[change] FW: [Call for Papers] ICTD 2024: 13th International Conference on Information & Communication Technologies and Development

[Richard Anderson]

From: Priyank Chandra 
Sent: Friday, April 5, 2024 2:09 PM
To: ictdpc2...@gmail.com
Cc: Masinde Muthoni 
Subject: [Call for Papers] ICTD 2024: 13th International Conference on 
Information & Communication Technologies and Development


Call for Papers: ICTD 2024



The 13th International Conference on Information & Communication Technologies 
and Development (ICTD 2024), to be hosted in Nairobi, Kenya from December 9-11, 
2024, invites you to submit research papers (http://www.ictd.org).

About: ICTD 2024 provides an international forum for scholarly researchers to 
explore the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in 
social, political, and economic development. The ICTD conferences have been 
taking place approximately every 18 months since 2006. The conference reflects 
the multidisciplinary and multisectoral nature of ICTD work, with 
representation from a broad range of areas (anthropology, communication, 
computer science, design, economics, electrical engineering, geography, global 
health, information science, political science, sociology, and many others), as 
well as participation from academia, industry, civil society, and government.

Submission Guidelines: Please refer to the instructions on the conference web 
site - http://www.ictd.org.

Accepted papers will be included in the ACM Digital Library .

Important Dates

* 15 July 2024: Deadline for submission of Full Papers

* 15 August 2024: Notification of acceptance for Full Papers

* 15 September 2024: Camera-ready deadline for Full Papers

All submissions are due 11:59 pm AoE (Anywhere on Earth).



Best Regards,

Program Committee, ICTD 2024

* Muthoni Masinde (Central University of Technology, South Africa)

* Priyank Chandra (University of Toronto, Canada)



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[change] FW: [dub] RSVP Now for DUB/Change Seminar on Oct 4: Neha Kumar

[Richard Anderson]

Neha Kumar is speaking at the Oct 4 Dub Seminar  (11:45 AM – 1:15 pm,  
CSE2/Gates 401).  If you plan on attending in person,  please RSVP.
https://forms.gle/KQ8fTfkoD7KnMrHN9

Title
Post-Growth HCI
Speaker
Neha Kumar
Georgia Institute of Technology
Abstract
Human–Computer Interaction (HCI) researchers have increasingly been questioning 
computing’s engagement with unsustainable and unjust economic growth, pushing 
for identifying alternatives. Incorporating degrowth, post-development, and 
steady-state approaches, post-growth philosophy offers an alternative not 
rooted in growth but in improving quality of life. It recommends an equitable 
reduction in resource use through sensible distributive practices where 
fulfillment is based on values including solidarity, cooperation, care, social 
justice, and localized development. This brand new TOCHI paper—coauthored with 
Vishal Sharma and Bonnie Nardi—that I will present describes opportunities for 
HCI to take a post-growth orientation in research, design, and practice to 
reimagine the design of sociotechnical systems toward advancing sustainable, 
just, and humane futures. We aim for the critiques, concerns, and 
recommendations offered by post-growth to be integrated into transformative HCI 
practices for technology-mediated change.
This seminar is co-organized with UW Change<https://change.washington.edu/>.
A student meeting with the speaker will immediately follow seminar.
Bio
Neha Kumar is an Associate Professor at Georgia Tech, where she works at the 
intersection of human-centered computing and global sustainable development, 
with a focus on infrastructuring care and engaging community. Her lab’s 
research has been recognized by multiple ACM Best Paper and Honorable Mention 
awards at the ACM CHI and CSCW conferences. Neha earned her PhD at the UC 
Berkeley School of Information, Master’s degrees in Computer Science and 
Education at Stanford University, and Bachelor’s in Computer Science and 
Applied Math at UC Berkeley. She was a postdoctoral researcher in UW Computer 
Science & Engineering, where she worked with Richard Anderson and Gaetano 
Borriello. Neha currently serves as the president of ACM SIGCHI.



From: dub  On Behalf Of James Fogarty
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2023 9:30 AM
To: dub 
Subject: [dub] RSVP Now for DUB/Change Seminar on Oct 4: Neha Kumar

As our first DUB Seminar for 2023/2024, DUB and Change are excited to co-host 
Neha Kumar:

https://dub.washington.edu/seminars/2023-10-04.html

In order to provide food and manage in-person capacity constraints, we need an 
RSVP now:

https://forms.gle/KQ8fTfkoD7KnMrHN9

RSVP is needed by end-of-day this Thursday September 28. Space capacity 
requires we limit this event to approximately 100 in-person responses, so the 
in-person RSVP may close sooner if that limit is reached.

The seminar will take place in the top-floor event space of the Bill & Melinda 
Gates Center for Computer Science & Engineering (CSE2).

https://www.washington.edu/maps/#!/cse2

- Food will be set out by 11:45.
- Plan to arrive early so you can meet others in our community and so that 
distractions associated with food have wrapped up by the time our talk starts.
- The talk will then start at approximately 12:15.
- A student meeting will immediately follow the seminar, in the same location.

James

--
James Fogarty
https://www.mypronouns.org/he-him

Professor, Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington
https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~jfogarty/<http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~jfogarty/>

I am not a UW mandatory reporter and therefore not legally required to report 
misconduct or crime, unless it involves somebody under the age of 18. If you 
share a problem with me, I will work with you to determine next steps.
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[change] Computer Science Research at Makerere University: Tuesday, June 27, 1:30 PM, CSE2 371

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Computer Science Research at Makerere University

Tuesday,  June 27,  1:30 PM,  CSE2 371

Makerere University in Kampala,  Uganda, is one of the leading universities in 
Africa.   The Allen School has a number of joint projects with Makerere,  
including the Makerere Scholars' Program which supports CS PhD students to 
visit the Allen school for one year to work with research mentors.   Two of the 
 Computer Science faculty from Makerere, Engineer Bainomugisha and Joyce 
Nabende are visiting the Allen School this week,  and will give a survey of on 
going computer science research in their department.   This will include both 
work in Systems including cloud technologies for low resource settings  and 
well as work in AI with applications to health and agriculture.

Please attend this talk if you are interested in learning more about Computer 
Science Research in Africa,  and partnerships we are building in the Allen 
School.

Engineer Bainomugisha  is an Associate Professor & Chair of 
Computer Science at Makerere University, Uganda where he works on problems 
related to urban environmental sustainability, cloud computing in low-resource 
settings, and security in mobile money systems. Engineer leads the AirQo 
research center that develops and deploys low-cost 
sensing and AI systems for environmental air pollution monitoring and analysis 
in 10+ African cities. He leads the Crane Cloud research team 
 on cloud native technologies in low-resource settings 
and is also a co-founder of Sunbird AI, AI for social 
impact non profit based in Kampala, Uganda. He previously worked on programming 
language engineering for mobile systems at Vrije Universiteit Brussels in 
Belgium.
Engineer's contact: ba...@mak.ac.ug or 
bainomugi...@gmail.com

Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende is a  lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at 
Makerere University. She heads the Makerere Artificial Intelligence Lab, a 
research lab in the Department of Computer Science. She is also a board member 
of Data Science Africa which aims to grow a critical mass of Data Science 
professionals in Africa to meet the increasing demand in the private and public 
sectors. Her research interests are Machine Learning, Natural Language 
Processing, and Responsible AI. Currently, she is researching in several areas 
in the use of machine learning in health and agriculture domains in the 
developing world. Email: 
joyce.nabe...@mak.ac.ug or 
jnakatu...@gmail.com

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[change] Summer change talk: LLMs in Agriculture. 1:30 pm Friday, June 23, CSE2 371 - Adding zoom link

[Richard Anderson]

We will have a special change talk on Friday afternoon.  The speakers will talk 
about the work that they are doing with Digital Green to apply ChatGPT to a 
vast corpus a locally created agriculture videos to create tools to support 
agriculture extension and smallholder farmers – this is incredibly cool work!




Jobs & TechArt to LLMs in Agriculture: Gooey.AI creators Archana Prasad and 
Sean Blagsvedt


The founders of Gooey.AI share their journeys and thoughts on the future of AI 
and its impact in the development and culture sectors. This talk will cover 
Archana’s Prasad work in bridging the Tech and Culture communities from 
jaaga.in, to social networking with Dara and its interactive 
RadBots and ultimately the low-code GenAI platform Gooey.AI. We’ll also explore 
our evolution with IVR, SMS and Facebook chat interfaces for informal sector 
job seekers to Farmer.CHAT, a multi-lingual, GPT4 + VectorDB powered WhatsApp 
audio bot for smallholder farmers recently demoed at the UN General Assembly.


About the speakers:

Archana Prasad has worked at the intersection of culture and technology for the 
last 2 decades. She is the CoFounder of Gooey.AI. Previously, she founded 
Dara.network, a messaging app to enhance social capital among artists and 
alumni groups. She’s also the founder of Jaaga.in and BeFantastic.in - India’s 
first TechArt festival. Previously, she was a Design Researcher in Microsoft 
Research India. She holds 3 patents, two master degrees from India’s National 
Institute of Design and Chitrakala Parishat is an ATSA and 
tarchaClore/Chevening Fellow.


Sean Blagsvedt is the Cofounder of Gooey.AI and Dara.network. Previously he 
founded Babajob.com in 2007 which became India’s largest informal sector job 
site with 9M users and facilitated over 500,000 hires (as verified by USAID). 
Sean helped found Microsoft Research India, holds 29 patents and is a TED and 
Unreasonable Goals Fellow. He received a Bachelor Degree in CS and Public 
Policy from Brown University.







Remote attendees can use the link:  https://washington.zoom.us/j/91561288179


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[change] Computer Science Research at Makerere University: Tuesday, June 27, 1:30 PM, CSE2 371

[Richard Anderson]

Computer Science Research at Makerere University

Tuesday,  June 27,  1:30 PM,  CSE2 371

Makerere University in Kampala,  Uganda, is one of the leading universities in 
Africa.   The Allen School has a number of joint projects with Makerere,  
including the Makerere Scholars' Program which supports CS PhD students to 
visit the Allen school for one year to work with research mentors.   Two of the 
 Computer Science faculty from Makerere, Engineer Bainomugisha and Joyce 
Nabende are visiting the Allen School this week,  and will give a survey of on 
going computer science research in their department.   This will include both 
work in Systems including cloud technologies for low resource settings  and 
well as work in AI with applications to health and agriculture.

Please attend this talk if you are interested in learning more about Computer 
Science Research in Africa,  and partnerships we are building in the Allen 
School.

Engineer Bainomugisha  is an Associate Professor & Chair of 
Computer Science at Makerere University, Uganda where he works on problems 
related to urban environmental sustainability, cloud computing in low-resource 
settings, and security in mobile money systems. Engineer leads the AirQo 
research center that develops and deploys low-cost 
sensing and AI systems for environmental air pollution monitoring and analysis 
in 10+ African cities. He leads the Crane Cloud research team 
 on cloud native technologies in low-resource settings 
and is also a co-founder of Sunbird AI, AI for social 
impact non profit based in Kampala, Uganda. He previously worked on programming 
language engineering for mobile systems at Vrije Universiteit Brussels in 
Belgium.
Engineer's contact: ba...@mak.ac.ug or 
bainomugi...@gmail.com

Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende is a  lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at 
Makerere University. She heads the Makerere Artificial Intelligence Lab, a 
research lab in the Department of Computer Science. She is also a board member 
of Data Science Africa which aims to grow a critical mass of Data Science 
professionals in Africa to meet the increasing demand in the private and public 
sectors. Her research interests are Machine Learning, Natural Language 
Processing, and Responsible AI. Currently, she is researching in several areas 
in the use of machine learning in health and agriculture domains in the 
developing world. Email: 
joyce.nabe...@mak.ac.ug or jnakatu...@gmail.com

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Re: [change] Summer change talk: LLMs in Agriculture. 1:30 pm Friday, June 23, CSE2 371

[Richard Anderson]

Building/Room correction.  CSE2 371.  Bill and Melinda Gates Center for 
Computer Science and Engineering.

From: change  On Behalf Of Richard Anderson
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2023 4:04 PM
To: cha...@cs.washington.edu
Subject: [change] Summer change talk: LLMs in Agriculture. 1:30 pm Friday, June 
23, CSE2 371

We will have a special change talk on Friday afternoon.  The speakers will talk 
about the work that they are doing with Digital Green to apply ChatGPT to a 
vast corpus a locally created agriculture videos to create tools to support 
agriculture extension and smallholder farmers – this is incredibly cool work!




Jobs & TechArt to LLMs in Agriculture: Gooey.AI creators Archana Prasad and 
Sean Blagsvedt


The founders of Gooey.AI share their journeys and thoughts on the future of AI 
and its impact in the development and culture sectors. This talk will cover 
Archana’s Prasad work in bridging the Tech and Culture communities from 
jaaga.in<http://jaaga.in>, to social networking with Dara and its interactive 
RadBots and ultimately the low-code GenAI platform Gooey.AI. We’ll also explore 
our evolution with IVR, SMS and Facebook chat interfaces for informal sector 
job seekers to Farmer.CHAT, a multi-lingual, GPT4 + VectorDB powered WhatsApp 
audio bot for smallholder farmers recently demoed at the UN General Assembly.


About the speakers:

Archana Prasad has worked at the intersection of culture and technology for the 
last 2 decades. She is the CoFounder of Gooey.AI. Previously, she founded 
Dara.network, a messaging app to enhance social capital among artists and 
alumni groups. She’s also the founder of Jaaga.in and BeFantastic.in - India’s 
first TechArt festival. Previously, she was a Design Researcher in Microsoft 
Research India. She holds 3 patents, two master degrees from India’s National 
Institute of Design and Chitrakala Parishat is an ATSA and 
tarchaClore/Chevening Fellow.


Sean Blagsvedt is the Cofounder of Gooey.AI and Dara.network. Previously he 
founded Babajob.com in 2007 which became India’s largest informal sector job 
site with 9M users and facilitated over 500,000 hires (as verified by USAID). 
Sean helped found Microsoft Research India, holds 29 patents and is a TED and 
Unreasonable Goals Fellow. He received a Bachelor Degree in CS and Public 
Policy from Brown University.


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[change] Summer change talk: LLMs in Agriculture. 1:30 pm Friday, June 23, CSE3 371

[Richard Anderson]

We will have a special change talk on Friday afternoon.  The speakers will talk 
about the work that they are doing with Digital Green to apply ChatGPT to a 
vast corpus a locally created agriculture videos to create tools to support 
agriculture extension and smallholder farmers – this is incredibly cool work!




Jobs & TechArt to LLMs in Agriculture: Gooey.AI creators Archana Prasad and 
Sean Blagsvedt


The founders of Gooey.AI share their journeys and thoughts on the future of AI 
and its impact in the development and culture sectors. This talk will cover 
Archana’s Prasad work in bridging the Tech and Culture communities from 
jaaga.in, to social networking with Dara and its interactive 
RadBots and ultimately the low-code GenAI platform Gooey.AI. We’ll also explore 
our evolution with IVR, SMS and Facebook chat interfaces for informal sector 
job seekers to Farmer.CHAT, a multi-lingual, GPT4 + VectorDB powered WhatsApp 
audio bot for smallholder farmers recently demoed at the UN General Assembly.


About the speakers:

Archana Prasad has worked at the intersection of culture and technology for the 
last 2 decades. She is the CoFounder of Gooey.AI. Previously, she founded 
Dara.network, a messaging app to enhance social capital among artists and 
alumni groups. She’s also the founder of Jaaga.in and BeFantastic.in - India’s 
first TechArt festival. Previously, she was a Design Researcher in Microsoft 
Research India. She holds 3 patents, two master degrees from India’s National 
Institute of Design and Chitrakala Parishat is an ATSA and 
tarchaClore/Chevening Fellow.


Sean Blagsvedt is the Cofounder of Gooey.AI and Dara.network. Previously he 
founded Babajob.com in 2007 which became India’s largest informal sector job 
site with 9M users and facilitated over 500,000 hires (as verified by USAID). 
Sean helped found Microsoft Research India, holds 29 patents and is a TED and 
Unreasonable Goals Fellow. He received a Bachelor Degree in CS and Public 
Policy from Brown University.


