March 2012 - change - Mailing Lists

Job: Aptivate in UK Looking for Devs and PMs
by Yaw Anokwa 05 Mar '12

05 Mar '12

Aptivate is a not-for-profit organisation focusing on IT in international development. They care about having a positive social impact, and believe that IT can do a lot to empower, inform and connect people all over the world. Aptivate is looking to increase their capacity in the following areas, which have their own specific requirements. If you fit any or more than one of these roles, then they might be a good match: Full stack web developers, Devops, and Agile project managers. More at http://www.aptivate.org/vacancies and http://www.aptivate.org/role-descriptions

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Three ICTD/DEV practice talks this Thursday
by Nicola Dell 05 Mar '12

05 Mar '12

This Thursday at Change we will have three talks, all of which will be presented at the ICTD and DEV conferences in Atlanta, March 11-15. 12:00 Automated Quality Control for Mobile Data Collection ** Winner of the Best Paper Award at ACM DEV ** Benjamin Birnbaum , University of Washington, Brian DeRenzi, University of Washington, Abraham D. Flaxman, University of Washington, Neal Lesh, Dimagi, Inc. 12:30 The Changing Field of ICTD: Content Analysis of Published Research, 2000-2010 Ricardo Gomez, University of Washington, Luis Baron, University of Washington, Brittany Fiore-Silfvast, University of Washington 1:00 Facilitated Video Instruction in Low Resource Schools Richard Anderson, University of Washington; Chad Robertson, University of Washington; Urvashi Sahni, Study Hall Foundation; Esha Nabi, Study Hall Foundation; Tanuja Setia, Study Hall Foundation Please note that there will be breaks between the practice talks so you don’t need to stay for all of them. What: ICTD/DEV practice talks When: The Allen Center, CSE 203 When: Thursday March 8 at 12 noon.

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ICTD / DEV Practice talk (UPDATE)
by Richard Anderson 05 Mar '12

05 Mar '12

There are seven UW talks at the ICTD (http://ictd2012.org/) and DEV (http://dev2012.org/ ) conferences next week (22% if the total paper presentations!). All seven will be given as practice talks this week at UW. Change Seminar, Thursday, 12:00 - 1:30 pm, March 8, CSE 203, We will have a 90 minute Change seminar on Thursday, March 8, with three talks. (There will be breaks between the practice talks - so you don't need to stay for all of them.) 12:00 Automated Quality Control for Mobile Data Collection ** Winner of the Best Paper Award at ACM DEV ** Benjamin Birnbaum , University of Washington, Brian DeRenzi, University of Washington, Abraham D. Flaxman, University of Washington, Neal Lesh, Dimagi, Inc. 12:30 The Changing Field of ICTD: Content Analysis of Published Research, 2000-2010 Ricardo Gomez, University of Washington, Luis Baron, University of Washington, Brittany Fiore-Silfvast, University of Washington 1:00 Facilitated Video Instruction in Low Resource Schools Richard Anderson, University of Washington; Chad Robertson, University of Washington; Urvashi Sahni, Study Hall Foundation; Esha Nabi, Study Hall Foundation; Tanuja Setia, Study Hall Foundation Tuesday, 12:30-2:30 pm, March 6, CSE 203 12:30 Improving Community Health Worker Performance Through Automated SMS Brian DeRenzi, University of Washington; Leah Findlater, University of Washington; Jonathan Payne, D-Tree International; Benjamin Birnbaum, University of Washington; Joachim Mangilima, D-tree International; Tapan Parikh, University of California, Berkeley; Gaetano Borriello, University of Washington; Neal Lesh, Dimagi, Inc. 1:00 Digitizing Paper Forms with Mobile Imaging Technologies Nicola Dell , University of Washington, Nathan Breit, University of Washington, Gaetano Borriello, University of Washington 1:30 Open Data Kit Sensors: Mobile Data Collection with Wired and Wireless Sensors Rohit Chaudhri , University of Washington, Waylon Brunette, University of Washington, Mayank Goel, University of Washington, Rita Sodt, University of Washington, Jaylen VanOrden , University of Washington, Michael Falcone, University of Washington, Gaetano Borriello, University of Washington 2:00 Design of a Phone-Based Clinical Decision Support System for Resource-Limited Settings, Yaw Anokwa, University of Washington; Nyoman Ribeka, Regenstrief Institute; Tapan Parikh, University of California, Berkeley; Gaetano Borriello, University of Washington; Martin Were, Regenstrief Institute

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'Sustainable ICTD' at ICTD 2012
by Anupam Jain5 05 Mar '12

