[change] World Bank embraces Open Access

[Yaw Anokwa]

>From 
>

In support of the new Open Access Policy, the World Bank is adopting a
Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) copyright license for content
published by the Bank, the most accommodating of all licenses offered
by Creative Commons. It allows anyone to distribute, reuse, and build
upon the Bank's published work, even commercially, as long as the Bank
is given credit for the original creation. The CC BY license helps the
Bank to maximize its impact while simultaneously protecting the Bank's
reputation and the integrity of its content.

The Open Knowledge Repository, the centerpiece of the policy, is the
new home for all of the World Bank's research outputs and knowledge
products. The Repository -- available at
http://openknowledge.worldbank.org  - currently contains works from
2009-2012 (more than 2,100 books and papers) across a wide range of
topics and all regions of the world. This includes the World
Development Report, and other annual flagship publications, academic
books, practitioner volumes, and the Bank's publicly disclosed country
studies and analytical reports. The repository also contains journal
articles from 2007-2010 from the two World Bank journals WBRO and
WBER.

Related: The WB's Open Data Initiative has free access to more than
7,000 development indicators, as well as a wealth of information on
World Bank projects and finance. http://data.worldbank.org.
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[change] posters and pictures are online

[Yaw Anokwa]

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

yaw

[change] slides and photos from yesterday's talk

[Yaw Anokwa]

we had about 60 attendees to yesterday's talks, so thanks for the
great turnout!

if want access to the slides and photos from the talk, you can find
them on http://change.washington.edu/

we have a number of events next week, including a talk on a large
medical record system in haiti as well as a detailed look on how
computer science research can impact global development.

as always, to find out more about ictd at uw follow us
http://twitter.com/uwchange or subscribe to the calendar at
http://change.washington.edu/about/events/

yaw

[change] building web 2.0 support for global health

[Yaw Anokwa]

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

-- Forwarded message --
From: Pat Lee 

I am writing to ask if you might know someone who would be willing to
donate technical expertise to an exciting new network that I am
helping to establish. It?s called Economic Governance for Health
(EG4Health), and it aims to harness the voice and public health
mandate of the global health community in support of existing efforts
to reform the global economic system in favor of equitable,
climate-friendly and pro-health development.

We?ve got a website that is approaching readiness for launch that you
are welcome to check out: www.eg4health.org. But in a nutshell,
EG4Health?s core ideas are:

? ? ? ? The global economy is critically important to health, especially in
developing countries
? ? ? ? If we hope to achieve global health equity, we must first restore
democracy and fair play to global economic governance
? ? ? ? The surest path to a genuinely democratic system is through a
genuinely democratic process, free from the undue influence of wealth
and power
? ? ? ? The voice of the global health community can and should help to
inform, stimulate, and shape these critical reforms

A friend who helped lead the Doctors for Obama campaign offered us
some helpful tips on this kind of web-based grass roots mobilization.
She said the most important person on the team was their IT wizard and
that the effort to ?go viral? and reach tens of thousands of people
would rise and fall on this person.

At the moment, we?re all working on a voluntary basis though we plan
to seek funding soon. We?re borrowing some time from a web designer
who helped put together Oxfam?s site, but he?s only available
intermittently. We?ll need better IT support than this, which is why I
thought to reach out to you.

Do you know anyone who, out of the pure goodness of their heart and
belief in the importance of these structural issues, might be willing
to give some of their time and expertise to this effort?

[change] thursday weekly meeting

[Yaw Anokwa]

hello all,

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

this week, we are discussing the items on the agenda below.

* agenda *
- introductions
- feedback on new site, poster session and msr talks
- feedback on upcoming starbus pilot
- ideas for "big picture" speakers
- open issues

see you on thu, mar 12 at 12:00 pm in the paul allen center (cse) rm 303.

yaw


ps. steve wagner of uw will be presenting his medical records system
work tomorrow in 590f. for those interested in global health, this
talk is a must see. http://change.washington.edu/about/events/ has
details.

[change] ask kentaro a question

[Yaw Anokwa]

hey all,

kentaro toyama is presenting at colloquium this thursday at 3.30 in
eeb 105 on 'computer science research for global development'. see
http://www.cs.washington.edu/htbin-post/mvis/mvis?ID=803 for details.

kentaro has agreed to answer any questions we submit to him about the
field and his work. i'm sure some of the questions will be addressed
during the talk, but for the ones that aren't, the answers will be
blogged on http://change.washington.edu.

i am aware some of you can just ask kentaro yourselves, but for those
who can't or wish to stay anonymous, i think this is a great
opportunity to ask some of the big questions at the intersection of
computer science and global development.

email the questions to uwchange at gmail.com or tweet to @uwchange.
either way, make sure to be at the talk on thursday at 3.30 in eeb
105.

yaw

[change] thursday weekly meeting

[Yaw Anokwa]

hello all,

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

see you on thu, mar 12 at 12:00 pm in the paul allen center (cse) rm 303.

yaw

[change] thursday weekly meeting

[Yaw Anokwa]

sorry folks. the date for this week's meeting is march 19.

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 17:50, Yaw Anokwa  wrote:
> hello all,
>
> just a reminder that change holds a weekly meeting to discuss ictd at
> uw. the meetings will always be on thursdays from 12-1 and everyone is
> welcome. please put this weekly meeting on your schedule or subscribe
> to our calendar at http://change.washington.edu/about/events/ for the agenda.
>
> see you on thu, mar 12 at 12:00 pm in the paul allen center (cse) rm 303.
>
> yaw
>

[change] cs research for development video

[Yaw Anokwa]

for those who missed kentaro toyama's cse talk on computer science
research for global development, i've put the video and the slides
online at http://change.washington.edu/

hope everyone is having a great spring break,

yaw

[change] Computing at the Margins symposium, Georgia Tech

[Yaw Anokwa]

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

-- Forwarded message --

You Are Cordially Invited

Finding shelter for the homeless and displaced...??Enabling access to
emergency services for the visually and hearing impaired...
Liberating the voice of an oppressed population...??Monitoring the
spread of disease so emerging nations have a chance to thrive.

"Computing for good" has the potential to improve the human condition,
locally in our own communities and globally throughout the world. By
reaching beyond those who have traditionally benefited from
technological advances, we reveal problems that require different
kinds of solutions; by addressing these problems we stand to benefit
individuals, communities, and societies that have been outside the
reach of mainstream technology for too long.

On May 6 and 7, 2009, Georgia Tech will host the Computing at the
Margins symposium. The symposium is aimed at understanding the
technology needs of under-served communities, both domestically and
abroad, and exploring the role of innovative technology in serving and
empowering these communities.

The symposium will bring together leaders from the nonprofit sector,
academia, industry and government to discuss the scientific challenges
that we must address when creating technology aimed outside the
affluent, well-connected, infrastructure-heavy settings that have been
the focus of so much computing research. The symposium aims to impact
the way the broader computing community approaches social impact,
influence the way we educate the next leaders in computing, and help
set the national agenda for computing research.

Please join us for the symposium, by registering at:
www.computing-margins.org/registration

SYMPOSIUM INFO

Registration

Agenda

Background

External Relations:

Vivian Chandler

chandler at cc.gatech.edu

+1 404.385.1252

Symposium Organization:

Keith Edwards

keith at cc.gatech.edu

+1 404.385.6783

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May 6 & 7, 2009 On the Georgia Tech Campus

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[change] New ITID Issue Published

[Yaw Anokwa]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Arlene Luck 
Date: Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 13:57
Subject: [itid-announce] [ITID] New Issue Published
To: Fran?ois Bar , Michael Best 


Dear ITID Reader:

Information Technologies and International Development has just
published its latest issue at http://itidjournal.org/itid. ?We invite
you to review the Table of Contents below and then visit our Web site
to read the articles and any items of interest.

If you're not an ITID registrant, please do so now at
http://itidjournal.org/itid/user/register since future notifications
will only be going to registered users.

Thank you for your continuing interest in our work.

Fran?ois Bar and Michael L. Best
Co-Editors in Chief



Information Technologies and International Development

Vol 5, Issue 1 - Spring 2009


>From the Guest Editors

The Best Papers from ICTD2007
Balaji Parthasarathy & Krithi Ramamritham


Research Articles

Digital Green: Participatory Video and Mediated Instruction for
Agricultural Extension
Rikin Gandhi, Rajesh Veeraraghavan, Kentaro Toyama & Vanaja Ramprasad

Constructing Class Boundaries: Gender and Shared Computing
Renee Kurivan & Kathi R. Kitner

A Peer-to-Peer Internet for the Developing World
Umar Saif, Ahsan Latif Chaudhry, Shakeel Butt, Nabeel Farooq Butt &
Ghulam Murtaza

The Case of the Occasionally Cheap Computer: Low-cost Devices and
Classrooms in the Developing Regions
Rabin Patra, Joyojeet Pal, Sergiu Nedevschi, Madelaine Plausche & Udai
Singh Pawar

Why Don?t People Use Nepali Language Software?
Pat Hall, Ganesh Ghimire & Maria Newton

Warana Unwired: Replacing PCs with Mobile Phones in a Rural Sugarcane
Cooperative
Rajesh Veeraraghavan, Naga Yashodhar & Kentaro Toyama

[change] thursday weekly meeting

[Yaw Anokwa]

Every week we hold an open meeting to discuss ICTD at UW.

This week, we will have Anthony Poon presenting "*bus: Building a
Public Transportation Information System in Kyrgyzstan". The *bus team
just arrived from their tests in Bishkek. Come hear how their
bottom-up, transportation information infrastructure using GPS and SMS
worked out in the field. As always, we will leave room at the end for
other open topics.

See you all in Paul Allen Center (CSE) Rm 303 from 12-1pm.

[change] nandan nilekani in seattle

[Yaw Anokwa]

nandan nilekani is going to be in seattle on thursday (april 2nd) and
there are a
number of events that you can attend to hear him speak.

the first is at the hub from 3.30-4.30 and is free.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=56435523796

the second is in montlake at 7pm and is not free
http://www.world-affairs.org/calendar.cfm?eventID=1075&action=eventDetails

both events are on the change calendar
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=56435523796

yaw

[change] partners in health - rwanda programmer

[Yaw Anokwa]

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

i was fortunate enough to work at this position a few years ago, and
it was life changing experience. if you'd like to apply, see
http://www.pih.org/youcando/join/Rwanda_Programmer.pdf

yaw

[change] Fwd: CommCare press

[Yaw Anokwa]

pretty exciting stuff from cse grad student (and change founder) brian derenzi.


-- Forwarded message --
From: Brian DeRenzi 

For those who haven't seen it, CommCare has had some press lately:

http://www.thestandard.com/news/2009/01/05/new-mobile-phone-applications-helps-health-workers-tanzania
http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/26/technology/mobile_health.fortune/?postversion=2008122914

They even ran the story in an English speaking newspaper here in Tanzania!

[change] tapan parikh in esquire

[Yaw Anokwa]

former uw grad student and change member, tapan parikh, has been
featured in esquire.
http://www.esquire.com/features/best-and-brightest-2008/third-world-cell-phone-data-1208/
has the story.

[change] programmer for ghana health project

[Yaw Anokwa]

The Ghana Health Information Systems Development (GHISD) project seeks
to hire a computer scientist who will be posted in the Dangbe West
District of Ghana.

GHISD will test whether the adaptation of existing mobile phone
technology can help address these problems by significantly easing
information capture for community-based health care workers and
providing a mechanism for communication between front-line health care
workers and their supervisors.

This is a project in partnership with Columbia, Grameen and the Ghana
Health Service and sounds like it'd be pretty fun. I've attached the
job description with all the contact information. Please forward as
necessary.
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[change] Call for Demos - International Conference on ICT and Development 2009

[Yaw Anokwa]

CALL FOR DEMOS - International Conference on Information
and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD 2009)

The 3rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and
Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD 2009) will be held
17-19 April 2009 at Carnegie Mellon's state-of-the-art campus in Doha,
Qatar. This conference will act as a focal point for new scholarship
in the field of ICT and international development. Confirmed speakers
include a Keynote by William H. Gates, Chairman of Microsoft
Corporation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

We invite submissions of demonstrations for ICTD 2009.  The demo
session provides researchers and practicioners a venue for showcasing
live demonstrations of their work. The focus of a demonstration may
span novel hardware or software systems, video footage, or physical
artifacts unsuitable for presentation in the poster or oral sessions.

Unlike ICTD 2009 papers, the subject of a demo may have been published
previously, either in ICTD or in other venues.  However, the
demonstration itself should be new and interesting to the ICTD
community, and should reflect work that is at least as mature as a
poster presentation.

Demo submissions may represent research projects, commercial tools, or
government initiatives.  Both novel projects as well as
well-established systems are invited for demonstration.

At the conference, all demonstrations will be presented in parallel
with an interactive audience (comparable to a poster session). At
least one author of each accepted demo must register for the
conference and attend to present the demo.

IMPORTANT DATES
January 30, 2009Demo abstracts due
February 10, 2009   Final decisions sent out to demo presenters
February 20, 2009   Camera-ready demo abstracts due
April 17-19, 2009   Conference

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Presenters must submit a 1-page abstract that describes the context,
novelty, and significance of the demonstration, including a precise
description of exactly what is to be demonstrated (hardware, software,
etc.) Each submission should include a title; the names, affiliations,
and contact emails for all authors; as well as a brief abstract (~100
words). Authors should follow IEEE formats and styles. Samples of this
format are also available in PDF and MS Word formats.

Demo submissions will be reviewed by the demo co-chairs. We expect to
publish accepted demo abstracts in the conference proceedings (this
will be confirmed later). Authors would be required to sign a
copyright release prior to publication.

To submit to the demo session, send email to demos at ictd2009.org with
the following information:

* Your 1-page abstract in PDF or MS Word format
* Requirements for your demonstration, including:
 - A/V equipment
 - Electrical outlets
 - Internet connectivity
 - Unusual space or setup requirements

CONFERENCE FOCUS
The goal of the ICTD conference is to provide a forum for academic
researchers and scholarly practitioners working with ICT applied to
development. The conference will be scientifically rigorous and
multi-disciplinary - papers reporting high-quality original research
are being solicited. The conference will bring together researchers
and reflective practitioners in both the social and technical
sciences, with anticipated representation from anthropology,
sociology, economics, political science, computer science, electrical
engineering, industrial design, and the like., in addition to domain
specialists in various development fields such as healthcare,
agriculture, enterprise, education, governance, etc.

For the purposes of this conference, the term "ICT" will comprise
computing devices (e.g., PCs, PDAs, sensor networks), technologies for
voice and data connectivity, the Internet, and related
technologies. Application domains include, but are not restricted to,
education, agriculture, enterprise, healthcare, poverty alleviation,
general communication, and governance.

VENUE
Qatar is a rapidly growing economy in the region and the world which
has set its targets of moving beyond a hydrocarbon economy into
becoming a regional and global leader in knowledge and
information. Qatar is a modern, stable nation with a vibrant
international population, and hosted the Asian Games in
2007. Education City brings leading educational and research
institutions to Qatar, including Cornell, Georgetown, Texas A&M, and
Carnegie Mellon in Qatar offers degree programs in Computer Science,
Business Administration, and Information Systems. This provides an
ideal venue for hosting ICTD 2009, in a geographic location close to
major population centers around the world, easily accessible by direct
flights.

