications-helps-health-w

[change] tapan parikh in esquire

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.

[change] programmer for ghana health project

The Ghana Health Information Systems Development (GHISD) project seeks to hire a computer scientist who will be posted in the Dangbe West District of Ghana. GHISD will test whether the adaptation of existing mobile phone technology can help address these problems by significantly easing informatio

[change] Call for Demos - International Conference on ICT and Development 2009

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 state-of-the-ar

[change] UBICOMP 2009 Workshop CFP - Taking Ubicomp Beyond Developed Worlds

** UBICOMP 2009 Workshop ** Globicomp - Taking Ubicomp Beyond Developed Worlds Sept 30th 2009, Florida, USA Organisers: Matt Jones (Swansea, UK) & Gary Marsden (UCT, South Africa) http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/globicomp2009 in conjunction with ubicomp 2009 (http://www.ubic

[change] change t-shirt orders!

make that monday the 9th. the deadline is 02/09 at midnight. On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 15:46, Yaw Anokwa 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 shi

[change] change t-shirt orders!

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 shirts with the change logo and web address in white. you can see a mock up at http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/yanokwa/tmp/change-shirt.j

[change] uwchange is now on twitter

if you use twitter, make sure to follow http://twitter.com/uwchange to get tweets about events as well as ictd content on the web. yaw

[change] change t-shirt orders!

make sure you get in your order before midnight tonight (seattle time). On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 15:46, Yaw Anokwa 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 ap

[change] change events are now on gcal

change has a calender of events that you can subscribe to on gcal, ical, outlook or thunderbird. rss: http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/uwchange%40gmail.com/public/basic ical: http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/uwchange%40gmail.com/public/basic.ics html: http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?s

[change] Bonderman Travel Fellowship Deadline Reminder - February 16

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

[change] Fwd: [gshci4d] Young Researchers Workshop at ICTD 2009

-- Forwarded message -- From: Jahanzeb Sherwani 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 2009, that's co-or

[change] CFP at ICTD: What Makes Good ICTD Research?

Call for Participation Workshop at ICTD2009 Friday 17 April 2009 ICTD2009 will be the third conference to highlight rigorous, scholarly research in ICTD. Yet, many feel that the question of what constitutes good ICTD research is still unclear.* *In this workshop, we aim to raise and explore s

[change] DigitalICS project wins second-place in Nokia's Calling All Innovators Competition

Announced at the GSM World Congress in Barcelona. See below for press release. Congrats to Yael! http://www.nokia.com/A4136001?newsid=1291207

[change] Fwd: Digital Technologies and Marginalized Youth: Reducing the Gap (IDC 09 Workshop)

-- Forwarded message -- From: Juan Pablo Hourcade Date: Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 09:20 Subject: Digital Technologies and Marginalized Youth: Reducing the Gap (IDC 09 Workshop) To: Juan Pablo Hourcade Dear colleagues, I want to draw your attention towards the workshop "Digital Techn

[change] Workshops Invitation - ICTD2009 Conference

We invite you to participate in one of the special parallel workshops to be held on Friday 17 April at the IEEE/ACM ICTD2009 conference in Qatar (http://www.ictd2009.org) Details of these are attached. ?There is no additional cost for those attending the ICTD2009 conference, but you will need to t

[change] olpc internship program

should be interesting experience -- *One Laptop per Child - Africa Internship Program* Students have played a pivotal role in every revolution, except learning. That will change in 2009. Through One Laptop per Child, student tea

[change] change shirts are here!

cost is $5.00. find me at cse590f or the next few change events (poster session, msr talks, etc). - check: the cost is $5.00. make the check payable to 'yaw anokwa' and put it in my cse mailbox or find me. - paypal: the cost is $5.45. send the payment to 'yanokwa at gmail.com'.

