June 2009 - change - Mailing Lists

Course Announcement - PhD course in Value Sensitive Design
by Alan Borning 23 Jun '09

23 Jun '09

Autumn Quarter 2009, Wednesdays 4:30 to 7:30 pm INSC 543 / CSE 599P Instructors: Batya Friedman and Alan Borning Value Sensitive Design is a design methodology for information technology systems that accounts for human values in a principled and comprehensive manner throughout the design process. Value Sensitive Design is primarily concerned with values that center on human well being, human dignity, justice, welfare, and human rights. Specific values include trust, accountability, freedom from bias, access, autonomy, privacy, sustainability, and consent. This course will provide a thorough introduction to Value Sensitive Design's interactional theory, direct and indirect stakeholder analyses, and tripartite methodology of conceptual, technical, and empirical investigations. The theory and methods of Value Sensitive Design are to be used in consort with other existing technical and design methods. Ultimately, Value Sensitive Design requires that we broaden the goals and criteria for judging the quality of information systems to include those that advance human values. The most significant component of the work in the course will be a quarter-long project in which students apply Value Sensitive Design to a project of their choosing. We encourage students to bring their own projects, in particular ones that could be an aspect of their dissertation research. There are also already some students who will be in the course with some very interesting projects, and who are looking for project partners. In addition, there will be a set of readings, some short writing assignments, and some focused design activities. The course will be taught studio-style, with one 3 hour session Wednesdays 4:30 - 7:20 pm (with breaks of course!). There will be a mix of lectures, design activities, and reflection during the class. We welcome PhD and MS students from a variety of disciplines, including the Information School, Computer Science & Engineering, Human Centered Design and Engineering, DXARTS, Biomedical and Health Informatics, Geography, Psychology, and others. Information School students should register for INSC 543, and CSE students for CSE 599P. Others - take your pick (though please try to keep the enrollments even between the two course numbers.) This is a 4 credit graded course, but due to a quirk of the CSE 599 course number, CSE 599P is only 3 credits. Students can register with Alan Borning for 1 additional unit of CSE 600 to make up the difference if they want. In CSE, this course counts toward the Post-Quals Ph.D. Requirement. (We are trying to get this on the books as a single cross-listed course, but for now we've got the two course numbers.) For more information, including some project ideas, please see http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/cse599p/09au/ , or contact either Batya (batya(a)u.washington.edu) or Alan (borning(a)cs.washington.edu ). We hope you'll join us! Batya and Alan

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Talk on the Cell Phone Revolution in the Developing World (June 29th at 7pm)
by Yaw Anokwa 23 Jun '09

23 Jun '09

Change members Chris Coward and Yaw Anokwa will be speaking at an event organized by the Young Professional’s International Network, the World Affairs Council and co-sponsored by CIS entitled: “The Cell Phone Revolution in the Developing World”. What: There are 4.1 billion cell phones in the world (2/3 of the world’s population has one) and their use is transforming lives in the developing world. The foremost authorities in the Puget Sound region have been assembled to discuss how these devices - that are taken for granted - are having a radical effect on people’s finances, health, education, businesses and politics. When: Tuesday, June 29th, 2009. Doors open at 7, talk starts at 7:30 and goes till 9:30. Where: Google Offices in Fremont 651 N 34th St Seattle, WA 98102 (206) 234-5678 If you’re interested you must pre-register at http://www.world-affairs.org/calendar.cfm to reserve a spot. If you’re a member of the Young Professional’s International Network, the cost is $10, non-members pay $15 and students $10. The venue has a capacity of 50 people so please pre-register so as not to be disappointed night of…

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Fwd: The new Nokia Tej -service in India...
by joe michiels 22 Jun '09

