Re: [change] Tomorrow at Change: Place Matters screening - Lilian de Greef

[Lilian de Greef]

Hi all,

As a follow-up to today's change seminar, here are some links to further
resources.

You can watch the entirety of Unnatural Causes using your UW NetID here

(7
episodes, 4 hours total).

Links to the handouts from today:

   - What is Health Equity?
   

   (1 page)
   - Ten Things to Know about Health
    (2
   pages)
   - Selected Additional Resource on Health and Place
   

   (2 pages)

Best,
Lilian


On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 10:29 PM, Trevor Perrier  wrote:

> 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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Re: [change] Tomorrow at Change: Jake Kendall - Digital Financial Service Innovation Lab

[Trevor Perrier]

And the Change Seminar is in the same location and time as previous
quarters:

*What:  *Digital Financial Service Innovation Lab

*When:  *12pm Tuesday, Jan 10

*Where: *The Allen Center, CSE 203



On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 8:21 PM, Trevor Perrier 
wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>
> I'd like to welcome you back to Change for the 2017 Winter Quarter.
>
> Please join us tomorrow for a talk and discussion about digital financial
> services for the poor.  Jake Kendall will be joining us to to talk about the
> Digital Financial Service Innovation Lab  which
> is part of Caribou Digital .  His group is
> helping jump-start lots of exciting financial inclusion projects and
> recently conducted a design sprint in Dar es Salaam.
>
> *Bio*
>
> Jake is a visiting researcher in ICTD at UW CSE
>  focusing on fintech innovations for
> developing countries. He is also the Director of the Digital Financial
> Services Innovation Lab (DFS Lab ) housed at Caribou
> Digital. The DFSLab engages in seed stage investing and rapid prototyping
> of internally-generated ideas to create fintech innovations that will
> profitably bring households in developing countries from the cash economy
> into the digital financial realm. Formerly Jake was Deputy Director of
> Research and Emerging Technologies within the Financial Services for the
> Poor Team at the Gates Foundation where his team helped create the global
> data architecture for tracking financial inclusion.
>
> - 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 
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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Re: [change] Tomorrow at Change: Cliff Schmidt from Literacy Bridge

[Cliff Schmidt]

I look forward to the opportunity to discuss our work with everyone
tomorrow.  I just want to mention one additional thing:

We are hiring! (software engineering and program positions, full-time and
internships)

See you all tomorrow,
Cliff
---
Founder & Executive Director
Literacy Bridge  |  1904 Third Avenue, Suite 733  |  Seattle, WA 98101 USA
T: +1.206.354.9103  |  www.literacybridge.org


On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Trevor Perrier  wrote:

>  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
> .
>
>
> *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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