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CFP: Networked Healthcare Technology (NetHealth), Workshop co-located with COMSNETS 2013
by Nicola Dell 16 Oct '12

16 Oct '12

Apologies for multiple postings NetHealth 2013 Call for Papers --------------------------------------------- The human body is being increasingly instrumented and connected. The emergence of networked information technology for healthcare has already shown benefit in moving away from episodic to pervasive care. The availability of rich, perpetual, multi-modal data about physiological and psychological factors provides an opportunity to make critical real-time inferences not just about health but also behavior, beyond what is possible with infrequent clinical visits. We imagine future networked information systems will support, for example, clinical workflow, remote diagnosis and consultation, e-prescribing, and mobile data collection and surveillance, disease outbreak identification and patient participation in the comfort of familiar surroundings and care. Mobile technology can be a key enabler in improving access to healthcare (in terms of geography, economics and information), by encouraging personal health management, and by facilitating patient and provider mobility. Wearable medical devices are emerging, to measure essential vital signs like pulse, respiration, ECG, blood glucose level, and patient mobility. Handheld devices support clinicians in urban hospitals, and portable diagnostic kits allow remote healthcare teams to more easily reach rural villages. The widespread availability of mobile phones, and recent experiments with low-cost, long-range broadband wireless networks, bring connectivity to all these opportunities. We encourage papers that present novel ideas for networked computing technology in support of healthcare, and which are likely to invoke thoughtful discussion at the workshop. Research papers should focus on all aspects of networked healthcare technologies. Of interest, though not exclusively, are the following topics: - Remote diagnosis and remote consultation - Assistive medical technology - Clinical applications of mobile or networked healthcare - Mobile and wearable medical sensing applications - Design of wearable and home-care health devices - Sensor networks for public health monitoring and surveillance - Networked mobile technology for rural healthcare - Security and privacy in networked healthcare - Experience from technology deployments - Usability of mobile health applications and devices - Applications to emergency response and disaster response - Cost-efficient and energy-efficient networking for remote healthcare - Remote access to electronic health records - Assistive robotics and prosthetics - Rehabilitation engineering and assistive rehabilitative technology - Smart homes for tele-home healthcare and telemedicine Formatting Guidelines for Submitted Papers ---------------------------------------------------------------- The NetHealth workshop solicits paper submissions of up to 6 pages in length, including all figures, tables, and references. All papers must be electronically submitted via the NetHealth submission site http://comsnets13.cs.umass.edu/nethealth/ in PDF. The proceedings will be published by IEEE Xplore and will include the final papers of up to 6 pages in length. All NetHealth technical papers must be associated with an author registration at the full rate. For authors presenting multiple papers, one full registration is valid for up to three papers. IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the workshop (e.g., removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper is not presented at the workshop. Overall appearance: Submitted papers should adhere to the appearance of the standard IEEE twocolumn format that is used for IEEE Transactions. Margins: Papers must use a 10pt font on US Letter paper with margins no smaller than 0.75in for the top margin, 1.0in for the bottom margin, and 0.625in for side margins. Templates: Depending on whether you are using LaTeX or Microsoft Word for formatting your paper, you can download the following templates thatincorporate the formatting specifications: LaTeX: Paper http://www.ieee.org/documents/IEEEtran2.tar.gz , Bibliography http://www.ieee.org/documents/IEEEtranBST1.tar.gz Word : Paper and Bibliography http://www.ieee.org/documents/MSW_A4_format.doc Demo Session ---------------------- In addition, NetHealth 2013 will feature a demo session on the day of the workshop to allow industry and academic researchers to showcase their latestapplications andprototypes in all related topics. Demo proposals are invited for both mature or innovative systems and prototypes developed for commercial use or for research purposes, from industries or universities. The submitted demo proposal should include all relevant technical content in a maximum of 2 pages in double column format. Each paper acceptance is subject to the conditions that the paper does not contain any plagiarized material and that the authors do not submit thepaper material inparallel to another publication venue. Violations of these conditions will most likely result in rejections of the violating submissions or evenalready accepted papers. Important Dates ----------------------- Paper Submission: October 28, 2012 Notification of acceptance: November 19, 2012 Camera-ready submission: December 2, 2012 Demo submission: December 7, 2012 Workshop date: January 7, 2013 Technical Program Co-Chairs -------------------------------------------- Zainul Charbiwala IBM Research, India (zainulcharbiwala(a)in.ibm.com) Anish Arora Ohio State University, USA (anish(a)cse.ohio-state.edu)