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[change] ICTD Capstone Presentations (CSE 482b), Tuesday, June 6, 2:30-4 pm, CSE2 371

[Richard Anderson]

ICTD Capstone Presentations (CSE 482B).
Tuesday,  June 6,  2:30-4:00 pm,  CSE2 371

The ICTD Capstone (CSE 482B) brings together groups of students to work on 
projects to provide solutions for low resource environments.   Based on an 
initial project idea,  the students are charged with designing and developing a 
prototype system .   This quarter,  the projects were drawn from the domain of 
Global Health.  Two of the projects were motivated by the availability of 
low-cost mobile EKG devices which can help diagnosis various heart diseases,  
such as atrial-fibrillation.   The projects consider aspects of how these 
devices could be used in low resource settings to triage heart conditions.   
The other two projects were in collaboration with doctors from Children's 
Hospital who are developing new protocols for detecting respiratory problems in 
Uganda.   They have developed a mobile application (ALRITE: Acute Lower 
Respiratory Illness Treatment and Evaluation) for supporting a diagnostic 
protocol, and the students extended the system to support scalability to large 
deployments.

Students will give final presentations and project demos on Tuesday,  June 6, 
2:30-4:00 pm in CSE2 371.   The presentations will also be available on zoom: 
https://washington.zoom.us/j/98302897925


The projects are:

Integrating mobile apps with OpenMRS
The current ALRITE application saves patient records locally to the device 
which limits opportunities for collaboration and scalability among different 
clinics in Uganda.  The project integrates the ALRITE Application with OpenMRS, 
an open-source medical record system to create a streamlined syncing process 
for patient records. The integration between ALRITE and OpenMRS enables 
creation of patient records,  recording visit information and the diagnoses and 
treatment plans generated by the mobile application.  This project is a proof 
of concept that shows that OpenMRS is an appropriate backend for medical 
protocol apps,  and gives a pathway for deployment of these apps in multiple 
domains.

A Platform for Customizing Protocol Apps
The ALRITE application is a stand alone Android Application.  This means that 
whenever changes are needed to update wording,  data fields, or the branching 
logic,  it is necessary to go back to a software developer,  a time consuming 
and expensive proposition.  The project was to develop a digital editor which 
would allow a health researcher with limited coding knowledge to edit the 
existing ALRITE application to create a new diagnosis workflow. This workflow 
is then sent to pre-existing question templates which are filled in with the 
data received from the editor, resulting in a question by question examination 
ultimately leading to a diagnosis. Templates include text input, multiple 
selection, and multiple choice, the digital editor serves as a webpage which 
allows for recovery of previous workflows and easy editing of existing 
workflows.

Explainable AI for Interpreting ECGs
Currently, there are many ML models that, given a patient's ECG, can diagnose 
whether that patient has A-fib with high accuracy. The issue with many of these 
models is that they are black-box models which make it difficult for community 
healthcare workers to interpret their decisions.  Our solution is AFib-XAI, a 
program that uses explainable AI methods to display the important data points 
and regions of interest in an ECG that were factored into a model's A-fib 
diagnosis, as well as generate accurate, human-readable explanations for that 
model's diagnosis.

AFib-XAI can be run through a command-line interface. The program offers a 
selection of 3 A-fib diagnostic deep learning models and 4 SHAP-based 
explainability methods. The user must provide an ECG, make a model selection, 
and select an explainability method. Afterward, the program will be run. Once 
the program has finished running, the user will be given a visual result from 
the SHAP explainability method, as well as a very basic text explanation 
generated from the results.

ECG Training Application for Community Health Workers
Mobile ECG devices make it possible to perform community screening for heart 
conditions.  When these screenings are performed by front line health workers,  
it is necessary to provide some basic health training to the workers to help 
them explain the results to patients.  This projected developed an ECG training 
app designed specifically for Indian Volunteer healthcare workers (ASHAs). The 
app has training lessons on the basics of reading ECGs tailored specifically 
for ASHAs, and includes practice questions and progress updates. Through user 
testing, the design and lessons are simple and easy to navigate, giving the app 
the potential to be utilized by ASHAs in the future.


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[change] ICTD Capstone Presentations (CSE 482b), Tuesday, June 6, 2:30-4 pm, CSE2 371

[Richard Anderson]

ICTD Capstone Presentations (CSE 482B).
Tuesday,  June 6,  2:30-4:00 pm,  CSE2 371

The ICTD Capstone (CSE 482B) brings together groups of students to work on 
projects to provide solutions for low resource environments.   Based on an 
initial project idea,  the students are charged with designing and developing a 
prototype system .   This quarter,  the projects were drawn from the domain of 
Global Health.  Two of the projects were motivated by the availability of 
low-cost mobile EKG devices which can help diagnosis various heart diseases,  
such as atrial-fibrillation.   The projects consider aspects of how these 
devices could be used in low resource settings to triage heart conditions.   
The other two projects were in collaboration with doctors from Children's 
Hospital who are developing new protocols for detecting respiratory problems in 
Uganda.   They have developed a mobile application (ALRITE: Acute Lower 
Respiratory Illness Treatment and Evaluation) for supporting a diagnostic 
protocol, and the students extended the system to support scalability to large 
deployments.

Students will give final presentations and project demos on Tuesday,  June 6, 
2:30-4:00 pm in CSE2 371.   The presentations will also be available on zoom: 
https://washington.zoom.us/j/98302897925


The projects are:

Integrating mobile apps with OpenMRS
The current ALRITE application saves patient records locally to the device 
which limits opportunities for collaboration and scalability among different 
clinics in Uganda.  The project integrates the ALRITE Application with OpenMRS, 
an open-source medical record system to create a streamlined syncing process 
for patient records. The integration between ALRITE and OpenMRS enables 
creation of patient records,  recording visit information and the diagnoses and 
treatment plans generated by the mobile application.  This project is a proof 
of concept that shows that OpenMRS is an appropriate backend for medical 
protocol apps,  and gives a pathway for deployment of these apps in multiple 
domains.

A Platform for Customizing Protocol Apps
The ALRITE application is a stand alone Android Application.  This means that 
whenever changes are needed to update wording,  data fields, or the branching 
logic,  it is necessary to go back to a software developer,  a time consuming 
and expensive proposition.  The project was to develop a digital editor which 
would allow a health researcher with limited coding knowledge to edit the 
existing ALRITE application to create a new diagnosis workflow. This workflow 
is then sent to pre-existing question templates which are filled in with the 
data received from the editor, resulting in a question by question examination 
ultimately leading to a diagnosis. Templates include text input, multiple 
selection, and multiple choice, the digital editor serves as a webpage which 
allows for recovery of previous workflows and easy editing of existing 
workflows.

Explainable AI for Interpreting ECGs
Currently, there are many ML models that, given a patient's ECG, can diagnose 
whether that patient has A-fib with high accuracy. The issue with many of these 
models is that they are black-box models which make it difficult for community 
healthcare workers to interpret their decisions.  Our solution is AFib-XAI, a 
program that uses explainable AI methods to display the important data points 
and regions of interest in an ECG that were factored into a model's A-fib 
diagnosis, as well as generate accurate, human-readable explanations for that 
model's diagnosis.

AFib-XAI can be run through a command-line interface. The program offers a 
selection of 3 A-fib diagnostic deep learning models and 4 SHAP-based 
explainability methods. The user must provide an ECG, make a model selection, 
and select an explainability method. Afterward, the program will be run. Once 
the program has finished running, the user will be given a visual result from 
the SHAP explainability method, as well as a very basic text explanation 
generated from the results.

ECG Training Application for Community Health Workers
Mobile ECG devices make it possible to perform community screening for heart 
conditions.  When these screenings are performed by front line health workers,  
it is necessary to provide some basic health training to the workers to help 
them explain the results to patients.  This projected developed an ECG training 
app designed specifically for Indian Volunteer healthcare workers (ASHAs). The 
app has training lessons on the basics of reading ECGs tailored specifically 
for ASHAs, and includes practice questions and progress updates. Through user 
testing, the design and lessons are simple and easy to navigate, giving the app 
the potential to be utilized by ASHAs in the future.


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[change] Social Media and Society in India Conference

[Richard Anderson]

Joyojeet Pal of University of Michigan asked me to forward this:



The University of Michigan is hosting a hybrid conference on Social Media and 
Society in India April 7-8, 2023, featuring a host of speakers to discuss 
various ways in which social media is impacting contemporary life in India. 
Attending speakers include movie actors, activists, educators, lawyers, 
journalists, physicians, and entertainers, representing topics covering a range 
of contemporary concerns in healthcare, media, food, travel, misinformation, 
and activism.

https://influencers.conference.si.umich.edu/

The conference is at the heels of a widely subscribed and successful event last 
year, the talks and archives of which are now public:

http://joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/influencers2022.htm

It's a free hybrid event, and registration is now open for in-person and online 
attendance via zoom. In addition to the talks, we are including a feature in 
which attendees can have “office hours”, a 1:1 meeting with a speaker of upto 
15 minutes during the conference.

There is also a student session that we welcome submissions to:

https://joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/smsi-cfp.html

The registration link is now live at the conference page

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[change] FW: [Au-instructors] Allen School Colloquium / Thursday, October 1, 2020 / Allen School / ICTD Research Group

[Richard Anderson]

From: Au-instructors  On Behalf Of 
Marianne Kiga
Sent: Friday, September 25, 2020 4:17 PM
To: research...@cs.washington.edu; postd...@cs.washington.edu; 
cs-gr...@cs.washington.edu; au-instruct...@cs.washington.edu
Cc: Kay Beck-Benton ; production - Mailing List 

Subject: [Au-instructors] Allen School Colloquium / Thursday, October 1, 2020 / 
Allen School / ICTD Research Group


UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

PAUL G. ALLEN SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM



SPEAKER:   Various Presenters, Allen School ICTD Research Group



DATE:  Thursday, October 1, 2020

TIME:   3:30 pm

HOST:  Kurtis Heimerl



Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84511209436?pwd=eGg4bDBTS3hZZWZwU0wwVW1tcFhCZz09

Meeting ID: 845 1120 9436
Passcode: 806730



Title: Designing for users realities: Women’s technological inclusion and the 
Sociocultural Norms

Presenter: Samia Ibtasam

What prerequisites and enablers must we consider when designing for 
low-resourced users, especially women? Even for a technology advantaged 
population, the meaning and dynamics of access and use are nuanced and varied. 
Gendered roles, generational differences in a family, household dynamics, and 
the wider socio-cultural influences can impact women's technological 
engagement. In this talk, I will discuss how the consideration of these factors 
during the design and implementation processes can broaden accessibility and 
diversity in the acceptance and use of evolving technologies by women in 
emerging economies.



Bio: Advised by Richard Anderson, her current work focuses on devising tools 
and frameworks to increase the technological and financial inclusion of women 
in emerging markets. Before UW, Ibtasam was the founding co-director of 
Innovations for Poverty Alleviation Lab (IPAL) at the Information Technology 
University (ITU) and taught Design Thinking, Human-Centered Design, and product 
development courses to undergraduate and graduate CS students.



Title: Accept the Risk and Continue: Measuring the Long Tail of Government 
https Adoption

Presenter: Sudheesh Singanamalla

Across the world, government websites are expected to be reliable sources of 
information, regardless of their view count. Interactions with these websites 
often contain sensitive information, such as identity, medical, or legal data, 
whose integrity must be protected for citizens to remain safe. To better 
understand the government website ecosystem, we measure the adoption of https 
including the "long tail" of government websites around the world, which are 
typically not captured in the top-million datasets used for such studies. We 
identify and measure major categories and frequencies of https adoption errors, 
including misconfiguration of certificates via expiration, reuse of keys and 
serial numbers between unrelated government departments (and sometimes even 
different country governments), use of insecure cryptographic protocols and 
keys, and untrustworthy root Certificate Authorities (CAs). Finally, we observe 
an overall lower https rate and a steeper dropoff with descending popularity 
among government sites versus commercial and provide recommendations to improve 
government https use. In this talk, we will present our findings, discuss 
challenges and impact of this work.



Bio: Sudheesh is a 2nd year PhD student in the ICTD lab advised by Prof. Kurtis 
Heimerl and Prof. Richard Anderson and broadly works at the intersection of 
Systems, Networks, Security and ICTD.



Title: Making Chat at Home in the Hospital: Exploring Chat Use by Nurses

Presenter: Naveena Karusala

We examine WhatsApp use by nurses in India. Globally, personal chat apps have 
taken the workplace by storm, and healthcare is no exception. In the hospital 
setting, this raises questions around how chat apps are integrated into 
hospital work and the consequences of using such personal tools for work. To 
address these questions, we conducted an ethnographic study of chat use in 
nurses’ work in a large multi-specialty hospital. By examining how chat is 
embedded in the hospital, rather than focusing on individual use of personal 
tools, we throw new light on the adoption of personal tools at work - 
specifically what happens when such tools are adopted and used as though they 
were organizational tools. In doing so, we explicate their impact on invisible 
work and the creep of work into personal time, as well as how hierarchy and 
power play out in technology use. Thus, we point to the importance of looking 
beyond individual adoption by knowledge workers when studying the impact of 
personal tools at work.



Bio: Naveena Karusala is a 4th year PhD student in the ICTD lab, advised by 
Richard Anderson. Her work is at the intersection of HCI, global development, 
and health messaging.



Title: Can Phones Build Relationships? A Case Study of a Kenyan Wildlife 
Conservancy’s Community Development

Presenter: Matt Ziegler

Wildlife

[change] Volunteer Request - COVID-19 outbreak visualization

[Richard Anderson]

There is a volunteer opportunity for helping the COVID-19 response. In order to 
help systematically investigate and respond to localized outbreaks, a tool for 
visualizing these transmission clusters is needed. This work would involve 
programming and ideally experience with data visualization.  You would work 
with epidemiologists involved in current outbreak responses.
Right now clusters are being plotted manually but an automated tool could speed 
up their processes and improve quality.

To get a sense of what the desired output looks like, see
Fig 1c of https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.18.20034561v1.full.pdf
or
Fig 1 of 
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(20)30273-5/fulltext#figures
Ideally the output would be in a format, like powerpoint, that could be further 
edited by the epidemiologists.

The level of work is hard to predict because it depends in part on what related 
software already exists, e.g. for phylogenetic trees, and how easy this is to 
adapt. A first version of a tool would ideally be usable within 1-2 weeks.

For more information, please contact Aram Harrow 
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[change] FW: Register for ACM COMPASS 2020 (only $25-50), June 14-17 (only 2-4 hrs a day!)

[Richard Anderson]

Even more apologies for the multiple copies you have received.

From: Lakshminarayanan Subramanian 
Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2020 1:35 PM
To: Lakshminarayanan Subramanian 
Subject: Register for ACM COMPASS 2020 (only $25-50), June 14-17 (only 2-4 hrs 
a day!)

Dear All:

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies)

Hope you are keeping good health and staying safe during these Covid-19 times!

We have an exciting set of papers and posters in ACM COMPASS 
2020, the 3rd Annual SIGCAS Conference on Computing and 
Sustainable Societies. COMPASS 2020 will be held as a virtual conference (via 
Zoom) from 14th to 17th June 2020.

This year, to make ACM COMPASS accessible to everyone, we have significantly 
reduced the registration costs ($25 and $50). We encourage you all to register 
and check out the conference. To make the virtual conference interactive and 
not a burden on your virtual times, we have an awesome virtual conference team 
who have set a condensed and exciting agenda for only 2-4 hours everyday at an 
accessible time for most geographies.

Register here: http://www.cvent.com/d/pnqywb

Once you have registered for the event, we will send a follow-up email with 
Zoom links and calendar invites.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us at:
cont...@acmcompass.org or tweet @acmcompass.

We look forward to seeing you at ACM COMPASS 2020!

Best wishes,
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[change] ACM COMPASS 2020 CFP (Deadline: March 2nd, 2020)

[Richard Anderson]

process, therefore no author names or affiliations may 
appear on the title page, and papers should avoid revealing their identity in 
the text.

In addition, COMPASS 2020 will have a Posters track for preliminary projects or 
late-breaking results. Posters are intended to allow presenters to share their 
latest results or get early feedback on projects. Poster submissions will be 
limited to 2 pages plus references. There are two poster submission deadlines 
(March 2nd and Apr 20th) to allow for earlier travel planning as well as 
late-breaking work, but only accepted submissions for the first round will be 
archived.