22 Jun '09

pdf and description attached below of Tej, sent from the Nokia rep in the W3C MW4D group. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <Lauri.K.Hirvonen(a)nokia.com> Date: Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 1:01 PM Subject: The new Nokia Tej -service in India... To: Lauri.K.Hirvonen(a)nokia.com, boyera(a)w3.org, public-mw4d(a)w3.org The new Nokia Tej -service in India I'll like to share with you the new project done by Nokia in India to stimulate businesses with mobile phones. This Tej -project has good results. Here is the top-level-summary on Tej: Service description Nokia Tej is a mobile order management service that makes communication-intensive business processes more efficient. The service enables you to access order and related information via mobile phone or computer. Thus, you can reduce the amount of paper work and improve the flow of communication within your business network. Hosted Service You can trust that your business data is always protected and you and your defined partners within your business network can access all relevant data safely at all times, even when you need to change your mobile phone or computer. Invite your partners The invitation functionality is what really makes Nokia Tej special. Defining the business network is easy. You start by inviting your first level partners, who then invite second level partners to the network. And once you have added your product information, your business partners can use it to place orders. The invitation functionality also effectively turns Nokia Tej into a directory service, offering access to new business partners and potentially new business. And attached is the PowerPoint 17 slides presentation of Nokia Tej. Br. Lauri

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paul farmer speaking at uw today at 6
by Yaw Anokwa 18 Jun '09

18 Jun '09

Dr. Paul Farmer, subject of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Mountains Beyond Mountains" and co-founder of Partners In Health, will speak about the current climate of global health on Thursday, June 18 from 6--7:30 p.m. in Kane Hall Room 130. The free event, "A Conversation with Dr. Paul Farmer Moderated by Dr. Chris Elias," is on a first-come, first-served basis. Doors open at 5:15 p.m. Farmer will reflect on a variety of topics, including the future of global health delivery and sustainability, the challenge of multi drug-resistant tuberculosis, and how one person has the ability to make a significant contribution to global health. Farmer regularly travels between two worlds: one marked by academic prestige and medical innovation, and the other by destitution and health inequity. Farmer is the newly named chair of Harvard Medical School's Department of Global Health and Social Medicine as well as an attending physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. His unconventional approach to care in the developing world cuts through red tape, bends rules, and has won him acclaim and controversy. Elias, the CEO of PATH, has fostered an entrepreneurial culture that encourages innovative thinking at PATH, a Seattle-based non-governmental organization, which is dedicated to improving the health of people around the world by advancing technologies, strengthening systems, and encouraging healthy behaviors. The event is being presented by the Washington Global Health Alliance in partnership with the University of Washington Department of Global Health, CityClub, and the Pacific Health Summit. The Washington Global Health Alliance is a coalition for Washington State's global health organizations, connecting, organizing, and motivating groups with the common goal of improving health conditions for people throughout the world. For those of you who cannot attend, we will be streaming the event live so you can log on at that time to watch: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/wgha-discovery-series. The Seattle Channel will also be taping the event. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleID=50371

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OMC Hackathon at MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, MA on July 1-2
by Yaw Anokwa 18 Jun '09

18 Jun '09

The Open Mobile Consortium (of which UW's CommCare and ODK are a part) will be having a hackathon at the MIT Media Lab on July 1st and 2nd. The goal of the two days is to have some fun programming together to extend one or more open source tools supported by the Open Mobile Consortium or other tools that want to integrate. Details and (free) registration can be found here: http://www.open-mobile.org/news/join-us-next-omc-technical-meeting-july-1-a…

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Tonight: "Social Media Can Save the World"
by Sunil Garg 17 Jun '09

17 Jun '09

Tangentially related to ICTD (insofar as there is a lot of research to be done about citizen media), but I'm guessing some of you might be interested: http://twtvite.com/81iyys Meet Mark Horvath (@hardlynormal) in Seattle this Wed. Learn about his project, http://invisiblepeople.tv : Pizza, drinks and presentation. He's currently touring cities in America and using social media to share stories of homeless people. For an example, see: http://whrrl.com/story/show/2207 (full disclaimer: I work for Pelago, which is hosting the event and is a sponsor of invisiblepeople.tv) -Sunil

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NSDR '09 - Deadline extended to JUNE 18
by Tapan Parikh 15 Jun '09

