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Fwd: [TIER] DTL Summer 2017 Internships
by Trevor Perrier 23 Dec '16

23 Dec '16

Summer internship opportunity in Abu Dhabi with the Design Technology Lab at NYUAD. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jay Chen <jay.chen(a)nyu.edu> Date: Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 2:01 PM Subject: [TIER] DTL Summer 2017 Internships To: tier(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu Hi All, For the past few years we have offered summer internships to some outstanding students based out the Design Technology Lab (DTL) ( http://sites.nyuad.nyu.edu/dtl/) at NYUAD. We are based out of Abu Dhabi and we work actively in multiple countries including UAE, California, Ghana, India, Bangladesh, and Iraq. If you would like to work on an exciting ICTD project with us over summer, this could be an interesting opportunity. Attached is a brief job description. Cheers, Jay Chen DTL Summer 2017 Internship Job Description: The Design Technology Lab (DTL) is looking for graduate student interns for the summer of 2017. We are looking for students with good engineering skills, an eye for design, and a strong interest in field work. The range of possible project areas are broad and include: - Networking and networked systems - Specific systems or interfaces for applications in education, finance, health, and agriculture - Large-scale data analysis, mining, and interactive visualization Requirements: - B.S./B.A. in Computer Science or closely related field - Facility in C/C++, Python, Java and/or analysis tools like Matlab Depending on your summer schedule, the internship will run from 12-14 weeks. This is a paid internship. Only students who are eligible to work in the UAE should apply. Please send your CV and a cover letter to <nyuad.dtl(a)gmail.com> nyuad.dtl(a)gmail.com with the subject: “DTL Summer Intern”. The deadline to apply is March 1, 2017. The Design Technology Lab is a multidisciplinary research center at NYU Abu Dhabi (UAE). Our mission is to design technologies that positively impact people’s lives. Within ICTD, our goal is to bring services to rural communities including: access to education, finance, health, and information services to underserved areas. The DTL draws from a broad multidisciplinary expertise available at the Center for Technology and Economic Development (CTED), NYU, and NYU Polytechnic Institute in economics, computer science, engineering, and design. _______________________________________________ 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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Re: [change] [iSchool #10327] FW: [liberationtech-jobs] Paid summer internship (up to $15k) with new social good tech company
by Yosem Companys 19 Dec '16

19 Dec '16

I'd ask Patrick directly... On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 12:29 PM, Cameron Seib < icareers(a)uw.edu (mailto:icareers@uw.edu)> wrote: Hi Melody, Thanks for passing this along. Do you know if Patrick and Jenny are operating under a specific company name? And do you know where this internship would take place? I'll need those bits of info to get this posted on iCareers. Let me know if you have any questions. Best, Cameron On Fri Dec 16 18:56:04 2016, melclark(a)uw.edu (mailto:melclark@uw.edu) wrote: From: liberationtech-jobs [mailto: liberationtech-jobs-bounces(a)lists.stanford.edu (mailto:liberationtech-jobs-bounces@lists.stanford.edu)] On Behalf Of Yosem Companys Sent: Friday, December 16, 2016 1:45 PM To: Liberationtech Jobs < liberationtech-jobs(a)lists.stanford.edu (mailto:liberationtech-jobs@lists.stanford.edu)> Subject: Re: [liberationtech-jobs] Paid summer internship (up to $15k) with new social good tech company This email is from Patrick Schmitt, who was the Head of Innovation at Change.org. On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 1:33 PM, Yosem Companys < companys(a)tmp.ucsb.edu (mailto:companys@tmp.ucsb.edu)> wrote: Do you want your (paid) summer internship to help raise $1 trillion for the world’s highest-impact nonprofits? We are looking for 1-2 engineers to join us this summer to build a new philanthropy platform focused on helping people leave significant portions of their estates to top charities. This is a paid internship, with compensation up to $15,000 for the full summer. The current team is Jenny Xia -- a founding member of Paribus (successfully exited to Capital One), former impact investor at Bain Capital, and frisbee fanatic -- and Patrick Schmitt, the former Head of Innovation at Change.org, ran email fundraising for Obama, and a Scrabble aficionado. The ideal new team member will be mission-aligned, with front-end and back-end experience (HTML/ Bootstrap, CSS, AngularJS, Python/ Django). If interested, please send your resume and a brief note about why you are interested to Patrick at PS1(a)stanford.edu (mailto:PS1@stanford.edu). Deadline for applications is December 21st. Come change the world with us! - Patrick & Jenny _______________________________________________ change mailing list change(a)change.washington.edu (mailto:change@change.washington.edu) http://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/change

