What the job description below doesn't tell you is that you'd be
working with Mike McKay. Mike is a social justice hacker (and super
nice guy) who has been the driving force behind cool projects like
Baobab Healthcare's touchscreen-based medical record system. Video at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf49zRxhKhc.
>From https://erecruit.rti.org/PRODRECRUIT/,DanaInfo=.agfov6Ex0qIy2s,SSL,SSO=U+in…
The Research Computing Division's program for Information and
Communication Technology (ICT) at RTI International has an opening for
a Software Application Developer to support the development of mobile
information and communication technology applications. The successful
candidate will work as part of a technical team and will design,
develop, test, and deploy moderate to complex solutions designed to
improve education, health, and governance in developing countries.
This development may involve the use of commercial software and
RTI-developed software tools. Candidates with a broad skill set will
need to adapt to the computing resource needs of a diverse project
base. Candidate will work with country counterparts in developing
innovative and sustained solutions to information system challenges.
This position requires the ability to work well in a team environment
and excellent writing and verbal communication skills.
Responsibilities
• Contribute to the design and development of web applications using
popular, free and open source content management and web application
systems
• Contribute to the design and development of mobile applications for
international development
• Design and develop custom software applications and integrate third
party applications from specifications
• Work with colleagues to develop software architecture, coding, and
testing standards
• Create written documentation for the functionality of software components
• Contribute to database design, including writing database queries
and stored procedures
• Travel to Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and/or Latin America up to 50%
calendar time as needed for project assignments
I've worked with Matt's team on a bunch of projects and they've been
great partners! See http://goo.gl/DqnRA for more jobs details.
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From: Matt Berg <mlberg(a)gmail.com>
Date: April 2, 2012 11:09:40 AM EDT
Subject: Tech Savvy Project Manager
We're looking for a tech savvy project manager to join our team. Prior
experience living and/or working in Africa and India would be a huge
bonus. http://goo.gl/DqnRA
About The Modi Research Group
We make software to make development process smarter and to bring new
services (health and energy) to people that need them most (primary
focus on Africa, India and Haiti).
The tools we build incorporate geospatial planning, open-data
webservices, mobile phone-based data collection and service delivery,
and management dashboards used by governments. We are primarily a
Python and Javascript shop but looking primarily for people with deep
software engineering experience and desire to tackle challenging
global problems with code.
You will get to work with a dynamic team in New York, and travel to
field sites in Africa, Haiti and India to develop and implement
solutions with clients on the ground. This is critical to our process
as we do agile development heavily based on iterative user feedback.
Some projects we’re currently engaged on include:
formhub - A mobile data collection community (http://formhub.org)
SharedSolar.org - A pre-paid solar energy solution being deployed in
rural Africa (http://sharedsolar.org)
Assisting the government of Nigeria to map all their clinics, schools
and waterpoints (30,000+ and counting!)
ChildCount.org - An SMS based approach for improving child and maternal health
Network Planner - Spatial planning software used for infrastructure
(electrification) planning. Currently, being used by countries across
Africa.
Spatial Planner - Spatial planning software used for facility-based
(think health facility) planning (http://spatialplanner.modilabs.org)
The Center for Technology and Economic Development (CTED) is looking
for graduate student interns for the summer of 2012. Interns will work
in the areas of information access, off-grid energy, and food security
for developing regions. If successful, your ideas will be deployed in
rural villages in Ghana, Ethiopia, and India.
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Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 05:41:44 -0400
From: Jay Chen <jchen(a)cs.nyu.edu>
Subject: [TIER] Internship Opportunity at CTED
To: tier(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu
Hi,
The Center for Technology and Economic Development (CTED) has summer
internship opportunities for graduate students. Please see the attached
JD. Send cover letters and CVs to cted(a)nyu.edu.
Thanks,
Jay Chen
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