05 Mar '12

Hi all, We are organizing an Open Session at ICTD 2012 focussed on 'financial sustainability' of ICTD Projects. Included below is a brief about it. If you feel for the topic or have a perspective, please do come by and express your thoughts. Here, we will try to gather inputs from people from different domains, discuss each other's perspectives and then come up with a few concrete suggestions on what we ought to do next. In case, you are not able to attend but would like to tell your story/give your thoughts, please do email us and we would be happy to consider it for inclusion in the program. Thanks! All of us (Anupam Jain, Arun Kumar, Amit A Nanavati, Nitendra Rajput, Jerome White) IBM Research - India p.s Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email. Sustainable ICTD Date/Time : March 12 (10-11:15am) (11:45am-1pm) Room: Conference 3 Overview The last 5 years have seen an interesting momentum in the growth of technologies primarily meant for developing regions. Various research conferences, diverse social and technology platforms have seen an upsurge in ICTD literature as the world sees some amazing ideas and innovative solutions to problems that have the potential to help the next billions. It is a well known fact that the end users addressed by these efforts have a very limited financial income. But has there been enough research done in the area of financially sustainability for projects done for this population? We may have funds for good research work, good field studies and pilots but we may not always have enough funding for full scale deployments of these wonderful technologies to continually help the next billions in the long term. There's an imminent need to figure out ways to generate enough revenue from 'within' the development projects themselves and hence make them self-sustaining. The advent of Web 2.0 enterprises that offer everything for free to end users and generate income via third parties (like advertisers etc.) is one example of how financially sustainable models can be created for technologies where charging the end user may not be a viable option. Though we may touch upon technical, social, and organizational sustainability during the session if and when required but we intend to primarily focus on financial sustainability of ICTD Projects. Speakers Dr. Richard J. Gowen, IEEE Foundation Dr. Kentaro Toyama, School of Information, University of California, Berkeley Leslie Dodson, University of Colorado-Boulder Linda Raftree, Plan International Structure of the session Have 4 speakers with diverse backgrounds talk about 'atleast' one of the following: 1) Their failure/success ICTD stories where financial sustainability played a major role 2) Their perspective on the need for financial sustainability in ICTD 3) Their idea of solving the problem Please note that the speakers may/may not (and are not required to) converge on their ideas/perspectives on the above or the problem statement itself A moderator summarizes all the talks and then the audience splits into groups for brainstorming. After a brainstorming session, each group comes up with some concrete next steps or recommendations.

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Panel on ICTS/SIDS at ICTD 2012 (and online)
by Yaw Anokwa 04 Mar '12

04 Mar '12

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 13:41:22 -0500 From: THAKUR Dhanaraj <dhanaraj.thakur(a)uwimona.edu.jm> Subject: [TIER] Please distribute - Panel on ICTS and SIDS - participate online - March 12, 2012 (2pm-4:30pm eastern standard time) To: "tier(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu" <tier(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu> Message-ID: <4F53B752.1070309(a)uwimona.edu.jm> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Invitation to Participate in a Panel Discussion: Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) We wish to invite you to join us online for a panel discussion on ICTs and SIDS which will take place at the Fifth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD2012), Atlanta, USA, Monday, March 12, 2012 from 2:30pm to 4pm (eastern standard time). To follow the discussions live and participate online please join us at: https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/813799999 The goal of this panel is to examine the various ways in which ICTs can be used to overcome the unique development challenges that are faced by SIDS. The topic will be addressed by panelists from a variety perspectives including: * Christina Higa, Director, Pan-Pacific Education and Communication Experiments by Satellite (PEACESAT), Hawaii, USA - "Universal Service and Public Service ICT for Development: Pacific Island Experiences." * Ilan Kelman, Senior Research Fellow, Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Oslo, Norway - "SIDS and ICTs: Applications for Disaster Risk Reduction, Including Climate Change Adaptation." * Dhanaraj Thakur, Lecturer, Department of Government, The University of the West Indies, Jamaica. - "National ICT Policies in the SIDS Context." * Elena De Jesus, Associate Sustainable Development Officer, SIDS Unit, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs - "ICTs and Coordinating Action across SIDS: SIDS Net" The panel will be chaired by Prof. Gillian Marcelle (Wits Business School, South Africa). Note that there is no cost to participating online. We look forward to your attendance. https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/813799999

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ACM Dev / ICTD Practice talks
by Richard Anderson 02 Mar '12

02 Mar '12

The ACM Dev and ICTD conferences are being held in Atlanta the week after next ACM Dev, http://dev2012.org/, March 10-11 ICTD, http://ictd2012.org/, March 12-15 Next week we will have a series of practice talks for UW Speakers. These will take place Tuesday, March 6 and Thursday March 8. Tuesday, March 6, CSE 203 12:30 Improving Community Health Worker Performance Through Automated SMS Brian DeRenzi, University of Washington; Leah Findlater, University of Washington; Jonathan Payne, D-Tree International; Benjamin Birnbaum, University of Washington; Joachim Mangilima, D-tree International; Tapan Parikh, University of California, Berkeley; Gaetano Borriello, University of Washington; Neal Lesh, Dimagi, Inc. 1:00 Digitizing Paper Forms with Mobile Imaging Technologies Nicola Dell (University of Washington), Nathan Breit (University of Washington), Gaetano Borriello (University of Washington) 1:30 Open Data Kit Sensors: Mobile Data Collection with Wired and Wireless Sensors Rohit Chaudhri (University of Washington), Waylon Brunette (University of Washington), Mayank Goel (University of Washington), Rita Sodt (University of Washington), Jaylen VanOrden (University of Washington), Michael Falcone (University of Washington), Gaetano Borriello (University of Washington) 2:00 Design of a Phone-Based Clinical Decision Support System for Resource-Limited Settings, Yaw Anokwa, University of Washington; Nyoman Ribeka, Regenstrief Institute; Tapan Parikh, University of California, Berkeley; Gaetano Borriello, University of Washington; Martin Were, Regenstrief Institute Thursday, March 8, CSE 203, 12:00-1:00 (Change Seminar) 12:00 Automated Quality Control for Mobile Data Collection Benjamin Birnbaum (University of Washington), Brian DeRenzi (University of Washington), Abraham D. Flaxman (University of Washington), Neal Lesh (Dimagi, Inc.) 12:30 Facilitated Video Instruction in Low Resource Schools Richard Anderson, University of Washington; Chad Robertson, University of Washington; Urvashi Sahni, Study Hall Foundation; Esha Nabi, Study Hall Foundation; Tanuja Setia, Study Hall Foundation

