July 2013 - change - Mailing Lists

Gotta watch this ...
by Ed Lazowska 17 Jul '13

17 Jul '13

I try to avoid emailing CSE News posts, but this one is too great to ignore: http://news.cs.washington.edu/2013/07/17/cses-yaw-anokwa-nafundi-open-data-… (Remember, you can get the news the same day it happens by subscribing to email updates or RSS feeds or whatever: http://www.cs.washington.edu/news/follow_cse_online "We thank you for your support ...")

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Fwd: Haiti Informatics Specialist at PIH
by Yaw Anokwa 17 Jul '13

17 Jul '13

Great opportunity to work with an great organization. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Evan Waters <ewaters(a)pih.org> Date: Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 6:22 AM Subject: Re: Haiti Informatics Specialist Here you go: Hi all, My organization, Partners In Health, is currently seeking a person with health informatics expertise to take on the role of Technical Specialist and support our new EMR at University Hospital in Mirebalais (http://www.pih.org/pages/mirebalais) Haiti. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who would like to use cutting edge health information technology to improve patient care in a setting of rural poverty, while working at a modern teaching hospital. Details and application instructions for the position are available at this link (http://goo.gl/aZSQE) Please feel free to contact me at ewaters(a)pih.org if you have any questions, or if you know someone you'd like to recommend for the position. Thanks, Evan Waters Director of Medical Informatics Partners In Health

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Fwd: [dev4pc] [ACM DEV-4] CFP: 4th Symposium on Computing for Development (Extended Deadline)
by Gaetano Borriello 16 Jul '13

16 Jul '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bhaskaran Raman <br(a)cse.iitb.ac.in> Date: Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:55 PM Subject: [dev4pc] [ACM DEV-4] CFP: 4th Symposium on Computing for Development (Extended Deadline) To: dev4pc(a)lists.cs.princeton.edu Dear DEV4 PC members, Margaret and I have decided to extend the paper submission deadline by a week, to 25 Jul, to get as many submissions as possible. Can you please circulate the CFP (below) as widely as possible, and encourage research groups you know to submit? Thanks! Bhaskar and Margaret. ACM DEV-4 4th Symposium on Computing for Development Co-located with ICTD December 6-7, 2013 Cape Town, South Africa http://dev4.acmdev.org/ Important Dates: Thursday July 25: EXTENDED full paper deadline (11:59pm UTC) Friday Sept 13: Notification to authors Friday Nov 1: Camera-ready papers due Dec 6-7: Conference. DEV-4 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. Papers should describe original and previously unpublished research. Three metrics will be applied to judge papers: (a) Relevance of the problem for development; (b) Novelty of the technical solution; (c) Evaluation of the solution, making a case for development-focused impact. All DEV paper 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 papers outside of these topics that address the DEV focus on computing innovations supporting social and economic development. For more information, see the webpage (http://dev4.acmdev.org/) or contact the Program Co-Chairs (Margaret Martonosi, Princeton and Bhaskaran Raman, IIT Bombay). Technical Program Committee: Alfredo Terzoli, Rhodes University Andrew Dearden, Sheffield Hallam University Anirudh Joshi, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay Bhaskaran Raman, IIT, Bombay Bill Thies, Microsoft Research, India Brian DeRenzi, University of Washington David Kotz, Dartmouth College Elizabeth Belding, University of California, Santa Barbara Emma Brunskill, Carnegie Mellon University Etienne Barnard, North-West University, South Africa Gaetano Borriello, University of Washington Indrani Medhi, Microsoft Research Jay Chen, New York University John Quinn, Makerere University K.K.Ramakrishnan, AT&T Labs Research Krishnaram Kenthapadi, Microsoft Research Mamello Thinyane, University of Fort Hare Margaret Martonosi, Princeton University Nicola Dell, University of Washington Ramon Caceres, AT&T Labs Revi Sterling, University of Colorado Richard Anderson, University of Washington Sharad Jaiswal, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, Bangalore Sibren Isaacman, Loyola University of Maryland Vanessa Frias Martinez, Telefonica Research Vijay Gabale, IBM India Research Labs, Bangalore Vinayak Naik, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi _______________________________________________ dev4pc mailing list dev4pc(a)lists.cs.princeton.edu https://lists.cs.princeton.edu/mailman/listinfo/dev4pc