[change] tech museum award - nominations open

The Tech Awards program inspires global engagement in applying technology to humanity's most pressing problems by recognizing individuals, organizations, and companies that are utilizing innovative technology solutions to address the most urgent issues facing our planet. http://www.techawards.org/

[change] thanks!

hello all, thanks for coming out for last night's poster session. it was great to see so many people in ictd sharing their work! and special thanks go to natalie for organizing the event and sunil and clint for building the new site at http://change.washington.edu/ we've got some exciting stuff p

[change] black change shirts

the t-shirt company accidentally printed a handful of women's change shirts in black. if you would like a women's change shirt in black for $5, let me know asap. if you already have one of the grey ones and you would like one in black, we can do an exchange. if you did not order a shirt, but woul

[change] ICTD survey

i'm sure rabin and joyojeet would love help from uw folks in this survey... Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 12:33:35 -0700 From: "Rabin Patra" Subject: [TIER] Reminder to complete ICTD survey To: TIER Dear ICTD'ers(!) Here is the last reminder to answer our survey. To those of you have already starte

[change] project 10 to the 100th

Google's Project 10 to the 100th is a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible. Submission deadline is October 20th, 2008. Check it out at http://www.project10tothe100.com/index.html/

[change] CfP: Human-Centered Computing in International Development (CHI '09 Workshop)

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 r

[change] Fwd: [hci4d] VACANCIES - Lecturer in Development Education (0.4 fte) and Research Officer in Development Education (0.4 fte)

-- Forwarded message -- From: Niall Winters Date: Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 08:05 Subject: [hci4d] VACANCIES - Lecturer in Development Education (0.4 fte) and Research Officer in Development Education (0.4 fte) INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION University of London The Institute of Education (IO

[change] Fwd: [hci4d] Final CfP: Special Issue of ITID on HCI and International Development - Extended Deadline

UPDATE: Please note that the submission deadline has been extended to October 28, 2008 Information Technologies and International Development Final Call for papers for a special issue on HCI and International Development Submission deadline: October 28, 2008 Information Technologies and Internati

[change] USAID Development 2.0 Challenge

Mobile technology, including everything from inventive applications for smart phones to simple text messaging, is increasingly ubiquitous in the developing world. USAID challenges you to explore its potential through an innovation for maximum development impact in areas such as health, banking, edu

[change] Fwd: WG9.4: IFIP 9.4 doctoral colloquium May 2009

Original Message Subject:WG9.4: IFIP 9.4 doctoral colloquium May 2009 Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:39:48 - From: Reply-To: To: Call for Participation: Doctoral Colloquium, May 28th 2009, Dubai School of Government, United Arab Emirates In conjunctio

[change] Human Centered Design Toolkit

In collaboration with Gates Foundation and IDE, IDEO has created a Human Centered Design toolkit. This resource was created to help organizations working with smallholder farmers better understand the needs of the farmers and design appropriate tools, technologies, programs, or services for and wit

[change] Vodafone Americas Foundation

seems to be a lot of companies doing prizes for mobile innovation this year... > The Vodafone Americas Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of our > Wireless Innovation Challenge, a new competition that seeks to identify and > fund the best innovations using wireless related technology to

[change] USAID has launched GlobalDevelopmentCommons

USAID has launched GlobalDevelopmentCommons at http://www.usaid.gov/about_usaid/gdc/ The Global Development Commons initiative seeks innovations that to make knowledge more accessible and affordable to help people in developing countries solve social and economic problems. The Commons seeks to cat

[change] get a job at kiva.org

Named as one of the top ideas in 2006 by the New York Times Magazine, Kiva (www.kiva.org) is the world's first person-to-person lending marketplace for the poor. Kiva's goal is to reduce global poverty by letting consumers lend to and connect with a specific developing world entrepreneur online. K

[change] Fwd: Health, Development and Social Transformation

i was forwarded this course description. it may be interesting to those interested in health, human rights and social justice. -- Original Message -- Subject: [Human Rights] Course in Health, Development and Social Transformation From:

[change] hci for low income regions

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 submit

[change] talk video now online

the video from brian, benson and my talk a few weeks ago is now online. you can view it at http://www.cs.washington.edu/info/videos/asx/change_uwcse_africa_031108_640x360.asx as always, you can find out about news and upcoming events at http://change.cs.washington.edu/wiki/index.php/Main_Page yaw

[change] CSE477 Poster Session on Friday

The students from Gaetano's "Technology for Low-Income Regions" course will be presenting their project posters on March 14th from 13.30-15.00. If you haven't seen these undergrad projects, check them out in the CSE Atrium this Friday. http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/cse477/08wi/

