[change] Maker Fair Africa: From Pee to Electricity

[Trevor Perrier]

I thought this was a great way to make electricity from a renewable source.

http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2012/11/07/forget-apps-and-other-useless-startups-these-four-african-girls-have-created-a-pee-powered-generator/

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[change] Today: Tina Neogi and Greg Zwisler on Noncommunicable Diseases

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What: Tina Neogi and Greg Zwisler from PATH on Noncommunicable Diseases
When: Tuesday, April 16th at 12pm
Where: The Allen Center, CSE 203


Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) represent a major and increasing global 
issue.  It is estimated that more 36 million deaths are due to 
noncommunicable diseases, with more than 80% of these deaths occurring 
in low or middle-income countries.  There are four major types of 
noncommunicable diseases, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, 
cancer, and respiratory disease. As diabetes is a risk factor for 
cardiovascular disease and a cause of morbidity and mortality in it of 
itself, preventing diabetes and its complications is an essential 
component of the NCD response. Between 2012 and 2030, the number of 
people living with diabetes globally will increase from 371 to 552 
million.  PATH is invested in the NCD response, with experience of 
advancing technology and strengthening systems. This talk will explore 
the current PATH projects related to diabetes, including exploring 
innovative solutions in diabetes screening and management in Cambodia, 
bi-directional screening for tuberculosis and diabetes in Mexico, a 
novel diabetes and cardiovascular screening method in India, and an 
initial technical development of novel diagnostic test for gestational 
diabetes.


Tina Neogi, MD, MS is an NRSA Primary Care Research Fellow in the 
Department of Family Medicine at the University of Washington and the 
Noncommunicable Disease Fellow at PATH.  Her research interests are 
around using resource and context appropriate information and point of 
care technologies to improve patient empowerment, with a particular 
focus on underserved populations and resource-constrained settings.


Greg Zwisler is a Business Officer at PATH. He is a core member of 
several product development teams, serving as a business generalist 
responsible for commercialization and market-development activities. 
Greg currently works on initiatives to enhance the category of oral 
rehydration solutions and to develop appropriate diagnostics and other 
technologies for use with diabetes and other non-communicable diseases 
(NCDs). His role and experience span market research, business strategy, 
product management, and partnering. His interests include consumer and 
industry insights, business case development, formation of partnership 
portfolios, and corporate intrapreneurism. Over the course of 10 years 
with PATH in positions of progressive responsibility, Greg has worked 
for short periods in Argentina, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Ethiopia, 
Ghana, India, Kenya, South Africa, Vietnam, Zambia, and various other 
markets. He holds an Executive MBA from the Foster School of Business at 
the University of Washington, and a BA from Rice University.


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[change] Tuesday: Nexleaf Analytics and mobile phone sensors

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*What:* Dr. Nithya Ramanathan from Nexleaf Analytics on phone sensors for
global health
*When: *Tuesday, April 23 at 12pm
*Where:* The Allen Center, CSE 203

*Abstract - Putting mobile phone sensors to work for global health and the
environment*
Big data represents a scientific paradigm shift. But as with other
technologies, the benefits of big data will not be distributed equitably.
 Nexleaf is a research and development organization that builds low-cost
sensors and mobile platforms to make big data more accessible. In this talk
Ill describe several projects we are working on with NGOs, governments, and
scientists around the world to create new sensors and data analytics that,
when coupled with mobile platform based solutions, capture data that aim to
improve the health and environment of people living on less than $4 per day.

*Bio*
Dr. Nithya Ramanathan is the President and Co-Founder of Nexleaf Analytics,
and an Assistant Research Professor in Computer Science at the University
of California Los Angeles.  Dr. Ramanathan brings over 14 years of
experience as a computer scientist, including her work in research and
development at Intel and Hewlett-Packard, to the development of software
architecture for mobile participatory sensing systems, with an emphasis on
environmental and public health applications.

Her work includes building systems for monitoring air pollution, wildlife
conservation, cookstove financing, behavioral intervention, water access
and coldchain monitoring around the world.  Dr. Ramanathan received a
highly competitive NIH Challenge Grant to develop AndWellness, a
self-monitoring and self-management mobile phone application that provides
real-time assessments and feedback on behavioral and environmental
exposures for disease onset and progression for chronic diseases.

Dr. Ramanathan received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA and holds a
BS degree from the University of California at Berkeley in Electrical
Engineering.  She leads a number of projects with funding from the National
Science Foundation, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Google,
Qualcomm, Nokia, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID),
Vodafone Foundation, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and
the National Institutes of Health; additionally, she is a former Switzer
Fellow, PopTech Social Innovation Fellow, and Rainer Arnhold Fellow.
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[change] No Change Tomorrow

[Trevor Perrier]

Hi All,

We were unable to schedule a speaker at short notice for tomorrow, so
unfortunately the last Change talk of the quarter will have to be canceled.


Thanks to all those who came out and participated this quarter.  We look
forward to starting up again in the fall and learning about what everyone
is up to over the summer.

Regards,

- Trevor
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[change] Register for the Change Seminar

[Trevor Perrier]

Hello Everyone,

I would like to invite you all to register for the one credit Change
Seminar (CSE 590 C1, SLN: 12753) which will be meeting on Tuesdays from
12-1pm in 203 of the Paul Allen 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. 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 (and if you know anyone in the community who we should invite
please let me know).

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 on Tuesday October 1st at noon in Room 203 of the Paul
Allen Center.

Thanks,

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[change] Matthew Thompson: Identifying children with serious illness in resource poor settings – how can vital signs be more useful?

[Trevor Perrier]

What: Matthew Thompson:  Identifying children with serious illness in 
resource poor settings – how can vital signs be more useful?


When: Tuesday, October 8th at 12 noon

Where: The Allen Center, CSE 203

Join us for the second Change seminar of the fall quarter.  This week 
Matthew Thompson from the Department of Family Medicine at UW will be 
speaking about how vital signs can be used to more effectively identify 
serious illness.


*Abstract*

Vital signs are key physiological measures that are used to assess the 
overall severity of illness in children, particularly in primary or 
community clinical settings. They include heart rate, breathing rate, 
temperature, and sometimes blood pressure, oxygen saturations and 
capillary refill time. Currently, the WHO’s Integrated Management of 
Childhood Illness only routinely uses breathing rate, and even in 
established primary care clinics low/middle income settings, vital signs 
are measured infrequently.
So why aren’t vital signs used routinely to assess children? As with any 
‘signal’, vital signs will only be useful for identifying children with 
serious illness if A) They can be measured accurately B) There are 
thresholds that define abnormal values, C) The diagnostic value of one 
or more abnormal vital signs is known, and D) vital signs provide 
diagnostic value over and above other clinical assessments.
Over the past 7 years our Oxford-based group has explored novel ways of 
measuring breathing rate in children using the photoplethysmogram signal 
from pulse oximeters, developed new evidence-based centile charts of 
heart rate and breathing rate in children which are now being adopted 
worldwide, quantified the interaction of temperature with heart rate and 
with breathing rate, and evaluated the diagnostic accuracy of different 
combinations of vital signs for identifying children with serious 
illness in various settings.
Vital signs could probably identify the majority of children with 
serious illness in primary care settings, but there are major gaps that 
prevent vital signs from being adopted routinely to assess unwell 
children. In this seminar I will share these research findings with the 
aim of exploring possible research collaborations across departments at 
UW in developing low cost technological solutions to vital sign 
measurement, interpretation/integration, as well as diagnostic accuracy 
studies that could inform child assessments in first contact settings in 
low/middle income countries


*About the Speaker*

Matthew Thompson has recently moved from the University of Oxford to 
take up a new position as Professor and Vice Chair of Research at the 
Department of Family Medicine at UW. He has a background as a Family 
Physician and trained and worked in the USA, UK and S Africa. He 
completed his MPH at UW and a DPhil in diagnostic research at the 
University of Oxford.


His research as a clinical epidemiologist in Oxford over the last 10 
years has focused on diagnostics, child health and infectious 
diseaseshttp://www.phc.ox.ac.uk/team/researchers-n-z/matthew-thompson. 
He set up and led the Oxford Centre for Monitoring and Diagnosis, which 
evaluates and conducts clinical studies on diagnostic tests and 
technologies relevant to primary care, including point of care tests and 
electronic devices. His child health research has explored more accurate 
ways to identify children with serious illness (e.g. meningitis) in 
primary care using clinical features and decision support. He is also 
currently PI of an EU-funded study to evaluate a mobile platform based 
version of IMCI and vital signs in Malawi, and is working on a Wellcome 
Trust study assessing the diagnostic value of vital signs in children in 
community clinics in Cape Town.


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[change] Katy Pearce: The reproduction and amplification of gender inequality online - The case of Azerbaijan.

[Trevor Perrier]

What: Katy Pearce:  The reproduction and amplification of gender inequality
online - The case of Azerbaijan.

When: Tuesday, October 15th at 12 noon

Where: The Allen Center, CSE 203

Join us for this weeks Change talk by Katy
Pearce,http://www.com.washington.edu/pearce/assistant professor in
the Department of Communication on online gender
inequality in Azerbaijan.

*Abstract*

Inequalities found offline are replicated and are often amplified
online. Results from a nationally representative survey in Azerbaijan,
an authoritarian post-Soviet petrostate with a tradition of gender
inequality, demonstrates that being female is not only a barrier to
Internet use, but the strongest barrier to Internet use, frequency,
and capital-enhancing online activities. While this study cannot
explain why being female has such an effect on access, use, and
Internet activities, acknowledging the relative importance of can
provide insight into potential targets or entry points for an
intervention.

*About the Speaker*

Katy E. Pearce is an assistant professor in the Department of
Communication at the University of Washington and holds an affiliation
with the Ellison Center for Russian East European, and Central Asian
Studies. She specializes in technology and media use in the Former
Soviet Union. Her research focuses on social and political uses of
technologies and digital content in the transitioning democracies and
semi-authoritarian states of the South Caucasus and Central Asia, but
primarily Armenia and Azerbaijan. She has a BA (2001) in Armenian,
Arabic, Persian, Turkish  Islamic Studies as well as American Culture
from the University of Michigan, an MA (2006) in International Studies
from the University of London School for Oriental and African Studies,
and a PhD (2011) in Communication from the University of California,
Santa Barbara, and was a Fulbright scholar (Armenia 2007-2008). The
main thrust of my research is adoption and use of information and
communication technologies in diverse cultural, economic, and
political contexts, mainly authoritarian post-Soviet states. The
adoption side, I look at barriers to use – often socioeconomic, but
sometimes political or cultural. On the outcome of ICT use side, I
study outcomes like decreasing or increasing inequality due to ICTs,
cosmopolitanism, capital enhancement, civic engagement, demand for
democracy, and social activism.
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[change] Change Tuesday Oct 22th: Kurtis Heimerl - GSM White Space

[Trevor Perrier]

What: Kurtis Heimerl:  GSM White Space: Spectrum Regulation in Support 
of Community Cellular Networks


When: Tuesday, October 22th at 12 noon

Where: The Allen Center, CSE 203

Join us for this weeks Change talk by Kurtis Heimerl on his continued 
work with community cellular networks and the future small micotelcos.


*Abstract*

Community Cellular Networks, small scale community-operated microtelcos, 
have the potential to bring cellular coverage to the remaining 700 
million people in rural areas without it. The deployments of two real 
world networks, our Papua network and Rhizomatica's Oaxaca network, 
support this vision. However, hurdles remain. One primary limitation is 
regulatory; the Papua network is running without a spectrum license and 
the Oaxaca network is limited to a 2-year experimental non-profit 
license. Instead, major nation-scale carriers own this spectrum and are 
reluctant to share it. In this work, we propose a mechanism, GSM White 
Space (GSMWS), for allowing secondary community cellular networks to 
operate in licensed bands with no negative impact to existing carriers. 
GSMWS uses cognitive radio designs to co-operate in the same bands as 
existing carriers. I will detail our early progress on these designs and 
future work.


*About the Speaker*

Kurtis Heimerl is a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley working under Eric 
Brewer in EECS and Tapan Parikh in the iSchool. His work focuses 
primarily on cellular systems and their intersection with international 
development. He is interested in Education, having worked on the 
Metamouse group learning program, Crowdsourcing, winning Best Paper at 
CHI for work on Kiosk-based crowdsoucing systems, and cellular systems 
for rural areas, winning the Community award at NSDI. He will be 
graduating in the winter and is very excited about the future of rural 
connectivity.


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[change] Tuesday Nov 5th: Kentaro Toyama: What should be our primary focus in international development?

[Trevor Perrier]

What: Kentaro Toyama: What should be our primary focus in international 
development?


When: Tuesday, November 5th at 12 noon

Where: The Allen Center, CSE 203

Please join us for this weeks Change talk by Kentaro Toyama as he shares 
his views on what the longterm goals of technology in development should 
be and lessons that he learned working in both India and Africa.


*Abstract*

After several years of working on ICT-for-development projects in India 
and parts of Africa, I came to the conclusion that to first order, 
technology only amplifies underlying human forces. Amplification means 
that where human forces are corrupt or weak, there is little positive 
impact that technology can have - yet corrupt or weak institutions are 
exactly the challenge facing many developing-world environments.


That raises the big question of what else development efforts might 
focus on, if not providing people the tools to help themselves. I have 
some preliminary ideas -- not necessarily friendly to a technological 
outlook -- and I look forward to an opportunity to discuss and debate 
with people who are also invested in development and social change.


*About the Speaker*

Kentaro Toyama (www.kentarotoyama.org) is a visiting researcher in the 
School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley and a 
fellow of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at 
MIT. He is working on a book arguing that genuine human development, not 
technocratic intervention, should be the primary focus of international 
development activities. Until 2009, Toyama was assistant managing 
director of Microsoft Research India and founder of the Technology for 
Emerging Markets research group, which conducts interdisciplinary 
research to explore how the world's poorest communities might benefit 
from electronic technology. Prior to his time in India, Toyama did 
computer vision and multimedia research and taught mathematics at Ashesi 
University in Accra, Ghana. Kentaro graduated from Yale with a PhD in 
Computer Science and from Harvard with a bachelors degree in Physics.


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[change] Luis Fernando Baron: Social Media and Social Movements

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What: Social Media and Social Movements: Facebook in the interactions of
Social Movement Organizations

When: Tuesday, November 12th at 12 noon

Where: The Allen Center, CSE 203

Please join us next Tuesday for the Change Seminar.  Luis Fernando will be
presenting on his current research into social media and social movement
organizations around immigration issues in Washington.

*Abstract*

Use of Social Media is transforming communication practices within and
among organizations, with important consequences for social movement
organizations seeking to benefit undeserved communities such as immigrants
in the US. This work seeks to illuminate how Facebook has been entangled in
the practices of Social Movement Organizations (SMO) that work on
immigration issues in Washington State.

I focus on three complementary areas of inquiry: (a) the SMO information
and communication practices; (b) their processes for expressing and forging
collective identities, and (c) their *performativity*, defined as an
understanding of the SMO’s multiple and fluid interactions with individuals
and collectives. Results of this research will expand understanding of the
intersection of technology and society, and of social media and social
movements in particular, and help social and grassroots organizations
improve their actions and services on behalf of immigrants in the US and
other parts of the world.

*About the Speaker*

Luis Fernando is a Ph.D. Candidate of Information Sciences at the
University of Washington (UW). He has been leader in the study of relations
of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and social movements,
particularly, in the field of human rights and peacebuilding in Colombia.
His research spans such diverse areas as memories, public opinion and
audiences studies on violence and peace processes in Colombia, uses of
media for social change, immigration and information, and alternative
processes of organization for development. He is defending his dissertation
this coming December: *Social Media and Social Movements: Facebook in the
interactions of Social Movement Organizations*.  His last book on public
access to computers, coauthored by Ricardo Gomez, is going to be presented
in Colombia next December as well.
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[change] 590 C1: Change Seminar

[Trevor Perrier]

Hello Everyone,

I would like to invite you all to register for the one credit Change
Seminar (CSE 590 C1, SLN: 12718) which will be meeting on Tuesdays from
12-1pm in 203 of the Paul Allen Center.  The first meeting will be next
week Tuesday January 14th.

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 undeserved 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 (and if you know anyone in the community who we should invite
please let me know).

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 on Tuesday January 14th at noon in Room 203 of the Paul
Allen Center.

Thanks,

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[change] Change Tomorrow: Nicki Dell - ODK Scan in Mozambique

[Trevor Perrier]

Please join us for this weeks Change talk by Nicki Dell who will be
presenting on work published at ICTD 2013 early last month on a deployment
of ODK Scan in Mozambique.

What: Nicki Dell: Integrating ODK Scan into the community health worker
supply chain in Mozambique

When: Tuesday, January 14 @ 12 noon

Where: The Allen Center, CSE 203

*Abstract*

We describe our experiences integrating ODK Scan into the community health
worker (CHW) supply chain in Mozambique. ODK Scan is a mobile application
that uses computer vision techniques to digitize data from paper forms. The
application automatically classifies machine-readable data types, like
bubbles and checkboxes, and assists users with the manual entry of
handwritten text and numbers. We designed an intervention that uses paper
forms in conjunction with ODK Scan to monitor CHW usage of essential health
commodities, finding that the application is capable of providing
supervisors and stakeholders with important information regarding health
commodity availability in the field. Specifically, we (1) detail our
experiences integrating ODK Scan into the health worker supply chain in
Mozambique, with particular emphasis on the critical (and often
under-reported) role of practitioners; (2) evaluate the impact of the
technology at multiple levels of the information hierarchy, providing
quantitative and qualitative data that exposes the benefits, challenges and
limitations of the technology; and (3) share lessons learned and provide
actionable guidance to researchers and practitioners interested in ODK Scan
or other systems that bridge the gap between paper-based and digital data
collection.

