June 2012 - change - Mailing Lists

TASCHA has a new website!
by Melody Clark 25 Jun '12

25 Jun '12

Hi, folks! The Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA) is excited to announce the official launch of our new website! We'd love for you to check it out, take a look around, and let us know what you think. More about the website changes: http://bit.ly/Ok2aYg Website homepage: http://tascha.uw.edu Cheers! Melody -- Melody Clark Research Coordinator | Global Impact Study Technology & Social Change (TASCHA) http://about.me/melodyclark melclark(a)uw.edu<mailto:melclark@uw.edu> | 206.685.7819 Twitter: @ictimpact<http://twitter.com/#!/ICTimpact> | @melodyrclark<https://twitter.com/#!/melodyrclark> www.globalimpactstudy.org<http://www.globalimpactstudy.org/>

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Tablet PCs preserve indigenous knowledge
by Gaetano Borriello 20 Jun '12

20 Jun '12

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21428696.400-tablet-pcs-preserve-indi…

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JOB: Marketing and Sales Position for Humanitarian Demining Company
by Nicola Dell 19 Jun '12

19 Jun '12

* Red Lotus Technologies is a company dedicated to developing technologies that aid humanitarian demining. We currently seek a Marketing and Sales Intern to develop a 12-month marketing and sales strategy. The final deliverables will be 1) a marketing plan based on thorough research and market analysis and 2) a sales strategy that includes branding and customer base analysis. Required Skills: - a passion for the humanitarian mission - experience developing market and sales strategies for a professional audience - research experience in the defense and humanitarian sector - ability to work independently with minimal supervision Desired Skills - web development - graphic design Ideally the successful candidate will be based in Seattle, WA. This internship is unpaid with the possibility of turning into a paid position after 3 months. If you are interested in this position, please send a letter of interest to robin(a)redlotustech.org. * -- *Robin Hibbs Rosenberg, COO* Red Lotus Technologies :: Redefining Demining robin(a)redlotustech.org (415)-779-6801 www.redlotustech.org

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Fwd: [ITID] New Special Issue Published on ICTD2010
by Yaw Anokwa 15 Jun '12

15 Jun '12

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Arlene Luck <aluck(a)law.usc.edu> Date: Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 2:47 PM Subject: [ITID] New Special Issue Published on ICTD2010 Dear ITID Readers: This special issue of Information Technologies & International Development (ITID) presents selected articles originating from the fourth ICTD, held in London, UK. The International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICTD) continues its momentum as the premier interdisciplinary scholarly conference on information communication technologies and development. (This past March, the fifth ICTD conference was held in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.) Under the leadership of General Chair Tim Unwin and General Programme Chair Dorothea Kleine, ICTD2010 expanded to a four-day event that explicitly reached out to non-researchers and sought open discussion. The two days of paper presentations, which have formed the research program of ICTD from the beginning, were complemented by two days of participatory activities involving panels, workshops, and other interactive sessions. The conference registered nearly 600 participants. The selected articles for this ICTD2010 Special Issue are: • “Divided We Call: Disparities in Access and Use of Mobile Phones in Rwanda” by Joshua Blumenstock and Nathan Eagle • “Understanding the Links Between ICT Skills Training and Employability: An Analytical Framework” by Maria Garrido, Joe Sullivan, and Andrew Gordon • “Digital and Other Poverties: Exploring the Connection in Four East African Countries” by Julian May • “Correlation Between Limited Education and Transfer of Learning” by Indrani Medhi, Raghu S. Menon, Edward Cutrell, and Kentaro Toyama • Managing Microfnance with Paper, Pen, and Digital Slate” by Aishwarya Lakshmi Ratan,Sunandan Chakraborty, Pushkar V. Chitnis, and Kentaro Toyama • “Impact of Low-Cost, On-Demand Information Access in a Remote Ghanaian Village” by Cliff Schmidt, Trina Gorman, Michael Gary, and Andrew Bayor • “Looking Beyond ‘Information Provision’: The Importance of Being a Kiosk Operator in the Sustainable Access in Rural India (SARI) Project, Tamil Nadu, India” by Janaki Srinivasan These articles reflect the proportional representation of material from ICTD 2010 based on interventionist work, qualitative research, and quantitative research. Interventionist studies tend to form close to half of the program at each ICTD conference, and this issue showcases three such articles (Medhi et al.; Ratan et al.; Schmidt et al.). Two articles (Blumenstock & Eagle; May) apply an economic methodology to understanding trends in information communication technologies and development. Two additional articles (Garrido et al.; Srinivasan) consider trends and projects through qualitative methods or critical theory. The papers in this special issue provide a glimpse of what makes ICTD "ICTD." We hope you'll enjoy reading these ITID articles that published June 15, 2012 at http://itidjournal.org François Bar and Michael L. Best Editors-in-Chief Kentaro Toyama Guest Editor Arlene Luck Managing Editor ______________________________________________ Information Technologies & International Development http://itidjournal.org