To accommodate the publishing traditions of different fields, authors of 
accepted papers or posters can ask that only a one-page abstract appear in the 
archival proceedings, along with a URL pointing to the full paper. Authors 
should guarantee the link to the full paper to be reliable for at least two 
years. This option is available to accommodate subsequent publication in 
journals that would not consider results that have been published in 
preliminary form in a conference proceedings.



ACM COMPASS 2020 CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS

General conference chairs
Daniel Ochoa, ESPOL (Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral)
Lakshmi Subramanian, New York University

Program committee chairs
Aaditeshwar Seth, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and Gram Vaani
Lakshmi Subramanian, New York University

Track chairs
Mercy Julia Borbor Cordova, ESPOL
Samuel Fraiberger, World Bank
Jay Taneja, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Ayorkor Korsah, Ashesi University
Shameer Khader, Astra Zeneca
Daniel Neill, New York University
Patrick Olivier, Monash University
Arjuna Sathiaseelan, Gaius Networks
Priya Shyamsundar, The Nature Conservancy
Niraj Swami, The Nature Conservancy

Steering committee
Richard Anderson, University of Washington
Nicola Dell, Cornell Tech
Melissa Densmore, University of Cape Town
Carla Gomes, Cornell University
Aaditeshwar Seth, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Lakshmi Subramanian, New York University
Milind Tambe, University of Southern California
Bill Thies, Microsoft Research
Ellen Zegura, Georgia Tech
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[change] FW: Call for Notes ICTD 2020

[Richard Anderson]

-
Call for Participation - ICTD 2020 Notes
Hello!

I would like to invite you to submit a Note to The International Conference on 
Information Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD) 2020.

 With a 4-page limit, Notes are intended to introduce work-in-progress and also 
serve as an excellent venue to submit revised papers that may not be ready for 
full-paper status.

Notes are due on March 6, 2020, and the conference will be held on June 17-20, 
2020, in Gayaquil, Ecuador. For more information visit: 
https://ictd2020.org/call-for-notes/.

If you have any questions, feel free to email the Notes chairs: 
ictd2020no...@gmail.com.

Thank you!
Michaelanne and Eduardo

(Spanish Version Below)

Hola,

Quisiera invitarte a enviar una Nota a la Conferencia Internacional sobre 
Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación para el Desarrollo (ICTD) 2020.

Con un tamaño máximo de cuatro páginas, las Notas buscan presentar trabajos en 
progreso, y sirven además como una excelente manera de enviar ponencias que no 
estén aún listas para ser consideradas como artículos terminados.

Las Notas deben ser enviadas a más tardar el 6 de marzo de 2020, y la 
Conferencia tendrá lugar entre el 17 y el 20 de junio de 2020, en Guayaquil, 
Ecuador. Para más información, visiten https://ictd2020.org/call-for-notes/.

Si tienen más preguntas, no duden en escribir a los responsables de las Notas, 
ictd2020no...@gmail.com.

¡Gracias!

Michaelanne y Eduardo

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Assistant Professor/Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Michigan School of Information
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[change] Live streaming COMPASS 2019

[Richard Anderson]

The second annual ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies 
(COMPASS 2019) (https://acmcompass.org/) is being held in Accra Ghana July 3 to 
July 5.
The conference schedule is available at: https://acmcompass.org/dates

To make the talks available to those who cannot attend the conference,  we will 
be live streaming the conference talks.   Streaming information will be on the 
conference website.   We will be streaming the talks using youtube streaming,  
using the Ashesi University channel ,  so you will be able to connect to the 
talks at: http://youtube.com/ashesifoundation, starting at 9am UCT/GMT 
Wednesday,  July 3.
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[change] Trevor Perrier, PhD Defence

[Richard Anderson]

(It's a busy week for ICTD PhD defences)

Please join us on Friday,  June 7 at 2pm in CSE2 371 for the final exam talk of 
Trevor Perrier

Title: Connecting End Users to Domain Experts With Universal Mobile Phones 
Services

Where:  Fri, 07 Jun 2019 02:00 PM, CSE2 371 (Gates Center) and streamed: Meet 
URL: https://meet.google.com/bax-bgia-dhe

Abstract: The potential for communication services available on any mobile 
phone to engage users, disseminate information, and facilitate behavior change 
has been well documented. Designing using universal applications such as SMS 
and voice services enables programs for individual empowerment and behavior 
change to reach marginalized segments of the global population. The majority of 
mobile messaging services for development are either one-way push messaging or 
use fully automated bi-directional end points. In this thesis, I present the 
design and evolution of a semi-automated bi-directional SMS platform for global 
health interventions. This novel system mediates personalized conversations 
between patients and trained medical professionals. In five Kenyan based 
projects over 140 thousand SMS messages have been sent and 35 thousand messages 
received. Analysis of this system data shows longitudinal trends in messaging 
and engagement which will inform the design of future systems.

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[change] Aditya Vashistha, PhD Defense

[Richard Anderson]

Hi All,

Please join us tomorrow (June 6) at 10am in CSE2 271 (Gates Center) for the 
final exam talk of Aditya Vashistha.

Title: Social Computing for Social Good in Low-Resource Environments

Where: Thu, 06 Jun 2019 10:00 AM, CSE2 271 (Gates Center) as well as on 
Hangout

Abstract: Mainstream social computing technologies—like social media platforms, 
online discussion forums, or crowdsourcing marketplaces—have revolutionized how 
literate people with access to smartphones and the Internet participate in the 
information ecology and digital economy. However, these technologies currently 
exclude billions of those who are illiterate, who speak low-resource languages, 
or who do not have access to Internet-connected devices. To enable these 
communities to report and access information, global development researchers 
and practitioners have designed voice-based social computing services by using 
IVR technology.  However, challenges in managing local language audio content, 
high cost of voice calls, and technical difficulties in setup makes these 
services difficult to scale, sustain, and replicate despite their demonstrated 
impact.

In this talk, I will present three systems that I built to address these 
scalability, sustainability, and replicability concerns. Sangeet Swara is a 
voice-based social media service that uses community moderation from 
low-income, low-literate people to manage and moderate audio content recorded 
in local languages. Respeak is a voice-based crowdsourcing marketplace that 
enables even basic mobile phone users to complete speech transcription tasks to 
subsidize their cost of voice calls. IVR Junction is free and open source 
toolkit that makes it easier for global development organizations to build and 
maintain these services. Together, these systems fulfill my vision of building 
scalable, sustainable, and replicable voice-based social computing services 
that enable people without literacy, smartphones, or the Internet to 
participate in informative dialogues at both community and global scales.

Bio: Aditya Vashistha is a graduating Ph.D. student in the Allen School of 
Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington (UW).  He builds 
inclusive and appropriate computing technologies to address information and 
instrumental needs of people living in low-resource communities. His research 
spans human-computer interaction (HCI), computing for development, and 
accessibility technology.


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[change] Job Announcement: Senior Digital Health Specialist

[Richard Anderson]

From: ITECHSeattle [mailto:itechseattle-boun...@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On 
Behalf Of Holly Vargas
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2019 3:09 PM
To: 'itechseat...@uw.edu' mailto:itechseat...@uw.edu>>; 
dghst...@uw.edu; 'ghrc_j...@uw.edu' 
mailto:ghrc_j...@uw.edu>>
Subject: [I-TECH Seattle] Job Announcement: Senior Digital Health Specialist

Good afternoon,

The International Training and Education Center for Health (I-TECH) has an 
outstanding opportunity for a Seattle-based Senior Digital Health Specialist.

The Digital Initiatives Group (DIGI) at the International Training and 
Education Center for Health (I-TECH) within the Department of Global Health at 
the University of Washington will provide services to internal and external 
clients to help people make informed decisions to improve health outcomes 
globally. DIGI promotes various technologies, with a preference for open-source 
software and the "global digital goods" supported by multiple donors and 
ministries around the world.

The Senior Digital Health Specialist is a member of the DIGI team, reporting to 
the Managing Director, and guides the implementation of national health 
information systems, which support optimal decision-making and efficient use of 
resources by health service providers and public health authorities. The Senior 
Digital Health Specialist serves as the project lead on one or more small- or 
large-scale projects involving health information technology and the broader 
enabling environment that promotes their successful integration, maintenance, 
and use. The position leads the design, development and deployment of these 
systems. This is accomplished with emphasis on appropriate, user-centered 
design and deployment choices, which support high quality results and use of 
the data and information collected. It will be this position's responsibility 
to select software solutions that best serve the needs of the client.

Qualified applicants should apply through the UW employment 
site.

COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY
The Department of Global Health recognizes that disparities in health around 
the globe stem from inequity. The Department encourages and supports the 
multiple identities of staff, faculty and students including, but not limited 
to, socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity, language, nationality, sex, sexual 
orientation, gender identity and expression, culture, spiritual practice, 
geography, mental and physical disability and age. The Department strives to 
become a local, national, and international leader in developing and 
maintaining increased representation and recognition of each of these 
dimensions of diversity among its faculty, staff, and students.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Thanks,

Holly Vargas
Human Resources Manager

International Training & Education Center for Health (I-TECH)
Department of Global Health, University of Washington
HMC# 359932
325 9th Avenue
Seattle, WA  98104

Office: 206.616.8696
Fax: 206.221.4945
Skype: holly.vargas
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I-TECH envisions a world in which all people have access to high quality, 
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[change] Compass 2019, Accra, Ghana, 3-5 July 2019

[Richard Anderson]

Computing and Sustainable Societies 2019
Accra, Ghana | 3-5 July 2019
Conference Announcement
This is a preliminary announcement of the second annual ACM SIGCAS Conference 
on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS2019) which will be held in 
Accra, Ghana from July 3-5, 2019.
COMPASS is a re-creation of the ACM DEV conference, which was held annually 
between 2010 and 2016.The first COMPASS was held in Menlo Park, California 
in 2018.   The COMPASS conference expands the focus of the original ACM DEV 
conference to explicitly welcome work on underrepresented communities worldwide 
  and to include work on sustainability.To ensure strong technical 
contributions, the conference will accept papers based on tracks corresponding 
to the computing areas they draw upon.  The tracks for the 2018 conference were 
Systems, HCI, Data Science/AI, and Applications.
Accra, Ghana, as the capital of a dynamic west African nation will be an 
excellent venue for the conference to bring together researchers working in 
areas of information and communication for development (ICTD), HCI, 
computational sustainability, and AI for social impact.   The conference will 
be held at a hotel in downtown Accra.
The conference will have full papers and notes.  The program committee chairs 
will be announced soon along with a call for papers.   The submission date is 
likely to be in March 2019.
General Conference Chair
Richard Anderson, University of Washington
Program Committee Chairs
To be announced soon
Notes Chairs
To be announced soon
Local Arrangement Chairs
Angela Owusu Ansah,  Asheshi University
Nathan Amanquah, Asheshi University
Ayorkor Korsah, Asheshi University
CSG Steering Committee
Richard Anderson,  University of Washington
Nicola Dell, Cornell Tech
Melissa Densmore,  University of Cape Town
Carla Gomes, Cornell University
Jennifer Mankoff, University of Washington
Aaditeshwar Seth, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Lakshmi Subramanian, New York University
Miland Tambe, University of Southern California
Bill Thies,  Microsoft Research New England
Ellen Zegura, Georgia Tech


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[change] Medic Mobile hiring a Product Manager—Open source, human-centered design & global health

[Richard Anderson]

From: dub  On Behalf Of Isaac Holeman
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2018 1:42 PM
To: d...@dub.washington.edu
Subject: [dub] Medic Mobile hiring a Product Manager—Open source, 
human-centered design & global health

Hi DUB list,

Medic Mobile is hiring again--if you know a great product manager with a 
passion for health equity and social justice, I'd be grateful if you would 
forward this link. The position is location-flexible, and the posting mentions 
a few of the cities where we have offices. I'm based in Seattle and we have 
several ongoing research collaborations with UW faculty, so it would be awesome 
to find someone in/from/around the DUB community.

https://medicmobile.org/careers/product-manager

cheers,
Isaac


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Co-founder & Research Lead
Twitter @Medic  
@isaacholeman
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[change] COMPASS 2018 Early Registration Deadline

[Richard Anderson]

Just a reminder,  the COMPASS 2018 Early Registration Deadline is Tuesday,  May 
15.

https://www.regonline.com/registration/Checkin.aspx?EventID=2313635

Please see the conference website https://acmcompass.org/ for a list of 
accepted papers and notes.

Just a note on the venues - the first day of the conference  (Wednesday,  June 
20) will be at the Tech Museum in San Jose, California,  and the second two 
days (Thursday,  June 21 and Friday, June 22) will be at Facebook in Menlo 
Park,  California.

See you at Compass!

Sincerely,
Richard Anderson


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[change] Talk by P Anandan on Wadhwani Institute for AI in India (Monday, April 9 at 4:30 PM in CSE 691)

[Richard Anderson]

On Monday,  April 9 at 4:30 PM in CSE 691,  P Anandan,  CEO of the Wadhwani 
Institute of Artificial Intelligence (https://wadhwaniai.org/) will give an 
overview talk describing the new research institute.  P Anandan was the 
Founding Managing Director of the Microsoft Research India.

The Wadhwani Institute of Artificial Intelligence was launched on Feb 18 with a 
focus on social good and betterment.  It was founded by technology 
entrepreneurs Romesh and Sunil Wadhwani, to bring the immense promise of AI to 
bear upon large-scale social problems. The  Government of Maharashtra and the 
University of Mumbai have provided space in the heart of Mumbai for the 
institute. The Wadhwani Institute for Artificial Intelligence will:

  *   Develop solutions in agriculture, health, education, financial inclusion, 
language, and infrastructure.
  *   Be a hub for AI scientists from top global institutions to collaborate 
with social-sector organizations.
  *   Explore questions of ethics and guidelines for AI in development.



P Anandan will give a brief talk about the institute followed by a discussion 
of the goals and opportunities  of Wadhwani AI.

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[change] Informatics Senior Technical Advisor position with I-TECH

[Richard Anderson]

Hello!

The International Training and Education Center for Health (I-TECH) has an 
outstanding opportunity for a Seattle-based Senior Technical 
Advisor.

The Senior Technical Advisor (STA) provides leadership for the overall 
planning, design, development, and implementation of digital health information 
systems within multiple country programs.  The STA works directly with the 
Principal Investigators, other members of I-TECH's Informatics Team, I-TECH's 
country teams, and Ministry of Health counterparts to design and implement 
appropriate digital health solutions. The STA must have the ability to bridge 
highly technical aspects of health informatics with the constraints of 
resource-limited settings in order to fully integrate the solutions within 
public health and clinical practice.

This position is contingent on funding.  To learn more and to apply, please 
visit the UW employment 
site.

Please share this posting with qualified colleagues.

Thanks!


Nancy Puttkammer, MPH, PhD
Research and Evaluation Advisor, International Training and Education Center 
for Health (I-TECH)
Acting Assistant Professor, Department of Global Health, University of 
Washington
325 Ninth Ave, Box # 359932
Seattle, WA 98104
Tel: +1 (206) 616-5139
FAX: +1 (206) 221-4945
Skype ID: nancy.puttkammer
Website: http://www.go2itech.org

I-TECH envisions a world in which all people have access to high quality, 
compassionate, and equitable health care.

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[change] ACM COMPASS 2018 Round 2 submissions: March 2nd, 2018

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From: tier-boun...@tier.cs.berkeley.edu 
[mailto:tier-boun...@tier.cs.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Lakshminarayanan 
Subramanian
Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2018 12:40 PM
To: t...@tier.cs.berkeley.edu; sig-...@googlegroups.com
Subject: [TIER] ACM COMPASS 2018 Round 2 submissions: March 2nd, 2018

Hi all,

The Round 2 submissions for ACM COMPASS 2018 are fast approaching with the 
paper deadline on March 2nd, 2018. The steering committee decided to extend
the deadline to March 2nd from the previous deadline in mid-Feb.

The Submission site for Round 2 has been updated to:
 https://compass18round2.hotcrp.com/

The CFP for the papers is available online (appended below) at:
http://acmcompass.org

Please submit and participate in the ACM COMPASS conference.

