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Reuters story on the Rescue Base Station
by Syed Ibrahim Ghaznavi 30 Sep '15

30 Sep '15

Hey All - Reuters published a story on our Rescue Base Station, you may want to have a look. No phone signal in a disaster? Solar network 'in a box' to the rescue <http://in.reuters.com/article/2015/09/21/pakistan-disaster-solar-idINKCN0RL…> Best, Ibrahim

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Fwd: Patrick Awuah Named 2015 MacArthur Fellow
by Alan Borning 29 Sep '15

29 Sep '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ashesi <foundation(a)ashesi.org> Date: Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 12:16 PM Subject: Patrick Awuah Named 2015 MacArthur Fellow To: borning(a)cs.washington.edu Ashesi's impact on higher education in Africa wins Patrick Awuah the MacArthur Fellowship *Creative Genius * Patrick Awuah Named 2015 MacArthur Fellow Subscribe <http://visitor.r20.constantcontact.com/manage/optin?v=001fhnIwBfeRlYMylSApF…> | Donate <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001ctKSeCOxLELiCbPQL1-hKvbthZ6u3dXZ1DyxsuUdBFKY…> | *Follow us: *Facebook <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001ctKSeCOxLELiCbPQL1-hKvbthZ6u3dXZ1DyxsuUdBFKY…> | Twitter <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001ctKSeCOxLELiCbPQL1-hKvbthZ6u3dXZ1DyxsuUdBFKY…> *Patrick Awuah named 2015 MacArthur Foundation Fellow* We are thrilled to announce that Ashesi President Dr. Patrick Awuah has been named one of twenty-four MacArthur Foundation Fellowship recipients for his work at Ashesi University. The MacArthur Fellows Program awards fellowships to talented individuals who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction. There are three criteria for selection of Fellows: exceptional creativity, promise for important future advances based on a track record of significant accomplishment, and potential for the fellowship to facilitate subsequent creative work. "These 24 delightfully diverse MacArthur Fellows are shedding light and making progress on critical issues, pushing the boundaries of their fields, and improving our world in imaginative, unexpected ways," said MacArthur President Julia Stasch. "Their work, their commitment, and their creativity inspire us all." Watch Patrick's MacArthur video here <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001ctKSeCOxLELiCbPQL1-hKvbthZ6u3dXZ1DyxsuUdBFKY…> ! <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001ctKSeCOxLELiCbPQL1-hKvbthZ6u3dXZ1DyxsuUdBFKY…> The MacArthur Fellows Program is intended to encourage people of outstanding talent to pursue their own creative, intellectual, and professional inclinations. Fellows may use their fellowship to advance their expertise, engage in bold new work, or, if they wish, to change fields or alter the direction of their careers. On behalf of Ashesi students, faculty, and staff, congratulations Patrick! Click here to learn more about the 2015 MacArthur Fellow recipients <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001ctKSeCOxLELiCbPQL1-hKvbthZ6u3dXZ1DyxsuUdBFKY…> *Ashesi University Foundation* 1414 31st Ave. S, Suite 301 | Seattle, Washington 98144 | (206) 545-6988 | ashesi.org *Ashesi University Foundation <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001ctKSeCOxLELiCbPQL1-hKvbthZ6u3dXZ1DyxsuUdBFKY…>* is a US non-profit 501(c)3 organization based in Seattle, Washington that connects a global community of donors, friends, volunteers, and trustees to *Ashesi University College <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001ctKSeCOxLELiCbPQL1-hKvbthZ6u3dXZ1DyxsuUdBFKY…>* in Ghana. Ashesi University is an African-led 4-year university committed to educating the next generation of innovative thinkers and ethical leaders for Africa. Forward this email <http://ui.constantcontact.com/sa/fwtf.jsp?llr=qwwdp9aab&m=1100399893200&ea=…> <http://visitor.constantcontact.com/do?p=un&m=001PH0TC9GdEh3r1yD6_CUrPA%3D%3…> This email was sent to borning(a)cs.washington.edu by foundation(a)ashesi.org | Update Profile/Email Address <http://visitor.constantcontact.com/do?p=oo&m=001PH0TC9GdEh3r1yD6_CUrPA%3D%3…> | Rapid removal with SafeUnsubscribe <http://visitor.constantcontact.com/do?p=un&m=001PH0TC9GdEh3r1yD6_CUrPA%3D%3…>™ | About our service provider <http://ui.constantcontact.com/roving/CCPrivacyPolicy.jsp>. <http://www.constantcontact.com/index.jsp?cc=PT1137> Ashesi University Foundation | 1414 31st Ave S, Suite 301 | PMB 11 | Seattle | WA | 98144

