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FW: Intel Research Seattle Seminar: Wed, Aug 27 |4:00 PM| Randy Wang on The Digital StudyHall
by Richard Anderson 25 Aug '08

25 Aug '08

From: voting-faculty-admin(a)cs.washington.edu [mailto:voting-faculty-admin@cs.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Kay Beck-Benton Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 4:13 PM To: faculty - Mailing List; cs-grads - Mailing List Subject: FW: Intel Research Seattle Seminar: Wed, Aug 27 |4:00 PM| Randy Wang on The Digital StudyHall Please forward to your talk distribution lists - Thank you! ________________________________ On behalf of Intel Research Seattle, we would be pleased to have you join us for light refreshments and tea to meet our guest speaker and audience at 3:30pm. Talk will start promptly at 4:00pm.. We look forward to having you join us. The Digital StudyHall Randy Wang MSR India Wednesday, Aug 27, 2008 4:00 - 5:00pm Abstract: Digital StudyHall (DSH) seeks to improve education for poor children in slum and rural schools in India. In a nutshell, think of its technical approach as the educational equivalent of YouTube + Netflix + Kazaa. We digitally record live classes by the best grassroots teachers, transmit them on the "Postmanet" (effected by DVDs sent in the postal system), collect them in a large distributed database, and distribute them on DVDs to poor rural and slum schools. Education experts and teachers use the system to explore pedagogical approaches involving local teachers actively "mediating" the video lessons. By harvesting a "viral phenomenon" of community participation, DSH aims to help train teachers and deliver quality instruction to underprivileged children. The project is a collaboration between computer scientists and education experts. Intel Research Seattle Host: David Wetherall ***** Intel Research Seattle Seminar ***** All seminars will take place at Intel Research Seattle (1100 NE 45th Street, 6th Floor-at the corner of 45th & 11th in the U-district). Location information is on our website at: http://www.seattle.intel-research.net/contact.php

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Fwd: PHI2008: Update: Program Announcement
by Brian DeRenzi 21 Aug '08

21 Aug '08

Begin forwarded message: > From: "PHI2008" <phi08(a)u.washington.edu> > Date: August 22, 2008 2:21:09 AM GMT+03:00 > To: bderenzi(a)cs.washington.edu > Subject: PHI2008: Update: Program Announcement > > > August 21, 2008 > > The Center for Public Health Informatics, University of Washington > and the Global Partners for Public Health Informatics are pleased to > announce the program and agenda for PHI2008. The program and agenda > for the two day conference has been posted! To view the schedule > please click here. > > This year's program features speakers from the Centers for Disease > Control and Prevention, Intrahealth International, PEPFAR, Microsoft > Research, as well as from the Ministries of Health of Belize, and > Sierra Leone. > > Thank you all for making this an international event, and we look > forward to your contributing presence next month in Seattle! > > Thank you, and for any questions please email: > phi08(a)u.washington.edu or visit www.gpphi.org >

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Country Director Position in Malawi
by Yaw Anokwa 19 Aug '08

