March 2010 - change - Mailing Lists

Change Meeting for CSE Affiliates Day
by Yaw Anokwa 06 Apr '10

06 Apr '10

This Thursday at Change, we will be trying something special for CSE Affiliates Day. We will be hosting the “Technology for Under-Served Regions” session. Please note the change in time and place. 11:40-11:45: Introduction and Overview, Carl Hartung 11:45-12:00: Digital Study Hall Evaluation Study, Amit Saxena 12:00-12:15: Open Data Kit, Carl Hartung 12:15-12:30: Building a Grassroots Transportation Information System, Ruth Anderson Find out more at http://www.cs.washington.edu/affiliates/meetings/talks0910.html#3-305 What: CSE Affiliates Day When: Thursday, October 22 from 11:40 to 12:30 Where: UW, Paul Allen Center, Room 305

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This Thursday at Change
by Eleanor O'Rourke 31 Mar '10

31 Mar '10

Welcome Back Everyone! Tomorrow (Thursday April 1) will be the first Spring Quarter Change Meeting at 12pm in room 203 in the Paul Allen Center. We have no talk scheduled for this week so it will be an informational meeting, but it will provide a good opportunity for you to meet or reconnect with others in the ICTD community at UW and learn about what we have lined up this spring. This quarter we will be alternating each week between our usual talks and group discussions about pertinent topics in ICTD, which will be led by those taking Change for credit. The goal is to build a more interactive ICTD community and foster collaboration. We will begin scheduling these discussion topics tomorrow, so please bring ideas and opinions about the ares you would be most interested in discussing. Finally, sandwiches and pastries will be provided by Le Fournil every week at Change this quarter (thanks to Gaetano Borriello and Google!) so bring your appetite. See you all tomorrow, Nell

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CS job opportunity with the Clinton Foundation in Rwanda
by Yaw Anokwa 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

Job announcement for Clinton Health Access Initiative, Developer / Software Engineer, Rwanda Be part of a young, dynamic team at the Clinton Health Access Initiative and work closely with high-level administrators at the Ministry of Health in Rwanda. Continue development of a database of high quality and reliable information about the national health system that is used to drive strategic decisions and long-term planning. Take the opportunity to work in an unconventional technology development environment that requires a practical roll-up-your-sleeves, ‘can do’ approach. This is an opportunity to work on a prestigious, high-profile project in the Rwandan eHealth arena with potential for expanding into other areas and/or countries. The job is located in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, and requires a commitment of 9 months. Interested candidates should contact Erik Josephson (ejosephson(a)clintonfoundation.org) See attached job description for further details.

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Write Code! Save the World! Summer 2010!
by Yaw Anokwa 26 Mar '10

26 Mar '10

a few of us at uw have long standing projects with openmrs and partners in health. one of the core openmrs/pih folks has moved to seattle and this sounds like a good opportunity to add to those collaborations! as a bonus, you can even work on features that connect openmrs to uw's own open data kit. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Write Code! Save the World! Summer 2010! Would you like to spend your summer ... - contributing to an exciting Open Source project - helping a local non-profit that's been doing medical work in developing countries for 30 years. - writing code that might be rolled out in hospitals in Haiti, Rwanda, Peru, and 20+ other countries - getting some J2EE web application development experience on your resume Well, then come join us for a summer of code! The prestigious Google Summer of Code (code.google.com/soc) pays students to spend the summer working on open source projects. You will spend 11 weeks writing code for a real project, on top of a real application that real people use. OpenMRS (openmrs.org) is an open source electronic medical record system, primarily aimed at developing countries. And it's a GSoC mentoring organization. Partners In Health (pih.org) is a Boston-based non-profit with 30 years of experience bringing medical care to developing countries, and 8 years of experience implementing electronic medical records technology in challenging settings. PIH is a co-founder/contributor to the OpenMRS project and we have several developers who will be acting as mentors for GSoC projects this summer. We have a preference for Seattle-area students that we can work with in person. So, if you are a Seattle-based student (undergrad, grad, or just-graduating) who wants to do some real-world software development, then we want to hear from you. The GSoC application period is from March 29 to April 9. So check out OpenMRS's summer of code page (http://openmrs.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2010) and look for a project you like. If you're in the Seattle area and want to talk to us directly, email Darius at djazayeri(a)pih.org.

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Fwd: Apply to be a tech fellow with Global Health Corps!
by Yaw Anokwa 23 Mar '10

23 Mar '10

global health corps does great work. apply at http://apply.ghcorps.org/ [image: GHCTech.png]

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SW Engineer position with ODK
by Gaetano Borriello 18 Mar '10

18 Mar '10

We just posted a job opening for a software engineer to work on the Open Data Kit project (opendatakit.org) http://jobs.nwsource.com/careers/jobsearch/detail/jobId/24185419/viewType/r… Please feel free to forward it to anyone you think might be interested and qualified. Thanks, Gaetano

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Samuel Clark on Data Systems and Information Scientists in Africa
by Yaw Anokwa 18 Mar '10

