March 2015 - change - Mailing Lists

Fwd: March 13: Digital Humanitarians, a talk by Patrick Meier - Friday March 13 from 12-1PM PDT
by Matt Podolsky 10 Mar '15

10 Mar '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Matt Podolsky <podolsky(a)berkeley.edu> Date: Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 10:33 AM Subject: Fwd: March 13: Digital Humanitarians, a talk by Patrick Meier - Friday March 13 from 12-1PM PDT To: tier(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 10:20 AM Subject: Re: March 13: Digital Humanitarians, a talk by Patrick Meier *March 13: Digital Humanitarians, a talk by Patrick Meier* <http://dil.berkeley.edu/event/digital-humanitarians-a-talk-by-patrick-meier/> B100 Blum Hall, UC Berkeley | 12:00pm - 1:00pm PDT Livestream link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQuXYCUwc5A Please join the Development Impact Lab and the School if Information for a talk by Patrick Meier, author of the book Digital Humanitarians and noted expert on crowd-sourcing and international development, on *Friday March 13 from 12-1PM PDT in B100 Blum Hall*. The event will be livestreamed <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQuXYCUwc5A>. Event Overview: The information overflow that occurs in the wake of a disaster can paralyze humanitarian response efforts. Computers, mobile phones, social media, mainstream news, earth-based sensors, humanitarian drones, and orbiting satellites generate vast volumes of data during major disasters. Making sense of this flash flood of information, or "Big Data" is proving a perplexing challenge for traditional humanitarian organizations. Aid groups are more adept at dealing with information scarcity than overflow. To address this problem many organizations are turning to Digital Humanitarians: tech-savvy volunteers who craft and leverage ingenious crowdsourcing solutions with trail-blazing insights from artificial intelligence. This talk charts the rise of Digital Humanitarians and describes how their humanity coupled with innovative solutions to Big Data is changing humanitarian response forever. Patrick Meier is an internationally recognized thought-leader on humanitarian technology and innovation. His new book "Digital Humanitarians" has already been endorsed by Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Oxford, UN, World Bank and the Red Cross. Patrick directs QCRI's Social Innovation Program where he develops "Next Generation Humanitarian Technologies" in partnership with international humanitarian organizations. He has a PhD from The Fletcher School, Pre-Doc from Stanford and an MA from Columbia. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, BBC, Forbes, Times, Wired and Mashable. Patrick's influential blog iRevolutions has received over 1.5 million hits. He tweets at @patrickmeier.

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FW: Global Health and Development Research Analyst -- Paid Part Time Position
by Melody Clark 04 Mar '15

04 Mar '15

Remote research analyst position for those interested in global health, development, and/or research. Just passing along for Lia Zheng - please contact her at lzheng(a)intven.com with any questions. -- Melody Clark Communications Specialist Technology & Social Change (TASCHA) melclark(a)uw.edu<mailto:melclark@uw.edu> | 206.303.7910 Twitter: @taschagroup<https://twitter.com/taschagroup> | @melodyrclark<https://twitter.com/#!/melodyrclark> tascha.uw.edu<http://tascha.uw.edu/> From: Lia Zheng [mailto:lzheng@intven.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2015 4:03 PM To: Melody Clark Subject: Global Health and Development Research Analyst -- Paid Part Time Position Hi Melody, I'm an UW alumnus and my employer, Global Good Fund, is looking for graduate students to join our Virtual Research Analyst Network, which is a paid part-time position. Members of the network can work remotely and on issues related to global health and development. Could you please distribute the attached JD and FAQ to the Change group? Please feel free to let me know if you have any questions. Thanks and best regards, Lia Xinliang (Lia) Zheng Ph.D Scientific Research Analyst Email: lzheng(a)intven.com<mailto:lzheng@intven.com> Office: 425.691.3173 www.globalgood.com<http://www.globalgood.com/> [GG_Logo_PMS 356 (2)] This message may contain confidential information which may also be legally privileged information. If you are not an intended recipient of the message, please delete it and notify the sender via reply email. Any unauthorized dissemination, distribution or copying of the material in this message, and any attachments to the message, is strictly forbidden.

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FW: [liberationtech-jobs] Paid summer fellowship to build high-impact technology products for underserved communities
by Melody Clark 03 Mar '15

03 Mar '15

-- Melody Clark Communications Specialist Technology & Social Change (TASCHA) melclark(a)uw.edu | 206.303.7910 Twitter: @taschagroup | @melodyrclark tascha.uw.edu -----Original Message----- From: liberationtech-jobs [mailto:liberationtech-jobs-bounces@lists.stanford.edu] On Behalf Of Yosem Companys Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2015 11:41 AM To: Liberationtech Jobs Cc: Alexis Sypek Subject: [liberationtech-jobs] Paid summer fellowship to build high-impact technology products for underserved communities From: Alexis Sypek <alexis.sypek(a)gmail.com> via social-enterprise-jobs(a)googlegroups.com Are you an entrepreneur, engineer, or designer interested in building meaningful new technology for underserved communities? 80% of low-income Americans own mobile devices but the technologies that would be most useful to many underserved Americans aren’t the ones we build. Blue Ridge Labs’ 12-week fellowship offers top talent the opportunity to create products for communities that are traditionally overlooked by technology. By taking a user-centered approach and pushing our teams to iterate quickly and cheaply, we aim to build products that really make a difference. We believe great products are born when innovators have the opportunity to work closely with their users, and our fellowship provides unparalleled access to underserved individuals around New York. We’ll also provide you with a robust network of topic experts and front-line organizations working with these communities as you rapidly prototype and test an MVP. We look for each of our fellows to fill one of three roles: product manager, designer, engineer. Great candidates will bring not only a great track record in their area of expertise, but also courage, empathy, and a love of fast-paced, collaborative environments. If that sounds like you, we’d love for you to join us! Learn more and apply here: http://labs.robinhood.org/fellowship/ -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at companys(a)stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech-jobs