19 Aug '08

under mike, baobab has done some incredible things with cutting edge technology in malawi. sounds like an exciting opportunity! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mike McKay <mike(a)vdomck.org> Date: Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 1:50 PM Subject: [viant-alum] Country Director Position in Africa To: Viant Alum <viant-alum(a)yahoogroups.com> I have been working with an amazing organization in Malawi, Africa for the past 3 years. But my wife and I need a break from Africa, so I need to find someone that can replace me as Country Director for Baobab Health. Imagine a California startup using technology in totally new ways to solve some of the world's biggest problems and based in the heart of Africa. Please pass this on to anybody that you think would be interested. Mike @ baobabhealth.org ---- Baobab Health Trust is seeking a Malawi Country Director to lead its team of 30 employees through an exciting period of organizational development, innovation, and growth in our Lilongwe office. Applicants should send their CV and a cover letter to hr(a)baobabhealth.org by the 31st of August. Baobab's recent work in Malawi Malawi, Africa has a population of 14 million. One million are HIV positive and there are just 280 doctors in the country. This tremendous disparity between healthcare workers and people in need of treatment contributes to high mortality rates particularly for women and children. Treatment protocols exist that do not require physician expertise. These protocols can ensure a minimum standard of care, but to be effective they must be rigorously followed and carefully monitored. Baobab Health, a Malawi-based non governmental organization, has been addressing this crisis for the past eight years by applying medical informatics principles to resource-poor settings. The core of Baobab's approach is the application of easy-to-use touchscreen clinical workstations at the point of patient care. This system efficiently and accurately guides low-skilled healthcare workers through the diagnosis and treatment of patients according to national protocols. The system also captures timely and accurate data that is used by healthcare workers during patient visits to supplement decision making. The data is aggregated and used at a national level for policy making and analysis. This technology-dependent approach has required both hardware and software innovations, including alternative energy approaches, intuitive touchscreen-based user interfaces for users with no computing experience, and low-cost information appliances that are significantly more robust in harsh environments than traditional computers. To date more than 800,000 patients have been registered and over 18,000 receive HIV care facilitated by a Baobab system. Over the next two years Baobab is planning for a massive scale up of their systems across dozens of sites throughout Malawi. Our Vision To be a world leader in technology innovation for the developing world. Our Mission To provide eHealth solutions to the Ministry of Health and other health care providers that solve the health care crisis in Malawi. We will provide technology leadership and best practices by innovating on our existing solutions in Malawi and incubating new initiatives. Our systems will be intuitive to use, nationally scalable, and low in cost. Our Values Baobab believes strongly in Malawians' abilities to solve their own problems, and is committed to hiring, training and developing local staff. We expect hard work from all of our staff while nurturing an environment of teamwork and fun. Baobab has a demonstrated long term commitment to Malawi, with the founders committed to at least 20 more years of direct service to the country. Details about the Country Director position ------- ----- --- ------- -------- -------- Duties and Responsibilities: 1.Effectively manage all in-country activities including planning, procurement, funding, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and reporting. 1.Ensure that there are appropriate systems in place for the effective utilization and management of finance, personnel, supplies, transport, capital assets etc. 2.Mentor all department heads: Software, Operations, Finance & Admin, Support & Deployment 3.Stay informed about personnel and operational issues 2.Communicate and report on all in-country activities: 1.Management team and line-staff: Facilitate and chair weekly management meeting and an all-staff meeting monthly 2.Board of Trustees: Bi-yearly meetings 3.Partner institutions: Regular meetings and email updates 4.Donors: Write reports as required 3.Develop, execute and report on the strategic plan for short-term (<1 year) and medium-term (2-5 years) 4.Ensure that the annual budget and financial plan for the year ahead is completed by 30th November every year. 5.Participate in writing and reviewing proposal applications: 1.Develop proposals in line with the strategic plan 2.Ensure that all project proposals and reports are approved by the Board of Trustees prior to submission to donors 6.Maintain strong relations with current in-country donors. 7.Represent Baobab to local and national authorities, NGOs, and donor agencies: 1.Present at conferences 2.Write and coordinate writing of papers on Baobab activities 8.Assist with the recruitment and selection of qualified staff. Recommend promotions, disciplinary action and termination of staff in consultation with supervisors and HR Qualifications: 1.At least two years of experience in project management (supervising, planning, staff development and training skills), preferably in a developing country 2.Experience in health and technology industries 3.Proven capabilities in leadership and management. Strong negotiation, interpersonal and organization skills 4.Experience with donors (fundraising, networking, reporting) 5.Skills and knowledge in program sustainability and capacity building, public-private partnerships and project monitoring and evaluation (both quantitative and qualitative methods) 6.Degree in Public Health, Medical Informatics, Business Administration, International Development or related field (Master's degree preferred) Language Skills: 1.Excellent English communication skills 2.Ability to read, analyse, and interpret, technical and non-technical English language documents and manuals 3.Ability to write reports and manuals

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by michailidis kostas 15 Aug '08

15 Aug '08

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Fwd: [hci4d] Call for Papers and Participation: PD4D 2008 Participatory Design for Development -- Workshop at Participatory Design Conference 2008 (Deadline Extended)
by Yaw Anokwa 06 Aug '08