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

[Yaw Anokwa]

** UBICOMP 2009 Workshop **

Globicomp - Taking Ubicomp Beyond Developed Worlds
Sept 30th 2009, Florida, USA

Organisers: Matt Jones (Swansea, UK) & Gary Marsden (UCT, South Africa)

http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/globicomp2009
in conjunction with ubicomp 2009 (http://www.ubicomp.org/ubicomp2009/)
***

First Call for Position Papers
---

Ubicomp - everywhere, everybody technology and systems. But are we really
exploring inclusive visions? Is ubicomp for everyone or only the relatively
affluent?

This workshop is about the billions of people who do not fit the sorts of
context mainstream ubicomp has addressed. There are hundreds of millions of
users, and billions to come in the next 5 years, in places like India, China
and Africa, whose first, and perhaps only, experience of computing will be
in the form of mobile and other ubicomp technologies. Many of these users
will never live in the sorts of home, or work in the types of office, or
daydream in the parks, or take a day-off for the sorts of amusement park
envisaged by earlier research.

If you are already working on developing world ubicomp, or are interested in
finding out how to create effective technologies for these new environments,
then we would encourage you to contribute and attend the workshop.

But it is not just 'developing' countries. What about the marginalised in
our 'developed' world - the urban poor, the ill-educated, the homeless, the
computer non-literate; i.e. those without access to what many of us take as
essential digital infrastructure? We invite contributions considering these
contexts too.

Accepted participants will be encouraged to produce posters, videos or
interactive demos which will be showcased in the main conference. The
Ubicomp organisers are keen to see this topic discussed amongst all the
attendees.

Submissions
--

Position papers of up to 4 pages in length should be formatted using the ACM
template and advice found here.

Papers in two categories are welcome:

  1. Those considering either specific innovations or applications of
ubicomp to "developing" world and other marginalised contexts;
  2. and, from researchers who wish to raise issues or discuss the
potential of mainstream ubicomp to these sorts of underrepresented
constituencies.

Topics of interest include (but of course are not limited to!):

  1. Interface and interaction issues
  2. Devices and infrastructure
  3. Design and development methodologies
  4. Environmental impact and sustainability
  5. Case studies and experience reports
  6. Theoretical perspectives and critiques

See the website for submission details


Key Dates
---
Papers due:
   June 23, 2009
Acceptance notifications:
   July 24, 2009
Final copy due:
   September 1, 2009
Workshop:
   September 30, 2009

Publications/ Dissemination
--

Papers will be made available online before the workshop

Posters & demos will be showcased in the main Ubicomp Conference

A special issue of Springer/ACM Personal & Ubiquitous Computing is scheduled
for after the workshop (full paper submissions will be solicited in a
separate call).


Programme Committee


Russell Beale University of Birmingham, UK
Nicola Bidwell James Cook University, Australia
Eli Blevis, Indiana University, USA
Stephen Brewster Glasgow University, UK
Anxo Cereijo Roibas Vodafone User Experience
Keith Cheverst Lancaster University, UK
Andrew Deardon, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Jussi Impio, Nokia, Kenya
Amit A Navavati IBM Research, India
Abigal Sellen Microsoft Research, UK
Yvonne Rogers, Open University, UK
Lucia Terrenghi Vodafone R&D, Germany.

Further committee members to be confirmed.

[change] change t-shirt orders!

[Yaw Anokwa]

make that monday the 9th. the deadline is 02/09 at midnight.

On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 15:46, Yaw Anokwa  wrote:
> to ramp up for our upcoming change events, gaetano has decided to
> subsidize t-shirts for all change members!
>
> we are going to order dark gray american apparel shirts with the
> change logo and web address in white. you can see a mock up at
> http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/yanokwa/tmp/change-shirt.jpg.
>
> the shirts cost $5 and ordering will close on monday 02/06 at
> midnight. use http://www.doodle.com/participation.html?pollId=fyquzfuikbfruex7
> to place your order and keep in mind that american apparel shirts fit
> differently than regular hanes shirts.
>
> yaw
>

[change] change t-shirt orders!

[Yaw Anokwa]

to ramp up for our upcoming change events, gaetano has decided to
subsidize t-shirts for all change members!

we are going to order dark gray american apparel shirts with the
change logo and web address in white. you can see a mock up at
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/yanokwa/tmp/change-shirt.jpg.

the shirts cost $5 and ordering will close on monday 02/06 at
midnight. use http://www.doodle.com/participation.html?pollId=fyquzfuikbfruex7
to place your order and keep in mind that american apparel shirts fit
differently than regular hanes shirts.

yaw

[change] uwchange is now on twitter

[Yaw Anokwa]

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

yaw

[change] change t-shirt orders!

[Yaw Anokwa]

make sure you get in your order before midnight tonight (seattle time).

On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 15:46, Yaw Anokwa  wrote:
> to ramp up for our upcoming change events, gaetano has decided to
> subsidize t-shirts for all change members!
>
> we are going to order dark gray american apparel shirts with the
> change logo and web address in white. you can see a mock up at
> http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/yanokwa/tmp/change-shirt.jpg.
>
> the shirts cost $5 and ordering will close on monday 02/06 at
> midnight. use http://www.doodle.com/participation.html?pollId=fyquzfuikbfruex7
> to place your order and keep in mind that american apparel shirts fit
> differently than regular hanes shirts.
>
> yaw
>

[change] change events are now on gcal

[Yaw Anokwa]

change has a calender of events that you can subscribe to on gcal,
ical, outlook or thunderbird.

rss: http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/uwchange%40gmail.com/public/basic
ical: http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/uwchange%40gmail.com/public/basic.ics
html: 
http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=uwchange%40gmail.com&ctz=America/Los_Angeles

now you'll have no excuse to miss all the great talks at 590f this quarter.

yaw

[change] Bonderman Travel Fellowship Deadline Reminder - February 16

[Yaw Anokwa]

great opportunity for uw grad students!


The 2009 Bonderman Travel Fellowship application deadline is rapidly
approaching this Monday, February 16, at 11:59pm.  All application
materials must be submitted online by this time to the Catalyst
dropbox noted on the application form.

This is truly a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to receive $20,000 to
travel the world.  Please see our website for further information,
including a link to the application materials:
http://www.grad.washington.edu/fellow/Bonderman_page.htm

Please feel free to contact me at 3-1070 or helene at u.washington.edu
with any questions.

Best regards,

Helene Obradovich
Director, Fellowships & Awards
The Graduate School

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

[Yaw Anokwa]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Jahanzeb Sherwani 
Date: Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 17:25
Subject: [gshci4d] Young Researchers Workshop at ICTD 2009
To: gshci4d at googlegroups.com


Hello all,

It gives me great pleasure to announce the Young Researchers Workshop
at ICTD 2009, that's co-organized by Matt Kam, Divya, Tapan and
myself, along with another group, IPID/SPIDER.  The main idea behind
the workshop is to get people talking -- the agenda of what will be
discussed is going to jointly be decided by participants, and we're
aiming to make it really participatory by getting a discussion going
online well before the actual workshop.  The spirit of the workshop is
to create a space where people like us can talk to each other, get to
know each others' work, and potentially build collaborations (just
like gshcid) that live on well beyond the workshop.

The workshop is being co-organized by us and by this other group
(IPID/SPIDER), they're managing the morning session where participants
will introduce their work, and we'll then have open-ended discussions
in the afternoon.  The program is attached and contains all the
details.  If you're super lazy, the main info you need to know is:

Send a short position paper to yrictd at gmail.com (anywhere between 1-4
pages) describing your ICTD research experience, and what you think
the big challenges in ICTD research are.  Hurry, slots are limited --
don't put this off till too much later, just jot your thoughts down
and send them on in.

I also wanted to mention that Rowena's co-organizing a workshop on
evaluation, and it looks quite awesome too.  So even though I want all
of you to attend the Young Researchers workshop, do check out Ro's
workshop.  I'm sure she'll be sending an email soon.

I've also pasted the invite in plaintext below.  Please forward this
to your networks.  Really, do forward it! :)  Thanks!

J

Call for Papers and Participation

"Young" Researchers' Workshop at ICTD2009
Friday 17 April 2009

in conjunction with the 3rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on
Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD2009)
17 ? 19 April 2009, Doha, Qatar, http://www.ictd2009.org

IPID (the International Network for Postgraduate Students in the area
of ICT4D) together with GSHCID (Graduate Students in Human-Computer
Interaction and Development) are organising a workshop for "young"
researchers to be held on Friday 17 April 2009 8:30am ? 5:00pm at
Carnegie-Mellon's campus in Doha, Qatar.

Focus: The focus will be on the process of ICT4D research giving the
participants an opportunity to discuss and reflect on various aspects
of such research.

Program: The workshop aims to provide an informal forum where
participants can share their research experiences, initial findings
and ideas in a supportive peer-environment. The area of ICT4D includes
a wide range of fields of studies. By attending the workshop
participants can share and reflect on their research findings as well
as on their own experiences in ICT4D research.

Format: Participants will be asked to read everyone's position papers
in advance, to maximize face-time at the workshop.  The morning
session will include presentations of short papers of between 5-10
minutes followed by feedback from both the participants and invited
senior academic researchers. The afternoon session of the workshop
will revolve around small breakout group discussions, structured
around themes to be decided with participants via email prior to the
workshop, followed by a closing discussion among all attendees.

Intended Audience: The workshop will be open to all "young"
researchers in the area of ICTD/ICT4D. We use "young" broadly to
reflect the vibrancy of ICTD as a new discipline, in which we strive
to create an inclusive workshop atmosphere where all researchers ?
whether they are students, recent Ph.D. graduates or even senior
researchers with a track record in other fields ? who view themselves
as "young-at-heart" researchers congregate to learn from one another
about how to do research in the nascent field of ICTD. Space is
limited and will be allocated on a first-come-first-serve basis. The
morning session will be more generally across ICTD topics, the
afternoon session will have a greater focus, though not restricted to
HCI issues.

Submissions: If you're interested in attending, submit a short
position paper (no longer than 4 pages) describing your prior ICTD
research experience and your views on the challenges of ICTD research,
and mail it in PDF format to yrictd at gmail.com by March 1st for review.

Important Dates:
Submission of short papers: 1 March 2009
Notification of acceptance: 15 March 2009
Workshop: 17 April 2009

Cost: Workshop attendance is free for ICTD2009 conference attendees.
Attendees however have to be registered for ICTD2009 to attend the
workshop, or apply for a waiver.

Attendee Sponsorships: There are very limited sponsorships and waivers
for workshop participants. If you need

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

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Call for Participation



Workshop at ICTD2009
Friday 17 April 2009



ICTD2009 will be the third conference to highlight rigorous, scholarly
research in ICTD. Yet, many feel that the question of what constitutes good
ICTD research is still unclear.* *In this workshop, we aim to raise and
explore some of the questions around what makes good ICTD research. For
example,



  - How do we incorporate multiple disciplines without sacrificing quality
  and sound methodology?
  - Are there universal critieria by which the quality of ICTD research can
  be judged?
  - What kind of paper-review process and criteria makes sense?
  - How much 'development' evaluation needs to go into technology research,
  and how much 'technology' evaluation needs to go into development research?
  - How should the conference engage with policy-making?
  - What voices are missing from the current ICTD community?


These questions are an ongoing discussion among researchers from all walks
of the ICTD world, and yet it is rare that they are brought up in formal
dialogue. Examining these questions will help define what makes ICTD
research unique and create a stronger sense of community among ICTD
researchers. We cannot hope to answer these questions in any definitive way
in a half-day workshop, but we will raise new and old opportunities and
challenges. Opening up these critical areas of debate will inform the ICTD
advisory and program committees, editors of ICTD-related journals, and
authors of ICTD papers.


*Intended Audience:* This workshop is intended for ICTD program committee
members, ICTD paper authors and potential authors, researchers, students,
and others who are interested in questions of what makes for good ICTD
research.



*Format:* This half-day workshop will consist of a short panel by
individuals from various communities within ICTD followed by a series of
small and large group discussions.  Moderators will provide context and
materials surrounding existing areas of debate in ICTD research ? for
example, underrepresented topics, paper-review criteria, good methodology,
and incorporation of multiple disciplines. Participants will then be
encouraged to raise, discuss, and prioritize their own questions surrounding
'what makes good ICTD research'.

* *

*Outcomes: *A written summary of our discussions as well as any
recommendations will be provided to all participants and submitted to the
ICTD advisory board. We also hope this discussion will be a catalyst for
discussion in other ICTD venues, and invite participants to help disseminate
our discussions in other forums as well.

* *

*Learning goals*

  - To foster a more nuanced discussion of what constitutes quality ICTD
  research
  - To work towards a common understanding of ICTD among research
  communities with diverse standards and methodologies
  - To discuss possible criteria by which ICTD publications across various
  disciplines can be compared
  - To explore future ideas for the ICTD research community



*Participation:* To participate, please email a statement of interest copied
to Rowena Luk (rowena at amitatelemedicine.org) and David Hollow (
D.M.Hollow at rhul.ac.uk). Please include your name, affiliation, a very short
biography, and a brief description of your interest in the workshop. Note
that this information may be circulated in advance to other participants in
order to facilitate small group discussions. Please email your interest as
soon as possible because participation will be capped at a
first-come-first-selected basis to 40 participants to ensure a manageable
and insightful conversation.



*Important Dates: *

Submission of statements: 15 March 2009

Notification of acceptance: 30 March 2009

Workshop: 1:30 pm -5:00 pm 17 April 2009



*Cost: *Workshop attendance is free for ICTD2009 conference attendees.
Attendees however have to be registered for ICTD2009 to attend the workshop,
or apply for a waiver.



*Attendee Sponsorships*: There are very limited sponsorships and waivers for
workshop participants. If you need these, you have to apply directly through
the website at: http://www.ictd2009.org/scholarships.html Note -- the
deadline is Feb 25, enforced strictly.


*Organisers / Presenters:
*David Hollow, Royal Holloway University of London
Heather Horst, University of California, Irvine
Renee Kuriyan, Intel Research
Rowena Luk, AMITA Telemedicine Inc.
Balaji Parthasarathy, International Institute of Information Technology,
Bangalore
Isha Ray, University of California, Berkeley
Jo Tacchi, Queensland University of Technology
Rahul Tongia, Carnegie Mellon University
Kentaro Toyama, Microsoft Research India
John Traxler, University of Wolverhampton
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[change] DigitalICS project wins second-place in Nokia's Calling All Innovators Competition

[Yaw Anokwa]

Announced at the GSM World Congress in Barcelona.  See below for press
release.  Congrats to Yael!

http://www.nokia.com/A4136001?newsid=1291207

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

[Yaw Anokwa]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Juan Pablo Hourcade 
Date: Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 09:20
Subject: Digital Technologies and Marginalized Youth: Reducing the Gap
(IDC 09 Workshop)
To: Juan Pablo Hourcade 


Dear colleagues,

I want to draw your attention towards the workshop "Digital
Technologies and Marginalized Youth: Reducing the Gap". This will be a
pre-conference full-day session and at the Interaction Design and
Children (IDC) 09 conference and take place on Wednesday, June 3, 2009
in Como, Italy.