[change] Fwd: [Cse590f] REMINDER: CSE477 Demos/Posters (today 12:30-3:30)

-- Forwarded message -- From: Gaetano Borriello Date: Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 08:46 Subject: [Cse590f] REMINDER: CSE477 Demos/Posters (today 12:30-3:30) To: faculty - Mailing List , cse590f - Mailing List , cs-grads - Mailing List , cs-ugrads - Mailing List , cs-staff - Mailing List

[change] CFP: Special Issue of ITID on HCI and International Development

-- Forwarded message -- From: Niall Winters Date: Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 04:58 Subject: [hci4d] CFP: Special Issue of ITID on HCI and International Development To: hci4d at googlegroups.com Information Technologies and International Development Call for papers for a special issue on

[change] ict4d projects from mit

some interesting projects from mit. if you are interested in any of these, shoot an email to luis. -- Forwarded message -- - The Medi-SIM project (rendering XML-based forms and protocols like IMCI on low-end phones using SIM menus) - Several projects from our ICT4D class at MIT

[change] Fwd: IT Infrastructure Project for Aga Khan Education Service

if you are interested in educational management in low income countries, this is a great opportunity. aga khan education service runs over 300 schools (54k students) in pakistan, india, bangladesh, kenya, uganda, tanzania, and tajikistan. if you need more information, shoot an email to sheila. -

[change] nuanced view of microcredit

http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?essay_id=361250&fuseaction=wq.essay is a good read for those interested in microfinance. it presents a more subtle view of how microcredit is working across the world. also check out http://vsla.net/ for a newer microfinance model that seems to work better in

[change] IEEE Computer June Issue: ICT4D

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 indust

[change] Will Money Solve Africa's Development Problems?

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.

[change] Fwd: M4D 2008 - Mobile Communication Technology for Development

*** Invitation to participate in M4D 2008 *** M4D 2008 - 1st International Conference on "M4D": Mobile Communication Technology for Development 11-12 December, 2008, Centre for HumanIT Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden http://m4d.humanit.org New developments in mobile communication

[change] CFP: ICTD2009

just a reminder, there are only two more months left until the ictd deadline... The 3rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD2009) will be held 17-19 April 2009 at Carnegie-Mellon's state-of-the-art campus in Doha, Qatar (http://www

[change] Fwd: [hci4d] 2nd CFP: Special Issue of ITID on HCI and International Development

-- Forwarded message -- From: Niall Winters Date: Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:34 Subject: [hci4d] 2nd CFP: Special Issue of ITID on HCI and International Development To: Information Technologies and International Development Second Call for papers for a special issue on HCI and Inte

[change] Impact Assessment of ICT4D Projects: New Online Guide

richard heeks has done a lot of work in ictd and this guide looks like a worthwhile read. Subject: [wougnet] Impact Assessment of ICT4D Projects: New Online Guide From:"Richard Heeks" A compendium of impact assessment frameworks for ICT4D projects is now availabl

[change] Fwd: [Cs-grads] FW: Vodafone Wireless Innovation Challenge

-- Forwarded message -- From: Kay Beck-Benton Date: Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 09:11 Subject: [Cs-grads] FW: Vodafone Wireless Innovation Challenge To: cs-grads - Mailing List , faculty - Mailing List Dear Friends, The Vodafone Americas Foundat

[change] Fwd: [Cs-grads] FW: Vodafone Wireless Innovation Challenge

ee to contact me if this sounds > appealing. > > -Joe Michiels > Foster School of Business, UW - MBA Class of 2010 > jmich at u.washington.edu > > > > > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Yaw Anokwa > wrote: >> >> -- Forwarded message ---

[change] Fwd: [hci4d] Call for Papers and Participation: PD4D 2008 Participatory Design for Development -- Workshop at Participatory Design Conference 2008 (Deadline Extended)

-- Forwarded message -- From: Jose Abdelnour-Nocera Date: Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 16:47 Subject: [hci4d] Call for Papers and Participation: PD4D 2008 Participatory Design for Development -- Workshop at Participatory Design Conference 2008 (Deadline Extended) To: hci4d at googlegroups

[change] Country Director Position in Malawi

under mike, baobab has done some incredible things with cutting edge technology in malawi. sounds like an exciting opportunity! -- Forwarded message -- From: Mike McKay Date: Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 1:50 PM Subject: [viant-alum] Country Director Position in Africa To: Viant Alum

