[change] randy wang wins lawler award

[Kurtis Heimerl]

For serious? That's awesome!

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Ed Lazowska 
wrote:

> Way to go Randy!!
>
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> just a fyi: Randy Wang just won the ACM Lawler Humanitarian Award for
> founding study hall.
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Re: [change] [TIER] Tech, telecom giants take sides as FCC proposes large public WiFi networks

[Kurtis Heimerl]

I don't think anyone's talking about mesh networks, are we?

As far as wifi vs cell networks, that's a huge discussion. The biggest
issues are ones of range and quality of service; cell networks are designed
to go kilometers and provide basic guarantees for voice bandwidth. Wifi
networks are not. However, given enough spare bandwidth (rough given the
tragedy of commons) and in a dense urban situation, there's no particular
reason you couldn't do all of your communications through one of these free
networks.

I'd be happy to field any more specific questions on the differences.

On Tuesday, February 5, 2013, Yaw Anokwa wrote:

> Independent of the regulatory challenges, even small scale community
> WiFi networks very hard to pull off. Shaddi (of TIER fame) wrote about
> this a few years back. He concludes, "I'm not saying mesh networks
> don't work ever...What I am saying is that unplanned wireless mesh
> networks never work at scale."
>
> Related:
> http://serverfault.com/questions/72767/why-is-internet-access-and-wi-fi-always-so-terrible-at-large-tech-conferences
>
> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 12:01 AM, ashish makani 
> >
> wrote:
> > Hi Folks
> >
> > Came across this interesting story
> >
> >
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/tech-telecom-giants-take-sides-as-fcc-proposes-large-public-wifi-networks/2013/02/03/eb27d3e0-698b-11e2-ada3-d86a4806d5ee_story.html
> >
> > Excerpt:
> > "The federal government wants to create super WiFi networks across the
> > nation, so powerful and broad in reach that consumers could use them to
> make
> > calls or surf the Internet without paying a cellphone bill every month.
> >
> > The proposal from the Federal Communications Commission has rattled the
> $178
> > billion wireless industry, which has launched a fierce lobbying effort to
> > persuade policymakers to reconsider the idea, analysts say. That has been
> > countered by an equally intense campaign from Google,Microsoft and other
> > tech giants who say a free-for-all WiFi service would spark an explosion
> of
> > innovations and devices that would benefit most Americans, especially the
> > poor."
> >
> > This proposal is in the US, but would be interesting to see, if
> developing
> > countries with big user bases, could also use large scale public wi-fi
> n/ws
> > instead of/in addition to, mobile telephony n/ws.
> >
> > Also, what about the relative costs of building a large scale public wifi
> > n/w as opposed to a mobile telephony n/w, in a world where increasingly
> data
> > dominates voice.
> >
> > cheers
> > ashish
> >
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[change] Fwd: Global mHealth Research Training Institute- Apply Now!

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-- Forwarded message --
From: James Fogarty 
Date: Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 1:11 PM
Subject: Fwd: Global mHealth Research Training Institute- Apply Now!
To: Kurtis Heimerl , Richard Anderson <
ander...@cs.washington.edu>




--
James A. Fogarty, Associate Professor
Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington

http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~jfogarty/

-- Forwarded message --
From: Nilsen, Wendy 
Date: Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 10:03 AM
Subject: Global mHealth Research Training Institute- Apply Now!
To: smarthea...@listserv.nsf.gov


FYI, for those of you with interests in international Mobile or Wireless
Health (mHealth).  A great mHealth training at NIH!

Thanks,

Wendy



Please distribute widely to your research networks and eligible candidates.



*The Center for Global Health Studies (CGHS) at the Fogarty International
Center is now accepting applications to the **Global mHealth Research
Training Institute*
<http://www.fic.nih.gov/About/Staff/Policy-Planning-Evaluation/Pages/global-mhealth-research-training.aspx>
*.*



This short-term, scenario-based training, which will take place on June 6-
9, 2016 in Bethesda, MD, will promote multidisciplinary research, cultural
competencies for global mHealth, and novel research methodologies to a
cohort of researchers from diverse fields who will help to lay the
groundwork for future mHealth projects and begin to build the evidence base
for impactful technologies.



We encourage applicants from a variety of disciplines with a doctoral
degree or at least 5 years of research experience (as demonstrated through
peer-reviewed publications and/or research funding) to apply. Applicants
must be affiliated with a US or LMIC institution at the time of application
and intend to remain there for a substantial period after the training in
order to conduct research and/or engage in training the next generation of
mHealth researchers at their host institution. The ideal candidate will
have strong interest in the multidisciplinary science of mobile and
wireless technologies applied to healthcare and will use the training to
inform research on global health problems.



*The training application deadline is February 29, 2016 at 11:59 pm EST*.
For additional information about the training, visit Global mHealth
Research Training Institute
<http://www.fic.nih.gov/About/Staff/Policy-Planning-Evaluation/Pages/global-mhealth-research-training.aspx>.
To access the application form and submission portal (opening in early
February), visit CRDF
<http://www.crdfglobal.org/grants-and-grantees/current-funding-opportunities/2016/01/22/call-for-applications-to-the-global-mhealth-research-training-institute>
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[change] Business Development Fellowships

[Kurtis Heimerl]

A friend of mine is offering business development fellowships in
partnership with some community based organizations in Uganda. If any of
these interest you, please reach out via the information in the link.

http://www.idealist.org/step/discover/share/jr/view/volop/42W9xbHB7ssP/
http://www.idealist.org/step/discover/share/jr/view/volop/b27Xnx2bWjjd/
http://www.idealist.org/step/discover/share/jr/view/volop/343d7cHPXDcH4/
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[change] Course Announcement: CSE599 Information and Communication Technology and Developement (ICTD)

[Kurtis Heimerl]

Instructor: Kurtis Heimerl
TA: Aditya Vashistha
Time: MW 1:30-2:50
Location: MGH 082A
Credits: 4

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are having enormous
impact on the livelihoods of the world, from tech workers taking Uber to
work, to farmers using online forums to share best practices, to people in
rural areas using cellular phones to stay up to date on their children in
the big city. Often ICTs take power away from disadvantaged communities
(e.g., rural) and centralize it in those with the money and knowhow to use
the technologies. As these interventions sweep through communities
throughout the world, we strive to understand how to build technologies
that instead empower and support marginalized groups. This class will focus
on exploring how to build technologies for communities that you are not a
part of (short answer, get involved!), understanding the space of people
and organizations engaging with and solving these kinds of problems (from
Facebook to the Clinton Health Initiative to Ob Anggen), and eventually
building our own (likely naive) solutions.

While a critical theory of development is important to doing good work,
this is a class for builders and designers. All students will complete a
project and end up with an artifact; potentially a tool (designed and/or
built) for empowering community health workers or a model for mapping
satellite data to population density. This is a graduate-level computer
science class but particularly motivated and experienced students
(including undergrads) from other disciplines can reach out if they'd like
to participate.

We have engaged with a few external organizations to suggest projects and
mentor students with the hope of these projects reaching deployment and
scale. We're also keen to engage with more than just system builders, and
in particular have future project funding available for work with data
scientists and system builders after the class ends. Some example projects
and backgrounds include:

Hardware/Wireless: Facebook's OpenCellular platform (link) is an SDR-based
solution for rural/community cellular. While still in its infancy, there
are clear opportunities to implement novel access solutions (such as
backscatter) that could be optimized to make access better for those
without it.
Software/Distributed Systems: Community Cellular (link) is a model of
access where small organizations run their own cellular networks. At the
moment, the software stacks are ad hoc solutions with simplistic models of
shared state (like user information). We can build a large distributed
database that can handle the rampant disconnections in rural backhaul
networks and make it easier to setup and run these types of networks.
Data Science: Telecoms often need to understand the demographics of
uncovered areas in order to make judgments about where to build out their
networks. Given call data records, the census, and other information, we
can build models to allow telecoms to better understand areas without
coverage and profitably serve them in the future.
Healthcare: The Clinton Health Initiative (link) provides healthcare all
over the world and are actively engaged in the effort to eradicate Polio.
What tools can we build to make the front-line workers more effective?
Financial Services: Many areas lack robust access to financial
infrastructure such as credit and insurance, making them more sensitive to
disasters, both physical and medical. A number of organizations are working
to improve this and enable mobile money solutions, development
technologists are key to doing this in a scalable and interoperable manner
that actually benefits the constituents rather than just the incumbents.

Students are also invited to bring their own projects. These could be in
the space of Education, HCI, Security, or anything, as as they work to
empower marginalized people or groups.

For more information reach out to Kurtis Heimerl .
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[change] Steve Song Roundtable Discussion Friday @ 1:30

[Kurtis Heimerl]

Hi All,

Steve Song, founder of Village Telco, a social enterprise that builds
low-cost WiFi mesh VoIP technologies to deliver affordable voice and
Internet in underserviced areas, and passionate advocate for cheaper, more
pervasive access to communication infrastructure in Africa, will be at UW
this Friday for a round-table discussion on connectivity.

Steve has been an amazing champion for changes in spectrum regulation,
white spaces, and general connectivity throughout the world. Come say hi.

Friday, 1:30PM CSE 128
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Re: [change] Steve Song Roundtable Discussion Friday @ 1:30

[Kurtis Heimerl]

Hi All,

Brief update: Some members of the Botswana Government (including regulators
and the University of Botswana) and Vulcan's philanthropic team will be
attending as well. Please come and ask about working on connectivity in the
Sub-Saharan context.

On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 11:58 AM, Kurtis Heimerl  wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Steve Song, founder of Village Telco, a social enterprise that builds
> low-cost WiFi mesh VoIP technologies to deliver affordable voice and
> Internet in underserviced areas, and passionate advocate for cheaper, more
> pervasive access to communication infrastructure in Africa, will be at UW
> this Friday for a round-table discussion on connectivity.
>
> Steve has been an amazing champion for changes in spectrum regulation,
> white spaces, and general connectivity throughout the world. Come say hi.
>
> Friday, 1:30PM CSE 128
>
>
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[change] Location Change! Steve Song Roundtable Discussion Friday @ 1:30 in Gates Commons.

[Kurtis Heimerl]

This has been moved to the Gates Commons at 1:30. See you all there!

On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 3:13 PM, Kurtis Heimerl 
wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Brief update: Some members of the Botswana Government (including
> regulators and the University of Botswana) and Vulcan's philanthropic team
> will be attending as well. Please come and ask about working on
> connectivity in the Sub-Saharan context.
>
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 11:58 AM, Kurtis Heimerl <
> kheim...@cs.washington.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Steve Song, founder of Village Telco, a social enterprise that builds
>> low-cost WiFi mesh VoIP technologies to deliver affordable voice and
>> Internet in underserviced areas, and passionate advocate for cheaper, more
>> pervasive access to communication infrastructure in Africa, will be at UW
>> this Friday for a round-table discussion on connectivity.
>>
>> Steve has been an amazing champion for changes in spectrum regulation,
>> white spaces, and general connectivity throughout the world. Come say hi.
>>
>> Friday, 1:30PM CSE 128
>>
>>
>>
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[change] CommunityCellularManager Open Source Release

[Kurtis Heimerl]

Apologizes for cross posting.

CommunityCellularManager, Facebook's open source suite for distributed
management of community-led cellular networks (using their OpenCellular
platform) was released recently. The general idea is to provide a cloud
suite of tools and technologies to simplify the deployment, distribution,
and management of these new types of networks.

Take a look:
https://code.facebook.com/posts/1025486087598101/introducing-community-cellular-manager-a-management-and-deployment-suite-for-small-scale-cellular-networks/
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Re: [change] ICTD Class Poster Session Wednesday 1-2:30 Atrium

[Kurtis Heimerl]

Hey all,

Just a reminder this is happening in *1 Hour* !

As another incentive, here are the list of projects from the class for this
quarter:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OLxTah5hOODe7d1chxClhlgmPXuOmEHG4Pbgx_ZMDe0/edit?usp=sharing

On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 10:51 PM, Kurtis Heimerl  wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> The students of the ICTD Seminar (https://docs.google.com/docum
> ent/d/1v2GiPrR5GuA6_pFinB2aLOTtYsiMqXmYEPdtD66-ZSo/edit) will be
> presenting posters of their projects this Wednesday from 1-2:30 in the CSE
> Atrium. Come marvel at the diverse sets of projects and solutions, and
> discuss with them how to get this stuff working in the real world. Plus I'm
> paying for drinks.
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[change] Fwd: CfP: HCI Across Borders Symposium at CHI 2017

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-- Forwarded message --
From: Neha Kumar 
Date: Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 4:30 PM
Subject: CfP: HCI Across Borders Symposium at CHI 2017
To: "Kumar, Neha" 


Please share widely. Apologies for cross-posting!

---

*Call for Proposals*

HCI Across Borders 
Symposium in Denver (CO, USA) at CHI 2017
6th-7th May, 2017


*About the Workshop*
The Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community at CHI is increasingly
embracing research being performed on topics and in regions that have been
understudied in the past. To promote these efforts, the Development
Consortium Workshop titled *HCI Across Borders* was held at CHI 2016 in San
Jose. With support from SIGCHI and in collaboration with Facebook and
Google, it was attended by 70+ researchers from 20 countries across the
globe, with some of these countries being represented at CHI for the first
time. The goal of this Consortium was to build community and invite
collaborations *across borders* on themes of interest to the participants –
those actively involved in international HCI projects, with most of them
conducting research in understudied areas and with underrepresented
individuals and communities across the world.

This year marks another milestone as this event has grown to be a CHI
Symposium. Our goal is to build on the efforts from the Development
Consortium at CHI 2016 and to grow the community working in the area of HCI
Across Borders (HCIxB), by providing an opportunity for interested
researchers to come together as a community, improve the visibility of
their work, and to bring greater awareness to the challenges that plague
international research, particularly research that takes place in
resource-constrained settings, to the larger HCI community.

*Participation*

We solicit participation from HCI researchers and practitioners across the
globe who work with underserved, underrepresented, and/or under-resourced
communities. We particularly invite participants who are keen to explore
collaborations across borders. “Borders”, in this context, include
geographic boundaries, but also boundaries of other kinds, such as
disciplines, methodologies, ideologies, and more. Research areas of focus
can be diverse, including but not limited to learning, global health,
crisis informatics, civic engagement, mobile banking, etc.

While this is no exhaustive list, examples of topics/themes of submission
might include:

   - Leveraging participatory design and co-design approaches
   - Factoring cultural sensitivities in the design of new technologies
   and/or HCI methods
   - Designing to accommodate power differentials in communities
   - Devising innovative techniques for engaging new technology users
   - Designing for sustainability
   - Studying the intersection of HCI and the UN’s Sustainable Development
   Goals (SDGs)
   - And more!

These are examples of projects that our Symposium might include, as the
Consortium did last year :

   - Emotional Wellbeing: Technology for Mental Health in Developing
   Countries
   - HCI, Forced Migration & Refugees: Collaborations across Borders and
   Fields
   - ICT Intervention for Agricultural Development: Exploring Prospects for
   Pakistani Farmers
   - Cuba Intercambio: Cultural and Information Exchange for Cuba
   - Online Learning Across Diverse Low-Resource Indian Contexts
   - Cognitive Modeling for Illiteracy Eradication
   - Mobile Technology-Based Supports for Prenatal Care Among the Ngäbe in
   Panama


*Submissions*
Please submit a proposal (3-5 pages in the CHI Extended Abstracts
 format) *starting now *and
before *April 15th, 2017*. We would appreciate early submissions. You will
receive a decision within 15 days of submitting so you can plan your
registration and travels accordingly.

