October 2009 - change - Mailing Lists

IDRC Doctoral Research Awards in Science, Technology and Innovation Studies
by Yaw Anokwa 21 Oct '09

21 Oct '09

Two call for Doctoral proposals: Research and Training Support to Build African Capacity in Science, Technology, and Innovation Indicators: http://www.merit.unu.edu/africancapacity/ and IDRC Doctoral Research Awards in Science, Technology and Innovation Studies http://www.ieri.org.za/awards/IDRC_IERI_Research_Awards_Call_2009.pdf Please circulate (attached) this IDRC-IERI Doctoral Research Awards in Science, Technology and Innovation Studies - deadline 16 December 2009. The principal objective of the IDRC-TUT Doctoral Research Awards is to identify case studies on context-specific innovation processes from Mozambique, Rwanda, Senegal and South Africa. The IDRC-IERI Doctoral Research Award are valued at ZAR 72, 000.00 (equivalent to CAD$10,000) each and are expected to identify innovation activities in one of the four countries through case studies. The award seeks to enhance the engagement of doctoral students in field research within this subject area to produce high quality dissertations, encourage timely completion of their training and produce findings that are policy relevant.

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Fwd: [Netimpactstudents] Oct 29th Net Impact speaker & happy hour social
by joe michiels 20 Oct '09

20 Oct '09

Change members- Below's an announcement for an event hosted by the UW Foster Net Impact Chapter. We wanted to extend an invitation to the happy hour to campus groups like Change as there's going to be *lots of attendees interested in sustainability, economic development, and social entrepreneurship* (from both within UW and working professionals). Or just come for a free round of drinks and networking! See below for more details. While the topic of electric vehicles may or may not be directly applicable to Change, feel free to attend the talk beforehand (please rsvp using the link below, list your class as Other:Change). See you then! -Joe Michiels Foster School of Business - Class of 2010 jmich(a)uw.edu ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Debbie Tran <debtran(a)u.washington.edu> Date: Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 4:20 PM Subject: [Netimpactstudents] Oct 29th Net Impact speaker & social To: netimpactstudents(a)u.washington.edu Net Impact invites you to hear Jim Billmaier present *"Free Gas: The impending dominance of the Electric Vehicle."* This presentation both predicts and advocates for the rapid and massive transformation from octane-powered to electric-powered personal transportation. Jim will discuss why this will and must happen and the massive opportunities created as a result of this paradigm shift. (Please see below for his bio.) Location: Balmer 303 When: Thursday, Oct 29th from 5-6pm Afterwards, join us for a social gathering with other graduate students from around campus and members of the Seattle professional chapter of Net Impact. UW members of Net Impact - enjoy a round of drinks on us! Location: District Lounge - 4507 Brooklyn Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98105 When: Thursday, Oct 29th from 6:30-7:30pm *Let us know you're coming! * https://catalysttools.washington.edu/webq/survey/debtran/86694 Speaker bio: Jim Billmaier is a founding partner of Charge Northwest, a company focused on hardware, software and consulting solutions for electric vehicle charging infrastructure. Jim is a 30 year technology veteran and inventor of over 80 granted and pending patents. He currently sits on the Board of Directors of two venture backed companies and is an angel technology investor, as well as a limited partner in a Seattle based venture capital firm. Jim has served as Chairman and CEO of three companies including Asymetrix, which he led to a successful IPO in 1998, and Digeo, Inc which he co-founded with Microsoft legend Paul Allen. At Digeo, Jim became the only entrepreneur to ever win back-to-back EMMY awards for technical achievement. Jim acted as an advisor to Paul Allen, sitting as one of 4 members on his "President's Council" for 10 years. Prior to moving to the Pacific Northwest, Jim was VP and General Manager of Sun Microsystem’s Networking Division, leading the efforts of Sun’s first internet offerings, the development of TCP/IP (the backbone protocol of the Internet), as well as introducing the Java programming language to the world. He also held executive leadership positions at MIPS Computer Systems and Digital Equipment Corporation. _______________________________________________ Netimpactstudents mailing list Netimpactstudents(a)u.washington.edu https://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/netimpactstudents

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Amit Saxena on Digital StudyHall
by Yaw Anokwa 20 Oct '09

20 Oct '09

This Thursday at Change, Amit Saxena will be presenting on his work with Digital StudyHall. "The Digital StudyHall (DSH) project aims to improve education for students in rural and slum schools in India. The researchers video record classes taught by experienced teachers, distribute these videos over "Postmannet" (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 train local teachers to mediate the video lessons for use in their teaching. For more details, please see: http://dsh.cs.washington.edu/ The University of Washington and the StudyHall Educational Foundation are currently undertaking a two year mixed methods study of Digital StudyHall in 11 village schools in the the Chinhat Development Block, Lucknow, India. The study is supported by the National Science Foundation. In the presentation, I will share our preliminary analysis of the teaching and learning outcomes as well as the implementation of the DSH system in these schools." What: Amit Saxena on Digital StudyHall When: Thursday, October 22 at Noon Where: UW, Paul Allen Center, Room 403