06 Aug '08

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jose Abdelnour-Nocera <Jose.Abdelnour-Nocera(a)tvu.ac.uk> Date: Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 16:47 Subject: [hci4d] Call for Papers and Participation: PD4D 2008 Participatory Design for Development -- Workshop at Participatory Design Conference 2008 (Deadline Extended) To: hci4d(a)googlegroups.com Hi Folks, Please forward to relevant networks, email lists. ACM, BSCHCI, AIR are already covered! Thanx -------- Call for Papers and Participation Participatory Design for Development 2008 Workshop (PD4D 2008) http://itcentre.tvu.ac.uk/~jabdelno/pd4d2008.htm to be held in conjunction with the Participatory Design Conference in Bloomington, Indiana 1st of October 2008 http://www.pdc2008.org/ About the Workshop Participatory design within the context of developing countries is an emerging area of interest in the Participatory Design community. This workshop will provide a unique forum for participants to exchange their experiences, consider the different approaches needed in developing country's context, encourage new partnerships and learn from each others past difficulties and how these were solved. Audience It is hoped this workshop will foster dialogue between practitioners and academics in different disciplines (e.g. HCI, CSCW, CMC, International Development, Sociology, Psychology, Anthropology, Software Engineering, Ergonomics, Education, and Information Systems, among others) interested in the challenges presented by conducting PD in the developing world. Topics There are unique issues that arise within the context of a developing country that need to be considered when carrying out participatory design. These include: * Power distance: this is the perceived status between the host communities and the designers. * Cultural/language barriers: there are normally language and cultural barriers between the host communities and the visiting designers. * Incompatibilities of PD techniques with host community values and communication codes. * Uncertainty about appropriate methods/techniques when participant users and developers are from different national and organizational cultures * Dispersed geographical distances mean that travelling costs are high and time zone differences make remote synchronous communications difficult. * Low literacy levels: the host communities may have low literacy level thus hindering collaborative activities between them and the designers. * Poor telecommunication infrastructure: this means that activities that could be followed-up from a distance or meaningful communication between the two dispersed groups may prove to be a challenge. Registration Please register via www.pdc2008.org Submissions Presenters will be invited to submit a 2 page proposal on their experience with PD in the developing world, or in similar settings within the developed world. Proposals should report on presenters' experience of PD and ideally touch on some of the issues identified in 'Topics'. Emphasis should be placed on the successful and challenging elements of working in a development context. Presentations will be followed by an interactive session where key themes will be identified by presenters and participants, who will work in groups to discuss lessons learnt and opportunities for successful PD. The workshop will close with a round-table session bringing together all the main points identified in the interactive session into a list of learning outcomes and challenges for PD in the developing world. articipatory design within the context of developing countries is an emerging area of interest in the Participatory Design community. FORMATTING GUIDELINES Submissions should follow the SIGCHI Conference Proceedings Format (www.sigchi.org/chipubform) Key Dates - 1st of September, 2008: Submission deadline - 7h of September, 2008: Notification of Acceptance - 15th of September, 2008: copies of accepted papers due. Papers should be submitted to cecilia.oyugi(a)tvu.ac.uk Co-chairs Cecilia Oyugi, Jose Abdelnour Nocera and Lynne Dunckley, Institute for Information Technology, Thames Valley University, Wellington Street, Slough, SL1 1YG, United Kingdom email: {cecilia.oyugi, jose.abdelnour-nocera, lynne.dunckley} at tvu.ac.uk http://iit.tvu.ac.uk Susan Dray Dray & Associates 2007 Kenwood Parkway Minneapolis, MN 55405 USA +1 6123771980 Dray at acm.org http://www.dray.com/ Program Committee Andy Dearden, Sheffield Hallam University, UK Heike Winschiers, Polytechnic of Namibia Ann Light, Queen Mary University of London, UK Rogerio DePaula, Intel, Brazil Tim Waema, University of Nairobi, Kenya Thomas Riisgaard Hansen, University of Aarhus, Denmark Josh Underwood, London Knowledge Lab, UK Zhengjie Liu, Dalian Maritime University, China Philippe Palanque, University Paul Sabatier, France Souleymane Camara, Thames Valley University, UK Suzana Sukovic, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Juan M. Fernandez, Unesco, Mexico Helen Sharp, The Open University, UK --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hci4d" group. To post to this group, send email to hci4d(a)googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to hci4d%2Bunsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hci4d?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

