April 2014 - change - Mailing Lists

Fwd: Gobee Summer Innovation Fellow Application: Oakland + NYC
by Yaw Anokwa 29 Apr '14

29 Apr '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jaspal Sandhu <jaspal(a)gobeegroup.com> Date: Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 9:23 PM Subject: Gobee Summer Innovation Fellow Application: Oakland + NYC To: Jaspal Sandhu <jaspal(a)gobeegroup.com> Dear Colleagues, Gobee is excited to be launching its inaugural Summer Innovation Fellowship program! We will be hiring up to three Fellows, two in Oakland and one in New York City, to work with us for 10-12 weeks this summer. This is an opportunity for individuals who are passionate about innovation and social impact to work with closely with our team on a number of ongoing efforts in the US and globally. There is a stipend associated with the fellowship. Interested applicants can find out more and apply here. The application deadline is May 4, 2014 11:59pm PDT. Could you please help us spread the word by sending this to two colleagues and/or prospective applicants? Thank you! Jaspal -- Jaspal S. Sandhu, Ph.D. Partner GOBEE GROUP Insights | Innovation | Execution http://www.gobeegroup.com +1.510.282.7113 NOTICE: This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any information herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by e-mail reply and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation. Gobee Group, LLC, Suite 270, 227 Bellevue Way NE, Bellevue, WA, USA, www.gobeegroup.com

1 0

Tomorrow at Change: Faisal Hossain - Delivering Hydrological Information for Community Empowerment
by Trevor Perrier 28 Apr '14

28 Apr '14

*What*: Faisal Hossain: Delivering Hydrological Information for Community Empowerment - Opportunities and Challenges for the Semi-skilled Consumer *When:* Tuesday, April 29th at 12pm *Where:* The Allen Center, CSE 203 Please join us Tuesday for an exciting Change Seminar. Faisal Hossain from Civil Engineering Department will be talking about his work to monitor water use throughout the world. *Abstract:* /An idea that has lately received some traction is that the space vantage of satellites to monitor water dynamics around the world would one day empower developing nations and their inhabitants currently cursed with not able to know early enough how much water will flow into or out of its borders or location. The current water information black out negatively impacts water resources management in about 50 or more developing nations that occupy only a small part of a large river basin. The dream of empowerment is founded on the belief that timely access to water information flowing in or out is a basic right for all nations and their inhabitants and that emerging satellite remote sensing are now poised to afford this right. This talk will provide an overview of challenges and the current progress made on making satellite remote sensing deliver this widely-accessible water information as decision-making knowledge to solve developing world water problems. The talk will also address the issue of water-borne disease vulnerability in the developing world and the potential synergy that satellite-based water information may afford. Finally, the talk will summarize some of the unresolved research and technological questions for enabling sovereign management of water resources for developing nations. / *About the speaker:* Faisal Hossain is an Associate Professor in the Civil Engineering Department of University of Washington. He graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology with a B.S in Civil Engineering (1996) followed by a MS and PhD from National University of Singapore (1999) and University of Connecticut (2004), respectively. His research interests span the field of water resources issues, human impacts of climate and engineering education