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Fwd: Work with current IADer abroad, funding available
by Yaw Anokwa 28 Sep '15

28 Sep '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Theresa Costa <tacosta(a)ucdavis.edu> Date: Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 10:28 AM Subject: Work with current IADer abroad, funding available To: "iadalum(a)ucdavis.edu" <iadalum(a)ucdavis.edu> Cc: "Elana Peach-Fine (elana.ipo(a)gmail.com)" <elana.ipo(a)gmail.com> Dear IAD alumni, I am the program coordinator for UC Davis' Research and Innovation Fellowship for Agriculture (RIFA, http://ip.ucdavis.edu/what/rifa) Program. This program funds IAD graduate students (and some graduate students from other UC's and ag related fields) to conduct 2-6 month long research or practice-based projects on agriculture and food systems (or related social, economic and environmental issues). We have a lot of academic support to prepare grad students (including faculty mentors and a full quarter of project planning) and funding to send 20+ students abroad, but we are really lacking host opportunities to receive them! I was really hoping that some of you out there might have some projects in developing countries that you could use some very creative, motivated and free graduate students! This is a great resource! All you have to do is fill out the attached form and then starting in early October students will begin to contact you. You can pick the student you feel is the best fit for you and write them a letter of support. The student then applies with your letter to our program for funding. The form can be as detailed or vague as you want, you can use the full 700 words to explain in full detail what the grad student should do or you can very vaguely tell them in 100 words the goal of your organization and that you might be interested in hearing how they would like to fit in with a project of their own creation. The form is due back to me (elana.ipo(a)gmail.com) by October 6, but the earlier the better. I attached some more details in a one-page flyer as well as the host form here. Thank you so much for reading this and thinking it over (please feel free to send on to friends in other organizations, foreign universities, private or research institutions- any thing goes!) Best, Elana -- Elana Peach-Fine Program Analyst International Programs Office (530) 554-9535 University of California Davis

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Interested in digital health solutions? DHIS2 training Oct. 5-9 at PATH
by Breese McIlvaine Arenth 28 Sep '15

28 Sep '15

Hello – I am writing to tell you about an upcoming training opportunity in health information systems hosted at PATH. The leading software that developing countries are using for their national health management information systems is called DHIS2 <https://www.dhis2.org/overview>, an open-source software system led from the University of Oslo's Health Information Systems Programme <http://www.hisp.org/>, (HISP-Oslo.). Over 42 countries around the world use DHIS2 <https://www.dhis2.org/inaction> to track their health statistics This training will help you gain competency in what DHIS2 is, how it can be used for health programs, and how to use it to analyze data. *PATH's Digital Health Solutions team has invited Akros <http://akros.com/> to provide a 5-day, 2-track training for up to 30 people on how to use and configure DHIS2 October 5 – 9**. * *Course Details:* *What: *DHIS2 Training. DHIS2 <https://www.dhis2.org/> is a web-based, open-source health information system used widely by the countries with which PATH works. This course will be valuable to both new and more seasoned users, covering everything from data analysis to data capture and visualization to system configuration. Please see the attached document for more detailed information on the curriculum. *Where:* PATH Seattle: 2201 Westlake Avenue, Suite 200 *When:* October 5 – 9, 2015 - *Beginners*: October 5 – 9, 8:30 – 12:30. There is still room for up to 7 more people. - *Administrators*: October 7 – 9, 1:30 – 5:00. There is still room for up to 19 more people. *Cost: *$650 for one track, $1300 for both. *Please reach out to Hallie Goertz (hgoertz(a)path.org <hgoertz(a)path.org>) with any questions or to register for the course.* -- Breese McIlvaine Arenth MPA Candidate University of Washington Evans School of Public Affairs breese <breesem(a)uw.edu>m(a)uw.edu <breesem(a)uw.edu>

