if anyone on the change list would like to speak to neil one on one, you can reserve a slot at https://reserve.cs.washington.edu/visitor/week.php?year=2011&month=11&day=16&room=1806.
i believe that link is cse only, so if you can't login, let me know directly and i'll set something up. On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 11:22, Richard Anderson <anderson at cs.washington.edu> wrote: > > > > > From: dub-bounces at dub.washington.edu [mailto:dub-bounces at > dub.washington.edu] > On Behalf Of Morgan Dixon > Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 11:13 AM > To: dub at dub.washington.edu; Neil Patel > Subject: [dub] dub seminar 11/16 Neil Patel : Voice-based Social Media for > Rural Communities > > > > Hello dubbers! > Please join us on Wednesday for our weekly?DUB?seminar. > > > > Speaker: Neil Patel?(Stanford / Awaaz.De) > > Wednesday, November 16 > > 12:00-1:20pm > > EEB 403?(map) > > Title: > > Voice-based Social Media for Rural Communities > > > > Abstract: > > Online communities enable people to access and share information, but they > are out of reach for poor and isolated communities around the world. Mobile > phones have the potential to overcome the PC?s accessibility, affordability, > and familiarity barriers. However, most mobile information services limit > rural populations to being passive knowledge consumers, not active > producers. My dissertation explored the design and usage of voice-based > social media for rural communities. My collaborators and I designed Avaaj > Otalo (?voice stoop?) a voice message board application that allows > small-scale farmers in India to share agricultural advice by posting, > listening to, and replying to others' messages using any phone. AO has been > live and accessed by thousands since 2009. In all, we have deployed voice > message boards with 8 partners in 6 states across India working in > agriculture, labor rights, women's empowerment, and education, logging over > 100,000 calls from over 10,000 callers. > > > > Bio: > > Neil Patel is co-founder and CEO of Awaaz.De, a company that develops social > information platforms for the majority of world's people who do not have > access to the Internet. He completed a Ph.D in Computer Science from > Stanford University, and B.S. degrees in Computer Science and Business > Administration from UC Berkeley. He currently commutes between his homes in > California and Ahmedabad, Gujarat. > > > > > > > > -- > Morgan Dixon > > Ph.D. Candidate > > Computer Science & Engineering > > University of Washington > > cs.uw.edu/homes/mdixon > > > > _______________________________________________ > change mailing list > change at change.washington.edu > http://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/change > >