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Subject: CommCare workshops in Dakar and Maputo. Applications due Nov 9.
by neal lesh 16 Oct '12

16 Oct '12

Hi everybody, Dimagi is holding workshops in Dakar and Maputo in which we'll introduce CommCare and show people have to design CommCare applications using our online authoring tools. Please feel free to forward to any organizations you think might be interested. Thanks! neal ----------- *Are you an organization looking to improve your community worker programs through the use of mobile phones? *Dimagi is pleased to announce two upcoming workshops on using CommCare, Dimagi’s open source, mobile phone-based software application:** · Nov 28-29, 2012: Hôtel Sokhamon, Dakar, Senegal (in French, and in partnership with Mobile Senegal) · Dec 4-5, 2012: Tivoli Hotel, Maputo, Mozambique (in Portuguese and English) *Why CommCare?* With CommCare, anyone can deploy their own mobile application modules that can be loaded into inexpensive phones and used by community-based workers in the field. CommCare is being deployed in 25 countries and is used by thousands of community workers to track and support their clients with registration forms, checklists, SMS reminders, and multimedia. This leads to better data collection, reporting, management, community education, and community-level service provision. *What will the workshop cover? *Each workshop will last two days. The first half of the first day will be a general overview of mHealth and Dimagi’s open source tools. The rest of the workshop will focus on building people’s technical capacity to use CommCare’s online authoring tools to create CommCare applications. Workshop participants will be walked through the basic steps of how to use these freely available, online tools.** * * *What will it cost? *All workshops are free, however Dimagi will not provide per diems or travel stipends. Lunch and coffee will be provided daily.** * * *Who should attend? *Staff with basic computer literacy from NGOs, IGOs, funding organizations, research institutions, and government agencies. *How to apply? *Please fill out the forms available online at http://www.commcarehq.org/workshops/2012/ and email them to workshops(a)dimagi.com *by November 9, 2012.* Attendance may be limited depending on space available. Please contact workshops(a)dimagi.com with any questions.

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DEV 2013 call for posters: Deadline Oct 19th 2012
by Aaditeshwar Seth 16 Oct '12

16 Oct '12

ACM DEV 2013 3rd Symposium on Computing for Development Co-located with COMSNETS January 11-12, 2013 Bangalore, India http://dev2013.org/ Important Dates: Poster abstracts due: October 19, 2012 (11:59pm UTC) - firm deadline Author notification: October 26, 2012 Camera-ready: December 7, 2012 Conference: January 11-12, 2013 Submission instructions: http://dev2013.org/submissions.html DEV 2013 provides an international forum for research in the design and implementation of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for social and economic development. In particular, we focus on emerging contexts where conventional computing solutions are often inappropriate due to various contextual factors - including, but not limited to, cost, language, literacy, and the availability of power and bandwidth. The poster deadline for DEV 2013 is still open. Poster abstracts are limited to 2 pages and should describe original and previously unpublished research, innovative experiments, and work in progress. All DEV poster submissions should either provide or directly motivate a novel technical solution that has direct implications for development. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Networks/Systems/Security/Architecture Low-cost wireless connectivity Intermittent networks and systems Power-efficient systems Low-cost computing devices Mobile systems and applications Mixed networks, e.g., telephony and IP Special-purpose sensor systems Security challenges in developing regions HCI/Applications User interfaces for low-literacy populations Multi-lingual computing User-interfaces for low-cost devices Participatory methods and user-centered design Accessibility to disabled populations in developing regions Design and evaluation of applications for health, microfinance, education, agriculture, entertainment AI/NLP/Data Mining/Speech/Vision Machine learning techniques for large-scale data analysis in development contexts Adapting content and applications to local languages and education levels Understanding social relationships and information flows in disadvantaged societies Speech interfaces and speech recognition for low-resource languages Development of new AI-centric tools/solutions for development Computer vision challenges in development We also welcome submissions outside of these topics that address the DEV focus on computing innovations supporting social and economic development. Conference co-chairs: Bill Thies, Microsoft Research India <thies(a)microsoft.com> Amit Nanavati, IBM India Research Labs <namit(a)in.ibm.com> PC co-chairs: Richard Anderson, University of Washington <anderson(a)cs.washington.edu> Aaditeshwar Seth, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi <aseth(a)cse.iitd.ernet.in>

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Pascal Schuback from the UW Office of Global Affairs
by Nicola Dell 15 Oct '12