Thank you,
Ellen, Richard and Lakshmi

ACM COMPASS 2018: CALL FOR PAPERS

The first annual ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies 
(COMPASS 2018) invites submissions of Full Papers for the conference to be 
hosted at Facebook from June 20-22, 2018. COMPASS 2018 is a re-creation of the 
ACM DEV conference, which was held annually between 2010 and 2016. Inspired by 
the broad agenda of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), 
the new conference expands the focus of the original conference to explicitly 
welcome work on all under-represented and/or marginalized communities worldwide 
and to include work on sustainability, gender equality, health, education, 
poverty, accessibility, conservation, climate change, and economic growth, 
among others.

To ensure strong research contributions, the conference will review papers 
based on focus areas corresponding to the computing areas they draw upon. The 
four focus areas for the 2018 conference are Systems, HCI, Data Science/AI, and 
Applications. Possible topics for each focus area include, but are not limited 
to:

SYSTEMS FOCUS

●  Low-cost connectivity and computing devices

●  Power-efficient systems

●  Network solutions for poorly connected regions, including white space 
spectrum

●  Novel tools and applications for underserved communities

●  Mobile systems and applications

●  Special-purpose systems, e.g sensors, wireless, IVR

●  Cellular phone systems and applications

●  Measurements of existing technology in underserved regions, e.g network 
deployment

●  Systems challenges and opportunities in low-resource contexts, e.g 
security, sustainability, resilience

●  IT systems for smart-grids and smart-homes



HCI FOCUS

●  User interfaces for low-literacy populations

●  Multilingual computing

●  Participatory methods and user-centered design for low resource contexts

●  Accessible technologies for underserved communities with disabilities

●  User interfaces for low-cost devices

●  Adapting content and applications to local languages and education levels

●  Understanding social relationships and information flows in underserved 
communities

●  Understanding technology adoption dynamics in underserved communities



DATA SCIENCE/AI FOCUS

●  Computational sustainability

●  Computational social science

●  Econometric models and developmental economics

●  Novel applications for underserved communities, including in poverty 
mapping, disease surveillance, population migration, health services

●  Machine learning techniques for large-scale data analysis in development 
contexts

●  Data cleaning and data integration methods

●  Speech interfaces and translation for local languages

●  Computer vision challenges and opportunities in low-resource settings

●  Understanding social networks and digital media in underserved regions



APPLICATIONS AND OTHER FOCUS

●  Design and evaluation of applications in health, financial services,  
education, agriculture, entertainment, and social media in underserved regions

●  Studies of large scale deployments of technology for social good

●  Internet policy and law for underserved communities

●  Critical analyses of technology in low resource contexts

●  Blockchain applications

●  Security analyses of systems used by marginalized communities

●  Additional relevant topics not covered above



The COMPASS conference will have a model of rolling submissions, as has been 
recently adopted by several other top conferences. As this is a transition year 
for the conference, there will be two separate submission dates. Papers 
submitted on the first deadline may be given the option of revise and resubmit 
for consideration of acceptance at the conference. Full papers will have a 
length limit of 7-10 pages (not including references). The conference will have 
a separate track for notes (short papers of 4 pages or fewer, focusing on a 
single topic). Please see the FAQ page for further clarifications. Details of 
the requirements for notes are below.

All submissions are due 11:59 pm 

[change] ACM COMPASS 2018 Updates: Submission site, Associate Chairs, PC

[Richard Anderson]

Dear All,

The First ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (ACM 
COMPASS) is excited to announce the list of associate chairs for the different 
tracks:

SYSTEMS:
Nick Feamster, Princeton University
Ellen Zegura,  Georgia Tech

HCI:
Ed Cutrell,  Microsoft Research
Tapan Parikh,  Cornell Tech

DATA SCIENCE/AI:
Stefano Ermon,  Stanford University
Lakshmi Subramanian,  New York University

APPLICATIONS:
Richard Anderson,  University of Washington
Bistra Dilkina,  University of Southern California

The HotCRP submission site is now live:
https://compass2018.cs.washington.edu/submit/

We are excited to announce a strong and diverse PC of 100+ accomplished 
researchers covering different sub-fields. We are expecting a few more 
additions to the PC. The PC is online at:
https://acmcompass.org/committee/

The first deadline for the 2018 conference is soon on Jan 12, 2018 and the 
second deadline is on Feb 16, 2018. The conference will move towards a rolling 
deadline model beyond these two deadlines.

We wish to emphasize that the new conference has an expanded focus to 
explicitly welcome work on all under-represented and/or marginalized 
communities worldwide and to include work on sustainability, gender equality, 
health, education, poverty, accessibility, conservation, climate change, and 
economic growth, among others.

We are looking forward to your submissions.

thank you,
Richard, Ellen and Lakshmi




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[change] Computing and Social Good 2018 Preliminary Call for Papers

[Richard Anderson]

Computing and Social Good 2018
San Francisco, California | 20-22 June 2018
Preliminary Call for Papers
The first annual ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Social Good (CSG2018) 
invites submissions of Full Papers for the conference to be hosted at Facebook 
from June 20-22, 2017.  CSG2018 is a re-creation of the ACM DEV conference, 
which was held annually between 2010 and 2016.  The new conference expands the 
focus of the original conference to explicitly welcome work on underrepresented 
communities worldwide   and to include work on sustainability.To ensure 
strong technical contributions, the conference will accept papers based on 
tracks corresponding to the computing areas they draw upon.  The tracks for the 
2018 conference are Systems, HCI, Data Science, Sustainability and 
Applications.The CSG conference will have a model of rolling submissions, 
as has been adopted by several other top conferences.   As this is a transition 
year for the conference, there will be two separate submission dates.  Papers 
submitted on the first deadline may be given the option of revise and resubmit 
for consideration of acceptance at the conference.
Important dates
January 12, 2018.   Round one deadline for submission of Full Papers.
February 16, 2018:  Round two deadline for submission of Full Papers.
March 2, 2018: Notification of decisions for Full Papers submitted for round 
one.
March 30, 2018:  Deadline for resubmission of round one papers that were not 
accepted, but invited to resubmit.
March 30, 2018:  Notification of decisions for Full Papers submitted for round 
two.
April 13, 2018:  Notification of decisions on resubmitted papers of round one.
May 4, 2018:  Camera-ready of Full Papers accepted in rounds one and two due.
All submission are due 11:59 pm UTC.
This is a preliminary release of a call for papers for the CSG 2018 conference. 
As additional details are developed, this call for papers will be revised 
accordingly. The deadlines for full papers will not change, so researchers can 
start planning their submissions.   Full papers will have a length limit of 10 
pages. We anticipate that the conference will have notes or posters; details of 
requirements for notes will be announced later.
General Conference Chair
Ellen Zegura, Georgia Institute of Technology
Program Committee Chairs
Richard Anderson, University of Washington
Lakshmi Subramanian, New York University
Ellen Zegura, Georgia Institute of Technology
Notes Chairs
Kurtis Heimerl, University of Washington
Local Arrangement Chairs
Kashif Ali, Facebook
CSG Steering Committee
TBA
Program Committee
TBA

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[change] ICTD Masters Program - ATLAS Institute @ CU Boulder

[Richard Anderson]

ATLAS Institute invites candidates to apply to our Master's program in ICTD. 
Create an impact -- use technology to affect social change.

Apply now:
https://www.colorado.edu/atlas/apply

Learn more:
https://www.colorado.edu/atlas/ictd


Application Deadline: February 1, 2018



University of Colorado Boulder, ATLAS MS Information and Communication 
Technology for Development (ICTD) graduate students are creative problem 
solvers focused on some of the world’s biggest issues. With a flexible 
multidisciplinary curriculum and strong industry partnerships, our graduate 
students get jobs working for some of the most influential change making 
organizations domestically and abroad (or start their own).


·   Our students come from diverse academic backgrounds.

·   Our students are engaged in solving a wide range of problems including: 
accessibility issues, education, health, and climate change.

·   Our students focus on technologies that include: data science, mobile 
application development, GIS, UX research, internet of things, drones, and 
wearable technologies.

·   Our students have gone on to work for organizations that include: 
USAID, World Bank, Qualcomm, Google Earth, Inveneo, Tetra Tech, and the Federal 
Communication Commission.



Questions? contact Mustafa Naseem 
(mustafa.nas...@colorado.edu) for more 
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[change] CU Boulder faculty position in Engineering for Developing Communities

[Richard Anderson]

CU Boulder has a tenure track faculty 
position 
open in Engineering for Developing Communities at the College of Engineering 
and Applied Science (CEAS) level. The search is open to ICTD candidates, 
alongside other engineering disciplines with a focus on sustainable community 
development. Successful candidates can be based out of 
ATLAS, Mortenson Center for Engineering for 
Developing Communities, alongside other 
departments within Engineering.


The College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Colorado 
Boulder invites applications for a tenure-line faculty position in engineering 
for developing communities. This faculty search fits with the overall vision of 
the college as being a world leader for excellence and innovation in 
engineering research and education while addressing global societal challenges 
and improving life.
This is an interdisciplinary search, and candidates would have the opportunity 
to join the engineering faculty where their research and teaching efforts are 
aligned with their interests in engineering for developing communities. The 
position is targeted at the Assistant Professor level, but candidates with 
exceptional qualifications for higher rank will be considered.

We are looking for candidates who show promise and interest in establishing and 
leading a research group to explore transdisciplinary fields and paradigms in 
sustainable community development, produce internationally recognized work, and 
develop collaborative relationships in academia as well as industry and the 
community. The candidates should show ability to work across several sectors of 
the college of engineering working on problems related to engineering in 
developing communities, including the Mortenson Center in Engineering for 
Developing Communities (http://www.colorado.edu/mcedc/), ATLAS 
(http://atlas.colorado.edu/), and other centers across campus.

Successful candidates will be expected to engage in both undergraduate and 
graduate teaching, contribute to professional service, contribute to 
service-learning initiatives at the undergraduate and graduate levels, develop 
externally funded research programs, and collaborate with other faculty, 
organizations working in developing communities, and community members.  
Professional registration or an ability to become a registered professional 
engineer is desired.  While the target of hiring is at the assistant professor 
level, outstanding applicants may be considered at all levels including those 
who would further strengthen the diversity of our faculty.

Qualifications



  Application Materials Required: Cover Letter, Resume/CV, List of 
References, Statement of Research Philosophy Application Materials 
Instructions: Applicants must submit their applications on-line at CU Careers 
(https://www.cu.edu/cu-careers/cu-boulder). Submit a PDF file containing a 
cover letter (1 page), names and contact information for 3 to 5 references, 
curriculum vita, and statements describing your goals related to teaching and 
research (2-3 pages). Review of applications will start on November 15, 2017 
and will continue until the position is filled.
Job Category
: Faculty
Primary Location
: Boulder
Department: B0001 -- Boulder Campus - 10298 - College Engineering & App Sci
Schedule
: Full-time
Posting Date
: Oct 20, 2017
Unposting Date
: Ongoing
Posting Contact Name: Professor Bernard Amadei
Posting Contact Email: ama...@colorado.edu
Position Number: 00737449

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[change] UW Digital Financial Services (DFS) Workshop, October 4th

[Richard Anderson]

The University of Washington's Digital Financial Services Research Group 
(DFSRG) will host a Digital Financial Services (DFS) Workshop on October 4th. 
This event will take place in the Gate's Commons in the Paul G. Allen Center 
for Computer Science and Engineering (CSE 691) between 1-4:45 pm, with a 
reception to follow from 5-6 pm.

The goal of this workshop is to bring members of the DFS academic community 
together with industry partners to develop an agenda for successful 
collaboration on research and the dissemination of new technologies. We will 
also share some of our research team member's recent research results.

The University of Washington's DFSRG focuses on developing technologies for 
people from resource constrained regions around the world to facilitate 
financial inclusion and alleviate poverty. More broadly, we collaborate with 
social scientists and industry partners, including the newly opened FinTech 
Center at Information Technology University in Lahore. Some of our current 
research highlights include an exploration of mobile money adoption and use by 
women in Pakistan, the implementation of digital agricultural directories to 
facilitate business transactions in Tanzania, and an evaluation of security 
within digital transactions.

The UW DFS Workshop will highlight two panels: 1) "Gender and Mobile Money" 
with panelists Neha Kumar (Georgia Tech), Emer Dooley (UW Foster School of 
Business), Skye Gilbert (PATH), Heidi Stephens Metz (Imani), and Samia Ibtasam 
(UW CSE).  and 2) "DFS Technologies." with panelists Ben Lyon (Caribou 
Digital), Lubna Razaq (ITU, Lahore), Kurtis Heimerl (UW CSE), and Sam Castle 
(UW CSE). We will feature talks from Himanshu Nagpal, a Senior Program Officer 
for Financial Services for the Poor, at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; 
Jake Kendall, the Director of Digital Financial Services Innovation Lab, at 
Caribou Digital; and Joyojeet Pal, Assistant Professor, at the University of 
Michigan School of Information. Also, our graduate students will offer a poster 
session to accompany the reception.

Please send inquiries to 
jenni...@cs.washington.edu.



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[change] FW: ICT4D Jobs at Sheffield - IS or Social Media

[Richard Anderson]

From: Dorothea J Kleine [mailto:d.j.kle...@sheffield.ac.uk]
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2017 10:31 AM
To: Dorothea J Kleine 
Subject: ICT4D Jobs at Sheffield - IS or Social Media

Dear colleagues,
Sheffield University's Information School is recruiting:
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Information Systems - ICT4D specialisms very welcome

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Social Media - ICT4D specialisms very welcome, also 
social media for activism
Deadline: 6 Sept 2017

here is the link:
https://jobs.shef.ac.uk/sap/bc/webdynpro/sap/hrrcf_a_unreg_job_search?sap-client=400=nocookie=ZHRRCF_A_UNREG_JOB_SEARCH=edge_source=university%20website_medium=link_content=jobs_campaign=jobs-link#

We have a vibrant ICT4D-related group (Digital Tech, Data and Innovation, with 
25 researchers across 13 departments) here at the Sheffield Institute for 
International Development and would welcome new colleagues!

Please do pass this on to relevant candidates - we would love to hear from them!
Many Thanks
Dorothea

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Prof Dorothea Kleine
Research Theme Lead, Digital Technologies, Data and Innovation (DDI) at the 
Sheffield Institute for International Development (SIID)
Professorial Research Fellow, Dept of Geography, University of Sheffield
ESRC-CONFAP Food Futures 2.0 digital film project in Rio and London - 
www.youthandfoodfutures.org

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[change] ICTD Notes are due on the 14th of July!

[Richard Anderson]

Here is the link to the notes submission site: 
https://ictd2017.cs.washington.edu/note/

With a 4-page limit, Notes are intended to introduce work-in-progress that may 
be published later in a journal, as well as to document shorter project 
write-ups. An ICTD Note is likely to have a more focused and succinct research 
contribution to the ICTD field than Full Papers. For example, Notes on novel 
ICTD systems may not cover the entire design of the system but may instead go 
into depth in specific areas (e.g., how the system was evaluated with real 
users or how the formative work to create the system was conducted). Notes are 
also not expected to include a discussion of related work that is as broad and 
complete as that of a submission to the Full Papers venue. Accepted Notes will 
be presented as poster presentations at the conference. This year we are also 
introducing short oral presentations (in addition to posters) for top notes 
based on the recommendations of reviewers.

Notes will be evaluated by at least two multidisciplinary reviewers in a 
double-blind fashion and will be assessed according to their research 
contribution, methodological soundness, quality of analysis, quality of 
writing, and presentation. Manuscripts considering novel designs, new 
technologies, project assessments, policy analyses, impact studies, theoretical 
contributions, social issues around ICT and development, and so forth will be 
considered. However Notes need not necessarily be as comprehensive, novel, or 
generalizable as Full Papers.
Submissions

Only original, unpublished, research papers in English will be considered. 
Notes must use the ACM 
templates<http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates> (LaTex 
and Word) and must be no longer than 4 pages respectively. The main text, 
figures, tables, footnotes, references, etc. must fit within these page limits. 
Additional material may be included in an Appendix, but the text within the 
page limits must read as a standalone work. Submissions longer than the page 
limits, not in the template format, not related to the conference themes, 
and/or not meeting a minimum bar of academic research writing will be rejected 
without full review. Submitted Notes must not include names or other 
information that would identify the authors. All accepted Notes will be made 
available in the ACM Digital Library. Copyright for Notes will be retained by 
the authors.