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Fwd: [TIER] Fwd: Come build cloud/mobile apps in Ghana
by Yaw Anokwa 13 Jul '13

13 Jul '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Matt Podolsky <podolsky(a)berkeley.edu> Date: Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 3:03 PM Subject: [TIER] Fwd: Come build cloud/mobile apps in Ghana To: tier(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mark Davies <mark(a)esoko.com> Date: Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 3:09 AM Subject: Come build cloud/mobile apps in Ghana Work in Ghana for a year... Share your skills... Make a difference...**** http://careers.esoko.com **** **** ** ** *What we build... *We’re trying to see how mobile technologies can drive economic development in Africa. We build information tools for farmers in SMS, USSD, IVR, Web, Android, J2ME apps. We build content and apps for farming businesses and initiatives (like stock management, certifcation, surveying), used throughout the continent (currently 8 countries). Visit http://about.esoko.com **** ** ** *Who we are... *An international team of 55 of the brightest designers, engineers and agric experts who want to use mobile to change the world. We’re focussed on innovation, professionalism, fun and social impact. We’re a private business.**** ** ** *The Ghana program... *Esoko has modern office and a fully furnished guesthouse just five minutes away from the office. Accra is safe, hot, fun and colorful. We can arrange travel, food, accommodation, work visas and everything to make your visit comfortable, and memorable. Just check out the http://careers.esoko.com for details, pictures of the team, guesthouse and office. Your role would be for a minimum stay of one year to develop the team. If you want a challenge. for a year.. Join Us!**** ** ** ** ** *Senior Software Engineers* Looking for senior engineers to provide leadership, mentoring and guidance to a growing team. Building distributed high performance apps across multiple countries and devices that can scale. Unique opportunity to work in one of Ghana’s biggest and most ambitious software shops. API, Java, GWT, data modelling, design, performance are the key work areas with primary focus on Java/PHP. You must be smart & creative with strong analytical skills and good experience. -- and willing to share your knowledge.**** ** ** *Software Product Managers* Anyalytic and imaginative business process thinkers are required to capture client requirements and translate those into conceptual and clear product specifications. We’re inventing a broad range of different apps that help rural businesses. You should be good at describing clear concepts, listening to clients, using your imagination, and working with a young and ambitious product team. You should have at least five years of product management experience.**** ** ** *UIX Designer* This is a challenging role to create clean and simple designs for functional products that help users manage their businesses. Interfaces exist on web, android, mobile touch, sms, IVR, USSD... we need apprpriate designs that work with local skills and capacities so that informatoin can be retrieved, sorted, filtered, personalized and comprehended. This role would be to mentor a local ghana team and bring up their design skills. Highly creative and, iterative role.**** ** ** *Quality Assurance Testing Manager* Help Esoko develop a comprehensive and thorough testing strategy and team. Focus on testing automation with Selenium and Squish. Develop stress testing and usability assessments for the product. Strengthen QA skills and processes. You should have significant relevant experience for this role.** ** ** ** Other roles, more details, and online application forms are available at**** http://careers.esoko.com**** ** ** ** ** *Please share this link with anyone you think would be interested…* ** ** -----------------------------------------**** **** *Mark Davies** | **Esoko** ***** Chief Executive Officer**** Accra* | *Nairobi* | *Mauritius**** Tel: +233 (302) 211611**** www.esoko.com **** **** ** ** _______________________________________________ TIER mailing list Website: http://tier.cs.berkeley.edu TIER(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tier

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FW: [liberationtech-jobs] IFITT ‪‎ICT4D‬ Scholarship
by Melody Clark 12 Jul '13