For more detailed information on the workshop, please visit:
http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~hourcade/idc-workshop/

Deadlines:
Submission deadline for position papers: April 8, 2009
Acceptance notification: April 20, 2009
Final version: May 4, 2009

We would be happy to receive your contribution! Please spread the word!

Edith Ackermann, University of Aix-Marseille 1, MIT Media Lab,
University of Siena
Francoise Decortis, University of Li?ge
Juan Pablo Hourcade, University of Iowa
Heidi Schelhowe, University of Bremen
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[change] Workshops Invitation - ICTD2009 Conference

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We invite you to participate in one of the special parallel workshops
to be held on Friday 17 April at the IEEE/ACM ICTD2009 conference in
Qatar (http://www.ictd2009.org)

Details of these are attached. ?There is no additional cost for those
attending the ICTD2009 conference, but you will need to take action in
order to participate in one of the workshops:

- ICTD Research Workshop: email the organisers as soon as possible
(first-come-first-served up to a maximum of 40 participants)

- ICTD Curriculum/Teaching Workshop: email the organisers as soon as
possible (first-come-first-served up to a maximum of 50 participants)

- Young/Early Researchers Workshop: email the organisers by March 1st,
if you wish to make a presentation

We may have some travel, accommodation and fee waiver scholarships
available for workshop participants. ?To apply, fill the following
form by February 25th: http://ictd2009.org/scholarships.html

With good wishes
Joyojeet & Joe
Workshops & Panels Co-Chairs, ICTD2009
Email: workshops at ictd2009.org
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[change] olpc internship program

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should be interesting experience

--
*One Laptop per Child - Africa Internship Program*

Students have played a pivotal role in every revolution, except learning.
That will change in 2009.  Through One Laptop per Child, student teams from
around the world will each deploy 100 XO-laptops throughout Africa this
summer. If you are an undergraduate or graduate student with an interest in
education, technology or capacity building, our internship will provide you
with unprecedented hands-on experience.

Student Teams will:
- travel to one of the 53 African countries of their choosing for *9-10
weeks*
- participate in a *10-day orientation in Kigali, Rwanda* at OLPC-s office
- receive a *$10,000 (USD) team stipend*
- deploy *100 XO laptops*, including hardware and support
- collaborate with other teams as part of a life-long global network
empowering a generation
- send 1 representative to *MIT/OLPC-s all-expense paid summit* from Oct
10th-12th 2009

About OLPCorps Africa
Our interns will be active members of our innovative 1 to 1 laptop-learning
project and hold key roles as leaders in our grassroots movement.  OLPC
summer internships, which are full-time commitments, begin June 8. Teams
will work closely with the One Laptop per Child team to design and implement
XO deployments, join a uniquely African OLPC network, and lead a growing
social movement.

How to apply:
For more information on OLPCorps Africa and specific application
requirements, please visit our website:
http://www.laptop.org/en/participate/get-involved/OLPCorps.shtml. Proposals
must be received by March 27th.

Note: Latin America internships are available in Peru & Uruguay.  Please
contact nia at laptop.org

Contact olpcorps at laptop.org with any questions or concerns.

[change] change shirts are here!

[Yaw Anokwa]

i just got an email from the t-shirt company and the change shirts
will be ready for pickup at the change poster session tomorrow.

available payment options are cash, check and paypal. if none of these
payment options work for you, send me an email and we can arrange the
details.

- cash: the cost is $5.00. find me at cse590f or the next few change
events (poster session, msr talks, etc).

- check: the cost is $5.00. make the check payable to 'yaw anokwa' and
put it in my cse mailbox or find me.

- paypal: the cost is $5.45. send the payment to 'yanokwa at gmail.com'.
we do accept credit cards.

finally, a few of you generously offered to pay more than we were
asking for the (gaetano subsidized) shirts. any extra money received
will go to fund more change related things.

thanks and see you all at 590f today and the poster session tomorrow!

yaw

[change] tech museum award - nominations open

[Yaw Anokwa]

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

http://www.techawards.org/nominate/criteria/

[change] thanks!

[Yaw Anokwa]

hello all,

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

we've got some exciting stuff planned for the next few months so stay tuned!

yaw

[change] black change shirts

[Yaw Anokwa]

the t-shirt company accidentally printed a handful of women's change
shirts in black.

if you would like a women's change shirt in black for $5, let me know
asap. if you already have one of the grey ones and you would like one
in black, we can do an exchange.

if you did not order a shirt, but would like to get a unisex shirt (in
black or grey), let me know.

yaw

[change] ICTD survey

[Yaw Anokwa]

i'm sure rabin and joyojeet would love help from uw folks in this survey...



Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 12:33:35 -0700
From: "Rabin Patra" 
Subject: [TIER] Reminder to complete ICTD survey
To: TIER 

Dear ICTD'ers(!)

Here is the last reminder to answer our survey. To those of you have
already started the survey and saved a partial response, please submit
as soon as possible.

http://shirin.cs.berkeley.edu:8000/limesurvey/index.php?sid=92227&newtest=Y

You could of course respond because you see how integral a part of
grad research it is collecting (and responding to) questionnaires --
but hopefully so that we can understand the growing field of ICTD
somewhat better!

thanks, thanks, and best wishes,

Joyojeet Pal, Rabin Patra, Sergiu Nedevschi

[change] project 10 to the 100th

[Yaw Anokwa]

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

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

[Yaw Anokwa]

Apologies for duplicate postings.


CALL FOR PAPERS:
Human-Centered Computing in International Development
Workshop at CHI '09 Conference (http://www.chi2009.org/)
April 4-5, 2009
Boston, Massachusetts, USA

 From Kansas to Kigali, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)
have evolved to reach wider audiences in the past few decades, resulting
in changes in goals, context, and target groups, as well as ethical
contexts.

This leads us to ask the critical question of who we are designing for,
how, and why. On the one hand, interactive applications have permanently
affected the field of Human-computer Interaction, whose concerns were
traditionally cognitive. On the other hand, interactive systems are
increasingly taken up in the developing world, both by richer urban
elites and growing middle classes, and by urban and rural users in more
economically marginal areas.

These situations involve very different contexts of use, and demand new
design solutions. In designing for inclusivity, these ICT tools are of
value to the end-user only if they are made relevant. More than ever,
therefore, it is important, to cultivate design practices that allow for
meaningful embedding of interactive systems in the cultural,
infrastructural, and political settings where they will be used.

The goal of the workshop is to exchange success/failure stories,
methodologies, and best practices, to develop new partnerships, and to
learn from each other. The workshop is open to anyone in fields such as
Human-Computer Interaction, International Development, Social Sciences,
Public policy, Computer Science, Education, Economics, and Healthcare
who is interested in contributing to this dialogue.


TOPICS

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Sustainability: A key tension between research and development
projects is that of developing sustainable projects - when
sustainability generally goes well beyond the scope of typical research

- Governments, Policies: We are often working in countries that are not
our own, and must deal with foreign governments. Selected participants
will share insights on working with local governments, importing
equipment and securing permission to do research.

- Development Theory: Working towards building a common vocabulary,
workshop participants with grounding in development theory will be asked
to think about what should be considered foundational knowledge for
researchers working on human-centered design for international development


SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Please send a 2-4 page position paper describing one of the following:

* your experience in this area,
* your findings,
* your interest aligned with the above topics,
* methodologies you have used in research or practice that you feel
might be relevant in this area,
* some other appropriate question you might want to discuss at the workshop,
or
* a proposal you might have for a collaborative group HCI4D task (i.e.
the website or the joint bibliography), which we could debate at the
workshop.

To participate in this workshop at CHI 2009, e-mail position papers to
Nithya Sambasivan at nsambasi at ics.uci.edu

Deadline for submissions is 23rd October, 2008. Notification of
acceptance is on/around 28th November, 2008.


ORGANIZERS

Susan Dray (Dray and Associates, Inc., USA)
Melissa Ho (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Matthew Kam (Carnegie Mellon University / UC Berkeley, USA)
Neesha Kodagoda (Middlesex University, UK)
Ann Light (Video Educational Trust/QMUL, UK)
Nithya Sambasivan (University of California, Irvine, USA)
John C. Thomas (IBM T.J. Watson Research, USA)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Andrew Dearden (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)
Jose Abdelnour-Nocera (Thames Valley University, UK)
Ban Al-Ani (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Michael Best (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Yishay Mor (London Knowledge Lab, UK)
Osvaldo Rodriguez (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina)
Josh Underwood (London Knowledge Lab, UK)
Niall Winters (London Knowledge Lab, UK)

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

[Yaw Anokwa]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Niall Winters 
Date: Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 08:05
Subject: [hci4d] VACANCIES - Lecturer in Development Education (0.4
fte) and Research Officer in Development Education (0.4 fte)


INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION
University of London

The Institute of Education (IOE) is a world-leading centre for
education research and teacher development located in the heart of
London.

The Faculty of Culture and Pedagogy at the IOE is at the forefront in
producing research of national and international significance and
impact.  We work with a range of funding bodies, including Research
Councils, Charities, Government and the European Union.

The Development Education Research Centre is based at 36 Gordon Square
and is part of the London International Development Centre. The
Research Centre was established in 2006 with funding from the
Department for International Development (DFID). The Centre under its
Director, Dr. Douglas Bourn has already established itself as the hub
of an international network on development education and related areas
of global learning and global citizenship. The Centre is responsible
for the recently established International journal for Development
Education and Global Learning. We are recruiting for two posts within
the centre.

Lecturer in Development Education (0.4 fte)
Ref: 8AC-CPGEMS-4724
Salary is ?35,663 to ?42,583 per annum, plus ?2,323 London Allowance (pro-rata)
You will act as course tutor on the MA on development education, to
include 2 on-line core modules for the course and to be one of the
personal tutors.  You will also work with the Director of the Centre
in securing the delivery of the main tasks of the Development
Education Research Centre.  You will need a first degree in
development or a related subject plus a higher degree, preferably a
PhD, in a related area.


Research Officer in Development Education (0.4 fte)
Ref: 8AC-CPGEMS-4725
Salary is ?35,663 to ?42,583 per annum, plus ?2,323 London Allowance (pro-rata)
You will collaborate with the Director of the Centre in developing and
implementing a range of research projects on the role of
non-governmental organisations in development education.  You will
need to be educated to at least Master's level in the field of
international developmental or a relevant discipline and have a deep
knowledge of the current issues in the field of development education.

To apply:

Online:
Ref: 8AC-CPGEMS-4724
http://jobs.ioe.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=8AC-CPGEMS-4724&forced=1
Ref: 8AC-CPGEMS-4725
http://jobs.ioe.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=8AC-CPGEMS-4725&forced=1

By phone:  Contact 020 7612 6159 (24 hour answerphone). Please
quote the relevant reference.

Closing date:  17 October 2008

We positively encourage applicants from all sections of
under-represented communities

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

[Yaw Anokwa]

UPDATE: Please note that the submission deadline has been extended to
October 28, 2008

Information Technologies and International Development
Final Call for papers for a special issue on HCI and International
Development
Submission deadline: October 28, 2008

Information Technologies and International Development (ITID) is the
leading journal focusing on the intersection of information and
communication technologies (ICT) with international development.
Published by the MIT Press and edited at the University of Southern
California and the Georgia Institute of Technology, ITID is a
multidisciplinary, quarterly open access publication.

The journal is now inviting submissions for a special issue on HCI and
International Development. The new interdisciplinary field of human?
computer interaction for development (HCI4D) focuses on applying HCI
principles to the design and development of appropriate technologies
for marginalized communities around the world. HCI4D plays a critical
role in ensuring that technologies are usable, useful, appropriate,
and well adapted to the communities and contexts in which they are
intended to be used.

Although there have been many successes, the field remains both
theoretically and methodologically under?researched. In particular,
design methodologies have often been developed from a perspective that
may not reflect developing?world contexts. Moreover, a lack of idea?
sharing between and across disciplines remains a barrier to the
field's further development.

The aim of this special issue is to directly address these significant
challenges. We are soliciting critical and/or empirical investigations
of the following themes:

? HCI challenges in designing for underserved communities
? How design practice can inform development theory and vice versa
? Experiences in building the capacity of communities to work with
HCI4D researchers
? How sociotechnical issues and context of use inform design
? New methodologies in HCI4D
? The evaluation of design and/or implementation processes
? Lessons learned: HCI4D failures and success stories

This special issue is primarily concerned with HCI issues and programs
targeting underserved populations; the editors seek a diverse pool of
submissions presenting novel research designs that are theoretically
or empirically grounded and methodologically sound. Contributions are
especially welcome from researchers based in developing regions and
those involved in cross?continental collaborations.

Please visit http://itidjournal.org/index.php//information/authors
for more information about ITID, its author guidelines, and to submit
a paper for this issue.

Guest editors:
Niall Winters, London Knowledge Lab
n.winters at ioe.ac.uk

Kentaro Toyama, Microsoft Research India
Kentaro.Toyama at microsoft.com

[change] USAID Development 2.0 Challenge

[Yaw Anokwa]

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

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the U.S.
Government agency that delivers economic and humanitarian assistance
worldwide on behalf of the American people, is sponsoring a challenge
to find the best in mobile innovations for good. Through a NetSquared
community vote, fifteen finalists will be chosen. A panel of judges,
selected by USAID, will then select the winners. The first place
winner will receive a grant of $10,000, the two runner-ups will
receive grants of $5,000 each. All three winners will have the
opportunity to present their ideas to senior USAID officials, experts,
and the public in Washington D.C.

Find out more at: http://www.netsquared.org/usaid

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

[Yaw Anokwa]

 Original Message 
Subject:WG9.4: IFIP 9.4 doctoral colloquium May 2009
Date:   Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:39:48 -
From:   
Reply-To:   
To: 



Call for Participation: Doctoral Colloquium, May 28th 2009, Dubai School
of Government, United Arab Emirates



In conjunction with IFIP WG 9.4: Social Implications of Computers in
Developing Countries 10th International Conference, "Assessing the
contribution of ICT to Development Goals" (

_http://ifip.dsg.ae/index.htm_ ).

The Doctoral Colloquium offers PhD students from the ICT for Development
(ICT4D) community a unique opportunity to present and discuss their
research with leading specialists, scholars and peers in an
international setting.

To support doctoral students to attend, a 50% discount on the main
conference fee is available to full-time PhD students. This includes
attendance at the colloquium.

To apply for presentation at the colloquium please submit an extended
abstract of 1500 words of your research covering:

. Topic area, research questions and rationale for the work

. Research methodology including conceptual framework used and research
methods employed

. Summary of any initial findings and planned analysis approach

Submissions must be written in English, in Open Office Writer or MS Word
.doc format, or as a .pdf file and sent to:
sharon.morgan at manchester.ac.uk Accepted papers will be published on the
conference website.

