November 2009 - change - Mailing Lists

change website stats
by Yaw Anokwa 06 Nov '09

06 Nov '09

hey all, i've been looking at the change website stats and i wanted to share a few interesting things since we launched the site in february. we've had 7k visits came from 100 countries. the top ten countries are america, india, britain, canada, thailand, netherlands, australia, singapore, spain and brazil. there have been 4k unique visitors and we are trending upward. on average, they spend 2.5 minutes on the site. 60% of our traffic are newcomers. now it's not like we are running the new york times website, but plenty of people read the change website. so, if you'd like to add your uw affiliated project to our list of change projects or write a blog post, please let me know. yaw

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Fwd: [IAMCR] [DIRSI] DIRSI's young researcher competition deadline 16 November
by Yaw Anokwa 06 Nov '09

06 Nov '09

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tabitha Hart <home(a)tabithahart.net> Date: Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 20:37 Subject: Fwd: [IAMCR] [DIRSI] DIRSI's young researcher competition deadline 16 November To: yanokwa(a)gmail.com Hi -- thought this might be of interest to the Change group. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: DIRSI <comunica(a)dirsi.net> Date: Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 11:00 AM Subject: [IAMCR] [DIRSI] DIRSI's young researcher competition deadline 16 November To: newsletter(a)dirsi.net Click here if you cannot see this message correctly<http://dirsi.net/en/node/506>| - | Click here to unsubscribe from DIRSI news<nonews@dirsi.net?subject=unsubscribe&body=Please%20unsubscribe%20me%20from%20DIRSI%20news> [image: DIRSI - Regional Dialogue on the Information Society] November 3, 2009 Mission DIRSI's mission is to create knowledge and stimulate discussion to support the development of policies that enable the effective participation of Latin America's poor and marginalized communities in emerging information societies and economies. Visit our website at dirsi.net [image: Amy Mahan] Amy Mahan <http://dirsi.net/en/akm> was a founding member of DIRSI. At the time of her death she had made important contributions to the research and program design of a number of ICT for development initiatives. It is with deep gratitude for her scholarship, personal courage and humanity, that we honor her by establishing his fellowship program. The Amy Mahan Young Researcher Fellowships in ICT Inclusion Policies is one of a number of number of initiatives in honour of our friend and colleague. Other initiatives are: Amy Mahan Research Fellowship Program to Assess the Impact of Public Access to ICTs <http://www.upf.edu/amymahan/> Global Information Society Watch 2009 dedicated to Amy Mahan<http://www.apc.org/en/node/9278/> LACNIC Outstanding Achievement Award - Posthumous honorary mention<http://lacnic.net/en/anuncios/2009_ConvocatoriaTrayectoria.html> Reminder: Deadline for proposals to DIRSI's young researcher competition is 16 November The Regional Dialogue on the Information Society, known by its Spanish acronym DIRSI, launched its third round of young researcher fellowships on 23 September. The deadline for presenting proposals to the *Amy Mahan Young Researcher Fellowships in ICT Inclusion Policies* is 16 November 2009. Young researchers (born in 1974 or later) living and conducting academic activities in Latin America are invited to submit applications for three fellowships of US$6,000 each to support research within the DIRSIs current themes: *Bandwidth for All*, *Mobile Opportunities 2.0* and *New Indicators on ICT Access and Use*.. Final reports must be completed by 3 May 2010. Research proposals and final reports can be presented in Spanish, English or Portuguese. Full details of the fellowships are only available in Spanish <http://dirsi.net/becas2009>and Portuguese<http://dirsi.net/sites/default/files/Chamada_portuguese.pdf> . For more information visit: http://dirsi.net/en/fellowships2009. What is DIRSI? [image: CEIBAL]Founded in 2006, DIRSI is a network of professionals and academic institutions that seeks to create knowledge to support policymaking that promotes effective participation of poor and marginalized communities of Latin America and the Caribbean in the Information Society. DIRSI's publications include the groundbreaking studies Digital Poverty: Perspectives from Latin America and the Caribbean<http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-112564-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html>and Mobile Opportunities: Poverty and telephony access in Latin America and the Caribbean <http://dirsi.net/en/node/93>. DIRSI is administered by the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos –IEP– Peru's most established social sciences research centre and receives the financial support of the International Development Research Centre –IDRC– and the Canadian International Development Agency. ** ** ** **** ------------------------------ *****If you do not want to receive further information from DIRSI, send an e-mail to nonews(a)dirsi.net<nonews@dirsi.net?subject=unsubscribe&body=Please%20unsubscribe%20me%20from%20DIRSI%20news>with the subject "unsuscribe". * ** ------------------------------ ** ** dirsi.net | info(a)dirsi.net No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.424 / Virus Database: 270.14.47/2478 - Release Date: 11/03/09 07:36:00 _______________________________________________ International Association for Media and Communication Research Announcements mailing list http://iamcr.org Follow IAMCR's updates on Twitter at http://twitter.com/IAMCRtweets Or visit IAMCR's Facebook Page at http://www.facebook.com/pages/IAMCR/106828524195 -- Tabitha Hart, PhC Department of Communication University of Washington