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Fwd: [hci4d] Call for Papers: Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Special Issue
by Brian DeRenzi 05 Aug '08

05 Aug '08

Begin forwarded message: > From: gaz <gary.marsden(a)gmail.com> > Date: August 5, 2008 9:59:24 AM GMT+03:00 > To: hci4d <hci4d(a)googlegroups.com> > Subject: [hci4d] Call for Papers: Personal and Ubiquitous Computing > Special Issue > > > Call for Papers: Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Special Issue: > > Bridging the Digital Divide: Experiences and Perspectives > > > Editors > > Lucia Terrenghi, Vodafone GROUP Services R&D, Germany > > Gary Marsden, University of Cape Town, South Africa > > > Synopsis > > For a portion of the global population, communication capabilities > have reached the status of a commodity. Some of us can afford a > complex portfolio of communication genres, such as voice over mobile > networks, voice over IP, e-mails, sms, mms, instant messaging…The list > is long and diverse, and we, as members of the industrialized society, > have developed a vocabulary and a semantics of communication genres. > These guides our use of one or another particular genre according to > the context, to our recipient, to our personal lifestyles and > objectives for self-expression and communication. One could actually > say that we have developed a culture of communication around the media > we can dispose of. Furthermore, our lives and economy in > industrialized societies heavily rely on communication technologies > (e.g., business, banking, health, public services, and security). We > sometimes take for granted, though, that such communication > capabilities are equally distributed globally. Similarly, we take for > granted that our communication culture, heavily relying on digital > media, can be understood and shared globally. Like water and food, one > can rather think of communication capabilities as a resource > (fulfilling a human need) we are globally sharing and responsible for: > in these terms, we need to acknowledge that digital communication is a > resource that at present is not equally and democratically distributed > in the world. As such, work must be done to “give voice” to those > portions of the population which are cut out from the global > discourse, so as to preserve cultural diversity and contribute to > filling the economical gap. > > This special issue of the Personal and Ubiquitous Computing journal > aims at collecting experiences and perspectives which address the > bridging of the digital divide. With the term “digital divide”, we in > fact address the communication divide, and the lack of digital > communication capabilities in terms of access and generation of > content. > > > > Topics which are relevant for this issue include, although are not > limited to: > > - elicitation of requirements in unconnected communities > (methodologies, results…) > > - projects aiming at bridging the digital divide: successes, > failures, lessons learned > > - guidelines and/or manifestos for an HCI agenda in unconnected > communities (e.g., rural areas, developing countries, elderly people, > disabled people) > > - examples of appropriation of a communication technology in a > community previously unconnected > > - examples/ideas about how to sensitize social responsibility in > the networked society (e.g., recycling hardware, stimulating social > networks…) > > > > Submission details > > Submissions should be between 3000 and 4000 words and authors are > encouraged to use the Springer guidelines for authors, available at > ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/Word/journal > > Submission in pdf electronic format should be emailed to > bridgingdivide(a)vodafone.com > > > > Important dates > > 15 September: deadline for abstract submission (300 words) > > 03 November: deadline for full paper submission > > 24 November: notification of acceptance and changes requests for > camera ready version > > 08 December: camera ready version due > > > > Reviewing Committee: > > Abigail Sellen, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK > > Andy Dearden, Sheffield Hallam University, UK > > Ann Light, Sheffield Hallam University, UK > > Anxo Cereijo-Roibas, Vodafone GROUP Services, UK > > Derrick L. Cogburn, Syracuse University, USA > > Edwin Blake, University of Cape Town, South Africa > > Eli Blevis, University of Indiana, USA > > Ingrid Mulder, Telematica Institute, The Netherlands > > Keith Cheverst, Lancaster University, UK > > Matt Jones, Swansea University, UK > > Mike Best, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA > > Nic Bidwell, James Cook University, Australia > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "hci4d" group. > To post to this group, send email to hci4d(a)googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to hci4d%2Bunsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hci4d?hl=en > -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- >

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