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Fwd: [gaia] ACM DEV 2015 — CALL FOR POSTERS — DEADLINE SOON!
by Matt Podolsky 22 Sep '15

22 Sep '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Veljko Pejovic <veljkoveljko(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 12:32 AM Subject: [gaia] ACM DEV 2015 — CALL FOR POSTERS — DEADLINE SOON! To: gaia(a)irtf.org ACM DEV 2015 6th Symposium on Computing for Development November 30 - December 2, 2015 London, United Kingdom http://acmdev.org/ Important Dates: Poster abstracts due: September 30, 2015 (11:59pm UTC) - firm deadline Author notification: October 10, 2015 Camera-ready: October 17, 2015 Conference: November 30 - December 2, 2015 DEV 2015 provides an international forum for research in the design, implementation, and evaluation of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for social and economic development. In particular, we focus on 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. The poster deadline for DEV 2015 is September 30th. Posters must not exceed 2 pages and all submissions must be in ACM format, submitted as a PDF. Submissions should be fully anonymised; In particular, the names or affiliations of authors should not be included so as to allow for blind review. Posters should be submitted via the submission site. Posters should describe original and previously unpublished research, innovative experiments, and work in progress. All DEV poster submissions should either provide or directly motivate a novel technical solution that has direct implications for development. The topic of ICT for development is inherently multidisciplinary, and encompasses a broad array of fields within the computer science discipline. The ACM DEV conference is an opportunity for researchers across these diverse fields of computer science to come together to work on the common problem of improving access to and availability of information and communication technology solutions. In an effort to encourage participation of researchers across the relevant domains, this year the conference focuses on research at the interface of computer science and development related to (but not limited to) the following non-exclusive focus areas: Systems, including: - Low-cost connectivity and computing devices - Network solutions for poorly connected regions, including white space spectrum - Power-efficient systems - Mobile systems and applications - Special-purpose systems, e.g., sensors, wireless, IVR - Systems challenges and opportunities in development, e.g., security, sustainability, resilience - Cellular phone systems and applications - Novel tools and applications for development - Measurements of existing technology in developing regions (e.g. network deployments) HCI, including: - 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 in health, microfinance, education, agriculture, entertainment, social media - Adapting content and applications to local languages and education levels - Understanding social relationships and information flows in disadvantaged societies Data Science, including: - Computational sustainability - Computational social science - Econometric models and developmental economics - Data science for social good - Machine learning techniques for large-scale data analysis in development contexts - Speech interfaces and translation for low-resource languages - Computer vision challenges and opportunities in development - Understanding social networks and digital media in developing regions In addition, we welcome posters outside of the above topics that address the DEV focus on computing innovations supporting social and economic development. The accepted posters will be published in the companion conference proceedings. The poster should be submitted using the submission website at http://posters.acmdev.org Poster chair: Veljko Pejovic, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, email: Veljko.Pejovic(a)fri.uni-lj.si _______________________________________________ gaia mailing list gaia(a)irtf.org https://irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/gaia

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Gaetano Borriello Symposium at the GHTC Conference
by Richard Anderson 20 Sep '15

