January 2015 - change - Mailing Lists

Fwd: Call for bids MobileHCI 2017
by Gaetano Borriello 19 Jan '15

19 Jan '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <aquigley(a)st-andrews.ac.uk> Date: Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 3:59 AM Subject: Call for bids MobileHCI 2017 To: gaetano(a)cs.washington.edu Dear Gaetano Borriello, Thank you again for your MobileHCI 2014 paper. We are writing to you to ask if you are interested in hosting MobileHCI 2017 (the 19th in the conference series). As you hopefully know MobileHCI 2015 will be in Copenhagen and MobileHCI 2016 will be in Florence. Full detail of the conference series can be found here: www.all.mobilehci.org I am sending you this message in advance of releasing a call to the broader MobileHCI community. MobileHCI is the forum that provides academics and practitioners a valuable place to discuss the challenges, potential solutions and innovations towards effective interaction with mobile systems and services. It covers the analysis, design, evaluation and application of human-computer interaction techniques and approaches for all mobile computing devices, software and services. The exact nature of a bid can of course include and seek to extend or focus this as the proposers envisage. Any bids should be sent to me (aquigley(a)st-andrews.ac.uk) from today to 31 March. After receiving bids, the steering committee will consider and vote on the bids and everyone who submits will be advised shortly afterwards. If you have any questions please feel free to contact any steering committee members. More information about the MobileHCI conference and bidding process can be found at International Steering Committee Web pages here: www.all.mobilehci.org The form of the bid is fairly open but we do need the following information in order to make an informed decision: * what are the initial planned dates * Intended location for the conference * how will the conference be organised? ie. will there be program chairs who manage the entire program or only papers chairs who manage the papers while the conference chairs manage the conference and program. * Ideally, programme chairs should manage the main papers track and the entire program while the conference chairs manage the logistics of the conference * who will be programme chair - inc brief bio (1/2 page) and what will they be expected to handle * who will be conference chair - inc brief bio (1/2 page) and what will they be expected to handle * brief statement of chairs' experience of running conferences * who will edit the proceedings (default = both programme and conference chairs) * commitment to publish the proceedings with ACM * a draft program for the conference * which research groups will support the conference * which sponsors are likely and how will you attract sponsorship * any letters of support from local entities offering help * any direction/theme change you would envisage for MobileHCI (default = none) * any new features/tracks you would like to include or other changes you would like to make to the conference (default = none) * brief description (1/2 - 1 page) of conference venue * brief description (1/2 - 1 page) of conference city and region/country * rough idea of likely costs of (estimates only): - registration rates (normal is to include everything inc workshops and dinner for all delegates, bar one-day attendees) - venue hire - travel costs and rough times from main world cities, say, London, Helsinki, Frankfurt, Paris, Milan, New York, Tokyo and Sydney - a basic decent hotel for 5 nights * bidders can include a full budget (using their own or the ACM TMRF budget templates) which can include costs such as food, AV, room rental, registration, USB sticks, badges, PC meeting, speakers, conference * management and ACM overhead and revenue details including registration, tutorials, workshops, sponsorship etc. Bids are welcome from any organisation or group of organisations provided that: * they agree to accept the committee guidelines on publication, refereeing and finance; * dates are agreed with the committee through negotiation after bidding; * the proposing team consists of at least one permanent faculty member. Please submit a single PDF document. Bidders must send their bids no later than 31 March 2015. Finally we wanted to remind you two things. 1. MobileHCI is now a venue where you can choose to present an accepted ToChi paper. 2. The deadline for papers for MobileHCI 2015 is Feb 6th this year - http://mobilehci.acm.org/2015/ Best, Aaron Quigley, Chair of the Mobile HCI Steering Committee ---------- To manage your submission, go to https://precisionconference.com/~sigchi?goto=activeSubmissions

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Job openings at Dimagi India
by Anupam Jain 15 Jan '15

15 Jan '15

Hi all - we are now hiring for multiple positions at the Dimagi India office. Please find the openings below (and feel free to get in touch with any questions!). cheers Anupam *Field Manager: *FMs work with a wide range of NGOs in health, agriculture, and other social sectors to strengthen their programs using our mobile technology tools. An FM travels to diverse sites to deliver trainings, design mobile phone applications, conduct research, and provide support for deployments of our open-source mobile technology platform, CommCare. FMs are part of a global team that shares lessons learned and expertise in project implementation from around the world. Read more... <http://www.dimagi.com/about/careers/field-managers/> *Technical Project Manager:* The TPM will manage MOTECH Suite software development efforts and implementations within India, representing MOTECH Suite with key stakeholders and coordinating MOTECH Suite projects in India and beyond. Read more... <http://www.dimagi.com/about/careers/India-TPM/> *Development and Partnerships Manager: *The DPM will work on strengthening our network of partnerships in India and across Asia. The DPM will interact with a wide range of stakeholders including NGOs, social enterprises, funding agencies, and other organizations from a wide variety of sectors to promote frontline service delivery in under-served rural and urban communities. Read more... <http://www.dimagi.com/about/careers/dev_partnerships_manager/> *Office Administrator: *The Office Administrator will assist with a broad range of tasks from managing day-to-day office administration to supporting staff travel to procuring equipment and managing inventory to general execution of operational workflows. Read more... <http://www.dimagi.com/about/careers/office_administrator/> A full listing of open positions can be found on Dimagi's career page at http://www.dimagi.com/about/careers/

