February 2014 - change - Mailing Lists

Fwd: Which ICT4D Projects Use Progressive Design Principles? - USAID poll, due Feb 4th
by Ted McCarthy 03 Feb '14

03 Feb '14

This seems relevant. Apologies to those getting this many times over. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: ICTworks Date: Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 6:52 AM Subject: Which ICT4D Projects Use Progressive Design Principles? Which ICT4D Projects Use Progressive Design Principles? http://www.ictworks.org/2014/02/03/progressive-ict4d-projects/ USAID is gathering information on ICT4D projects or activities that have embodied progressive project design principles to show how these principals can help technology projects be more effective, save money, and expand the impact of development programs. Have you participated in or do you know of projects using progressive design principals like these? User centered design Alignment with existing ecosystems Design for scale Sustainability planning Data-driven decision making Open Data, Open Source, Open... Reusing and improving on existing solutions User privacy and user data protections Collaboration with other ICT4D initiatives Please email Shailee Adinolfi the name of project, country, implementer, funder, and a few bullet points explaining how the project used one or more of these principles, and what the results were. DEADLINE: Tuesday, February 4th, 2014 Good examples of ICT4D projects using progressive design principals will be highlighted in future USAID communications to advance the community's knowledge and skills in successfully deploying technology solutions for development.

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Fwd: [TIER] Developer and project staff positions available at FrontlineSMS
by Yaw Anokwa 03 Feb '14

03 Feb '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Laura Walker Hudson <laura(a)frontlinesms.com> Date: Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 12:09 AM Subject: [TIER] Developer and project staff positions available at FrontlineSMS To: tier(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu Hi all Apologies for cross-posting. We're hiring! We're currently looking for developers to join our awesome Nairobi-based team, working on our new suite of products including new FrontlineSMS, FrontlineCloud and a new Android app, among other things... also hiring project staff for mobile money and governance projects. Check out the full list here: www.frontlinesms.com/connect-with-us/jobs-and-internships/ Thank you! Laura -- Laura Walker Hudson Chief Executive Officer Social Impact Lab Foundation The Makers of FrontlineSMS \o/ ke m: +254 (0)707 181522 uk m: +44 (0) 7771 592970 us m: +1 (646) 460 5853 e: laura(a)frontlinesms.com skype: laurawhudson twitter: @laurawhudson www.frontlinesms.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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Fwd: [MobileActive Discuss] M4D Doctoral Workshop, Dakar, April 7, 2014, Deadline: February 14th
by Yaw Anokwa 03 Feb '14

03 Feb '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Christelle Scharff <scharffc(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 10:11 AM Subject: [MobileActive Discuss] M4D Doctoral Workshop, Dakar, April 7, 2014, Deadline: February 14th To: [Sorry for multiple copies of the same message.] M4D Doctoral Workshop, Dakar, April 7, 2014 We invite applications to the M4D Doctoral Workshop in Dakar Senegal. The workshop will provide a forum for PhD students in the area of mobile communication technology in and for development to present their work and receive constructive feedback from experts in the field as well as from peers. PhD students at any stage of their doctoral studies are invited to submit papers. The workshop will host about 15 attendees besides the experts in the field. We expect submissions to be from current PhD students who have selected a clear research topic within M4D in the broadest sense. Participation for selected PhD students are free for M4D2014 conference delegates who have registered and payed the conference fee. The doctoral workshop is sponsored by the International Network of Post Graduate Students in the area of ICT4D (IPID). Goal of workshop The goal of the workshop is to provide professional development in M4D with critical, but constructive, feedback and advice to PhD students on their ongoing research from senior researchers. The workshop will also offer the opportunity to meet and exchange ideas and suggestions with peers in the M4D field. Submission Submissions should address the student's PhD research area, specifically: · a well-defined formulation of the problem statement, objectives and aims of the research, · explain the research context and why the research is important, · give details of research design and data collection techniques, · present preliminary results and research findings, do clarify the state of the research work, · a brief sketch of the intended theoretical/disciplinary approach and audience(s) for the work, as well as the related theoretical and practical contributions to the multidisciplinary area of 'M4D'. Your name, affiliation, email address, PhD supervisor's name and affiliation and year when you started PhD should be included. The submission should be max. 5000 words in length. Please note that the workshop is not a venue for publication; there will be no published proceedings. However, we encourage workshop participants to also submit to the M4D2014 main conference (poster, full or short paper see www.m4d2014.net) Doctoral workshop participants are asked to submit their papers to m4d(a)kau.se with the subject line [M4D2014 doctoral workshop]. Workshop Format Participants will be divided into two groups depending on their research topic. Group A will be led by Anne Shongwe and Jonathan Donner and Group B by Laura Stark and Richard Ling. Participants will be asked to read the group member's papers prior the workshop so that focus can be on discussing each paper in depth rather than listening to presentations. We will reserve around 15-20 minutes for comments and 10-15 minutes for general discussion. Important Dates Submission by: 23:59 (GMT), February 14, 2014 Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2014 (by this date the M4D conference fee should be payed) Workshop date: April 7, 2014 -- Dr. Christelle Scharff Pace University Chairperson of Computer Science / Associate Professor / Computer Scientist http://www.csis.pace.edu -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MobileActive-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to mobileactive-discuss(a)googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mobileactive-discuss%2Bunsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mobileactive-discuss?hl=en MobileActive.org: A resource for activists using mobile technology worldwide --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MobileActive-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mobileactive-discuss%2Bunsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.

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Fwd: [TIER] Seminar Feb 5th - Gaetano Borriello (UW)
by Yaw Anokwa 03 Feb '14

03 Feb '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Temina Madon <tmadon(a)berkeley.edu> Date: Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 10:22 AM Subject: [TIER] Seminar Feb 5th - Gaetano Borriello (UW) To: "deveng(a)lists.berkeley.edu" <deveng(a)lists.berkeley.edu>, " tier(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu" <tier(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu> Cc: Sylvan Herskowitz <sherskowitz(a)gmail.com>, Shachar Kariv < kariv(a)berkeley.edu> Dear Colleagues: This semester's first Development Engineering seminar will be held this Wednesday Feb. 5th from 4-5 pm, in B100 Blum Hall. The speaker this Wednesday is Professor Gaetano Borriello, the Jerre D. Noe Chair of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. He joined the Department in 1988 and holds a PhD in CS from the University of California at Berkeley (1988) and an MS in EE from Stanford University (1981). He was a member of the research staff at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center from 1980-87. From 2001-2003, he was on leave from UW to found the Intel Research laboratory in Seattle which quickly became one of the premier research labs for work in ubiquitous computing. More recently, Prof. Borriello is directing efforts in applying mobile technologies to the problems of public health and development in low-resource settings. His group's open-source mobile data collection tools, Open Data Kit, are in use on six continents in programs ranging across public health, documentation of human rights violations, and environmental monitoring. Development Engineering represents a new interdisciplinary field that integrates engineering, economics, business, natural resource development and social sciences to develop, implement and evaluate new technological interventions that address the needs of people living in poverty in developing regions and low-income areas of the United States. [image: Inline image 1] _______________________________________________ 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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