20 Sep '15

There will be a special symposium held in honor of Gaetano Borriello at this year's IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (http://www.ieeeghtc.org/) The Gaetano Borriello Feet on the Ground Humanitarian Symposium (http://www.cs.washington.edu/gbs/) is on Saturday, October 10, 2015 from 1:30 to 6:20 pm at the DoubleTree by Hilton Seattle Airport. The symposium, which will feature talks by researchers and humanitarian leaders who are applying technology solutions to real-world problems, will be held during the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers'Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC15)<http://www.ieeeghtc.org/>, October 8-11 in Seattle. Attendance at the Gaetano Borriello Feet on the Ground Humanitarian Symposium is open to members of the public in addition to GHTC15 conference registrants. Because space is limited, individuals who plan to attend the symposium without registering for GHTC15 must RSVP<https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/kbbenton/278113> in advance. There will be no on-site registration. Speakers at the symposium will include John Bennett (UC Denver), Eric Brewer (UC Berkeley), Kiersten Israel-Ballard (PATH), Lilian Pintea (Jane Goodall Institute), David Thau (Google Earth Outreach), Heather Underwood (UC Denver), Lorenzo Violante Ruiz (International Red Cross) and Roy Want (Google). A panel of Gaetano's students (Nicki Dell, Waylon Brunette, Sam Sudar, and Carl Hartung) will discuss the impact of Open Data Kit. In addition, there will be a special presentation by Senator Maria Cantwell (US Senator, Washington) and Jim Jefferies (President IEEE USA). Ed Lazowska (UW) will open the symposium.

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FW: [dub] Next Generation Mobility Challenge: Oct 30th on UW campus
by Melody Clark 18 Sep '15

18 Sep '15

May be of interest to some. -- 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: dub-bounces(a)dub.washington.edu [mailto:dub-bounces@dub.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Linda Boyle Sent: Friday, September 18, 2015 7:13 AM To: dub(a)dub.washington.edu Subject: [dub] Next Generation Mobility Challenge: Oct 30th on UW campus Please see attached flyer. The event will be held at the Foster School of Business. Linda

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Fwd: [ICTD2012] ICTD 2016 Ann Arbor, MI, USA | 3-6 June 2016 Call for Papers and Notes
by Yaw Anokwa 18 Sep '15