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Bill Morse from Landmine Relief Fund in Cambodia (technology in landmine clearance)
by Lahiru Jayatilaka 15 Jun '12

15 Jun '12

Hello, I'll be hosting Bill Morse from the Landmine Relief Fund on Monday (6/18) at Stanford. You can read about his amazing story here: http://bit.ly/NsDxbh Bill left his life in California over a decade ago to help clear landmines in Cambodia. His team of deminers has helped return land to over 10,000 displaced civilians, and they done it with nothing more than handheld metal detectors and shovels! I've known Bill for almost 2 years, and we've exchanged countless emails about deploying my undergraduate research in visual support devices for landmine detection ( http://hvrd.me/NDSPci ) If there is sufficient interest, I'm happy to organize an informal group meeting around 2PM (6/18) at Gates. We can use this time to pick Bill's brain about technologies in the space of landmine clearance and to also hear some stories from the field. Please forward widely to anyone who may be interested. Best, Lahiru Jayatilaka

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Job: Product Design Fellow at Grameen AppLab in Uganda
by Yaw Anokwa 14 Jun '12

14 Jun '12

Forwarded message: Job Summary: The Product Design Fellow (PDF) will drive human-centered design thinking for AppLab Money's projects. The PDF will work with the AppLab Money team to develop and execute user research and product testing strategies, track the user experience during pilots, and work with the technology team to ensure that the products are improved to meet the needs of users. The project: Mobile money has yet to reach its full potential. Though nearly 150 mobile network operators have deployed mobile money, few have successfully reached poor consumers. Even fewer have explored the latent demand for anything other than payments products-from savings, to microinsurance, to loans. To address this problem, the Consultative Group Assisting the Poor (CGAP) and Grameen Foundation (GF) have collaborated to create an incubator that tests innovations in mobile financial services. The incubator combines in-depth research approaches with rapid product testing to develop mobile financial services that are appropriate for the poor and move the industry beyond payments. The Product Design Fellow will be joining a diverse team of highly motivated individuals with a passion for developing commercially sustainable products for the poor. We comprise a range of skills - from a PhD in mobile money to research experts to an IT guru who has launched mobile deployments across Africa - and we are looking for a creative designer to join us. http://www.grameenfoundation.applab.org/uploads/frontend/mcfile/Product_Des…

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Data on African telecommunications
by Yaw Anokwa 13 Jun '12

13 Jun '12

If you are looking for stats on African telecommunications, there is a great thread on Mobile Active with lots of information. https://groups.google.com/group/mobileactive-discuss/browse_thread/thread/5…

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No Change today
by Nicola Dell 07 Jun '12

07 Jun '12

Hi everyone Quick reminder that there is no Change seminar today. Have a great summer and see you in the fall! Thanks Nicki

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Call for feedback: impact of ICT programs for development
by Melody Clark 06 Jun '12

06 Jun '12

I thought some of you might want to review and comment on a new short note on how to evaluate the impact of ICT programs by the Open Development Technology Alliance (ODTA<http://www.opendta.org/>), in collaboration with the World Bank's OPCS' Governance and Anticorruption Team (GAC<http://go.worldbank.org/32PINXVIJ0>) and the Social Development Network (SDV<http://go.worldbank.org/8WWCZQW5Q0>). There are also other calls for feedback about ICTs and development. http://blogs.worldbank.org/ic4d/call-for-feedback-how-to-note-on-a-framewor… -- Melody Clark Research Coordinator | Global Impact Study Technology & Social Change (TASCHA) http://about.me/melodyclark melclark(a)uw.edu<mailto:melclark@uw.edu> | 206.685.7819 Twitter: @ictimpact<http://twitter.com/#!/ICTimpact> | @melodyrclark<https://twitter.com/#!/melodyrclark> www.globalimpactstudy.org<http://www.globalimpactstudy.org/>

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My article for Washington Post
by Umar Saif 05 Jun '12

05 Jun '12

Hi - I recently wrote an article for Washington Post on the startups for the 'other' 4 Billion -- a topic which will strike a chord with several of you: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-innovations/a-tale-of-two-tech-st… Regards, -- Umar Saif | http://people.csail.mit.edu/umar

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