Important Dates:

- Deadline for extended abstract submission: November 28 2008

- Notification of acceptance: December 19th, 2008

- Camera-ready paper due: January 20th 2009

- Doctoral Colloquium: May 28th, 2009

- Main Conference: May 26-28th, 2009



Contacts:

Doctoral Colloquium organiser -

Sharon Morgan, Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM),
University of Manchester, UK (

_http://www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/idpm/_)

sharon.morgan at manchester.ac.uk

Main Conference Organising Chair -

Fadi Salem, Dubai School of Government (

_http://www.dsg.ae_ ) fadi.salem at dsg.ae


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[change] Human Centered Design Toolkit

[Yaw Anokwa]

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

https://client.ideo.com/socialimpact/

[change] Vodafone Americas Foundation

[Yaw Anokwa]

seems to be a lot of companies doing prizes for mobile innovation this year...

> The Vodafone Americas Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of our
> Wireless Innovation Challenge, a new competition that seeks to identify and
> fund the best innovations using wireless related technology to address
> critical social issues around the world.
>
>
>
> We hope you will help spread the word to potential applicants by forwarding
> the attached fact sheet and press release, and directing them to the
> Foundation website at: http://www.vodafone-us.com/innovation.html and
> pressing the "enter" button below it, or directly reach the Challenge
> website at: http://challenge.vodafone-us.com
>
>
>
> Three winners will be awarded prizes of $300,000, $200,000 and $100,000 for
> unique, late-stage wireless innovations that offer the best potential for
> creating social change in the areas of education, health, economic
> development, the environment and access to communication.
>
>
>
> The Vodafone Wireless Innovation Challenge is open to projects submitted by
> applicants from universities and nonprofit organizations based in the United
> States. Eligible projects must:
>
> ? Demonstrate a multi-disciplinary approach that uses an innovation
> in wireless related technology to address a critical global issue
>
> Hold the potential for replication and large scale impact
> Include a business plan or basic framework for financial sustainability and
> rollout
>
> Applications will be accepted online from November 17 to February 2 at
> http://challenge.vodafone-us.com/.
>
>
>
> If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at
> challenge at vodafone.com.
>
>
>
> More information is attached.  Thank you very much for spreading the word
> about the Wireless Innovation Challenge, and helping to discover innovations
> that can change the world.
>
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
>
>
> Vodafone Americas Foundation
>
> Innovation Challenge

[change] USAID has launched GlobalDevelopmentCommons

[Yaw Anokwa]

USAID has launched GlobalDevelopmentCommons at
http://www.usaid.gov/about_usaid/gdc/

The Global Development Commons initiative seeks innovations that to
make knowledge more accessible and affordable to help people in
developing countries solve social and economic problems. The Commons
seeks to catalyze the international development community to become
more open and collaborative through information and communication
technologies.

The site profiles successful applications of technology that improve
access to information in developing countries.

[change] get a job at kiva.org

[Yaw Anokwa]

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

Kiva is looking for a software engineer to help them grow their
website. If you are interested, check out
http://www.kiva.org/about/job-engineer

[change] Fwd: Health, Development and Social Transformation

[Yaw Anokwa]

i was forwarded this course description. it may be interesting to
those interested in health, human rights and social justice.

 -- Original Message --
 Subject: [Human Rights] Course in Health, Development and Social Transformation
 From:"Joel Ngugi" 
 Date:Mon, May 12, 2008 18:22
 To:  lawb596a_sp08 at u.washington.edu
 lawa571a_sp08 at u.washington.edu
 --

 Dear All:
 I am writing to let you know that next winter, I will be teaching (or, more
 appropriately, leading) a course on "Health, Development and Social
 Transformation" in the Winter. The course will be hosted by Jackson School
 and cross-registered here at the law school, and also at Evans School,
 School of Social Work, and Program on Environmental Studies.  We hope to
 draw about 30 graduate and undergraduate students from all these schools in
 the course.  I have included the course description and the list of topics
 that will be covered below.  As you will see, the course will be an
 inter-disciplinary approach to dealing with the health crisis in the Greater
 Horn of Africa using a human rights and social justice framework.  I hope to
 see some of you in the class.  Please note the topics and guest lecturers
 are only tentative:

 Course Description: Health, Development and Social Transformation

 This course is an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the
 complexities inherent in efforts to simultaneously improve health and human
 rights in the context of the unique economic, social, political and cultural
 transformations (and upheavals) occurring in the Greater Horn of Africa. It
 will examine the multiplicity of social, economic, cultural, legal, and
 political factors which affect the health and well-being of individuals and
 societies, and interrogate working models of approaches to favorably alter
 them.

 The course will examine ways in which public health professionals, lawyers,
 development agencies, anthropologists, social workers, and others have
 theorized about social and economic change, and the history and ethical
 implications of their practical engagement with development intervention.
 Through interdisciplinary studies, the course will seek to demonstrate the
 links between economic, sociological, social, and political processes,
 changing identities and development intervention. It will examine concrete
 social problems in developing countries such as public health management,
 access to health care, women's property rights, trade and economic
 development policies, the effects of armed conflicts and environmental
 degradation, the role of human rights, and the role of the state and
 regulation.

 The course will begin by giving the students sufficient background to
 understand the context in which the praxis of health amelioration, health
 care provision, and the improvement of underlying determinants of health
 (such as sanitation, clean drinking water, and health education) occurs in
 the setting of the Greater Horn of Africa; and critically assess the modes
 of production of knowledge about these challenges, and how we think and talk
 about them. One of the underlying themes of the course is to explore the
 idea that particular forms of knowledge generated and transmitted by civil
 society and their contestation are a key determinant in the
 operationalization of the human rights and social justice projects.

 Topics

 1. Framing the Course: Defining "Health"; "Development"; "Human Rights";
 "Social Transformation"; and "Social Justice"

 2. The Pornography of Poverty: Representations about Africa and Poverty in
 Development and Human Rights Discourses

 3. The Health Crisis in Africa and the Role of Health in Social
 Transformation Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

 4. The Backdrop of Economic Development: Understanding the Challenges of
 Achieving Health in the Context of "Underdevelopment"

 5. Analysis of current health crisis in the Greater Horn of Africa:

 a. HIV/AIDS

 b. Reproductive rights

 c. Malaria

 d. Child mortality

 e. Lack of access to basic health care

 f. Malnutrition and starvation

 6. Solving Health and Development Crisis: Human Rights Perspectives (Guest
 lecturer from Law School)

 7. Solving Health and Development Crisis: Public Health Perspectives (Guest
 lecturer from Global Health)

 8. Solving Health and Development Crisis: Perspectives from Development
 Studies (Guest lecturer from Evans School)

 9. Solving Health and Development Crisis: Anthropological Perspectives
 (Guest lecturer from Anthropology)

 10. Solving Health and Development Crisis: Economic Perspectives (Guest
 lecturer from Jackson School)

 11. Solving Health and Development Crisis: Feminist Perspectives (Prof.
 Sylvia Kangara - Law)

 12. Solving Health and Development Crisis: Perspectives from Social Work
 (Peris Kibera, PhD candidate - Social Work)

[change] hci for low income regions

[Yaw Anokwa]

for those interested in the intersection of development and human
computer interaction, check out the hci4cid workshop (
http://mikeb.inta.gatech.edu/HCI4CID/ ) at chi 2008.

even if you can't make the conference,
http://mikeb.inta.gatech.edu/HCI4CID/program.html has copies of all
the papers submitted. three out of the thirty six papers come from
change affiliated researchers.

[change] talk video now online

[Yaw Anokwa]

the video from brian, benson and my talk a few weeks ago is now
online. you can view it at
http://www.cs.washington.edu/info/videos/asx/change_uwcse_africa_031108_640x360.asx

as always, you can find out about news and upcoming events at
http://change.cs.washington.edu/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

yaw

[change] CSE477 Poster Session on Friday

[Yaw Anokwa]

The students from Gaetano's "Technology for Low-Income Regions" course
will be presenting their project posters on March 14th from
13.30-15.00.

If you haven't seen these undergrad projects, check them out in the
CSE Atrium this Friday.

http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/cse477/08wi/

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

[Yaw Anokwa]

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



Our "Technology for Low-Income Regions" will have a poster session
with live demos in the Commons (colloquium-style refreshments will be
served) from 12:30 to 3:30 today.



Please join us to see how far the projects have come along and provide
feedback and encouragement to the students.



Feel free to forward this to others who you feel may be interested.



I'm appending a short summary of the projects below.



Thanks,

Gaetano





?  Empowering Artists

Empower Artists has teamed up with SIFE, a Heritage University group,
to allow artisans in remote regions to sell their art to the world. We
will offer a field kit that universities can use to record information
on local art and create product listings on our e-commerce website.
This site will provide artists with access to a wider range of
customers and a chance for increased compensation. By focusing on
artists' personal stories, we hope to foster a relationship between
artist and customer that will lend insight and meaning to each piece
of art.
H?l?ne Martin, Dana Wen, Katie Neuser, Alex Loddengaard, Jim George, Max Aller



?  *bus (Starbus)

*bus is a project that aims to provide reliable transportation in
Kyrgyzstan by providing riders with reliable bus route data.
Currently, riders in Kyrgyzstan have no idea when their buses will
arrive and may have to wait for long periods of time. With the *bus
system, buses in Kyrgyzstan will have a GPS module installed that
relays location information over SMS to a central server. Riders can
then use SMS to query where their buses are and when they are expected
to arrive at a certain location.
Martin Hecko, Caitlin Lustig, Naasir Ramji, Jordan Walke

?  OLPC Presenter

The OLPC Presenter is an extension of the Classroom Presenter tool
that will enable students and teachers to collaboratively present
information using XO laptops in a classroom setting.  Teachers use
Classroom Presenter to create or load a slide deck on the XO as part
of a collaborative lesson plan.  The slides are distributed to each
student's XO.  Each student can make notes and changes to the slides
by adding digital ink.  Students can then submit their changes to the
teacher, and the teacher can present submissions to the class for
discussion.
Will Burnside, Mathias Klous, Brian Mayton, Kristofer Plunkett

?  CommCare

CommCare is a project to aid community Health Workers (CHWs), who are
the first--and often only--medical professionals that people see in
rural areas of low-income countries. People living in extreme poverty
often delay seeking care until it is too late for them to be helped.
CHWs make house hold visits to provide very basic care. However, for
CHWs to provide effective care, they must keep track of a great deal
of information, from patient records to remembering follow up visits.
CommCare is software that we are developing to run on mobile phones to
aid CHWs with planning and performing their job.
Laura Pina, Erik Turnquist


?  AIR+

The purpose of this project is to promote gender equality in
developing countries by enhacing women's ability to have their voices
heard on the air. Through AIR (Advanced Interactive Radio ? conceived
by Revi Sterling at the University of Colorado), women can record
their voices in a sound clip and potentially have the message
broadcast when it reaches the local radio station. AIR+ seeks to
extend the current implementation by allowing women to create "virtual
radio stations" on various topics and thereby avoid issues of
censorship.
Remington Furman, Fabian Kidarsa, Kristin Lee, Zachary, Wachtveitl, Brian Wolfe

?  MySMS

MySMS is a development framework to allow cellphones to easily
interface with a remote database via SMS messages.  Because SMS is a
ubiquitous protocol, it is our hope that MySMS will serve as a
catalyst for the creation of connected applications in developing
regions.  MySMS could serve as the underlying structure for
applications in areas such as precision farming, health care,
commerce, and microfinance.
Brad Campbell, Ruibo Li, Anthony Poon, David St.Hilaire



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

[Yaw Anokwa]

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

Information Technologies and International Development
Call for papers for a special issue on HCI and International Development
Submission deadline: October 21, 2008

Information Technologies and International Development (ITID) is the
leading journal focusing on the intersection of information and
communication technologies (ICT) with international development.
Published by the MIT Press and edited at the University of Southern
California and the Georgia Institute of Technology, ITID is a
multidisciplinary, quarterly open access publication.

The journal is now inviting submissions for a special issue on HCI and
International Development. The new interdisciplinary field of human?
computer interaction for development (HCI4D) focuses on applying HCI
principles to the design and development of appropriate technologies
for marginalized communities around the world. HCI4D plays a critical
role in ensuring that technologies are usable, useful, appropriate,
and well adapted to the communities and contexts in which they are
intended to be used.

Although there have been many successes, the field remains both
theoretically and methodologically under?researched. In particular,
design methodologies have often been developed from a perspective that
may not reflect developing?world contexts. Moreover, a lack of idea?
sharing between and across disciplines remains a barrier to the
field's further development.

The aim of this special issue is to directly address these significant
challenges. We are soliciting critical and/or empirical investigations
of the following themes:

? HCI challenges in designing for underserved communities
? How design practice can inform development theory and vice versa
? Experiences in building the capacity of communities to work with
HCI4D researchers
? How sociotechnical issues and context of use inform design
? New methodologies in HCI4D
? The evaluation of design and/or implementation processes
? Lessons learned: HCI4D failures and success stories

This special issue is primarily concerned with HCI issues and programs
targeting underserved populations; the editors seek a diverse pool of
submissions presenting novel research designs that are theoretically
or empirically grounded and methodologically sound. Contributions are
especially welcome from researchers based in developing regions and
those involved in cross?continental collaborations.

Please visit http://itidjournal.org/index.php//information/authors
for more information about ITID, its author guidelines, and to submit
a paper for this issue.

Guest editors:
Niall Winters, London Knowledge Lab
n.winters at ioe.ac.uk

Kentaro Toyama, Microsoft Research India
Kentaro.Toyama at microsoft.com
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[change] ict4d projects from mit

[Yaw Anokwa]

some interesting projects from mit. if you are interested in any of
these, shoot an email to luis.


-- Forwarded message --

- The Medi-SIM project
(rendering XML-based forms and protocols
like IMCI on low-end phones using SIM menus)

- Several projects from our ICT4D class at MIT this past
Spring, with results that are relevant to OpenROSA, including:

 - An XForms-based Mobile Data Collection system
   for Disaster Management (A project with CRS India)

 - Using NFC-enabled mobile phones for patient tracking
   (A project with IRD, Aamir Khan's group in Pakistan)

 - Cervical Cancer diagnosis with the help of cameraphones
   (A project with Dimagi for use in Zambia).

You can see presentations on these (and other) projects at
http://dc.media.mit.edu/ICT4D.html

You can see more about Medi-SIM at http://medi-sim.mobi/

--
Luis F. G. Sarmenta, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
32 Vassar Street, 32-G842
Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

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

[Yaw Anokwa]

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

if you need more information, shoot an email to sheila.


-- Forwarded message --
From: Sheila Clitheroe Tieszen 
Date: Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 23:41
Subject: IT Infrastructure Project for Aga Khan Education Service Tanzania
To: yanokwa at cs.washington.edu


Dear Yaw,



We did not meet when you visited AKES,T in Dar es Salaam earlier this
year.  You spoke to my colleagues Mahmud Shivji and Jackie Kavuma.  I
understand that your graduate student centre is keen to become in real
IT projects.  If that is the case, we have a project I believe might
be of interest to you.