1 0

Fwd: [TIER] Fwd: Job Opening: WACCA Coordinator
by Yaw Anokwa 28 Apr '14

28 Apr '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bruce Baikie <bruce(a)green-wifi.org> Date: Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 5:56 AM Subject: [TIER] Fwd: Job Opening: WACCA Coordinator To: "tier(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu" <tier(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Job Opening: WACCA Coordinator Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 12:53:10 +0000 From: ECREEE <media(a)ecreee.org><media(a)ecreee.org> Reply-To: ECREEE <media(a)ecreee.org> <media(a)ecreee.org> To: Bruce Baikie Dear Bruce Baikie, The ECOWAS Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (ECREEE) is seeking to recruit a Coordinator for the West Africa Clean Cooking Alliance (WACCA), who will be mainly responsible for managing the implementation of cooking energy activities of ECREEE, specifically in the framework of WACCA. The successful candidate will be required to carryout the following task: - Coordinate and supervise all cooking energy activities and support related renewable energy programmes and projects of ECREEE. - Lead the development of the WACCA programmes of ECREEE; - Mobilize support from development partners and other stakeholders; - Support the development and harmonization of regional policies, strategies and quality and standards frameworks in the region; - Monitor the implementation of the projects and programmes of WACCA to ensure quality and impact; - Produce project documents, technical reports and work plans of ongoing projects and programmes of WACCA; - Regularly provide policy briefs and updates on technical issues and bring them to the attention of stakeholders. Click here to visit our website for more information<http://ecreee.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5e93c54127a539c9ed2128cc6&i…> *The deadline for submission, is on the 7th of May 2014.* <http://ecreee.us7.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=5e93c54127a539c9ed2128cc6&…> <http://ecreee.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5e93c54127a539c9ed2128cc6&i…> <http://ecreee.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5e93c54127a539c9ed2128cc6&i…> *Copyright © 2014 ECREEE, All rights reserved.* You are receiving this email because you opted in at our website or have been identified as a stakeholder. Our mailing address is: media(a)ecreee.org unsubscribe from this list<http://ecreee.us7.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=5e93c54127a539c9ed2128cc6&i…> update subscription preferences<http://ecreee.us7.list-manage1.com/profile?u=5e93c54127a539c9ed2128cc6&id=e…> _______________________________________________ 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

1 0

Fwd: IBM Research Africa: UI Intern
by Nicola Dell 25 Apr '14

25 Apr '14

If you don't yet have an internship for the summer, IBM Research Africa is looking for an intern. See details below: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Brian DeRenzi <bderenzi(a)ke.ibm.com> Date: Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 1:24 AM Subject: IBM Research Africa: UI Intern To: nixdell(a)cs.washington.edu Hi Nicki, IBM Research Africa is looking for a graduate student intern or a strong undergraduate to work on UI design for health care this summer. Can you please forward the following advert to the change group? Thanks! Brian

1 0

Fwd: [TIER] ITID Special Issue honoring Gary Marsden
by Yaw Anokwa 24 Apr '14

24 Apr '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Melissa Densmore <melissa.r.densmore(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 9:17 PM Subject: [TIER] ITID Special Issue honoring Gary Marsden To: "hci4d(a)googlegroups.com" <hci4d(a)googlegroups.com>, TIER < tier(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu>, Melissa Densmore <mdens(a)microsoft.com> Submission deadline: *Sep 20, 2014* Information Technologies and International Development (ITID) is the leading journal focusing on the intersection of information and communication technologies (ICT) with international development. Published by the Annenberg Press, ITID is a multidisciplinary, quarterly open access publication. The journal is now inviting submissions for a *Gedenkschrift* memorial issue honoring the life and work of Gary Marsden. Gary Marsden was a full Professor of computer science at the University of Cape Town where he directed the ICT4D research center. He passed away suddenly in December of 2013, shortly after chairing a very successful ICTD conference in Cape Town. Gary was a passionate scholar of international acclaim and a dear friend to the ITID community. He is already deeply missed. We are primarily soliciting research papers on themes relevant to or influenced by Gary's work including the areas of: · HCI and international development (HCI4D) · Mobile interaction design · Computer science education in Africa Research contributions should be theoretically grounded and methodologically sound and are also welcome from (and across) diverse disciplinary boundaries including social science, design, and computer science. Contributions are especially welcome from researchers based in developing regions and those involved in cross‐continental collaborations. In addition we will consider personal essays honoring Gary's work and impact, particularly from his former students and collaborators. Authors interested in submitting an essay are required to first contact the special issue editors with a short overview. Special issue editors: William D. Tucker, University of the Western Cape btucker(a)uwc.ac.za Michael L. Best, Georgia Institute of Technology mikeb(a)cc.gatech.edu Nicola J. Bidwell, University of Namibia nic.bidwell(a)gmail.com Please visit http://itidjournal.org for more information about ITID, its author guidelines, and to submit a paper for this special issue. William D. Tucker Associate Professor of Computer Science University of the Western Cape (UWC), South Africa +27 82 494 8884 www.cs.uwc.ac.za/~btucker Research publications<http://repository.uwc.ac.za/xmlui/browse?value=Tucker%2C+William+D.&type=au…> ICTDEVers <https://www.facebook.com/ICTDEVers> DEV <http://acmdev.org>