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Fwd: [hci4d] India HCI/ IDID 2010 Call for Submissions
by Yaw Anokwa 20 Oct '09

20 Oct '09

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Niall Winters <n.winters(a)ioe.ac.uk> Date: Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 09:19 Subject: [hci4d] India HCI/ IDID 2010 Call for Submissions To: "hci4d(a)googlegroups.com" <hci4d(a)googlegroups.com> Call for submissions India HCI in conjunction with the IFIP TC13 Special Interest Group on Interaction Design for International Development (India HCI / IDID 2010) will provide a unique forum to explore these challenges. We shall bring together researchers and practitioners from the India, South Asia, and worldwide to explore these challenges and to share latest research. We invite contributions relating to: HCI in the industry of emerging economies HCI contributions in social and economic development HCI for products & services in emerging markets, including for mobile systems HCI and designs for low-literacy users HCI and designs for bottom-of-the-pyramid users HCI for remote contexts (international outsourcing / global software development) HCI responses to a world in recession We are inviting submissions of the following types: Peer reviewed full / short papers: path-breaking new knowledge, referenced and rigorously validated Peer reviewed design case studies: experience gained from a particular interaction design project Industry presentations: techniques or methods that work in the industry shared by experts Student design projects: HCI projects that were done by students As well as some interesting “un-conferenced” events We also invite pre-conference activities including: Workshops: mini conferences on specific themes Tutorials: teaching sessions by experts The conference will be held from March 20-24 in the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. For more details, see: http://indiahci.in --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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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CSE Colloquium on Open Source Data Collection (Tuesday, Oct 13)
by Yaw Anokwa 20 Oct '09

20 Oct '09

This Tuesday at the CSE Colloqium, Gaetano Borriello will be presenting Open Data Kit, work he did while on sabbatical at Google. If you missed his practice talk last week, now's your chance to see the final product. Open Data Kit (ODK) is an open-source mobile data collection toolkit for the citizen science, public health, and environmental monitoring communities. These groups share the fact that they all have limited resources and tend to be behind the technology curve. ODK’s goals are three-fold: (1) make tools highly modular and customizable so that they can be easily composed and/or specialized into appropriate arrangements for the task at hand; (2) exploit open interfaces and standards so that solutions are not “silo-ed” into monolithic enterprise-level packages that are difficult to understand and maintain; and (3) get these communities to take advantage of evolving technologies including powerful mobile clients (e.g., Android), flexible and scalable server infrastructure (e.g., AppEngine) so as to reach a wider base of developers and avoid early obsolescence. In this talk, Gaetano will describe the current status and research and development plans. For those who cannot make it, the talk will live streamed at http://www.cs.washington.edu/news/colloq.info.html#MBONE What: Gaetano Borriello on Open Data Kit When: Tuesday, October 13 at 3.30pm Where: UW, Electrical Engineering Building, Room 105

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University of Michigan is hiring in ICTD
by Yaw Anokwa 15 Oct '09

15 Oct '09

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

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Justin Steventon on CyberTracker
by Yaw Anokwa 14 Oct '09

14 Oct '09

This Thursday at Change, Justin Steventon will be presenting on his exciting work on CyberTracker. "Climate change, pollution, habitat destruction and loss of biodiversity may have serious impacts on human welfare. To anticipate and prevent negative impacts will require ongoing long-term monitoring of all aspects of the environment. Our vision is to enable people to be part of a worldwide environmental monitoring network. Our mission is to help you improve environmental monitoring by increasing the efficiency of data gathering and to improve observer reliability. CyberTracker (http://www.cybertracker.co.za/) is a software application which allows illiterate and low-literate people to capture rich data about their environment." What: Justin Steventon on CyberTracker When: Thursday, October 15 at Noon Where: UW, Paul Allen Center, Room 403

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Fwd: FW: [Fwd: RE: Vodafone Wireless Innovation Project]
by Gaetano Borriello 13 Oct '09