*About the Speaker*

Nicki Dell http://www.nixdell.com/ is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department
of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. Her
research interests are in human-computer interaction, computer vision and
machine-learning with a focus on designing and evaluating systems that
improve the lives of underserved populations in low-income regions. Nicki
is advised by Professor Gaetano Borriello and Professor Linda Shapiro.

She is a member of the Open Data Kit (ODK) research team, is very active in
the Change community and is actively involved in DUB.
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[change] Tomorrow at Change: Thomas Larson - Cell Phone Microscopy

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What: Thomas Larson: Cell Phone Microscopy

When: Tuesday, January 28 @ 12 noon (Every other Tuesday this quarter)

Where: The Allen Center, CSE 203

Please join us for this weeks Change talk by Thomas Larson on the design 
and future of his low cost cell phone microscope attachment.


*Abstract*

Cell Phone Microscopy is the utilization of hardware built into mobile 
phones as a platform for microscopic imaging. Advantages over 
traditional microscopes include cost, portability, and the ability to 
rapidly transmit images and videos. Cell Phone Microscopy has the 
potential to supplement traditional microscopy in underserved regions 
for the purposes of both disease diagnosis and sanitation education.


I will be speaking about my work in developing an extremely simple and 
low-cost cell phone microscope attachment. The discussion will include 
(1) development of the attachment as an undergraduate researcher at the 
University of Washington, (2) crowd-funding as a means of supporting 
research, and (3) leveraging a for-profit company to impact global health.


*About the Speaker*

Thomas Larson is a graduate of the University of Washington, B.S. 
Mechanical Engineering '13. He has been developing a means of cell phone 
microscopy for the past two years, first working with Prof. Nathan 
Sniadecki in the Cell Biomechanics lab, now through his company, Cell 
Focus.


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[change] Tomorrow at Change: Designing for the Deluge

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What: Camille Cobb: Designing for the Deluge

When: Tuesday, Feb 25 @ 12 noon (Every other Tuesday this quarter)

Where: The Allen Center, CSE 203

Join us tomorrow for Change. This week Camille Cobb will be presenting 
recent work done at UW on designing for digital volunteers on social media.


*Abstract*

Social media is a potentially valuable source of situational awareness 
information during crisis events. Consistently, digital volunteers and 
others are coming together to filter and process this data into usable 
resources, often coordinating their work within distributed online 
groups. However, current tools and practices are frequently unable to 
keep up with the speed and volume of incoming data during large events. 
Through contextual interviews with emergency response professionals and 
digital volunteers, this research examines the ad hoc, collaborative 
practices that have emerged to help process this data and outlines 
strategies for supporting and leveraging these efforts in future 
designs. We argue for solutions that align with current group values, 
work practices, volunteer motivations, and organizational structures, 
but also allow these groups to increase the scale and efficiency of 
their operations.


*About the Speaker*

Camille Cobb is a second year PhD student in CSE co-advised by Kate 
Starbird and Gaetano Borriello. She graduated in 2012 from Washington 
and Lee University with a BS in physics and a BA in computer science. 
She is originally from Charlotte, NC. Camille's is interested in 
interdisciplinary projects that have a motivation or application beyond 
computer science and has been working on this crisis related project 
since she started at UW.


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Re: [change] Change seminar on Tuesday, March 4th

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Just a reminder that the Change Seminar WILL meet tomorrow in CSE 203 at
noon.

Hope to see you there,

- Trevor


On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 6:08 PM, Nicola Dell nixd...@cs.washington.eduwrote:

 Hi everyone,


 We *WILL* be having a Change seminar on Tuesday, March 4th. Our speaker
 will be Kalika Bali from the Technology for Emerging Markets lab at
 Microsoft Research, India.


 Please join us at 12pm in CSE 203. As usual, lunch will be provided.


  *Speaker Bio*

 Kalika Bali is a researcher in the Technologies for Emerging Markets and
 Multilingual Systems research areas  at Microsoft Research India. Her
 interests are in speech and language technology for education, NLP and
 speech technology for Indian languages, linguistic resources and standards,
 and cognitive models of language processing. Her current research focuses
 on the use of non-standard language use in computer-mediated conversations,
 especially in social media.


  *Understanding Language in Emerging Markets*

 In emerging markets such as India and China, the typical user demography
 differs not only in the language used but also in the way languages might
 be used. Technology especially mobile and internet must cater to a user
 base that differs in many ways from those in North America or Europe.
 Taking India as a case study, this talk outlines major challenges in
 localizing technology and services vis-à-vis language technology, policy,
 and linguistics, as well as user demography and practices. Deeper research
 issues need to be addressed regarding issues of language use, such as the
 dominance of transliteration and code mixing in all spheres of
 computer-mediated communication. We will also discuss potential solutions
 that point towards an improved natural language user interface for these
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[change] No Change Seminar This Week

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The scheduled speaker for tomorrow's seminar unfortunately is unable to 
make it so we are canceling the last talk of winter quarter.


However, next quarter we will be having Change every week again! 
Currently there is only one slot open: May 6th.  If you know anyone who 
would like to give a talk about their work please let me know.


Thanks,

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[change] Change Seminar Spring Quarter: 590 C1 (SLN: 12692)

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Hello Everyone,

I would like to invite you all to register for the one credit Change 
Seminar (CSE 590 C1, SLN: 12692) which will meet on Tuesdays from 12-1pm 
in 203 of the Paul Allen Center.  We have an exciting schedule of 
speakers for next quarter and will be having seminar every week.  Stay 
tuned to our calendar 
https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=uwcha...@gmail.comhttp://is.gd/3PkTFor 
mailing list http://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/change 
http://is.gd/3PlkSfor more information on upcoming speakers.


Change (http://change.washington.edu 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 undeserved populations, particularly in the eveloping 
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.


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 on Tuesday January 14th at noon in Room 203 of the Paul 
Allen Center.



Thanks,

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[change] Tomorrow at Change: Cliff Schmidt from Literacy Bridge

[Trevor Perrier]

What: Cliff Schmidt from Literacy Bridge

When: Tuesday, April 1st at 12 noon

Where: The Allen Center, CSE 203

Join us tomorrow for the first Change seminar of spring quarter. This 
week we will have a talk by Cliff Schmidt from Literacy Bridge 
http://www.literacybridge.org/.


*Abstract
*Reaching remote villages with agriculture training and health promotion 
can dramatically reduce poverty, disease, and hunger. Mobile phones 
offer a solution in some cases: SMS messages can reach literate users, 
and voice calls can reach those who own a phone and can easily keep it 
charged. But in villages with 10% literacy rates, no electricity, and 
where most women don't own a phone, mobile solutions have failed --- and 
this is where you find extreme poverty. Radio broadcasts address these 
challenges but run into others: listeners must be available during the 
broadcast and they must remember everything they hear.  Illiterate 
users, who cannot take notes, must rely on their memories when the 
information is needed; otherwise, they need an on-demand solution. Cloud 
services and smart, connected, devices are increasingly able to 
distribute digital information right up to the last mile, but not 
beyond. Join us to discuss our experience leveraging mobile devices, but 
reaching beyond them with a simple, durable, audio device that provides 
on-demand messages while capturing metrics and user feedback to send 
back via mobile technology to cloud-based services.


*About The Speaker*
Cliff started Literacy Bridge in 2007, leading the development of an 
audio-based mobile device called the Talking Book for people with 
minimal literacy skills living in rural areas without electricity or 
Internet access. Literacy Bridge now partners with UNICEF to use Talking 
Books to reach 40,000 people with new on-demand content every six 
weeks. Cliff received the Microsoft Alumni Foundation Integral Fellow 
Award by Bill and Melinda Gates and was awarded a Clinton Global 
Initiative membership by President Bill Clinton. He received the top 
prize at the Tech Awards in 2012 and Computerworld Honors in 2013, and 
was selected by the PBS Newshour as one of five Agents for Social Change 
in 2013.


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[change] Tomorrow at Change: Neha Kumar: ICT's and Multi-Media

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Join us tomorrow for Change.  UW CSE postdoctoral researcher Neha Kumar 
will join us for a discussion on her work examining the relationship 
between ICT and media consumption in rural, small-town, and urban India.


What: Neha Kumar: The Link Between ICT's and Media Consumption

When: Tuesday, April 8th at 12pm

Where: The Allen Center, CSE 203

*Abstract:*

Research initiatives in the fields of Information and Communication 
Technology and Development (ICTD) have largely overlooked leisure-driven 
uses of new media technologies in their efforts to address agricultural, 
educational, financial and other instrumental needs.


My research finds that affordable new media technologies have been 
significant in driving the procurement of entertainment content and the 
production of culture. Individuals from socioeconomically disadvantaged 
backgrounds quickly become adept at using these technologies, paving the 
way for development-friendly outcomes. This is the phenomenon I analyze, 
as I examine individual agency in the intertwining of culture and new 
media in the context of dominant development narratives.


This talk will draw upon research that investigates the leisure-driven 
appropriation of the mobile phone by youth from marginal backgrounds in 
rural, small-town, and urban India. I study the influx of new media and 
its resulting impact in folk music-rich communities of rural Madhya 
Pradesh and Rajasthan. Shifting focus to the motivations that drive 
youth towards mobile consumption of folk and popular media, I examine 
the unique material affordances of mobile technology and its influence 
on emerging media practices. Highlighting the notion of agency, both 
human and material, I investigate the pirate media network responsible 
for the widespread dissemination of digital media /and/ technical 
skills. I then discuss the agency of urban Indian youth that guides them 
to further build on these skills as they negotiate various linguistic, 
social, and technological hurdles in their thirst to engage with social 
media.


*About the speaker:*

Neha is a postdoctoral researcher at UW CSE, where her research focuses 
on the design, production, and dissemination of visual media to address 
maternal and infant mortality in rural India. She recently completed her 
Ph.D. from the School of Information at UC Berkeley, where she conducted 
an ethnography of the adoption and self-guided uses of new media 
technologies of Indian youth from socioeconomically disadvantaged 
backgrounds. Her research objective is to contribute a deeper, more 
grounded understanding of emerging uses and /users/ to the field of ICTD 
and its interventions. She is most at home in cross-disciplinary 
contexts, having worn the hats of computer scientist, education 
researcher, designer, data analyst, and ethnographer at various stages 
of her graduate work.
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[change] Tomorrow at Change: Robert Racadio

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*What:* Robert Racadio: The work of community health workers in India: 
Opportunities for Design


*When:* Tuesday, April 15th at 12pm

*Where:* The Allen Center, CSE 203

Please join us tomorrow for Change.  Robert Racadio from Human Cantered 
Design and Engineering will be presenting on research on the work flows 
of Indian health workers.


*Abstract:*.

Much of the work on mobile health technologies in low-resource settings 
has focused on providing health workers new tools for working in their 
communities. Finding design solutions most appropriate for them must be 
grounded in an understanding of their day-to-day work. Through field 
observations and interviews, this research seeks to understand the work 
and social practices of community health workers at primary health 
centers in India. I present stories and experiences of health workers 
from primary health centers in India, describing their responsibilities, 
strategies, and challenges of working in these centers. I conclude by 
exploring implications and opportunities for designing technologies that 
better support and augment their work.


*About the speaker:*
 Robert Racadio is a 3rd year PhD student in Human Centered Design and 
Engineering, where he is a member of the Tactile and Tactile and 
Tactical Design Lab, and is advised by Professor Beth Kolko. Robert is 
interested in understanding how to better design technologies that 
promote community well-being in low resource environments.


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[change] Vote for Diana Marangu in Canada Grand Challenges

[Trevor Perrier]

Diana Marangu, this week Change presenter, has an application addressing 
TB related stigma on the Canada grand challenges website.


 Please check her application out and show support by voting for 
here: 
https://applications.grandchallenges.ca/en/viewVideo/28735E6AA2E637B3606E461B


- Trevor

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[change] Tomorrow at Change: Faisal Hossain - Delivering Hydrological Information for Community Empowerment

[Trevor Perrier]

*What*: Faisal Hossain: Delivering Hydrological Information for 
Community Empowerment - Opportunities and Challenges for the 
Semi-skilled Consumer


*When:* Tuesday, April 29th at 12pm

*Where:* The Allen Center, CSE 203

Please join us Tuesday for an exciting  Change Seminar. Faisal Hossain 
from Civil Engineering Department will be talking about his work to 
monitor water use throughout the world.


*Abstract:*

/An idea that has lately received some traction is that the space 
vantage of satellites to monitor water dynamics around the world would 
one day empower developing nations and their inhabitants currently 
cursed with not able to know early enough how much water will flow 
into or out of its borders or location. The current water information 
black out negatively impacts water resources management in about 50 or 
more developing nations that occupy only a small part of a large river 
basin. The dream of empowerment is founded on the belief that timely 
access to water information flowing in or out is a basic right for all 
nations and their inhabitants and that emerging satellite remote sensing 
are now poised to afford this right. This talk will provide an overview 
of challenges and the current progress made on making satellite remote 
sensing deliver this widely-accessible water information as 
decision-making knowledge to solve developing world water problems. The 
talk will also address the issue of water-borne disease vulnerability in 
the developing world and the potential synergy that satellite-based 
water information may afford. Finally, the talk will summarize some of 
the unresolved research and technological questions for enabling 
sovereign management of water resources for developing nations. /



*About the speaker:*

Faisal Hossain is an Associate Professor in the Civil Engineering 
Department of University of Washington. He graduated from the Indian 
Institute of Technology with a B.S in Civil Engineering (1996) followed 
by a MS and PhD from National University of Singapore (1999) and 
University of Connecticut (2004), respectively. His research interests 
span the field of water resources issues, human impacts of climate and 
engineering education



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[change] This Week at Change: Abraham Flaxman - Measuring mortality rates in Iraq

[Trevor Perrier]

*What*: Abraham Flaxman - Measuring mortality rates in Iraq: 
Technologies for generating credible estimates of deaths caused by the 
2003-2011 war and occupation


*When:* Tuesday, May 6th at 12pm

*Where:* The Allen Center, CSE 203

Please join us Tuesday for another exciting Change Seminar. Abie Flaxman 
from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation will be talking 
about recent work on methods for estimating the mortality rate in Iraq.


*Abstract:*

Over the last 4 years, I helped a team of doctors and epidemiologists to 
measure the number of deaths cause directly and indirectly by the US-led 
invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq.  Producing this estimate 
turned out to be technically challenging and politically controversial, 
as I expected.  In this talk, I will describe some of the math, stats, 
and computer science for producing such a quantity and for making it stick.



*About the speaker:*

Abraham Flaxman, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Global Health at the 
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of 
Washington. He is the research lead for the Computational Algorithms 
research team. Dr Flaxman is the primary architect of a software tool 
known as DisMod-MR that IHME is using to estimate the Global Burden of 
Disease. He and other researchers use the tool to fill in gaps in 
incomplete data on stroke, malaria, depression, and other diseases from 
government records and surveys and to correct for inconsistencies.



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[change] Fwd: Society for International Development ICT4D event on Monday

[Trevor Perrier]

If you are around Seattle next Monday this event looks very interesting.

 Original Message 
Subject:Society for International Development ICT4D event on Monday
Date:   Thu, 8 May 2014 21:49:59 -0700
From:   Jeffrey P. Halvorson jeff...@uw.edu
To: Trevor Perrier tperr...@cs.washington.edu



/*Perspectives on Seattle's Innovative Role in ICT4D*/

*When: Monday, May 12*
*Where: Seattle Impact HUB http://www.impacthubseattle.com/,220 Second 
Ave South, Seattle WA 98104*

*Time: 6.30-8.30pm*

Please join the Society for International Development at the Seattle 
Impact HUB http://www.impacthubseattle.com/ for a panel discussion to 
explore the city's unique contribution to the field of Information 
Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D). By bringing together 
three members of the development community with diverse experience in 
ICT4D, we not only hope to celebrate their innovative work but deepen 
the connection between local development professionals interested in how 
ICT is playing an increasingly important role in development.


*Our panelists: *

*John Beale 
http://villagereach.org/about-us/our-team-2/social-business-group/,* Director 
of Strategic Development  Group Lead at VillageReach
*Cliff Schmidt* http://www.literacybridge.org/about/our-team/, Founder 
of Literacy Bridge
*John Tippett http://www.grameenfoundation.org/bio/john-tippett*, 
Director of Mobile Health Innovation at the Grameen Foundation


Come and participate in a lively conversation moderated by Preston 
Thompson http://www.venturescale.co/#who-we-are, founder of the 
management consulting firm, VentureScale, and explore Seattle's Impact 
HUB downtown.


This is a great opportunity to network with other professionals in the 
development and social entrepreneurship spaces and we look forward to 
seeing you on May 12th!


Seattle Society for International Development


--


Jeff Halvorson
MPA Candidate Class of 2014
Evans School of Public Affairs
University of Washington
www.linkedin.com/in/jeffreyhalvorson/ 
http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffreyhalvorson/



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[change] Tomorrow at Change: Carla Villoria and Alan Krumholz - Impact Sourcing

[Trevor Perrier]

*What*: Carla Villoria and Alan Krumholz: Impact Sourcing -- changing 
the role of disadvantaged youth in the global economy.


*When:* Tuesday, May 13th at 12pm

*Where:* The Allen Center, CSE 203

Please join us Tuesday for another exciting Change Seminar. Carla 
Villoria and Alan Krumholz will be joining us to talk about their Global 
Social Entrepreneurship Competition (GSEC 
http://www.foster.washington.edu/centers/gbc/globalsocialentrepreneurshipcompetition/Pages/GSEC.aspx) 
entry and their efforts to expand it beyond to the competition to Microsoft.


*Abstract:*

Industry trends show that a growing number of companies are searching 
for socially responsible services while still achieving efficiency and 
cost advantage. Impact Sourcing, a social-driven outsourcing approach to 
Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) focuses on employing the poor and 
vulnerable. While still relatively new, with approximately 144,000 
workers and a market size of about $4.5 billion, Impact Sourcing is an 
exciting, emerging space expected to reach $20 billion by 2016 and 
employ 1.4 million underprivileged workers worldwide.