Over the past several decades, information and communication technologies 
(ICTs) have become more pervasive, accessible, and relevant in the lives of 
people around the world. Virtually no sphere of human activity remains apart 
from ICTs, from markets to health care, education to governance, family life to 
artistic expression. Diverse groups across the world interact with, are 
affected by, and can shape the design of these technologies. The ICTD 
conference is a place to understand these interactions, and to examine, 
critique, and refine the persistent, pervasive hope that ICTs can be enlisted 
by individuals and communities in the service of human development. There are 
multidisciplinary challenges associated with the engineering, application, and 
adoption of ICTs in developing regions and/or for development, with 
implications for design, policy, and practice.

For the purposes of this conference, the term “ICT” comprises electronic 
technologies for information processing and communication, as well as systems, 
interventions, and platforms that are built on such technologies. “Development” 
includes, but is not restricted to, poverty alleviation, education, 
agriculture, healthcare, general communication, gender equality, governance, 
infrastructure, environment, and sustainable livelihoods. The conference 
program will reflect the multidisciplinary nature of ICTD research, with 
anticipated contributions from fields including,but not limited to, 
anthropology, computer science, communication, design, economics, electrical 
engineering, geography, human-computer interaction, information science, 
information systems, political science, public health, and sociology.



Here is the link to the notes submission site: 
https://ictd2017.cs.washington.edu/note/

General Conference Chair

Umar Saif, Information Technology University<http://itu.edu.pk/>

Program Committee Chairs

Richard Anderson, University of Washington<https://www.washington.edu/>

Carleen Maitland, Pennsylvania State University<http://www.psu.edu/>

Notes Chairs

Neha Kumar, Georgia Institute of Technology<http://www.gatech.edu/>

Agha Ali Raza, Information Technology University<http://itu.edu.pk/>

Open Session Chairs

Melissa Densmore, University of Cape Town<https://www.uct.ac.za/>

Mustafa Naseem, University of Colorado Boulder<http://www.colorado.edu/>



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[change] Job opening for Research Coordinator for Digital Financial Services Research Group at University of Washington

[Richard Anderson]

CSE has a job opening for a Research Coordinator in the Digital Financial 
Services group, full-time, reporting to Professor Richard Anderson.


The job is posted on the Employment at UW web page:  
http://www.washington.edu/admin/hr/jobs/index.html
Select "FIND A JOB", and then enter Requisition 143800.



RESEARCH COORDINATOR

Req #:

143800

Department:

COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

Job Location:

Seattle Campus

Posting Date:

03/28/2017

Closing Info:

Open Until Filled

Salary:


Salary and benefits are competitive. Salary is commensurate with qualifications 
and experience.

Notes:

As a UW employee, you will enjoy generous benefits and work/life programs. For 
a complete description of our benefits for this position, please visit our 
website, click 
here.<http://www.washington.edu/admin/hr/benefits/forms/ben-summaries/prostaff.pdf>




The University of Washington (UW) is proud to be one of the nation's premier 
educational and research institutions. Our people are the most important asset 
in our pursuit of achieving excellence in education, research, and community 
service. Our staff not only enjoys outstanding benefits and professional growth 
opportunities, but also an environment noted for diversity, community 
involvement, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits, and natural beauty.

The Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering has an outstanding 
opportunity for an independent, and well-organized contributor, who is also a 
proficient writer, to serve as Research Coordinator in its Digital Financial 
Services Research Group.  With support from the Bill & Melinda Gates 
Foundation, DFS strives to dramatically improve the efficiency, scalability, 
security and cost of mobile banking solutions for people in some of the poorest 
countries in the world.

As Research Coordinator, you will be a vital team member in a multidisciplinary 
effort led by Professor Richard Anderson, which includes Professors Yoshi 
Kohno, Franziska Roesner, and Kurtis Heimerl in Computer Science & Engineering, 
and other campus and external experts.  You will support  group members in 
their work to address specific challenges that impede the introduction and 
wide-scale deployment of financial products, which include fraud and 
cyber-attacks, network failures, the proximity payments user experience, 
managing identity and on-boarding, the lack of analytics for product 
development and risk scoring, agent management, and financial education for end 
users.

Specifically, you will be responsible for: technical writing, group 
coordination/management, managing external partnerships, supporting evaluation 
studies, and creating a communication strategy.  This position will not be 
responsible for financial tracking or budgets.

Communication/Technical Writing
* Create and oversee the DFS communications strategy.  Develop and 
implement goals, priorities, and approaches that will showcase the group's work 
and promote its project results.
* Author first draft content, manage revisions and produce final documents 
consistent with the project's strategic vision.  Work with team members to 
research information.  Examples of documents include the following:
  o Project state research briefs and research reports to be shared 
with funding agencies
  o Progress, administrative and final reports for funding agencies
  o Grant proposals
  o Presentations and manuscripts for peer-review publication
* Manage writing projects that involve multiple authors or content experts.
* Play a significant role in preparing and copy editing grant applications 
and submissions, including literature reviews, background and methodological 
content, budget justifications, grant figures and tables, and grant submission 
forms.
* Maintain the group's website, update content, write new content, and 
solicit submissions from others.

Research Group Coordination/Management
* Provide overall coordination of the research team.  Ensure effective and 
efficient team functioning (e.g. develop a system for tracking project 
milestones, planned deliverable dates, etc.).
* Manage team communication, sharing regular study updates.
* Coordinate ongoing and as-needed research team meetings to review 
progress. Create and maintain meeting documentation.
* Seek innovative ways to develop and implement process changes within the 
team.
* Prepare human subjects applications for product testing; ensure that the 
DFS research and products are consistent with ethical standards and other 
regulations.
* Develop forms, questionnaires, and procedures for collecting and 
summarizing data observations.

External & Third-Party Relations
* Act as a liaison between the DFS group, program partners, research study 
sites, funding agencies, and other relevant administrative departments and 
agencies.
* Maintain communications with ext

[change] Spring Break Change Talk - Ammar Jaffri, Tuesday, March 21, noon, CSE 203

[Richard Anderson]

We will be having a special change talk on Tuesday.

  Ammar Jaffri,  Head of Pakistan Information Security Association
   Fast shifting to Mobile based Financial Systems in developing world
The talk will consist of three parts:
Part 1 - History of Financial Systems & Frauds,
Part 2 - From Traditional Financial Systems To Digital Financial Services,
Part 3 - Way Forward... Questions / Discussion.



  CSE 203

  Tuesday,  March 21,  noon.





Short CV of Ammar Jaffri Former Head of NR3C FIA.docx
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[change] Hiring a Researcher at University of Oxford: Digital Entrepreneurship | Economic Geography | Sub-Saharan Africa

[Richard Anderson]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Nicolas Friederici 
>
To: change >
Cc:
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2016 16:50:19 +
Subject: Hiring a Researcher at University of Oxford: Digital Entrepreneurship 
| Economic Geography | Sub-Saharan Africa

We are recruiting a full-time Researcher to work with 
us
 at the Oxford Internet Institute (University of Oxford) on a project that 
critically assesses the changing landscape of digital entrepreneurship in 
Sub-Saharan Africa.

The Researcher will conduct a grounded, comparative empirical study of digital 
entrepreneurship in African cities. We are interested in the practices of 
digital entrepreneurship, how opportunities in digital economies are created 
and exploited, which local actors are better or worse positioned to extract 
value, the emergence of clusters and ecosystems of digital entrepreneurship, 
and how African contexts affect these processes/how observed processes differ 
from the Global North. A secondary focus is on narratives and discourses around 
digital entrepreneurship in Africa, and how they shape on-the-ground realities.

The researcher will primarily focus on fieldwork in several African cities, as 
well as writing and analysis, using a range of methods (interviews, participant 
observation, thematic/narrative analysis, surveys). We are therefore seeking a 
researcher with experience in conducting qualitative social science and case 
studies.

The successful candidate will work with Professor Mark 
Graham and Dr Nicolas 
Friederici. This work is 
part of a larger five-year ERC-funded project titled 
Geonet, aiming to understand the implications of 
changing connectivities for African knowledge economies.

We seek candidates with a background in Economic Geography, Entrepreneurship 
Studies, Development Studies, (Urban) Sociology, Social Anthropology, 
Communications, Organisation Studies, Management or related disciplines. The 
position is intended for someone at the postdoctoral level (Grade 7: £31,076 – 
£38,183), but we will consider hiring strong candidates at the pre-doctoral 
stage (Grade 6: £27,629 – £32,958 p.a.).

The post runs for at least one year, with the possibility of renewal 
thereafter, funding permitting.

You can access the advert and a full job description here (deadline Jan 12, 
2017): 
https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk/pls/hrisliverecruit/erq_jobspec_details_form.jobspec?p_id=126587


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Nicolas Friederici | Postdoctoral Researcher, Oxford Internet Institute
@friedema | https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/nicolas-friederici | 
http://cii.oii.ox.ac.uk/author/nicolas | http://www.linkedin.com/in/ictnicolas





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[change] Umar Saif - Distinguished Lecture, Today 3:30 pm (Tuesday, November 15)

[Richard Anderson]

One last reminder - Umar Saif is giving a Distinguished Lecture in the Computer 
Science and Engineering Department at 3:30 pm.

Designing Technology for the "Other" 5 Billion
Umar Saif (Information Technology University, Lahore, Pakistan)
Host: Anderson
CSE Distinguished Lecture
Tuesday, November 15, 2016, 3:30pm
EEB-105
Maps and directions
Abstract
With the advent of $50 smartphones, we can finally design software applications 
to fight poverty, disease and illiteracy for the "other" 5 billion in the 
developing world. In this talk, I will share a series of systems we designed 
for the 120 million citizens in the province of Punjab in Pakistan. These 
systems have been used for targeting 13 million Dengue containment activities, 
monitoring 53,000 schools in Punjab, tracking 3,700 vaccinators and collecting 
feedback from 11 Million citizens. Each system highlights a unique set of 
challenges and opportunities for designing systems for the developing world. I 
will conclude by explaining the challenge of measuring socio-economic impact of 
projects in the developing world and present a new smartphone-based platform 
aimed at democratizing data collection, surveys and randomized controlled 
trails at a large scale.

[Umar Saif]
Bio
Prof. Umar Saif works as the Chairman of the Punjab Information Technology 
Board (PITB), heading all public-sector IT projects in Punjab. He is also the 
founding Vice Chancellor of ITU-P, a newly setup research university in Lahore. 
Prof. Saif received his PhD in 2001 at University of Cambridge and worked at 
MIT for several years before returning to Pakistan. He was named as one of the 
top 35 young innovators by the MIT Technology Review (TR35) in 2011 and a Young 
Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2010. He has received a Google 
Faculty Research Award, MIT Technovator Award, IEEE Percom Mark Weiser Award, 
IDG Technology Pioneer Award and ACM CHI Best Paper Award. In 2014, Prof. Saif 
was awarded Sitara-i-Imtiaz, one of the highest civil awards by government of 
Pakistan. He was named among the 500 most influential Muslims in the world in 
2015 and 2016.

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[change] Scholarships in the ICTD Master's Program at the University of Colorado Boulder

[Richard Anderson]

Scholarships in ICTD Master's Program at the University of Colorado Boulder
[Header-Image]
Information and Communication Technology for Development
A track of the Master's in Technology, Media and Society

If you are interested in the field of Information and Communication Technology 
for Development (ICTD), then this scholarship opportunity will be of interest.

The ICTD master's program at the University of Colorado Boulder invites 
applications from qualified and highly-motivated candidates interested in 
leveraging information and communication technology for underserved 
communities. Student scholarships include 100 percent and 50 percent tuition 
waivers for the first year of the two-year program.

The only ICTD degree offered through a U.S. university, the program equips 
students to identify problems that can be effectively addressed through 
technology, then it supports them as they cultivate the skills to develop and 
implement solutions that are appropriate to the sociological, economic and 
cultural environment.

The master of science, earned through the College of Engineering and Applied 
Science, offers several benefits:

  *   A diverse cohort of peers and renowned faculty in ICTD and emerging 
technologies
  *   A semester-long practicum working with a non-governmental organization, 
non-profit, or government agency implementing ICTD projects
  *   Technology electives in emerging and promising technologies (GIS, Mobile 
App Development & Software Engineering, HCI, Data Science, ICT Spectrum Policy)
  *   Competitive fee structure, compared to most peer programs

Consideration will be given to applicants best prepared to deliver solutions 
for ICTD challenges. Minimum qualifications include the following:

  *   Two years' experience working in government, design, engineering, NGO or 
a related field
  *   Bachelor's degree in a social science, science, design, engineering, or 
related field
  *   Demonstrated technical literacy and multidisciplinary interests.
  *   Applicants must be prepared to submit a portfolio/set of project 
descriptions.

Alumni of the program have gone on to work for a wide range of global 
technology companies, NGOs and governmental organizations, including Google 
Earth Outreach, USAID's Global Development Lab and Ashoka Changemakers (more 
employers listed 
here).
 Organizations where students have completed practicums include Zidisha in 
Kenya, Elephant Energy in Namibia, and Inveneo in Haiti. If this opportunity 
sounds exciting, click here to 
learn more about the program and apply. Once you have applied for the program, 
apply for the scholarship online here.
Application Deadline: January 15, 2017
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[change] 6th IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC)

[Richard Anderson]

IEEE's Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC) 
brings together individuals and organizations who want to make a difference by 
applying technology based solutions to natural disasters and needs of the 
socioeconomically disadvantaged in developing countries. IEEE GHTC is the place 
to be whether you have experience to share, are looking for opportunities to 
contribute and collaborate, or simply want to better understand global 
development and humanitarian work. Celebrating its 6th anniversary, this year's 
conference is dedicated to "Advancing Technology for Humanity", focusing on key 
areas including energy, health, disaster management, connectivity, agriculture, 
and education.



Join us in Seattle, WA, USA October 13-16, 
2016 as the 
papers , over 
40 posters, panels and plenaries discuss how technology can:



  *   Enable healthcare delivery and provide power and communications in 
developing countries
  *   Provide clean water, provide sanitation and improve crop yields
  *   Improve the timeliness and effectiveness of disaster response
  *   Assist with training and build capacity needed to improve the standard of 
living


 As program co-chairs, we can honestly say the Program Committee worked hard to 
insure GHTC's program is relevant, can make a 
difference to people in the developing world, and improve the response to 
natural disasters. The impact of GHTC will be greater when more people attend. 
Please forward this email to interested colleagues. More information on the 
GHTC program is below.



Thanks,

John Prohodsky and Vasu Atluri

-  Program Co-Chairs, 2016 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology 
Conference
 =
GHTC's 
program's 
goal is to impact in positive and meaningful ways the lives of disadvantaged 
communities around the world by:

  *   Showcasing Information and Communication Technologies For Development 
(ICT4D) and humanitarian technologies to promote successful practice, attract 
wider adoption, and guide future research
  *   Enabling global sharing of skills, knowledge, networking in the global 
development and emergency management fields

  *   Identifying new resources, creating new ideas and building new 
partnerships
  *   Focusing attention of the private sector on emerging market opportunities 
and related technology enablers

The new Deployment Track and Panel Discussion on humanitarian technology 
deployment provides insights into the challenges of providing solutions in 
non-traditional environments. Innovative solutions enabled by wireless 
technologies will be explored in the Communications Panel Discussion.

While GHTC provides attendees with opportunities to interact with peers during 
pre-conference workshops, paper and workshop sessions, some of the most 
valuable insights, takeaways and Eureka moments will be shared during planned 
and unplanned encounters in the comprehensive Hallway Track (which is not 
limited to scheduled breaks, lunches, welcome reception and dinners).