[change] hci4cid papers

in case you wanted to read them all in one go, i have put all the papers from hci4cid @ chi2008 in one place. http://mikeb.inta.gatech.edu/HCI4CID/ http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/yanokwa/tmp/hci4cid.zip

[change] congrats to brian (again)

brian is too modest to announce this himself, but he just got the announcement for the fulbright scholarship. for those keeping track, this means he is both an nsf and fulbright scholar! yaw

[change] NGO in India looking for info management solutions

sunil, i can't recommend anything specific because it really depends on your budget and capacity. in africa, most ngos with your set of problems would use paper forms to collect the data, then have a data entry team enter it into a custom access database. reports can be generated there or the dat

[change] GHDonline Summer Internships

From: Joaquin Blaya Subject: [Ict4dev] GHDonline Summer Internships To: Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi The GHD online team at the Brigham and Women?s Hospital is looking for two summer interns. ?A brief description is below as well as the website where you can fi

[change] weekly meeting: multimath presentation

Every week we hold an open meeting to discuss ICTD at UW. This week, we will have a presentation from "MultiMath: Numeric keypads for math learning on shared personal computers". The MultiMath team just arrived from their tests in India. Come hear how they incorporate split-screen UI and low cost

[change] ictd2009 reminder

if you are going to ictd2009 and have a change shirt, please don't forget to pack and wear the shirt during the conference. we want to make uw's presence known visually. see you all in doha, yaw

[change] weekly meeting

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.

[change] percentage of income spent on ict

we discussed this today and i found the numbers. you can see the relevant table at http://twitpic.com/567s4. the full pdf is at http://is.gd/rqUo

[change] CACM article of Dev World research

i hate to violate copyright, but i despise the acm website and their magazine interface. http://www.scribd.com/doc/15668800/Communications-of-the-ACM-062009-Vol-52-No-06 is an easier way to access the article. don't forget to pay your acm dues. On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 14:10, Gaetano Borriello wr

[change] Ubicomp 2009 - Globicomp Workshop

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 textua

[change] OMC Hackathon at MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, MA on July 1-2

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 tool

[change] paul farmer speaking at uw today at 6

Dr. Paul Farmer, subject of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Mountains Beyond Mountains" and co-founder of Partners In Health, will speak about the current climate of global health on Thursday, June 18 from 6--7:30 p.m. in Kane Hall Room 130. The free event, "A Conversation with Dr. Paul Farmer Mod

[change] Talk on the Cell Phone Revolution in the Developing World (June 29th at 7pm)

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 in the

[change] Talk on the Cell Phone Revolution in the Developing World (June 29th at 7pm)

correction. that is monday (not tuesday), june 29th. On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 06:28, Yaw Anokwa wrote: > 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-sponsor

[change] Fwd: Connecting with Change

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 --

[change] telehealth in developing world book

The "Telehealth in the Developing World" book aims to redress the relative lack of published information on successful telehealth solutions in the developing world. It presents real-life stories from Asia, Africa, and Latin America. It is rich in practical experience and will be of interest to heal

[change] Fwd: [Cs-grads] FW: Apply now: Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition 2010

-- Forwarded message -- From: Lindsay Michimoto Date: 2009/8/12 Subject: [Cs-grads] FW: Apply now: Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition 2010 To: cs-grads - Mailing List From: GSEC [mailto:g...@u.washington.edu] Sent: Wednesday, August

[change] Call for Presentations for the mHealth event in Washington DC

From: ACM SIGCHI General Interest Announcements (Mailing List) Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 1:19 PM To: CHI-ANNOUNCEMENTS at LISTSERV.ACM.ORG Subject: Call for Presentations for the mHealth event in Washington DC Hello everyone! I wanted to make sure that you were aware that the call for present

[change] Research Grants on ICT for Development

The University of Nairobi, with support from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Ottawa, Canada, is glad to invite your institution to participate in ICT research grants and scholarships. There are opportunities for graduate students in your institution pursuing Masters or Doctor

[change] ICTD Post-Doc Fellowship at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in South Africa

Postdoctoral Fellowship available at NMMU, Summerstrand Campus, starting January 2010. ?For more information, please contact Prof. Janet Wesson at Janet.Wesson at nmmu.ac.za directly. Additional contact details below. Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University Job Title: Postdoctoral Fellowship in C

[change] IPID - Announcement: 2010 Technology for Innovation and Education in Developing Countries (TEDC) Conference to be held in Maputo, Mozambique on January 21 ~ 23, 2010.