Carla and Alan are very passionate about this topic and became finalists 
with their GSEC entry to bring impact sourcing to Mexico. They also lead 
a grassroots initiative to bring the impact sourcing model to Microsoft 
on a large scale. They have partnered with the citizenship office and 
global procurement to drive the concept forward. They are currently in 
conversations with various business groups at Microsoft and some impact 
sourcing organizations to find outsourcing opportunities for this model.


Please join us to hear about their business proposal as well as their 
journey to bring this model to Microsoft.



*About the speaker:*

Carla Villoria was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela until she was 
20 years old and migrated to U.S. due to political issues in her home 
country. She graduated with a degree in Computer Science and a minor in 
Business from Texas AM University, and became a full-time employee at 
Microsoft Corporate Headquarters in July 2011, where she works today. 
She joined the company as part of a rotational program for which she 
completed four 6-month rotations across the company -- she worked as a 
technical project manager of security tools, developed the Microsoft IT 
strategy and the CIO scorecard, was an analyst in the Finance World Wide 
Organization in Munich Germany, and worked as a Quality  Business 
Excellence consultant. She is currently a Solution Manager in the Modern 
IT team, driving the implementation of a company-wide work stream to 
increase adoption of digital productivity. Carla recently started 
pursuing an Executive Masters in Public Administration from the Evans 
School at the University of Washington.


Alan Krumholz was born and raised in Mexico City and graduated with a 
Computer Science degree from Monterrey Institute of Technology and 
Higher Education. He has worked for Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, 
Oracle's special projects group, and then joined Microsoft as part of 
the accelerated professional experiences rotational program. He had the 
opportunity to work as a software engineer for the Product Activation, 
Global Strategic Initiatives, and Windows Phone teams before changing 
his career path and becoming a data scientist. He currently works for 
the Microsoft's Data and Decision Sciences group, a team that provides 
advanced analytic consulting services to very diverse internal and 
external clients. He serves the team as a subject matter expert in 
Machine Learning, Big Data, Statistical Modeling, Natural Language 
Processing, and Software Development. Alan is half-way through a 
Professional Computer Science Masters at the University of Washington.


Carla and Alan are intrapeneurs at Microsoft. Together, they have put in 
place many internal programs related to corporate citizenship and 
philanthropy, and have a great established relationship with the 
Citizenship team at Microsoft as well as other citizenship-related teams 
around the company.


Some of the initiative they have driven together are the following:

 * Drive the implementation of the Leaders in Action program, from
   ideation to execution, for the Microsoft IT organization (4,000
   people). A program to build leadership, collaboration, and
   innovation skills in employees by empowering them to drive change
   through impactful social development projects. Essentially giving
   employees the opportunity to spend 15% of their time working in
   social good projects with non-profits around the world. Three pilot
   projects will kick off in July 2014.
 *   Implemented the Microsoft Ambassadors Program to improve the
   current volunteer efforts of employees and better support nonprofits
   all over the world
 * Drove the end-to-end implementation and deployment of the Explore
   Program, an initiative for rotational program members to dedicate 20
   business days 

[change] CSE481K Capstone Posters and Demos: Mon. Jun 9 12-1:30pm (CSE Atrium)

[Trevor Perrier]

You are invited to the:

CSE481K Designing Technology for Low-Resource Settings (the ICTD Capstone)
POSTER AND DEMO SESSION
Monday, June 9, noon-1:30 in the CSE Atrium

Each winter and spring, students design and prototype technology 
solutions to problems motivated by issues encountered in low-resource 
settings. This year four groups worked on projects related to vaccine 
cold chain management:


*DashTricks: Tablet for District Manager - Tanzania *

DashTricks is an Android tablet application that provides district 
immunization managers in Tanzania with a dashboard for monitoring the 
performance of key immunization indicators in health facilities in their 
districts. Our project aims to give district managers a sense of 
ownership over their data to help them realize problems and make better 
vaccine management decisions intuitively and correctly.


*IcePAK: Tablet for National Manager - Pakistan *

IcePAK is a mobile application focused on vaccine cold chain management 
in Pakistan. It's goal is to integrate large amounts of data into easily 
consumable forms, enabling decision makers and managers to allocate 
resources effectively. High visibility of problem areas, and automated 
allocation recommendations, allows these at risk locations to recognized 
early and dealt with efficiently.


*More Practice: Training App for Laos *

We are developing a tablet-based training application that will be used 
to train health workers in Laos.  The initial purpose of the application 
is to train workers on how to use an SMS-based vaccine stock reporting 
system, but it will be used for other training in the future. Some of 
the challenges this group has faced: designing for potentially 
non-technical users, creating an extensible application for future 
training needs, and simplifying the application update and 
synchronization process.

*
**SMS Immunization Manager **
***
The SMS Immunization Manager (SIM) is an easy-to-install and 
easy-to-customize system that allows community health workers to report 
information about the vaccine cold chain (such as fridge temperature and 
condition) by SMS rather than paper forms. SIM's main features include 
robust SMS-based operations that correctly handle even poorly-formatted 
messages and a moderation web application for administrators to review 
the system's operation. The system will be deployed in Laos in the 
coming months and possibly to other countries after.


Join us on Monday, June 9th, from noon - 1:30 in the CSE Atrium to get a 
hands-on demo and discuss the projects with the students around their 
posters.


Hope to see you all there on Monday.

Richard, Ruth, and Fahad
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[change] CSE 590C1: Change Seminar

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Please join the Change Seminar (CSE 590 C1, SLN: 12925) which will meet 
Tuesdays from 12-1pm in 203 of the Paul Allen Center.  The first meeting 
will be next week on September 30th.


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 undeserved 
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.


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.

Thanks,

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[change] Tomorrow at Change: Neha Kumar - Mobiles and Maternal Health

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Please join us for the first Change Seminar of the autumn quarter.  Neha 
Kumar will be presenting work she did over the summer in Uttar Pradesh 
India working with the Projecting Health 
http://sites.path.org/mchn/our-projects/maternal-and-newborn-health/projecting-health/ 
project.


*What*: Neha Kumar: Of Projectors, Mobiles, and Maternal Health

*When:* Tuesday, September 30 at 12pm

*Where:* The Allen Center, CSE 203

*Abstract:*

 Projecting Health is a maternal and neonatal health initiative that 
was implemented in rural Uttar Pradesh (UP, India) almost two years ago 
through a collaboration between PATH, UW, and local partner 
organizations situated in UP. In Projecting Health, frontline workers 
organize group screenings of locally crafted films using low-cost pico 
projectors in order to teach pregnant women and new mothers about 
various health-related issues. This talk will discuss the emerging 
mobile media practices of the Projecting Health target audience, with a 
view to examine whether mobile phones can play a role in the 
dissemination of these videos and if yes, how.


*About the speaker:*

Neha is a postdoctoral researcher at UW CSE, where her research focuses 
on the design, production, and dissemination of visual media to address 
maternal and infant mortality in rural India. She recently completed her 
Ph.D. from the School of Information at UC Berkeley, where she conducted 
an ethnography of the adoption and self-guided uses of new media 
technologies of Indian youth from socioeconomically disadvantaged 
backgrounds. Her research objective is to contribute a deeper, more 
grounded understanding of emerging uses and users to the field of ICTD 
and its interventions.


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[change] This Week At Change: Melissa Densmore and Alex Densmore

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*What*: Melissa Densmore and Alex Densmore: Employer-Issued Mobile 
Devices and Pay-As-You-Go Solar Energy


*When:* Tuesday, Oct 7 at 12pm

*Where:* The Allen Center, CSE 203

Please join us this week for two mini talks by Melissa and Alex Densmore 
about their work in ICTD.  Melissa will be talking about her recent work 
exploring how frontline workers use employer provided mobile devices for 
personal use.  Alex will be sharing his experiences trying to provide 
affordable solar energy with Simpa Energy.


*Abstract:*

Part 1: Mobile devices are increasingly powerful and flexible tools for 
computing and communication. When ICTD workers are given a mobile phone 
“for work”, what else do they do? And to what extent can or should an 
employer shape that use? This talk will examine rules that development 
projects impose to govern use of mobile devices. This work maps these 
rules against actual instrumental (work-related, non-prescribed) and 
non-instrumental (personal) device use, and enforcement of these rules, 
in eight projects using a popular mobile-based job aid, CommCare. We 
present early insights from qualitative analysis of two such deployments 
in India identifying a range of often conflicting policy choices that 
affect device use for project mission and/or professional and personal 
empowerment. We explore tradeoffs for morale, work quality, mission, and 
device integrity. We identify user remote availability, soft 
intimidation, and validation as mechanisms to shift authority and 
credibility of information sources. The implications of our findings are 
increasingly important as governments and NGOs arm frontline workers 
with mobile devices as tools to improve service delivery.


Part 2: Simpa Energy is a market leader in providing affordable solar 
energy in rural areas. This talk will include a brief overview of 
Simpa's business model, its technology, and some of the unique 
challenges of working in rural India.


*About the speakers:*

_Melissa Densmore_ is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer 
Science at University of Cape Town. Prior to joining UCT, she completed 
a postdoc at Microsoft Research in Bangalore, India as part of the 
Technology for Emerging Markets group, where she has been conducting a 
trial comparing the effectiveness of community health workers using 
interactive mobile health education materials to health workers using 
paper flipbooks. Other work includes a delay-tolerant tele-consultation 
system for doctors in Ghana and contributions to infrastructure enabling 
village health centers to consult with doctors at the Aravind Eye 
Hospitals.  Her research interests include human computer interaction 
for development (HCI4D), mobile health, and last-mile networking. 
Recipient of the 2008 Yamashita Foundations for Change Prize, she has 
been doing ethnographic fieldwork, systems design, and deployments in 
Ghana, India, Mexico, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda 
since 2004. Melissa completed her PhD at University of California, 
Berkeley in Information Management and Systems, a 3 year ethnographic 
study of the use of Internet and mobile technologies by health 
practitioners and NGO staff in a health financing program in Uganda, has 
an MSc in Data Communications, Networks and Distributed Systems from 
University College London, and holds a BA in Computer Science from 
Cornell University.


_Alex Densmore_ is an energy-access professional and formerly the Lead 
Hardware Engineer at Simpa Energy, where he designed the electronic 
controls for Simpa's pay-as-you-go electric metering system. His past 
work includes a wide range of engineering projects in developing 
contexts, including an internet-enabled solar charge controller, gravity 
flow water systems, and various solar power installations. Previously, 
he worked as a building energy modeler for The Integral Group, 
evaluating designs for low-energy HVAC systems. He received his BS in 
Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.


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[change] This Week At Change: Aditya Vashistha - Digital Content for Low-Income Visually Impaired People in India

[Trevor Perrier]

*What*: Aditya Vashistha: Educational Content Creation and Sharing by
Low-Income Visually Impaired People in India

*When:* Tuesday, Oct 14 at 12pm

*Where:* The Allen Center, CSE 203

Please join us this for a talk by Aditya Vashistha
http://www.adityavashistha.com/ based on formative work he conducted this
summer in India working with MSRI and TEM
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/tem/.

*Abstract:*

Low-income visually impaired people face a wide variety of educational
challenges which are magnified in the developing world. Digital assistive
technologies (such as screen readers) are typically out of reach, so
individuals depend on Braille and audio recordings to access educational
content. Unfortunately, there are acute shortages of Braille and high
quality audio books for many subjects, leaving students scrambling for ways
to continue their education. We present a formative study that examines the
educational landscape for low-income visually impaired communities in rural
and peri-urban India, the challenges they face in accessing educational
content, and the solutions they have invented. We conducted interviews with
16 stakeholders, including students, teachers, and content producers, to
understand the education ecosystem in their communities and how they use
technologies such as basic mobile phones to consume, create, and share
educational content. In particular, we found that these communities have
established an informal network of peer-produced audio content that is
shared via Bluetooth, memory cards and CDs. Our analysis suggests ways in
which technology can improve access to professionally authored materials
and augment these informal networks of peer-production.

*About the speakers:*
Aditya Vashistha is pursuing Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of
Washington where he design, build and evaluate technologies for
marginalized rural and urban communities to improve their access to
information, healthcare and education. Much of his research lies at the
intersection of Social Computing and Information and Communication
Technologies for Development. His current focus is to build and evaluate
scalable voice based communication platforms that enable the next billion
people to access the Internet, social media platforms, and crowdsourcing
platforms on their non-Internet-enabled mobile phones.
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[change] This Week At Change: Nicki Dell - A Camera-Based Mobile Health System

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*What*: Nicki Dell: Field Evaluation of a Camera-Based Mobile Health 
System in Low-Resource Settings


*When:* Tuesday, Oct 21 at 12pm

*Where:* The Allen Center, CSE 203

Please join us this week at Change as Nicki Dell presents findings from 
a field evaluation in Zimbabwe where her Android based diagnostic tool 
into was interoperated into the health services work flow.


*Abstract:*

The worldwide adoption of mobile devices presents an opportunity to 
build mobile systems to support health workers in low-resource settings. 
This paper presents an in-depth field evaluation of a mobile system that 
uses a smartphone’s built-in camera and computer vision to capture and 
analyze diagnostic tests for infectious diseases. We describe how health 
workers integrate the system into their daily clinical workflow and 
detail important differences in system usage between small clinics and 
large hospitals that could inform the design of future mobile health 
systems. We also describe a variety of strategies that health workers 
developed to overcome poor network connectivity and transmit data to a 
central database. Finally, we show strong agreement between our system’s 
computed diagnoses and trained health workers’ visual diagnoses, which 
suggests that our system could aid disease diagnosis in a variety of 
scenarios. Our findings will help to guide ministries of health and 
other stakeholders working to deploy mobile health systems in similar 
environments.



*About the speakers:*
Nicki Dell is a final year PhD Candidate in Computer Science and 
Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle. Her research 
interests lie in human-computer interaction and mobile computing with a 
focus on designing and evaluating systems that improve the lives of 
underserved populations in low-income regions. Her PhD thesis focuses on 
the technical, user interaction and deployment challenges of integrating 
mobile, camera-based systems into resource-constrained environments. 
Nicki obtained a BS in Computer Science from the University of East 
Anglia (UK) in 2004 and an MS in Computer Science and Engineering from 
the University of Washington in 2011. Nicki has won several awards and 
fellowships including a Graduate Facebook Fellowship and a Google Anita 
Borg Scholarship. She has completed internships at Microsoft Research in 
Redmond, USA and in Bangalore, India and has helped to organize the 
Change group at the University of Washington since 2011.
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[change] Tomorrow at Change: Grégoire Lurton - Improving the usability and usage of routine HIS

[Trevor Perrier]

Please join us at Change this week - Grégoire Lurton
http://www.healthdata.org/about/gr%C3%A9goire-lurtonfrom the Institute
for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) will be presenting current
research on Health Management Information Systems.

What: Grégoire Lurton: Improving the usability and usage of routine Health
Systems data in Developing Countries.

When: Tuesday, Oct 28 at 12pm

Where: The Allen Center, CSE 203

*Abstract:*
Emphasizing the importance of Health Management Information Systems (HMIS)
as well as their overall weak performance in providing reliable data is
becoming a stencil of the discussions on health systems in developing
countries. Many efforts have been made to improve data collection in these
settings. This talk presents ongoing reflections on ways to improve HMIS
data usage, focusing on data management and data analysis innovations.

Based on current research at the Institute for Health Metrics and
Evaluation and at CSE’s Data Science Incubator, we present two examples of
HMIS data leveraging. A first example will present how metadata from Excel
spreadsheets have been used to compile and standardize batches of reports
from Kenyan HMIS. A second example shows how data from Open Street Map can
be matched with HMIS data from Nigeria to estimate geo-localization of
health services.

Finally, we will offer preliminary reflections on how the increasing
availability of structured HMIS data changes the way information and
decision making should be linked. Using Alain Desrosières’ typology of the
use of statistics for policy making, we will propose the possibility of a
Learning State as being most adapted to the data available through HMIS.

*About the speaker:*
Grégoire Lurton is a second year PhD Student in Global Health at UW, and
Research Associate at IHME. His research explores how data from in African
countries’ HMIS can be used to inform policy making. Grégoire graduated
from the French National School of Statistics and Economic Administration
and from Sciences-Po Paris. He spent 5 years in West Africa, working with
NGO Solthis, building Health Information Systems for national HIV programs
in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Niger and Mali.
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[change] This Week At Change: Amer Dahmash - Mobiles, Minds and Money

[Trevor Perrier]

*What*: Mobiles, Minds and Money: mobile technology as a platform for 
implementing financial behavior change


*When:* Tuesday, Nov 4 at 12pm

*Where:* The Allen Center, CSE 203

Please join us at Change this week.  We welcome Amer Dahmash from Juntos 
Finanzas http://ahorrandojuntos.com/who will talk about experiences 
using SMS for financial behavior change in Colombia.


*Abstract:*

The global ubiquity of mobile phones presents an opportunity to explore 
the potential of this technology as a tool for implementing lasting 
behavioral change on a large scale employing techniques from behavioral 
economics.  This talk presents a 6 month long pilot project carried out 
by Juntos Finanzas in conjunction with Bancolombia to determine whether 
behavior change messaging delivered via responsive SMS can alter the 
savings behavior  of first-time banking customers in Colombia. We 
discuss the results of the intervention, the technological and design 
techniques used and show a strong correlation between receiving behavior 
change messaging and increased savings.  We explore the potential uses 
of these techniques in other areas such as public health and the pros 
and cons of SMS vs native mobile apps as a platform for delivering 
behavior change content.


*About the speaker:*

Amer Dahmash is a software engineer at Juntos Finanzas in San Carlos, 
California.  His interests lie in the use of mobile computing to 
overcome problems in infrastructure in under-developed and low-income 
areas.  Prior to working with Juntos, Amer cofounded Regalii a 
venture-backed startup based in Washington Heights in Manhattan working 
on mobile remittances.