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FW: [liberationtech-jobs] Paid summer internship (up to $15k) with new social good tech company
by Melody Clark 19 Dec '16

19 Dec '16

From: liberationtech-jobs [mailto:liberationtech-jobs-bounces@lists.stanford.edu] On Behalf Of Yosem Companys Sent: Friday, December 16, 2016 1:45 PM To: Liberationtech Jobs <liberationtech-jobs(a)lists.stanford.edu> Subject: Re: [liberationtech-jobs] Paid summer internship (up to $15k) with new social good tech company This email is from Patrick Schmitt, who was the Head of Innovation at Change.org. On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 1:33 PM, Yosem Companys <companys(a)tmp.ucsb.edu<mailto:companys@tmp.ucsb.edu>> wrote: Do you want your (paid) summer internship to help raise $1 trillion for the world’s highest-impact nonprofits? We are looking for 1-2 engineers to join us this summer to build a new philanthropy platform focused on helping people leave significant portions of their estates to top charities. This is a paid internship, with compensation up to $15,000 for the full summer. The current team is Jenny Xia -- a founding member of Paribus (successfully exited to Capital One), former impact investor at Bain Capital, and frisbee fanatic -- and Patrick Schmitt, the former Head of Innovation at Change.org, ran email fundraising for Obama, and a Scrabble aficionado. The ideal new team member will be mission-aligned, with front-end and back-end experience (HTML/ Bootstrap, CSS, AngularJS, Python/ Django). If interested, please send your resume and a brief note about why you are interested to Patrick at PS1(a)stanford.edu<mailto:PS1@stanford.edu>. Deadline for applications is December 21st. Come change the world with us! - Patrick & Jenny

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Ethnographic perspectives on human centered design for social change?
by Yosem Companys 16 Dec '16

16 Dec '16

From: Misha Quill <mquill(a)cornellcollege.edu> I'm wondering if any of you could point me towards ethnographic analyses or cases studies (articles. books, grey lit) of development or humanitarian projects that use(d) design principles? I'm planning to teach an undergraduate-level course in environmental anthropology and want introduce some design principles/ processes. Ideally I'd like to include readings that point towards the benefits of this kind of approach, as well as some that reflect practical or theoretical problems (or failures). Thank you! Best, Misha *Misha Quill, Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Sociology & AnthropologyCornell CollegeMount Vernon, IA 52314*

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Re: [change] ICTD Class Poster Session Wednesday 1-2:30 Atrium
by Kurtis Heimerl 14 Dec '16

14 Dec '16

Hey all, Just a reminder this is happening in *1 Hour* ! As another incentive, here are the list of projects from the class for this quarter: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OLxTah5hOODe7d1chxClhlgmPXuOmEHG4Pb… On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 10:51 PM, Kurtis Heimerl <kheimerl(a)cs.washington.edu > wrote: > Hi All, > > The students of the ICTD Seminar (https://docs.google.com/docum > ent/d/1v2GiPrR5GuA6_pFinB2aLOTtYsiMqXmYEPdtD66-ZSo/edit) will be > presenting posters of their projects this Wednesday from 1-2:30 in the CSE > Atrium. Come marvel at the diverse sets of projects and solutions, and > discuss with them how to get this stuff working in the real world. Plus I'm > paying for drinks. >

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Hiring a Researcher at University of Oxford: Digital Entrepreneurship | Economic Geography | Sub-Saharan Africa
by Richard Anderson 09 Dec '16