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Fwd: Apply for the Data Science for Social Good Summer Fellowship!
by Trevor Perrier 15 Jan '15

15 Jan '15

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Apply for the Data Science for Social Good Summer Fellowship! Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 08:23:28 -0800 *From:*Nick Eng [mailto:niw@uchicago.edu <mailto:niw@uchicago.edu>] *Sent:* Wednesday, January 14, 2015 3:36 PM *Subject:* Request to forward DSSG Fellowship information to students I'm writing from the Data Science for Social Good fellowship at the University of Chicago. I was wondering if you could forward the following information about our program to your computer science graduate students? Many thanks in advance. Nick Eng Center for Data Science and Public Policy, University of Chicago www.dspplab.com <http://www.dspplab.com/> (845) 481-0364 <tel:%28845%29%20481-0364> niw(a)uchicago.edu <mailto:niw@uchicago.edu> ----- *Apply for the Data Science for Social Good Summer Fellowship!* Looking to use or develop your data science skills to solve socially impactful problems? Does the idea of helping non-profits, governments, or foundations better understand and leverage their data appeal to you? What about developing predictive algorithms to help high schools improve graduation rates, text-mining congressional spending bills to uncover costly earmarks, or helping governments develop new strategies to reduce maternal mortality? If so, then consider applying for the Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) Summer Fellowship <http://dssg.uchicago.edu/?utm_source=ne_email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign…>, a 3 month paid program for quantitatively minded folks looking to take on high-impact, real-world, problems. Run by the University of Chicago and funded by the Eric & Wendy Schmidt Foundation, DSSG pairs teams of social scientists, computer scientists, and statisticians with non-profit, government, or philanthropic partners to work on an impactful project from June to August. Projects span a variety of sectors, including education, health, international development, and sustainability. Throughout the summer, fellows apply their coding and analytics skills, collaborate in a fast-paced environment, and learn from mentors coming from industry and academia. Applications for the fellowship are due Feb 1. Find more about the program (including the application and FAQs) here: http://dssg.uchicago.edu/ <http://dssg.uchicago.edu/?utm_source=ne_email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign…>.

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Fwd: [TIER] Awaaz.De is hiring!
by Yaw Anokwa 15 Jan '15

15 Jan '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Neil Patel <neilp(a)cs.stanford.edu> Date: Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 9:08 AM Subject: [TIER] Awaaz.De is hiring! To: tier(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu Hi All, Many of you may know about Awaaz.De, co-founded by myself and Tapan while I was completing my PhD. Since graduating, I have been working on the startup in India for three years. We are doing great work developing technology for the development sector. We have a talented, enthusiastic team, and we are growing! We have begun work on a large, one-year web development project. It is very exciting, a platform to help for-profit companies in India find socially responsible orgs/causes to donate funds to. It is our biggest project yet and a showcase project for our client. We are looking to hire web developers immediately. Python/Django experience required, remote working anywhere in the world is possible. It would be a pleasure to work with folks from the ICT4D community. Please get in touch if you're interested, and/or pass on to others who you think would be a good fit. Check out our jobs page for more info: http://awaaz.de/jobs/ Best, Neil ====== Awaaz.De <http://awaaz.de/>’s mission is to provide mobile technology for people to access and share easily, in local languages. Organizations all over India use Awaaz.De to send and receive voice messages without the Internet. Streams <http://awaaz.de/how-it-works>, Awaaz.De's group voice messaging application, delivers messages through regular phone calls. It is used across the agriculture <http://awaaz.de/2013/01/avaaj-otalo-impact-analysis-farmers-adopting-better…>, health <http://bit.ly/awaazde-health>, education <http://bit.ly/awaazde-edu>, and financial services <http://bit.ly/awaazde-mfi> sectors in India by hundreds of small businesses, social enterprises, media houses, NGOs, government agencies and individual consumers. Till date, Awaaz.De has served over 3 million phone calls to over 300,000 unique recipients in 13 Indian states and 6 countries. Awaaz.De was founded by Neil Patel and Tapan Parikh (Professor, UC Berkeley), growing out of Neil's PhD <http://hci.stanford.edu/neilp> dissertation <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2dxw3YNLVM> at Stanford University. Awaaz.De is a 2013 Sankalp Award Grand Prize Winner <http://awaaz.de/2013/04/awaaz-de-named-sankalp-2013-grand-prize-winner/>, 2013 Action For India Growth Prize Winner <http://awaaz.de/2013/01/awaazde-wins-afi-growth-prize/>, 2011 Tech Awards Laureate <http://awaaz.de/2011/10/awaaz-de-premiers-at-the-tech-awards/%22>, and a 2011 Mashable.com Startups for Good finalist <http://awaaz.de/2011/09/mashable-coms-startups-for-good/>. _______________________________________________ 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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TechWomen Leadership program applications
by Jan Flowers 12 Jan '15