12 Jul '13

-----Original Message----- From: liberationtech-jobs-bounces(a)lists.stanford.edu [mailto:liberationtech-jobs-bounces@lists.stanford.edu] On Behalf Of Yosem Companys Sent: Friday, July 12, 2013 9:34 AM To: Liberationtech Jobs Subject: [liberationtech-jobs] IFITT ‪‎ICT4D‬ Scholarship The IFITT ‪‎ICT4D‬ Scholarship is a great way for creating a positive impact on your community through the use of ICT! Applicants are eligible for receiving the IFITT ICT4D Scholarship if they are enrolled a PhD (priority) or Master (or equivalent) University programme in one of the eligible countries, which are: Low-income economies ($1,025 or less) Lower-middle income economies ($1,026-$4,035) Upper-middle income economies ($4,036-$12,475) Please find the respective countries at http://data.worldbank.org/about/country-classifications/country-and-lending…

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Fwd: [ACM DEV-4] Call for Papers: 4th Symposium on Computing for Development
by Gaetano Borriello 09 Jul '13

09 Jul '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <br(a)cse.iitb.ac.in> Date: Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 10:51 AM Subject: [ACM DEV-4] Call for Papers: 4th Symposium on Computing for Development To: (Please circulate; sorry if you receive multiple copies) ACM DEV-4 4th Symposium on Computing for Development Co-located with ICTD December 6-7, 2013 Cape Town, South Africa http://dev4.acmdev.org/ Important Dates: Thursday July 18: Full paper deadline (11:59pm UTC) firm deadline. Friday Sept 13: Notification of authors Friday Nov 1: Camera-ready papers due. Dec 6-7: Conference. DEV-4 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. Papers should describe original and previously unpublished research. Three metrics will be applied to judge papers: (a) Relevance of the problem for development; (b) Novelty of the technical solution; (c) Evaluation of the solution, making a case for development-focused impact. All DEV paper 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 papers outside of these topics that address the DEV focus on computing innovations supporting social and economic development. For more information, see the webpage (http://dev4.acmdev.org/) or contact the Program Co-Chairs (Margaret Martonosi, Princeton and Bhaskaran Raman, IIT Bombay).

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Fw: One week left to apply - "Malawi Off-Grid Energy Business Concepts Competition"
by Anupam Jain5 08 Jul '13

08 Jul '13

----- Forwarded by Anupam Jain5/India/IBM on 07/09/2013 09:32 AM ----- From: Yann Loic Tanvez <ytanvez(a)worldbank.org> To: Anupam Jain5/India/IBM@IBMIN Date: 07/09/2013 04:16 AM Subject: One week left to apply - "Malawi Off-Grid Energy Business Concepts Competition" Dear fellow group members, Please find below a reminder for the "Malawi Off-Grid Energy Business Concepts Competition". Closing date is July 15th, 2013 (more details below). "The US African Development Foundation (USADF) is pleased to cooperate with the World Bank Institute to announce this Call for Proposals for the "Malawi Off-Grid Energy Business Concepts" Competition. USADF proposes to provide business planning grants for the Malawi Kwacha (MK) equivalent of $10,000 USD each for up to 5 promising ventures to enable the development of new private sector-led business models for off-grid rural electrification in Malawi. Grant funds would be used to cover costs associated with business plan development, including contracting with consultants and/or executing market studies, technical reviews, developing blueprints and construction plans, and other related business plan expenses. This competition will only consider proposals from African-owned and led private, non-governmental companies, associations or organizations in good standing with their local government and other international standards. Priority will be given to business concepts that benefit rural, marginalized populations. All applicants are required to use the business proposal template found on the USADF website. The proposal along with required documentation should be submitted by email only, on or before July 15, 2013 to OffgridEnergyChallenge(a)USADF.gov . Proposals received after the closing date of July 15, 2013 will not be accepted under any circumstances. After the proposals have been evaluated, the winners will be declared on July 26, 2013. For more information and the proposal template please visit www.usadf.gov. or http://www.usadf.gov/MWIOFFGRID.html" Best regards.