All submissions will be reviewed by the organizers and a program committee.
They will be selected in accordance with their potential to contribute to
the Symposium and to foster discussion. Accepted submissions will be
available on our website before the conference. Authors of accepted
submissions will also be invited to present posters of their proposals at
CHI (although not mandatory).

Please submit your PDFs at https://hcixb17.hotcrp.com/. Please note that we
will accept contributions until the number of available attendees is
reached, which may be before the ultimate deadline.


*Bursaries*
We are working on obtaining funding to pay travel expenses (or at least a
portion thereof) for attendees in need. Please note that CHI guidelines
require at least one author of each accepted submission to attend and be
registered for the Symposium.

*Organizers*

Neha Kumar, Georgia Tech (USA)
Susan Dray, Dray & Associates (USA)
Christian Sturm, Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences (Germany)
Nithya Sambasivan, Google (USA)
Laura S. Gaytan-Lugo, University of Colima (Mexico)
Leonel Morales, Francisco Marroquin U

[change] Fwd: Re: [gaia] Seeking Postdoc for UCT Centre in ICT4D

[Kurtis Heimerl]

mobile
-- Forwarded message --
From: "Jane Coffin" 
Date: Jul 21, 2017 6:35 PM
Subject: Re: [gaia] Seeking Postdoc for UCT Centre in ICT4D
To: "TIER" , "hc...@googlegroups.com" <
hc...@googlegroups.com>, "ictdevers" , "gaia" <
g...@irtf.org>
Cc:

Hi All –



See this from Dr. Kanchana at AIT:



  Call for Papers

13th Asian Internet Engineering Conference (AINTEC) 2017,

  in cooperation with ACM SIGCOMM



November 20th - 22nd, 2017

   Bangkok, Thailand

  http://www.interlab.ait.ac.th/aintec2017/


--



The 13th Asian Internet Engineering Conference (AINTEC), in cooperation
with ACM SIGCOMM,

provides an international technical forum for experts from industry and
academia. AINTEC especially

aims at addressing issues pertinent to the Asia and Pacific region, with
vast diversities of socio-economic

and networking conditions, while inviting high quality and recent research
results from the Internet

research community at large.



AINTEC 2017 follows the previous ten successful editions held in Thailand.
The conference is single-track

and features a technical program with significant opportunities for
individual and small-group discussions

among a diverse set of participants. The technical sessions will include
invited talks by leading experts,

presentations of papers, demos, posters and pre-conference activity (27th
Asian School).

AINTEC Best Paper Awardee is entitled with an ACM SIGCOMM travel grant
program to attend ACM SIGCOMM 2018.



AINTEC 2017 solicits high quality papers that improve digital
communications in diverse situations

including, but not limited to:



* Future Internet architectures and technologies

* Networking technologies in developing regions

* Internet measurement, analysis and modeling

* Disaster networking, including experience with earthquakes and tsunamis

* Sensor networking and applications

* Wireless, mobile and ad hoc networks

* Delay and disruption tolerant networks

* Location management and positioning

* Content diffusion with P2P, CDN or ICN

* Multimedia systems and applications

* Network operations and management

* Quantum networking

* Social networks

* Network security

* Cloud Computing and Services

* Internet of Things

* Network Acceleration





Paper submission



Submissions must be original, unpublished work, and not have been submitted
to another conference

or journal for publication. Paper length cannot exceed 8 pages in the 10pts
ACM SIGCOMM format.

AINTEC 2017 proceedings will be included in the ACM Digital Library. Papers
must be submitted in

electronic format following the instructions provided on the AINTEC

Web site http://www.interlab.ait.ac.th/aintec2017/



Submission of a paper implies that should the paper be accepted for
publication in the conference

proceedings, at least one of the authors will register and present the
paper in the conference.

Authors of accepted papers must pay for their registration on or before the
camera ready version deadline.





Important dates

--

Abstract registration:   August  20, 2017

Full paper submission:September  2, 2017

Acceptance notification:  October 16, 2017

Camera-ready due: November 5, 2017

Conference dates:  November 20 - 22, 2017





Committees

———



General Chair

* Sukumal Kitisin Kasetsart University, Thailand

* Kunwadee Sripanidkulchai

Chulalongkorn University, Thailand



Technical Program Committee Co-Chairs



* Kotaro Kataoka IIT Hyderabad, India

* Christos Papadopoulos Colorado State University, USA



Technical Program Committee



• Fehmi Ben Abdesslem, Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS), Sweden

• Hirochika Asai, Preferred Networks, Japan

• Genevieve Bartlett, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA

• Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland

• Wan Tat Chee, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia

• Jed Crandall , University of New Mexico, USA

• Drew Davidson, Tala Security Inc., USA

• Lorenzo De Carli, Colorado State University (CSU), USA

• Michalis Faloutsos, University of California Riverside, USA

• Romain Fontugne, IIJ Innovation Institute, Inc., Japan

• Timur Friedman, UPMC, France

• Devendra Jalihal, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India

• Ioannis Komnios, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

• Adisorn Lertsinsrubtavee, University of Cambridge, UK

• Zhenyu Li, ICT, Chinese Academy Sciences(CAS), China

• Keiichi Shima, IIJ Innovation Institute, Inc., Japan

• Thomas Silverston , NICT, Japan

• Gareth Tyson, Queen Mary University of London, UK

• Vasaka Visoottiviseth, Mahidol University, Thailand

• Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge, UK

• Han Zhang, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA



Publicity Committee:

* Wantanee Viriyasitavat  Google, Inc., USA







Internet Society | www.int

[change] Fwd: LIMITS Workshop, Call for Papers

[Kurtis Heimerl]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Bonnie Nardi 
Date: Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 12:34 PM
Subject: LIMITS Workshop, Call for Papers
To: sigcas-annou...@listserv.acm.org




*LIMITS 2018Fourth Workshop on Computing within LimitsMay 12-13, Toronto,
Canada*



*computingwithinlimits.org <http://computingwithinlimits.org>*


*ABOUT ACM LIMITS 2018*

The ACM LIMITS workshop aims to foster discussion on the impact of present
and future ecological, material, energetic, and societal limits on
computing. These topics are seldom discussed in contemporary computing
research. A key aim of the workshop is to promote innovative, concrete
research, potentially of an interdisciplinary nature, that focuses on
technologies, critiques, techniques, and contexts for computing within
fundamental economic and ecological limits. A longer-term goal is to build
a community around relevant topics and research. We hope to impact society
through the design and development of computing systems in the abundant
present for use in a future of limits. This year we are colocating for the
first time with ICT4S.

*PROGRAM COMMITTEE*

Oliver Bates, Lancaster University, o.ba...@lancaster.ac.uk
Eli Blevis, Indiana University, eble...@indiana.edu
Jay Chen, NYU, jay.c...@nyu.edu (co-chair)
Steve Easterbrook, University of Toronto, s...@cs.toronto.edu
Elina Eriksson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, el...@kth.se
Kurtis Heimerl, University of Washington, kheim...@cs.washington.edu
Lara Houston, Goldsmiths, University of London, l.hous...@gold.ac.uk
Ann Light, University of Sussex, ann.li...@sussex.ac.uk
Bonnie Nardi, UC Irvine, na...@ics.uci.edu (co-chair)
Lisa Nathan, UBC, lisa.nat...@ubc.ca
Teresa Cerratto Pargman, Stockholm University, te...@dsv.su.se
Daniel Pargman, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, parg...@kth.se
Don Patterson, Westmont College, dpatter...@westmont.edu
Birgit Penzenstadler, bpenz...@gmail.com
Barath Raghavan, ICSI, bar...@icsi.berkeley.edu
Christian Remy, University of Zurich, r...@ifi.uzh.ch
Debra Richardson, UC Irvine, d...@ics.uci.edu
Nithya Sambasivan, Google, nith...@gmail.com
Bill Tomlinson, Victoria University of Wellington, bill.tomlin...@vuw.ac.nz

*IMPORTANT DATES*

Abstract registration deadline: Feb 2, 2018, 11:59pm Pacific Time
Paper submission deadline: Feb 9, 2018, 11:59pm Pacific Time
Paper reviews available: March 7, 2018

Bonnie Nardi
Professor
Department of Informatics
School of Information and Computer Sciences
5088 Bren Hall
UC Irvine 92697-3440
http://darrouzet-nardi.net/bonnie
NEW BOOK: Heteromation and Other Stories of Computing and
Capitalism (with Hamid Ekbia, MIT Press, 2017)


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[change] ACM COMPASS 2018 Call for Notes and Work-in-progress Posters: March 30th, 2018

[Kurtis Heimerl]

The Notes and Posters Chairs (Kurtis Heimerl, University of Washington and
Nithya Sambasivan, Google) invite you to submit your more compact research
to the ACM COMPASS notes and work-in-progress posters tracks this March.
ACM COMPASS is a broad, interdisciplinary conference focused on research
that benefits underrepresented communities throughout the world. This notes
track is appropriate for smaller-scale focused research results and, as a
new addition, position papers (e.g. HotConference-style) in the ICTD and/or
Sustainability spaces. These are completed works and will be published in
the ACM COMPASS proceedings. The official call for notes is below and also
available here <https://acmcompass.org/cfn>. The work-in-progress poster
proposals track is appropriate for works in progress and allows for
researchers to gather feedback and discussion on projects and dissertation
work that is still being developed. These will not be published in the ACM
proceedings. The official call for posters is also below and available here
<https://acmcompass.org/cfposters/>.


Call for Notes

The first annual ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable
Societies (ACM COMPASS 2018) invites submissions of 4-page Notes for the
main conference program. ACM COMPASS is a re-creation of the ACM DEV
conference, which was held annually between 2010 and 2016. The new
conference expands the focus of the original conference to explicitly
welcome work on underrepresented communities worldwide and includes a new
track on sustainability. To ensure strong contributions, the conference
will accept Notes based on tracks corresponding to the computing areas they
draw upon. The tracks for the 2018 conference are Systems, HCI, Data
Science, Sustainability, and Applications.

Notes are treated to a similar review process as full papers, with a focus
on strength of the research contribution to scholarship in computing and
sustainable societies. However, Notes are more focused and provide a
shorter contribution. For example, related work or discussion may be much
more targeted, rather than aiming for breadth and completeness as in Full
Papers. Notes can be up to 4 pages in length (not including references).
Notes will be published in the ACM SIGCAS proceedings. Due to the short
review cycle, Notes will be assessed as is, without revise and resubmit
provisions. Submissions should be made to
https://compass18notesposters.hotcrp.com.
<https://compass18notesposters.hotcrp.com> Use the CHI 2018 Proceedings
Format available here <https://chi2018.acm.org/chi-proceedings-format/>.
See our FAQ <http://acmcompass.org/faq/> if you still have questions!

Some examples of note-scoped contributions could be:

   -

   A case study of an intervention towards social good and evidence of its
   utility.
   -

   A novel technical system that provides a contribution over known
   techniques in low resource computing.
   -

   An empirical or conceptual understanding of a specific under-represented
   community or situation that enhances how the community or situation is
   viewed within COMPASS.
   -

   A novel methodology for designing, building, or understanding a system
   for under-represented communities.
   -

   An analysis of the impact of a policy, law or regulation in an area
   relevant to COMPASS.
   -

   A discussion with scholarly debate about:
   -

  viewpoints (short articles dedicated to views and opinions on the
  impact of technology in which positions are substantiated by facts or
  principled arguments),
  -

  point/counterpoints (two viewpoints, taking opposite sides of an
  argument), and
  -

  multi-author discussion articles (e.g. authors discuss arguments
  around an issue concerning the impact of technology on society).

Works in progress without a clear research result are not appropriate
submissions and will be rejected. For work-in-progress research, consider
submitting to Posters. Please see the FAQ page for further clarifications.
Important dates

March 30, 2018: Deadline for submission of notes.

April 13, 2018: Notifications of decisions on submitted notes sent.

May 4, 2018: Camera-ready of accepted notes due.

All submissions are due 11:59 pm UTC.

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Call for Work-in-progress Posters

The first annual ACM SIGCAS conference on computing & sustainable societies
(ACM COMPASS 2018) invites submissions of 4-page work-in-progress poster
proposals. These proposals provide a unique opportunity for sharing
valuable ideas, eliciting useful feedback on early-stage work, and
fostering discussions and collaborations among colleagues. Accepted
submissions will be presented as a physical poster at the conference.
COMPASS 2018 is a re-creation of the ACM DEV conferenc

[change] Fwd: [Researchers] Talk Monday at 4 by Sriram Rajamani, Microsoft Research India - CSE 305

[Kurtis Heimerl]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Ed Lazowska 
Date: Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 2:05 PM
Subject: [Researchers] Talk Monday at 4 by Sriram Rajamani, Microsoft
Research India - CSE 305
To: Researchers 


On Monday at 4 p.m. in CSE 305, Sriram Rajamani, the Managing Director of
Microsoft Research India, will give an overview talk describing MSRI's
activities.

Sriram is outstanding, and MSRI is doing extremely impressive work. (Our
Ph.D. alum Chandu Thekkath was Sriram's predecessor as Managing Director;
our friend P. Anandan was the Founding Managing Director of the lab.)

*Overview of Microsoft Research India*

Founded in 2005, Microsoft Research India just turned 13 years old. Our
work spans 4 areas: (1) Algorithms, data science and theory (2) machine
learning and AI, (3) systems, including programming languages, security,
privacy and networking, and (4) technology for socio-economic development.
I will give an overview of our people, our research, and explain a few
projects in some detail. I will also outline opportunities for students to
engage with MSR India through internships as well as applying for
postdoc/research positions (we are hiring!).



*Bio:* Sriram Rajamani is Managing Director of Microsoft Research India.
See http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/sriram/bio.aspx



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[change] Fwd: ICT4S'18 Call for Participation

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-- Forwarded message --
From: Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed 
Date: Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 7:35 PM
Subject: ICT4S'18 Call for Participation
To: chi-announceme...@listserv.acm.org, yrictd ,
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Call for participation

ICT4S 2018: The Fifth International Conference on Information and
Communication Technologies for Sustainability

Hart House, University of Toronto, May 13-19, 2018
http://2018.ict4s.org

Detailed program available here:
http://2018.ict4s.org/main-conference-program/

Early bird registration deadline: April 20, 2018
To register: http://2018.ict4s.org/registration/

Highlights of the conference include:

Keynote Talks:
• William Rees, the originator of the concept of the ecological
footprint;
• Lisa Nathan, an expert in first nations, social justice and
environmental resilience;
• John Robinson, expert in regenerative buildings and university
campuses as living laboratories for sustainability.