We are doing some strategic planning for up-grading the IT
infra-structure and expanding the range of applications we will use.
We would value some serious in-put into the planning and
operationalising of our thinking.  The sort of things we are thinking
of are:  introducing an education information management system which
will require an SQL server, which we do not currently have, this
system also has an e-portal for parents, teachers and students; a thin
client approach to resourcing the computer labs; and the future use of
a VLE.



Please let me know if you feel there would be any scope for you or
your colleagues to make a project out of this need for assistance.



I look forward to hearing from you.



Kind regards,



Sheila Clitheroe Tieszen



Sheila E. Clitheroe Tieszen
CEO
Aga Khan Education Service, Tanzania
P.O. Box 125
Urambo Street, off United Nations Road
Dar es Salaam
Tel: +255 22 2150406/700
Direct line: +255 22 2150703
Fax: +255 22 2150701
Mobile +255 (0) 753 029 344
email: sheila.clitheroetieszen at akest.org

[change] nuanced view of microcredit

[Yaw Anokwa]

http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?essay_id=361250&fuseaction=wq.essay
is a good read for those interested in microfinance.

it presents a more subtle view of how microcredit is working across
the world. also check out http://vsla.net/ for a newer microfinance
model that seems to work better in urban slums and more rural
villages.

[change] IEEE Computer June Issue: ICT4D

[Yaw Anokwa]

In this special issue, IEEE Computer presents articles from four
leading international research groups in the multidisciplinary field
of information and communication technologies for development. In
addition, a special section describes the experience with the
development of significant ICT industries in Brazil and Ireland.

http://www.computer.org/portal/site/computer/index.jsp

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

[Yaw Anokwa]

The John Templeton Foundation is conducting a series of "Big
Questions" essays among leading scientists and scholars. They recently
did one on 'Will Money Solve Africa's Development Problems?' which was
a good read. Go to
http://www.templeton.org/questions/africa/pdfs/bq_africa.pdf to read
them.

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

[Yaw Anokwa]

 *** Invitation to participate in M4D 2008  ***



M4D 2008 - 1st International Conference on "M4D":

Mobile Communication Technology for Development



11-12 December, 2008, Centre for HumanIT

Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden

http://m4d.humanit.org

New developments in mobile communication technologies have generated a
number of possibilities for economic and social development in
low-income countries. M4D 2008 focuses specifically on mobile
technologies within the broader field of study that has now become
known as ICT4D ("ICT for Development").



We strive to have an event where all types of actors are included.
There will be a research stream with a traditional conference design
and a practitioner's stream where industry, NGOs, and public bodies
can disseminate their knowledge. For each of these two major focuses
there will be an internationally renowned keynote speaker.

We welcome presentations within all "m" areas: m-government, m-health,
m-banking, m-policy, etc., as well as social and cultural aspects of
M4D. While the "m" in this context often implies low tech it is also
noteworthy that wireless connections have promises for the development
of broadband networks: there will be a special workshop on wireless
broadband networks for developing regions including mesh networks.

Submission of papers and poster abstracts will open in late August and
close at the end of October. We will review proposals continuously to
be able to provide early feedback to people who need Letters of
Invitation for visas to get to Sweden; see further under
"Participation" at http://m4d.humanit.org !

Welcome to Sweden in December!

Dgroups is a joint initiative of Bellanet, DFID, Hivos, ICA, ICCO,
IICD, OneWorld, UNAIDS and World Bank

[change] CFP: ICTD2009

[Yaw Anokwa]

just a reminder, there are only two more months left until the ictd deadline...



The 3rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and
Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD2009) will be held
17-19 April 2009 at Carnegie-Mellon's state-of-the-art campus in Doha,
Qatar (http://www.ictd2009.org). This conference will act as a focal
point for new scholarship in the field of ICT and international
development. Confirmed speakers include a keynote by William H. Gates,
Chairman of Microsoft Corporation.

We invite submission of papers for ICTD2009, the third of an ongoing
series of conferences, which follows successful events at Berkeley in
May 2006 (http://sims.berkeley.edu/ictd2006), and Bangalore in
December 2007 (http://research.microsoft.com/workshops/ictd2007).

IMPORTANT DATES

September 22, 2008 Submissions due
January 15, 2009 Final decisions sent out to authors
February 20, 2009 Camera-ready papers due
April 17-19, 2009 Conference

CONFERENCE FOCUS

The goal of the ICTD conference is to provide a forum for academic
researchers and scholarly practitioners working with ICT applied to
development. The conference will be scientifically rigorous and
multi-disciplinary?papers reporting high-quality original research are
solicited. Submitted papers will be subjected to double-blind peer
review, and full proceedings will be published at the time of the
conference. The conference will bring together researchers and
reflective practitioners in both the social and technical sciences,
with anticipated representation from anthropology, sociology,
economics, political science, computer science, electrical
engineering, industrial design, and the like, in addition to domain
specialists in various development fields such as healthcare,
agriculture, enterprise, education, governance, etc.

For the purposes of this conference, the term "ICT" will comprise
computing devices (e.g. PCs, PDAs, sensor networks), and technologies
for voice and data connectivity such as mobile telephony, the
Internet, and related technologies. Application domains include, but
are not restricted to, education, agriculture, enterprise, healthcare,
poverty alleviation, general communication, and governance. Papers
considering novel design, new technology, project assessment, policy,
impact, content, social issues around ICT for development and so forth
will be considered. Well-presented negative results from which
generalizable conclusions can be drawn are also sought.

CONFERENCE SUBMISSIONS AND PUBLICATION

Only original, unpublished papers in English will be considered,
through double-blind review. Word-length limit: 8000 words (this is a
maximum, not a target!). Submissions must be through the website
(http://www.ictd2009.org), and authors should follow IEEE
style/formatting, detailed online. Authors will be required to sign a
copyright release for the proceedings.
Papers from the previous conference are now available on IEEE Xplore
(IEEE's digital library), e.g.:
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/servlet/opac?punumber=4085497. We also plan
to develop some papers for an ITID journal special issue; selected
papers from previous conferences were published in special issues of
ITID; e.g. see: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/toc/itid/4/1
For the latest information, please see the conference website at
http://www.ictd2009.org. Please address e-mail correspondence to
ictd2009 at gmail.com.

VENUE

Qatar is a rapidly growing economy in the region and the world which
has set its targets of moving beyond a hydrocarbon economy into
becoming a regional and global leader in knowledge and information.
Qatar is a modern, stable nation with a vibrant international
population, and hosted the Asian Games in 2007. Education City brings
leading educational and research institutions to Qatar, including
Cornell, Georgetown, Texas A&M, and Carnegie Mellon, offering degree
programs in Computer Science, Business Administration, and Information
Systems. This provides an ideal venue for hosting ICTD2009, in a
geographic location close to major population centers around the
world, easily accessible by direct flights.

NEW FOR ICTD2009

ICTD2009 will feature an enhanced review process with the opportunity
for a brief rebuttal by authors. Details on this process will be given
closer to the submission deadline. ICTD2009 will also have a separate
call for panels and workshops, and an opportunity to demonstrate ICTD
applications. Please refer to the conference website for details.

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

[Yaw Anokwa]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Niall Winters 
Date: Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:34
Subject: [hci4d] 2nd CFP: Special Issue of ITID on HCI and
International Development
To:



Information Technologies and International Development
Second Call for papers for a special issue on HCI and International
Development
Submission deadline: October 21, 2008

Information Technologies and International Development (ITID) is the
leading journal focusing on the intersection of information and
communication technologies (ICT) with international development.
Published by the MIT Press and edited at the University of Southern
California and the Georgia Institute of Technology, ITID is a
multidisciplinary, quarterly open access publication.

The journal is now inviting submissions for a special issue on HCI and
International Development. The new interdisciplinary field of human?
computer interaction for development (HCI4D) focuses on applying HCI
principles to the design and development of appropriate technologies
for marginalized communities around the world. HCI4D plays a critical
role in ensuring that technologies are usable, useful, appropriate,
and well adapted to the communities and contexts in which they are
intended to be used.

Although there have been many successes, the field remains both
theoretically and methodologically under?researched. In particular,
design methodologies have often been developed from a perspective that
may not reflect developing?world contexts. Moreover, a lack of idea?
sharing between and across disciplines remains a barrier to the
field's further development.

The aim of this special issue is to directly address these significant
challenges. We are soliciting critical and/or empirical investigations
of the following themes:

? HCI challenges in designing for underserved communities
? How design practice can inform development theory and vice versa
? Experiences in building the capacity of communities to work with
HCI4D researchers
? How sociotechnical issues and context of use inform design
? New methodologies in HCI4D
? The evaluation of design and/or implementation processes
? Lessons learned: HCI4D failures and success stories

This special issue is primarily concerned with HCI issues and programs
targeting underserved populations; the editors seek a diverse pool of
submissions presenting novel research designs that are theoretically
or empirically grounded and methodologically sound. Contributions are
especially welcome from researchers based in developing regions and
those involved in cross?continental collaborations.

Please visit http://itidjournal.org/index.php//information/authors
for more information about ITID, its author guidelines, and to submit
a paper for this issue.

Guest editors:
Niall Winters, London Knowledge Lab
n.winters at ioe.ac.uk

Kentaro Toyama, Microsoft Research India
Kentaro.Toyama at microsoft.com
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[change] Impact Assessment of ICT4D Projects: New Online Guide

[Yaw Anokwa]

richard heeks has done a lot of work in ictd and this guide looks like
a worthwhile read.


Subject: [wougnet] Impact Assessment of ICT4D Projects: New Online Guide
From:"Richard Heeks" 

A compendium of impact assessment frameworks for ICT4D projects is
now available online:
http://ict4dblog.wordpress.com/2008/12/03/impact-assessment-of-ict4d-projects/

The compendium is a guide to how to choose and how to apply ICT4D
impact assessment methods.  It consists of three parts:

1. Overview: explains the basis for understanding impact assessment
of ICT4D projects (including the ICT4D value chain), and the
different assessment frameworks that can be used.

2. Frameworks: summarises a series of impact assessment frameworks,
each one drawing from a different perspective.

3. Bibliography: a tabular summary of real-world examples of ICT4D
impact assessment.

IDRC, the sponsor for the compendium, is providing access on a
creative commons basis, enabling the work to be freely shared and
adapted.  The compendium was a feed-in to the joint IDRC/Gates
Foundation IPAI project - a major five-year project on impact
assessment of public access to ICTs: http://www.ipairesearch.org/

The compendium is posted on the ICT4D blog to enable comments and
pointers to similar ICT4D IA materials.

To subscribe to the blog, visit: http://ict4dblog.wordpress.com/feed/

Richard Heeks
Director, Centre for Development Informatics
University of Manchester, UK

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

[Yaw Anokwa]

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








Dear Friends,



The Vodafone Americas Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of
our Wireless Innovation Challenge, a new competition that seeks to
identify and fund the best innovations using wireless related
technology to address critical social issues around the world.



We hope you will help spread the word to potential applicants by
forwarding the attached fact sheet and press release, and directing
them to the Foundation website at:
http://www.vodafone-us.com/innovation.html and pressing the "enter"
button below it, or directly reach the Challenge website at:
http://challenge.vodafone-us.com



Three winners will be awarded prizes of $300,000, $200,000 and
$100,000 for unique, late-stage wireless innovations that offer the
best potential for creating social change in the areas of education,
health, economic development, the environment and access to
communication.



The Vodafone Wireless Innovation Challenge is open to projects
submitted by applicants from universities and nonprofit organizations
based in the United States. Eligible projects must:



? Demonstrate a multi-disciplinary approach that uses an
innovation in wireless related technology to address a critical global
issue

? Hold the potential for replication and large scale impact

? Include a business plan or basic framework for financial
sustainability and rollout



Applications will be accepted online from November 17 to February 2 at
http://challenge.vodafone-us.com/



If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at
challenge at vodafone.com



Thank you very much for spreading the word about the Wireless
Innovation Challenge, and helping to discover innovations that can
change the world.



Sincerely,



Vodafone Americas Foundation

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

[Yaw Anokwa]

this is exactly what this mailing list and group was setup for. if
anyone is planning on entering the challenge please email joe. i'll
certainly be tapping his expertise on my application :)

yaw

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 13:36, joe michiels  wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> If anyone is planning on entering the Vodafone challenge, I'd be happy to
> help with the business plan side of things. It sounds like the criteria is
> specifically looking for multidisciplinary efforts, so I might be able to
> help bring a different perspective to technical folks (or at least learn
> from you).
>
> If there's multiple applicants that could use help, I'd be happy to connect
> people with other sharp students at Foster Business School, we do lots of
> rapid business plan competitions and are always looking for ways to
> contribute to other fields. Feel free to contact me if this sounds
> appealing.
>
> -Joe Michiels
> Foster School of Business, UW - MBA Class of 2010
> jmich at u.washington.edu
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Yaw Anokwa 
> wrote:
>>
>> -- Forwarded message --
>> From: Kay Beck-Benton 
>> Date: Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 09:11
>> Subject: [Cs-grads] FW: Vodafone Wireless Innovation Challenge
>> To: cs-grads - Mailing List , faculty -
>> Mailing List 
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 
>>
>>
>>
>> Dear Friends,
>>
>>
>>
>> The Vodafone Americas Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of
>> our Wireless Innovation Challenge, a new competition that seeks to
>> identify and fund the best innovations using wireless related
>> technology to address critical social issues around the world.
>>
>>
>>
>> We hope you will help spread the word to potential applicants by
>> forwarding the attached fact sheet and press release, and directing
>> them to the Foundation website at:
>> http://www.vodafone-us.com/innovation.html and pressing the "enter"
>> button below it, or directly reach the Challenge website at:
>> http://challenge.vodafone-us.com
>>
>>
>>
>> Three winners will be awarded prizes of $300,000, $200,000 and
>> $100,000 for unique, late-stage wireless innovations that offer the
>> best potential for creating social change in the areas of education,
>> health, economic development, the environment and access to
>> communication.
>>
>>
>>
>> The Vodafone Wireless Innovation Challenge is open to projects
>> submitted by applicants from universities and nonprofit organizations
>> based in the United States. Eligible projects must:
>>
>>
>>
>> ? Demonstrate a multi-disciplinary approach that uses an
>> innovation in wireless related technology to address a critical global
>> issue
>>
>> ? Hold the potential for replication and large scale impact
>>
>> ? Include a business plan or basic framework for financial
>> sustainability and rollout
>>
>>
>>
>> Applications will be accepted online from November 17 to February 2 at
>> http://challenge.vodafone-us.com/
>>
>>
>>
>> If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at
>> challenge at vodafone.com
>>
>>
>>
>> Thank you very much for spreading the word about the Wireless
>> Innovation Challenge, and helping to discover innovations that can
>> change the world.
>>
>>
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>>
>>
>> Vodafone Americas Foundation
>>
>> Innovation Challenge
>>
>> ___
>> change mailing list
>> change at cs.washington.edu
>> https://mailman.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/change
>>
>
>

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

[Yaw Anokwa]

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




Hi Folks,

Please forward to relevant networks, email lists. ACM, BSCHCI, AIR are
already covered!