13 Oct '09

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Hank Levy <levy(a)cs.washington.edu> Date: Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 9:29 PM Subject: FW: [Fwd: RE: Vodafone Wireless Innovation Project] To: voting-faculty - Mailing List <voting-faculty(a)cs.washington.edu> FYI -- Vodafone is going to award prizes for innovations using wireless technology to address critical social issues around the world.... -------- Original Message -------- Subject: RE: Vodafone Wireless Innovation Project Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:53:50 -0700 From: Brittany Hinchliff <Brittany.Hinchliff(a)vodafone.com><Brittany.Hinchliff(a)vodafone.com> To: Dondi L. Cupp <dcupp(a)u.washington.edu> <dcupp(a)u.washington.edu>, Fred B. Holt <fbholt(a)u.washington.edu> <fbholt(a)u.washington.edu>, Lynne U. Chronister <lchronis(a)u.washington.edu> <lchronis(a)u.washington.edu> CC: Mani Soma <manisoma(a)u.washington.edu> <manisoma(a)u.washington.edu> References: <747211284E3D654DB360E11873BD3E53027E10BA(a)VODEXCHANGE.vodafone-us.com><747211284E3D654DB360E11873BD3E53027E10BA(a)VODEXCHANGE.vodafone-us.com> <AAA761A2C05F5E4FAD4F0B6433BDD7110CAC36FE12(a)sdc-mbx-01.exchange.washington.edu><AAA761A2C05F5E4FAD4F0B6433BDD7110CAC36FE12(a)sdc-mbx-01.exchange.washington.edu> <AAA761A2C05F5E4FAD4F0B6433BDD7110CACD936D9(a)sdc-mbx-01.exchange.washington.edu><AAA761A2C05F5E4FAD4F0B6433BDD7110CACD936D9(a)sdc-mbx-01.exchange.washington.edu> Hi all, My name is Britt Hinchliff and I work at the Vodafone Americas Foundation, and on a particular initiative called the Vodafone Wireless Innovation Project. The Wireless Innovation Project seeks to identify and fund the best innovations using wireless related technology to address critical social issues around the world. Three winners will be awarded prizes of $300,000, $200,000 and $100,000 for unique, late-stage wireless related innovations that offer the best potential for creating social change in the areas of education, health, economic development, the environment and access to communication. The deadline for applications is February 1, 2010. Here is a link to our website: http://project.vodafone-us.com and I have also attached our latest press release and a fact sheet with some more information. I would greatly appreciate if you all could pass this information along to any students or faculty who you think might be interested in applying. If you have any questions, please let me know. Thanks, Britt Brittany Hinchliff Vodafone Americas Foundation http://www.vodafone-us.com/ W: 925 210-3784 F: 925 210-3852 Vodafone Wireless Innovation Project: http://project.vodafone-us.com <http://vodafoneamericasfoundation.blog.com/><http://www.facebook.com/pages/Vodafone-Americas-Foundation-Wireless-Innovat…><http://www.twitter.com/VodafoneProject> ------------------------------ *From:* Dondi L. Cupp [mailto:dcupp@u.washington.edu<dcupp(a)u.washington.edu>] *Sent:* Tuesday, October 13, 2009 2:45 PM *To:* Brittany Hinchliff; Fred B. Holt; Lynne U. Chronister *Cc:* Mani Soma *Subject:* Vodafone Wireless Innovation Project I’m also copying Professor Mani Soma who could be extremely helpful identifying potential research partners. Best, Dondi -- ----- "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." - Mahatma Gandhi Gaetano Borriello Jerre D. Noe Professor Department of Computer Science & Engineering 572 Allen Center, Box 352350 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195-2350 +1.206.685.9432 gaetano(a)cs.washington.edu http://www.cse.washington.edu/homes/gaetano (Program Mgr: Shannon Gilmore - sgilmore(a)cs.washington.edu)

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fellowship opportunity for women from developing countries
by Yaw Anokwa 13 Oct '09