Invited Talks from industry, government and academia:
• Rohit Aggarwala, Head of Urban Systems at Sidewalk Labs
• Alex Miller, President and Founder of Esri Canada
• Elyse Parker, Director of the Public Realm Section,
Transportation Services at the City of Toronto
• David Hulchanski, professor of housing and community development
at the University of Toronto
• Lauren Baker, Food Systems Consultant with the Global Alliance
for the Future of Food
• Tim Frick, CEO of Mightybytes, and author of “Designing for
Sustainability: A Guide to Building Greener Digital Products and Services”
• Sanjay Khanna, Resident Futurist at Massey College, University of
Toronto
• Yasmin Glanville, founder and chief strategist for CTR Inc, and a
director and founder of Re-think Sustainability Initiatives

Research results from the international ICT4S research community:
• 27 research papers presented in an innovative ConverStations
format featuring round table discussion with the authors
• Full list of accepted papers: http://2018.ict4s.org/
accepted-papers/
• 24 research posters featuring new research and late breaking
results
• Full list of accepted posters: http://2018.ict4s.
org/list-of-accepted-posters/

An ICT4S technology showcase featuring exhibits by:
• Autodesk
• Community Resilience to Extreme Weather (CREW Toronto)
• Ecobee
•The Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI)
• Esri Canada
• Imagine My City
• Ontario Centres of Excellent TargetGHG program
• Screaming Power
• STEAMLabs
• TOMesh
• TransPod Hyperloop

The Fourth International Workshop on Computing with Limits (ACM Limits, see
http://computingwithinlimits.org/2018/)

The ICT4S Green Hackathon (see http://2018.ict4s.org/hackathon/)

ICT4S Workshops on:
• Live Sketching;
• Sustainability Education;
• Sidewalk Labs' vision for developing a smart sustainable city;
• International guidebooks for ICT4S in industry and government;

Social Events including dinner at the Second City Theatre and a comedy
improv show!

-- 
Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
The University of Toronto.
web: http://www.ishtiaque.net/

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[change] ACM COMPASS 2018 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION AND POSTERS

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The first annual ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable
Societies (COMPASS 2018) invites you to join us at at Facebook (Menlo Park,
CA) and The Tech Museum of Innovation (San Jose, CA)  from June 20th to
June 22nd, 2018. The first day of the conference will be at The Tech
Museum, and the latter two days will be at Facebook. ACM COMPASS is a
re-creation of the ACM DEV conference, which was held annually between 2010
and 2016. The new conference expands the focus of the original conference
to explicitly welcome work on underrepresented communities worldwide and to
include work on sustainability. The proceedings include 39 papers (
https://acmcompass.org/papers) and 10 notes (https://acmcompass.org/cfn/)
in the areas of sustainability, development, and data science.

We also have open slots available for poster presentations of
works-in-progress. If you’re interested in attending and submitting a
proposal, please reach out to Nithya (nithyasa...@google.com) with your
poster title and a brief (1-2 page) write up detailing the project.

Registration is now open
, with
the early registration deadline May 15th, 2-18. There are also  a few
travel awards (max of $500) available. Preference will be given to
presenting authors, international attendees, students, or first timers to
COMPASS/ICTD/DEV. To apply for a travel award, fill out the following form
by May 11: https://goo.gl/forms/xreO1wb1saD7Szev1
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[change] UW ICTD Blog

[Kurtis Heimerl]

Hi All,

Just wanted to announce we've started a blog for UW ICTD CSE projects
located here: https://medium.com/uw-ictd

It already has some musings from Spencer and me and a post on our recent
experiments with FreeBasics. Hoping that it stimulates some discussion.

Thanks!

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[change] Fwd: [Researchers] UW Workshop on FHIR

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From: James Fogarty 
Date: Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 12:51 PM
Subject: [Researchers] UW Workshop on FHIR
To: Researchers , dub 


If you're interested in electronic health records, then you might have
heard about FHIR, an emerging approach to data interoperability.  Several
good people from UW are hosting a FHIR workshop that might appeal to
people, taking place September 23 and 34:

https://uwfhir.org/

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Professor, Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington

https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~jfogarty/

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[change] Fifth Workshop on Computing within LIMITS

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Call for Papers

LIMITS 2019
Fifth Workshop on Computing within LIMITS
June 10-11, 2018
Lappeenranta, Finland
http://computingwithinlimits.org/2019/

The ACM LIMITS workshop aims to foster discussion on the impact of present
and future ecological, material, energetic, and societal limits on
computing. These topics are seldom discussed in contemporary computing
research. A key aim of the workshop is to promote innovative, concrete
research, potentially of an interdisciplinary nature, that focuses on
technologies, critiques, techniques, and contexts for computing within
fundamental economic and ecological limits. A longer-term goal is to build
a community around relevant topics and research. We hope to impact society
through the design and development of computing systems in the abundant
present for use in a future of limits. A recent article

in
the Communications of the ACM provides a good primer on Computing within
Limits. This year we are co-locating with ICT4S in Europe.

Abstract submission deadline: Feb 1, 2019
Paper submission deadline: Feb 8, 2019
Paper reviews available: March 14, 2019
Camera-ready paper deadline: March 28, 2019


Jay Chen, NYU Abu Dhabi, jc...@cs.nyu.edu, Workshop Co-Chair
Oliver Bates, Lancaster University, o.ba...@lancaster.ac.uk, Workshop
Co-Chair

For more information, please visit: http://computingwithinlimits.org/2019/

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[change] University of Washington’s Allen School Seeking new PhD Students for Research in Universal Internet Access and Community Networking

[Kurtis Heimerl]

Apologies for the wide posting but I feel like these lists have the kind of
people we're looking for! Feel free to forward on if there are other
communities that could be interested.

The ICTD Research Group at the University of Washington’s Allen School of
Computer Science and Engineering (http://ictd.cs.washington.edu/) is
seeking qualified students, both from the US and abroad, with an interest
in universal internet access and community networking to apply to the PhD
program in computer networking. The ICTD group, led by Professors Kurtis
Heimerl and Richard Anderson, has long worked on the problems of Universal
Internet Access internationally, with deployments and projects in both the
rural Philippines (in partnership with the University of the Philippines)
and Indonesia (in partnership with Ob Anggen). As our research shifts to
wide-area LTE networks and the infrastructure of repair, we want to find
more motivated and passionate students with interest and capacity in the
space. There is a particular interest in students with personal experience
with hard connectivity problems.

If interested, please visit the UWCSE admissions page (
https://www.cs.washington.edu/academics/phd). All students admitted to the
Allen School Ph.D. program are guaranteed funding for 3 years in the form
of a research assistantship, teaching assistantship or fellowship. All or
most of the cost of tuition is covered by the assistantship or fellowship.
If you have any questions, please direct them to Professor Kurtis Heimerl <
kheim...@cs.washington.edu>.

A little about the University of Washington’s Allen School of Computer
Science and Engineering: Consistently ranked among the top computer science
programs in the world, the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science &
Engineering educates tomorrow's innovators and engages in research that
advances core and emerging areas of the field. We also lead a broad range
of multi-disciplinary initiatives that demonstrate the transformative power
of computing and are nationally recognized for our success in promoting
diversity. We are located in the spectacular Paul G. Allen Center for
Computer Science & Engineering at the heart of the University of Washington
campus in Seattle — a center of innovation in software, life sciences,
global health, aerospace, and many other fields — where Allen School
faculty, students, and alumni are making an impact and changing the world.

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[change] Fwd: CFP: ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS) --- July 3 – 5, 2019 --- Accra, Ghana

[Kurtis Heimerl]

-- Forwarded message -
From: Jay Chen 
Date: Sun, Jan 6, 2019 at 9:22 AM
Subject: CFP: ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies
(COMPASS) --- July 3 – 5, 2019 --- Accra, Ghana
To: Undisclosed recipients 


***Apologies for cross-posting***

Computing and Sustainable Societies 2019
Accra, Ghana | July 3 – 5, 2019

https://acmcompass.org/


The second annual ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable
Societies (COMPASS 2019) invites submissions for the conference to be
hosted at Accra, Ghana, July 3 – 5, 2019.  COMPASS began as ACM DEV, which
was held annually between 2010 and 2016.


The COMPASS conference, now in its second year, aims to advance the
state-of-the-art in developing sustainable technologies for regions around
the world. Researchers at the conference have broad technical expertise,
spanning artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, networking,
systems, speech and language processing, computer security, data mining,
and computer vision. They seek to apply this expertise to diverse problems
in sustainable development, spanning health, accessibility, education,
agriculture, financial services, and governance.
Call for Papers

The second annual ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable
Societies (COMPASS 2019) invites submissions for the conference. The program
 from last year showcases the types of
topics typically relevant to the conference. COMPASS broadly includes
papers from four general “areas”: Systems, HCI, Data Science/AI, and
Deployment Experiences.


*Systems: *The Systems area focuses on computational innovations. Relevant
topics may include networking; data collection toolkits;

*HCI: *The HCI area focuses on socio-technical systems. Relevant topics may
include gender equity; social forces influencing wireless network access;
the landlord/tenant information economy;

*Data Science/AI: *The Data Science/AI area focuses on analysis, collection
of large scale data sets as well as models and algorithms for developing
and studying AI based systems. AI applications not deployed are also
considered in this area.

*Deployment Experiences: *The Deployment Experiences area focuses on
reporting experiences with field deployments or results from long-term
studies that can provide valuable insights into how our tools perform (or
fail) in real-world applications.
Tracks

COMPASS 2019 will have two tracks. To help facilitate global
representativeness, COMPASS provides mentoring to support potential authors
who need guidance in creating these papers.

The* Papers* track will represent archival journal-type submissions, with a
length of between 4 to 10 pages plus references. Papers submitted to this
track should represent polished, significant contributions. Authors are
encouraged to submit a paper of length proportional to its contribution.

In addition, COMPASS 2019 will have a *Posters *track for preliminary
projects or late-breaking results. Posters will not be archival and are
intended to allow presenters to share their latest results or get early
feedback on projects. Poster submissions will be limited to 2 pages plus
references. There are two poster submission deadlines (March 15 and May 15)
to allow for earlier travel planning as well as late-breaking work.
Important dates

Feb 1, 2019: Requests for mentorship due

March 15, 2019: Submission of Papers and Posters (first round) due

April 1, 2019: Notification of Posters (first round) acceptances

May 1, 2019:  Notification of decisions for Papers

May 15, 2019:  Submission of Posters (second round) due

May 30, 2019: Notification of Posters (second round) acceptances

June 15, 2019:  Camera-ready of Papers due

All submission are due 11:59 pm UTC.
General Conference Chair

Richard Anderson, University of Washington
Program Chairs

Jennifer Mankoff, University of Washington
Carla Gomes, Cornell University
Jay Chen, NYU Abu Dhabi
Local Arrangement Chairs

Ayorkor Korsah, Angela Ansah, and Nathan Amanquah, Asheshi University


*CSG Steering Committee*


Richard Anderson, University of Washington

Nicola Dell, Cornell Tech

Melissa Densmore, University of Cape Town

Carla Gomes, Cornell University

Jennifer Mankoff, University of Washington

Aaditeshwar Seth, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

Lakshmi Subramanian, New York University

Miland Tambe, University of Southern California

Bill Thies, Microsoft Research New England

Ellen Zegura, Georgia Tech


*Program Committee*

TBA




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[change] Fwd: [DC3] PhD in Technology for Development (community networks and clouds)

[Kurtis Heimerl]

mobile

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From: Leandro Navarro 
Date: Tue, May 14, 2019, 2:07 PM
Subject: [DC3] PhD in Technology for Development (community networks and
clouds)
To: Dynamic Coalition on Connected Communities 


Hi, UPC.edu has an open call for PhD fellowships funded by our Tech4Dev
local fund. If anyone is interested in applying (deadline end of June)
in topics related to community networks and community clouds, let me
know. More info (in Catalan):
https://www.upc.edu/ccd/ca/noticies/convocatoria-dajuts-predoctorals

Regards, Leandro.

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[change] Fwd: [TIER] SIGCHI Summer School on Expanding the Horizons of Human-Centered AI (July 24-27, 2019)

[Kurtis Heimerl]

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From: Neha Kumar 
Date: Sun, Jun 2, 2019, 10:40 AM
Subject: [TIER] SIGCHI Summer School on Expanding the Horizons of
Human-Centered AI (July 24-27, 2019)
To: 


Dear friends, followers, and skeptics of Human-Centered AI,

We invite you to apply to our SIGCHI-sponsored Summer School on Expanding
the Horizons of Human-Centered AI (HCAI). In this four-day program to be
held from July 24 to July 27, 2019, in New Delhi, India, participants will
engage with various aspects of human-centered AI and discuss the challenges
and opportunities that it presents for Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and
HCI-friendly researchers, designers, practitioners, educators, and
entrepreneurs.

The program consists of four modules: Systems and Design, Human-Centered
Machine Learning, AI and Social Good, and Critical Perspectives on HCAI.
Our goal is to identify future roles, undertakings, and collaborations for
participants interested in exploring and expanding on these areas from
varied professional perspectives. We welcome a range of backgrounds,
including HCI of course, but also informatics, computer science, science
and technology studies, communication, product design, global development,
and more. You can find more details, including presenters' names, in this
Medium post
.


The program will be conducted at the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi.
Registration fees are INR 4K per day, and INR 10K for all four days. If
interested to attend, *apply here*
*. *Applications
received by June 15 will be given highest priority, but later applications
will also be considered. Participation is by application only. Please note
that participants selected to attend (and be provided a registration fee
waiver) must be SIGCHI members prior to the event.

This is an HCI Across Borders  event, sponsored by ACM
SIGCHI , hosted at IIIT-Delhi, and held in cooperation
with ACM FCA . Feel free to contact us at
expandingh...@gmail.com with any questions.

Neha Kumar (Georgia Tech)

Pushpendra Singh (IIIT-Delhi)
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[change] Fwd: Re Postdoc/Research Associate Opportunity at the CTIC at Penn

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From: Muge Haseki 
Date: Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 1:03 PM

Subject: Postdoc/Research Associate Opportunity at the Center for
Technology, Innovation, and Competition at Penn



The Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition at the University of
Pennsylvania seeks a research fellow to work on a set of research projects
focusing on access to information and communication technologies and their
impact on economic development outcomes. The work will involve analyzing
quantitative data from a variety of datasets, including local
administrative data, survey data, experimental data, and financial data. We
are currently soliciting applications for postdocs, data scientists, and
research associates, with appointment to begin immediately. This position
is for 1 year, subject to renewal for an additional year.

Qualified candidates should have a graduate degree in Computer Science,
Economics, Information Science, or a related field. Strong technical,
analytic, and computational skills are essential. Familiarity with
financial modeling and prior experience conducting field experiments are
preferred.



Some of the responsibilities include:

·  Conduct fieldwork when necessary

·  Clean and manage large datasets

·  Conduct statistical analyses of data using R/Stata

·  Prepare literature reviews, background research, and other draft content
for grant proposals and academic papers

·  Draft project reports, research protocols, and other project documents

·  Prepare presentations for large venues – e.g., U.N. bodies

·  Manage teams of research assistants

·  Represent the project on conference calls and email discussions with
various communities of interest

·  Maintain the project website

Interested individuals should send the following materials to Muge Haseki (
mhas...@law.upenn.edu) with a subject line “Postdoc/RA Position”: a CV, a
cover letter describing research interests and prior relevant experience,
two writing samples (or a relevant chapter from their dissertations), and a
list of names and contact information of three references. Review of
applications will begin immediately.