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[change] Tomorrow at Change: The Department of Global Health's E-learning Program

[Trevor Perrier]

*What*:  Global Health and E-Learning in Low Resource Settings

*When:* Tuesday, Nov 18 at 12pm

*Where:* The Allen Center, CSE 203

Please join us Change this week.  Elizabeth Scott and Alex McGee from the
Department of Global health's E-learning Program will be talking about
their work and experiences in deploying educational content for health
workers.

*Abstract:*

The University of Washington, Department of Global Health's E-learning
Program (EDGH) plans, develops, and supports a variety of e-learning and
web-based products in support of global health programs. They specialize in
designing blended learning, including real-time and self-paced courses for
health workers, delivered in international, resource-limited settings.
Elizabeth Scott, Senior E-learning Developer and Alex McGee, Managing
Director, will discuss the framework EDGH uses to create programs across
the globe, as well as some best practices and key lessons learned from
deploying learning programs and products in low resource settings. They
will be bringing tablets to demonstrate some of their projects, and sharing
key examples of learning programs including: self-paced modules, SMS
programs, LMS based courses, and apps.

*About the speaker:*
Elizabeth Scott, E.d.M. is a learning professional with 10 years of
experience in e-learning and blended learning design. She has worked in a
variety of professional fields (developing e-learning products) including:
non-profit, consulting, retail, academia, and global health. She has worked
with business and global health leaders, key stakeholders, and project
teams to plan, design, develop, and implement interactive, training
solutions for a variety of e-learning and blended learning products in
support of organizational needs. Elizabeth has extensive knowledge in adult
learning theory and pedagogy and uses instructional design skills, graphic
design skills, technical skills, writing, and presentation skills to
produce on-target solutions that support the project’s needs. Her specialty
is in designing e-learning and blended learning solutions, including
real-time and self-paced courses, delivered in international and
resource-limited settings.
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[change] Fwd: Looking for native swahili speakers

[Trevor Perrier]

Forwarding a job opportunity from our Change speaker a few weeks ago.

Juntos is looking for a native Tanzanian Swahili speaker that will 
create messages for their mobile financial literacy program.



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Subject:Re: native swahili speakers
Date:   Tue, 18 Nov 2014 20:49:04 -0800
From:   Amer Dahmash adahm...@gmail.com
To: Trevor Perrier tperr...@cs.washington.edu



Hi Trevor,
thanks so much!
we're not looking for someone based in Dar necessarily but they would 
have to be a native speaker of Tanzanian Swahili.

I've attached the job description.
-amer


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[change] This week at Change: Justin Iwasaki - Primary care innovation in the United States: Tribal Health Centers + Affordable Care Act

[Trevor Perrier]

*What*:  Justin Iwasaki -  Primary care innovation in the United 
States:  Tribal Health Centers + Affordable Care Act


*When:* Tuesday, Nov 25 at 12pm

*Where:* The Allen Center, CSE 203

Please join us for this weeks Change Seminar. This week Justin Iwasaki 
MD MPH will be talking about exciting new opportunities for primary 
health care he is implementing as director of the Lummi Tribal Health 
Center on the Lummi Nation near Bellingham, WA.


*Abstract:*

The Affordable Care Act has created an unprecedented financial 
opportunity for Tribal Health Centers to be centers for primary care 
innovation. The Indian Health Service provides a capitated payment to 
Tribal Health Centers well above the range of most leading direct 
primary care organizations. With Medicaid expansion, many more tribal 
members have become eligible for benefits with very healthy 
reimbursement rates unique to Tribal Health Clinics. These two factors 
have created a financial model for Tribal Health Centers allowing them 
to fulfill many of the needs most primary care clinics cannot afford to 
provide.  The Lummi Nation has recognized these unique opportunities and 
is in the process of developing new methods for improving healthcare 
delivery to its people. We are exploring ways technology can address 
culturally appropriate strategies to answer two fundamental questions 
for our patients:


1. Do I need to see a doctor?
2. When and where should I be seen?

*About the speaker:*

Dr. Iwasaki is the Director of the Lummi Tribal Health Center located on 
the Lummi Nation near Bellingham, WA. The health center provides 
medical, dental, X-ray, laboratory, pharmacy, social work, behavioral 
health, and health benefits services to approximately 5000 Native 
American patients per year. Prior to this he completed a family medicine 
residency at the University of Washington with areas of concentration in 
global health and bioinformatics. He has worked across East Africa in 
healthcare delivery, social enterprise and impact investing. As a 
medical student he won Harvard Business School’s Social Venture 
Competition and launched a for-profit social enterprise in Tanzania to 
bring clean water to urban slums. Prior to medical school he worked in 
the design shop for the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH).
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[change] No Change Tomorrow

[Trevor Perrier]

Hello Everyone,

Just a reminder that there will be no Change Seminar tomorrow.  I want to
thank everyone for attending this quarter and participating in the
conversation.  I also want to thank everyone who presented this quarter.

If you or anyone in your research group is interested in presenting in the
spring please let me know.

Thanks,

- Trevor
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[change] Winter Quarter Scheduling

[Trevor Perrier]

Hello,

We are still looking for speakers for the Change this coming Winter!
Historically it has been hard to fill all the weeks during the winter
quarter so if you or anyone in your research group would like to speak at
Change next quarter please contact me.

*Some Background On Change*

Change meets Tuesdays at noon during the quarter. We try to be as
interdisciplinary as possible and include students, faculty and staff from
around UW. We cover topics such as global health, education, micro finance,
agriculture, and communication, and look at how technology can be used to
support development in each of these areas. The idea is for us to learn
from each other and collaborate where appropriate.

Generally talks are between 30 and 40 min long with time for questions and
answers at the end. It is a very informal setting share and exchange ideas
about technology for developing regions. Over the last year the Change
Seminar has grown to a weekly average of 30 people and that is in large
part due to the excellent speakers we have had.

Thanks,

- Trevor Perrier
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[change] Fwd: [TIER] Facebook post on ACM DEV and GAIA

[Trevor Perrier]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Lakshminarayanan Subramanian s.la...@gmail.com
Date: Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 8:01 AM
Subject: [TIER] Facebook post on ACM DEV and GAIA
To: t...@tier.cs.berkeley.edu


 Facebook has posted an article about the last GAIA
workshop and DEV here:

https://www.facebook.com/academics/posts/851946661523409?fref=nfpnref=story

-- 
Have a dream, pursue it! -- Anonymous

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[change] Change Tomorrow: Samia Razaq - Maternal and Child Health Projects in Pakistan

[Trevor Perrier]

Just a quick reminder that we will be having Change tomorrow.
**

*What*:  Samia Razaq - Maternal and Child Health Projects in Pakistan

*When:* Tuesday, Feb 17 at 12pm

*Where:* The Allen Center, CSE 203

Please join us this week for Change.  Smaia Razaq from ITU-Punjab will 
be presenting information needs surrounding maternal health awareness in 
Pakistan.


*Abstract:*

Pakistan has the third highest maternal deaths in South Asia. Globally, 
more than 350,000 women die each year from preventable complications 
linked to pregnancy. Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) is relatively higher 
in developing countries with a concentration in rural and underserved 
communities. In Pakistan around 30,000 women die each year due to the 
pre and postnatal complications.


In this talk Samia Razaq talks about three maternal health mHealth 
initiatives from ITU-Punjab to address these issues. Projects include an 
SMS and IVR system to inform women about family planning, pre-maternal 
illness and general health, a digitized Android based IMCI protocol 
being deployed at Ganga Ram hospital, and work on digitizing 
immunization records.  All three projects help alleviate health 
information gaps among women, communities and health officials.


*About the speaker:*

Samia Razaq completed her Masters in Computer Sciences from the School 
of Science and Engineering (SSE) at LUMS. During her time at LUMS, she 
was part of the research lab, Neighborhood for Emerging World 
Technologists (NEWT). As part of her research work she worked in the 
area of ICTD and Language Technologies and worked on several 
collaborative projects with the Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA.


Currently, Samia is teaching the D-Lab course at ITU-Punjab, which is 
inspired from D-Lab MIT, where she hopes to relay her knowledge of 6 
years of research in robotics and ICT4D to the students. She believes 
that a person can better impact the world, by building solutions and 
designing systems that facilitate the development of the world.


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[change] No Change This Week

[Trevor Perrier]

Hello and welcome back,

There will be no Change Seminar tomorrow.  Traditionally winter quarter has
been the slowest for us and so this quarter Change will be meeting every
other Tuesday starting next week (Jan 13).  We look froward to seeing
everyone again in two weeks.

As always, if you or anyone else in your research area would like to give a
talk at Change please let me know.

Thanks,

- Trevor
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[change] Change This Quarter ENTRE 579

[Trevor Perrier]

Spring quarter is starting and I wanted to pass along a few 
announcements for the Change Seminar.


First, there will be no seminar this week as classes start up but we 
plan to meet weekly starting April 7th. We will be meeting at the usual 
time on Tuesdays at 12pm in CSE 203.  Please join us and consider 
registering for the class (SLN 12828)


Second, I have attached the syllabus for ENTRE 579 a class from the 
Foster School on Business Models and Opportunities in Global Health.  
The class will be taught by Emer Dooley's and should be relevant to 
members of the Change community.  There are no pre-reqs and the class is 
open to all grad students across campus.


Lastly, if you or anyone else in your research group/lab is interested 
in speaking at Change this quarter please contact my self or Adytia.


Thanks,

- Trevor Perrier


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Re: [change] Fwd: [dub] HCDE Invited Lecture: Neha Kumar - Mobiles, Media, and Marginality

[Trevor Perrier]

Just a reminder that besides Change tomorrow there are two other talks 
that the Change community would find interesting:

*
**Neha Kumar: Mobiles, Media, and Marginality*
9:30 - 10:30
Sieg Hall 233

*Kurtis Heirmerl: Community Cellular Networks*
3:30 - 4:30
EEB 105

- Trevor


On 02/27/2015 09:28 AM, Trevor Perrier wrote:


-- Forwarded message --
From: *HCDE News* hcden...@uw.edu mailto:hcden...@uw.edu
Date: Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 9:27 AM
Subject: [dub] HCDE Invited Lecture: Neha Kumar - Mobiles, Media, and 
Marginality
To: hcde-commun...@uw.edu mailto:hcde-commun...@uw.edu, 
d...@dub.washington.edu mailto:d...@dub.washington.edu



/Please join the department of Human Centered Design  Engineering 
next Tuesday, March 3, for a special guest lecture./*//*


*Mobiles, Media, and Marginality*

*Neha Kumar*

Tuesday, March 3
9:30 - 10:30 a.m.
Sieg Hall, Room 233

Save to your calendar  
http://eventactions.com/ea.aspx?e32=grzwn70mmdakr1hf9d3erasr7s


With the rapid proliferation of mobile phones across the world, 
marginal technology users are fast becoming the majority as they begin 
to engage with technologies on their own terms. My research focuses on 
understanding these emerging sociotechnical contexts in 
under-represented communities across the world and leveraging this 
understanding to design and build appropriate technological 
interventions for the benefit of these communities. I engage with a 
growing body of Science and Technology Studies (STS) literature to 
critically analyze and constructively inform the processes of 
technology design.


In this talk, I will present my ethnographic findings on the 
appropriation of mobile technology by Indian youth from 
socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds. My research shows how 
these youth, through their offline and online media engagements, end 
up creating informal spaces of learning for themselves. Thus I 
emphasize that 'development-friendly' outcomes can and do result from 
less-studied recreational uses of technology. I will subsequently 
discuss how I operationalize these findings towards the design and 
implementation of two distinct mobile health initiatives, before 
presenting future directions for my work.


*Bio:*

/Neha Kumar /is a postdoctoral researcher at the Annenberg School of 
Communication in University of Southern California. Prior to this, she 
was at the University of Washington for a year, working as a postdoc 
with Profs. Richard Anderson and Gaetano Borriello in the Computer 
Science and Engineering department. She completed her PhD at the 
School of Information at UC Berkeley, where she was advised by Prof. 
Tapan Parikh. She carries two masters degrees from Stanford 
University, one in Computer Science and the other in Learning, Design 
 Technology. She was a recipient of the Google Anita Borg Memorial 
Fellowship in 2012.


Human Centered Design  Engineering http://www.hcde.uw.edu/

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[change] Fwd: [dub] HCDE Invited Lecture: Neha Kumar - Mobiles, Media, and Marginality

[Trevor Perrier]

-- Forwarded message --
From: HCDE News hcden...@uw.edu
Date: Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 9:27 AM
Subject: [dub] HCDE Invited Lecture: Neha Kumar - Mobiles, Media, and
Marginality
To: hcde-commun...@uw.edu, d...@dub.washington.edu


*Please join the department of Human Centered Design  Engineering next
Tuesday, March 3, for a special guest lecture.*

*Mobiles, Media, and Marginality*

*Neha Kumar*

Tuesday, March 3
9:30 - 10:30 a.m.
Sieg Hall, Room 233

Save to your calendar 
http://eventactions.com/ea.aspx?e32=grzwn70mmdakr1hf9d3erasr7s

With the rapid proliferation of mobile phones across the world, marginal
technology users are fast becoming the majority as they begin to engage
with technologies on their own terms. My research focuses on understanding
these emerging sociotechnical contexts in under-represented communities
across the world and leveraging this understanding to design and build
appropriate technological interventions for the benefit of these
communities. I engage with a growing body of Science and Technology Studies
(STS) literature to critically analyze and constructively inform the
processes of technology design.

In this talk, I will present my ethnographic findings on the appropriation
of mobile technology by Indian youth from socioeconomically disadvantaged
backgrounds. My research shows how these youth, through their offline and
online media engagements, end up creating informal spaces of learning for
themselves. Thus I emphasize that 'development-friendly' outcomes can and
do result from less-studied recreational uses of technology. I will
subsequently discuss how I operationalize these findings towards the design
and implementation of two distinct mobile health initiatives, before
presenting future directions for my work.

*Bio:*

*Neha Kumar *is a postdoctoral researcher at the Annenberg School of
Communication in University of Southern California. Prior to this, she was
at the University of Washington for a year, working as a postdoc with
Profs. Richard Anderson and Gaetano Borriello in the Computer Science and
Engineering department. She completed her PhD at the School of Information
at UC Berkeley, where she was advised by Prof. Tapan Parikh. She carries
two masters degrees from Stanford University, one in Computer Science and
the other in Learning, Design  Technology. She was a recipient of the
Google Anita Borg Memorial Fellowship in 2012.



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[change] Fwd: UW CSE Colloquium / Tuesday, March 3, 2015 / Heimerl / UC Berkeley / Community Cellular Networks

[Trevor Perrier]

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Subject: 	UW CSE Colloquium / Tuesday, March 3, 2015 / Heimerl / UC 
Berkeley / Community Cellular Networks

Date:   Fri, 27 Feb 2015 14:03:25 -0800
From:   Info about upcoming UW CSE Colloquia ta...@cs.washington.edu
Reply-To:   talks-requ...@cs.washington.edu
To: tperr...@cs.washington.edu



Next Tuesday...

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
Computer Science and Engineering
COLLOQUIUM

SPEAKER:   Kurtis Heimerl, UC Berkeley

TITLE: Community Cellular Networks

DATE:  Tuesday, March 3, 2015
TIME:  3:30pm
PLACE: EEB-105
HOST:  Richard Anderson

ABSTRACT:
Cellular networks are one of the most impactful technologies of the last
century, with over 3.5 billion active users in just under 25 years of
operation. However, over a billion people, primarily in rural areas, still
live without this basic service. There are two primary reasons for this:
First, rural areas are difficult for incumbents to cover profitably, as
costs are higher and revenue is lower. Second, current cellular
regulations only allow for incumbents to bring coverage, forbidding other
organizations from covering underserved areas. In order to resolve these
concerns and bring coverage to communities, we developed three core
technologies. The first is Community Cellular Networks: small-scale,
locally owned and operated cellular networks. The second is Virtual
Coverage, a mechanism for reducing the cost of rural cellular through
smart duty cycling. The third is GSM White Space, a technology and
regulatory framework for community cellular networks utilizing spectrum
sensing available on standard GSM phones. We demonstrate the value of all
three technologies through an ongoing, sustainable, 2 year long
installation in rural Papua, Indonesia, which generates over 1000
USD/month in revenue for the local community while supporting over 400
subscribers and handling over 500,000 communications. Lastly, we discuss
the future of cellular in the context of our company Endaga, the broader
Community Cellular movement, and opportunities in disaster relief.

Bio:
Kurtis Heimerl is a postdoctoral researcher in UC Berkeley's TIER group as
well as the CEO and cofounder of Endaga. Kurtis received his BS in
Computer Engineering from the University of Washington and his MS and Ph.D
in Computer Science from UC Berkeley under Professors Eric Brewer and
Tapan Parikh. Kurtis's research focuses on enabling rural cellular access
through empowering local entrepreneurs to set up and manage their own
community cellular networks, for which he was named to Technology Review's
2014 list of 35 under 35 Innovators Heimerl profile Kurtis has
previously worked on education (Metamouse, a system for converting
single-player educational games into multiplayer games) and crowdsourcing
(Umati, the crowdsourcing vending machine). He has published widely and
won numerous paper awards including best paper at CHI and DySPAN and a
community award at NSDI.

Refreshments to be served in room prior to talk.

*NOTE* This lecture will be broadcast live via the Internet. See
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Email: talk-i...@cs.washington.edu
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[change] Fwd: Awaaz.De Seeking Chief Growth Officer: Help Me Spread The Word!

[Trevor Perrier]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Brian DeRenzi bdere...@cs.uct.ac.za
Date: Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 12:16 PM
Subject: Fwd: Awaaz.De Seeking Chief Growth Officer: Help Me Spread The
Word!
To: Trevor Perrier tperr...@cs.washington.edu


Trevor, can you forward Neil's message to Change?