18 Sep '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Michael Best <mikeb(a)cc.gatech.edu> Date: Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 11:38 PM Subject: [ICTD2012] ICTD 2016 Ann Arbor, MI, USA | 3-6 June 2016 Call for Papers and Notes To: ictd-announce(a)lists.ictd2012.org ICTD 2016 Ann Arbor, MI, USA | 3-6 June 2016 Call for Papers and Notes Deadline for Submission of Full paper: November 20 2015 The Eighth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD2016), to be hosted at the University of Michigan from June 3-6, 2016, cordially invites you to submit Full Papers and Notes. Held in cooperation with ACM SIGCHI and ACM SIGCAS, ICTD2016 will provide an international forum for scholarly researchers to explore the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in social, political, and economic development. The ICTD conferences have been taking place approximately every 18 months since 2006; 2016 marks the first time that the conference will go to an annual cycle. Important dates · November 20, 2015: Deadline for submission of Full Papers · January 15, 2016: Notification of acceptances for Full Papers · January 29, 2016: Deadline for submission of Notes · February 26, 2016: Notification of acceptances for Notes · March 25, 2016: Camera-ready Full Papers and Notes due All submission are due 11:59 pm UTC. Over the past several decades, as radio and television have been joined by computers, the Internet, and mobile devices, information and communication technologies (ICTs) have become more pervasive, more accessible, and more relevant in the lives of people around the world. Virtually no sphere of human activity remains apart from ICTs, from markets to health care, education to governance, family life to artistic expression. Diverse groups across the world interact with, are affected by, and can shape the design of these technologies. The ICTD conference is a place to understand these interactions, and to examine, critique, and refine the persistent, pervasive hope that ICTs can be enlisted by individuals and communities in the service of human development. There are multidisciplinary challenges associated with the engineering, application and adoption of ICTs in developing regions and/or for development, with implications for design, policy, and practice. For the purposes of this conference, the term “ICT” comprises electronic technologies for information processing and communication, as well as systems, interventions, and platforms that are built on such technologies. “Development” includes, but is not restricted to, poverty alleviation, education, agriculture, healthcare, general communication, gender equality, governance, infrastructure, environment and sustainable livelihoods. The conference program will reflect the multidisciplinary nature of ICTD research, with anticipated contributions from fields including (but not limited to) anthropology, computer science, communication, design, economics, electrical engineering, geography, human-computer interaction, information science, information systems, political science, public health, and sociology. Full Papers An ICTD Full Paper, which is up to 10 pages in the ACM two-column format (including references, figures and tables), must make a new research contribution and provide complete and substantial support for its results and conclusions. Accepted papers typically represent a major advance for the field of ICTD. Full Papers will be evaluated via double-blind peer review by a multidisciplinary panel of at least three readers, one of whom will come from outside the paper’s disciplinary domain in order to ensure broad readability. Accepted Full Papers will be presented as oral presentations at the conference. Full Papers will be evaluated according to their novel research contribution, methodological soundness, theoretical framing and reference to related work, quality of analysis, and quality of writing and presentation. Manuscripts considering novel designs, new technologies, project assessments, policy analyses, impact studies, theoretical contributions, social issues around ICT and development, and so forth will be considered. Well-analyzed negative results from which generalizable conclusions can be drawn are also sought. Authors are encouraged (but not required) to address the diversity of approaches in ICTD research by providing context, implications, and actionable guidance to researchers and practitioners beyond the authors’ primary domains. Full Papers typically present mature work whereas Notes (see below) are used for presenting preliminary research that is still work-in-progress. All accepted Full Papers will be archived in the ACM Digital Library. A subset of the Full Papers will also appear in a special issue of the Information Technologies & International Development journal. See additional specifications under “All Submissions” below. Notes With a shorter 