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Fwd: Call for Papers: ICTs and Sustainability
by Yaw Anokwa 06 Nov '09

06 Nov '09

From: Robert Rattle [mailto:rrattle@alumni.uwaterloo.ca] Sent: November 4, 2009 1:06 PM Subject: call for papers - session on ICT and sustainability at the ISEE conference Dear Colleagues, Attached is a call for papers for the ISEE 2010 conference in Bremen/Oldenburg August 22 - 25, 2010. Feel free to forward this call as you see appropriate. Note that the conference abstract submission deadline has been extended to the end of November. Hope you can join us in Bremen! Best Wishes Robert -- Robert Rattle Researcher Human Dimensions of Global Change/Sustainable Consumption Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada, P6B 4N8 Tel: (705) 942-5818 website: http://www.ncf.ca/~at758 Author Computing Our Way to Paradise? blog site http://computingourwaytoparadise.wordpress.com/

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Fwd: International Conference on ICT for Africa 2010 (ICIA 2010)
by Yaw Anokwa 06 Nov '09

06 Nov '09

http://www.ictforafrica.org/call-for-papers.html ICIA 2010 Call for Papers | Print |<http://www.ictforafrica.org/call-for-papers.html?tmpl=component&print=1&pag…> The International Conference on ICT for Africa 2010 (ICIA 2010) is themed ‘*ICT for Development – Contributions of the South*’. This conference will bring together a fine mix of practitioners and academicians in the area of ICTs for sustainable development. The conference will explore the contributions of Africa to the global ICT for development discourse and efforts. The objective is to highlight the synergy of collaboration between African countries and other developing countries, and between African countries and the developed countries towards development solutions. Discussions and panel debates will therefore question how ICTs become the process for South-to-South knowledge transfer and South-to-North knowledge transfer in both research and practice. Presentations would cover key themes outline below: 1. *ICT for Business* - IT in Micro-Enterprises and Entrepreneurship - Supply Chain Management - Electronic Business 2. *ICT for Education and Journalism* - Elearning - I-reporting or social reporting - ICTs in Schools* *and Higher Educational Institution 3. *ICT and Healthcare* - Telemedicince - Electronic Medical Records - Community Health - Patient Compliance and mobile phones 4. *Internet and Society* - Social computing and networks - Social Identity - Social Learning - Cybercrime - Unintended Consequences* * 5. *ICT, Poverty and Development* - Managerial IT Issues for Sustainable Development - GIS & IS in Agriculture and Land Use - IT, Rural Development & Poverty Reduction - IT Policy 6. *Open-source Technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa* - Adoption, Localization and Implementation - Open Content and Open ID - Universal Standards - Intellectual Property and Digital Commons 7. *ICT and Gender Development * 8. *ICT Diffusion and Teledensity* 9. *ICT Project Management and Sustainability* 10. *ICT in Government and Conflict Resolution* - E-government and Digital Government - ICT and Public Sector Reform and Administration - Teledemocracy - ICT and Taxation - ICT and Citizen Participation 11. *ICT Research in Sub-Saharan Africa* - Research Methods, Reviews and Commentaries - Human and Societal Issues in Information Systems ICIA 2010 creates a forum where participants can disseminate their research on the transfer, diffusion, and adoption of ICT within the context of Africa; the innovation and development of ICT solutions for and within this context; impacts of ICT on society and of society on ICT; and other relevant normative, empirical, and theoretical concerns of ICT development, implementation, strategy, management and policy that are distinctive to Africa and associated developing economies. Important Dates *December 1st 2009* Full Paper Submission *December 31st 2009* Review Result Returned *January 31st 2010* Final Paper Submission Submission Guidelines *Doctoral Consortium Papers*: - This is only open to doctoral, graduate and undergraduate students - 1500-2500 words of extended abstract (including references, figures and main text) - Download Doctoral Consortium Paper Submission Template<http://www.ictforafrica.org/images/stories/2010/ICIADoctoralConsortiumPaper…> - Download Author's Instructions<http://www.ictforafrica.org/images/stories/2010/ICIA2010PaperFormatInstruct…> *Track Sessions Papers:* - Research in Progress - 3000-5000 words (including references, figures and main