13 Oct '09

---------- Forwarded message ---------- S c h o o l f o r A d v a n c e d R e s e a r c h o n t h e H u m a n E x p e r i e n c e Post Office Box 2188 * Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504-2188 * (505) 954-7200 * fax (505) 954-7235 * www.sarweb.org<http://www.sarweb. org> One six-month fellowship is available for a female social scientist from a developing nation, either pre- or post-doctoral, whose work addresses women's economic and social empowerment in that nation. The goal of the program is twofold: to advance the scholarly careers of women social scientists from the developing world, and to support research that identifies causes of gender inequity in the developing world and that proposes practical solutions for promoting women's economic and social empowerment. The fellowship is expected to start on September 1, 2010 and run through February 28, 2011. In addition to a $4,500/month stipend, and housing and office space on the SAR campus, the Campbell Fellow receives travel, shipping, and library resource funds; health insurance; and the support of a mentoring committee of established scholar-practitione rs. The following criteria guide SAR's selection of the Campbell Fellow: * Citizenship: Applicants may not be U.S. citizens or permanent residents and must be a national of a developing country that is currently eligible to borrow from the World Bank (see http://go.worldbank.org/S2ADVPZVX0 for the current list of eligible countries). * Academic Discipline: Applicants should be pursuing research in one of the social sciences: anthropology, economics, education, geography, history, law, linguistics, political science, psychology, social work, or sociology, or in an interdisciplinary field that incorporates two or more of these disciplines. * Research Topic: Projects that identify causes of and/or solutions to gender inequity in the developing world, and thus contribute to women's social and economic empowerment, will be favored. Sample topics include education and socialization of girls; globalization and the economic status of women; policies and practices toward family, reproduction, and women's health; impacts of international and civil conflict on women; women's roles in resolving such conflicts or sustaining civil society; media representations of women and the formation of ideologies of gender; the practice and process of gender-based development; and women in science and technology. SAR will select fellows on the strength of their clearly stated intention to serve their communities and countries of origin. * English Fluency: To facilitate full engagement in the SAR intellectual community, applicants must demonstrate their fluency in English, such as through their record of professional interaction in written and spoken English. Campbell Fellowship for Women Scholar-Practitioners from Developing Nations S c h o o l f o r A d v a n c e d R e s e a r c h o n t h e H u m a n E x p e r i e n c e Post Office Box 2188 * Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504-2188 * (505) 954-7200 * fax (505) 954-7235 * www.sarweb.org The application deadline is November 1. Applications must include: For application form and submission specifications go to scholar.app. sarweb.org or contact Scholar Programs at scholar@sarsf. org or (505) 954-7201. This fellowship is made possible through the generous support of the Vera R. Campbell Foundation. For more information, visit campbell.fellowship .sarweb.org. * Application form available at scholar.app. sarweb.org. * An abstract, not to exceed 150 words, describing the purpose, goals, and objectives of the applicant's research project on which they will work at SAR. * A proposal, no more than four double-spaced pages in length. The proposal should describe what is to be accomplished during the fellowship, the status of the applicant's research on the topic, and the significance of the work. * A short bibliography, not to exceed one single-spaced page, of references cited in the proposal. * Curriculum vitae, not to exceed four single-spaced pages. * Three letters of recommendation not to exceed two single-spaced pages in length each. Letters must be received by November 1. Applicants are responsible for ensuring that references send their letters on time. Contact: Dr. Miriam S. Chaiken, Department Head Department of Anthropology Breland Hall Room 329 MSC 3BV New Mexico State University P.O. Box 30001 Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001 email: mchaiken@nmsu. edu tel: 575-646-2826

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iPhone app -- Give work
by Yaw Anokwa 13 Oct '09

13 Oct '09

really great idea for crowd sourcing *Date: *October 13, 2009 9:16:47 AM PDT *Subject: **iPhone app — Give work* *Source: *Dolores Labs Blog [image: landing-page.jpg]<http://blog.doloreslabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/landing-page.jpg>We just launched our first iPhone app: Give Work<http://crowdflower.com/general/givework> lets you do tasks in your downtime and help increase the wages of refugees in Kenya working for us. We have been working with Samasource <http://samasource.org> for a while now — they are a fantastic local non-profit that brings computer based work to people in Africa. We send tasks to one of their hardest to employ groups: a Kenyan refugee camp. The people are extremely motivated, speak fluent English and even have high speed internet. But sometimes there are downtime issues (due to floods, satellite failure, etc.) and sometimes there are data quality issues (due to cultural misunderstandings), which makes it hard for them to compete for traditional outsourcing work. Fortunately, our dynamic routing and quality control technology can resolve these problems gracefully. When you complete a task on your iPhone, your work is paired with the work of someone in Kenya. iPhone users results are used for quality control — if someone waiting for a bus in San Francisco gives the same answer as someone working in a refugee camp, we can be fairly certain that the results are reliable. All of the profits we make on the work collected between the iPhone and the refugees go directly into the pockets of the refugee workers. *How to do tasks* Download<http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=329928364…> the free app from the app store. You can start doing tasks in seconds. Shoot us an email at feedback(a)crowdflower.com if you have an issues or questions. *How to submit tasks to Samasource and GiveWork* Visit CrowdFlower <http://crowdflower.com> where you can build tasks to outsource. On the order page, click the “iPhone” and “Samasource” channels. *Thanks!* I want to give a special shoutout to Josh Snyder<http://github.com/treelinelabs>, who did most of the work of building the actual application. I wasn’t sure we had the resources to get this crazy idea out the door, but everyone pitched in after hours and it looks great! Read more… <http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/doloreslabs/%7E3/dCzCOBnaQZE/>

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