12 Jan '15

A really great program for women from Africa and the Middle East who are interested in pursuing leadership roles in STEM. Applications close on Feb 10th. https://www.techwomen.org/ https://www.techwomen.org/participants/eligibility-and-application Pass along to any women you know who would be interested in this kind of opportunity! Jan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jan Flowers University of Washington | Dept of Global Health I-TECH | Sr. Informatics Advisor University of Washington | School of Nursing | Clinical Faculty OpenMRS | Leadership | Partnerships Program e: jflow2(a)uw.edu<mailto:jflow2@uw.edu> p: 206.334.5263 skype: jan.flowers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Tomorrow At Change: Will Scott - Computer Science in the DPRK
by Trevor Perrier 12 Jan '15

12 Jan '15

*What*: Computer Science in the DPRK - Will Scott *When:* Tuesday, Jan 13 at 12pm *Where:* The Allen Center, CSE 203 Please join us for the first Change Seminar of winter quarter. We are excited to have Will Scott from the networks lab in CSE come and talk about his experiences teaching computer science at Pyongyang University of Science and Technology in the fall of 2013 and 2014. Please note that this quarter we will be meeting every other Tuesday so the next meeting will not be until Tuesday January 27. *Abstract:* This talk will reflect on teaching Computer Science in Pyongyang over the last two years, and look at how technology has been integrated into civilian life in the DPRK. Remaining an extremely isolated country, many people would be surprised to hear that cellphones have become commonplace within the capitol, let alone that the country invests in custom hardware and software. I'll talk through the current state of desktop and mobile technology in pyongyang, and what's changing. From redstar OS, a custom redhat-derived linux desktop and server environment, to the arirang cellphone and tablet, technology in the DPRK is different from what you are likely to see anywhere else in the world. Most systems are not widely available, and exist as much in rumor as reality. Partially from language barrier, and partially due to restrictive import, export, and communication policies, there are large gaps and large amounts of misinformation around most aspects of the country. *About the speaker:* Will Scott is graduate student in the networks lab in Computer Science and Engineering at UW. He's research focus on removing the limitations on information so the end user can have more control over their data and applications. He has spent the last two falls teaching Computer Science, specifically Operating Systems and Databases, to undergraduates at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology. In the course of life in Pyongyang, Will has been able to observe the growing prevalence of mobile technology, and get a first-hand look at the state of consumer technology in the country.

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Fwd: Aetna Foundation Issues $4.5 Million Challenge to Accelerate Digital Health Innovation
by Yaw Anokwa 08 Jan '15

08 Jan '15

The Aetna Foundation is calling on organizations to leverage technology to make an impact on health outcomes in vulnerable communities. The Foundation today announced the Healthier World Innovation Challenge, a $4.5 million initiative designed to steer digital health innovation to improve chronic health outcomes in underserved communities. Six Challenge winners will not only receive up to $750,000 each over three consecutive years, but will also have support from the Aetna Foundation and partner resources to implement their innovation. The Challenge is part of a larger, three-year digital health commitment by the Aetna Foundation to help address public health concerns. With the addition of the Challenge, the Aetna Foundation’s commitment to digital health will now total $5.7 million between 2014 and 2016. http://news.aetna.com/news-releases/aetna-foundation-issues-4-5-million-cha…

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No Change This Week
by Trevor Perrier 05 Jan '15

05 Jan '15

Hello and welcome back, There will be no Change Seminar tomorrow. Traditionally winter quarter has been the slowest for us and so this quarter Change will be meeting every other Tuesday starting next week (Jan 13). We look froward to seeing everyone again in two weeks. As always, if you or anyone else in your research area would like to give a talk at Change please let me know. Thanks, - Trevor

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