-- Forwarded message -
From: Neil Patel n...@awaaz.de
Date: Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 5:50 PM
Subject: Awaaz.De Seeking Chief Growth Officer: Help Me Spread The Word!
To: bdere...@cs.uct.ac.za


Dear Brian,

Awaaz.De https://awaaz.de/sendy/l/1ygt/fq is entering a new phase in
2015. After three years, we have achieved much. We have served over 4
million phone calls reaching over 300,000 individuals in 13 states in India
and over 6 countries around the world. We are proud to work with some of
the best organizations https://awaaz.de/sendy/l/1ygt/fr in the
development sector. And after rigorous evaluation
https://awaaz.de/sendy/l/1ygt/fs, our technology has been shown to
deliver cost-effective social impact to marginalized communities.

In 2015, our challenge is to achieve sustainable growth: increasing reach
with our products and services worldwide while becoming financially viable.
We have joined hands with angel investors to provide resources and guidance
toward this goal. We now seek a Chief Growth Officer to lead our growth
efforts.

We are looking for a seasoned, creative leader who combines business acumen
with a sensitivity for the development sector. The CGO would be co-founder
level and work shoulder-to-shoulder with me to define Awaaz.De's mission
and vision for present and future.

The full job description is here https://awaaz.de/sendy/l/1ygt/ft. I
would appreciate your help by sharing this note with anyone you know who is
looking for a career opportunity in business addressing the needs of the
underserved. Maybe it's you :) We would be thrilled to connect with
talented folks who share our values https://awaaz.de/sendy/l/1ygt/fu and
have the vision and drive to lead Awaaz.De in this exciting next chapter.

To respond, please send a mail to j...@awaaz.de and include CGO in the
subject line. We look forward to hearing from you!

Best,
Neil
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[change] Change Today: Neha Kumar Community-Led Video Education

[Trevor Perrier]

The first Change Talk of the quarter is today. Please join us and 
welcome Neha back as she talks about the Projecting Health project which 
she will be presenting at ICTD 2015 in May.


*What: *Community-Led Video Education for Maternal Health - Neha Kumar*
*

*When: *Tuesday, April 7 at 12pm

*Where: *The Allen Center, CSE 203

*Projecting Health: Community-Led Video Education for Maternal Health*

In this talk, I will present a qualitative study of Projecting Health, a 
public health project we deployed in rural Uttar Pradesh (India) to 
address persistently high maternal and infant mortality rates. This 
project is based on our model of Community-led Video Education (CVE), 
which leverages community resources for the generation, dissemination, 
and assimilation of visual media. We use the lens of information flows 
to examine how our instantiation of CVE enables the translation of 
globally approved health care norms to local household practices. We 
also demonstrate how CVE allows for integration with current community 
practices, existing state-supported health care infrastructure, social 
and patriarchal structures, and power dynamics within our target 
populations to drive community participation.


*Bio:* Neha Kumar is a postdoctoral researcher at the Annenberg School 
of Communication in University of Southern California. Prior to this, 
she was at the University of Washington for a year, working as a postdoc 
with Profs. Richard Anderson and Gaetano Borriello in the Computer 
Science and Engineering department. She completed her PhD at the School 
of Information at UC Berkeley, where she was advised by Prof. Tapan Parikh.


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[change] Tomorrow At Change: Nicki Dell - Building Mobile Technologies for Underserved Communities

[Trevor Perrier]

Please join us tomorrow at the Change seminar where Nicki Dell will be 
talking about her work designing and building mobile technologies for 
low resource environments.


*When: *12pm Tuesday October 27
*Where: *CSE 203

*Abstract:*
The goal of my research is to design, build, and evaluate novel 
computing systems that improve the lives of underserved populations in 
low-income regions. As computing technologies become affordable and 
accessible to diverse populations across the globe, it is critical that 
we broaden the scope of our research to study the social, technical, and 
infrastructural challenges faced by these diverse communities and build 
systems that address problems in critical domains such as health care 
and education. In this talk, I describe my general approach to building 
technologies for underserved communities, including identifying 
opportunities for technology, conducting formative research to fully 
understand the space, developing novel technologies, iteratively testing 
and deploying, evaluating with target populations, and handing off to 
global development organizations for long-term sustainability. I focus 
specifically on two examples of systems that I built to address 
challenges faced by rural health workers: one that automatically 
digitizes data from paper forms, and another that automatically 
interprets diagnostic tests for infectious diseases. Both these systems 
run on cheap, commercially available mobile devices and use computer 
vision and machine-learning techniques to automate tasks that were 
previously tedious or error prone. Through extensive evaluations with 
target populations in Sub-Saharan Africa, I highlight the potential for 
novel technological solutions to help new and diverse populations 
address global challenges.


*Bio:*
Nicola Dell is an Assistant Professor of Information Science at Cornell 
Tech in New York City. Her research interests are in information and 
communication technologies for development (ICTD), human-computer 
interaction (HCI), and mobile computing with a focus on designing and 
evaluating systems that improve the lives of underserved populations in 
low-income regions. Nicki recently completed her Ph.D. in Computer 
Science and Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle where 
she was advised by Gaetano Borriello and Linda Shapiro. At UW CSE she 
was a member of the Open Data Kit (ODK) research team and she also 
helped to organize the Change group from 2011-2015.



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[change] Tomorrow at Change: Trevor Perrier - USSD: The Third Universal App

[Trevor Perrier]

Please join us tomorrow at the change seminar where I will present work
exploring the universal application design space for ICTD.  This session
will explore the similarities and differences between IVR, SMS, and USSD
and how they relate to creating bottom of the pyramid mobile applications.
I will present a basic USSD library for prototyping USSD applications.


*Abstract*

In this presentation we argue for the use of Unstructured Supplementary
Service Data (USSD) as a platform for universal cell phone applications. We
examine over a decade of ICT4D research, analyzing how USSD can extend and
complement current uses of IVR and SMS for data collection, messaging,
information access, social networking and complex user initiated
transactions. Based on these findings we identify situations when a mobile
based project should consider using USSD with increasingly common third
party gateways over other mediums. This analysis also motivates the design
and implementation of an open source library for rapid development of USSD
applications. Finally, we explore three USSD use cases, demonstrating how
USSD opens up a design space not available with IVR or SMS.
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[change] No Change Seminar This Week

[Trevor Perrier]

Hello All,

There will be no Change Seminar this tomorrow.

Next week, Nov 24, there will be a seminar, however, the following week 
(Dec 1) many of us will be at DEV  so 
there will be no seminar as well.


The last Change Seminar of the quarter will be on Tuesday Dec 8. The 
topic for that week will be announced via email as usual.


Thanks,

- Trevor
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[change] Tomorrow at Change: Chris Coward on TASCHA

[Trevor Perrier]

Please join us for the this Change this week as we continue to get to know
more about the Change community here at UW. Chris Coward from the Technology
& Social Change Group (TASCHA)  will be giving an
overview of the awesome research going on at TASCHA.

*What: *Change at UW: TASCHA

*When: *Tuesday, Nov 3 at 12pm

*Where: *The Allen Center, CSE 203

*Abstract: *The Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA) at the University
of Washington Information School explores the design, use, and effects of
information and communication technologies in communities facing social and
economic challenges. In this talk, director Chris Coward will provide an
introduction to the center and share some of its current work focused on
three projects. First is information literacy for mobile-centric users, a
collaboration with the Jackson School and partners in Myanmar that is
developing curriculum for internet newcomers coming online via mobile
phones. The second is a study of MOOCs based on fieldwork in South Africa,
the Philippines and Colombia that seeks to understand barriers to uptake
and recommend design improvements for MOOC providers. Lastly, is a preview
of upcoming work on public library innovation.

*Bio:* Chris Coward is the co-founder, Principal Research Scientist, and
Director of the Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA) at the University
of Washington Information School. Under his leadership, TASCHA has grown in
size and scope, encompassing research in over 50 countries. Chris
specializes in designing research programs that improve policy and practice
around the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and
development, with a particular focus on public libraries.  Chris’s current
interests include innovation, entrepreneurship and employability, digital
inclusion, and impact evaluation and measurement. Chris holds a Master of
Public Administration and a Master of Arts in International Studies, both
from the University of Washington
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[change] Change Today: Aditya Vashistha - Social Media Platforms for Low-Income Blind People in India

[Trevor Perrier]

Please join us today for Change in CSE 203 where Aditya will be talking
about his work on systems for low-income blind people living in India.

Title: Social Media Platforms for Low-Income Blind People in India

Abstract: We present the first analysis of the use and non-use of social
media platforms by low-income blind users in rural and peri-urban India.
Using a mixed-methods approach of semi-structured interviews and
observations, we examine the benefits received by low-income blind people
from Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp and investigate constraints that impede
their social media participation. We also present a detailed analysis of
how low-income blind people used a voice-based social media platform
deployed in India that received significant traction from low-income people
in rural and peri-urban areas. In eleven-weeks of deployment, fifty-three
blind participants in our sample collectively placed 4784 voice calls,
contributed 1312 voice messages, cast 33,909 votes and listened to the
messages 46,090 times. Using a mixed-methods analysis of call logs,
qualitative interviews, and phone surveys, we evaluate the strengths and
weaknesses of the platform and benefits it offered to low-income blind
people.

Bio: Aditya Vashistha is a PhD student in the Computer Science and
Engineering department at the University of Washington where he design,
build and evaluate voice-based social computing platforms for low-income
low-literate people in resource constrained settings. You can learn more
about him at www.adityavashistha.com.
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[change] Tomorrow at Change: Sajda Qureshi - ICTs and Development

[Trevor Perrier]

Please join us tomorrow in CSE 203 for this week's Change seminar.
Professor Sajda Qureshi from the University of Nebraska at Omaha will be
talking about the role of ICT plays in development.  She asks some
fundamental questions such as: are we investigating ICT related questions
that can enable a better world to be achieved? what is the role of ICTs in
bringing about improvements in people’s lives?

Where: The Allen Center, 203
When: Tuesday October 13 at 12pm.

*Abstract*

There is evidence to suggest that use of Information and Communications
Technology (ICT) can play an important role on the growth of businesses,
their communities and regions. These benefits range from giving small
businesses the ability to access new markets, obtain knowledge and skills
they need adopt more efficient cultivation of crops and increase their
competitiveness by offering better goods and services. In this sense, ICTs
can be employed to bring about increased competitiveness if it enables
businesses to create new jobs, increase productivity and sales through
access to new markets and administrative efficiencies. According to the
World Bank there is up to a 750% growth in businesses that adopt ICTs
compared to those that do not. The same study showed an increase in
profitability by 113% and labour productivity of 56%. The global market for
IT based services has been estimated to be approximately $800 billion. Only
about a third of this potential has been realized (World Bank 2012, p.16).
At the same time, the disparities in incomes continues to grow as does the
use of ICTs. There is a sense that research and practice of ICTs in global
development may not be helping achieve improvements in people’s lives. It
has been suggested that development efforts may in fact hinder the use of
ICTs to improve people’s lives. The issues being explored in this
presentation are: are we investigating ICT related questions that can
enable a better world to be achieved? what is the role of ICTs in bringing
about improvements in people’s lives? And what are some of the outcomes
that can be assessed through improvements in the lives of people living
with limited resources to sustain themselves?

*About The Speaker*
Sajda Qureshi is Professor at the Information Systems and Quantitative
Analysis Department at the College of Information Science and Technology at
the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She holds a Ph.D. in Information
Systems from the London School of Economics and Political Science at the
University of London the United Kingdom. She has been coordinator of the
Commonwealth Network of Information Technology for Development. She was at
the Department of Decision and Information Sciences at the Faculty of
Management at Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
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[change] Tomorrow at Change: ICTD in CSE

[Trevor Perrier]

Welcome back to UW for the Fall quarter. Change is an interdisciplinary
seminar that highlights research and projects at the intersection of
 technology and development.  We cover topics such as global health,
education, microfinance, agriculture, and communication.  We meet on
Tuesdays throughout the quarter and seminars are announced on this mailing
list.

The first Change Seminar of the quarter will be tomorrow, Tuesday Oct 6 at
noon in CSE 203.  This will be an introduction to Change and what to expect
throughout the quarter.  Richard Anderson will talk about current and
future ICTD work in the Computer Science Department.

*Please note that while lunch is often provided,  tomorrow's seminar will
not have food.*

*Abstract*

In this seminar talk, CSE professor Richard Anderson will provide  a “State
of  ICTD” talk, that discusses current work in ICTD in CSE, and also talks
about future directions for the area.  With the passing CSE professor
Gaetano Borriello this has been a time of transition for the group.  The
talk will include a brief update on Open Data Kit, a summary of other
active project areas and plans for the next year for work in ICTD.
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[change] No Change Tomorrow

[Trevor Perrier]

Hello All,

Welcome back - I hope everyone is ready for the new quarter.  There will be
no Change seminar tomorrow - the first week of classes.

We do plan on meeting the following week Tuesday Jan 12 and hope you will
be able to join us then.

*As always, if you or anyone else you know wants to present at Change
please let me know!*

Thanks,

- Trevor
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[change] No Change Seminar Tomorrow

[Trevor Perrier]

Just a quick reminder that there will be no Change Seminar this week.

We will meet next week for a final session.
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[change] Tomorrow at Change: Ted McCarthy - Gaza Sky Geeks

[Trevor Perrier]

Please join us tomorrow for the Change seminar were we welcome Ted 
McCarthy back to UW to talk about his experiences volunteering for the 
startup accelerator Gaza Sky Geeks.


When: Nov 24 12pm
Where: CSE 203
What: Unlikely Acceleration: Gaza Sky Geeks, Gaza's Rising Entrepreneurs.

*Abstract
*
Gaza today struggles to overcome immense development hurdles enforced by 
an extremely challenging political environment and frequent destruction 
in times of war. The region currently experiences 43% unemployment, 80% 
population dependent on foreign agencies for some kind of aid, extremely 
limited freedom of movement, frequent and extended power outages, and 
more. Despite these challenges, Gaza also has potential to benefit from 
tremendous human capital: the population of 1.8 million possesses a 97% 
literacy rate, a 20% bachelors-level degree completion rate (higher even 
than the West Bank), and relatively high educational freedoms for women. 
Aiming to harness some of this potential, Gaza Sky Geeks, Gaza's first 
tech accelerator, was formed as an initiative by MercyCorps in 2011 and 
continues to thrive and grow today under the leadership of Iliana 
Montauk and Mai Walaa. Gaza Sky Geeks helps provide aspiring Gazan 
entrepreneurs with mentorship, links to customers, funding, employees, 
and more, and access to Gaza's only co-ed co-working space where they 
can work with like-minded individuals in a productive, friendly 
environment. Several of Gaza Sky Geek's startups have recently received 
early-stage funding, and the accelerator has received, and continues to 
receive, significant enthusiastic press.*


Bio
*
Ted McCarthy spent a week volunteering as a mentor in Gaza Sky Geeks in 
June 2015, and thinks you probably should, too. He is also a user 
researcher working with Google Access, helping to explore opportunities 
and assess projects to expand fast internet access in developing 
regions. Prior to Google, he consulted at ThoughtWorks (- which kindly 
helped support his trip to Gaza, for which he is eternally grateful), 
and before working in industry he spent several years conducting 
graduate research at the University of Washington's Biomedical Health 
Informatics program and the University of Michigan's School of 
Information. He currently lives in (mostly) sunny San Francisco, and can 
often be found gleefully running through the Marin Headlands, or even 
just the hills of SF.*

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[change] Change Tomorrow - Introductions and Discussions

[Trevor Perrier]

Hello,

The Change Seminar will be held tomorrow at 12pm in CSE 203.

Please join for an introduction to the community, a brief icebreaker to get
to know each other better, and group discussion.

Thanks,

- Trevor
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[change] Fwd: [dub] FW: Disease surveillance web app dev competition summer 2016

[Trevor Perrier]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Julie Kientz 
Date: Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 11:22 AM
Subject: [dub] FW: Disease surveillance web app dev competition summer 2016
To: "d...@dub.washington.edu" , "hcde...@uw.edu" <
hcde...@uw.edu>, "hcde-...@uw.edu" 


This might be of interest to some of you!

Julie

From: This listserv provides information about the Smart and Connected
Health program  on behalf of
"Nilsen, Wendy" 
Reply-To: This listserv provides information about the Smart and Connected
Health program 
Date: Friday, January 15, 2016 at 5:08 AM
To: "smarthealth_commun...@listserv.nsf.gov" <
smarthealth_commun...@listserv.nsf.gov>
Subject: Disease surveillance web app dev competition summer 2016

Hi all,

Here is a very interesting opportunity!

Thanks,

Wendy

The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) will host the 3rd annual
teamed web app intern development competition in Summer 2016 to foster
novel and creative approaches that enhance biosurveillance. Intern teams
will be responsible for identifying the target user, usage scenarios, and
app design and development. Interns will be encouraged to leverage and
adapt new and existing algorithms, analytics, mathematical models and other
tools and methods to support the analytic needs of the target users. Each
intern team will produce over the course of the 10 week long program a
fully functional disease surveillance-related web application, which at the
conclusion of the program will be judged by a panel of domain experts, and
cash prizes will be awarded to the winners. The competition will be managed
to provide both a positive educational experience for the interns as well
as a high-quality software product. All students are expected to start on
the same day during summer 2016.

PNNL will organize and provide support and guidance for a solid design and
implementation process. Teams will be chosen to contain a suitable
representation of experience, including software engineering,
human-computer interaction, social media, epidemiology, and mathematical
modeling and simulation. Additionally, interns will exhibit a strong desire
to work collaboratively in a team and the ability to effectively
communicate and present their ideas.