4-page limit, Notes are intended to introduce work-in-progress that may be published later in a journal, as well as to document shorter project write-ups. An ICTD Note is likely to have a more focused and succinct research contribution to the ICTD field than Full Papers. For example, Notes on novel ICTD systems may not cover the entire design of the system but may instead go into depth in specific areas (e.g., how the system was evaluated with real users or how the formative work to create the system was conducted). Notes are also not expected to include a discussion of related work that is as broad and complete as that of a submission to the Full Papers venue. Accepted Notes will be presented as poster presentations at the conference. Notes will be evaluated by at least two multidisciplinary reviewers in a double-blind fashion and will be assessed according to their research contribution, methodological soundness, quality of analysis, and quality of writing, and presentation. Manuscripts considering novel designs, new technologies, project assessments, policy analyses, impact studies, theoretical contributions, social issues around ICT and development, and so forth will be considered. However Notes need not necessarily be as comprehensive, novel, or generalizable as Full Papers. All accepted Notes will be made available in the ACM Digital Library. Notes authors will be invited to present a poster. See additional specifications under “All Submissions” below. All Submissions Only original, unpublished, research papers in English will be considered. Full Papers and Notes must use the ACM templates (LaTex and Word), and must be no longer than 10 pages and 4 pages respectively. (The main text, figures, tables, footnotes, references, etc. must fit within these page limits.) Additional material may be included in an Appendix, but the text within the page limits must read as a standalone work. Submissions longer than the page limits, not in the template format, not related to the conference themes, and/or not meeting a minimum bar of academic research writing will be rejected without full review. For each accepted Full Paper and Note, at least one of the authors will be required to register and present it at ICTD2016. If not, the submission will not be published in the final proceedings. For Full Papers, see the ACMs copyright policies and options. Copyright for Notes will be retained by the authors. Submitted Full Papers and Notes must not include names or other information that would identify the authors. Note that since the Full Paper and Notes submission review cycles will be sequential; it will be possible to revise, shorten, and resubmit elements of promising but non-selected Full Papers in time for reconsideration in the separate Notes review round. For more information, see http://ictd2016.info or email Susan Wyche at spwyche(a)msu.edu. General Conference Chair Kentaro Toyama, University of Michigan Program Committee Chairs Lakshmi Subramanian, New York University Susan Wyche, Michigan State University Notes Chairs Carleen Maitland, Pennsylvania State University Janaki Srinivasan, International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore Senior Program Committee Richard Anderson, University of Washington Elizabeth Belding, U.C. Santa Barbara Michael Best, United Nations University / Georgia Institute of Technology Josh Blumenstock, University of Washington Marshini Chetty, University of Maryland Ed Cutrell, Microsoft Research India Rogerio de Paula, IBM Research Brazil Vanessa Frias-Martinez, University of Maryland Heather Horst, RMIT University Dorothea Kleine, Royal Holloway University of London Rich Ling, Nanyang Technical University Joyojeet Pal, University of Michigan Balaji Parthasarathy, International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore Tapan Parikh, U.C. Berkeley Nimmi Rangaswamy, Xerox Research Center India Aaditeshwar Seth, IIT Delhi Araba Sey, University of Washington Charles Steinfield, Michigan State University Revi Sterling, NetHope Bill Thies, Microsoft Research India ICTD Steering Committee Francois Bar, University of Southern California Michael Best, United Nations University / Georgia Institute of Technology Ken Keniston, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Balaji Parthasarathy, International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore Krithi Ramamritham, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay AnnaLee Saxenian, University of California, Berkeley Kentaro Toyama, University of Michigan Ernest Wilson, University of Southern California _______________________________________________ This is the ICTD2012 announcements mailing list at ictd-announce(a)lists.ictd2012.org To unsubscribe go to https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/ictd-announce or send email to ictd-announce-leave(a)lists.ictd2012.org Visit us on the web at http://ictd2012.org