15 Jun '09

Due to several requests, the deadline for NSDR 2009 has been extended to June 18. On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Tapan Parikh <tapan(a)cs.washington.edu>wrote: > > CALL FOR PAPERS > _______________ > > 3rd Workshop on Networked Systems for Developing Regions (NSDR) > To be held with the 22nd ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles > (SOSP) > Please distribute widely > > Big Sky Resort, Big Sky, Montana > Sunday, October 11th, 2009 > http://www.dritte.org/nsdr09 > > ** Important Dates ** > > Submission Deadline: June 18 > Notification: August 5 > Camera-ready: September 5 > Workshop: October 11 > > ** Background ** > > Following on two successful workshops hosted with ACM SIGCOMM in 2007 > and 2008, the 3rd Workshop on Networked Systems for Developing Regions > (NSDR '09) will provide a venue for researchers to present ideas and > results concerning the design, implementation and evaluation of new > computing and communications technologies serving developing regions. > > The decreasing cost and increasing access to information and > communication technologies (e.g., mobile phones) are rapidly enabling > access to new services and markets for previously disconnected > populations. However, due to a variety of factors, including cost, > literacy, education, and organizational capacity, conventional > approaches to technology design and implementation are often not > relevant. Moreover, empirical evidence for the impact of such > technologies is largely anecdotal, beyond a few well-known and > well-cited examples. > > Addressing this requires engagement of several disciplines, including > but not limited to economics, sociology, anthropology, and political > science, and expertise in a variety of application areas - including > government, health, finance and agriculture. NSDR focuses on > addressing significant technical challenges (e.g., communication > infrastructure in rural areas, novel caching techniques for challenged > networks, security issues arising in such contexts), and on the > deployment and evaluation of novel technologies or applications that > address a specific need (e.g. providing remote financial services or > health care). > > ** Papers ** > > We encourage submission of position papers or the results of > preliminary work describing interesting, original, previously > unpublished ideas or results pertaining to the design, implementation > and/or evaluation of networks and systems for developing regions. > Accepted papers will: > - propose new research directions; > - target a specific application; > - inform design and/or deployment; > - or generate lively debate at the workshop. > > Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: > - Low-cost wireless connectivity > - Intermittent systems > - Power-efficient systems > - Low-cost computing devices > - Mobile systems and applications > - Adapting content and applications for local languages > - User interfaces for low-literacy populations > - Design and evaluation of applications for public health, > microfinance, agriculture, e-governance, education, monitoring, > disaster management, etc. > > ** Submission ** > > Submissions must follow formatting guidelines and be submitted > according to instructions at http://www.dritte.org/nsdr09/submit.html. > Submissions that deviate from these guidelines will be rejected > without consideration. Reviews will be SINGLE-BLIND: authors' names > and affiliations should be included in the submission. > > Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their papers at the > workshop. Submissions must be original work not under review at any > other workshop, conference or journal. > > ** Program Committee ** > > Vivek Pai, Princeton (co-chair) > Tapan Parikh, UC Berkeley (co-chair) > Muneeb Ali, Princeton > John Bennett, Colorado > Gaetano Borriello, U. Washington > Eric Brewer, UC Berkeley > Ravi Jain, Google > S. Keshav, Waterloo > KyoungSoo Park, Pittsburgh > Bhaskaran Raman, IIT-Mumbai > Umar Saif, LUMS > Lakshmi Subramanian, NYU > Bill Thies, MSR India > Kentaro Toyama, MSR India > > > > >

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follow up to today's Change talk on Starbus Business Models
by joe michiels 11 Jun '09