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[change] Talk: Thursday 12pm@CSE203: Revi Sterling - USAID: How Technologists Fail Women… And how to more effectively address the gender digital divide

[Kurtis Heimerl]

Revi Sterling will be speaking at our moved change seminar and lunch this
Thursday at noon in CSE 203. Revi is currently the Director of the USAID
W-GDP WomenConnect Challenge and has a long history or ICTD work at MSR
India, Colorado, and other places. Please reach out if you'd like to chat
with her 1-1 as well.

Abstract: *The real reason we can’t get the last several hundreds of
millions of women online comes down to fact there are people in their
community who don’t want them online. The women who can get online, are.
Let’s talk about how we tried to address this with the USAID WomenConnect
Challenge and what the major research and policy gaps still are.*

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Re: [change] Talk: Thursday 12pm@CSE203: Revi Sterling - USAID: How Technologists Fail Women… And how to more effectively address the gender digital divide

[Kurtis Heimerl]

Reminder, this is happening today at CSE203 at Noon. Salads will be served!

On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 11:28 PM Kurtis Heimerl 
wrote:

> Revi Sterling will be speaking at our moved change seminar and lunch this
> Thursday at noon in CSE 203. Revi is currently the Director of the USAID
> W-GDP WomenConnect Challenge and has a long history or ICTD work at MSR
> India, Colorado, and other places. Please reach out if you'd like to chat
> with her 1-1 as well.
>
> Abstract: *The real reason we can’t get the last several hundreds of
> millions of women online comes down to fact there are people in their
> community who don’t want them online. The women who can get online, are.
> Let’s talk about how we tried to address this with the USAID WomenConnect
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[change] Fwd: [liberationtech] [Job] Senior DevOps Engineer @ Freedom of the Press Foundation

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From: Erik Moeller 
Date: Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 4:03 PM
Subject: [liberationtech] [Job] Senior DevOps Engineer @ Freedom of the
Press Foundation
To: 


Hi folks,

We're hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer at Freedom of the Press Foundation.

We lead the development of SecureDrop (used by 65+ media organizations),
manage the US Press Freedom Tracker (in partnership with the Committee
to Protect Journalists), and provide digital security training & org
security audits to journalists and news organizations.

Job description here:
https://freedom.press/jobs/senior-devops-engineer/

Budgeted base salary range: $90-$110K

Remote-friendly: Yes, if you're comfortable being available during
business hours in the PT-ET time zone range (you don't have to be based
there).

If this role sounds interesting, we'd love to hear from you -- even if
you're not sure yet if you want to apply. We would also appreciate your
help in getting the word out about this role, so please feel free to
forward this email liberally!

Thanks for reading, and thanks for any & all help getting the word out :)

Warmly,

Erik
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[change] Fwd: ICTD 2020 paper submission deadline approaching!

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mobile

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From: Nicki Dell 
Date: Mon, Dec 16, 2019, 5:04 AM
Subject: ICTD 2020 paper submission deadline approaching!
To: YRICTD 


Final push! Full paper submissions for ICTD 2020 are due in five days, Dec
20 2019, 8pm Anywhere on Earth. We look forward to seeing your submissions!

Conference website: http://ictd2020.org/
Paper submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ictd2020
Call for papers: https://ictd2020.org/participate/cfp/

The International Conference on Information Communication Technologies and
Development (ICTD) will be June 17-20, 2020 at Escuela Superior Politécnica
del Litoral (ESPOL), Guayaquil, Ecuador.

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Re: [change] You have 1 new Schedule Message

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This is probably a Phishing email that made it through our spam filter.
Please ignore it.

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[change] Fwd: [liberationtech] Research Faculty Opportunity at UW Information School

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From: Chris Coward 
Date: Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 7:58 AM
Subject: [liberationtech] Research Faculty Opportunity at UW Information
School
To: l...@lists.liberationtech.org 


The University of Washington Information School has an exciting opportunity
for an Open Rank Research Faculty (Research Assistant Professor, Research
Associate Professor, or Research Professor), non-tenure track position.



This position will be expected to engage in outstanding research that
broadens and deepens our scholarly and social impacts in areas such as:
civic media, civic engagement, information literacy, media literacy,
information and communication technologies and development (ICTD),
community informatics, digital democracy, digital geographies, digital
youth, open data, misinformation, and public interest technology, among
others. We are particularly interested in scholars willing to apply these
areas of study to the context of public libraries.



This position will benefit from a close association with the research
center for which I currently work, the *Technology & Social Change Group
(TASCHA)*, a collaborative and multidisciplinary research center with an
applied research mission to explore the role of digital technologies in
engendering open, inclusive, and equitable societies. Candidates are
encouraged to apply if they are interested in also engaging with the newly
formed *Center for an Informed Public (CIP), *with a core mission of
resisting strategic misinformation and strengthening democratic discourse.



The position is a full-time 12-month appointment at the rank of Research
Assistant Professor, Research Associate Professor, or Research Professor.
Rank is commensurate with experience and qualifications.  The Information
School will offer three years equivalent of full funding for this position,
with the expectation that the individual will be able to maintain an
ongoing program of research funding.  The anticipated start date for this
position is September 1, 2020.



Applicants may find further information about the Information School at
ischool.uw.edu, the Technology & Social Change Group at tascha.uw.edu, and
Center for an Informed Public at cip.uw.edu .

To learn more about the opening and to apply, click this link
. The deadline for applications is *Friday,
February 28**th, 2020*.





Chris Coward

Senior Principal Research Scientist

Information School, University of Washington



Technology & Social Change Group  (TASCHA), Director

Center for an Informed Public , Co-founder


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[change] Fwd: [TIER] job opening - broadband policy and regulatory specialist

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From: Dhanaraj Thakur 
Date: Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 10:19 AM
Subject: [TIER] job opening - broadband policy and regulatory specialist
To: 


Dear all,

Apologies for cross-posting.

We have a new job opening for a Policy and Regulatory Specialist. They will
provide expert advice to all Alliance for Affordable Internet
 (A4AI)’s projects, with a focus on technical assistance
and advisory work. You’ll design and implement effective policy advocacy
strategies to support A4AI’s ambitious policy change goals and contribute
to the development of a powerful evidence base to support our work to make
broadband affordable for all.

*Read the full job description

to find out more.*

*To apply, please read the full job description

and email your CV and a cover letter with the subject line “Policy and
Regulatory Specialist” to j...@webfoundation.org 
by **February 28, 2020**.*

Feel free to share with your colleagues and networks.


thanks and take care,
Dhanaraj

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+1 857 498 8869 (USA)
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[change] Hiring HCI researchers at Google Research India

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We are excited to announce a new *HCI-AI group* at the Google Research India

lab,
Bangalore. We invite applications for full-time HCI researchers working at
the intersection of HCI and AI/ML. Specifically, we are looking for those
working in sub-fields of natural language processing, intelligent user
interfaces, technology and global development, and data visualization.

Being part of the HCI group at Google Research India provides an
opportunity to do cutting-edge research on human-AI systems that aims to
fundamentally amplify human capacity. Google researchers do fundamental,
long-term research that is incorporated into large-scale, real-world
systems that affect the lives of millions of people. Examples of HCI
research from Google Research are the What-if Tool
, Teachable Machines
 and PAIR Guidebook
 and examples of AI research are the BERT

 model, Tensorflow  and Federated Learning
,
incorporated into several products.

In addition to HCI, the India lab is also home to groups doing research on
artificial intelligence (e.g., deep learning, AI applications for societal
issues, natural language understanding, multi-agent systems), systems,
computational social sciences, and more. India is home to a large and
dynamic technology user base and presents unique opportunities for societal
impact. Our India academic relations move forward the discipline of HCI, as
well as other disciplines, through collaborations, fellowships and
mentorship.

Successful candidates for full-time roles will have a PhD. in HCI or
related fields, a strong track record of scholarship in top-tier HCI
venues, evidence of real-world impact, and an ability to successfully
collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams. An understanding of or
experience with AI/ML technology is a prerequisite.

We also invite conversations on visiting faculty, pre-docs (exceptional
Bachelor's or Master's), post-docs, and student projects. Pre-docs and
Post-docs are 1- to 2-year gigs. Visiting faculty length varies from a few
months to a year.

Interested candidates should contact *Nithya Sambasivan
at nithyasa...@google.com * with a CV and bio. We
especially welcome members from under-represented Indian communities.



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[change] Fwd: Engineer needed to help measure power reliability around the world!

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From: Noah Klugman 
Date: Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 3:47 PM
Subject: Engineer needed to help measure power reliability around the world!
To: 


Hello all,

I’m writing to announce a job posting at nLine for a full-stack engineer
who is passionate about using technical expertise to address societal
problems.

nLine is a start-up recently founded out of UCB by Prabal Dutta (a prof in
EECS), Noah Klugman, and Josh Adkins (both PhD students in EECS). This team
has a history with TIER... nLine’s roots started with GridWatch project,
which Noah and Prabal started alongside Javier, Matt, and Eric many years
ago now.

GridWatch (now nLine) combines different types of sensors to take
measurements of grid reliability in areas where there is traditionally very
little data on the actual lived energy environment. People experience a ton
of power outages that the utility and regulators never see and therefore
can't correct. At UCB, this project resulted in a couple of publications
(ICTD’19, COMPASS’19, MobiCom’18, HotMobile’14) and a multi-year deployment
of about 500 power quality sensors in Ghana funded by DFID and MCC.

We just received funding from the Government of Ghana to scale up our work
in Accra. This has given us the chance to also build a team to scale our
measurements globally. If helping us gather critical and never before
measured data on energy reliability for the next 30 countries sounds
interesting please check out the job description attached!

Best wishes,
Noah Klugman
n...@nline.io


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[change] Fwd: CALL: TechCongress, Congressional Innovation Scholars Program

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From: Sajan Ravindran 
Date: Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 9:01 AM
Subject: Fwd: CALL: TechCongress, Congressional Innovation Scholars Program
To: 


Dear Prof. Heimerl,

 If you could please circulate the below position among your contacts, I
would be grateful.

Kind Regards,
Sajan

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TechCongress is now recruiting for the 2020 Congressional Innovation
Scholars program, placing recent graduate students in CS, engineering, data
science and other technical fields to serve as tech policy advisors to top
Members of Congress (offices like Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), Sen. Cory
Gardner (R-CO) and the House Homeland Security Committee).

It’s a ten month paid program ($55,000 annual equivalent stipend) with
other benefits and fellows have done incredible work like:

   - Passing the OPEN Government Data Act into law.
   - Investigating and organizing hearings about Cambridge Analytica,
   voting machine vulnerability, and facial recognition technology.
   - Securing changes to defense procurement policy to allow startups to
   better compete with big government contractors.

Applications are open through 3/15 and there’s more information here:
https://www.techcongress.io/congressional-innovation-scholars



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[change] Course Announcement: CSE 599 H1: Computing for Social Good

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Hi everyone,


I'm leading a computing for social good class this Spring quarter and am
seeking wider participation across the university. Please reach out if you
have any questions.


Spring 2020

Time: MW 1:30-2:50pm

Instructor: Kurtis Heimerl 
TA: Esther Jang 

Location: t.b.a.

As the role of technology has grown, from mainframes to laptops to mobile
phones and pervasive AI, so has the desire to leverage these advances for
the good of society. This class will explore the broad, ongoing themes
around Computing for Social Good, inclusive of advances in HCI, computer
networks, artificial intelligence, and sustainability. We will read about
national- and global-scale challenges and more specific subproblems, and
relevant technology projects. While we will examine some conventional
engineering ethics topics, our aim is much broader: we will start with
fundamental social and ecological challenges and then consider what role,
if any, technology should play in responding to them. One of our aims will
be to differentiate between nice-sounding-but-ineffective tech-for-good
solutions and those that have a chance for real impact. As a result, we
will take a systems perspective -- to trace root causes and find the right
place(s) to make lasting change.

While a working knowledge of critical technology theory is important to
doing good work, this is a class for builders and designers. All students
will complete a project and end up with an artifact; potentially a tool
(designed and/or built) for solving a real-world problem that they bring to
the class or a fictional narrative elucidating the potentials and dangers
of new ongoing advances.

This is a graduate-level computer science class but particularly motivated
and experienced students (including undergrads) from other disciplines can
reach out if they'd like to participate.

More info here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/17RNcB0wb3I1ZbAaLXEuwB5W7X32MOVvP8LAhMONxA-Q/edit?usp=sharing

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[change] Fwd: [liberationtech] COVID 19 app for D.R. Congo - Dev support needed

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From: Kambale Musavuli 
Date: Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 3:59 PM
Subject: [liberationtech] COVID 19 app for D.R. Congo - Dev support needed
To: l...@lists.liberationtech.org 


Hello everyone.

For years now, I’ve followed the list and have found it very informative
especially around tools we can use in Africa.

Today, I’m coming for support as the COVID-19 spread in my country may get
out of control. I know all cases worldwide are important. I do hope that
some of you may be able to help with the situation we have. We are a group
of volunteer devs from the Democratic Republic of the Congo helping the
ministry of telecommunications in having a platform to report cases in DRC
faster than the John Hopkins API, mainly so that health workers can be
updated on the live situation of the virus spread.

Today we launched our website helping the ministry of telecommunications
with contact tracing and sms notification. We are a group of about 5
techies trying to respond to a massive need of 80 million people.

The specific help we need revolves around our code and other best practices
for scenarios like ours (huge USSD users, WhatsApp and sms adoption all
across the country, low internet penetration - below 10%)

The site is live here:
https://covid-19info.cd

The code is here:

Backend: https://github.com/devscast/covid19-backend

Client: https://github.com/devscast/covid19-client

SMS notifier: https://github.com/devscast/covid19-notifier

1. We hope that we can have any developer who has free time to join us in
the expansion of the platform. This will be helpful for code review or also
managing/creating issues on github.

2. We have used Ushaidi and smssync by them also before but we are not
experts in setting it up properly for 80 million people. We are still
waiting for telecoms support to give us a shortcode but for now we are
using twilio with a US number since we are not able to use +243 on their
platform.

There are other issues to add but these are the main ones for now.

If you are interested in helping us in this endeavor, feel free to contact
me.

Kambale
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"Nous ne sommes pas seuls. L’Afrique, l’Asie et les peuples libres et
libérés de tous les coins du monde se trouveront toujours aux côtés de
millions de Congolais"

Watch Crisis in the Congo
http://congojustice.org

Kambale Musavuli 
National Spokesperson
Friends of the Congo 
1629 K Street, NW Suite 300
Washington, DC 20006
Cell Phone: 646-571-8312 <(646)%20571-8312>
Work Phone: 202-584-6512 <(202)%20584-6512>

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[change] Change Seminar Cancelled Spring 2020

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Owing to the unique climate we're in, the Change seminar is cancelled for
the quarter. I hope everyone remains healthy as we pick it back up in the
fall.