15 Oct '12

This Tuesday at Change we will host Pascal Schuback from the UW Office of Global Affairs. Pascal is responsible for security and emergency management of international activities for the University of Washington. Part of his responsibilities include developing the Global Emergency Management Plan and supporting those traveling for UW business and operations overseas. Pascal will talk about the the different travel assistance programs UW has and how he is there to support the international safety of UW. He will also be mentioning some additional projects that he is or will be working on to support his efforts for UW. Pascal has served in the local and regional public sectors as an emergency manager. He has a BS in Public Health and an MPA focused on public administration and emergency management/public safety. Pascal is also a board member of CrisisCommons, a global organization connecting people, tools and resources to support crisis response, and helping people to better prepare, plan, respond and recover from all types of disasters. Pascal’s focus is on the integration of technology, open data, emergency management/public safety arena and global crisis and humanitarian aide. He has worked on a variety of projects that support the technical integration and development public safety and humanitarian aid. What: Pascal Schuback from the UW Office of Global Affairs When: Tuesday, October 16th at 12 noon Where: The Allen Center, room CSE 203

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Interesting motivation for geo-tagged photo collection: Costal Fishing
by Gaetano Borriello 11 Oct '12

11 Oct '12

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: James Fogarty <jfogarty(a)cs.washington.edu> Subject: Costal Fishing Interesting motivation for geo-tagged photo collection http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/oct/11/west-africa-fishing-pirat… "A group of 23 impoverished west African fishing communities has driven off a fleet of illegal, unreported & unregulated "pirate" trawlers by filming & reporting them when they are found in their waters. 9 of the 10 ships identified were found to have licences to export catches to Europe." there's also a discussion going on here: http://reddit.com/comments/11b14p

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Fwd: 2013 PTC Young Scholar Program
by Nicola Dell 11 Oct '12

11 Oct '12

Aloha , We have an application form and webpage up and running for our PTC Young Scholar Program 2013. The objective of this program is to help support a few promising Ph.D. students/post-docs in telecom/ICT and engage them with PTC. (links are below) Applicants who are selected will be invited to present their research at PTC - we will give them opportunities to network, get feedback and general experience and exposure. (Travel expenses are covered by PTC). Please help publicize this opportunity to your students, department and contacts at other institutions. We want to encourage applicants from emerging economies to submit - so please share this info with your contacts that could help in this regard. Link to the webpage: http://www.ptc.org/?page_id=2055. Link to the application form: http://www.ptc.org/images/pdf/2013%20PTC%20Young%20Scholar%20Program%20Appl… . For additional info, here's the contact email: youngscholars(a)ptc.org. If you are interested in being involved with the program, please contact Mark Chun or myself. Best Regards, Elizabeth Elizabeth Fife, Ph.D. Associate Director of Industry Studies Institute for Communication Technology Management (CTM) Marshall School of Business University of Southern California email: fife(a)marshall.usc.edu www.marshall.usc.edu/ctm/ ------------------------------

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WinSenga: A mobile ear for pregnancy problems
by Gaetano Borriello 10 Oct '12

10 Oct '12

WinSenga: A mobile ear for pregnancy problems A new smartphone app aims to provide a cheaper alternative to ultrasound in Africa by bringing an old technique into the 21st century. http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120927-mobile-ear-for-pregnancy-problems

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Tech Challenge for Atrocity Prevention Website Goes Live — Spread the Word!
by Melody Clark 10 Oct '12