1 0

Fwd: Hack to End Homelessness, May 2-4
by Yaw Anokwa 24 Apr '14

24 Apr '14

Ethan PG is a former UW-CSE grad student who has been doing some exciting work in the social good space. This hackathon looks like a fun opportunity... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <organize-request(a)seattletechstartups.com> Date: Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 9:00 AM Subject: Organize Digest, Vol 1702, Issue 1 To: organize(a)seattletechstartups.com Several months ago a group of entrepreneurs and technologists working out of Impact Hub in Pioneer Square started talking to Seattle non-profits about what the tech community could do to address poverty and homelessness in our community. We had all seen the growing acrimony in San Francisco and wanted Seattle to set an example for how the tech community can be a constructive force in civic issues. The result is a weekend long hackathon, Hack to End Homelessness<http://www.hacktoendhomelessness.com/>. We have a long list of service providers and advocacy groups on board, each of which is looking for talented people to work with them over the weekend on urgent technology needs. Beyond just building cool apps, the goal is to strengthen ties between the tech community and the non-profit world. Please see the announcement below for details. Plus, the first 10 people to register using the code 'SEATTLETECH' will get 50% off the ticket price! Thanks, Ethan Phelps-Goodman contact(a)hacktoendhomelessness.com Want to build a social network that empowers the homeless community? Create an app to help homeless youth find shelter? Mine and visualize data on the true causes and solutions to homelessness? Join us on May 2-4 for an intense weekend of designing, hacking and learning at Impact Hub Seattle! Designers, developers, social media experts, marketers, storytellers, and all other varieties of innovator are invited. Bring your own ideas or work side-by-side with one of our many non-profit partners on their urgent technology needs. Build Something that Matters. Hack to End Homelessness <http://www.hacktoendhomelessness.com/> 7pm Friday, May 2 -- 7pm Sunday, May 4 Impact Hub Seattle 220 Second Ave South Seattle WA 98104

1 0

Vote for Diana Marangu in Canada Grand Challenges
by Trevor Perrier 24 Apr '14

24 Apr '14

Diana Marangu, this week Change presenter, has an application addressing TB related stigma on the Canada grand challenges website. Please check her application out and show support by "voting" for here: https://applications.grandchallenges.ca/en/viewVideo/28735E6AA2E637B3606E46… - Trevor