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[change] Fwd: [TIER] CFP: ACM MobiCom 2020 - FRUGALTHINGS 2020: 1th Workshop on Frugal Smart Objects

[Kurtis Heimerl]

-- Forwarded message -
From: Pietro Manzoni 
Date: Fri, May 22, 2020 at 9:51 AM
Subject: [TIER] CFP: ACM MobiCom 2020 - FRUGALTHINGS 2020: 1th Workshop on
Frugal Smart Objects
To: 


**Hoping that this workshop will be of interest to the members of the
group. I apologize if it is not appropriate for the list.**

FRUGALTHINGS 2020: 1th Workshop on Experiences with the Design and
Implementation of Frugal Smart Objects

http://www.grc.upv.es/frugalthings2020/

**In conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2020 - The 26th Annual International
Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, 21-25 Sep, London, United
Kingdom.**

Paper Submissions Deadline extension: June 5th, 2020 (FIRM)

## MOTIVATION AND RATIONALE
Frugal innovation employs a creative approach to problem solving which
starts from user needs and works to develop contextually appropriate
solutions that have to be scalable, durable and environmentally
sustainable, while using state-of-the-art technologies and know-how.
Frugal innovation explores the introduction of emerging technologies to new
populations, by developing ubiquitous computing systems, designing
interaction techniques, and collecting and analyzing data.
Examples of frugal innovations uncover the facilitating role of
digitization and technological advancements in developing resource
efficient and sustainable solutions. Ubiquitous internet, telecommunication
and technological tools such as 3-D printing, cloud computing, social
media, crowdfunding are a few examples.
The FRUGALTHINGS workshop focuses on frugal innovations and the application
of its goals for the design, implementation, deployment, operation and
evaluation of novel approaches and systems in the emerging cooperative
environments. We are therefore seeking original, previously unpublished
papers empirically addressing key issues and challenges in the frugal
innovation arena.


## TOPICS
* Accessibility Through Smart Objects
* App Concepts and Technologies for Different Mobile Platforms
* Applications for Social Good
* Content Distribution
* Context-awareness
* Data Collection, Organization and Dissemination Methods
* Deployment and Field Testing
* Engineering of Frugal Objects
* Game, Entertainment, and Multimedia Applications
* Human-object Interaction
* Location- and Track-based Services
* Middleware for Fog/edge Infrastructures
* Mobile Service Architectures and Frameworks
* Multimodal Interaction With Frugal Objects
* Novel Interaction Concepts for Frugal Objects
* Pervasive and Ubiquitous Services in Cloud and IoT
* Platforms and Frameworks for Mobile Devices
* Privacy and Trust Aspects Of Frugal Objects
* Protocol Design, Testing, and Verification
* Rural Areas Connectivity Solutions
* Security Issues, Architectures and Solutions
* Self-explanatory Smart Objects
* Sensors and Data Collection
* Smart Sensory Augmentation and Smart Spaces
* Technology and Models Required for Enabling The Interaction With Smart
Objects
* User Studies and Evaluation Techniques



## IMPORTANT DATES
- Workshop Paper Submissions Deadline: June 5, 2020 (FIRM)
- Workshop Paper Notification: July 1st, 2020
- Camera-ready Workshop Papers Due: July. 31st, 2020

**Submission web page:**
http://www.grc.upv.es/frugalthings2020/authors/

Accepted workshop papers will be included with the MobiCom proceedings and
published in the ACM Digital Library.
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to
the:
* Special Issue on "Sustainable Human-Computer Interaction Development" of
the MDPI Sustainability Journal (Impact Factor: 2.592)
* Special Issue on "AI for IoT" of the MDPI Sensors Journal (Impact Factor:
3.031)

## ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
**GENERAL CHAIRS**

* Claudio Palazzi, Università  degli Studi di Padova, Italy
* Pietro Manzoni, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

**TPC CHAIRS**

* Catia Prandi, University of Bologna, Italy
* Dejan Vukobratovic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
* Giovanni Pau, University of Bologna, Italy

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Pietro Manzoni @ Universitat Politècnica de València (SPAIN)
http://www.grc.upv.es/members/pmanzoni

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*Pietro Manzoni @ Universitat Politècnica de Valè**ncia (SPAIN)*

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[change] Potential for Online Fall Change Seminar

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Hi All,

We're seeking input as to if we should hold a change speaker seminar in the
fall. It would be 12pm PDT every Tuesday. If you're interested, please fill
out the following google form: https://forms.gle/4Sv6ZNaQvGaNwcMu8

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[change] Fwd: Apply to Google’s 2020 exploreCSR funding for undergraduate computing research workshops

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-- Forwarded message -
From: Ben Greenstein 
Date: Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 2:24 PM
Subject: Apply to Google’s 2020 exploreCSR funding for undergraduate
computing research workshops
To: Kurtis Heimerl , Shyamnath Gollakota <
gsh...@cs.washington.edu>


Hi Shyam and Kurtis,

Google has opened applications for exploreCSR, a funding program that
supports universities to host computer science research (CSR) workshops in
order to increase the number of students from underrepresented groups
pursuing CS graduate studies and research careers. The website
<http://research.google/outreach/explore-csr> and this flyer
<http://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/ecsr_2020_overview.pdf> have more
information.

*Applications* <http://research.google/outreach/explore-csr>* close July
30, 2020 at 11:59:59pm PDT.* I encourage you to apply and share this
announcement through your networks. Please contact explore...@google.com
with questions.

Take care,

Ben


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[change] Fwd: [CEE-Faculty] [CEE-Faculty-Plus] [Reminder] Edward Wenk, Jr. Endowed Lectureship | Lecture by Dr. Elizabeth Hausler | Tuesday, October 6

[Kurtis Heimerl]

-- Forwarded message -
From: Jessica Kaminsky 
Date: Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 12:52 PM
Subject: Fwd: [CEE-Faculty] [CEE-Faculty-Plus] [Reminder] Edward Wenk, Jr.
Endowed Lectureship | Lecture by Dr. Elizabeth Hausler | Tuesday, October 6
To: Kurtis Heimerl 


Hey Kurtis,

I hope you're holding up OK with all the craziness.

I thought the below might be a fit for the Change listserv, but wanted to
check it with you first.  Also I'm not certain I can post there; if this
talk looks of interest please share it there!

Cheers,
Jessica



[image: https://explore.uw.edu/rs/131-AQO-225/images/cee_hdr_bndls_gw2.jpg]


*2020 Wenk Endowed Lecture*


*Resilient housing At the Nexus of Climate Justice, Technology and Finance*

[image: Dr. Elizabeth Hausler]
Featuring Dr. Elizabeth Hausler, Founder & CEO, Build Change





*Tuesday, October 6, 3:30pm Zoom meeting
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Please join the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering for the
2020 Edward Wenk, Jr. Endowed Lectureship. A global expert on resilient
building and post-disaster reconstruction, Dr. Elizabeth Hausler will
present a talk titled “Resilient Housing: At the Nexus of Climate Justice,
Technology, and Finance.” Hausler is the founder and CEO of Build Change,
an organization that helps prevent the loss of life in earthquakes and
typhoons by designing disaster-resistant houses and schools in emerging
nations and training local builders and engineers to construct them. Under
Hausler’s leadership and strategic direction, Build Change has grown to
become a global team spread across five continents. Hausler’s emphasis on
rebuilding to withstand future disasters has profoundly influenced global
development policy by making resilience a major consideration for
reconstruction efforts.

The lectureship is made possible by a generous donation from Dr. Edward
Wenk, Jr., professor emeritus of Civil and Environmental Engineering and
science policy adviser to the U.S. Congress and three presidents.

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[change] COMPASS 2021 CFP - Deadline April 7, 2021. Also: join us on the PC!

[Kurtis Heimerl]

ge (but do not require)
real-world deployment and evaluation of methods in collaboration with
public sector partners such as government or NGOs. Submitted papers are
expected to present an argument for the (either realized or potential)
social impact of the work.

Human-Computer Interaction Track
Track chair: Ishtiaque Ahmed (Univ of Toronto, Canada)

https://www.ishtiaque.net/

ishtia...@cs.toronto.edu



Example Paper <https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3209811.3209876>

This track takes paper submissions on new research related to, but not
limited to:

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   User interfaces for underserved populations
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   Human-centered AI
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   Information and computer ethics
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   Information system and technology design methodologies
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   Social relationships and information flows within and across communities
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   Gender and intersectionality
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   Other topics related to interactions between technology and society





Computing Systems Track
Track chair:  Kurtis Heimerl (Univ of Washington, USA) (PC Co-Chair)

https://kurti.sh/

kheim...@cs.washington.edu



Example Paper <https://kurti.sh/pubs/vbts_dev4.pdf>

This track takes paper submissions on the design, implementation, and
deployment of all forms of networked and software systems for sustainable
societies. Topics of interest may include (but not limited to):

   -

   Connectivity solutions and measurements
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   Mobile systems and applications
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   Spectrum management
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   Content distribution
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   Low-cost computing devices
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   Security and privacy issues

We especially encourage contributions on critical perspectives about
technology that may impose limitations on technology-led solutions for
sustainable societies.

Global Health
Track chair: Sunandan Chakraborty (Indiana Univ, USA)

https://soic.iupui.edu/people/sunandan-chakraborty/

sunc...@iu.edu

Example Paper <https://doi.org/10.1145/3378393.3402241>

This track takes papers on all aspects pertaining to the use of computing
solutions to address challenges in global health. Topics may include (but
not limited to):

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   AI/ML techniques for global health
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   EHR analysis
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   Health policy interventions
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   Randomized control trials
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   Bioinformatics and genomics for global health
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   Mobile health and wearables

Papers may be about novel models/methods, applications or policies in the
area of global health.

Education
Track chair: Ahmed Kharrufa (Newcastle University, UK)

https://www.ncl.ac.uk/computing/staff/profile/ahmedkharrufa.html
ahmed.kharr...@ncl.ac.uk

Example Paper
<https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3209811.3209881?casa_token=7KPDKyviq7UA:CmOGIjtbwL3-5lVsNTf9MTxtK1t6pF7J-q9iBZkVk_0DDGf8L1sHqW99LRRBXJBamBfabgPhL7ovwZw>

This track takes paper submissions related the design, development,
deployment and evaluation of innovative technologies in educational
settings in topics including, but not limited to

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   Community engagement in formal and informal education
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   Equality, diversity and inclusion in education
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   Supporting rural and disadvantaged communities
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   Sustainable educational technologies and interventions
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   Emerging technologies in education
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   Developing collaborative, critical, analytical and creative skills

Educational settings include formal and informal settings for all age
groups, physical or online, and from individual to learning at scale.

Energy, IoT, and Smart Cities
Track chair:  Rijurekha Sen (IIT Delhi, India)

https://www.cse.iitd.ac.in/~rijurekha/

sen@gmail.com



Example Paper
<https://acmcompass.org/publications/2020/6/6/o4rdi0mdsvaoz4xu5ua0q6u6dkyhss>

This track takes paper submissions on topics related to the application of
computing and communication technologies, including but not limited to:

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   IoTs and other systems for improving infrastructure (buildings, energy
   systems, roads, water and sanitation systems, etc.), agriculture, community
   engagement and governance
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   Computing technologies applied in energy and electricity networks
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   Systems for measurement, monitoring, and/or management of urban
   environments
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   Deployment of sensing and communications technologies, case studies, and
   lessons learned
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   Security and privacy in energy, IoT, and smart cities applications

Development, Economics, and Social Policy

Daniel Björkegren (Brown University, USA)

https://www.brown.edu/academics/population-studies/people/person/daniel-bj%C3%B6rkegren

daniel_bjorkeg...@brown.edu



Example Paper <https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3209811.3209866>

This track takes paper submissions from economics, social sciences, and
policy that pertain to sustainability and socio-economic development.
Specific topics include but are not limited to:

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   Policy evaluation using randomized control trials or observational data
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   Measurement using non-traditional data (administrative, s

[change] Fwd: LIMITS 2021 -- Workshop on Computing within Limits CFP

[Kurtis Heimerl]

-- Forwarded message -
From: Barath Raghavan 
Date: Sat, Feb 6, 2021 at 8:23 PM
Subject: LIMITS 2021 -- Workshop on Computing within Limits CFP
To: Kurtis Heimerl 


Hi everyone,

Lisa Nathan and I are excited to invite you all to submit papers to LIMITS
2021.  The text call for papers is below, and the website has a little more
info.  Hope to see your papers in a couple months and/or see you virtually
at the workshop in June.

Thanks!

-Barath

**

Computing within Limits, LIMITS 2021
https://computingwithinlimits.org/2021/

ABOUT LIMITS

The LIMITS workshop concerns the role of computing in human societies
affected by real-world limits (ecological and otherwise). We seek to
reshape the computing research agenda as topics that acknowledge a need for
limits are seldom discussed in relation to contemporary computing research.
LIMITS 2021 solicits submissions that move us closer towards computing
systems that support diverse human and non-human lifeforms within thriving
biospheres.

This year, LIMITS will be a virtual, distributed workshop. All main
sessions will be held in parallel (morning in Pacific Time, late afternoon
in UTC).

CALL FOR PAPERS

"We restate the question: can design be reoriented from its dependence on
the marketplace toward creative experimentation with forms, concepts,
territoires, and materials, especially when appropriated by subaltern
communities struggling to redefine their life projects in a mutually
enhancing manner with the Earth?" --Escobar, 2018, p. xvii

LIMITS 2021 invites papers that respond to the question: "What is a
LIMITS-aligned computing system?" We encourage authors to submit either a
Hypothetical Systems paper or an Transitional Systems paper:

Hypothetical Systems: Applying or responding to ideas from earlier LIMITS
workshops, propose a hypothetical computing system or artifact (either
software, hardware, or some combination) that embodies LIMITS thinking. Who
would use this system? Who might benefit from engaging with the system? Who
might be harmed? How are the premises (conceptual or concrete) upon which
the system is built different from our current computing systems? How does
the LIMITS-informed system enact a different world or ways of being in the
world?

Transitional Systems: Researchers and engineers, activists and concerned
citizens, are (re)designing systems that acknowledge and address pressing
ecological issues (e.g., severe droughts, flooding, wildfires, species
extinction). A transitional systems paper concerns the (re)design,
implementation, and/or evaluation of a real-world, contemporary,
socio-technical computing system that responds--at least partially--to
critiques or "implications for design" from earlier LIMITS papers or
LIMITS-related scholarship (e.g., computing and sustainability, computing
and social justice). All transitional systems papers should explicitly
state how the system(s) described support LIMITS-aligned goals.

NOTE: We encourage authors to consider the stories they tell and reify
through their work. As Constanza-Chock reminds us, "Stories have power".
They continue to argue that, "(...) all technological innovation, is an
interplay among complex sets of actors including users, developers, firms,
universities, the state, and others, not a top-down process led by solitary
programmer 'rock stars.' [...] "In other words, what stories are told about
design problems, solutions, contexts, and outcome? Who gets to tell these
stories? Who participates, who benefits, and who is harmed?" (p. 134)

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract registration deadline: March 15, 2021, 11:59pm Pacific Time
Paper submission deadline: April 1, 2021, 11:59pm Pacific Time
Paper reviews available: ~April 15, 2021
Camera ready deadline: May 15, 2021


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[change] Course Announcement: CSE 599 H: Computing for Social Good

[Kurtis Heimerl]

Hi everyone,


I'm leading a computing for social good class this Spring quarter and am
seeking wider participation across the university. Note that this class is
also called CSE 580 (changing numbers takes a bit). Please reach out if you
have any questions.