text) - Full Papers - 5000 words (including references, figures and main text) - Download Conference Paper Submission Template<http://www.ictforafrica.org/images/stories/2010/ICIAConferencePaperTemplate…> - Download Author's Instructions<http://www.ictforafrica.org/images/stories/2010/ICIA2010PaperFormatInstruct…> Please submit your paper electronically through our online submission system<http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icia2010>(click on Submit Paper on the Top menu) on or before December 1st, 2009. For papers to appear in the proceedings, at least one author must register for the conference. Notification of paper acceptance by December 31st, 2009. For consideration for the best paper award, submit the full manuscript by November 10, 2009. Final camera- ready paper submission January 31st, 2010. You can also submit your paper by emailing the paper to Dr Richard Boateng ( richard(a)ictforafrica.org This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ). Panel Discussions and Workshops The conference will be a platform for panel discussions and workshops which will explore international grantseeking opportunities for ICT research and projects, and new frontiers in telemedicine and tele-neonatology research and practice in Africa. The aim of panel sessions is to debate ICT issues that are critical, crucial, controversial and unresolved in the African and other similar developing economies contexts. Panelists will actively engage the audience and help them to gain a deeper understanding of the issues and reflect more than one point of view.

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Fwd: [TIER] FW: Google is looking for Product Managers from Africa for Africa
by Melody Clark 05 Nov '09

05 Nov '09

-- Melody Clark MLIS Candidate 2010 - University of Washington Gates Foundation Global Libraries Graduate Research Assistant ALISS Co-President 2009-2010 iWorld Co-Chair 2009-2010 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: mobile: 206.303.7910 email: melody.r.clark(a)gmail.com or melclark(a)u.washington.edu ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: emma brunskill <emma(a)eecs.berkeley.edu> Date: Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 2:42 PM Subject: [TIER] FW: Google is looking for Product Managers from Africa for Africa To: tier(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu *From:* Stephen Newton [mailto:snewton@google.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, November 04, 2009 7:19 PM *To:* Undisclosed recipients *Subject:* Google is looking for Product Managers from Africa for Africa Dear All, If you know of anyone from any African Country with the following type of educational/professional background: Has a Computer Science Degrees Possibly has worked as a consultant Possibly has an MBA Is either already on the continent, or is willing to move to the continent, most likely in Nairobi with time spent in Zurich and Tel Aviv. Please send them my way. Thanks in advance, Stephen Stephen A. Newton Head of Google South Africa Google South Africa The Campus - Twickenham Building Cnr Sloane & Main Road Bryanston, 2021 Tel: +27 (0)11 575 1749 SA Mob: +27 (0)79 472 0061 UK Mob: + 44 (0)78 269 47044 snewton(a)google.com This email and the information it contains are confidential and may be privileged. If you have received this email in error please notify me immediately and do not copy it for any purpose, or disclose its contents to any other person. Internet communications are not secure and, therefore, Google does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message as it has been transmitted over a public network. If you suspect the message may have been intercepted or amended please contact me. ------------------------------ This email is confidential and intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above and may contain information that is privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately by return email or telephone and destroy the original message. - This mail is sent via Sony Asia Pacific Mail Gateway. ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Africans mailing list Africans(a)mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/africans http://africans.mit.edu _______________________________________________ Ict4dev mailing list Ict4dev(a)lists.csail.mit.edu https://lists.csail.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/ict4dev _______________________________________________ TIER mailing list Website: http://tier.cs.berkeley.edu TIER(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tier