18 Mar '10

This Thursday at Change, Samuel Clark on Data Systems and Information Scientists in Africa. As always, we'll have sandwiches. "Throughout the developing world today health and welfare decisions are being made largely through guesswork. The primary reason for this is a lack of data describing populations of sufficient size over long enough periods of time. Coming from behavioral science and public health points of view, this presentation will motivate what kinds of data are needed and how important it is for computer scientists to be involved at a high level. I will briefly present a concept for a vital registration system replacement, and following that I will speak more specifically about the role of information scientists in long-live population laboratories in Africa. This will take a holistic approach that includes the institutional and social aspects of creating well functioning data systems that are capable of sharing and disseminating data in those settings. See http://www.demographic-research.org/Volumes/Vol15/7/default.htm for more." Samuel Clark is a Demographer and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Washington. He is trained in biology, computer science and demography, and his research focuses on issues that affect Africa. His recent work has pursued simulation-based studies of the impact of HIV on African populations, methods development to improve the value of estimated and modeled results, empirical investigation of migration and mortality in southern Africa, methods to improve the management and analysis of longitudinal population data, and capacity development for population and health research in Africa and Asia. What: Samuel Clark on Data Systems and Information Scientists in Africa When: Thursday, March 18 at Noon Where: UW, Paul Allen Center, Room 203

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ITID Journal Releases Spring 2010 Issue
by Yaw Anokwa 18 Mar '10

18 Mar '10

Information Technologies & International Development (ITID), an interdisciplinary open-access journal that focuses on the intersection of information and communication technologies (ICTs) with the “other four billion” has just published its Spring 2010 issue under the guidance of Roxana Barrantes. Roxana Barrantes writes, “in this issue, we encounter several examples of different approaches for offering new knowledge that could help shape policy initiatives to improve people’s lives. Testing a comprehensive methodology (morphological analysis) for selecting ICT applications for South African service delivery, Plauché, De Waal, Gumede, and Grover describe the resources needed for such an effort. Hosman relies on extensive fieldwork and qualitative techniques to discuss the implementation of an ICT-in-education project in rural Uganda. In contrast to these two papers, hard econometric techniques are used by Majumdar to demonstrate the effects of globalization on workers’ compensation in India’s technology sector, and by Covic and Wainer to examine digital exclusion of communities of African descent in Brazil. Different methodologies for addressing similar problems can also be found in the current issue’s research report pieces. Following our Special Issue on HCI, Pitula, Dysart-Gale, and Radhakrishnan present a case study in engineering for ICT4D, while Dralega, Due, and Skogerbø offer a fascinating comparison of community re-engagement of youth in Norway and Uganda. Our Forum piece, prepared by Smith and Elder, discusses how open ICT ecosystems could transform the developing world. Finally, Badshah presents two of the more than 500 applications of the Microsoft Unlimited Potential project, showing the importance of local leadership and ownership.” http://itidjournal.org/itid

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Fwd: [hci4d] Interaction Design for International Development: Annual General Meeting
by Yaw Anokwa 18 Mar '10

18 Mar '10

pretty cool. you can join the idid conference virtually... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dearden, Andrew M <A.M.Dearden(a)shu.ac.uk> Date: Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 07:17 Subject: [hci4d] Interaction Design for International Development: Annual General Meeting To: "hci4d(a)googlegroups.com" <hci4d(a)googlegroups.com> Hi Everyone Please find attached an invitation to join us for the Annual General Meeting of the IFIP Special Interest Group on Interaction Design for International Development. Some of us will have the luxury of meeting face to face at the IDID conference in Mumbai. However, most of us will be meeting on-line using the elluminate Live! software. Annual General Meeting March 22nd 2010, 20.00 Indian Standard Time (= 14.30 GMT = 06.30 PCT). Location: India HCI / IDID 2010 Conference On-line location https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=2007016&password=M.7F9D0F385940439DFE… Note 1: you may need to download Java Web Start software in order to participate, and you need this whole complex URL Or try this link http://IDIDAnnualGeneralMeeting<https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=2007016&password=M.7F9D0F385940439DFE…> The required JWS package is available here: http://www.elluminate.com/support/softwaredownload.jsp Note 2: We shall be ‘hanging around’ in the on-line space half an hour before the meeting starts so that we can give you a tour of the meeting software. It’s not difficult, but we want to make sure that no-one’s input gets lost because of problems with the interface. AGENDA 1) Chair’s report 2) Creating an inclusive framework for leadership of the group 3) Elections (taking account of discussion in 2) Currently the group has a. A Chair b. A Secretary 4) Future of the group a. Events in 2010 / 2011 b. INTERACT special track proposal c. Constitution d. Finance e. ACM SIGDEV proposal f. Relations to other networks & activities 5) AOB I have attached my report on the year from my perspective. The report also provides some background to the items on this agenda. Andy Andy Dearden Professor of Interactive Systems Design Communication & Computing Research Centre Sheffield Hallam University Furnival Building 153 Arundel Street Sheffield S1 2NU -- 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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Change Seminar - Spring Quarter
by Eleanor O'Rourke 17 Mar '10

17 Mar '10

Join the Change Seminar during the Spring quarter on Thursdays at noon in the Paul Allen Center (Room 203). Change (http://change.washington.edu) is a group of faculty, students, and staff at the UW who are exploring the role of information and communication technologies (ICT) in improving the lives of underserved populations, especially in the developing world. Next quarter, we are continuing our one credit seminar (CSE590C1, SLN: 19341). The seminar is available for all UW students and the content is designed to be widely accessible. We encourage students from all departments to enroll if interested. We will have a number of speakers and discussion topics lined up, so stay tuned to our calendar (http://is.gd/3PkTF) Twitter (http://is.gd/3PkVk) or mailing list (http://is.gd/3PlkS) for more information. There will also be opportunities for those interested in presenting ongoing work to gather feedback from the group. Please forward this message to the relevant mailing lists (especially non-CSE) and we hope to see you on Thursday 4/1 at noon in PAC 203

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