Spring 2021

Time: MW 11:30-12:50pm

Instructor: Kurtis Heimerl 
TA: Esther Jang 

Location: Online!

As the role of technology has grown, from mainframes to laptops to mobile
phones and pervasive AI, so has the desire to leverage these advances for
the good of society. This class will explore the broad, ongoing themes
around Computing for Social Good, inclusive of advances in HCI, computer
networks, artificial intelligence, and sustainability. We will read about
national- and global-scale challenges and more specific subproblems, and
relevant technology projects. While we will examine some conventional
engineering ethics topics, our aim is much broader: we will start with
fundamental social and ecological challenges and then consider what role,
if any, technology should play in responding to them. One of our aims will
be to differentiate between nice-sounding-but-ineffective tech-for-good
solutions and those that have a chance for real impact. As a result, we
will take a systems perspective -- to trace root causes and find the right
place(s) to make lasting change.

While a working knowledge of critical technology theory is important to
doing good work, this is a class for builders and designers. All students
will complete a project and end up with an artifact; potentially a tool
(designed and/or built) for solving a real-world problem that they bring to
the class or a fictional narrative elucidating the potentials and dangers
of new ongoing advances.

This is a graduate-level computer science class but particularly motivated
and experienced students (including undergrads) from other disciplines are
encouraged to reach out if they'd like to participate.


More information available here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11c71Aj3l3hRJxlkjZUOlRkHeWUMJliXWT87PH7ybt1A/edit?usp=sharing

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[change] Fwd: [gaia] IEEE CTU Challenge

[Kurtis Heimerl]

-- Forwarded message -
From: Javier Simó 
Date: Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 9:37 AM
Subject: [gaia] IEEE CTU Challenge
To: gaia 


Hi all

As some of you are already aware, IEEE has launched the CTU competition
last Friday (Submissions – IEEE Connecting the Unconnected
). Please feel free to share this link
with your network or share the following social media pages:

· LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bradkloza_digitaldivide-activity-6812781920770916353-Apet

· Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/ieee5g/photos/a.1617397288560155/2630610050572202/

· Twitter:
https://twitter.com/IEEEFutureNtwks/status/140596224775668

 Best
-- 
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*Francisco Javier Simó Reigadas*

Profesor Titular de Universidad, Director de la ETSIT

Dept. Teoría de la Señal y Comunic. y Sist. Telemáticos y Computación

T. 914 888 167

Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

Camino del Molino, 5

28942 Fuenlabrada

Madrid

España

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[change] Change Seminar: Tu Noon in CSE2 271 Matt Ziegler on “How’s Shelby the Turtle today?” Strengths and Weaknesses of Interactive Animal-Tracking Maps for Environmental Communication

[Kurtis Heimerl]

Hello Everyone,

In preparation for the Fall quarter, I want to invite you all to register
for the one credit Change Seminar (CSE 590 C1, SLN: 13550) on Tuesdays from
12-1pm in Gates Hall, CSE2 271.

Change (http://change.washington.edu) is a group of faculty, students, and
staff at the UW who are exploring the role of information and communication
technologies (ICT) in improving the lives of underserved populations,
particularly in the developing world. We cover topics such as global
health, education, micro finance, agricultural development, and general
communication, and look at how technology can be used to improve each of
these areas. We are in the process of scheduling speakers, so stay tuned to
our calendar (http://is.gd/3PkTF) or mailing list (http://is.gd/3PlkS) for
more information.

Please consider enrolling.  If you are unable to enroll, feel free to come
to any of the meetings you are interested in attending! The seminar is
available for all UW students and the content is designed to be widely
accessible. We encourage students from all departments to enroll/attend if
interested.

Please forward this message to any other relevant mailing lists, and we
hope to see you tomorrow for Matt Ziegler's Talk from his COMPASS 2021
Honorable Mention Paper *“How’s Shelby the Turtle today?” Strengths and
Weaknesses of Interactive Animal-Tracking Maps for Environmental
Communication *


Abstract: Interactive wildlife-tracking maps on public-facing websites and
apps have become a popular way to share scientific data with the public as
more conservationists and wildlife researchers deploy tracking devices on
animals. Environmental organizations engage with the public for a variety
of reasons: to raise awareness of environmental causes, build relationships
with potential partners, and encourage people to take political and
personal actions. However while there is a large body of work comparing
different media strategies for environmental communication goals, the
effectiveness of interactive data visualizations for these purposes remains
unclear. This work examines the strengths and weaknesses of interactive
wildlife-tracking maps for environmental communication. We interview
conservationists about their aspirations for using these maps with their
own data, and conduct a study gauging lay users’ reactions to different
designs. Many conservationists aspire to create deep, immersive user
engagements with these maps—letting users relate to data-driven stories
about individual animals and freely explore the nuances of the tracking
data. Our findings show potential for the most highly-motivated users to
deeply engage with these data and stories, but more casually-interested
audiences struggle with the maps’ complexities. However for casual
audiences, wildlife tracking maps can still superficially but effectively
showcase the organizations’ work to protect the species; perhaps inspiring
hope for their future, attracting audiences to other communication channels
to learn more, and adding to the organizations’ credibility. Following
these insights, we present a set of design considerations for further
development of similar wildlife-tracking map applications; emphasizing
their needs for user onboarding, context for data interpretation, and
integration with relatable media.

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[change] Fwd: COMPASS Submission site open!

[Kurtis Heimerl]

Hi All,

The HotCRP paper submission system for ACM COMPASS'22
, the ACM Conference on Computing and Sustainable
Societies, is now open and accepting paper submissions:
https://compass22.hotcrp.com/

Please spread the word widely in all your email lists, slack channels, etc.
The first round paper deadline is October 27th, AoE time.

Many thanks!


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[change] Change Seminar: Tu Noon @ CSE2 271 Reshaping rural borders: youth, ICT and socio-technical implications of Covid-19 pandemic in family farming by Matias Centeno

[Kurtis Heimerl]

Join us tomorrow in CSE2 271 for Matias Centeno's talk *Reshaping rural
borders: youth, ICT and socio-technical implications of Covid-19  pandemic
in family farming *

Abstract: Since decades ago, digital change has been a heterogeneous
process affecting modalities of communication, management and organization.
In family farming, the main activity of the agricultural sector in the
world (Graeub et. al., 2016), the Information and Communication
Technologies (ICT) sit across the intersection of crucial concerns that
have surrounded this ancient human activity for centuries.
The agricultural setting is a relevant field to think about contemporary
youth, their trajectories, dilemmas and strategies in an interconnected and
uncertain world. The research is based on the assumption that, fueled by
the  integration of ICT in different spheres of life, young people are
configuring new experiences that defy the frontiers of agricultural
activity. At the same time they are boosting the revision of some
historical categories, including rurality, agricultural practices, rural
youth and farming culture, among others.
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated unprecedented  transformations. It
has highlighted the digital acceleration in daily life and the
dematerialization of the economy. This process is expanding gaps that exist
within fragile economic and political cycles as well as the inequities in
technological and socio-cultural shifts.
The research seeks to understand  the socio-technical trajectories of ICT
in family farming and their socio-cultural configurations in the context of
the Covid-19 pandemic. Situating young people as central actors, the
project will track the communication modalities of youth in family farming
and the developments they have drawn from digital technologies.
Problematizing agriculture and its territorial fabric from the social
sciences, in particular from the encounter between  sociology and
technology, represents a relevant opportunity for technological and rural
development studies aimed to better understand the spread of digital
culture in agricultural life. Research contributions can also allow new
insights about family farming, presenting it not only as a productive
activity but above all, as a sociocultural dimension. The rurban approach
may introduce a newfangled insight for rural studies in the United States,
allowing new academic synergies with Latin American studies.

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[change] Change Seminar: Matt Johnson and Philip Garrison presenting their CSCW '21 papers

[Kurtis Heimerl]

HI All,

Tomorrow, Matt Johnson will present "Network Capacity as Common Pool
Resource: Community-Based Congestion Management in a Community Network" and
Philip Garrison will present "The Network Is an Excuse': Hardware
Maintenance Supporting Community" (winner of a best paper award!). CSCW has
a short talk format this year so we'll cover both in one session. Looking
forward to seeing everyone tomorrow in CSE2 271 at Noon.

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[change] Change Talk: Nithya Sambasivan (Google) Tuesday Noon CSE2 271

[Kurtis Heimerl]

 *The myopia of model centrism*
AI models seek to intervene in increasingly higher stakes domains, such as
cancer detection and microloan allocation. What is the view of the world
that guides AI development in high risk areas, and how does this view
regard the complexity of the real world? In this talk, I will present
results from my multi-year inquiry into how fundamentals of AI
systems---data, expertise, and fairness---are viewed in AI development. I
pay particular attention to developer practices in AI systems intended for
low-resource communities, especially in the Global South, where people are
enrolled as labourers or untapped DAUs. Despite the inordinate role played
by these fundamentals on model outcomes, data work is under-valued; domain
experts are reduced to data-entry operators; and fairness and
accountability assumptions do not scale past the West. Instead, model
development is glamourised, and model performance is viewed as the
indicator of success. The overt emphasis on models, at the cost of ignoring
these fundamentals, leads to brittle and reductive interventions that
ultimately displace functional and complex real-world systems in
low-resource contexts. I put forth practical implications for AI research
and practice to shift away from model centrism to enabling human
ecosystems; in effect, building safer and more robust systems for all.

*Bio:*
Nithya Sambasivan is a Research Scientist at PAIR, Google Research and
leads the human-computer interaction (HCI) group at the India lab.
Her current research focuses on designing responsible AI systems by
focusing on the humans of the AI/ML pipeline, specifically in the non-West.
Her research is seminal to Google's products and strategy for emerging
markets, while also winning numerous best paper awards and nominations at
top-tier computing conferences. Nithya has a PhD. in Information and
Computer Sciences from UC Irvine.


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[change] Fwd: [Ictd] Opportunity to connect with African university students

[Kurtis Heimerl]

-- Forwarded message -
From: Jake Kendall 
Date: Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 2:29 AM
Subject: [Ictd] Opportunity to connect with African university students
To: 


Hi All
I know it's been a super long time since I have posted here -  I hope it's
the right forum!

I have an African startup founder who is looking for university students
from top tier US universities to be beta testers on a new audio product
that connects students from African universities with others in the world.
The founder is great - Harvard grad, well respected in the local ecosystem.
[For those who don't know/remember, I was at UW but now run DFS Lab which
is an early stage investor in African tech]

Blurb here from the founder (reach out directly if you are open to being a
tester or want to talk to him about the product - edymag...@gmail.com):
Univus is the first edtech company that is bringing all the world's
students to connect, learn and collaborate on one single student-only
platform.

In its initial phase, Univus is connecting American college students,
including students at top universities like U. Washington with those at
Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Yale and notable African universities like the
Africa Leadership University to foster communities where learners can chat
on any range of social and intellectual topics in real time. Over the long
term, Univus will create visual and messaging to deepen learner networks
and offer additional use cases in learning and collaboration.

Univus is currently seeking beta testers for its flagship audio product and
sees the U. Washington CS department as an attractive test bed. We request
an introduction and access to 20 CS undergrad students who are using
Android phones to help us test, refine and build the existing Android app.
Your support will be highly appreciated.
Best
Ed Magema
edymag...@gmail.com
LinkedIn 

Cheers!
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Director, DFS Lab 
WhatsApp: +1-917-324-5987
Sign up for the DFS Lab mailing list here

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[change] Change Talk: Tu Noon CSE2 271: Kurtis Heimerl (UWCSE) Reclaiming the Internet: A Journey to Community-Held Cellular Infrastructure

[Kurtis Heimerl]

Speaker will be me! Next week is Yoshi Ota of the School of Marine &
Environmental Affairs

ABSTRACT
Mobile network operators (MNOs) are a critical component of today’s
Internet access landscape. Originally borne of wireline voice telephony
access, innovations in wireless data connectivity (such as GPRS and LTE)
have enabled these operators to become the world's dominant Internet
providers, connecting more people to the Internet than wireline networks.
However, the increasing centralization of the MNO ecosystem (down to just
three providers in the US) is in contrast to the general design goals of
the internet, which was built to allow multiple regional autonomous systems
to work together to provide connectivity. In this talk, we will discuss my
group's ongoing attempts to leverage advances in wide area technology,
specific open source LTE and NR, to recreate distributed access networks
and help small organizations provide connectivity to their communities
while still achieving the at-scale efficiencies of modern MNOs. This
journey starts with an MNO partnership for GSM networks in the rural
Philippines and continues in our current work with local NGOs on urban NR
infrastructure.

SPEAKER BIO
Kurtis Heimerl is an assistant professor of Computer Science at the
University of Washington working on Information and Communication
Technology and International Development (ICTD), specifically universal
Internet access. Before that, he received his PhD from the University of
California, Berkeley, working under Professors Eric Brewer and Tapan
Parikh. Kurtis cofounded Endaga, which joined Facebook in 2015 and has also
published widely, including top conferences such as ICTD, CSCW, CHI,
MobiCom, and NSDI. He was a recipient of the 2014 MIT “35 under 35” award,
the 2018 UW early career Diamond Award, and has won paper awards at CHI,
NSDI, COMPASS, ASSETS, and DySPAN.

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[change] Change Seminar 11/23@Noon Technologists and Ocean Governance Yoshi Ota UW School of Marine & Environmental Affairs

[Kurtis Heimerl]

 Title: Technologists and Ocean Governance

Dr. Ota will speak on his experience leading ocean governance initiatives,
and the successes and pitfalls of the ways technologists engage in this
space. As a jumping-off point, we'll visit a recent high-profile PNAS paper
that claims to identify fishing vessels with a high risk of labor abuse
using AI. Yoshi and a team of other authors published a rebuttal to the
paper, doubting the veracity of its claims and also worrying about the
potential to mislead policy.

Original article claiming to profile fisheries labor exploitation with AI:
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/3/e2016238117
Yoshi's and team's rebuttal: https://www.pnas.org/content/118/19/e2100341118

Noon 11/23 at CSE2 271

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[change] No Change Seminar Tomorrow (11/30)

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[change] 12/7 Final Change Seminar: Naveena Karusala Making Chat at Home in the Hospital: Exploring Chat Use by Nurses

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Final seminar of the quarter tomorrow, hope to see you all there.

Abstract: Popular chat apps are increasingly being leveraged to make a
combination of patient-provider communication and peer support more
accessible beyond formal healthcare settings. However, how these
interventions are experienced in Global South contexts with phone sharing
and intermittent data access is understudied. The context of stigmatized
illnesses like HIV further complicates privacy concerns. We explore these
concerns through a qualitative study of a six-month pilot of WhatsApp-based
facilitated peer support groups, serving youth living with HIV in an
informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya. We draw on chat records and
interviews with youth and the facilitator to describe their experience of
the intervention. We find that despite tensions in group dynamics,
intermittent participation, and contingencies around privacy, youth were
motivated by newfound aspirations and community to manage their health. We
use our findings to discuss implications for the design of chat-based peer
interventions, negotiation of privacy in mobile health applications, and
the role of aspirations in health interventions.