11 Jun '09

Thanks to those of you that came to today's talk. The Starbus project was really an exciting and challenging project for our marketing team and hopefully the lessons we learned will lead to more collaboration! I've attached the slides, as well as two quick follow up items: 1) To follow up on the question of *whether there are other "models" that apply to developing countries*, the person that comes to mind is Jaime Anderson who has written some great articles about his "4 As" model (supplementing the standard "7Ps" in today's slides). There's a few variations of this article (I've attached one of them), but they mostly focus on *Affordability, Acceptibility, Availability, and Awareness.** *It's a great/light read and covers anecdotes about Smart Telecom and Unilever. 2) I also pointed out the *two best ways to connect with the business school are *through: - The Center for Innovation and Entreprenuership<http://www.foster.washington.edu/centers/cie/Pages/cie.aspx>, the director is Connie Bourassa Shaw ( cbshaw(a)u.washington.edu ). They work with the business plan competition and connecting student groups to innovations within UW. - Tech Transfer <http://depts.washington.edu/techtran/>: They are usually the first people to talk to in order to capture intellectual output from UW research and attaches appropriate intellectual property rights so that UW inventions, copyrighted works and technical information is protected. They also are a great resource for building teams to work on projects. Happy summer everyone, see you in September! -Joe Michiels jmich(a)u.washington.edu Foster Business School - Class of 2010 On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Richard Anderson < anderson(a)cs.washington.edu> wrote: > Just a reminder - even though it is finals week, there will be a Change > talk tomorrow. > > - Richard > > ------------------------------ > *From:* change-bounces(a)change.washington.edu [ > change-bounces(a)change.washington.edu] On Behalf Of joe michiels [ > jmich(a)u.washington.edu] > *Sent:* Saturday, June 06, 2009 5:04 PM > *To:* change - Mailing List > *Subject:* [change] Starbus Business Models presentation on Thursday 6/11, > CSE 303 @ Noon > > Hi everyone, just wanted to promote our presentation at the upcoming Change > Weekly Meeting <http://change.washington.edu/about/events/>: Starbus > Business Models. The semester may have come to a close, but this talk will > hopefully be a fun and entertaining look at the process of taking a current > Change research project and evaluating business models to support it. > > We will discuss a semester-long effort that took the Starbus work as the > foundation for a marketing plan project at Foster Business School (for an > Advanced Marketing class). The takeaways will include "What happens when > research projects are vetted for profitability?", "What's the difference > between ethnographic research and market research?", and "Which is harder: > Talking to Kyrgyz marshrutka drivers or MBA students?" > > Same location and time as always: Paul Allen Center (CSE) Rm 303, > Noon-1pm, Thursday June 11th <http://change.washington.edu/about/events/>. > > _______________________________________________ > change mailing list > change(a)change.washington.edu > http://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/change > >

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Starbus Business Models presentation on Thursday 6/11, CSE 303 @ Noon
by joe michiels 10 Jun '09

10 Jun '09

Hi everyone, just wanted to promote our presentation at the upcoming Change Weekly Meeting <http://change.washington.edu/about/events/>: Starbus Business Models. The semester may have come to a close, but this talk will hopefully be a fun and entertaining look at the process of taking a current Change research project and evaluating business models to support it. We will discuss a semester-long effort that took the Starbus work as the foundation for a marketing plan project at Foster Business School (for an Advanced Marketing class). The takeaways will include "What happens when research projects are vetted for profitability?", "What's the difference between ethnographic research and market research?", and "Which is harder: Talking to Kyrgyz marshrutka drivers or MBA students?" Same location and time as always: Paul Allen Center (CSE) Rm 303, Noon-1pm, Thursday June 11th <http://change.washington.edu/about/events/>.

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Seattle Net Tuesdays: Bringing tech and nonprofits together! (fwd)
by Natalie Linnell 09 Jun '09

09 Jun '09

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sameer Siruguri <siruguri(a)gmail.com> I am the co-organizer for a group called Seattle Net Tuesday which is the Seattle-area volunteer arm of a nonprofit based in San Francisco named TechSoup <http://www.techsoup.org/>. Seattle Net Tuesday is just spinning up locally on how we can engage more with Seattle/PS nonprofits. As part of our outreach, *we are inviting nonprofits to sign up for our June 16th meetup*. We would like YOU, nonprofit org or volunteer, to present your technology needs so that we can make the right connections for you in the tech community! Check out the details here -- http://seattlenettuesday.ning.com/profiles/blogs/june-net-tuesday-online If you are a techie yourself, do come by to meet other cool folks like you that want to make a difference and are actively involved with the tech, arts and social cause world already! Please let me know if you have any questions and feel free to forward this to anyone you know that might be interested. Sameer. siruguri(a)gmail.com

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