Conference highlights include:


Keynote and Plenary Sessions:

* Influence of life quality in developing countries by disruptive & 
transformational technologies, Dr. Bartosz Wojszczyk, President and CEO, 
Decision Point Global

* Technology and Resilience in the 21st Century, Walt Hubbard, Director 
of King County, Washington, USA's Office of Emergency Management

* Beyond the "Shine", the future Hero of Humanitarian Response", Alexis 
Bonnell, Division Chief-Applied Innovation and Acceleration, U.S. Global 
Development Lab, USAID

* Maurizio Vecchione, Senior VP, Global 
Good

* Dave Cook, Engineers Without Borders-USA 2016 
President

Panel discussions:

* Commercialization of Humanitarian Technology

Humanitarian technology must be available at a reasonable price where it is 
needed to make a difference. The panelists provide insights gain from their 
experiences deploying humanitarian technology.

* Humanitarian Applications of Mobile Wireless Devices

Several winners of the Vodafone's Wireless Innovation 
Project will discuss their 
projects, what inspired them and obstacles they overcame to succeed.



Register today to participate in an extensive, vibrant, and innovative 
technical program with likeminded individuals across the world.

Advanced Discount Registration ends September 16: 
www.ieeeghtc.org/registration/
Regular Registration though October 12
On-Site Registration & One Day Passes Available
For more information, contact ieeeg...@ieee.org

[change] Job Opening, Research Coordinator, Digital Financial Services research group, University of Washington

[Richard Anderson]

Note:  The following job has been posted on the UW Human Resources system.  The 
job is posted on the UW employment web page:  
http://www.washington.edu/admin/hr/jobs/index.html
Select "Start your job search", and then enter Requisition 132549.  
Applications are due by May 19, 2016.





JOB DESCRIPTION

Research Coordinator,  Digital Financial Services

Computer Science & Engineering

University of Washington



As part of a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF)-funded project in Digital 
Financial Services, the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at 
University of Washington is seeking a Research Coordinator.  The Digital 
Financial Services (DFS) Research Group was formed to investigate technologies 
that will improve the ability of banks and mobile operators to deploy digital 
financial products that reach the poor.  The research group is led by Professor 
Richard Anderson and includes Professors Yoshi Kohno, Franziska Roesner, and 
Kurtis Heimerl in Computer Science & Engineering, and Professor Josh 
Blumenstock in the Information School.



The project aims to develop and deploy technological solutions to specific 
challenges that impede the introductions and wide scale deployment of these 
financial products. Low profitability, lack of client demand, and the outright 
failure of many DFS launches can be traced back to difficult barriers and 
frictions that hinder the business model and scalability of DFS systems.  
Challenges that have been identified include fraud and cyberattacks, network 
failures, the proximity payments user experience, managing identity and 
on-boarding, the lack of analytics for product development and risk scoring, 
agent management, and financial education for end users.



The Research Coordinator will support and coordinate with a group of four 
faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, a postdoctoral fellow, external 
visitors, and departmental fiscal staff.  The group's activities will include 
assessing the usability and security of financial technologies, developing 
tools to support introduction of financial products, managing financial 
services data sets, and conducting technology assessments.  The group will be 
producing a series of research reports in addition to developing prototype 
technologies for field deployment.



The Research Coordinator will be responsible for group coordination, managing 
external partnerships, supporting evaluation studies, creating a communication 
strategy, managing publications, and communications including grant- and 
report-writing.  This position will not be responsible for financial tracking 
or budgets.



Reporting to Professor Richard Anderson, this position will be responsible for 
the following:



Research Group Coordination



* Provide overall coordination of the research team.  Ensure effective 
and efficient team functioning.



* Manage team communication, provide regular study updates.



* Coordinate research team meetings to be held on a regular and 
as-needed basis including coordinating scheduling, creating and carrying out 
agendas, preparing meeting documents, and creating and maintaining related 
meeting documentation.



* Act as a change agent in developing and implementing process change 
within the research team.



* Prepare human subjects applications for product testing; responsible 
to ensure that the DFS research program is consistent with ethical standards 
and other regulations.



* Develop forms, questionnaires, and procedures for collecting and 
summarizing observations and data.





Communications



* Oversee the communications strategy for the group.  Develop and 
implement goals, priorities, and approaches that will showcase the group's work 
and promote the results of the project to provide technological solutions for 
improving the deployment of digital financial products for the poor.



* Maintain the group's website, update content, write new content, and 
solicit submissions from others.



* Prepare research reports and progress reports.  Write administrative 
reports for funding agencies, primarily for the Bill and Melinda Gates 
Foundation.  Assist in writing the annual report.



* Prepare presentations and manuscripts for peer-review publication.



* Play a major role in preparing grant applications and submissions, 
including literature review, drafting background and methodological content, 
budget justifications, draft of grant figures and tables, completion of grant 
submission forms, and copy editing.



External & Third-Party Relations



* Act as a liaison between the DFS group, program partners, research 
study sites, funding agencies, and other relevant administrative departments 
and agencies.



* Maintain communications with external partners.



* Track research of external researchers and organization that i

[change] FW: Awaaz.De seeking VP, Business Development: Help me spread the word!

[Richard Anderson]

Awaaz.de is recruiting – they are a very impressive organization that has built 
out a number of IVR technologies for development applications.

From: Neil Patel [mailto:n...@awaaz.de]
Sent: Monday, February 1, 2016 10:31 PM
To: Richard Anderson <ander...@cs.washington.edu>
Subject: Awaaz.De seeking VP, Business Development: Help me spread the word!


Dear Richard,

Hope you’re doing well! I’m writing to ask for your help in forwarding this 
email to your networks about an exciting career opportunity at 
Awaaz.De<https://awaaz.de/sendy/l/268z/i7>.

Awaaz.De has been growing fast in the past year as a mobile products and 
solutions for the development sector. To date, we have served over 5 million 
phone calls reaching over 500,000 individuals in 23 states in India. Our 
revenue has nearly doubled from last year and we have done significant projects 
internationally, most notably Ethiopia and Bangladesh. Our partners and clients 
include some of the best organizations<https://awaaz.de/sendy/l/268z/i8> in the 
development sector. We are now focusing on building our team to support this 
growth.

We are now looking to fill a key position on our team- VP, Business 
Development. Our ideal candidate is an energetic, entrepreneurial individual 
with substantial networks and experience in BD/Partnerships, working with 
multiple organizations in the development sector. We are looking for someone 
who can build upon their own existing networks to identify new enterprise 
clients and partnership opportunities in our core sectors- health, finance, 
education, and agriculture.

The full job description is here<https://awaaz.de/sendy/l/268z/i9>. To respond, 
please send an email to j...@awaaz.de<mailto:j...@awaaz.de> and include "VP, 
BD" in the subject line.

Thanks in advance for your help in sharing this with your contacts!

Best,
Neil
[https://awaaz.de/sendy/t/34/268z]
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[change] IBM Research Kenya information session

[Richard Anderson]

IBM Research Kenya is holding an Information Session on Tuesday,  January 19,  
4:30 PM,  in the Gates Commons (CSE 691) in the Paul Allen Center for Computer 
Science and Engineering.
Refreshments provided!
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[change] FW: [UW CSE News] UW CSE accessibility research earns Best Paper accolades at ASSETS 2015

[Richard Anderson]

-Original Message-
From: Kristin Osborne [mailto:kris...@cs.washington.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2015 10:43 AM
To: kris...@cs.washington.edu
Subject: [UW CSE News] UW CSE accessibility research earns Best Paper accolades 
at ASSETS 2015

A new item has been published at UW CSE News, 'UW CSE accessibility research 
earns Best Paper accolades at ASSETS 2015'

The 17th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility 
(ASSETS 2015) is taking place this week in Lisbon, Portugal, and UW CSE is in 
the thick of the action. First, Ph.D. student Aditya Vashistha captured the 
Best Student Paper award for “Social Media Platforms for Low-income Blind 
People in India.” The paper, which presents the first-ever [...]

You may view the latest post at
https://news.cs.washington.edu/2015/10/28/uw-cse-accessibility-research-earns-best-paper-accolades-at-assets-2015/

You received this e-mail because you asked to be notified when new updates are 
posted.
Best regards,
Kristin Osborne
kris...@cs.washington.edu

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[change] Gaetano Borriello Symposium at the GHTC Conference

[Richard Anderson]

There will be a special symposium held in honor of Gaetano Borriello at this 
year's IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference  
(http://www.ieeeghtc.org/).

The Gaetano Borriello Feet on the Ground Humanitarian Symposium 
(http://www.cs.washington.edu/gbs/)  is on Saturday, October 10, 2015 from 1:30 
to 6:20 pm at the DoubleTree by Hilton Seattle Airport. The symposium, which 
will feature talks by researchers and humanitarian leaders who are applying 
technology solutions to real-world problems, will be held during the Institute 
of Electrical and Electronics Engineers'Global Humanitarian Technology 
Conference (GHTC15), October 8-11 in Seattle.
Attendance at the Gaetano Borriello Feet on the Ground Humanitarian Symposium 
is open to members of the public in addition to GHTC15 conference registrants. 
Because space is limited, individuals who plan to attend the symposium without 
registering for GHTC15 must 
RSVP in advance. There 
will be no on-site registration.

Speakers at the symposium will include John Bennett (UC Denver),  Eric Brewer 
(UC Berkeley), Kiersten Israel-Ballard (PATH), Lilian Pintea (Jane Goodall 
Institute), David Thau (Google Earth Outreach),  Heather Underwood (UC Denver), 
Lorenzo Violante Ruiz (International Red Cross) and Roy Want (Google).  A panel 
of Gaetano's students (Nicki Dell,  Waylon Brunette, Sam Sudar, and Carl 
Hartung) will discuss the impact of Open Data Kit.In addition, there will 
be a special presentation by Senator Maria Cantwell (US Senator, Washington) 
and Jim Jefferies (President IEEE USA).  Ed Lazowska (UW) will open the 
symposium.
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[change] Informal talk by Aadi Seth

[Richard Anderson]

Informal discussion about Gram Vaani,  Aadi Seth,  IIT Delhi,  11:00 am,  
Tuesday,  July 7.  CSE 503.


Aadi Seth,  a professor from IIT Delhi, and founder of Gram Vaani 
(http://www.gramvaani.org/) will be in Seattle next week, and is going to visit 
UW Tuesday,  July 7.  Aadi has done very interesting work in broad scale 
deployments of community radio and IVR systems in India.  Aadi asked me about 
giving a talk at UW - but with many people away or travelling,  I suggested 
something less formal, so Aadi will lead a discussion around his work on 
Community Radio and IVR.



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[change] FW: [Compbio-seminars] Genome Science Seminars presents Dr. Jim Gallarda, on February 4

[Richard Anderson]

From: Walter L. Ruzzo [mailto:ru...@cs.washington.edu]
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 9:14 AM
To: Richard Anderson; James Fogarty
Subject: Fwd: [Compbio-seminars] Genome Science Seminars presents Dr. Jim 
Gallarda, on February 4

may be of interest to some of the grad students; please forward to appropriate 
lists.


Begin forwarded message:

From: Carlene Cross cros...@uw.edumailto:cros...@uw.edu
To: gs-semin...@uw.edumailto:gs-semin...@uw.edu, 
compbio-semin...@cs.washington.edumailto:compbio-semin...@cs.washington.edu
Date: January 30, 2015 at 8:06:13 AM PST
Subject: [Compbio-seminars] Genome Science Seminars presents Dr. Jim Gallarda, 
on February 4

GENOME SCIENCE SEMINARS
Presents:

Dr. Jim Gallarda
Senior Program Officer
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

“Career Experiences in Diagnostics  Global Health”


Wednesday, February 4, 2015
NEW TIME: 10:30am-11:30am
Foege Auditorium, S060


Visit the Seminar website at 
http://www.gs.washington.eduhttp://www.gs.washington.edu/ Questions? Contact 
Carlene Cross at cros...@u.washington.edumailto:step...@u.washington.edu

The University of Washington is committed to providing access, equal 
opportunity and reasonable accommodations in its services, programs, 
activities, education and employment of individuals with disabilities. To 
request disability accommodations contact the Disability Services Office at 
least ten days in advance at: 206.543.6450/V, 206.543.6452/TTY, 206.685.7264 
(FAX), or e-mail at d...@u.washington.edumailto:d...@u.washington.edu

Carlene Cross  | External Relations, Genome Sciences, University of Washington 
| P 206.221.5374 |


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[change] Projecting Health presentation at PATH, Friday, Aug 22, noon - 1 pm.

[Richard Anderson]

PATH Brownbag presentation
Friday,  Aug 22,  noon-1 pm

PATH,  Room 226
2201 Westlake Avenue,  Suite 200,  Seattle

Projecting Health Endline Data Results
Michelle Desmond,  Sudip Mahapatra,  Kiersten Israel-Ballard,  PATH
Richard Anderson,  University of Washington

This talk will present the results of a recent survey conducted to evaluate the 
impact of Projecting Health in Uttar Pradesh India.  The survey measured self 
reported uptake of maternal health practices in three areas:  an area receiving 
the full intervention with mothers groups using videos,  an area with mothers 
groups without the videos, and an area without the videos.


Projecting Health

What if there was a way to empower communities to develop and produce their own 
education programs to directly influence health behavior? PATH and our partners 
are advancing a groundbreaking approach to health education made possible by 
recent advances in digital technology. Projecting Health focuses on 
community-led use of digital media to reach families, friends, and neighbors 
with health education messages, effectively improving health knowledge and 
behaviors. The new method equips communities with basic skills and low-cost 
tools for creating and sharing videos that translate into real-time behavior 
change. When communities drive their own messaging, they magnify the power of 
persuasion among their peers, accelerating the adoption of healthier behaviors 
that can save the lives of women and children.

Projecting Health is revolutionizing behavior change and could be an effective 
platform across topic areas, geographies and cultures. PATH is leading the work 
in this area and we invite you to join as we present endline evaluation results 
from the Projecting Health Project in Uttar Pradesh, India. This evaluation 
explored the impact on knowledge and behavior change among women in 5 key 
health areas: Birth Preparedness, Breastfeeding, Thermal Care, Family Planning, 
and Cord Care.

For more information about Projecting Health, please see: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtIx9Y90w5M; 
http://sites.path.org/mchn/2014/02/community-led-video-production-to-improve-health-in-india/
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[change] CSE 590f, Reading seminar, Computing and the Developing World

[Richard Anderson]

The organization meeting for CSE 590f,  Computing and the Developing world is 
Tuesday, Jan. 7,  1:30 PM in CSE 203.

This quarter the seminar will cover selected papers from ICTD and Dev.  Please 
join us if you are interested.

(Note - the seminar is in CSE 203, not the Physics and Astronomy Building as 
the time schedule shows).


-  Richard

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[change] FW: [TIER] ACM DEV-4: Call for Papers

[Richard Anderson]

Here are the key dates for Dev-4:

Important Dates
Full Paper Due: Thursday, July 18, 2013 (11:59pm UTC) - firm deadline
Poster Submission Deadline: Friday, September 6, 2013
Notification of Authors: Friday, September 13, 2013
Camera-ready Papers Due: Friday, November 1, 2013
Conference: December 6-7, 2013


From: tier-boun...@tier.cs.berkeley.edu 
[mailto:tier-boun...@tier.cs.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Carlos Rey-Moreno
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2013 3:44 AM
To: TIER; change; ictd-researchers-in-africa-netw...@googlegroups.com
Subject: [TIER] ACM DEV-4: Call for Papers

(Apologies for cross posting)


ACM DEV-4
http://acmdev.org/cfp


Call for Papers
[[Copied from the DEV-4 Website]]


DEV-4 provides an international forum for research in the design and 
implementation of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for social 
and economic development. In particular, we focus on emerging contexts where 
conventional computing solutions are often inappropriate due to various 
contextual factors - including, but not limited to, cost, language, literacy, 
and the availability of power and bandwidth.