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ICTD 2016 CFP
by Nicola Dell 17 Sep '15

17 Sep '15

*ICTD 2016 Ann Arbor, MI, USA * *3-6 June 2016 Call for Papers and NotesDeadline for Submission of Full paper: November 20 2015* The Eighth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD2016), to be hosted at the University of Michigan from June 3-6, 2016, cordially invites you to submit Full Papers and Notes. Held in cooperation with ACM SIGCHI and ACM SIGCAS, ICTD2016 will provide an international forum for scholarly researchers to explore the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in social, political, and economic development. The ICTD conferences have been taking place approximately every 18 months since 2006; 2016 marks the first time that the conference will go to an annual cycle. Important dates · * November 20, 2015: Deadline for submission of Full Papers* · January 15, 2016: Notification of acceptances for Full Papers · January 29, 2016: Deadline for submission of Notes · February 26, 2016: Notification of acceptances for Notes · March 25, 2016: Camera-ready Full Papers and Notes due All submission are due 11:59 pm UTC. Over the past several decades, as radio and television have been joined by computers, the Internet, and mobile devices, information and communication technologies (ICTs) have become more pervasive, more accessible, and more relevant in the lives of people around the world. Virtually no sphere of human activity remains apart from ICTs, from markets to health care, education to governance, family life to artistic expression. Diverse groups across the world interact with, are affected by, and can shape the design of these technologies. The ICTD conference is a place to understand these interactions, and to examine, critique, and refine the persistent, pervasive hope that ICTs can be enlisted by individuals and communities in the service of human development. There are multidisciplinary challenges associated with the engineering, application and adoption of ICTs in developing regions and/or for development, with implications for design, policy, and practice. For the purposes of this conference, the term “ICT” comprises electronic technologies for information processing and communication, as well as systems, interventions, and platforms that are built on such technologies. “Development” includes, but is not restricted to, poverty alleviation, education, agriculture, healthcare, general communication, gender equality, governance, infrastructure, environment and sustainable livelihoods. The conference program will reflect the multidisciplinary nature of ICTD research, with anticipated contributions from fields including (but not limited to) anthropology, computer science, communication, design, economics, electrical engineering, geography, human-computer interaction, information science, information systems, political science, public health, and sociology. Full Papers An ICTD Full Paper, which is up to 10 pages in the ACM two-column format (including references, figures and tables), must make a new research contribution and provide complete and substantial support for its results and conclusions. Accepted papers typically represent a major advance for the field of ICTD. Full Papers will be evaluated via double-blind peer review by a multidisciplinary panel of at least three readers, one of whom will come from outside the paper’s disciplinary domain in order to ensure broad readability. Accepted Full Papers will be presented as oral presentations at the conference. Full Papers will be evaluated according to their novel research contribution, methodological soundness, theoretical framing and reference to related work, quality of analysis, and quality of writing and presentation. Manuscripts considering novel designs, new technologies, project assessments, policy analyses, impact studies, theoretical contributions, social issues around ICT and development, and so forth will be considered. Well-analyzed negative results from which generalizable conclusions can be drawn are also sought. Authors are encouraged (but not required) to address the diversity of approaches in ICTD research by providing context, implications, and actionable guidance to researchers and practitioners beyond the authors’ primary domains. Full Papers typically present mature work whereas Notes (see below) are used for presenting preliminary research that is still work-in-progress. All accepted Full Papers will be archived in the ACM Digital Library. A subset of the Full Papers will also appear in a special issue of the Information Technologies & International Development journal. See additional specifications under “All Submissions” below. Notes With a shorter 4-page limit, Notes are intended to introduce work-in-progress that may be published later in a journal, as well as to document shorter project write-ups. An ICTD Note is likely to have a more focused and succinct research contribution to the ICTD field than Full Papers. For example, Notes on novel ICTD systems may not cover the entire design of the system but may instead go into depth in specific areas (e.g., how the system was evaluated with real users or how the formative work to create the system was conducted). Notes are also not expected to include a discussion of related work that is as broad and complete as that of a submission to the Full Papers venue. Accepted Notes will be presented as poster presentations at the conference. Notes will be evaluated by at least two multidisciplinary reviewers in a double-blind fashion and will be assessed according to their research contribution, methodological soundness, quality of analysis, and quality of writing, and presentation. Manuscripts considering novel designs, new technologies, project assessments, policy analyses, impact studies, theoretical contributions, social issues around ICT and development, and so forth will be considered. However Notes need not necessarily be as comprehensive, novel, or generalizable as Full Papers. All accepted Notes will be made available in the ACM Digital Library. Notes authors will be invited to present a poster. See additional specifications under “All Submissions” below. All Submissions Only original, unpublished, research papers in English will be considered. Full Papers and Notes must use the ACM templates (LaTex and Word), and must be no longer than 10 pages and 4 pages respectively. (The main text, figures, tables, footnotes, references, etc. must fit within these page limits.) Additional material may be included in an Appendix, but the text within the page limits must read as a standalone work. Submissions longer than the page limits, not in the template format, not related to the conference themes, and/or not meeting a minimum bar of academic research writing will be rejected without full review. For each accepted Full Paper and Note, at least one of the authors will be required to register and present it at ICTD2016. If not, the submission will not be published in the final proceedings. For Full Papers, see the ACMs copyright policies and options. Copyright for Notes will be retained by the authors. Submitted Full Papers and Notes must not include names or other information that would identify the authors. Note that since the Full Paper and Notes submission review cycles will be sequential; it will be possible to revise, shorten, and resubmit elements of promising but non-selected Full Papers in time for reconsideration in the separate Notes review round. For more information, see http://ictd2016.info or email Susan Wyche at spwyche(a)msu.edu. General Conference Chair Kentaro Toyama, University of Michigan Program Committee Chairs Lakshmi Subramanian, New York University Susan Wyche, Michigan State University Notes Chairs Carleen Maitland, Pennsylvania State University Janaki Srinivasan, International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore Senior Program Committee Richard Anderson, University of Washington Elizabeth Belding, U.C. Santa Barbara Michael Best, United Nations University / Georgia Institute of Technology Josh Blumenstock, University of Washington Marshini Chetty, University of Maryland Ed Cutrell, Microsoft Research India Rogerio de Paula, IBM Research Brazil Vanessa Frias-Martinez, University of Maryland Heather Horst, RMIT University Dorothea Kleine, Royal Holloway University of London Rich Ling, Nanyang Technical University Joyojeet Pal, University of Michigan Balaji Parthasarathy, International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore Tapan Parikh, U.C. Berkeley Nimmi Rangaswamy, Xerox Research Center India Aaditeshwar Seth, IIT Delhi Araba Sey, University of Washington Charles Steinfield, Michigan State University Revi Sterling, NetHope Bill Thies, Microsoft Research India ICTD Steering Committee Francois Bar, University of Southern California Michael Best, United Nations University / Georgia Institute of Technology Ken Keniston, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Balaji Parthasarathy, International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore Krithi Ramamritham, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay AnnaLee Saxenian, University of California, Berkeley Kentaro Toyama, University of Michigan Ernest Wilson, University of Southern California