Thanx



Call for Papers and Participation

Participatory Design for Development 2008 Workshop (PD4D 2008)
http://itcentre.tvu.ac.uk/~jabdelno/pd4d2008.htm

to be held in conjunction with the Participatory Design Conference in
Bloomington, Indiana
1st of October 2008
http://www.pdc2008.org/

About the Workshop
Participatory design within the context of developing countries is an
emerging area of interest in the Participatory Design community. This
workshop will provide a unique forum for participants to exchange their
experiences, consider the different approaches needed in developing
country's context, encourage new partnerships and learn from each others
past difficulties and how these were solved.

Audience
It is hoped this workshop will foster dialogue between practitioners and
academics in different disciplines (e.g. HCI, CSCW, CMC, International
Development, Sociology, Psychology, Anthropology, Software Engineering,
Ergonomics, Education, and Information Systems, among others) interested
in the challenges presented by conducting PD in the developing world.

Topics
There are unique issues that arise within the context of a developing
country that need to be considered when carrying out participatory
design. These include:
* Power distance: this is the perceived status between the host
communities and the designers.
* Cultural/language barriers: there are normally language and cultural
barriers between the host communities and the visiting designers.
* Incompatibilities of PD techniques with host community values and
communication codes.
* Uncertainty about appropriate methods/techniques when participant
users and developers are from different national and organizational
cultures
* Dispersed geographical distances mean that travelling costs are high
and time zone differences make remote synchronous communications
difficult.
* Low literacy levels: the host communities may have low literacy level
thus hindering collaborative activities between them and the designers.
* Poor telecommunication infrastructure: this means that activities that
could be followed-up from a distance or meaningful communication between
the two dispersed groups may prove to be a challenge.

Registration
Please register via www.pdc2008.org

Submissions
Presenters will be invited to submit a 2 page proposal on their
experience with PD in the developing world, or in similar settings
within the developed world. Proposals should report on presenters'
experience of PD and ideally touch on some of the issues identified in
'Topics'. Emphasis should be placed on the successful and challenging
elements of working in a development context. Presentations will be
followed by an interactive session where key themes will be identified
by presenters and participants, who will work in groups to discuss
lessons learnt and opportunities for successful PD. The workshop will
close with a round-table session bringing together all the main points
identified in the interactive session into a list of learning outcomes
and challenges for PD in the developing world. articipatory design
within the context of developing countries is an emerging area of
interest in the Participatory Design community.


FORMATTING GUIDELINES
Submissions should follow the SIGCHI Conference Proceedings Format
(www.sigchi.org/chipubform).

Key Dates
 - 1st of September, 2008: Submission deadline
- 7h of September, 2008: Notification of Acceptance
- 15th of September, 2008: copies of accepted papers due.

Papers should be submitted to cecilia.oyugi at tvu.ac.uk

Co-chairs
Cecilia Oyugi, Jose Abdelnour Nocera and Lynne Dunckley,
Institute for Information Technology, Thames Valley University,
Wellington Street, Slough, SL1 1YG, United Kingdom
email: {cecilia.oyugi, jose.abdelnour-nocera, lynne.dunckley} at
tvu.ac.uk
http://iit.tvu.ac.uk

Susan Dray
Dray & Associates
2007 Kenwood Parkway
Minneapolis, MN 55405 USA
+1 6123771980
Dray at acm.org
http://www.dray.com/



Program Committee
Andy Dearden, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Heike Winschiers, Polytechnic of Namibia
Ann Light, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Rogerio DePaula, Intel, Brazil
Tim Waema, University of Nairobi, Kenya
Thomas Riisgaard Hansen, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Josh Underwood, London Knowledge Lab, UK
Zhengjie Liu, Dalian Maritime University, China
Philippe Palanque, University Paul Sabatier, France
Souleymane Camara, Thames Valley University, UK
Suzana Sukovic, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Juan M. Fernandez, Unesco, Mexico
Helen Sharp, The Open University, UK






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[change] Country Director Position in Malawi

[Yaw Anokwa]

under mike, baobab has done some incredible things with cutting edge
technology in malawi. sounds like an exciting opportunity!


-- Forwarded message --
From: Mike McKay 
Date: Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 1:50 PM
Subject: [viant-alum] Country Director Position in Africa
To: Viant Alum 


I have been working with an amazing organization in Malawi, Africa for
the past 3 years. But my wife and I need a break from Africa, so I need
to find someone that can replace me as Country Director for Baobab
Health. Imagine a California startup using technology in totally new
ways to solve some of the world's biggest problems and based in the
heart of Africa. Please pass this on to anybody that you think would be
interested.

Mike @
baobabhealth.org



Baobab Health Trust is seeking a Malawi Country Director to lead its
team of 30 employees through an exciting period of organizational
development, innovation, and growth in our Lilongwe office. Applicants
should send their CV and a cover letter to hr at baobabhealth.org by the
31st of August.

Baobab's recent work in Malawi
Malawi, Africa has a population of 14 million. One million are HIV
positive and there are just 280 doctors in the country. This tremendous
disparity between healthcare workers and people in need of treatment
contributes to high mortality rates particularly for women and children.
Treatment protocols exist that do not require physician expertise. These
protocols can ensure a minimum standard of care, but to be effective
they must be rigorously followed and carefully monitored.

Baobab Health, a Malawi-based non governmental organization, has been
addressing this crisis for the past eight years by applying medical
informatics principles to resource-poor settings.  The core of Baobab's
approach is the application of easy-to-use touchscreen clinical
workstations at the point of patient care.  This system efficiently and
accurately guides low-skilled healthcare workers through the diagnosis
and treatment of patients according to national protocols.  The system
also captures timely and accurate data that is used by healthcare
workers during patient visits to supplement decision making.  The data
is aggregated and used at a national level for policy making and
analysis. This technology-dependent approach has required both hardware
and software innovations, including alternative energy approaches,
intuitive touchscreen-based user interfaces for users with no computing
experience, and low-cost information appliances that are significantly
more robust in harsh environments than traditional computers.  To date
more than 800,000 patients have been registered and over 18,000 receive
HIV care facilitated by a Baobab system.

Over the next two years Baobab is planning for a massive scale up of
their systems across dozens of sites throughout Malawi.

Our Vision
To be a world leader in technology innovation for the developing world.

Our Mission
To provide eHealth solutions to the Ministry of Health and other health
care providers that solve the health care crisis in Malawi. We will
provide technology leadership and best practices by innovating on our
existing solutions in Malawi and incubating new initiatives.  Our
systems will be intuitive to use, nationally scalable, and low in cost.

Our Values
Baobab believes strongly in Malawians' abilities to solve their own
problems, and is committed to hiring, training and developing local
staff. We expect hard work from all of our staff while nurturing an
environment of teamwork and fun. Baobab has a demonstrated long term
commitment to Malawi, with the founders committed to at least 20 more
years of direct service to the country.

Details about the Country Director position
--- - --- ---  

Duties and Responsibilities:
1.Effectively manage all in-country activities including planning,
procurement, funding, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and
reporting.
 1.Ensure that there are appropriate systems in place for the
effective utilization and management of finance, personnel, supplies,
transport, capital assets etc.
 2.Mentor all department heads: Software, Operations, Finance & Admin,
Support & Deployment
 3.Stay informed about personnel and operational issues
2.Communicate and report on all in-country activities:
 1.Management team and line-staff: Facilitate and chair weekly
management meeting and an all-staff meeting monthly
 2.Board of Trustees: Bi-yearly meetings
 3.Partner institutions: Regular meetings and email updates
 4.Donors: Write reports as required
3.Develop, execute and report on the strategic plan for short-term (<1
year) and medium-term (2-5 years)
4.Ensure that the annual budget and financial plan for the year ahead is
completed by 30th November every year.
5.Participate in writing and reviewing proposal applications:
 1.Develop proposals in line with the strategic plan
 2.Ensure that all project proposals and reports are approved by the
Board of Trustees prior

[change] hci4cid papers

[Yaw Anokwa]

in case you wanted to read them all in one go, i have put all the
papers from hci4cid @ chi2008 in one place.

http://mikeb.inta.gatech.edu/HCI4CID/
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/yanokwa/tmp/hci4cid.zip

[change] congrats to brian (again)

[Yaw Anokwa]

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

yaw

[change] NGO in India looking for info management solutions

[Yaw Anokwa]

sunil,

i can't recommend anything specific because it really depends on your
budget and capacity.

in africa, most ngos with your set of problems would use paper forms
to collect the data, then have a data entry team enter it into a
custom access database. reports can be generated there or the data can
be exported into excel for some analysis. access is primarily chosen
for it's relative portability and maintainability through existing
developers in those regions. there are no good open source
alternatives. whether or not this is the "best" solution is very
dependent on your goals and constraints.

i haven't looked hard, but i don't think there are any open source
student tracking systems. i just spoke to an ngo here in tanzania that
wanted something similar and i think they are either going with
something custom and likely access based. again, really depends on how
many people you want to track.

you've hit on one of the big problems in this space and the solution
for most people seems to be paying folks to build systems access.

hope that helps,

yaw

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Sunil Garg  wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>  I'm currently studying abroad in India, where we're working closely with
>  a development organization called Chirag (www.chirag.org). They've asked
>  me to look into solving the following two issues -- if any of you have
>  ideas or know of relevant software packages, preferably open source,
>  please let me know.
>
>  1. Collection, management, and analysis of area reports: each area team
>  would periodically fill out a template, which would then be sent to
>  organization leaders who want to compare any given template field across
>  different areas or over time. Data is generally qualitative and input
>  needs to be in Hindi.
>
>  2. Tracking student progress over time. If there are any open source
>  packages available that allow schools to manage and track student
>  information and progress (like the medical records package described in
>  last quarter's talk), that would be really helpful. Data is generally
>  quantitative, so Hindi support isn't necessary but would be nice.
>
>  Thanks,
>  Sunil
>
>  ___
>  change mailing list
>  change at cs.washington.edu
>  https://mailman.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/change
>

[change] GHDonline Summer Internships

[Yaw Anokwa]

From: Joaquin Blaya 
Subject: [Ict4dev] GHDonline Summer Internships
To: 
Message-ID: 
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

Hi

The GHD online team at the Brigham and Women?s Hospital is looking for two
summer interns. ?A brief description is below as well as the website where
you can find out more information.

Over the past year, the GHDonline website has grown from just a concept to a
full-fledged community website where health care implementers from around
the globe discuss proven practices, engage in problem-solving, and address
challenges to improve health outcomes in resource-limited settings.

None of this would exist without coders building the platform on which
GHDonline runs. If you are a junior, senior, or graduate student in Computer
Science and are interested in making a difference in global health, here?s
your chance to join us!

We are looking for a pair of interns for the summer to develop new features
and help us build the capacity to support even more members. Learn (or build
on your knowledge of) the Django web application framework in an agile
development environment with a startup feel!

http://globalhealthdelivery.org/blog/?p=312

Joaquin

[change] weekly meeting: multimath presentation

[Yaw Anokwa]

Every week we hold an open meeting to discuss ICTD at UW.

This week, we will have a presentation from "MultiMath: Numeric
keypads for math learning on shared personal computers". The MultiMath
team just arrived from their tests in India. Come hear how they
incorporate split-screen UI and low cost keypads to create a engaging
multiplayer arithmetic game targeted for use in primary schools.

For more information, see: http://change.washington.edu/projects/multimath

As always, we will leave room at the end for other open topics.

[change] ictd2009 reminder

[Yaw Anokwa]

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

see you all in doha,

yaw

[change] weekly meeting

[Yaw Anokwa]

Every week we hold an open meeting to discuss ICTD at UW. This week,
we have no set agenda so come and touch base with your fellow ICTDers.

[change] percentage of income spent on ict

[Yaw Anokwa]

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

[change] CACM article of Dev World research

[Yaw Anokwa]

i hate to violate copyright, but i despise the acm website and their
magazine interface.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/15668800/Communications-of-the-ACM-062009-Vol-52-No-06
is an easier way to access the article. don't forget to pay your acm
dues.

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 14:10, Gaetano Borriello
 wrote:
> By Dias and Brewer:
>
>
>
> http://mags.acm.org/communications/200906/?CFID=669198&CFTOKEN=78697787
>
>
>
>
>
> -
>
>
>
> Gaetano Borriello
>
> Jerre D. Noe Professor
>
> Department of Computer Science & Engineering
>
> 572 Allen Center, Box 352350
>
> University of Washington
>
> Seattle, WA? 98195-2350
>
> +1.206.685.9432
>
> gaetano at cse.washington.edu
>
> http://www.cse.washington.edu/homes/gaetano
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ___
> change mailing list
> change at change.washington.edu
> http://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/change
>
>

[change] Ubicomp 2009 - Globicomp Workshop

[Yaw Anokwa]

Abstract
The community's work to date has been focused on the so-called
'developed' world ? contexts where there are already well-established
technical infrastructures and digital resources. These contexts have
users who are relatively highly computer literate, typically have high
degrees of textual literacy and have undergone a formal education.
Examples include sophisticated 'smart' homes with digital notice
boards and even interactive fridge doors (Taylor et al, 2007);
embedded technologies for amusement parks (Schn?delbach et al, 2008);
and, cities and urban dwellers with time to, "marvel at mundane
everyday experiences and objects that evoke mystery, doubt, and
uncertainty. How many newspapers has that person sold today? When was
that bus last repaired? How far have I walked today? How many people
have ever sat on that bench? Does that woman own a cat? Did a child or
adult spit that gum onto the sidewalk?" (Paulos & Beckmann 2006).

This workshop is about the billions of people who do not fit these
sorts of context. There are hundreds of millions of users, and
billions to come in the next 5 years, in places like India, China and
Africa, whose first, and perhaps only, experience of computing will be
in the form of mobile and other ubicomp technologies. Many of these
users will never live in the sorts of home, or work in the types of
office, or daydream in the parks, or take a day-off for the sorts of
amusement park envisaged by earlier research.

Website
http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/globicomp2009/

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

[Yaw Anokwa]

The Open Mobile Consortium (of which UW's CommCare and ODK are a part)
will be having a hackathon at the MIT Media Lab on July 1st and 2nd.
The goal of the two days is to have some fun programming together to
extend one or more open source tools supported by the Open Mobile
Consortium or other tools that want to integrate.

Details and (free) registration can be found here:
http://www.open-mobile.org/news/join-us-next-omc-technical-meeting-july-1-and-2-mitcambridge-usa

[change] paul farmer speaking at uw today at 6

[Yaw Anokwa]

Dr. Paul Farmer, subject of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Mountains
Beyond Mountains" and co-founder of Partners In Health, will speak
about the current climate of global health on Thursday, June 18 from
6--7:30 p.m. in Kane Hall Room 130. The free event, "A Conversation
with Dr. Paul Farmer Moderated by Dr. Chris Elias," is on a
first-come, first-served basis. Doors open at 5:15 p.m.