10 Oct '12

From: tascha-share-bounces(a)mailman1.u.washington.edu [mailto:tascha-share-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Christine Prefontaine Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 8:23 AM To: tascha-share(a)uw.edu; Silvia Caicedo Subject: [Tascha-Share] Tech Challenge for Atrocity Prevention Website Goes Live — Spread the Word! >From my friend over at USAID's Office of Transitional Initiatives. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: John Gattorn Date: Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 10:48 AM Subject: Tech Challenge for Atrocity Prevention Website Goes Live - Spread the Word! Hi, I have been only a bit involved with this through sitting in the USAID working group. It's a good opportunity and pretty noble. If you know of some people with tech skills and passionate about atrocity prevention, let them know! =================== Friends and Partners, We’re excited to tell you that USAID and Humanity United’s Tech Challenge for Atrocity Prevention website, www.thetechchallenge.org<http://www.thetechchallenge.org/>, has gone live today. The website identifies five specific challenges around atrocity prevention, the first two of which will launch on October 31st. We’re grateful for the support of everyone who helped us craft these problem statements, paving the way for us to solicit exciting and innovative ideas. In supporting President Obama’s vision of preventing atrocities worldwide, the Tech Challenge for Atrocity Prevention encourages individuals from all backgrounds to bring new perspectives to some of the most daunting issues in this arena. We are looking for those who can contribute innovative tech tools and solutions -- big and small -- to make real advances in preventing atrocities. Humanity United and USAID will award prizes as large as $10,000 per challenge for creative ideas and prototypes that respond to the problem statements. We hope that new or existing solutions in fields such as global health, education, and the private sector can be transformative when applied to preventing atrocities. We need your help in spreading the word about this challenge! Please share the website <http://thetechchallenge.org/> and the short video<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tGo867Qs2g> as far and wide as you can on your social media networks and particularly to your networks of dedicated and passionate activists, techies and innovators. Thank you for your support, Donald Steinberg Deputy Administrator USAID <http://www.thetechchallenge.org/>Please contact Mark Goldenbaum at USAID (mgoldenbaum(a)usaid.gov<mailto:mgoldenbaum@usaid.gov>) or Abby Long at Humanity United (along(a)humanityunited.org<mailto:along@humanityunited.org>) for more information.

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Fwd: Nominations Open For Nation's Top Honor In Public Interest Computing
by Yaw Anokwa 08 Oct '12

08 Oct '12

If you know an open source software developer whose work is helping non-profit activists succeed, please forward on this opportunity for the $10,000 Pizzigati Prize. The Open Data Kit team received this prize a few years back and the support and attention we received were fantastic! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- September 16, 2012 - Nominations have now opened for the seventh annual Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest, the nation's highest honor for software developers working with nonprofits to help advance innovative social change. Tides is now accepting nominations for this year's $10,000 prize through December 1st. The 2013 winner will be announced in April at the Nonprofit Technology Network annual conference in Minneapolis. The Pizzigati Prize honors talented and creative individuals who develop open source software products that demonstrate impressive value to the nonprofit sector. Tides welcomes nominations from both developers and the nonprofits who work with them. The most recent Pizzigati Prize winner, Nathan Freitas, leads the Guardian Project, a team of software developers working on new mobile technology programs that can help activists "coordinate, protest, and campaign" more efficiently and effectively, no matter where they may be on the planet. His flagship "Secure Smart Cam" app enables human rights defenders to safely capture and distribute human rights digital media. The 2011 Pizzigati Prize winner, Ken Banks, has created software that turns even the simplest mobile phones into grassroots organizing tools for everything from mobilizing young voters to thwarting thieving commodity traders. "Software developers like these are making an enormous difference," notes Tides CEO Melissa Bradley. "The Pizzigati Prize aims to salute their contribution - and encourage programmers to engage their talents in the ongoing struggle for social change." The Pizzigati Prize also honors the brief life of Tony Pizzigati, an early advocate of open source computing. Born in 1971, Tony spent his college years at MIT, where he worked at the world-famous MIT Media Lab. Tony, an early champion of open-source computing, died in 1995, in an auto accident on his way to work in Silicon Valley. Full details on the Tides Pizzigati Prize, the largest annual award in public interest computing, appear online at www.pizzigatiprize.org.

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Edgar Sioson on Community and Alternative Currencies in a Development Context
by Nicola Dell 07 Oct '12

07 Oct '12

This Tuesday at Change, Edgar Sioson will talk about his work on community and alternative currencies in a development context. Community currencies and other alternative means of exchange have a long, under-the-radar history. Various implementations demonstrate the public's openness to change especially in times of economic hardship, such as during Argentina's currency collapse at the turn of the century. In this talk, I will present in-the-wild examples from simple voucher system that help promote local trade within a slum area, to more technical approaches that are heavily influenced by computing technology. I will also talk about various prototypes for TraceEval, an accounting and reputation framework for socioeconomic development. I hope this talk contributes positively to the audience' motivation and tools for ICT4D research. Edgar Sioson supports data visualization and research archiving at the UW-Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. He has a BS in Biochemistry from the UW and a MS in Information Systems from the University of Maryland - Baltimore County. He has worked in the biotechnology industry before getting involved in socioeconomic advocacy. His research interests include decentralized currencies, ICT4D, and social simulation. What: Edgar Sioson on Community and Alternative Currencies in a Development Context When: Tuesday, October 9th at 12 noon Where: The Allen Center, room CSE 203

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