Good day! We are pleased to announce the 2010 Technology for Innovation and Education in Developing Countries (TEDC) Conference to be held in Maputo, Mozambique on January 21 ~ 23, 2010. We seek high quality submissions of original unpublished research on thoughtful and purposeful applications of t

[change] a look back at tapan parikh’s cam toolkit

it's been a while since there was a post on the change blog, but we are ramping for the start of the school year with this post: http://change.washington.edu/2009/08/a-look-back-at-tapan-parikh-cam-toolkit/ if you'd like to blog about something, just let me know! yaw

[change] Blog Update: OpenMRS Now Installable With A Double Click

OpenMRS is an open-source framework for building electronic medical record systems in developing countries. It enables organizations to build and manage health care systems where AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria afflict the lives of millions. While the framework is quite powerful, it can be difficu

[change] change meetings are back!

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 http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=uwchange%40

[change] change meeting tomorrow

our first change meeting is tomorrow at noon in the paul allen center, room 403. hope to see you all there! yaw

[change] Fwd: Seeking a CKW Leader

The Grameen CKW project (recently featured in the Economist) is looking for a new project lead. -- Forwarded message -- From: Eric Cantor Date: Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 12:10 AM Subject: Seeking a CKW Leader Hi guys, I hope all is well, wondered if you know anyone who fits the bill

[change] Fwd: [Cs-grads] SPAM: INVITATION: Drum & Dance Guinea Kids Benefit Concert...in the U District....please tell your friends...

-- Forwarded message -- From: Oren Etzioni Date: Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 09:33 Subject: [Cs-grads] SPAM: INVITATION: Drum & Dance Guinea Kids Benefit Concert...in the U Districtplease tell your friends... To: all-faculty - Mailing List , cs-grads - Mailing List , cs-ugrads - Mailin

[change] meeting this thursday

hey all, we have a change meeting thursday at noon in the paul allen center, room 403. this week, gaetano will be discussing what he did during his sabbatical at google. hope to see you all there, yaw

[change] CIS becomes TASHCA

The Center for Information & Society (CIS) has changed its name to the Technology & Social Change (TASCHA) group. Christine Prefontaine explains that, ?Over the last 10 years we have grown from a three-person team to more than a dozen researchers and program staff, with affiliated faculty from acr

[change] Interesting New Papers from ITID and NSDR

In the past few days, a few interesting ICTD papers have been published that I wanted to share. The first set comes from the Information Technologies & International Development (ITID), an interdisciplinary open-access journal that focuses on the intersection of information and communication tech

[change] CSE Colloquium on Open Source Data Collection (Tuesday, Oct 13)

This Tuesday at the CSE Colloqium, Gaetano Borriello will be presenting Open Data Kit, work he did while on sabbatical at Google. If you missed his practice talk last week, now's your chance to see the final product. Open Data Kit (ODK) is an open-source mobile data collection toolkit for the citi

[change] iPhone app -- Give work

really great idea for crowd sourcing *Date: *October 13, 2009 9:16:47 AM PDT *Subject: **iPhone app ? Give work* *Source: *Dolores Labs Blog [image: landing-page.jpg]We just launched our first iPhone app: Give Work

[change] fellowship opportunity for women from developing countries

-- Forwarded message -- S c h o o l f o r A d v a n c e d R e s e a r c h o n t h e H u m a n E x p e r i e n c e Post Office Box 2188 * Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504-2188 * (505) 954-7200 * fax (505) 954-7235 * www.sarweb.org One six-month fellowship is availa

[change] Justin Steventon on CyberTracker

This Thursday at Change, Justin Steventon will be presenting on his exciting work on CyberTracker. "Climate change, pollution, habitat destruction and loss of biodiversity may have serious impacts on human welfare. To anticipate and prevent negative impacts will require ongoing long-term monitorin

[change] University of Michigan is hiring in ICTD

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 na

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