Papers should describe original and previously unpublished research. Three 
metrics will be applied to judge papers: (a) Relevance of the problem for 
development; (b) Novelty of the technical solution; (c) Evaluation of the 
solution, making a case for development-focused impact. All DEV paper 
submissions should either provide or directly motivate a novel technical 
solution that has direct implications for development. Topics of interest 
include, but are not limited to:

Networks/Systems/Security/Architecture

Low-cost wireless connectivity
Intermittent networks and systems
Power-efficient systems
Low-cost computing devices
Mobile systems and applications
Mixed networks, e.g., telephony and IP
Special-purpose sensor systems
Security challenges in developing regions

HCI/Applications

User interfaces for low-literacy populations
Multi-lingual computing
User-interfaces for low-cost devices
Participatory methods and user-centered design
Accessibility to disabled populations in developing regions
Design and evaluation of applications for health, microfinance, education, 
agriculture, entertainment

AI/NLP/Data Mining/Speech/Vision

Machine learning techniques for large-scale data analysis in development 
contexts
Adapting content and applications to local languages and education levels
Understanding social relationships and information flows in disadvantaged 
societies
Speech interfaces and speech recognition for low-resource languages
Development of new AI-centric tools/solutions for development
Computer vision challenges in development

We also welcome papers outside of these topics that address the DEV focus on 
computing innovations supporting social and economic development. For more 
information, see the webpage (http://dev4.acmdev.org/) or contact the Program 
Co-Chairs (Margaret Martonosi, Princeton and Bhaskaran Raman, IIT Bombay





--
Carlos Rey-Moreno
Research Assistant
Office 1.28
Department of Computer Science
University of the Western Cape
Private Bag X17 - Bellville, 7535
Cape Town - South Africa
Tel: +27 (0) 21 959 2562 Cel: +27 (0) 76 986 3633
Skype: carlos.reymoreno Twitter: Creym

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[change] DEV 2013 call for posters: Deadline Oct 19th 2012

[Richard Anderson]

ACM DEV 2013
3rd Symposium on Computing for Development Co-located with COMSNETS January 
11-12, 2013 Bangalore, India http://dev2013.org/

Important Dates:

Poster abstracts due: October 19, 2012 (11:59pm UTC) - firm deadline Author 
notification: October 26, 2012
Camera-ready: December 7, 2012
Conference: January 11-12, 2013

DEV 2013 provides an international forum for research in the design and 
implementation of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for social 
and economic development. In particular, we focus on emerging contexts where 
conventional computing solutions are often inappropriate due to various 
contextual factors - including, but not limited to, cost, language, literacy, 
and the availability of power and bandwidth.

The poster deadline for DEV 2013 is still open. Poster abstracts are limited to 
2 pages and should describe original and previously unpublished research, 
innovative experiments, and work in progress. All DEV poster submissions should 
either provide or directly motivate a novel technical solution that has direct 
implications for development. 
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Networks/Systems/Security/Architecture

 Low-cost wireless connectivity
 Intermittent networks and systems
 Power-efficient systems
 Low-cost computing devices
 Mobile systems and applications
 Mixed networks, e.g., telephony and IP
 Special-purpose sensor systems
 Security challenges in developing regions

HCI/Applications

 User interfaces for low-literacy populations
 Multi-lingual computing
 User-interfaces for low-cost devices
 Participatory methods and user-centered design
 Accessibility to disabled populations in developing regions
 Design and evaluation of applications for health, microfinance, education, 
agriculture, entertainment

AI/NLP/Data Mining/Speech/Vision

 Machine learning techniques for large-scale data analysis in development 
contexts
 Adapting content and applications to local languages and education levels
 Understanding social relationships and information flows in disadvantaged 
societies
 Speech interfaces and speech recognition for low-resource languages
 Development of new AI-centric tools/solutions for development
 Computer vision challenges in development

We also welcome submissions outside of these topics that address the DEV focus 
on computing innovations supporting social and economic development.

Conference co-chairs:
Bill Thies, Microsoft Research India th...@microsoft.com Amit Nanavati, IBM 
India Research Labs na...@in.ibm.com

PC co-chairs:
Richard Anderson, University of Washington ander...@cs.washington.edu 
Aaditeshwar Seth, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi as...@cse.iitd.ernet.in




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[change] CSE 590F, Computing and the Developing World Seminar

[Richard Anderson]

CSE 590F,  Computing and the Developing World Seminar,  Tuesdays,  1:30-2:20 
PM,  CSE 203.



In this seminar course we will look at different aspects of computing in 
developing countries. We will take an interdisciplinary approach looking at the 
limitations, possibilities and implications of this field from a variety of 
perspectives. From the technical side we will look at some of the more 
interesting problems in developing effective computing technologies and 
software application for users in these countries. From a social and 
development perspective we will look at possible technology application areas, 
including education and e-government, policy issues such as governments and 
open source software policy, and talking about development issues more broadly 
in the context of modern technology.



The focus of the seminar this term will be on Computing and Global Health, and 
we will read papers from the health that assess various technologies or provide 
background in global health.



For more information,  see

http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/cse590f/12au/




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[change] Poster Session - Technology for Resource Constrained Environments, Wed June 6, noon-1:30 pm, CSE Atrium

[Richard Anderson]

This year's projects in the multi-disciplinary CSE481K - Designing Technology 
for
Resource-Constrained Environments will be giving  poster presentations in the 
CSE Atrium from noon to 1:30 pm 

WHAT:   CSE481K Designing Technology for Resource-Constrained Environments 
Project Posters and Demos
DATE:   Wednesday, June 6, 2012
TIME:   12:00pm - 1:30pm
PLACE:  Atrium, 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:  Richard Anderson (CSE), Ruth Anderson (CSE), Beth Kolko (HCDE), Nicki 
Dell (CSE)


This years six projects are:

SmartPhone Job Aids for Front-line Medical Workers

Interactive Public Health Videos for South Seattle in collaboration with 
Global2Local

Using Smartphones for Vaccine Registries

Map based Public Health Modeling to support national immunzation programs

Encouragement Systems for Maternal Health in Kenya  

Open Data Kit / District Health Information System integration to support 
SmartPhone reporting of health indicators


Come check it out tomorrow!

Richard Anderson, Ruth Anderson, Beth Kolko, Nicki Dell

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[change] FW: USENIX/ACM NSDR '12 Submission Deadline Approaching

[Richard Anderson]

From: Kameswari Chebrolu [mailto:kameswari.chebr...@usenix.org]
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 11:47 AM
To: Richard Anderson
Subject: USENIX/ACM NSDR '12 Submission Deadline Approaching






[Description: Image removed by sender.]

Dear Colleague,

We're writing to remind you that the submission deadline for the 6th USENIX/ACM 
Workshop on Networked Systems for Developing Regions (NSDR '12) is approaching. 
Please submit your work by Tuesday, March 27, 2012, 11:59 p.m. PDT.

http://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdr12/http://s.usenix.org/acton/ct/2452/s-0001-1203/Bct/l-0023/l-0023:18/ct0_0/1

NSDR focuses on the technical networking and systems research challenges that 
arise in the design, implementation, and deployment of new computing solutions 
appropriate for developing regions. We encourage the submission of position 
papers or the results of preliminary work describing interesting, original, 
previously unpublished ideas or results pertaining to the design, 
implementation, and/or evaluation of networks and systems for developing 
regions.

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Low-cost wireless connectivity
* Intermittent and delay-tolerant systems
* Rural network planning
* Spectrum management protocols and techniques
* Mechanisms for emergency and urgent communications
* Location-aware systems
* Power-efficient systems
* Low-cost computing devices
* Mobile systems and applications
* Middleware and mechanisms for minimizing energy, latency, and storage 
(caching, etc.)
* Adapting content and applications for local languages
* User interfaces for low-literacy populations
* Shared access devices and infrastructure, including personalization and 
privacy concerns
* Design and evaluation of applications and in-depth case studies in the areas 
of public health, microfinance, agriculture, e-governance, education, 
monitoring, disaster management, etc.

For more details on the submission process, please see the complete Call for 
Papers at 
http://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdr12/http://s.usenix.org/acton/ct/2452/s-0001-1203/Bct/l-0023/l-0023:18/ct0_1/1

We look forward to receiving your submissions!

Kameswari Chebrolu, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Brian Noble, University of Michigan
NSDR '12 Program Co-Chairs
nsdr12chairs at usenix.orgmailto:nsdr12chairs at usenix.org

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Call for Papers
6th USENIX/ACM Workshop on Networked Systems for Developing Regions
June 15, 2012
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[change] ICTD / DEV Practice talk (UPDATE)

[Richard Anderson]

There are seven UW talks at the ICTD (http://ictd2012.org/) and DEV 
(http://dev2012.org/ )  conferences next week
 (22% if the total paper presentations!).  All seven will be given as practice 
talks this week at UW.


Change Seminar,  Thursday,  12:00 - 1:30 pm,   March 8,  CSE 203,
We will have a 90 minute Change seminar on Thursday,  March 8, with three 
talks.  (There will be breaks between the practice talks - so you don't need to 
stay for all of them.)


12:00  Automated Quality Control for Mobile Data Collection ** Winner of the 
Best Paper Award at ACM DEV **
Benjamin Birnbaum , University of Washington, Brian DeRenzi, University of 
Washington, Abraham D. Flaxman, University of Washington, Neal Lesh, Dimagi, 
Inc.

12:30 The Changing Field of ICTD: Content Analysis of Published Research, 
2000-2010
Ricardo Gomez, University of Washington,  Luis Baron, University of Washington, 
Brittany Fiore-Silfvast, University of Washington


1:00 Facilitated Video Instruction in Low Resource Schools

Richard Anderson, University of Washington; Chad Robertson, University of 
Washington; Urvashi Sahni, Study Hall Foundation; Esha Nabi, Study Hall 
Foundation; Tanuja Setia, Study Hall Foundation


Tuesday,  12:30-2:30 pm,  March 6,  CSE 203

12:30 Improving Community Health Worker Performance Through Automated SMS
Brian DeRenzi, University of Washington; Leah Findlater, University of 
Washington; Jonathan Payne, D-Tree International; Benjamin Birnbaum, University 
of Washington; Joachim Mangilima, D-tree International; Tapan Parikh, 
University of California, Berkeley; Gaetano Borriello, University of 
Washington; Neal Lesh, Dimagi, Inc.


1:00 Digitizing Paper Forms with Mobile Imaging Technologies
Nicola Dell , University of Washington, Nathan Breit, University of Washington, 
Gaetano Borriello, University of Washington

1:30 Open Data Kit Sensors: Mobile Data Collection with Wired and Wireless 
Sensors
Rohit Chaudhri , University of Washington, Waylon Brunette, University of 
Washington, Mayank Goel, University of Washington, Rita Sodt, University of 
Washington, Jaylen VanOrden , University of Washington, Michael Falcone,  
University of Washington, Gaetano Borriello, University of Washington

2:00 Design of a Phone-Based Clinical Decision Support System for 
Resource-Limited Settings,
Yaw Anokwa, University of Washington; Nyoman Ribeka, Regenstrief Institute; 
Tapan Parikh, University of California, Berkeley; Gaetano Borriello, University 
of Washington; Martin Were, Regenstrief Institute

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[change] ACM Dev / ICTD Practice talks

[Richard Anderson]

The ACM Dev and ICTD conferences are being held in Atlanta the week after next

ACM Dev,  http://dev2012.org/,  March 10-11

ICTD, http://ictd2012.org/,  March 12-15

Next week we will have a series of practice talks for UW Speakers.  These will 
take place Tuesday,  March 6 and Thursday March 8.

Tuesday,  March 6,  CSE 203

12:30 Improving Community Health Worker Performance Through Automated SMS
Brian DeRenzi, University of Washington; Leah Findlater, University of 
Washington; Jonathan Payne, D-Tree International; Benjamin Birnbaum, University 
of Washington; Joachim Mangilima, D-tree International; Tapan Parikh, 
University of California, Berkeley; Gaetano Borriello, University of 
Washington; Neal Lesh, Dimagi, Inc.


1:00 Digitizing Paper Forms with Mobile Imaging Technologies
Nicola Dell (University of Washington), Nathan Breit (University of 
Washington), Gaetano Borriello (University of Washington)

1:30 Open Data Kit Sensors: Mobile Data Collection with Wired and Wireless 
Sensors
Rohit Chaudhri (University of Washington), Waylon Brunette (University of 
Washington), Mayank Goel (University of Washington), Rita Sodt (University of 
Washington), Jaylen VanOrden (University of Washington), Michael Falcone 
(University of Washington), Gaetano Borriello (University of Washington)

2:00 Design of a Phone-Based Clinical Decision Support System for 
Resource-Limited Settings,
Yaw Anokwa, University of Washington; Nyoman Ribeka, Regenstrief Institute; 
Tapan Parikh, University of California, Berkeley; Gaetano Borriello, University 
of Washington; Martin Were, Regenstrief Institute



Thursday, March 8, CSE 203, 12:00-1:00 (Change Seminar)


12:00  Automated Quality Control for Mobile Data Collection
Benjamin Birnbaum (University of Washington), Brian DeRenzi (University of 
Washington), Abraham D. Flaxman (University of Washington), Neal Lesh (Dimagi, 
Inc.)


12:30 Facilitated Video Instruction in Low Resource Schools

Richard Anderson, University of Washington; Chad Robertson, University of 
Washington; Urvashi Sahni, Study Hall Foundation; Esha Nabi, Study Hall 
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[change] Slides from yesterday's talk

[Richard Anderson]

Here are the slides from yesterday's talk:
Software and Global Health: Assessing Vaccine Cold Chains from National 
Equipment Inventories
Richard Anderson,  University of Washington

PDF Slides
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/anderson/docs/2012/change/Change_rja.pdf

PDF Handouts
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/anderson/docs/2012/change/Change_rja_ho.pdf



-  Richard

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[change] Course Announcement, Computing and Development Capstone

[Richard Anderson]

Course Announcement
Computing for Development Capstone  (CSE 490D winter,  CSE 481K spring)
Richard Anderson (CSE),  Ruth Anderson (CSE),  Beth Kolko  (HCDE)
Students will work in interdisciplinary teams to design and implement computing 
projects to help address health challenges in low resource environment.  The 
projects will focus on computing technologies to support health and wellness 
and will tie into research underway by the Computing for Development research 
group in CSE and HCDE.  Candidate projects include:

* Smartphone based vaccine registry to track children's immunization 
and improve coverage

* Tools for developing interactive health videos

* Application builder for Smartphone based job aids

* Game based interface for simple public health modeling

* Mobile device integration with health information systems
The course is a two quarter sequence. The winter quarter course (CSE 490D) 
is a two-credit design seminar which meets Wednesdays, 4:00-5:50 pm, in CSE 
203.  Initial project design and scoping will take place during winter quarter. 
 The spring quarter course (CSE 481K) is a five-credit CSE capstone course 
which will implement and test solutions developed in the winter.
This course will be the fifth offering of the CSE capstone where students have 
worked on technologies targeting low resource environments.  Projects from 
previous courses continued on as research and deployment projects and resulted 
in publications and travel opportunities for the students involved.
For more information, please see the course web page: 
http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/cse490d/12sp/
Or contact Richard Anderson (Anderson at cs.washington.edu)

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[change] Slides from today's talk

[Richard Anderson]

I highly recommend the report on lessons learned from Motech that Grameen put 
out based on their initial experiences.

http://www.grameenfoundation.org/sites/default/files/MOTECH-Early-Lessons-Learned-March-2011-FINAL.pdf

From: change-bounces at change.washington.edu 
[mailto:change-boun...@change.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Nicola Dell
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 4:29 PM
To: change at change.washington.edu
Subject: [change] Slides from today's talk

Hi everyone

For those interested, I have uploaded the slides from todays talk. You can 
download them from the website by clicking on the link at the top of this page: 
http://change.washington.edu/2011/12/john-tippett-and-david-hutchful-on-the-grameen-foundations-motech-platform/

Thanks for a great quarter! Please don't forget to register for Winter quarter.

Thanks
Nicki
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[change] Disability Studies brownbag - relevant to ICTD -- this Friday! TODAY!!!!!

[Richard Anderson]

-Original Message-
From: Joyojeet Pal [mailto:joyoj...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 10:46 AM
To: Richard Anderson; gaetano at cs.washington.edu
Subject: Fwd: [Disability_studies_uw] Disability Studies brownbag -- this 
Friday!

Could you post this to change? There is an important ICTD component of the 
talk, because I talk about the transition to workplace after access to 
technology. The talk is today, but I can send people follow-up material if they 
want.