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Course Announcement for Spring 2012: Entrepreneurship of Global Health
by Bingjie Wang 02 Mar '12

02 Mar '12

Hello, I've attached information about a new interdisciplinary course that might interest global/public health students, CS/engineering students, and international studies students. It would be great if you could distribute this out to your listservs. The Foster School in conjunction with the Department of Global Health and the UW Center for Commercialization is collaborating to host an interdisciplinary course,* IBUS 490B/GH 590M*, to examine emerging markets in global health. Students will work hands-on in interdisciplinary teams with Seattle based companies in exporting the company's global health product. Possible companies include Cascade Design and Mirador. *Please see the attached flyer and syllabus* for more details. Email Jim at jws4(a)uw.edufor an add code. Thanks! Bingjie Wang UW C4C Intern

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Job: Jhpiego Website Designer
by Yaw Anokwa 02 Mar '12

02 Mar '12

Jhpiego—It’s a tongue twister without a little help. Pronounced "ja-pie-go," Jhpiego is no longer an acronym. Founded as The Johns Hopkins Program for International Education in Gynecology and Obstetrics, the organization was known around the world as JHPIEGO (all caps). But as Jhpiego grew and its areas of expertise expanded, the original founding name became obsolete. A decision was made to officially change the organization’s name to Jhpiego (without caps). It still may not roll off your tongue, but everyone knows what it represents—the gold standard in improving the lives of women and families. The Website Designer works as a part of the External Affairs and Communications team to manage the design and oversee the development of Jhpiego’s corporate web site projects. This includes developing user interface features, wire framing, creating functional and non-functional prototypes, and other technical requirements. Web Designer also provides ongoing design, creative solutions and products to Jhpiego’s web pages and sites, banners and e-mail marketing materials, videos and slideshows, special fund-raising campaigns and other initiatives. https://jobs-jhpiego.icims.com/jobs/1505/job

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Job: Sr. Project Manager in mHealth at Pathfinder International
by Yaw Anokwa 02 Mar '12

02 Mar '12

Pathfinder seeks to expand and institutionalize mHealth beyond individual projects into an organizational capacity for the use of appropriate mobile technology to improve health outcomes, foster innovation and contribute to scalable, cost-effective programs. The project will focus first on direct staff training and putting in-place a program of capacity-building within the organization and second, on a direct project in Nigeria for mHealth activities in family planning and adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health services. To achieve the first objective, a range of activities will need to be defined that will build Pathfinder’s strategic organizational ability to assess and deliver appropriate mHealth support to future programs in the countries where Pathfinder works. Activities at headquarters will be established in alignment with development of a “Pathfinder approach” to mHealth. The second focus of the program is to initiate, implement and evaluate a mHealth capacity-building project in Nigeria that will utilize mobile technology as a tool for improving access to information and services. Utilizing lessons learned from Pathfinder mHealth pilot projects in Vietnam, India and Tanzania. This position requires a full understanding of mHealth programming and implementation. Manages both components of the projects in close collaboration with Technical Services Unit (TSU) Behavior Change Senior Advisor and Information Systems Unit (ISU). Supports the Nigeria team to develop and implement the mHealth initiative in the country. As part of the Country Management Team (CMT) at HQ, works very closely with the other Units of the Programs Department as well as those countries who have gained experience in implementing mHealth programs. Maintains high standards of professionalism, efficiency, operational excellence and independent judgment. http://www.candidatemanager.net/cm/Micro/JobDetails.aspx?&mid=YDUB&sid=WUCX…

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Job: ICT Senior Technical Advisor, Carter Center, DR Congo
by Yaw Anokwa 01 Mar '12

01 Mar '12

The Carter Center seeks a highly-qualified, motivated and energetic consultant with extensive experience developing and/or administering training materials to serve as a ICT Senior Technical Advisor in the DRC to aid in conducting a series of trainings and providing ongoing technical support to CSOs. S/he will administer training materials previously developed and tailored for the CSO audiences, but may be tasked with updating materials as needed. This position will be based out of Kinshasa with travel to the provinces required throughout the contracted period. http://www.idealist.org/view/job/G44WD6g22k5P/

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