Bio: Naveena is a PhD candidate at University of Washington in the School
of Computer Science and Engineering. She studies how emerging technologies
have shaped care work in parts of the Global South, including in community
health, nursing, and forms of telehealth. Her work uncovers the
relationships between the design of sociotechnical systems and the
valuation of care work, and what power relations they reproduce or resist
in health and global development.

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[change] Correction: Talk title is “That courage to encourage”: Participation and Aspirations in Chat-based Peer Support for Youth Living with HIV

[Kurtis Heimerl]

Whoops, wrong talk. See you all tomorrow.


On Mon, Dec 6, 2021 at 10:11 AM Kurtis Heimerl 
wrote:

> Final seminar of the quarter tomorrow, hope to see you all there.
>
> Abstract: Popular chat apps are increasingly being leveraged to make a
> combination of patient-provider communication and peer support more
> accessible beyond formal healthcare settings. However, how these
> interventions are experienced in Global South contexts with phone sharing
> and intermittent data access is understudied. The context of stigmatized
> illnesses like HIV further complicates privacy concerns. We explore these
> concerns through a qualitative study of a six-month pilot of WhatsApp-based
> facilitated peer support groups, serving youth living with HIV in an
> informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya. We draw on chat records and
> interviews with youth and the facilitator to describe their experience of
> the intervention. We find that despite tensions in group dynamics,
> intermittent participation, and contingencies around privacy, youth were
> motivated by newfound aspirations and community to manage their health. We
> use our findings to discuss implications for the design of chat-based peer
> interventions, negotiation of privacy in mobile health applications, and
> the role of aspirations in health interventions.
>
> Bio: Naveena is a PhD candidate at University of Washington in the School
> of Computer Science and Engineering. She studies how emerging technologies
> have shaped care work in parts of the Global South, including in community
> health, nursing, and forms of telehealth. Her work uncovers the
> relationships between the design of sociotechnical systems and the
> valuation of care work, and what power relations they reproduce or resist
> in health and global development.
>
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[change] Fwd: Social Media Influencers and the New Political Economy in South Asia and Africa

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-- Forwarded message -
From: Joyojeet Pal 
Date: Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 8:27 PM
Subject: Fwd: Social Media Influencers and the New Political Economy in
South Asia and Africa
To: Ishtiaque Ahmed , Aditya Vashistha <
adit...@cornell.edu>, Kurtis Heimerl , Neha
Kumar , Nicola Dell , Rajesh
Veeraraghavan , Priyank Chandra <
priyank.chan...@utoronto.ca>



Hi folks, Here's a great event at Michigan that some of your students (and
you!) may be interested in. Please consider forwarding to relevant mailing
lists?


Social Media Influencers and the New Political Economy in South Asia and
Africa



*April 7-8, 2022, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor*

In Person at Room 2435, North Quad, 105 State Street, Ann Arbor, and
available online through registration

9 AM – 5 PM, US Eastern Time



The University of Michigan is hosting a symposium on social media
influencers at the University of Michigan, 2435 North Quad, on April 7-8,
2022, and will be available for remote participation for registered
attendees. The event features a number of social media influencers, and
those who study them, from two regions with the fastest growing social
media user populations -- Continental Africa and South Asia.

The workshop brings together a range of professionals and scholars -
dissidents, bureaucrats, artists, movie stars, comedians, commentators, and
industry professionals to explore the ways in which social media
influencing is changing social, political, and cultural engagements.

Registration is available for in-person and online attendance. For details
and a list of confirmed speakers, please see here:

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

The event is co-sponsored by the Center for South Asia Studies, the
Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the School of Information,
the Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing.
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[change] Fwd: [jsde] Fwd: [Csssfac] [CSSS-seminar] TODAY - CSSS Seminar: Emma Riley, UW/Economics, Wednesday, Feb 23 at 12:30 pm via Hybrid

[Kurtis Heimerl]

Good related talk in Econ!

-- Forwarded message -
From: Rachel M Heath 
Date: Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 9:46 AM
Subject: [jsde] Fwd: [Csssfac] [CSSS-seminar] TODAY - CSSS Seminar: Emma
Riley, UW/Economics, Wednesday, Feb 23 at 12:30 pm via Hybrid
To: , , 


Dear Colleagues,
See below for details of Emma Riley's talk in CSSS today, which is likely
to be of interest to many of you!
best wishes,
Rachel

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From: Center for Statistics & the Social Sciences 
Date: Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 8:38 AM
Subject: [Csssfac] [CSSS-seminar] TODAY - CSSS Seminar: Emma Riley,
UW/Economics, Wednesday, Feb 23 at 12:30 pm via Hybrid
To: csss-semi...@uw.edu 


Please join us for our next speaker in the Center for Statistics and the
Social Sciences Seminar Series. TODAY Wednesday, February 23) at 12:30 pm, Emma
Riley , UW Professor of Economics, will
give a seminar titled, “Leaders’ Role in Technology Adoption: Evidence from
Mobile Banking in Ghana.” This seminar will be offered as a Hybrid session.
Below please find the abstract and information about joining in-person or
on Zoom.




Abstract

Mobile banking services have the potential to transform access to banking,
by allowing individuals to access far away bank accounts from their mobile
phones. However, adoption of these services frequently remains low,
especially amongst rural populations, who have the most to gain from them
but lack the knowledge or experience to use these services. In this study,
we examine how best to inform and encourage use of mobile banking services,
comparing individual encouragement to encouragement of adoption by a peer
leader. We do this using an RCT with 400 female microfinance clients where
we provide combinations of training on mobile banking with small incentives
to encourage adoption of mobile banking services for the individual or for
the group leader. Using both administrative data and a self-reported
endline survey two months after the interventions, we find that individual
incentives increase use of mobile banking services by 16 percentage points,
double the control mean of 15% using mobile banking services. However,
incentives for the group leader to encourage others in the microfinance
group to use mobile banking services result in significantly higher use of
36 percentage points, along with increases in the value and number of
mobile banking transactions. We collect detailed data on mechanisms, and
find that incentives for the group leader result in large increases in
knowledge about mobile banking, frequency of knowledge sharing with peers,
and confidence in how to safely conduct digital transactions. Heterogeneous
treatment effects reveal that women in microfinance groups where the group
leader had already used mobile banking services see significantly larger
treatment effects. These findings highlight the importance of thinking
about influential members of a social group in encouraging technology
adoption.



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[change] Fwd: [jsde] Ted Miguel in JSDE on Monday, March 7

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Another good upcoming jsde talk!

-- Forwarded message -
From: Isabelle Cohen 
Date: Wed, Mar 2, 2022 at 11:21 AM
Subject: [jsde] Ted Miguel in JSDE on Monday, March 7
To: , , 


Dear colleagues and students,

We are pleased to announce that *Ted Miguel* (UC Berkeley) will be
presenting at JSDE next week. The seminar will be held from *11:00 am -
12:30 pm *on *Monday, March 7*. The seminar and visit will be fully
remote, with the talk held at the link below. The title and abstract of the
talk are below.

*Zoom link: *https://washington.zoom.us/j/98113334162.

We have limited slots to meet with Professor Miguel.
(1) *Faculty members*: Please sign up at this link
.
If there are no spots remaining, please feel free to email me at
imco...@uw.edu.
(2) *Graduate students*: If interested, please email me at imco...@uw.edu
with your availability to meet on Monday, but note that we are unlikely to
be able to accommodate all requests.

*Title*: *What does donor conditionality do? Causal evidence from Kenyan
electrification *(joint with Catherine D. Wolfram, Eric Hsu and Susanna B.
Berkouwer)

*Abstract*: Multilateral organizations often impose conditions on the use
of financing they provide low- and middle-income countries, but what do
they do in practice? This question has been debated contentiously by
governments, multilateral organizations, and academics since at least the
1980s. It is difficult to answer causally due to the endogeneity and low
sample size of multilateral financing. To provide causal micro-evidence on
this topic, we leverage an unusual feature of Kenya’s nationwide
electrification program: the quasi-random allocation of villages across
multilateral funding sources. We conduct detailed on-the-ground engineering
assessments of transformers, conductors, and poles; collect
minute-by-minute household-level outage and voltage data; and conduct
household surveys on connection quality and usage. We find that relatively
burdensome World Bank contracting procedures delayed the start and progress
of construction by 6–10 months relative to African Development Bank funded
projects, and led to significantly fewer connected sites and households
four years later. Yet these conditions generated no detectable impact on
construction quality, power outages, voltage quality, or household energy
usage and spending. To disentangle two key dimensions of conditionality—ex
ante contracting steps versus ex post audits—we implement a randomized
audits scheme mimicking the latter, and find that this improves household
connections at low cost and without delays. In this context, combining
rigorous audits with more streamlined upfront contracting could potentially
improve the quality of public projects while limiting construction delays.

We look forward to seeing many of you there.

Best,
Isabelle

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University of Washington
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[change] Fwd: HotCarbon 2022: 1st Workshop on Sustainable Computer Systems Design and Implementation

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-- Forwarded message -
From: George Porter 
Date: Mon, May 2, 2022 at 4:28 PM
Subject: HotCarbon 2022: 1st Workshop on Sustainable Computer Systems
Design and Implementation
To: Kurtis Heimerl 


Hi Kurtis,

We're putting together a one-day workshop the Sunday before OSDI
called "HotCarbon 2022: 1st Workshop on Sustainable Computer Systems
Design and Implementation." and thought you might be interested.
Additionally, we're hoping you can share this information with folks
you know who might be interested.

Key Dates and locations:

Date: July 10, 2022 (immediately before OSDI 2022)
Location: UC San Diego, La Jolla, Calif. and Zoom (it will be a hybrid event)
Paper or Panel proposal submission deadline: May 10, 2022 (AoE)
Notification: June 3, 2022
Website and registration link: https://hotcarbon.org

We solicit 5-page position papers that address sustainability and/or
the carbon footprint of computer and networked systems. An ideal
submission has the potential to open a line of inquiry that results in
multiple conference papers by different authors in related venues,
rather than a single follow-on conference paper. Position papers that
frame larger new challenges and opportunities are encouraged. The
program committee will explicitly favor papers likely to stimulate
reflection and discussion, addressing the root causes of
unsustainability in current designs.

The full CFP and program committee list is available at https://hotcarbon.org/

If you could forward this to those who might be interested we'd
greatly appreciate it!

Warm regards,

George Porter and Tom Anderson
Program Co-Chairs, HotCarbon'22
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[change] Fwd: Public Interest Technology summer speaker series

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-- Forwarded message -
From: Chris Coward 
Date: Thu, Jun 9, 2022 at 7:14 AM
Subject: Public Interest Technology summer speaker series
To: Kurtis Heimerl , lazowska
, Ryan Calo , Jodi Sandfort

Cc: Anind K Dey 


The Public Interest Technology University Network has created a summer
speaker series that may be of interest to your students. Starts June
20. Registration required. Please circulate

https://pitcases.org/public-interest-technology-summer-speaker-series/



-Chris



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Senior Principal Research Scientist

Affiliate Associate Professor

Information School, University of Washington

Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA), Director

Center for an Informed Public, Co-founder



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[change] Fwd: Dimagi is hiring a data fellow

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-- Forwarded message -
From: Brian DeRenzi 
Date: Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 5:25 AM
Subject: Dimagi is hiring a data fellow
To: Kurtis Heimerl 


Hey Kuris,

Hope you're well. We're hiring a data fellow -- can you share with the
Change and TIER lists if appropriate?

Kind regards,
Brian


Dimagi is hiring a data fellow to work on their research and data
team. Dimagi leads the open-source CommCare platform--the world's most
widely-used mobile data collection platform for frontline workers.
This role will support research projects, current and future
data-driven project work, and exploratory initiatives to develop
high-quality research outputs to share and disseminate learnings with
larger communities. Find out more at:

https://www.dimagi.com/careers/

https://www.dimagi.com/careers/job/4496060/
(direct link to the US-based job application. Other locations
available from the main careers page)

Or, for more information, reach out to Brian DeRenzi 

About Dimagi
Dimagi is an award-winning social enterprise and a certified B-corp
and Benefit Corporation. We build software solutions and provide
technology consulting services to improve the quality of essential
services for underserved populations.
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[change] Announcing the Fall Change Seminar: Noon Tuesdays at CSE2 271

[Kurtis Heimerl]

Hello Everyone,

In preparation for the Fall quarter, I want to invite you all to
register for the one credit Change Seminar (CSE 590 C1, SLN: 13513) on
Tuesdays from 12-1pm in 271 CSE2 (The Bill and Melinda Gates Center).

Change (http://change.washington.edu) is a group of faculty, students,
and staff at the UW who are exploring the role of information and
communication technologies (ICT) in improving the lives of underserved
populations, particularly in the developing world (though domestically
as well). We cover topics such as global health, education, micro
finance, agricultural development, and general communication, and look
at how technology can be used to improve each of these areas. We are
in the process of scheduling speakers, so stay tuned to our calendar
(http://is.gd/3PkTF) or mailing list (http://is.gd/3PlkS) for more
information. Food will also be provided.

Please consider enrolling.  If you are unable to enroll, feel free to
come to any of the meetings you are interested in attending! The
seminar is available for all UW students and the content is designed
to be widely accessible. We encourage students from all departments to
enroll/attend if interested. The first week will be "organizing", with
the goal of sourcing some speakers from the wider UW community.

Please forward this message to any other relevant mailing lists, and
we hope to see you on Tuesday October 4th at noon in Room 203 of the
Paul Allen Center.


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[change] Fwd: [jsde] Fwd: Call for Papers: PacDev 2023 at UW (March 18)

[Kurtis Heimerl]

-- Forwarded message -
From: Rachel M Heath 
Date: Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 4:01 PM
Subject: [jsde] Fwd: Call for Papers: PacDev 2023 at UW (March 18)
To: , , 


Dear Colleagues,

We are thrilled to announce that the Pacific Development Conference
(PacDev) will be hosted by UW on Saturday, March 18, 2023.  This is the
first time it has ever been hosted outside of the state of California!
Please consider submitting a paper and/or attending.

best wishes,
Rachel and Alan

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From: Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) 
Date: Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 1:25 PM
Subject: Call for Papers: PacDev 2023 at UW (March 18)
To: Rachel 


Save the date and submit a paper to present at our annual PacDev conference!
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Pacific Conference for Development Economics (PacDev) 2023


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Dear colleagues and students,

We're happy to announce that PacDev 2023 will be held in-person at the
*University
of Washington* on *Saturday, March 18, 2023*. As details are finalized,
they will be available on the CEGA event page

.

We welcome submissions in all research topics in development economics.
While priority will be given to full papers, extended abstracts will also
be considered. We encourage submissions from junior researchers, including
students who are in the first two years of their graduate programs. The
conference will include both full paper presentations and a poster session.

Paper submissions are due by *11:59 PM PST on Friday, January 6, 2023* and
speakers will be notified by Tuesday, January 31. Submit your paper through
the above site or this online portal

.

Please spread the word and save the date!