-- Forwarded message --
From:  sgoer...@uw.edu
Date: Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 3:56 PM
Subject: [Disability_studies_uw] Disability Studies brownbag -- this Friday!
To: disability_studies_uw at uw.edu, chidchat at uw.edu, dasatalk at uw.edu, 
criticalmedhumanities at uw.edu


Please join us for our final DS brownbag of the fall quarter:

Joyojeet Pal (University of Michigan)
The Culture of Workplace Visibility for People with Vision Impairments in 
Bangalore
Friday December 9
Savery 408
11:30 a.m. -12:45 p.m.



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[change] FW: [dub] dub seminar 11/16 Neil Patel : Voice-based Social Media for Rural Communities

[Richard Anderson]

From: dub-bounces at dub.washington.edu [mailto:dub-boun...@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 (maphttp://washington.edu/maps/?EEB)
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/mdixonhttp://cs.uw.edu/homes/mdixon

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[change] FW: [TIER] Inveneo is hiring a COO

[Richard Anderson]

-Original Message-
From: tier-bounces at tier.cs.berkeley.edu 
[mailto:tier-boun...@tier.cs.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Eric Blantz
Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 10:01 AM
To: TIER
Subject: [TIER] Inveneo is hiring a COO

Inveneo is Hiring: Chief Operations Officer 
http://www.inveneo.org/newsfeed/chief_operations_officer

Cheers, 


Eric Blantz
Sr. Program Director
Inveneo (www.inveneo.org)
email: eric.blantz at inveneo.org
tel: 415-901-1969 x1275
cell: 415-847-1232
AIM/Yahoo/Skype:  eblantz
fax: 415-449-6073
...

Watch Inveneo in action on CNN
http://www.inveneo.org/?q=CNNPrincipalVoices

Subscribe to Inveneo via:
- Email: http://bit.ly/inveneo-email
- RSS: http://bit.ly/inveneo_rss
- Twitter: http://bit.ly/inveneo-twitter

...

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[change] Help with short term project at PATH

[Richard Anderson]

I am looking for one or two people to help with a short term project at PATH.   
 The project comes from a logistics management study in Zambia for medicines 
and medical supplies.  Zambia has requested an assessment of logistics 
management software that is currently in use.  We have a list of about 15 
logistics management information systems that are currently and would like to 
have the products assessed in terms of technology, functionality, usability, 
and alignment with logistics requirements for Zambia.

This work will need to be completed by April 15.  Compensation is available.  
This is also an opportunity to learn about software systems in use in a 
developing country and to work on  a project for PATH.

If you are interested, or want additional information,  please let me know.

Richard Anderson
Anderson at cs.washington.edu
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[change] FW: BitTorrent for the Developing-world

[Richard Anderson]

From: Umar Saif [u...@lums.edu.pk]
Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2011 6:22 AM
To: Umar Saif
Subject: BitTorrent for the Developing-world

Dear Friends -

Have you noticed that BitTorrent has disproportionately poor performance over 
low-bandwidth connections in countries like Pakistan? BitTorrent is a hugely 
popular peer-to-peer file sharing protocol, accounting for as much as 70% of 
the Internet traffic in countries with widespread broadband connections. In a 
country like Pakistan, where Internet connections typically vary between 5-20 
KB/sec, BitTorrent is almost unusable.

Over the past one and half year, we studied the performance and behavior of 
BitTorrent in the developing-world using hundreds of real-world and synthetic 
swarms. We found that under low-bandwidth conditions, BitTorrent's performance 
and fairness significantly deteriorates.

Therefore, my research group has developed a modified BitTorrent client for the 
developing-world. Our client, called BitMate, enhances the performance of 
low-bandwidth nodes without cheating, circumventing the fairness policy of 
BitTorrent or adversely affecting the performance of other peers.

BitMate outperforms vanilla BitTorrent by close to 70% in download performance, 
while at the same time improving upload contribution by as much as 1000%! 
BitMate is fully compliant with the BitTorrent protocol and compatible with 
existing BitTorrent clients. BitMate is implemented using Azureus (Vuze) code 
base. Please use our client, let us know what you think and help spread the 
word.

More at: http://www.dritte.org/bitmate.html

P.S. The current client is our first public release. Please let us know if you 
face any issues in installing or using the client.

Best regards,
--
Umar Saif | http://people.csail.mit.edu/umar

[change] Help on Chinese

[Richard Anderson]

I am looking for a Chinese speaker who could provide assistance for a project 
at PATH - there is device that needs to be evaluated for a TB project - it is 
manufactured in China, and all of the documentation is in Chinese - so we need 
help with translation and evaluation of the device.  If you have appropriate 
background and are interested, please let me know.  Some compensation is 
available.

- Richard

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[change] ICTD 2010 Call for papers / Call for sessions

[Richard Anderson]

ICTD call for papers and call for sessions/workshops/panels is attached.

This information is all on the conference website as well:
http://www.ictd2010.org/

The paper submission deadline is April 2, 2010.

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[change] FW: Starbus Business Models presentation on Thursday 6/11, CSE 303 @ Noon

[Richard Anderson]

Just a reminder - even though it is finals week, there will be a Change talk 
tomorrow.

- Richard


From: change-bounces at change.washington.edu [change-bounces at 
change.washington.edu] On Behalf Of joe michiels [jm...@u.washington.edu]
Sent: Saturday, June 06, 2009 5:04 PM
To: change - Mailing List
Subject: [change] Starbus Business Models presentation on Thursday 6/11, CSE 
303 @ Noon

Hi everyone, just wanted to promote our presentation at the upcoming Change 
Weekly Meetinghttp://change.washington.edu/about/events/: Starbus Business 
Models. The semester may have come to a close, but this talk will hopefully be 
a fun and entertaining look at the process of taking a current Change research 
project and evaluating business models to support it.

We will discuss a semester-long effort that took the Starbus work as the 
foundation for a marketing plan project at Foster Business School (for an 
Advanced Marketing class). The takeaways will include What happens when 
research projects are vetted for profitability?, What's the difference 
between ethnographic research and market research?, and Which is harder: 
Talking to Kyrgyz marshrutka drivers or MBA students?

Same location and time as always: Paul Allen Center (CSE) Rm 303, Noon-1pm, 
Thursday June 11thhttp://change.washington.edu/about/events/.
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[change] FW: [TIER] Job Posting

[Richard Anderson]

From: tier-bounces at tier.cs.berkeley.edu 
[mailto:tier-boun...@tier.cs.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Tia Gao
Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2009 10:05 AM
To: tier at tier.cs.berkeley.edu
Subject: [TIER] Job Posting

Hi,

I represent a growing high-tech startup company, based in Washington DC, and we 
have an internship opportunity.  I was wondering if you could post this to your 
students?

Thank you and warmest regards,
Tia Gao
skype: tiagao5
+1 (650)799-2355
--
Product Manager Paid Fall 2009 Internship. Work in DC, see the world, change 
the world. On us. Internship starts September 2009

What: Product Manager Intern: We are a growing startup team looking for a 
technical product manager intern to provide: 20%: user interface design, 20% 
customer/client management 30% software development project management 10% 
technical marketing
Where: Washington, DC (Adam's Morgan) with many international travel 
opportunities
When:  Start Date must be between June - September 2009, End Date must be 
December 2009 or later.
Salary: very competitive + relocation expenses + free travel to 2 international 
conferences per year  + free travel to international client sites

About Us

DataDyne is a not-for-profit, award winning consultancy creating groundbreaking 
mobile data products to serve public health and international development.  We 
are a public health startup company dedicated to creating mobile phone software 
to help public health workers in developing countries.  Since our founding in 
2003, we have been driven by the desire to increase the quantity and quality of 
data available for worldwide public health, and thereby to positively impact 
the health of developed and developing country populations.  Our product is 
endorsed by the WHO as a standard for public health data collection in 13 
African countries, and is expanding to 17 countries by the end of 2009.  
DataDyne works with sustainable mobile information technologies to create 
sustainable information flow in developing countries, and to break down the 
barriers to data utilization.  Visit us on the web at 
www.datadyne.orghttp://www.datadyne.org/ for more information about our 
mobile software and services.

Qualification/Skills

- at least a Junior in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical 
Engineering, or another technical discipline with coding background
- must have taken a class on user interface design
-  must have completed a previous internship at a major software company: 
Google, Microsoft, Cisco
-  Must be able to communicate with development team in Object Oriented 
Languages
-  be comfortable at driving a highly-technical product to market: be 
comfortable conversing in Frontend and Backend Java-based Web development 
(Java, Eclipse, MySQL), XML, Grails, AJAX, HTML, Ruby on Rails, Flex
-  Passion of the IT public health industry a plus

Benefits


 *   Can start trial-period on a monthly basis or part time basis and extend 
into a 3-6month or 1 year coop

 *   opportunities to travel and work abroad in Nairobi Housing/Living Stipend 
available

 *   Paid travel  expenses between Nairobi and your home country.
 *   Free soda and snacks
 *   Free mobile phone and unlimited text message
 *   Receive mentorship  training from senior product manager
 *   Work in an area that can generate significant impact in the global public 
health community
 *   Be in a position to influence the acceleration of public health in 
developing countries

 *   We are very active with the entreprenuership community in Nairobi and US 
and can provide you opportunities for growth and recognition in the field of 
public health, entreprenuership, and ICT for developing countries.
 *   Plenty of opportunities for growth, challenge, learning, and making an 
impact in the community
To apply, check this link:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgfc8mb_48cwthwgch


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[change] ICTD Papers

[Richard Anderson]

The papers for the ICTD conference are available on line from the conference 
website - however this is a 32MB,  500+ page pdf.

I have split the file into individual papers, and posted them on the page below 
- so far,  I just have the presented papers up, and will be adding the 
remainder of the poster papers later.

http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/cse590f/09sp/ictd09/
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[change] CSE 590f Seminar - special time and place

[Richard Anderson]

This week's seminar will be replaced by the CIS Speaker Series -
Wednesday,  February 18th,  3-4 pm,  MGH 420.






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SPEAKER SERIES
DIGITAL STUDYHALL: VIDEO BASED INSTRUCTION IN RURAL INDIA



WHAT: CIS is hosting a monthly Speaker Series which will include a presentation 
by a UW researcher (faculty/staff/student) accompanied by two panel members 
from varying disciplines.

WHERE: Mary Gates Hall Rm. 420

WHEN: February 18th, 2008 3-4pm






LECTURER: Richard Anderson ? Computer Science Department

TITLE: Digital StudyHall: Video Based Instruction in Rural India
ABSTRACT: Digital StudyHall is an education project in Lucknow, India that aims 
to link together strong urban schools with poor rural schools through 
facilitated video instruction.  Lessons are video recorded in the urban 
schools, and then shown in rural schools by classroom teachers.  A key 
component of the instruction is that the classroom teachers will stop the video 
for classroom activities.  The Digital StudyHall project is about three years 
old and has been replicated at a number of sites in India and Bangladesh.  To 
date, the evaluation studies of Digital StudyHall have been limited ? looking 
at results of a small number of schools without adequate controls.  In this 
talk, Richard will first give background on the Digital StudyHall project, and 
then describe a research study that they are starting with twelve schools in 
Lucknow which have not previously been involved with the project.  The goal is 
to assess educational outcomes of the teaching methodology and also to gain a 
deeper understanding of deployment costs and issues.  Additional information 
about Digital StudyHall is available at dsh.cs.washington.edu.

PANEL MEMBERS: Mike Eisenberg (Information School) and Steve Kerr (College of 
Education)





Box 354985
Seattle, WA 98195
Tel 206.616.9101
Fax 206.616.5149
cisinfo at u.washington.edumailto:cisinfo at u.washington.edu
www.cis.washington.eduhttp://www.cis.washington.edu



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[change] CSE 590f, Jan 28, Joyojeet Pal

[Richard Anderson]

Joyojeet will be talking in this week's seminar:

CSE 590f
Computing and the Developing World
Wednesday,  January 28,  4pm,  CSE 403


RuralScope: An Repository for Tracking Rural Disbursements
Joyojeet Pal   
UW CIS and UW CSE

Concerns among development professionals about designing robust information 
systems to enable efficient disbursement of development funds are seen in the 
rising interest in e-governance projects in various parts of the developing 
world. The National Rural Employment Guarantee (NREG) Scheme in India has been 
one of the largest rural unemployment benefits schemes in the world, both in 
economic terms and in complexity of implementation. The scheme currently offers 
payments to over 31.1 million households throughout the country. Within the 
first few years of its implementation, a number of allegations of irregularity 
in both the implementation and disbursement. The information-related problems 
posed by the NREG implementation mirror issues faced by several similar rural 
development projects around the world that involve small disbursements to large 
numbers of recipients. While a large amount of data exists both on the outlay 
and expenditure of disbursements as well as past monitoring, poor organization 
of the data hampers accurate evaluation of the progress and impact of the 
scheme. RuralScope is an initiative to create an efficient and searchable 
system of data, first for use by field monitors, and second for use by 
researchers studying the impact of such programs. Through an annotatable online 
feature, RuralScope also aims at aggregating various sources of knowledge about 
the NREG scheme, potentially offering a model for similar development projects 
where access to information on users is hard to reach.


Bio:
Joyojeet Pal is a postdoctoral research associate at the Center for Information 
and Society at the School of Information, University of Washington. His 
research is broadly on technology and economic development. His recent work has 
focused on children's shared use of technology in education.

[change] FW: [TIER] Fwd: 6 month software gig in Ghana

[Richard Anderson]

From: tier-bounces at tier.cs.berkeley.edu 
[mailto:tier-boun...@tier.cs.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Jim Forster
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 10:26 AM
To: tier at tier.cs.berkeley.edu
Subject: [TIER] Fwd: 6 month software gig in Ghana



Begin forwarded message:


From: Mark Davies mark at busylab.commailto:m...@busylab.com
Date: January 9, 2009 6:19:33 AM PST
To: jobs2009 at busylab.commailto:jobs2009 at busylab.com
Subject: 6 month software gig in Ghana
Reply-To: mark at esoko.commailto:mark at esoko.com

I'm sure you know someone that would love this opportunity?
www.busylab.com/jobs/http://www.busylab.com/jobs/   Any/all help much 
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[change] Digital Study Hall winns a Tech Museum Award

[Richard Anderson]

Digital StudyHall just recieved a 2008 award for applying technology to benefit 
humanity.

http://www.techawards.org/laureates/
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[change] CSE 590f Schedule

[Richard Anderson]

I have posted the schedule / papers for the CSE 590f seminar for the quarter.  
Each week there is one required paper along with one to four supplementary 
papers.  The required papers are listed on the seminar home page:
http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/cse590f/CurrentQtr/
and the full set of readings is available on
http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/cse590f/CurrentQtr/readings.html

The papers are password protected with the following high security 
user/password pair:
User:  cse590f
Password:  student
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[change] Computing and the Developing World seminar (CSE 590f)

[Richard Anderson]

Computing and the developing world is a research area that explores how 
information and communication technologies can be used to address fundamental 
problems in health,  education and livelihood in resource constrained 
environments .CSE 590f is a weekly seminar   for students and faculty 
interested in the area.  This fall Joyojeet Pal and I will be leading the 
seminar. The seminar will provide an introduction to the area by reading 
the basic papers in the area.  The format will be discussion,  with discussion 
leaders responsible for guiding  a discussion (but not giving a full recap of 
the paper).

A list of topics is available from the seminar website:
http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/cse590f/CurrentQtr/

We will be working out paper selection and specific topics shortly.

For Wednesday,  would like people to read:
The Case for Technology for Developing Regions. Eric Brewer, Michael Demmer, 
Bowei Du, Kevin Fall, Melissa Ho, Matthew Kam, Sergiu Nedevschi, Joyojeet Pal, 
Rabin Patra, and Sonesh Surana. IEEE Computer. Volume 38, Number 6, pp. 25-38, 
June 2005.

Readings will be available on:
http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/cse590f/CurrentQtr/readings.html

The readings are password protected for cse590f students.   To access them,  
the user is: cse590f and the password is: student

If you are taking the seminar,  please sign up for the cse590f mailing list.

A note on mailing lists:  the change mailing list,  change at 
cs.washington.edumailto:change at cs.washington.edu should be used for 
general communication about computing and the developing world.  The cse590f 
list will be used only for seminar specific information.


-  Richard

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