Applications are accepted here:

·*Masters Intern - Web App Dev't / Disease Surveillance Competition*


o
http://pnnl.jobs/richland-wa/masters-intern-web-app-devt-disease-surveillance-competition/A5235BAE057E431AA78148C096841591/job/

·*PhD Intern - Web App Dev't / Disease Surveillance Competition*


o
http://pnnl.jobs/richland-wa/phd-intern-web-app-devt-disease-surveillance-competition/28131E6588E941E2880AC4D23D0D2F98/job/



Some information on previous competitions can be found here:

·http://www.pnnl.gov/news/release.aspx?id=1015

·https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVIy1bWt29Y

·
http://news.iupui.edu/releases/2015/02/informatics-student-app-flu.shtml

·http://jendownes.com/mozziemap

·https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCsiwI4uJ3g

.

*Minimum Qualifications*

Candidates must be matriculated/enrolled in a Master's program at an
accredited college or university. Minimum GPA of 3.0 is required.

.

*Preferred Qualifications*

Applicants with experience in one or more of these areas, or closely
related topics, are encouraged to apply:

·Web application development

·Software engineering

·Epidemiology / Public Health

·User Experience Design

Court



*Courtney D Corley, PhD *

Senior Data Scientist and Data Science Team Lead

Data Sciences and Analytics Group

NATIONAL SECURITY DIRECTORATE



Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

902 Battelle BLVD, Box 999, MSIN K7-28

Richland, WA 99352



co...@pnnl.gov◆ @CourtCorley ◆ http://linkd.in/HvxjVY

Cell: (214) 673-3099 ◆ Tel: (509) 375-2326

*Collaboration* *|* *Creativity* *|* *Courage* *|* *Integrity* *|* *Impact*














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[change] Tomorrow at Change: Skyler Speakman (IBM Research -- Africa)

[Trevor Perrier]

Please join us for the this Change this week as we welcome Dr. Skyler
Speakman from IBM Research -- Africa
.

*What: *Micro-loan Credit Scoring Based on Mobile Phone Data

*When: *Tuesday, Jan 19 at 12pm

*Where: *The Allen Center, CSE 203

*Abstract: *Mobile money, or the ability to make send and receive money
through feature phones, has swept through Eastern Africa in the past few
years.  IBM believes this technology will serve as the building block for
more complex, risk-based financial services tailored for the growing lower
and middle classes.  This talk will demonstrate how two common themes in
data science, boosting and transfer learning, are being used to create
credit scores based on mobile phone usage.

*Bio:* Dr. Skyler Speakman is a research scientist at IBM Research --
Africa where he applies multiple flavors of data science to large-scale,
real world problems.  Most recently he has been working in the Financial
Services space which focuses on using technology and non-traditional data
sources to increase the breadth and depth of financial services to millions
of Africans.  He completed his doctorate from Carnegie Mellon University
and lives in Nairobi, Kenya, with his wife and young son.
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[change] Change Tomorrow: OpenSeattle - Candace Faber

[Trevor Perrier]

Please join us tomorrow at the Change seminar for a talk about Open Seattle
 and the civic tech community in the area.  Open
Seattle is a brigade of Code for America
.

*When: *Tuesday, Feb 2 at 12p

*Where: *The Allen Center, CSE 203

*Bio:* Candace Faber is the Civic Technology Advocate for the City of
Seattle. Previously, she ran a strategic communications and project
management firm, Whoa Strategies, that specialized in technology and
innovation for social good. Before that, she was a diplomat in the U.S.
Foreign Service and has lived in Russia, Poland, Belarus and Afghanistan.
She also helps with local non-profits  Open Seattle and the Women's Funding
Alliance Young Professionals.
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[change] Fwd: Applications due March 1st: 2016 eScience Data Science for Social Good summer program

[Trevor Perrier]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Elise deGoede Dorough 
Date: Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 10:07 AM
Subject: Applications due March 1st: 2016 eScience Data Science for Social
Good summer program
To: cs-grads - Mailing List ,
vgrads-ugr...@cs.washington.edu



[image: DSSG_logo.png]



The University of Washington eScience Institute
, in collaboration with Urban@UW
 and Microsoft, is excited to announce the 2016 Data
Science for Social Good (DSSG)

summer program. The program brings together data and domain scientists to
work on focused, collaborative projects that are designed to impact public
policy for social benefit.

Modeled after similar programs at the University of Chicago
 and Georgia Tech ,
with elements from our own Data Science Incubator
, sixteen
DSSG Student Fellows will be selected to work with academic researchers,
data scientists, and public stakeholder groups on data-intensive research
projects. Graduate students and advanced undergraduates are eligible for
these paid positions.

This year’s projects will focus on Urban Science, aiming to understand and
extract valuable, actionable information out of data from urban
environments across topic areas including public health, sustainable urban
planning, crime prevention, education, transportation, and social justice.

For more program details and application information visit:

http://escience.washington.edu/get-involved/incubator-programs/data-science
-for-social-good/





-- 
Sarah A. Stone, PhD
Program Manager, eScience Institute
Campus Box 351570
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195








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[change] Tomorrow at Change: Dykki Settle - Open Source for Global Health

[Trevor Perrier]

Please join us tomorrow at Change. We are excited to welcome Dykki Settle,
the Deputy Director of Digital Health Solutions at Seattle based PATH
. Dykki will be talking about his extensive
experience with Open Source Health Workforce Informatics.

*What:* Open Source for Global Health

*When:* Tuesday, Feb 23 at 12pm

*Where: *The Allen Center, CSE 203

*Speaker Bio: *Dykki Settle, who joined the Digital Health Solutions team
as Deputy Director in June 2015, will build on PATH’s work bridging the gap
between global health and how users learn and adopt information and
communication technology (ICT), focusing on technical strategy development,
overseeing project implementations, and solution assessment. Most recently,
Settle served as the Director of Health Workforce Informatics at
IntraHealth International. In that role, he led the design, development,
and implementations of the iHRIS Suite of open-source health workforce
information system software, the mHero health workforce mobile
communications and coordination platform and other tools that are now being
rolled out in global, regional and country programs worldwide. Settle has
provided technical leadership in bringing together consortia focusing on
health workforce information systems and ICT applications in developing
countries, utilizing his open-source experience and expertise to support a
global agenda in health technologies and approaches. He has led and
supported global health informatics work around the world in more than
twenty-five countries.
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[change] Tomorrow at Change: Ariel Rokem - Data Science for Social Good at the eScience Institute

[Trevor Perrier]

Please join us tomorrow at the Change Seminar.  Ariel Rokem from the
eScience Institute will be joining us to talk about last summers Data
Science for Social Good (DSSG) program and upcoming plans for the this year.

*What:* Data Science for Social Good at the eScience Institute

*When:* Tuesday, Feb 16 at 12pm

*Where: *The Allen Center, CSE 203

*Abstract *During the Summer of 2015, the University of Washington eScience
Institute ran an interdisciplinary summer internship program focused on
urban informatics, civic engagement, and data-intensive social science.
Borrowing elements from the successful Data Science for Social Good (DSSG)
programs at the University of Chicago and Georgia Tech, and building on our
own previous consulting and "incubation" programs for data-intensive
projects in physical, life, and social sciences, we brought together teams
of students (graduate, undergraduate, and high school), data scientists,
project leads and stakeholders from the University of Washington and local
NGOs to design, develop, and deploy new solutions to high-impact problems
in the Seattle Metro Area.

The teams worked on 4 different projects: two addressing transportation
access for people with limited mobility, one identifying factors affecting
whether homeless families find permanent housing, and one deriving new
metrics of community well-being from social media data and other relevant
data sources. The teams worked in the eScience Data Science Studio space
designed in part for this purpose, and participated in tutorials on
relevant tools and technologies, such as GitHub, Python, R, Amazon Web
Services, and SQL, as well as topical presentations and discussions related
to social good and multi-stakeholder collaborations. While the diversity in
software and disciplinary experience among participants was initially
challenging for tutorial organization and scoping projects, this diversity
actually helped to improve the scope of the projects.

We are currently preparing for the next installment of our urban DSSG
fellowship, and we are accepting applications at:
http://escience.washington.edu/get-involved/incubator-programs/data-science-for-social-good/
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[change] Tomorrow at Change: Sam Clark - InSiliccoVA a verbal autopsy tool

[Trevor Perrier]

Please join us tomorrow of the last Change Seminar of winter quarter.
Professor Sam Clark from the UW Sociology Department will be talking
InSilicoVA. A new tool to help classify cause of death through verbal
autopsy.

*What:* Sam Clark: InSiliccoVA a verbal autopsy tool.
*When:* Tuesday, March 1 at 12pm
*Where:* The Allen Center, CSE 203

*Abstract:* In regions without complete-coverage civil registration and
vital statistics systems there is uncertainty about even the most basic
demographic indicators. In such areas the majority of deaths occur outside
hospitals and are not recorded. Worldwide, fewer than one-third of deaths
are assigned a cause, with the least information available from the most
impoverished nations. In populations like this, verbal autopsy (VA) is a
commonly used tool to assess cause of death and estimate cause-specific
mortality rates and the distribution of deaths by cause. VA uses an
interview with caregivers of the decedent to elicit data describing the
signs and symptoms leading up to the death. We develop a new statistical
tool known as InSilicoVA to classify cause of death using information
acquired through VA. InSilicoVA shares uncertainty between cause of death
assignments for specific individuals and the distribution of deaths by
cause across the population. Using side-by-side comparisons with both
observed and simulated data, we demonstrate that InSilicoVA has distinct
advantages compared to currently available methods.
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[change] Tomorrow at Change: Computing and Financial Services for the Poor

[Trevor Perrier]

Please join us tomorrow for the first Change seminar of the quarter.
Professor Richard Anderson
 from UW CSE will be
talking about a new project at UW focused on financial access.
*What:* Computing and Financial Services for the Poor

*When:* Tuesday,  March 29, 2016

*Where: *The Allen Center, CSE 203

*Abstract: *
Improving access to financial services has been identified as an important
mechanism for reducing poverty.  While mobile money offers opportunities
for creating new services, and there have been notable successes such as
mPesa in Kenya, uptake in many countries have remained slow.  Challenges
that have been identified include fraud and cyber security, managing
identity, credit scoring, and developing easy to use proximity payment
solutions.  Work is being initiated at University of Washington to
investigate these challenges from a computer science perspective.  This
talk will provide an introduction to the area, and discuss some the
potential research problems at the intersection of Computer Science and the
development of financial services for the poor.
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[change] Reminder: No Change Tomorrow

[Trevor Perrier]

Just a quick reminder that there will be no Change Seminar tomorrow
(Tuesday March 8).

We will meet again the first week of spring quarter on Tuesday March 29.
Thanks to everyone who came to the seminar this quarter and a really big
thanks to everyone who presented their work.

As always, if you have ideas for Change Seminars please let me know.

All the best,

- Trevor
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[change] Fwd: [dub] Part time paid Android developer opportunity

[Trevor Perrier]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Kristin N Dew 
Date: Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 7:55 AM
Subject: [dub] Part time paid Android developer opportunity
To: d...@dub.washington.edu


Greetings! We have an opening for a very part time (approx. 5-10 hours per
week) Android developer on an HIV-related mobile health project in Kenya in
conjunction with the Dept. of Global Health. The project, called Safer
Conception Intervention for Partners (SCIP), is targeted at helping HIV
serodiscordant couples -- or couples in which one partner has HIV and one
does not -- conceive a child without transmitting the virus. The mHealth
part of the study comprises an SMS component and an in-clinic tablet
application to facilitate conception counselling sessions.


The app is already built so this is mostly maintenance and updating as the
need arises. This is a paid position, but not a full RA appointment.

If interested, please contact me directly with a copy of your CV, a brief
summary of your Android experience, and of course any questions you may
have: kn...@uw.edu

Kristin

-- 

*Kristin Dew, PhD student, Human Centered Design & Engineering*

*Research Assistant, Safer Conception Intervention for Partners, Dept. of
Human Centered Design & Engineering and Dept. of Global Health*

*Research Coordinator, TransPHorm: Machine Translation of Public Health
Information, Northwest Center for Public Health Practice, University of
Washington School of Public Health*

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Re: [change] Next Week At Change: Free Basics Discussion

[Trevor Perrier]

Reminder, Change is Tomorrow. We'll be talking about Free Basics.  See you
then.

On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 6:02 PM, Trevor Perrier <tperr...@cs.washington.edu>
wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Next week at the Change Seminar we will be having a discussion about Free
> Basics, Zero Rating, and Internet Connectivity.  The seminar will start
> with a few videos and background by I wanted to send out a few more links
> that people could read to be more familiar with topic.
>
> *When:* 12pm on Tuesday,  April 5, 2016
>
> *Where:* The Allen Center, CSE 203
>
> Some background on Free Basics:
>
>- Great summary of different point
>
> <https://medium.com/@mcandrew/the-hacker-way-forward-how-facebook-can-fix-free-basics-in-two-simple-moves-86392758058#.x72zxjmed>s
>by Andrew McLaughlin on Medium [1]
>- QZ article summarizing why India blocked Free Basics
>
> <http://qz.com/612159/why-trai-backed-net-neutrality-and-killed-facebooks-free-basics-in-india/>
>[2]
>- Wikimedia blog post about Wikipedia Zero in 2014
>
> <http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/08/01/wikipedia-zero-and-net-neutrality-protecting-the-internet/>
>[3]
>- Resolving the Free Basics Paradox
><https://manypossibilities.net/2016/02/resolving-the-free-basics-paradox/>
>by Steve Song [4]
>
> - Trevor
>
> [1]
> https://medium.com/@mcandrew/the-hacker-way-forward-how-facebook-can-fix-free-basics-in-two-simple-moves-86392758058#.x72zxjmed
> [2]
> http://qz.com/612159/why-trai-backed-net-neutrality-and-killed-facebooks-free-basics-in-india/
> [3]
> http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/08/01/wikipedia-zero-and-net-neutrality-protecting-the-internet/
> [4]
> https://manypossibilities.net/2016/02/resolving-the-free-basics-paradox/
>
>
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[change] Next Week At Change: Free Basics Discussion

[Trevor Perrier]

Hi All,

Next week at the Change Seminar we will be having a discussion about Free
Basics, Zero Rating, and Internet Connectivity.  The seminar will start
with a few videos and background by I wanted to send out a few more links
that people could read to be more familiar with topic.

*When:* 12pm on Tuesday,  April 5, 2016

*Where:* The Allen Center, CSE 203

Some background on Free Basics:

   - Great summary of different point
   
s
   by Andrew McLaughlin on Medium [1]
   - QZ article summarizing why India blocked Free Basics
   

   [2]
   - Wikimedia blog post about Wikipedia Zero in 2014
   

   [3]
   - Resolving the Free Basics Paradox
   
   by Steve Song [4]

- Trevor

[1]
https://medium.com/@mcandrew/the-hacker-way-forward-how-facebook-can-fix-free-basics-in-two-simple-moves-86392758058#.x72zxjmed
[2]
http://qz.com/612159/why-trai-backed-net-neutrality-and-killed-facebooks-free-basics-in-india/
[3]
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/08/01/wikipedia-zero-and-net-neutrality-protecting-the-internet/
[4] https://manypossibilities.net/2016/02/resolving-the-free-basics-paradox/
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[change] Tomorrow at Change: ICTD Practice Talks

[Trevor Perrier]

Hi All,

The ICTD Conference  is coming up and for the next
two weeks we'll have papers from UW presented at the Change seminar.
Please join us to hear about the great work happening on campus and give
feed back to the authors.

*When:* Tuesday,  May 25, 2016 at 12pm

*Where: *The Allen Center, CSE 203

*Abstracts:*

*Computer Security for Data Collection Technologies*
*Camille Cobb, Samuel Sudar, Nicholas Reiter, Richard Anderson, Franziska
Roesner, Tadayoshi Kohno *

Many organizations in the developing world (e.g., NGOs), include digital
data collection in their workflow. Data collected can include information
that may be considered sensitive, such as medical or socioeconomic data,
and which could be affected by computer security attacks or unintentional
mishandling. This work, a collaboration between computer security and ICTD
researchers, explores security and privacy attitudes, practices, and needs
within organizations that use Open Data Kit (ODK), a prominent digital data
collection platform. We conduct a detailed threat modeling exercise to
inform our view on potential security threats, and then conduct and analyze
a survey and interviews with technology experts in these organizations to
ground this analysis in real deployment experiences. We then reflect upon
our results, drawing lessons for both organizations collecting data and for
tool developers.


*The Premise of Local Information: Building Reliable Economic Indicators
from a Decentralized Network of Contributors*
*Josh Blumenstock, Niall Keleher, and Joseph Reisinger*

This paper describes the design and implementation of Premise, a
mobile-phone based platform for gathering reliable, quantitative data
through on-the-ground networks of local contributors. Founded in 2012 and
currently operating in 34 countries, Premise provides small incentives to
ordinary citizens to collect high-quality data, and develops statistical
algorithms to aggregate millions of individual contributions into reliable
economic indicators. Our focus is on the deployment and scale-up of
Premise's operations in Nigeria and Liberia, two contexts that highlight
the diverse challenges involved in launching a crowd-based data collection
platform, ranging from the recruitment and retention of motivated
contributors, to the automatic detection of statistically aberrant data.
The goals of this paper are thus twofold: first, to provide transparency
into the operations of a new platform of growing prominence in the
development community; and second, to highlight key lessons learned that
can inform future design and deployment of novel methods for data
collection and synthesis in developing economies.
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[change] Tomorrow at Change: Global Connectivity: Project Loon and Aquila

[Trevor Perrier]

Hi All,

Please join us tomorrow at the Change Seminar where we will talk about two
self described "moonshot" projects for universal internet connectivity.
Announced in 2013 the Google X Project Loon 
aims to use a network of weather balloons in stratosphere for global
network coverage. A similar project from Facebook called Aquila

wants
to proved the same service but with heaver than air UAV's.