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Fwd: African Leaders of Tomorrow Scholarship Program
by Yaw Anokwa 17 Sep '15

17 Sep '15

____________________________________________________________________________ *The 2016 Competition for the African Leaders of Tomorrow (ALT) Scholarship Program is now open*. *Deadline to apply isNovember 2nd, 2015, at 23:00 GMT* Funded by the Government of Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (DFATD) and The MasterCard Foundation, the ALT Scholarship Program commemorates the late Nelson Mandela’s commitment to social justice and equity by offering young African women and men the opportunity to study in a Master’s degree program in public administration, public policy or public finance at a Canadian university <http://www.cbie-bcei.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Public-Administration-Pr…> . The 2016 Competition for study programs starting in September 2016 is now open. The deadline to apply is November 2nd*, 2015, at 23:00 GMT*. *Eligibility criteria:* · be a citizen and a resident from sub-Saharan Africa <http://www.cbie-bcei.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/List-of-eligible-countri…> ; · be between 22-35 years old; · have two to five years of full-time work experience in the public sector, civil society or research institution/academia in Africa; · have completed an undergraduate degree (equivalent to 4 years of university) with a minimum average of B (75%); · be fluent in either English or French; and · meet the academic requirements of the study program of choice. For other information (expenses covered by the scholarship, selection criteria, documents to submit with application) on the ALT Scholarship Program, please visit *www.cbie-bcei.ca/alt* <https://ipac-svr01.ipac.ca/owa/redir.aspx?SURL=xnJshLTUr9wlsVeoAUC89X4W4RZh…> *.* If you are interested in the ALT Scholarship program and meet all the eligibility criteria listed above, please email *alt@cbie.ca* <https://ipac-svr01.ipac.ca/owa/redir.aspx?SURL=6Z16JK-Xzz0gcdIHLevo0fCQuwAb…> and provide us with the information requested in the table. Please note that only candidates meeting all the eligibility requirements will receive further details on the application process. Please note that documents received by email will not be considered as part of an application. Last name, first name Country of citizenship Country of residency Age and date of birth (dd-mm-yyyy) Number of years of work experience in public sector/civil society/research or academia Information on all university degrees completed or in progress (name of university, country, full name of degree completed) Language of study (English, French or other) The ALT Scholarship Program is managed by the Canadian Bureau for International Education (CBIE), in partnership with The Institute for Public Administration of Canada (IPAC) and in collaboration with the African Association of Public Administration and Management (AAPAM) and the Canadian Association of Programs in Public Administration (CAPPA). *African Leaders of Tomorrow Scholarship Program* *Programme de bourses pour les leaders africains de demain* *Canadian Bureau for International Education (CBIE)* *Bureau canadien de l’éducation internationale (BCEI) *www.cbie-bcei.ca <http://www.cbie-bcei.ca/what-we-do/student-portal/african-leaders-of-tomorr…> *220, Laurier ouest/West, # 1550 Ottawa, Ontario CANADA K1P 5Z9* t: 613-237-4820 f: 613-237-1073 %2Aalt(a)cbie.ca <alt(a)cbie.ca>* - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - *Congrès du BCEI 22-25 novembre 2015 Niagara Falls / CBIE Conference November 22-25 2015 Niagara Falls*

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