[change] Food and social justice: The role of HCI and Design

[Katya Yefimova]

Hi folks,


Please take note of this talk happening at the iSchool on Thursday. The
speaker has time to meet with faculty and students 1:30-3 p.m. on Thursday
and 11-12:30 on Friday. Please let me know if you'd like to arrange a
meeting.


Thanks!


Katya Yefimova

PhD student

The Information School





iSchool Research Symposium


*Robert Comber*

*Food, ethics and social justice: What role for HCI and Design?*



Thursday, March 2, 2017

12:30-1:20pm

Bloedel 070

Presentation will be streamed for those unable to attend in person –
https://uw-ischool.zoom.us/j/214580441



*Abstract*

Food plays an important part in the physical, social and cultural
well-being of society, and is a contributing factor in at least 6 of the
UN's Sustainable Development goals, including eradicating hunger and
reducing inequalities in society. In this talk, I will draw on research
across issues of nutrition, food waste, food access, sustainability,
celebratory technologies and aesthetic experiences with food, to discuss
the role for HCI researchers in understanding food practices and systems
and the difficulties faced when designing for human-food interaction.



In particular, I will pay attention to the complexities at the
intersections of food, ethics, and social justice, and how design and ICT
can begin to address the vast inequalities in global and local food
systems. Using these points, I will argue for food as a topic of concern
for HCI researchers that, to date, has been relatively overlooked.



*Biographical Information*

Dr. Rob Comber is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Computer Mediated
Communication at Open Lab, Newcastle University. He is the lead of the
Digital Local Democracy strand of Open Lab’s Digital Economy Research
Centre on Digital Civics and leads the Collective Action research group.
His work is concerned with how we can understand and design for social and
environmental sustainability. This broad interest came from early work
looking at how people in deprived areas of the North East of England tried
to eat healthy meals, and seeing the compound social, informational,
material and spatial challenges they faced.
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[change] Fwd: [TIER] 1 World Connected - Updated Case Studies Catalog (v2)

[Matt Johnson]

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Subject:[TIER] 1 World Connected - Updated Case Studies Catalog (v2)
Date:   Mon, 27 Feb 2017 15:12:46 -0500
From:   Sharada Srinivasan 
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Hello,

A few months ago, I reached out to the community for input on 1 World
Connected's effort to catalog initiatives seeking to connect the
unconnected. We received an outpouring of support from all corners, and
a number of new resources that have significantly enhanced the catalog.
Version 2  now has over 600 case studies covering
a wide range of technologies and capacity building efforts. 

This document is a /curation/ of a number of widely available online
sources as well as submissions made via our website's form and in-person
meetings at various venues over the course of the last year in India,
Mexico, Britain and USA, and I would like to acknowledge thank the very
many people that have contributed and shared their work and knowledge
through mails, reports and conversations, without whom this resource
will not have been possible. It is their work that has been compiled and
organized, and a list of all major sources are mentioned in the first
sheet of the catalog. 

As ever, the document is open for feedback and will continue to be
upgraded as the project proceeds, so please do reach out in case you are
aware of additional case studies that we can document. The spreadsheet
is available on the following link: https://goo.gl/oahE3H

The next stage of our project envisages compiling case studies of these
projects through secondary research and interviews, and I will update on
our progress on the same periodically. Newer case studies will also be
uploaded to our website (1worldconnected.org
), and we are in the process of revamping
the interface so that the data can be presented and accessed more easily. 

Thanks and regards,
Sharada Srinivasan, 
Research Fellow
Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition, 
University of Pennsylvania
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[change] Contribute to ODK through Google Summer of Code

[Yaw Anokwa]

Hi all,

Open Data Kit (ODK) has been accepted into Google Summer of Code (GSoC)!

If you are not familiar, GSoC lets students spend their summer's
writing code and learning about open source development while earning
a stipend. Accepted students work with a mentor and become a part of
the open source community.

The ODK page for GSoC is at
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/4911125733834752

If you are a student who wants to participate, we'd love to work with
you! Please review the ODK page, the ideas list, and apply.

And if you have a project idea that isn't listed and is more in line
with your interests or ongoing research, those ideas are welcome too!
Join the #gsoc channel at http://slack.opendatakit.org and let's
discuss it.

Thanks,

Yaw
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[change] Tomorrow at Change: Maria Garrido - MOOC Usage Through The Lens Of Social Innovation

[Trevor Perrier]

Hi All,

Please join us tomorrow at Change.  Maria Garrido from the Technology &
Social Change Group (TASHA)  at the UW iSchool will
be joining us to talk a recently released study on how MOOCS are being used
in Colombia, Philippines, and South Africa.

*What: *An Examination of MOOC Usage for Professional Workforce Development
Outcomes in Colombia, the Philippines, & South Africa through the Lens of
Social Innovation
*Who: *Maria Garrido
*When: *12pm, Tuesday February 28
*Where: *CSE 203

*Abstract*
This seminar will discuss the findings from a recently released study on
the use of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) in less-developed countries,
and the contribution of these new learning platforms in advancing
employability outcomes of youth analyzed through the lens of social
innovation theory. Based on surveys of 1,400 MOOC users and 2,250 non-users
aged 18 to 35 in Colombia, the Philippines, and South Africa, the research
reveals that low and middle-income youth populations make up 80% of MOOC
users, in contrast to wealthier populations reported in more developed
countries. It also highlights that over 80% of these users only have basic
or intermediate ICT skills level, challenging the belief that MOOCs are
predominantly taken by people with higher level skills, among other
findings. The major obstacle youth who are currently not participating in
MOOCs face is simply lack of awareness of the potential of these learning
environments for both advancing educational outcomes as well as
professional aspirations. The survey was administered online in English and
Spanish from August – October 2015 using the Open Data Kit (ODK) survey
platform. The authors believe this study has made a significant
contribution to understanding MOOC usage in less-developed country contexts
that both provides stakeholders in workforce development and education with
insights and offers a foundation on which future research can be built. The
potential for increasing MOOC uptake and improving employment
opportunities, especially for more marginalized populations, is clearly
there. This is promising, and urges action since the data shows that MOOC
users are savvy in using the knowledge they’ve gained from MOOCs to advance
their professional aspirations.

*Bio*
Maria Garrido is a Research Assistant Professor at the Technology & Social
Change Group, University of Washington’s iSchool.
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