*What: *Videos and discussion on Google Loon and Facebook Aquila

*When:* Tuesday,  May 3, 2016 at 12pm

*Where: *The Allen Center, CSE 203
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[change] Fwd: Call for Papers - ICT4SD - 2016 ( July 1 - 2, Goa, INDIA ) Proceedings by Springer LNNS ( Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems ) Series

[Trevor Perrier]

-- Forwarded message --
From: ICT4SD 2016 
Date: Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 10:54 AM
Subject: Call for Papers - ICT4SD - 2016 ( July 1 - 2, Goa, INDIA )
Proceedings by Springer LNNS ( Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems )
Series
To: ict4sd2...@gmail.com



[image: Inline image 1]


*Call for Participation/Call for Papers*
*ICT4SD - 2016*
*Second International Conference on Information and Communication
Technology for Sustainable Development *


*For any further details please visit:*
*http://www.ict4sd.in/2016  *


This conference will provide the participants with opportunities to discuss
and explore areas related to the Theory, Development, Applications,
Experiences and Evaluation of Interaction Sciences with fellow students,
researchers and practitioners.
The conference is devoted to increase the understanding role of technology
issues, how engineering has day by day evolved to prepare human friendly
technology through ICT and is increasing Sustainability in near future.
 The conference will provide a platform for bringing forth significant
research and literature across the field of ICT for Sustainable Development
and provide an overview of the technologies awaiting unveiling.
This interaction will be the focal point for leading experts to share their
insights, provide guidance and address participant’s questions and concerns.


=

*Please join us at ICT4SD - 2016 in GOA, INDIA a tourist destination *

*"where the sun never sets"*

=

*Call for Papers   ICT4SD - 2016*

Original contributions from researchers describing their original,
unpublished, research contribution which is not currently under review by
another conference or journal and addressing state-of-the-art research are
invited to share their work in all areas of Information and Communication
Technologies and its applications in field for engineering and management
but not limited to the conference tracks.

The authors are requested to submit full papers in Springer Proceeding
format available at

http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/Springer_CS_Proceedings_Author_Guidelines_Jan_2013.pdf?SGWID=0-0-45-1121537-0


Authors are required to adhere to the Springer Policy on Plagiarism
available at
http://www.springer.com/authors/book+authors/helpdesk?SGWID=0-1723113-12-807204-0


=

*6 Conference Tracks but not limited to*

Track 1: ICT for Infrastructure  Track 2: ICT for Computation

Track 3: ICT for Reserarch  Track 4: ICT for Applications
Track 5: ICT for Policy FrameworkTrack 6: ICT for
E-governance and Digital India

*Submissions of high quality papers in all areas of ICT and its
applications. The submissions are handled only through the Easychair
website at:*

*https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ict4sd2016
*

=


*Last date for paper submission: 30 April, 2016  |  11:59:59
IST=*

*All accepted papers will be published in Conference Proceedings by *
*Springer Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems (LNNS Series)*


*[image: Inline image 2]*

 *For any further details please visit:*
*http://www.ict4sd.in/2016  *


*For any further details please feel free to connect with Mr. Amit Joshi -
Organising Secretary ICT4SD 2016*
*Cell - +91 - 9904632888, +91 - 9460488464,   Email - ict4sd2...@gmail.com
*


*Venue - Hotel Vivanta by TAJ, Panaji, GOA, INDIA*
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[change] Fwd: [TIER] ICTD2016 - Call for Participation (register, book rooms early!)

[Trevor Perrier]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Kentaro Toyama 
Date: Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 1:39 PM
Subject: [TIER] ICTD2016 - Call for Participation (register, book rooms
early!)
To: "t...@tier.cs.berkeley.edu" 


[Please forward to relevant groups. Apologies for cross-posting.]


REGISTER NOW BEFORE EARLY REGISTRATION ENDS, AND BOOK ACCOMMODATIONS SOON
-- DISCOUNTED ROOMS WILL BE RELEASED END OF APRIL!

= = = = =
Registration  is now open for the
Eighth International Conference on Information and Communication
Technologies and Development (ICTD2016): http://ictd2016.info/registration/.

ICTD2016 features an exciting program with 26 Papers presented in plenary
sessions, 36 Notes presented as posters, 32 interactive Open Sessions, and
two incredible keynotes: Deepak Mishra is co-director of the World Bank's
2016 World Development Report: Digital Dividends; and Tererai Trent is the
Drexel University global health professor featured in "Half the Sky" who
began her adult life as a rural Zimbabwean mother of three with no formal
education.

The conference schedule is available at http://ictd2016.info/schedule/.

Recommendations for accommodations, with discounted rates are available at
http://ictd2016.info/accommodations/. (Book early, as the rooms being held
will be released in late April / early May.)

Early registration  will close on April
30, so register early! (Note also that standard registration will end on May
30, several days before the conference; on-site registration is extremely
expensive, so we encourage you to register in advance.)

If you have any problems or questions, please send an email to
ictd2016i...@umich.edu.

See you in Ann Arbor!

Kentaro Toyama
ICTD2016 Chair
University of Michigan

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[change] Tomorrow at Change: Anil Dash - Holding to account

[Trevor Perrier]

Hi All,

Please join us tomorrow at Change for another video and discussion.  We
will watch a short video  by
Anil Dash from Pop Tech on holding technology to account.

Anil  is a blogger, entrepreneur, and
activist who has thought a lot about making technology more humane and
ethical.  This is not only highly relevant to technologist here, but also
how initiatives and startups have global reach and repercussions.

*When: *12pm, Tuesday January 31

*Where: *CSE 203

- Trevor
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[change] Tomorrow at Change: Jessica Crawford - VillageReach: Health System by Phone

[Trevor Perrier]

Hi All,

There's no snow in the forecast so please join us tomorrow at Change.
Jessaca Crawford  from the Seattle based NGO VillageReach
 will be joining us talk about a an IVR
system being run in Malawi called Chipatala Cha Pa Foni (CCPF)
- or Health Center by Phone.

*What: *Jessica Crawford  - VillageReach: Health System by Phone
*When:  *12pm, Tuesday February 7
*Where: *CSE 203

*Abstract:*
Chipatala Cha Pa Foni (CCPF), or Health Center by Phone in English, was
originally designed and piloted in a rural district of Malawi by
VillageReach, the Malawi Ministry of Health and Concern Worldwide
Innovations in Maternal and Child Health. CCPF has two main components; 1)
a toll-free hotline staffed with health workers providing health
information and advice, and 2) a “tips and reminders” mobile messaging
service providing weekly messages tailored to the client’s week of
pregnancy or a child’s age.  An impact evaluation of the pilot project
demonstrated that CCPF has a statistically significant impact on MNCH
knowledge and behavior such as; increased antenatal care within the first
trimester, use of bed nets during pregnancy and among children under-5,
early initiation of breastfeeding, and knowledge of healthy behaviors
during pregnancy, such as avoiding harmful medicines. Furthermore, CCPF
users trust the service and cite the ability to access health information
from home, saving time, and saving travel costs, as key benefits. Since the
pilot project concluded in 2013, VillageReach has been working with the MOH
and local partners to scale the service to additional districts and
ultimately transition the service to MOH ownership and management.
Recently, CCPF merged with Airtel Malawi’s Dial-A-Doc program to form *Airtel
CCPF*, a zero-rated service providing health information and advice beyond
RMNCH with physician triage ability. CCPF is now positioned and on-track to
scale nationally by the end of 2017 and transition to MOH management by the
end of 2018. This presentation will discuss key elements to the successful
scale-up and transition planning as well as lessons learned throughout the
process.

*Bio:*

Jessica Crawford is a Senior Manager and Group Lead for the Health Systems
Group at VillageReach. With VillageReach, she has led various last mile
health systems strengthening projects in Malawi, Tanzania, and Mozambique
for over 8 years and most recently served as the VillageReach Malawi
Country Director where she led a broad portfolio of work including human
resources development, supply chain strengthening, mHealth, and community
based health programs. Jessica holds an MPH and MA in Policy Studies from
the University of Washington.
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[change] Tomorrow at Change: Isaac Holeman - Human-Centered Design for Global Health Equity

[Trevor Perrier]

Hi All,

Please us tomorrow at Change.  Isaac Holeman 
will talking about is research at the intersection of global health and
human-centered design.  Isaac will be talking about research insights
emerging from the work done by the non-profit tech company Medic Mobile
.

*What: *Human-Centered Design for Global Health Equity
*Who: *Isaac Holeman
*When: *12pm, Tuesday February 28
*Where: *CSE 203

*Abstract*
My research explores the practical and ethical implications of a
human-centered approach to global health. In this talk I will discuss
designing and deploying digital technologies for global health, in
partnership with co-workers at the non-profit tech company Medic Mobile. I
will touch on equipping community health workers to coordinate care via
text message, using temperature sensors to monitor vaccine fridges at
remote clinics, and more recent work building a digital 'equity lens' to
support next generation community health worker programs. Focusing on the
pragmatic aim of improving health in hard-to-reach communities, these cases
will force us to look beyond the tools themselves to the work practices,
coordination challenges and iterative design-in-use that characterize
sustained implementation at scale. These studies speak to a broad and
optimistic view of designing for the social good. Yet unlike much of the
popular rhetoric surrounding design for social innovation or international
development, I will emphasize the concrete material limits and complexities
that arise in such work

*Bio*
Isaac Holeman is a designer-researcher striving for global health equity.
As a social scientist and a co-founder of the non-profit tech company Medic
Mobile, his work is about seeing complex health systems from the
perspective of the poor and marginalized, and responding pragmatically. He
practices human centered design and conducts ethnographic research with
Medic Mobile, as a fellow of the University of Edinburgh’s Global Health
Academy and as a Gates Cambridge Scholar in innovation, strategy and
organization.
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[change] Tomorrow at Change - Icebreakers and TED Talk

[Trevor Perrier]

Hello

Last week during Change I realized that there were lots of new people
taking the seminar this quarter and we never did introductions.  Please
join us tomorrow for a quick round of introductions and ice breakers.

We will then watch and discuses a TED talk by Siyanda Mohustsiwa about how
she's found a pan-African community on twitter:

   - Siyanda Mohutsiwa: How young Africans found a voice on Twitter
   


*When: *12pm Tuesday, Jan 17

*Where: *The Allen Center, CSE 203

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

[Trevor Perrier]

Hi All,

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

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

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

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

[Trevor Perrier]

Hello and welcome back to UW,

There will be Change seminar tomorrow with introductions and a small
icebreaker to get to know everyone attending this quarter.

Please attend to learn more about the plan this quarter and the Change
community at UW.

See you tomorrow,

- Trevor
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Re: [change] Tomorrow at Change

[Trevor Perrier]

I forgot to include when and where Change is.

Like previous quarters the Change Seminar is from 12:00 - 12:50 and meets
in CSE 203.

On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 6:01 PM, Trevor Perrier <tperr...@cs.washington.edu>
wrote:

> Hello and welcome back to UW,
>
> There will be Change seminar tomorrow with introductions and a small
> icebreaker to get to know everyone attending this quarter.
>
> Please attend to learn more about the plan this quarter and the Change
> community at UW.
>
> See you tomorrow,
>
> - Trevor
>
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[change] No Change Today - Affiliates

[Trevor Perrier]

Just a reminder that the Change Seminar will not meet today due to the
career fair.
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[change] Tomorrow at Change: Mustafa Naseem - Make-i-stan: Makerspaces for collaboration

[Trevor Perrier]

Please join us tomorrow at Change for a talk by Mustafa Naseem from CU
Boulder's ATLAS Institute .  Mustafa will be
talking about makerspaces in Pakistan.

*What:  *Make-i-stan: Makerspaces as a tool to spur cross-disciplinary
collaboration.

*When:  *Tuesday,  October 24

*Where: *The Allen Center, CSE 203

*Abstract:*

Pakistan has an education emergency – 6.7 million Pakistanis aged 5-9 are
not enrolled in primary school. At the secondary level, the number of
out-of-school children jumps to 25 million, with only 39 percent of boys
and 29 percent of girls enrolled. The system of education discourages
critical thinking and lacks opportunities for interdisciplinary
collaboration. This talk presents findings from Make-i-stan, a makerspace
that welcomes interdisciplinary collaboration and critical thinking through
learning by doing in an informal setting.


*Bio:*

Mustafa Naseem is a Pakistani educator, social entrepreneur and ICTD Expert
in Residence at the University of Colorado Boulder's ATLAS Institute. Prior
to joining CU Boulder, Naseem was the founding director of the Innovations
for Poverty Alleviation Lab (IPAL) in Lahore, Pakistan. Mustafa has worked
with the MIT Global Startup Labs (formerly MIT AITI) South Africa Program,
the Deming Center Venture Fund (DCVF) and the International Development
Design Summit (IDDS). Mustafa's interests lie at the intersection of
technology, policy and entrepreneurship geared towards solving global
development challenges. Mustafa was a Fulbright Scholar at the University
of Colorado at Boulder where his work focused on Information and
Communication Technology for Development (ICTD).
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[change] Tomorrow at Change: Anat Caspi - Equitable pedestrian wayfinding

[Trevor Perrier]

Please join us tomorrow at the Change Seminar.  Anat Caspi from the Taskar
Center for Accessible Technology (TCAT) will be joining us to talk about
equitable pedestrian wayfinding.

*What: *Equitable pedestrian wayfinding

*When: *Tuesday, Nov 15

*Where: *The Allen Center, CSE 203

*Abstract:*

As pedestrians, we each experience the built environment differently. Our
physical abilities greatly impact our access to the world and resources
around us. Equitable pedestrian wayfinding is crucial for a barrier-free
city, where people with different abilities can independently access
customized, relevant, and up-to-date routing information. Pedestrians
present heterogeneous information requirements consisting of static and
transient information ranging from elevation changes to curb ramps to
transient sidewalk surface conditions. However, such data, including the
location of sidewalks, are generally unavailable in a user-consumable
format. Moreover, existing routing solutions primarily optimize for
distance, for instance, offering inappropriate routes with steep inclines
that are unusable by many manual wheelchair users. A data model for
equitable pedestrian wayfinding must flexibly support an annotated
pedestrian network: a connected graph model that can be visualized and
populated with data to parametrize a personalizable cost function. In this
talk, we will present the current AccessMap capabilities (and discuss those
in progress) that enable ability-based pedestrian routing.

*About TCAT*
The Taskar Center for Accessible Technology
 (TCAT) at the University of Washington
Department of Computer Science & Engineering develops and deploys
technologies that increase independence and improve quality of life for
individuals with motor and speech impairments. Anat Caspi is director of
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[change] No Change Tomorrow

[Trevor Perrier]

Hi Everyone,

Just a quick reminder that due to ACM DEV and the short week there will be
no Change Seminar tomorrow.

Thanks,

Trevor
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[change] Tomorrow at Change: Fahad Pervaiz - Let's Talk Money

[Trevor Perrier]

Please join us tomorrow at the Change Seminar for the first of two talks
being given by CSE grad students at the upcoming ACM DEV
 conference.  Fahad Pervaiz will be presenting on work
that explores security issues around mobile money applications.

*What:  *Let’s Talk Money: Evaluating the Security Challenges of Mobile
Money in the Developing World

*When:  *Tuesday,  Nov. 1

*Where: *The Allen Center, CSE 203

*Abstract:*

Digital money drives modern economies, and the global adoption of mobile
phones has enabled a wide range of digital financial services in the
developing world. Where there is money, there must be security, yet prior
work on mobile money has identified discouraging vulnerabilities in the
current ecosystem. We begin by arguing that the situation is not as dire as
it may seem—many reported issues can be resolved by security best practices
and updated mobile software.  To support this argument, we diagnose the
problems from two directions: (1) a large-scale analysis of existing fi-
nancial service products and (2) a series of interviews with 7 developers
and designers in Africa and South America.  We frame this assessment within
a novel, systematic threat model. In our large-scale analysis, we evaluate
197 Android apps and take a deeper look at 71 products to assess specific
organizational practices. We conclude that although attack vectors are
present in many apps, service providers are generally making intentional,
security-conscious decisions. The developer interviews support these
findings, as most participants demonstrated technical competency and
experience, and all worked within established organizations with regimented
code review processes and dedicated security teams.
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[change] Tomorrow at Change: Summer Research in Ghana - Sarah Yu

[Trevor Perrier]

Please join us tomorrow at the Change Seminar where Sarah Yu will be
talking about her summer study abroad experience in Ghana.

Sarah has been working with the ICTD lab for the last year and helping with
our Digital Financial Services project.  In Ghana she was interested in how
mobile money is being used at various levels of the economy.

*What: *Summer Research in Ghana - Sarah Yu

*When:* Tuesday,  Oct 11, 2016 at 12pm

*Where: *The Allen Center, CSE 203
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[change] Fwd: [TIER] DTL Summer 2017 Internships

[Trevor Perrier]

Summer internship opportunity in Abu Dhabi with the Design Technology Lab
at NYUAD.

-- Forwarded message --
From: Jay Chen 
Date: Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 2:01 PM
Subject: [TIER] DTL Summer 2017 Internships
To: t...@tier.cs.berkeley.edu


Hi All,

For the past few years we have offered summer internships to some
outstanding students based out the Design Technology Lab (DTL) (
http://sites.nyuad.nyu.edu/dtl/) at NYUAD. We are based out of Abu Dhabi
and we work actively in multiple countries including UAE, California,
Ghana, India, Bangladesh, and Iraq. If you would like to work on an
exciting ICTD project with us over summer, this could be an interesting
opportunity.


Attached is a brief job description.

Cheers,
Jay Chen



DTL Summer 2017 Internship Job Description:

The Design Technology Lab (DTL) is looking for graduate student interns for
the summer of 2017. We are looking for students with good engineering
skills, an eye for design, and a strong interest in field work.