1 0

MoSoGood: Call for Contributions
by Nicola Dell 24 Apr '14

24 Apr '14

Call for Contributions *MoSoGood 2014: Mobiles for Social Good* Workshop at ACM MobileHCI 2014, Toronto, Canada September 23, 2014 http://mosogood.capacitylab.org/ Submission Deadline: May 30, 2014 *About MoSoGood* Beyond facilitating communication, mobile phones are also transforming the way we send money, take care of our health, check market prices, engage with our governments, do emergency response, and many other things. However, to a vast majority of the world's population many of these services remain out of reach due to issues of low-literacy, limited technology experience, language barriers, device and infrastructure constraints, physical disabilities, socio-cultural and socio-economic barriers. For example, 60% out of 5 billion mobile phone subscribers worldwide live in developing countries. This provides a challenging research context for how research in HCI could help underserved populations, across the developing and the developed world. The "Mobiles for Social Good" workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in understanding underserved populations in both the developing and developed world, and designing, developing, and evaluating mobile systems for social and economic development. *Call for Contributions* We want to bring together a diverse group of participants with different backgrounds and interests to identify common research practices, to discuss challenges of HCI research in the field, and to discuss particular requirements of specific challenges at the intersection of HCI and Mobiles for the Social Good. We invite the contribution of *detailed problem statements, position papers, research papers, *and *interactive demos* of up to 4 pages from everybody interested to share ideas, experience, or methods applicable within the scope of this workshop. For details about the submission process please visit http://mosogood.capacitylab.org/ *Topics* Topics of the MSoGood workshop include but are not limited to: * Interfaces/interactions for illiterate or low-literates - both in the strict and wider sense (e.g., techno-literacy) * Interfaces/interactions for (mobile) data collection and contribution * Interfaces/interactions for participatory sensing/monitoring or other citizen science activities * Context-adaptive interfaces * Interfaces/interactions for mobile ICT4D systems * HCI research methods for underserved populations * Socio-cultural and socio-economic challenges *Important Dates * Submission: May 30, 2014 Notification: July 15, 2014 Workshop Day: Sept 23, 2014 *Organizers* Falko Schmid, CapacityLab @ University of Bremen Lutz Frommberger, CapacityLab @ University of Bremen Muki Haklay, ExCiteS @ University College London Matthias Stevens, ExCiteS @ University College London Ed Cutrell, Microsoft Research India Indrani Medhi Thies, Microsoft Research India -- --------------------------------------------------------- Dr.-Ing. Falko Schmid OpenScienceMaphttp://www.OpenScienceMap.org IRTG Semantic Integration of Geospatial Informationhttp://irtg.ifgi.de/ Initial Training Network GeoCrowdhttp://www.geocrowd.eu/ Capacity Labhttp://www.capacitylab.org/ Research Center on Spatial Cognitionhttp://www.sfbtr8.uni-bremen.de/ email: schmid(a)informatik.uni-bremen.de group: www.cosy.informatik.uni-bremen.de personal: www.cosy.informatik.uni-bremen.de/staff/schmid phone: +49(0)421/218-64284 fax: +49(0)421/218-9864284 ------------------------------------------

1 0

CHI 2014 panel on societal impact - need your inputs!
by Anupam Jain5 21 Apr '14

21 Apr '14

We are organising a panel at CHI 2014 on different aspects of getting into the space of HCI-for-societal-impact. CHI has a pretty diverse audience and we would like to explore how to support folks who want to explore getting into this field (of HCI-for-societal-impact) either on a full time, part time or voluntary basis. HCI 4 Societal Impact is not just about developing regions but also includes social impact in developed countries (including domains like medicine, accessibility etc.) We have setup the following wikispace and would love to gather inputs from folks on this group on what they think about the subject (there are some specific questions put up on the wiki - if you would like to add thoughts outside of those, please feel free to do so at the end of these questions). Title of the panel : Can you do good and do well? Exploring HCI Careers for Societal Impact Wiki: http://chi2014.wikispaces.com/dogood If you would be at CHI, you are invited to share your experiences/discuss your thoughts or ask questions to the panelists/community. This is scheduled on May 1st, 2pm-3:20pm ( http://chi2014.acm.org/program/#s-panel4_pan107) Looking forward to hearing/reading your thoughts! Regards Anupam IBM Research India p.s btw - we are also looking for a scribe for the panel. If you are willing to volunteer, please let us know!

1 0

Tomorrow at Change: Diana Marangu - TB Contact Investigation
by Trevor Perrier 21 Apr '14

21 Apr '14

*What*: Diana Marangu: Optimizing TB Contact Investigation in Nairobi, Kenya *When:* Tuesday, April 22th at 12pm *Where:* The Allen Center, CSE 203 Please join us tomorrow at Change. Diana Marangu will talking about her current work on TB in Nairobi County. *Abstract:*. My proposed PhD work focuses on identifying barriers, facilitators and potential solutions to TB contact investigation in Nairobi County in Kenya. This formative research will inform the design if implementation tools to address barriers in TB contact insuring the proposed solution is in line with country and global efforts towards zero TB deaths, infections, suffering and stigma. The tools I propose are hoped to tackle stigma, sub-optimal patient education and inefficient documentation which are potentially modifiable barriers. The technological piece is a computerized contact register and mobile phone follow-up platform. *About the speaker:* Diana Marangu is a paediatrician and tutorial fellow at the University of Nairobi, Kenya. For the past eighth months she has been in Seattle pursuing an MPH in Global Health while concurrently enrolled in a PhD in Implementation Science at the University of Nairobi. She is passionate about preventive respiratory health and finding innovative sustainable solutions.

1 0