Best,
Rachel M Heath and Alan Griffith
*Department of Economics, University of Washington*

Carson Christiano
*Executive Director, CEGA*
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[change] SNIP2+: Second Workshop on Situating Network Infrastructure with People, Practices, and Beyond @ SIGCOMM 2023

[Kurtis Heimerl]

Esteemed Colleagues,

The second Workshop on Situating Network Infrastructure with People,
Practices, and Beyond (SNIP2+) will be held at SIGCOMM 2023 on 10 September
2023 in New York City, New York.



TL;DR: If you are interested in conducting networking research that borrows
methods from disciplines outside of your traditional academic field,
consider joining this workshop!



   -

   Papers (both archival and non-archival) will be due 11 June 2023 and can
   be submitted at the following link: https://snip2b23.hotcrp.com/.



   -

   Lightning talks will be due 28 August 2023  and can be submitted at the
   following link: https://forms.gle/iDWfYF4kWAtF6DNH8.


This workshop seeks to build a community of researchers interested in
exploring topics that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries to examine
the diverse ways in which people interact with network infrastructure. We
take a broad view of work at the intersection of people, practices, and
networks, and invite contributions from the practitioner community,
policymakers, and the range of academic communities that conduct research
in this area, including but not limited to computer networking, information
and communication technology for development (ICTD), human-computer
interaction (HCI), public policy, law, information science, and science and
technology studies (STS).

We will be accepting paper submissions to the following two tracks:


   1.

   Non-archival track: For non-archival work, we invite both preliminary
   work-in-progress and position papers, each seeking feedback and discussion
   from our extended community.



   1.

   Archival track: For the archival track we seek novel contributions or
   results of ongoing research. These submissions must be original,
   unpublished work, and not under consideration at another venue. Papers
   should be at most 6 pages in length, plus references and appendices, in
   two-column 10pt ACM format. Submissions must include author names and
   affiliations for single-blind peer reviewing by the PC. Authors of accepted
   submissions are expected to present and discuss their work at the workshop.


These submissions will be due 11 June 2023 and can be submitted at the
following link: https://snip2b23.hotcrp.com/

In the interest of community-building, we also invite proposals for
lightning talks from all participants. Lightning talks should last no
longer than two minutes, and should include a brief summary of your
interests in or connections to the topics of the workshop, any relevant
prior work you wish to share with the community, and discussion relating to
themes of the workshop.

Lightning talks will be due 28 August 2023  and can be submitted at the
following link: https://forms.gle/iDWfYF4kWAtF6DNH8

For further inquiries about the workshop, please feel free to reach out to
a member of the workshop’s organizing committee:

   -

   Shaddi Hasan: sha...@vt.edu
   -

   Kurtis Heimerl: kheim...@cs.washington.edu
   -

   Innocent Obi: inno...@cs.washington.edu
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   Beatriz Palacios Abad: b...@gatech.edu
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   Gloire Rubambiza: glo...@cs.cornell.edu
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   Wesley Woo: wesleym...@vt.edu
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[change] Fwd: LIMITS'23 Registration is open!

[Kurtis Heimerl]

LIMITS is running again this year and we have a great set of papers
relevant to these communities. Registration is free!

-- Forwarded message -
From: Elina Eriksson 
Date: Wed, May 24, 2023 at 7:31 AM
Subject: LIMITS'23 Registration is open!
To: lim...@googlegroups.com 
Cc: Kurtis Heimerl 


We are excited to share the registration link and schedule for the 9th
annual Computing within Limits Workshop (LIMITS‘23)!

The LIMITS workshop concerns the role of computing in human societies
situated in a world of limits. As an interdisciplinary group of
researchers, practitioners, and scholars, we seek to reshape the computing
research agenda, grounded by an awareness that contemporary computing
research is intertwined with ecological limits in general, and climate- and
climate justice-related limits in particular. LIMITS 2023 solicits
submissions that move us closer towards computing that support diverse
human and non-human lifeforms and thriving biospheres.

The virtual (and free!) two-day gathering will run June 14 + 15, 2023. The
schedule attempts to accommodate participants from different time zones,
however we recognize that it won’t work well for all. There will also be
LIMITS hubs - see more information on the website. Your registration
information will allow us to share connection details with you closer to
the event.


Registration: https://www.kth.se/form/6447d65d3d91efc671e7


Program and info on Hubs: https://computingwithinlimits.org/2023/


Please share the registration and program links with interested colleagues.


With appreciation,
Kurtis Heimerl and Elina Eriksson
Co-organizers
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[change] Doctoral Summer School on Sustainable ICT (SICT),

[Kurtis Heimerl]

Dear all,

We *invite you to register* for the 4th edition of our *Doctoral Summer
School on Sustainable ICT (SICT)*, taking place in *English* and *in-person*
from *July 03 to July 07* in *Grenoble, France*.

Please register via the link to the registration form on our website:
*https://www.sictdoctoralschool.com/registration*


At SICT 2023, we will investigate the theme of *"Radical changes for
sustainable and equitable ICT in times of compounding crises"*. Please
check out the full abstract here:
*https://www.sictdoctoralschool.com/media/abstract-sict2023.pdf*


We are excited for our week on this theme with everyone attending. Please
find the continuously updated *program* for SICT 2023 here:
*https://www.sictdoctoralschool.com/program-2023*


At this time, *registration costs EUR 300* (without banquet) and *EUR 335*
(with banquet).

We have been working hard to put SICT 2023 together and hope to experience
this week together with many of you! Please forward this message to people
(PhD students, colleagues, friends) who might be interested in attending
(thank you!).

Kind regards
 SICT 2023 Organizing Team
 *https://www.sictdoctoralschool.com* 


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[change] Fwd: VIDEO - NANOG Talks to Seattle Community Network

[Kurtis Heimerl]

Cool video on Seattle Community Network at NANOG.

-- Forwarded message -
From: NANOG 
Date: Wed, Aug 9, 2023 at 9:40 AM
Subject: VIDEO - NANOG Talks to Seattle Community Network
To: 


Connecting the Underserved Across Puget Sound + Geoff Huston: "The Source
of Time..."


Working together, to build the Internet of tomorrow.

VIDEO - NANOG Talks to Seattle Community Network
*NANOG Talks to SCN About Connecting the Underserved Across Puget Sound*
*The Seattle Community Network (SCN) is an Internet built by the community
for the community.*

NANOG Executive Director Edward McNair sat down with a volunteer of SCN +
Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science at the University of
Washington, Esther Jang, at our most recent meeting, NANOG 88 (Seattle, Wa,
12 - 14 Jun) to discuss the mission of SCN and how they are connecting +
empowering underserved regions locally.


WATCH NOW


Guest Column: Geoff Huston "The Source of Time, According to a Technologist"
*Exploring the Definition of Time from Early Astronomical Observations to
its use in the Internet Today*
*An underappreciated aspect of our digital infrastructure is how dependent
we are on time.*

Disrupting time leads to communication disruption and can result in various
forms of service compromise. A synchronized view of the time is essential
to the Internet's service platform.

READ MORE


*Upcoming Fall Online Course *
*Fundamentals of Designing and Deploying Computer Networks*

*Date:* 11 September –  20 October 2023
*Title:* Fundamentals of Designing and Deploying Computer Networks

*Description:* This course will discuss the fundamentals of networking,
Ethernet, and WIFI technologies. It will additionally teach the planning,
design, and deployment of simple LANs and cover how to connect a LAN to the
Internet. The course will also present the most common ways to connect a
LAN to the Internet (Mobile Internet, ADSL, Fiber) and how to set up the
connections.

MORE INFO


Video of the Week
*Deploying a Backbone in APAC with Pierre-Yves Maunier *

Maunier discusses what his team learned and changed during their multi-year
journey expanding their network footprint in the Asia Pacific region.

He will speak about the challenges they faced, their mistakes, and how they
worked around them with various iterations of their deployment.

WATCH NOW



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[change] Fwd: UCSD Designing Just Futures Faculty Search

[Kurtis Heimerl]

-- Forwarded message -
From: Ryan Kastner 
Date: Thu, Dec 7, 2023 at 9:49 AM
Subject: UCSD Designing Just Futures Faculty Search
To: 
Cc: Nataly Herrera 


Dear Prof. Heimerl,


Elizabeth Belding told me that you might be able to help publicize this
faculty search.


I want to make you aware of a unique Professor position at UCSD focusing on
“Designing Just Futures.” Faculty hired under this Initiative will join the
UC San Diego campus, the Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
the UC San Diego Design Lab , and the Indigenous
Futures Institute  to forge a new paradigm of
engagement and collaboration that draws on the geographic, academic,
institutional, and cultural strengths of our tri-national region across
Southern California, Baja California, and the Kumeyaay region.


Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

   -

   Sustainable Computing (e.g., battery-free, self-powered, biodegradable,
   low carbon and net-zero carbon).
   -

   Technology to Increase Access (e.g., rural/remote broadband/ad-hoc
   networks; novel education techniques; disability/accessibility
   technologies, research and pedagogy focused on serving indigenous
   populations).
   -

   Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for Community
   Empowerment and Global Developmen (e.g., civic technology, community
   information platforms, resident-driven data science, systems, and
   implementation-oriented ICT work).
   -

   Ethical Computing (e.g., systems to interface law, policy, and
   technology; disinformation comprehension/mitigation; structural BPC/STEM
   work; infrastructure/implementations to decolonize technology).
   -

   Computing for social justice (e.g., helping to enable core values of
   equal rights and equal opportunity through science and technology)
   -

   Measuring, understanding, and mitigating biases in computer systems and
   algorithms; designing computer systems with less bias.
   -

   Designing more accessible and inclusive health technology (e.g.,
   mHealth; health literacy interventions; medication adherence/support).
   -

   Mixed Physical-digital Interactions and Cyber-physical Systems (eg. VR,
   AR, XR).


We have openings at the Assistant and Associate levels and could also
consider other levels.

Assistant Professor: https://apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03822

Associate Professor: https://apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03827

If you know any potential candidates, please share this opportunity with
them! I would be happy to talk to anyone about this opportunity. Please
have them reach out to me to learn more.

-- 
Ryan Kastner
Computer Science and Engineering
UC San Diego
http://kastner.ucsd.edu
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[change] Fwd: [dub] RSVP Now for DUB / Change Seminar on Jan 10: Joyojeet Pal

[Kurtis Heimerl]

-- Forwarded message -
From: James Fogarty 
Date: Tue, Jan 2, 2024 at 8:01 AM
Subject: [dub] RSVP Now for DUB / Change Seminar on Jan 10: Joyojeet Pal
To: dub 


Happy New Year!

We're excited for next week's DUB / Change Seminar with Joyojeet Pal:

https://dub.washington.edu/seminars/2024-01-10.html

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

https://forms.gle/PZfT6jAesinythWy9

RSVP is needed by this Thursday Jan 4. RSVP may also close sooner if our
in-person capacity limit is reached.

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

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

The seminar schedule is:

11:45am - 12:15pm: Food and community socializing.
12:15pm - 1:15: Presentation with Q&A. Available hybrid via Zoom.
1:15pm - 2:00pm: Student meeting and discussion with speaker.

The student meeting is open to all DUB students, as an opportunity for more
discussion with the speaker.

James

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

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


I am not a UW mandatory reporter and therefore not legally required to
report misconduct or crime, unless it involves somebody under the age of
18. If you share a problem with me, I will work with you to determine next
steps.
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[change] Fwd: AMC SCI4E Workshop - Call for Papers

[Kurtis Heimerl]

Dear colleague,



We would like to welcome you to submit your research to the first ACM
Workshop on Sensing, Communication, and Intelligence for Earth (SCI4E 2024). We
are organizing SCI4E as a part of MobiSys 2024, and the workshop will be
held on June 7th in Tokyo. This workshop is a platform for researchers to
submit their early-stage work and short position papers around sensing,
communication, and AI in the following applications areas, but not limited
to them:



● Climate

● Conservation

● Food Security (e.g., agriculture, supply chain)

● Freshwater and Oceans

● Sustainability

● Environment

● Community Resilience



The deadline to submit is April 6th, and more information can be found on
the workshop website: ACM SCI4E 2024 - Call for Papers (google.com)
<https://sites.google.com/stanford.edu/sci4e2024/call-for-papers>



We would also appreciate it if you share this invitation with others in
your network who work on related topics.



Sincerely,

The SCI4E organizing committee.

*Vaishnavi Ranganathan (Microsoft Research)*

*Zerina Kapetanovic (Stanford)*

*Kurtis Heimerl (University of Washington)*
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[change] Fwd: 4th IEEE Connecting The Unconnected Challenge - Submit 500 Word Abstract (Phase I) - June 5 Deadline

[Kurtis Heimerl]

-- Forwarded message -
From: Ashutosh Dutta, Ph.D. Founding Co-Chair, Connecting The Unconnected
(CTU) 
Date: Fri, May 10, 2024 at 9:08 PM
Subject: 4th IEEE Connecting The Unconnected Challenge - Submit 500 Word
Abstract (Phase I) - June 5 Deadline
To: 








The Fourth IEEE Connecting the Unconnected Challenge

Call for Submissions - https://ctu.ieee.org

Contact email: ieee-...@ieee.org

Phase 1 submission deadline: June 5, 2024

Submit 500 words abstract by 5 June 2024 for Phase I

Calling all innovators to enter the 2024 IEEE Connecting the Unconnected
Challenge!

Help IEEE contribute to worldwide digital inclusion by submitting a novel,
early-stage project (proof-of-concept) or concept that offers unique ways
to increase Internet access and usage for the 2.9 billion unconnected
people around the world. The global 2024 IEEE Connecting the Unconnected
Challenge is now open for submissions of unique solutions to bridge the
digital divide. Deadline is 5 June 2024.

Internet access is critical to education, industry, and healthy living.
Unconnected populations lack access to buy and sell goods and services
online. Unconnected students lack access to the flourishing remote
education market. The IEEE Connecting the Unconnected Challenge seeks to
further connectivity by calling for early-stage projects and concepts that
pursue unique ways to increase broadband access and usage for unconnected
or under-connected populations/geographies.

Start-ups, grassroots organizations, universities, and others working
toward digital inclusion in original ways are encouraged to participate.
Read the competition rules and learn about how to enter your novel projects
at the CTU website: https://ctu.ieee.org/

Important dates:

Phase 1 submission opening: April 12, 2024

Phase 1 submission closing: June 5, 2024

The 2024 CTU Challenge will continue with a "Best Overall Gender Inclusion"
award. This award will go to the Proof-of-Concept or Concept track
contestant in any category (TA, BM, or CE) whose project or solution makes
a significant impact or effort in closing the gender digital divide.
Applicants will have an opportunity during Phases 2 and 3 of the
competition to demonstrate how they have focused on gender inclusion within
various KPIs, and generally. For more information, be sure to read the
Contest Rules and Call for Participation.

Additionally, all contestants who make it to Phase 2 will have the
opportunity to submit ideas for possible standard proposal for how they
might further address the digital divide in the future.

For more information:

CTU Challenge contact email: ieee-...@ieee.org

SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL NOW!

--

Sincerely,

Sudhir Dixit and Ashutosh Dutta

Co-chairs CTU Working Group, IEEE Future Networks





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