The range of possible project areas are broad and include:
- Networking and networked systems
- Specific systems or interfaces for applications  in education, finance,
health, and agriculture
- Large-scale data analysis, mining, and interactive visualization

Requirements:
- B.S./B.A. in Computer Science or closely related field
- Facility in C/C++, Python, Java and/or analysis tools like Matlab

Depending on your summer schedule, the internship will run from 12-14 weeks.

This is a paid internship.
Only students who are eligible to work in the UAE should apply.
Please send your CV and a cover letter to 
nyuad@gmail.com with the subject: “DTL Summer Intern”.


The deadline to apply is March 1, 2017.

The Design Technology Lab is a multidisciplinary research center at NYU Abu
Dhabi (UAE). Our mission is to design technologies that positively impact
people’s lives. Within ICTD, our goal is to bring services to rural
communities including: access to education, finance, health, and
information services to underserved areas. The DTL draws from a broad
multidisciplinary expertise available at the Center for Technology and
Economic Development (CTED), NYU, and NYU Polytechnic Institute in
economics, computer science, engineering, and design.


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[change] Tomorrow at Change: Richard Anderson - Update from the Digital Financial Services Research Group

[Trevor Perrier]

Hi All,

I'd like to welcome everyone back for the spring quarter and to our first
Change Seminar tomorrow.  As usual, Change will be held at 12pm in CSE 203.

This week Richard Anderson will be giving an update on the work Digital
Financial Services  group has been doing
over the last year.

*What: *An update on the work of the UW Digital Financial Services Research
Group
*Who: *Richard Anderson
*When: *12pm Tuesday March 28 in CSE 203


*Abstract*

In 2016, we established the Digital Financial Services Research Group at
University of Washington to investigate the technological challenges in
improving access to financial services for the world’s poor and to promote
a global research community at the intersection of Computing for
Development and Financial Services.  The technological challenges for
financial services include managing digital identities, ease of use of
proximity payments, awareness and understanding of digital services,
robustness of infrastructure, and protecting services from fraud and
cyber-attacks.  In this talk, I will give an update on the accomplishments
in the first year of the project in the areas of computer security,
consumer education, and the Android device eco-system, introduce the
UW-Pesa demo lab, and talk about the founding of a parallel research group
at Information Technology University (ITU) in Lahore, Pakistan.  I will
also identify a number of technology areas that are ripe for exploration to
support this area of work.
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[change] Tomorrow at Change: International Development Trivia - Kushal Shah

[Trevor Perrier]

Hi All,

Please join us for Change Seminar tomorrow.  We will be doing an
interactive International Development focused trivia game created by Kushal
Shah.  This will be a great way to get to know everyone coming to Change
this quarter.

*What: *International Development Trivia
*When: *12pm Tuesday April 4th
*Where: *CSE 203

*Note:* As of this week the Change Seminar lunches are switching to Vegan.
Tomorrow we will be trying grilled tofu and veggie burrito's.  I'm excited
to try them.

See you tomorrow,

- Trevor
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[change] Change Wednesday 3:30 - Jacki O'Neill: Financial Capability

[Trevor Perrier]

As this is the last week of the quarter there will be no Change Seminar on
Tuesday.

However, we are excited to be hosting Jacki O'Neill
 from Microsoft
Research India on Wednesday. Jacki works with the Technology for Emerging
Markets

group and will joining us to talk about her ethnographic work on financial
services for low income communities in India.

*What: *Accessible financial services for low income communities
*Who: *Jacki O'Neill
*When: *Wednesday 3:30pm
*Where: *CSE 691

*Abstract:*

In this presentation, I will describe the findings of an ethnographic study
which set out to examine the impact of using mobile money, rather than
cash, to make loan payments in a low income setting. The setting in
question involves a social enterprise, Three Wheels United (TWU), which
helps auto-rickshaw drivers take out loans with the bank to buy their
auto-rickshaws. TWU collects loan payments from drivers on a daily and
weekly basis since drivers earn a low, unpredictable, daily wage primarily
in cash and are therefore rarely able to save up enough to make monthly
loan payments. Payments are made through cash or Airtel Money, providing a
unique opportunity to compare the two systems in action, and TWU wanted to
understand the implications of scaling up the Airtel Money payments as a
route to streamlining their operations. The problem was initially specified
as one of payment mechanism, however our study revealed that there is an
additional loan management problem irrespective of whether drivers pay by
cash or Airtel Money. Whilst we did not find opportunities to intervene
around the payment mechanism, we identified a clear opportunity to help
drivers and collectors manage their loans. To this end we are using an
iterative user-centred design process to build an intermediated smart-phone
app to be used by collectors *with* drivers to help manage their loans and
build financial capability. The idea is to provide more information,
combined with motivators, nudges and social competition to help make the
impact of today’s decision on the loan more salient. I will describe how we
are currently wrestling with the competing demands of flexibility vs.
simplicity and usability. I will end with a few reflections on mobile money
as a route to financial inclusion.


*Bio:*

Dr Jacki O’Neill is an experienced Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
researcher. She uses ethnomethodologically-informed ethnography to inspire
the design of innovative technologies, which aim to be both useful and
usable since they take into account users situated practices. She joined
the Technologies for Emerging Markets (TEM) area at Microsoft Research
India in Jan 2014. She was previously a Principal Scientist and Ethnography
Champion for Xerox’s Innovation Group, based at Xerox Research Centre
Europe. She is passionate about the design of technologies which capitalize
on people’s skills and capabilities, whether at work, at home, for health,
education or play.
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[change] No Change Tomorrow

[Trevor Perrier]

Hi All,

There will be no Change Seminar tomorrow.  We will pick back up the
following week on April 25.

Thanks,

- Trevor
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[change] Fwd: Research Symposium: Dr. Nkurunziza (4/27, 3:30-5pm, Allen Auditorium)

[Trevor Perrier]

This talk should be of interest to the Change community.

-- Forwarded message --
From: Nick Logler 
Date: Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 10:04 AM
Subject: Research Symposium: Dr. Nkurunziza (4/27, 3:30-5pm, Allen
Auditorium)

=

Please join us for the next iSchool Research Symposium:



*Dr. Nkurunziza *from* Never Again Rwanda*

*Peace Building in Post Conflict Country: The Experience of a Rwandan NGO*



Thursday, April 27, 2017

3:30-5:00pm

Allen Auditorium



If you are interested in meeting with Dr. Nkurunziza, please contact Nick
Logler nlog...@uw.edu



*Abstract*

*Peace Building in a Post Conflict Country: The Experience of a Rwandan NGO*


*Building lasting peace in war-torn societies is among the most daunting of
challenges for global peace and security*

*-United Nations*


Broken relationships, hatred, trauma, poverty, family conflict and anger
were some of the effects resulting from the 1994 genocide against the
Tutsis. After that dark past that left the country torn and its citizens
having fear and doubts on their sleeves, it was hard to imagine that peace
and stability would be possible again. But due to the government and other
stakeholders relentless commitment to peace building - through home grown
solutions such as Gacaca courts which provided justice for victims - the
dream of peace and reconciliation is coming true. Twenty-three years down
the line Rwanda is considered as one of the countries in Africa that is
making tremendous progress. However, with the increase in development,
there is a need for provision of accurate historical information about the
past and resources to reach out to a wider population in order to create a
sustainable impact across the population as a whole in order to avoid past
mistakes. The challenges for peace building continue to be widespread
across the entire population in Rwanda, with the younger generation
particularly at risk in ways that could both hinder their future progress
and lead to various forms of manipulation.


In this talk, I will examine specific peacebuilding approaches for youth
and adults in post genocide Rwanda and highlight some of the possible ways
that have been used to overcome consequences of the genocide. In
particular, I will discuss Never Again Rwanda's approach to peacebuilding
and the relevant adoption of home-grown solutions, initiative that are
unique to the country's history, the Rwandan culture, traditional
practices, and value systems. Such consideration are paramount in
addressing challenges left behind by the genocide against the Tutsi.




*Biographical Information*

Joseph Ryarasa Nkurunziza, is a medical doctor with over 10 years’
experience in the clinical field, Public health and Peace Building. He is
currently the Country Director of Never Again Rwanda, a peace building
organization that promotes human rights and advocating peace among the
Rwandan youth and the population at large. He has also initiated projects
that engage Youth in the Democratic Process in Rwanda, which are
implemented in some Rwandan high schools and higher institutions of
learning that aim at helping to provide the nation’s youth with the skills
to make informed decisions in governance and human rights and raise
interest in national policy issues and leadership. Dr. Nkurunziza’s work in
Rwanda gives young people the guidance, encouragement and knowledge to be
active citizens.



Dr. Nkurunziza is also the Board Director and Co-Founder of Health
Development Initiative-Rwanda (HDI), a local NGO committed to improving the
health of disadvantaged populations across Rwanda. He has worked
extensively with international organizations and Rwandan civil society, and
is closely connected to members of the government, international agencies,
and local communities. Previously he served as the Clinical Services
Specialist for the Department of Defence at the US Embassy in Rwanda from
2011 until April 2016. He has supervised and developed projects to empower
and educate communities in health promotion and disease prevention
specifically in HIV/AIDS, Malaria and TB.In November 2010 Joseph was
honored by Junior Chambers International as one of the 2010 ten outstanding
young persons of the world in Osaka Japan.
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[change] Tomorrow at Change: Place Matters screening - Lilian de Greef

[Trevor Perrier]

Hi All,

Please join us tomorrow at Change.  Lilian de Greef will be leading a the
session. Will watch and then discuss a episode of *Unnatural Causes
*, which is a seven-part documentary
series exploring racial and socioeconomic inequalities in health. This
episode, called *Place Matters
*,
explores aspects to why zip code and street address are good predictors of
health in a population. Through watching the screening and our subsequent
discussion, we aim to improve our understanding of health equity and its
determinants.

*What:* Screening of Unnatural Causes, episode 5 *Place Matters
*
*Who: *Lilian de Greef
*When: *12pm Tuesday April 25
*Where: *CSE 203

Once again have great vegan food!

- Trevor
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[change] Tomorrow at Change: Aditya Vashistha and Pooja Sethi - Respeak

[Trevor Perrier]

Hi All,

Please join us tomorrow at the Change Seminar.  Aditya Vashistha and Pooja
Sethi will be talking about their project Respeak - which will be presented
at CHI 2017 next week.

*What:* Respeak: A Voice-based, Crowed-powered Speech Transcription System
*When: *Tuesday May 2
*Where: *12pm in CSE 203

*Abstract:*
Speech transcription is an expensive service with high turnaround time for
audio files containing languages spoken in developing countries and
regional accents of well-represented languages. We present Respeak — a
voice-based, crowd-powered, accessible speech transcription system that
capitalizes on the strengths of crowdsourcing and automatic speech
recognition (instead of typing) to transcribe such audio files. We created
Respeak and optimized its design through a series of cognitive experiments.
We deployed it with 25 university students in India who completed 5464
micro-transcription tasks transcribing widely-varied audio content with a
word error rate of 10%, and collectively earning USD 46 as mobile airtime.
Our findings suggest that Respeak improves the quality of speech
transcription while enhancing the earning potential of low-income
populations in resource-constrained settings.

*Bio:*
In this talk, Aditya Vashistha and Pooja Sethi will present Respeak. Aditya
is a Computer Science PhD candidate and Pooja is a senior undergraduate
Computer Engineering major at the Allen School.​
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[change] No Change Seminar This Week

[Trevor Perrier]

Hi All,

There will be no Change Seminar tomorrow (May 16).  Our next seminar will
be the following week May 23.

Thanks,

- Trevor
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[change] Tomorrow at Change: Paper: Why it's thriving and what you can do about it - Skye Gilbert

[Trevor Perrier]

Hello All,

Please join us at Change tomorrow.  Skye Gilbert from PATH will be joining
us to talk about the persistence and usefulness of paper in ICT4D projects.

*What: *Paper: Why it's thriving and what you can do about it.
*When: *Tuesday May 23
*Where: *12pm in CSE 203

*Short description: *
There is no doubt that digital interventions have the potential to
transform health systems in low-resource environments, whether by providing
access to medical information, tracking patients over time or improving
operations. So why do so many digital pilots struggle with adoption? This
talk walks through experiences in the field, and introduces a few
frameworks that can help identify and anticipate both adoption challenges
and their root cause.

*Bio: *
Skye has worked on health and information systems from a variety of
different lenses, first as an academic researcher living in Senegal and
China, then as a consultant to the private sector at BCG, and finally as a
Program and Strategy Officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She
joined PATH in 2016 and is leading the Digital Health team's data use,
private sector partnerships and strategic consulting efforts.
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[change] Fwd: [TIER] CFP: ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS)

[Trevor Perrier]

-- Forwarded message --
From: "Lakshminarayanan Subramanian" 
Date: Dec 19, 2017 05:35
Subject: [TIER] CFP: ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable
Societies (COMPASS)
To: , 
Cc:

Dear all,


Attached is the revised CFP of the new ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing
and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS). The steering committee deliberated on
several new names for the conference and finally have decided on COMPASS.
The new conference expands the focus of the original conference to
explicitly welcome work on all underrepresented and/or marginalized
communities worldwide and to include work on sustainability, gender
equality, health, education, poverty, accessibility, conservation, climate
change, and economic growth, among others.


The new website for the conference is up (thanks to Neha Kumar)

http://acmcompass.org


Submission deadlines are the same as advertised earlier. Please spread the
word broadly, submit papers and participate in the new initiative.


Thank you,

Ellen, Richard and Lakshmi



*Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS) 2018*

*San Francisco, California | 20-22 June 2018*



*Call for Papers*

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



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

●  Low-cost connectivity and computing devices

●  Power-efficient systems

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

●  Novel tools and applications for underserved communities

●  Mobile systems and applications

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

●  Cellular phone systems and applications

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

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

●  IT systems for smart-grids and smart-homes
*HCI Focus*

●  User interfaces for low-literacy populations

●  Multilingual computing

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

●  Accessible technologies for underserved communities with
disabilities

●  User interfaces for low-cost devices

●  Adapting content and applications to local languages and education
levels

●  Understanding social relationships and information flows in
underserved communities

●  Understanding technology adoption dynamics in underserved communities



*Data Science/AI Focus*

●  Computational sustainability

●  Computational social science

●  Econometric models and developmental economics

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

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

●  Data cleaning and data integration methods

●  Speech interfaces and translation for local languages

●  Computer vision challenges and opportunities in low-resource settings

●  Understanding social networks and digital media in underserved
regions



*Applications and Other Focus*

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

●  Studies of large scale deployments of technology for social good

●  Internet policy and law for underserved communities

●  Critical analyses of technology in low resource contexts

●  Application of blockchain

●  Additional relevant topics not covered above



The COMPASS conference will have a model of rolling submissions, as has
been recently adopted by several other top conferences. As this is a
transition year for the conference, there will be two separate submission
dates.  Papers submitted on the first deadline may be given the option of
revise and resubmit for consideration of acceptance at the conference. Full
papers will have a 

[change] Fwd: [TIER] ICTD Remote Participation

[Trevor Perrier]

-- Forwarded message --
From: "Melissa Densmore" 
Date: Nov 16, 2017 23:37
Subject: [TIER] ICTD Remote Participation
To: "TIER" , "hc...@googlegroups.com" <
hc...@googlegroups.com>
Cc:

Remote Participation in ICTD 2017

Some parts of ICTD 2017 are available for remote participation. Please use
the links below.  The full schedule is here: http://ictd2017.itu.edu.
pk/schedule/

We recommend that you test the links before the session that you hope to
attend in case there are any technical updates that you might need to your
computer.

You will be asked to provide a name to "join the session as a guest" -
Please give your name and location in the world (e.g. Andy Dearden,
Sheffield UK) so that other participants can see who else is participating.
You are welcome to ask questions using the (typed) chat feature - we will
have a volunteer or the session chair ask questions on your behalf.

All times are local Pakistan time, i.e. UTC+5
Main Track Main Track: Keynotes and Research Notes


   - Friday 09.00 - 12.25
   - Friday 15.30 - 17.00
   - Saturday 09.00 - 12.40
   - Saturday 15.30 - 17.00
   - Sunday 09.00 - 12.20

Open Sessions

   - Community Wireless Thursday 09.00 - 17.00
   - Technologies for Social Accountability, Digital Rights
   
   Thursday 14.00 - 15.30
   - Ethics in ICTD
   
   Thursday 14.00 - 15.30
   - Developing Research Capacity in ICTD
    Sunday
   14.00 - 17.00


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[change] Fwd: [dub] Winter Quarter DRG: Understanding the Impact of Hurricane Maria on Puerto Ricans through Social Media (En Español)

[Trevor Perrier]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Dharma Dailey 
Date: Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 1:55 PM
Subject: [dub] Winter Quarter DRG: Understanding the Impact of Hurricane
Maria on Puerto Ricans through Social Media (En Español)
To: d...@dub.washington.edu


Hi All,

Kate Starbird is spinning up a long term study on the aftermath of Maria in
Puerto Rico. We greatly appreciate if you would share this call with those
who might be interested. Thanks!

*Winter Quarter DRG: Understanding the Impact of Hurricane Maria on Puerto
Ricans through Social Media (E**n Español)*


HCDE Asst. Professor Kate Starbird is seeking a few students to join a
Winter Quarter Directed Research Group (research for credit) looking at the
impact of Hurricane Maria on Puerto Ricans. Particularly, we are looking
for students who can help with qualitative analysis of Spanish language
social media and/or have contextual knowledge of Puerto Rico.  Students
from all departments and all levels are welcome to apply.

If you are

- fully bilingual and/or culturally fluent in contemporary Puerto Rican
culture
- have some interest in qualitative analysis of large scale social media
data sets and/or want to do research to help people in crisis
- can commit 6 hours of work per week (3 credit hours) for Winter Quarter

please drop a line to ddai...@uw.edu expressing your interest and relevant
background.



Dharma Dailey

PhD Candidate
Human Centered Design & Engineering
University of Washington
dharmadailey.info






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