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Fwd: [dub] HCDE Invited Lecture: Neha Kumar - "Mobiles, Media, and Marginality"
by Trevor Perrier 02 Mar '15

02 Mar '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: HCDE News <hcdenews(a)uw.edu> Date: Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 9:27 AM Subject: [dub] HCDE Invited Lecture: Neha Kumar - "Mobiles, Media, and Marginality" To: hcde-community(a)uw.edu, dub(a)dub.washington.edu *Please join the department of Human Centered Design & Engineering next Tuesday, March 3, for a special guest lecture.* *Mobiles, Media, and Marginality* *Neha Kumar* Tuesday, March 3 9:30 - 10:30 a.m. Sieg Hall, Room 233 Save to your calendar >> <http://eventactions.com/ea.aspx?e32=grzwn70mmdakr1hf9d3erasr7s> With the rapid proliferation of mobile phones across the world, marginal technology users are fast becoming the majority as they begin to engage with technologies on their own terms. My research focuses on understanding these emerging sociotechnical contexts in under-represented communities across the world and leveraging this understanding to design and build appropriate technological interventions for the benefit of these communities. I engage with a growing body of Science and Technology Studies (STS) literature to critically analyze and constructively inform the processes of technology design. In this talk, I will present my ethnographic findings on the appropriation of mobile technology by Indian youth from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds. My research shows how these youth, through their offline and online media engagements, end up creating informal spaces of learning for themselves. Thus I emphasize that 'development-friendly' outcomes can and do result from less-studied recreational uses of technology. I will subsequently discuss how I operationalize these findings towards the design and implementation of two distinct mobile health initiatives, before presenting future directions for my work. *Bio:* *Neha Kumar *is a postdoctoral researcher at the Annenberg School of Communication in University of Southern California. Prior to this, she was at the University of Washington for a year, working as a postdoc with Profs. Richard Anderson and Gaetano Borriello in the Computer Science and Engineering department. She completed her PhD at the School of Information at UC Berkeley, where she was advised by Prof. Tapan Parikh. She carries two masters degrees from Stanford University, one in Computer Science and the other in Learning, Design & Technology. She was a recipient of the Google Anita Borg Memorial Fellowship in 2012. Human Centered Design & Engineering <http://www.hcde.uw.edu/> *[image: University of Washington Signature]* <http://www.washington.edu/marketing/files/2012/10/wsignature.gif> Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/hcde.uw> | Twitter <http://twitter.com/hcdeUW> | LinkedIn <http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Human-Centered-Design-Engineering-2502822> _______________________________________________ dub mailing list dub(a)dub.washington.edu http://dub.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/dub

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Tomorrow at Change: Current Research Lighting Talks
by Trevor Perrier 02 Mar '15

02 Mar '15

*What*: Research Lightning Talks *When:* Tuesday, March 3 at 12pm *Where:* The Allen Center, CSE 203 Please join us this week for the last Change Seminar of the quarter. This week we will be having lighting talks from CS and iSchool grad students. This is a great opportunity to learn about some of the current research going on at UW right now. Each lighting talk will be 8-10 min with some time for questions and answers while we switch speakers. *Participants:* *Lassana Magassa *on *Digital Literacy Level of the Incarcerated* *Abstract: *A proposal to validate a framework of digital literacy that includes a social behavioral dimension and an instrument designed to measure the digital literacy level of those incarcerated. Additionally, trying to uncover what being digital literate means for individuals leaving prison and returning to the community. *Bio: *Lassana Magassa is a 6th year PhD candidate developing instruments to measure the digital literacy level of incarcerated people. He is in the Information School and is advised by Karine Nahon. *Trevor Perrier* on *USSD as a Patient Interface * *Abstract:* A proposal for extending two-way SMS messaging to an USSD based menu system. What would such a system look like, how could it be used, would it provide a net benefit to justify the costs. *Bio:* Trevor Perrier is a 3rd year PhD student working with SMS for data reporting and health literacy. He is in the Computer Science and Engineering department and advised by Richard Anderson. *Raza Khan* on *Behavioral Modeling for Churn Prediction in Developing Countries* *Abstract:* This presentation is going to describe our work on churn prediction on data from a Telecom Operator of South Asia. A key highlight of our work is the identification of some unexpected features of customer attrition. *Bio:* Muhammad Raza Khan is a 2nd year PhD student in the Information School, University of Washington working under Dr. Joshua Blumenstock. Raza has been working on different big data projects related to product adoption and churn. *Philip Reed* on *Patterns of mobile phone use based on gender and work status.* *Abstract:* In this work, in collaboration with Raza Rehman, we are examining patterns of mobile phone use between men and women, further subdivided into women who work outside the home and those who do not. We aim to help disentangle conflicting claims in the literature about whether differential access to ICT is primarily a reflection of general socio-cultural marginalization or whether it has other stronger roots. *Bio:* Philip J. Reed is a 3rd year PhD student in the Information School. Within the field of ICTD, he studies the effects of access to technology on people's job and career aspirations. His adviser is Ricardo Gomez.

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