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Help with Catapult milk banking project
by Gaetano Borriello 08 Jul '13

08 Jul '13

Were you aware that PATH has put a few projects on the Catapult crowdfunding site: http://www.catapult.org/project/banking-breast-milk-babies. Our own Rohit Chaudhri is a principal part of this and the project is led by Kiersten Israel-Ballard, a friend of Change at UW. So far, 30% of the target has been raised and we have a few more weeks to get the rest. We could use all the help we can get at this stage…

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Fwd: [TIER] [GRANTS] Mobile for Public Service Delivery - GSMA - Due Sept 6th
by Yaw Anokwa 02 Jul '13

02 Jul '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Temina Madon <tmadon(a)berkeley.edu> Date: Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 12:27 PM Subject: [TIER] [GRANTS] Mobile for Public Service Delivery - GSMA - Due Sept 6th To: tier(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu, cegafaculty(a)lists.berkeley.edu Cc: bachas(a)econ.berkeley.edu, Jeanette Aguilar <jaguilar(a)berkeley.edu> The GSMA’s 'Mobile Enabled Community Services' Innovation Fund' seeks to leverage mobile technology to enable access to energy and water services for undeserved communities. Established with the support of the UK Government, the MECS Innovation Fund will provide up to £2.4M in grants. • First Round: Concept notes due June 30th • 2nd Round: Concept notes due September 6th • 3rd Round: pending available funds Two types of grant are available: >>> Seed Grants that will support the research and development of early stage innovations using mobile to support access to sustainable energy and water provision (up £200k in funding, 25% matched by grantee); and >>>> Market Validation Grants that will support partnerships between mobile network operators and/or tower companies with community service providers to test promising mobile technologies and business models that have the potential to increase or improve access to water or energy services to undeserved communities at scale (up to £350k in funding, 50% matched by grantee). For more information please visit GSMA MECS's website. www.gsma.com/mobilefordevelopment/programmes/mobile-enabled-community-servi… _______________________________________________ TIER mailing list Website: http://tier.cs.berkeley.edu TIER(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tier

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Global Impact Study final report released - Connecting people for development
by Melody Clark 02 Jul '13

02 Jul '13

While you're likely reading this on your personal computer, enjoying reliable and fast internet, millions of people around the world still lack private access to this increasingly necessary resource to function and prosper in today's world. How do those people connect to digital society? For many, digital inclusion is found at a library, a telecenter, or a cybercafé - their local public access ICT venue. For over a decade, significant investments have been made in these venues. However, their ability to contribute to development agendas has come into question in recent times, spurred by the spread of mobile phones and other new technologies and applications. The Global Impact Study was designed to address this debate by generating evidence about the scale, character, and impacts of public access ICTs. Today, TASCHA is excited to announce the release of the study's final report, Connecting people for development: Why public access ICTs matter<http://tascha.uw.edu/publications/connecting-people-for-development>. The report is the most comprehensive study of its kind to date, based on thousands of surveys, interviews, and other data collected across eight low and middle income countries. Situating public access in the context of national development, Connecting people for development summarizes the study's key findings, discusses some disputed issues, and offers recommendations for policymakers, public access practitioners, and researchers. In addition to the final research report, we also invite you to explore additional resources generated by the Global Impact Study's open research approach. All of the survey materials and data<http://www.globalimpactstudy.org/resources/resources-surveys/> are available for public use, and full research reports and summaries of each the in-depth studies<http://www.globalimpactstudy.org/resources/in-depth-study-reports/>, focused on specific questions surrounding public access, are being released over the next couple of months. We look forward to your feedback on the report and findings, and invite you to join a discussion on the future of public access ICTs. Download Full Report<http://tascha.uw.edu/publications/connecting-people-for-development> Executive Summary<http://tascha.uw.edu/publications/global-impact-study-executive-summary> Access Survey materials & data<http://www.globalimpactstudy.org/resources/resources-surveys/> In-depth study reports & summaries<http://www.globalimpactstudy.org/resources/in-depth-study-reports/> -- Melody Clark Communications Technology & Social Change (TASCHA) melclark(a)uw.edu<mailto:melclark@uw.edu> | 206.303.7910 Twitter: @taschagroup<https://twitter.com/taschagroup> | @ictimpact<http://twitter.com/#!/ICTimpact> | @melodyrclark<https://twitter.com/#!/melodyrclark> tascha.uw.edu<http://tascha.uw.edu/>

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