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Fwd: 11/11 deadline-Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition (GSEC)
by Yaw Anokwa 04 Nov '09

04 Nov '09

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: GSEC <gsec(a)u.washington.edu> Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition (GSEC) University of Washington, Seattle, USA Calling all students: Do you have an innovative, commercially-sustainable business idea that addresses a problem of poverty in developing economies? If so, apply to GSEC! Only one week remaining – Apply online by November 11, 2009! The Power of Business to Solve Social Problems GSEC engages creative minds around the world to develop bolder and less conventional business solutions that redress problems of poverty in developing economies. Open to all degree-seeking students, across fields of study, GSEC seeks innovative social business ideas that provide sustainable solutions to global poverty. Semi-finalist teams from around the world will be travel to Seattle for GSEC Week (March 1-5, 2010), where they pitch their business ideas to judges and the UW community, visit regional companies, and compete for up to $17,500 in prize money, including global health awards. Business ideas may focus on any industry area, such as global health, environment, energy, agriculture, education, or technology. Multidisciplinary teams are highly encouraged. Apply by November 11, 2009. Apply online here. Applications consist of an 1) executive summary of the business idea, and 2) an online registration. Process: Applications go through two rounds of reviews between Nov 11 – early December. Semi-finalist teams are selected in December 2009 and invited to participate in GSEC Week (Mar 1-5, 2010). Semi-finalist teams work with mentors between Dec – March, then participate in GSEC Week where they visit regional companies, pitch to potential investors, and compete for prize money. Application details: http://www.foster.washington.edu/centers/gbc/globalsocialentrepreneurshipco…

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Fwd: AGCommons
by Yaw Anokwa 04 Nov '09

04 Nov '09

spatialdev is seattle based, and they are doing incredible work building local capacity in east africa. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: jubal harpster <jharpster(a)spatialdev.com> Date: 2009/11/4 Subject: AGCommons To: Yaw Anokwa <yanokwa(a)gmail.com> Yaw, Also, if you have not seen this please read this post. http://www.agcommons.org/?q=node/154 We seeking just the right person to head up the AGCommons program in Africa through the next phase. The intent is to run it as a business, not a donor program with Gates essentially acting as a VC in Africa. If you know someone, or know someone that knows someone please let me know. Thanks! See you back in Seattle. -jubal

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orkut - Vikas Bhasin.. wants you to join orkut!
by Vikas Bhasin.. 03 Nov '09

03 Nov '09

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Rob Nathan on Portable Ultrasound
by Yaw Anokwa 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

This Thursday at Change, Rob Nathan will be presenting on his work on Portable Ultrasound "According to the UN Africa and the Millennium Development Goals 2007 “Maternal health remains a regional and global scandal, with the odds that a sub-Saharan African woman will die from complications of pregnancy and childbirth during her life at 1 in 16 compared with 1 in 3,800 in the developed world.” We have begun a pilot project in Uganda to teach midwives to perform limited obstetrical ultrasound to identify potential birth complications. Women with those conditions will be encouraged to deliver in a facility equipped to perform cesarean section, rather than at a lower level health facility or in the home. Midwives will use off the shelf portable ultrasound equipment donated by GE. We have begun to work with Computing and Engineering and HCDE to develop equipment that is more appropriate for rural developing country environments: durable, cheap, simple, able to run off the electrical grid. We hope to incorporate ODK into this equipment." What: Rob Nathan on Portable Ultrasound When: Thursday, November 5 at Noon Where: UW, Paul Allen Center, Room 403

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Some ODK press in Ars Technica
by Clint Tseng 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

Nothing new, but kind of neat that they picked up on ODK and ran with it: http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/11/getting-developing-world-da… —Clint

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