Farmer will reflect on a variety of topics, including the future of
global health delivery and sustainability, the challenge of multi
drug-resistant tuberculosis, and how one person has the ability to
make a significant contribution to global health. Farmer regularly
travels

between two worlds: one marked by academic prestige and medical
innovation, and the other by destitution and health inequity. Farmer
is the newly named chair of Harvard Medical School's Department of
Global Health and Social Medicine as well as an attending physician at
Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. His unconventional approach to
care in the developing world cuts through red tape, bends rules, and
has won him acclaim and controversy.

Elias, the CEO of PATH, has fostered an entrepreneurial culture that
encourages innovative thinking at PATH, a Seattle-based
non-governmental organization, which is dedicated to improving the
health of people around the world by advancing technologies,
strengthening systems, and encouraging healthy behaviors.

The event is being presented by the Washington Global Health Alliance
in partnership with the University of Washington Department of Global
Health, CityClub, and the Pacific Health Summit.

The Washington Global Health Alliance is a coalition for Washington
State's global health organizations, connecting, organizing, and
motivating groups with the common goal of improving health conditions
for people throughout the world.
For those of you who cannot attend, we will be streaming the event
live so you can log on at that time to watch:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/wgha-discovery-series. The Seattle
Channel will also be taping the event.

http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleID=50371

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

[Yaw Anokwa]

Change members Chris Coward and Yaw Anokwa will be speaking at an
event organized by the Young Professional?s International Network, the
World Affairs Council and co-sponsored by CIS entitled: ?The Cell
Phone Revolution in the Developing World?.

What: There are 4.1 billion cell phones in the world (2/3 of the
world?s population has one) and their use is transforming lives in the
developing world. The foremost authorities in the Puget Sound region
have been assembled to discuss how these devices - that are taken for
granted - are having a radical effect on people?s finances, health,
education, businesses and politics.

When: Tuesday, June 29th, 2009. Doors open at 7, talk starts at 7:30
and goes till 9:30.

Where: Google Offices in Fremont
651 N 34th St
Seattle, WA 98102
(206) 234-5678

If you?re interested you must pre-register at
http://www.world-affairs.org/calendar.cfm to reserve a spot. If you?re
a member of the Young Professional?s International Network, the cost
is $10, non-members pay $15 and students $10. The venue has a capacity
of 50 people so please pre-register so as not to be disappointed night
of?

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

[Yaw Anokwa]

correction. that is monday (not tuesday), june 29th.

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 06:28, Yaw Anokwa wrote:
> Change members Chris Coward and Yaw Anokwa will be speaking at an
> event organized by the Young Professional?s International Network, the
> World Affairs Council and co-sponsored by CIS entitled: ?The Cell
> Phone Revolution in the Developing World?.
>
> What: There are 4.1 billion cell phones in the world (2/3 of the
> world?s population has one) and their use is transforming lives in the
> developing world. The foremost authorities in the Puget Sound region
> have been assembled to discuss how these devices - that are taken for
> granted - are having a radical effect on people?s finances, health,
> education, businesses and politics.
>
> When: Tuesday, June 29th, 2009. Doors open at 7, talk starts at 7:30
> and goes till 9:30.
>
> Where: Google Offices in Fremont
> 651 N 34th St
> Seattle, WA 98102
> (206) 234-5678
>
> If you?re interested you must pre-register at
> http://www.world-affairs.org/calendar.cfm to reserve a spot. If you?re
> a member of the Young Professional?s International Network, the cost
> is $10, non-members pay $15 and students $10. The venue has a capacity
> of 50 people so please pre-register so as not to be disappointed night
> of?
>

[change] Fwd: Connecting with Change

[Yaw Anokwa]

hey all,

sammie runs lumana credit, a micro-credit organization that focuses on
serving rural and underserved populations in ghana. they are having
their big launch next week. i can't make it, but if you are interested
about micro-finance, go check it out.

yaw

-- Forwarded message --
We are hosting an event in downtown Seattle next week to introduce the
launch of Lumana to the public and help gain support from the
community. There will be several members of the social
entrepreneurship club there in addition to representation from several
of the microfinance and global development groups from around Seattle.
I have attached our event release and flier.
--
Sammie Rayner

Executive Director
Lumana Credit
email. sammie.rayner at lumanacredit.org
cell. 509.270.3113
web. www.lumanacredit.org
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[change] telehealth in developing world book

[Yaw Anokwa]

The "Telehealth in the Developing World" book aims to redress the
relative lack of published information on successful telehealth
solutions in the developing world. It presents real-life stories from
Asia, Africa, and Latin America. It is rich in practical experience
and will be of interest to health professionals, development workers,
and e-health and telehealth proponents interested in learning about,
or contributing to the implementation of, appropriate solutions for
80% of the world?s population.

http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-136734-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html

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

[Yaw Anokwa]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Lindsay Michimoto 
Date: 2009/8/12
Subject: [Cs-grads] FW: Apply now: Global Social Entrepreneurship
Competition 2010
To: cs-grads - Mailing List 








From: GSEC [mailto:g...@u.washington.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 2:14 PM
To: Lindsay Michimoto
Subject: Apply now: Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition 2010





Please share this announcement widely with interested applicants. Thank you!







Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition (GSEC)



Social change is serious business



Do you have an idea for an innovative, commercially-sustainable
business that addresses a problem of poverty in the developing world?
If so, we invite you to apply for GSEC!



GSEC engages creative minds around the world to encourage bolder and
less conventional business solutions to global poverty.? Open to all
students around the globe?and across fields of study?GSEC plans are
judged on the quality of life in the developing world, financial
sustainability, and implementation feasibility.



Semi-finalist teams from around the world will be invited to Seattle
for GSEC Week (March 1-5, 2010), where they pitch their business ideas
to judges and the UW community, visit regional companies, and compete
for up to $17,500 in prize money, including global health awards.



Business ideas may focus on any industry area, such as global health,
environment, energy, agriculture, education, or technology.
Multidisciplinary teams are highly encouraged.



Application deadline November 11, 2009

Apply online here.

Applications consist of an executive summary of the business idea.
Semi-finalist GSEC teams will be selected in December 2009 and paired
with mentors to develop their business idea before GSEC Week in March
2010.



Details and application:
http://www.foster.washington.edu/centers/gbc/globalsocialentrepreneurshipcompetition/Pages/GSEC.aspx





About GSEC

Each year, the Global Business Center brings the world to University
of Washington: a select group of interdisciplinary teams are invited
to Seattle to participate in GSEC Week?at the UW Foster School of
Business. Teams attend exclusive company visits, receive feedback on
their presentation and pitch their business ideas to judges as they
compete for prize money.

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

[Yaw Anokwa]

From: ACM SIGCHI General Interest Announcements (Mailing List)
Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 1:19 PM
To: CHI-ANNOUNCEMENTS at LISTSERV.ACM.ORG
Subject: Call for Presentations for the mHealth event in Washington DC

Hello everyone!

I wanted to make sure that you were aware that the call for presentations
and registration for the mHealth Summit (cell phone as a platform for
healthcare in underserved communities) is now open. The link is:
http://guest.cvent.com/EVENTS/Info/Summary.aspx?e=b5cf7bfc-b867-4877-911b-ce
b61c994166.

The time is short. The call closes on August 28th (in order to enable us to
assist with visas for international travelers), but thankfully we are only
asking for an abstract-not a full paper-outlining the talk that the person
proposes to give at the event. The date is firm as we have a program
committee meeting following the close in order to decide on papers.

Thanks for your assistance in advance!!

Kristin M. Tolle, Ph.D.
Senior Research Program Manager for Biomedical Computing | Microsoft
External Research | Health and WellBeing Team

[change] Research Grants on ICT for Development

[Yaw Anokwa]

The University of Nairobi, with support from the International
Development Research Centre (IDRC), Ottawa, Canada, is glad to invite
your institution to participate in ICT research grants and
scholarships.

There are opportunities for graduate students in your institution
pursuing Masters or Doctoral studies in Computer Science/Information
Technology/Information Systems or ICT intensive disciplines geared
towards development to obtain either Masters scholarships or doctoral
research grants.

The documents attached contain comprehensive information on the
grants' program (Announcement) and an application form (Application
Form).

The documents can also be obtained from http://www.ict4dgrants.org.

Kindly forward this to the relevant faculties in your institution, and
any other institutions around you with similar faculties.

Please note the deadline of submission of applications is 30th September, 2009.

I look forward to getting some applications from your institution and
to your university's participation in the project.

Yours faithfully,
Prof. Timothy Mwololo Waema - Project Leader
School of Computing and Informatics,
University of Nairobi, Kenya.

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

[Yaw Anokwa]

Postdoctoral Fellowship available at NMMU, Summerstrand Campus,
starting January 2010. ?For more information, please contact Prof.
Janet Wesson at Janet.Wesson at nmmu.ac.za directly. Additional contact
details below.


Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University

Job Title: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Computer Science
Posting Number:
Date Posted:


Job Description:

The Department of Computer Science and Information Systems (CS&IS) at
the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU), Port Elizabeth,
South Africa, wishes to recruit a post-doctoral research fellow to
undertake research in the CS&IS research focus areas.

CS&IS strives to serve the needs of the ICT industry by developing
highly qualified Masters and Doctoral graduates through applied
research, frequently in collaboration with industry partners. CS&IS
has excellent expertise and research facilities in IT in education
(school and university), IT in community development, mobile
computing, Service Oriented Architecture, automated assessment of
programs, evolutionary robotics, ICT in the workplace, IT Project
Management and Usability Engineering.

Candidates must have a PhD in Computer Science, advanced knowledge and
skills in one or more of the CS&IS research focus areas, and a strong
motivation to pursue academic research. They must have excellent
written and verbal English communication skills. Candidates will be
expected to take a leadership role in developing new collaborative
projects, assist in writing research proposals and papers and
co-supervise postgraduate students.

International candidates are preferred. If a candidate is appointed,
he or she must be able to start from 1 January 2010 or as soon after
as possible.

If you are interested, email your Curriculum Vitae together with a
covering letter to Prof Janet Wesson (see Contact Information below).
The letter must provide information on your Computer Science knowledge
and skills, a description of how you could contribute to the current
research of CS&IS, and the names, email addresses and telephone
numbers of three referees.

Contact:
Prof Janet Wesson
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
PO Box 77000,
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University,
Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape 6031
South Africa
Email: ?Janet.Wesson at nmmu.ac.za

Phone: ?+27 (0)41 504 2323
Fax: ? ?+27 (0)41 504 2831
Website: ? ? ? ?http://www.nmmu.ac.za/csis

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

[Yaw Anokwa]

Good day! We are pleased to announce the 2010 Technology for
Innovation and Education in Developing Countries (TEDC) Conference to
be held in Maputo, Mozambique on January 21 ~ 23, 2010. We seek high
quality submissions of original unpublished research on thoughtful and
purposeful applications of technology for purposeful education in
developing countries. Researchers and educators with new perspectives
on how technology can play a role in facilitating or supporting social
and economic development through education are strongly encouraged to
submit their work.

The goal of the 2010 Technology for Innovation and Education in
Developing Countries is to bring together researchers, businesses,
educators, governmental and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to
discuss appropriate and relevant applications of technology in
educational programs in developing countries. Organizations such as
the World Bank and UNESCO are encouraging developing countries to
utilize technology in the creation of a knowledge economy.
Unfortunately, this push results in an all-too-common problem of using
technology for the sake of using technology without sufficient thought
to the educational purposes and benefits. The aim of TEDC 2010 is to
discuss the role educational technology can play in social and
economic development in developing countries.


Authors should keep in mind the conditions, constraints, and
resources, and social/economic priorities in developing countries
differ sharply with that of industrialized nations, creating special
challenges for the technical, business, and educational research
communities. Successful entries will take these realities into account
in proposing any technological applications in educational settings.

Listed below are potential topics for paper submissions. Whichever
topic area is explored, please speak to the issue of how the
technology can be used in a practical educational way to advance
social/economic development. Please make the papers as locally
relevant as possible.

Applications and systems
multimedia applications
adaptive learning environments
open source tools for teaching and learning
databases, data warehousing and data mining for (mass) education
portals, web tools
asynchronous applications
distributed education
Novel technologies and methods
alternative (low-cost, low-energy) technologies
wireless and mobile learning platforms
information retrieval for slow/unreliable connections
hand-on and hands-in technologies
modular robotics as manipulative technology for creativeness
interaction design for diverse users
Learning settings
special education
non-formal education
vocational training and continuous education
literacy applications
ICT education
distance learning
Impact of technology
project deployments
cultural issues in educational development
minority language requirements
cross-language interfaces
human-computer interfaces
cultural usability
Resource sharing
collaborative learning in local environments
human-computer interfaces for resource sharing
teaching resource management
grid computing infrastructures
Evaluation and policy issues
gender issues
universal access
technology as a tool for fighting poverty
cost-benefit analyses
sustainable educational technology
license issues of open source courseware
For further information, please visit the conference website at
http://cs.joensuu.fi/tedc2010/index.html or contact me directly at:

thomaslechner at gmail.com

We look forward to hearing from you!

Thomas Lechner
Conference Program Chair
University of Georgia

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

[Yaw Anokwa]

it's been a while since there was a post on the change blog, but we
are ramping for the start of the school year with this post:
http://change.washington.edu/2009/08/a-look-back-at-tapan-parikh-cam-toolkit/

if you'd like to blog about something, just let me know!

yaw

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

[Yaw Anokwa]

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

While the framework is quite powerful, it can be difficult for
non-expert users to install. I have developed the OpenMRS Appliance to
simplify the process.

The virtual appliance (also known as a virtual machine) is a fully
pre-installed and pre-configured application and operating system
environment. All users do is double click it to start using OpenMRS.
Uninstalling is even easier, simply delete the virtual appliance
folder.

If you wanted to try the newest OpenMRS 1.5 release, it is now only a
few clicks away.

http://change.washington.edu/2009/09/openmrs-now-installable-with-a-double-click/

[change] change meetings are back!

[Yaw Anokwa]

hey all,

hope everyone had a great summer. as school starts, so do the weekly
change meetings. our first will be next week thursday, october 1st at
noon. we'll be in the cse building, room 403.

as always, you can follow all the change events at
http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=uwchange%40gmail.com or on
twitter at http://twitter.com/uwchange

see you all next thursday!

yaw

[change] change meeting tomorrow

[Yaw Anokwa]

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

yaw

[change] Fwd: Seeking a CKW Leader

[Yaw Anokwa]

The Grameen CKW project (recently featured in the Economist) is
looking for a new project lead.

-- Forwarded message --
From: Eric Cantor 
Date: Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 12:10 AM
Subject: Seeking a CKW Leader

Hi guys,



I hope all is well, wondered if you know anyone who fits the bill for
our next big initiative to get off the ground.? I?m paying a bounty!



I wanted to share with you an exciting new job opportunity under
AppLab, and encourage you to nominate anyone in your networks who you
believe has the requisite experience, maturity and talent to lead a
high-potential, groundbreaking project in the coming years.? With CKW,
we seek to build on the initial foundation built in our pilot and
build a sustainable organization capable of improving the livelihoods
of smallholder farmers, enabling CKWs to build local businesses, and
engaging deeply with our partners in agriculture, telecom, government
and beyond. ??The position demands a dynamic leader who is comfortable
addressing a room full of farmers, a gallery full of agriculture
ministry leaders or a briefing of telecom executives, and someone with
deep experience and accomplishment in at least two and ideally three
of these disciplines: African development and agriculture,
organizational and project management, partner relationship management
and business development, and technology strategy. ?The individual,
who can be local or expatriate, will report to me and will hold
complete control of and accountability for the CKW scaling initiative
we are planning for and will launch in the coming months.



Please be assured that our colleagues Whitney Gantt and Sarah Mugisha,
who led our pilot of CKW, will continue to provide leadership as we
bring the new leader of this initiative onboard and thereafter.? The
fact that we have the confidence and ability to go further with CKW
reflects well on their efforts, and both have a promising future on
this initiative in leadership roles.? All of us have agreed that
leadership of the project calls for the addition of another individual
with deeper relevant experience and credentials in the areas above
than any of the three of us, hence the decision to bring in an outside
individual.



Thanks for your continued support and your input as we identify a new
leader to add to our team.



Eric

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Eric Cantor??? AppLab Uganda Manager

** New Number: +256772121865?** www.applab.org

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

[Yaw Anokwa]

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


YOU'RE INVITED!

Please join us for an afternoon of fun, sharing, and hot drumming and
dancing at the annual Guinea Kids Benefit Concert, a concert and
fundraiser to support children's education in Guinea West Africa.

LEARN MORE and REGISTER HERE:? http://gkef2009.eventbrite.com/

Hosted by Marissa Baratian and the Guinea Kids Education Fund (GKEF)
this event includes live West African music and dance, traditional
rhythms from Guinea with drumming by Karim Koumbassa, Abdoulaye Sylla,
Manimou Camara and friends, New Discovery School's World Dance
classes, an African marketplace, and numerous opportunities to learn
more about Guinea and GKEF.

Guinea is a country of beautiful land, people, music, dance, and rich
traditions. It is also among the poorest countries in the world with a
59% adult illiteracy rate.

GKEF is an education support project comprised of individuals in the
United States and Guinea, West Africa who are committed to enriching
the neighborhood of Enco-5 in Conakry, Guinea. Our mission is to
assist and empower the community to increase the percentage of
children attending and succeeding in school, and to provide the
necessary funding for educational resources, school tuition, school
supplies, uniforms, and shoes. By forming a cooperative partnership
that integrates local traditions and cultures in education, our goal
is to improve the quality of life for this community.

Guinea Kids Benefit Concert

Saturday, October 17, 2009

4:00-6:00pm

University Heights Center, Rm. 209

5031 University Way NE

Seattle, WA 98105

www.uhcca.org

Directions:? 
http://maps.google.com/maps?client=safari&rls=en&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=0,0,12003569694252429026&fb=1&hq=university+heights+center&hnear=seattle&gl=us&daddr=5031+University+Way+NE,+Seattle,+WA+98105-4341&geocode=10354080049481223125,47.665879,-122.313527&ei=oxS1SoXrJ4TOsgP-v9DRDA&sa=X&oi=local_result&ct=directions-to&resnum=1

LEARN MORE about the event and REGISTER HERE:? http://gkef2009.eventbrite.com/

Can't attend?

Please consider making a donation: http://firstgiving.com/gkef/

To learn more about our organization, click here:? www.guineakids.org

Thank you from Marissa Baratian and the GKEF Team!

Sarah Lee







?Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can
change the world.

Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.?

~Margaret Mead







Sarah Lee & Karim Koumbassa

206-409-6430

WON TA NARA!? (We are all together!)

www.OneWorldDance.com

[change] meeting this thursday

[Yaw Anokwa]

hey all,

we have a change meeting thursday at noon in the paul allen center,
room 403. this week, gaetano will be discussing what he did during his
sabbatical at google.

hope to see you all there,

yaw

[change] CIS becomes TASHCA

[Yaw Anokwa]

The Center for Information & Society (CIS) has changed its name to the
Technology & Social Change (TASCHA) group.

Christine Prefontaine explains that, ?Over the last 10 years we have
grown from a three-person team to more than a dozen researchers and
program staff, with affiliated faculty from across the University of
Washington and a global network of research partners. This year we
came together to reflect, take stock of our strengths and emerging
trends, and examine who we are, how we work, and how we can affect
change. Our new name is the result of this process ? and in the coming
months you?ll witness a number of changes.?

We wish our friends at TASCHA continued success. You can find out more
about their transformation at
http://cis.washington.edu/2009/10/07/cis-becomes-tasch/

[change] Interesting New Papers from ITID and NSDR

[Yaw Anokwa]

In the past few days, a few interesting ICTD papers have been
published that I wanted to share.


The first set comes from the Information Technologies & International
Development (ITID), an interdisciplinary open-access journal that
focuses on the intersection of information and communication
technologies (ICTs) with the ?other four billion?. There are a number
of great papers in the fall issue, but two stood out to me.

What Constitutes Good ICTD Research?: A few months ago in an
exchange on a mailing Jenna Burrell and Kentaro Toyama debated the
questions posed in the title. After a few rounds, they decided to come
together and formalize their discussion and it is an insightful read.
http://itidjournal.org/itid/article/view/382/178

Understanding ?Gold Farming?: Developing-Country Production for
Virtual Gameworlds: Richard Heeks posits that gold farming (the
production of virtual goods and services often for real world
currency) is a significant activity that predicts a future development
trend of outsourcing online employment.
http://itidjournal.org/itid/article/view/383/179


For the more technical crowd, Networked Systems for Developing Regions
(NSDR) just posted their papers from their upcoming workshop. Here are
two that I enjoyed.

Message Phone: A User Study and Analysis of Asynchronous Messaging
in Rural Uganda: Kurtis Heimerl, RJ Honicky, Eric Brewer, Tapan Parikh
explore the value and utility of delay tolerant voice messages for
cellular users that live in areas of poor or intermittent network
coverage. In their user study, they find that voice messages were
quite popular and uniformly preferred over text messages due to their
ease of use and the richness of voice.
http://dritte.org/nsdr09/files/nsdr09_camera/s3p1_heimerl09nsdr.pdf

Development and Implementation of a Loosely Coupled, Multi-Site,
Networked and Replicated Electronic Medical Record in Haiti: William
B. Lober, Stephen Wagner, Christina Quiles present their electronic
medical record system (iSant?) that supports individual and population
health care for HIV patients in Haiti. iSant? is used in 55 clinic
sites nationwide and tracks over 40k patients and the paper discusses
their architectural choices made in its design.
http://dritte.org/nsdr09/files/nsdr09_camera/s3p4_lober09nsdr.pdf

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

[Yaw Anokwa]

This Tuesday at the CSE Colloqium, Gaetano Borriello will be
presenting Open Data Kit, work he did while on sabbatical at Google.
If you missed his practice talk last week, now's your chance to see
the final product.

Open Data Kit (ODK) is an open-source mobile data collection toolkit
for the citizen science, public health, and environmental monitoring
communities. These groups share the fact that they all have limited
resources and tend to be behind the technology curve. ODK?s goals are
three-fold:

(1) make tools highly modular and customizable so that they can be
easily composed and/or specialized into appropriate arrangements for
the task at hand;

(2) exploit open interfaces and standards so that solutions are not
?silo-ed? into monolithic enterprise-level packages that are difficult
to understand and maintain; and

(3) get these communities to take advantage of evolving technologies
including powerful mobile clients (e.g., Android), flexible and
scalable server infrastructure (e.g., AppEngine) so as to reach a
wider base of developers and avoid early obsolescence.

In this talk, Gaetano will describe the current status and research
and development plans. For those who cannot make it, the talk will
live streamed at
http://www.cs.washington.edu/news/colloq.info.html#MBONE

What: Gaetano Borriello on Open Data Kit
When: Tuesday, October 13 at 3.30pm
Where: UW, Electrical Engineering Building, Room 105

[change] iPhone app -- Give work

[Yaw Anokwa]

really great idea for crowd  sourcing

*Date: *October 13, 2009 9:16:47 AM PDT
*Subject: **iPhone app ? Give work*
*Source: *Dolores Labs Blog

 [image: 
landing-page.jpg]We
just launched our first iPhone app: Give
Work
 lets you do tasks in your downtime and help increase the wages of refugees
in Kenya working for us.

We have been working with Samasource  for a while now
? they are a fantastic local non-profit that brings computer based work to
people in Africa. We send tasks to one of their hardest to employ groups: a
Kenyan refugee camp.

The people are extremely motivated, speak fluent English and even have high
speed internet. But sometimes there are downtime issues (due to floods,
satellite failure, etc.) and sometimes there are data quality issues (due to
cultural misunderstandings), which makes it hard for them to compete for
traditional outsourcing work. Fortunately, our dynamic routing and quality
control technology can resolve these problems gracefully.

When you complete a task on your iPhone, your work is paired with the work
of someone in Kenya.  iPhone users results are used for quality control ? if
someone waiting for a bus in San Francisco gives the same answer as someone
working in a refugee camp, we can be fairly certain that the results are
reliable. All of the profits we make on the work collected between the
iPhone and the refugees go directly into the pockets of the refugee workers.

*How to do tasks*
Download
 the free app from the app store. You can start doing tasks in seconds.
Shoot us an email at feedback at crowdflower.com if you have an issues or
questions.

*How to submit tasks to Samasource and GiveWork*
Visit CrowdFlower  where you can build tasks to
outsource. On the order page, click the ?iPhone? and ?Samasource? channels.

*Thanks!*
I want to give a special shoutout to Josh
Snyder,
who did most of the work of building the actual application. I wasn?t sure
we had the resources to get this crazy idea out the door, but everyone
pitched in after hours and it looks great!

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[change] fellowship opportunity for women from developing countries

[Yaw Anokwa]

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

One six-month fellowship is available for a female social scientist
from a developing nation, either pre- or post-doctoral, whose work
addresses women's economic and social empowerment in that nation.
The goal of the program is twofold: to advance the scholarly careers
of women social scientists from the developing world, and to support
research that identifies causes of gender inequity in the developing
world and that proposes practical solutions for promoting women's
economic and social empowerment.

The fellowship is expected to start on September 1, 2010 and run
through February 28, 2011.

In addition to a $4,500/month stipend, and housing and office space on
the SAR campus, the Campbell Fellow receives travel, shipping, and
library resource funds; health insurance; and the support of a
mentoring committee of established scholar-practitione rs.

The following criteria guide SAR's selection of the Campbell Fellow:

* Citizenship: Applicants may not be U.S. citizens or permanent
residents and must be a national of a developing country that is
currently eligible to borrow from the World Bank (see
http://go.worldbank.org/S2ADVPZVX0 for the current list of eligible
countries).

* Academic Discipline: Applicants should be pursuing research in one
of the social sciences:

anthropology, economics, education, geography, history, law,
linguistics, political science, psychology, social work, or sociology,
or in an interdisciplinary field that incorporates two or more of
these disciplines.

* Research Topic: Projects that identify causes of and/or solutions to
gender inequity in the developing world, and thus contribute to
women's social and economic empowerment, will be favored. Sample
topics include education and socialization of girls; globalization and
the economic status of women; policies and practices toward family,
reproduction, and women's health; impacts of international and civil
conflict on women; women's roles in resolving such conflicts or
sustaining civil society; media representations of women and the
formation of ideologies of gender; the practice and process of
gender-based development; and women in science and technology.

SAR will select fellows on the strength of their clearly stated
intention to serve their communities and countries of origin.

* English Fluency: To facilitate full engagement in the SAR
intellectual community, applicants must demonstrate their fluency in
English, such as through their record of professional interaction in
written and spoken English.

Campbell Fellowship for Women Scholar-Practitioners from Developing Nations
S c h o o l f o r A d v a n c e d R e s e a r c h o n t h e H u m a n
E x p e r i e n c e
Post Office Box 2188 * Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504-2188 * (505)
954-7200 * fax (505) 954-7235 * www.sarweb.org

The application deadline is November 1. Applications must include:

For application form and submission specifications go to scholar.app.
sarweb.org or contact Scholar Programs at scholar at sarsf. org or (505)
954-7201.

This fellowship is made possible through the generous support of the
Vera R. Campbell Foundation.

For more information, visit campbell.fellowship .sarweb.org.

* Application form available at scholar.app. sarweb.org.

* An abstract, not to exceed 150 words, describing the purpose, goals,
and objectives of the applicant's research project on which they will
work at SAR.

* A proposal, no more than four double-spaced pages in length. The
proposal should describe what is to be accomplished during the
fellowship, the status of the applicant's research on the topic, and
the significance of the work.

* A short bibliography, not to exceed one single-spaced page, of
references cited in the proposal.

* Curriculum vitae, not to exceed four single-spaced pages.

* Three letters of recommendation not to exceed two single-spaced
pages in length each. Letters must be received by November 1.
Applicants are responsible for ensuring that references send their
letters on time.

Contact:
Dr. Miriam S. Chaiken, Department Head
Department of Anthropology
Breland Hall Room 329
MSC 3BV
New Mexico State University
P.O. Box 30001
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001
email: mchaiken at nmsu. edu
tel: 575-646-2826

[change] Justin Steventon on CyberTracker

[Yaw Anokwa]

This Thursday at Change, Justin Steventon will be presenting on his
exciting work on CyberTracker.

"Climate change, pollution, habitat destruction and loss of
biodiversity may have serious impacts on human welfare. To anticipate
and prevent negative impacts will require ongoing long-term monitoring
of all aspects of the environment.

Our vision is to enable people to be part of a worldwide environmental
monitoring network. Our mission is to help you improve environmental
monitoring by increasing the efficiency of data gathering and to
improve observer reliability.

CyberTracker (http://www.cybertracker.co.za/) is a software
application which allows illiterate and low-literate people to capture
rich data about their environment."

What: Justin Steventon on CyberTracker
When: Thursday, October 15 at Noon
Where: UW, Paul Allen Center, Room 403

[change] University of Michigan is hiring in ICTD

[Yaw Anokwa]

The School of Information (SI) seeks a faculty member at the Assistant
Professor level who will establish a vigorous research and teaching
program in information and communication technology for development
(ICT4D), emphasizing applications relevant to environmental
sustainability and developing nations. The successful candidate will
have demonstrated expertise in information system design;
computer-supported cooperative work; environmental informatics;
communication studies; development policy, sociology, or anthropology;
and/or a related field applicable to the design and study of
information systems for developing-world contexts. The ideal applicant
will combine a proven ability to design effective and innovative
information systems with an informed, critical perspective on
development issues. A portfolio that includes fieldwork (for example,
an implemented ICT4D project, or a study of ICT uses in one or more
nations) will receive most favorable consideration.

http://si.umich.edu/about-SI/ictd.htm