09 Dec '16

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nicolas Friederici <nfriederici(a)googlemail.com<mailto:nfriederici@googlemail.com>> To: change <change(a)change.washington.edu<mailto:change@change.washington.edu>> Cc: Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2016 16:50:19 +0000 Subject: Hiring a Researcher at University of Oxford: Digital Entrepreneurship | Economic Geography | Sub-Saharan Africa We are recruiting a full-time Researcher to work with us<http://geonet.oii.ox.ac.uk/blog/hiring-a-researcher-at-oxford-digital-entre…> at the Oxford Internet Institute (University of Oxford) on a project that critically assesses the changing landscape of digital entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Researcher will conduct a grounded, comparative empirical study of digital entrepreneurship in African cities. We are interested in the practices of digital entrepreneurship, how opportunities in digital economies are created and exploited, which local actors are better or worse positioned to extract value, the emergence of clusters and ecosystems of digital entrepreneurship, and how African contexts affect these processes/how observed processes differ from the Global North. A secondary focus is on narratives and discourses around digital entrepreneurship in Africa, and how they shape on-the-ground realities. The researcher will primarily focus on fieldwork in several African cities, as well as writing and analysis, using a range of methods (interviews, participant observation, thematic/narrative analysis, surveys). We are therefore seeking a researcher with experience in conducting qualitative social science and case studies. The successful candidate will work with Professor Mark Graham<https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/mark-graham/> and Dr Nicolas Friederici<https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/nicolas-friederici/>. This work is part of a larger five-year ERC-funded project titled Geonet<http://geonet.oii.ox.ac.uk/>, aiming to understand the implications of changing connectivities for African knowledge economies. We seek candidates with a background in Economic Geography, Entrepreneurship Studies, Development Studies, (Urban) Sociology, Social Anthropology, Communications, Organisation Studies, Management or related disciplines. The position is intended for someone at the postdoctoral level (Grade 7: £31,076 – £38,183), but we will consider hiring strong candidates at the pre-doctoral stage (Grade 6: £27,629 – £32,958 p.a.). The post runs for at least one year, with the possibility of renewal thereafter, funding permitting. You can access the advert and a full job description here (deadline Jan 12, 2017): https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk/pls/hrisliverecruit/erq_jobspec_details_form.j… -- Nicolas Friederici | Postdoctoral Researcher, Oxford Internet Institute @friedema | https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/nicolas-friederici | http://cii.oii.ox.ac.uk/author/nicolas | http://www.linkedin.com/in/ictnicolas -- Nicolas Friederici | @friedema | http://www.linkedin.com/in/ictnicolas

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Fwd: [TIER] Connectivity research openings at Facebook
by Matt Podolsky 07 Dec '16

07 Dec '16

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Shaddi Hasan <shaddih(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 10:59 PM Subject: [TIER] Connectivity research openings at Facebook To: "tier(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu" <tier(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu> The Express WiFi team at Facebook is hiring researchers to help connect more folks to the Internet. Express WiFi is a great project that works with entrepreneurs and ISPs to build affordable pre-paid WiFi networks. You can read about the project here: https://info.internet.org/en/story/expresswifi/. It's admittedly light on details, but you can find some press coverage as well (e.g., http://thenextweb.com/facebook/2016/11/28/facebook-tries- connect-india-express-wifi/). Here are the specific job postings: - Market Researcher (Growth) in Menlo Park (https://www.facebook.com/care ers/jobs/a0IA000000G3iTVMAZ/) - Quantitative Researcher (Growth) in Menlo Park ( https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/a0IA000000G3E8uMAF/) We're also hiring: - Solution Architect in Menlo Park (https://www.facebook.com/care ers/jobs/a0I1200000JXc5eEAD) - Integration Engineer in New Delhi (https://www.facebook.com/care ers/jobs/a0I1200000JXZH7EAP) - Deployments Technical Program Manager in London ( https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/a0I1200000JXc4vEAD) Feel free to get in touch with me if you'd like more info! Shaddi _______________________________________________ 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: [TIER] Third Workshop on Computing within LIMITS - CFP
by Trevor Perrier 07 Dec '16

07 Dec '16

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Jay Chen" <jay.chen(a)nyu.edu> Date: Dec 7, 2016 12:40 AM Subject: [TIER] Third Workshop on Computing within LIMITS - CFP To: <tier(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu> Cc: Call for Papers -------------------- ACM LIMITS 2017 Third Workshop on Computing within LIMITS June 22-24, 2017 Santa Barbara, CA, USA http://acmlimits.org/2017/ The ACM LIMITS workshop aims to foster discussion on the impact of present and future ecological, material, energetic, and societal limits on computing. These topics are seldom discussed in contemporary computing research. A key aim of the workshop is to promote innovative, concrete research, potentially of an interdisciplinary nature, that focuses on technologies, critiques, techniques, and contexts for computing within fundamental economic and ecological limits. A longer-term goal is to build a community around relevant topics and research. We hope to impact society through the design and development of computing systems in the abundant present for use in a future of limits. Paper submission deadline: March 1, 2017 Paper reviews available: March 19, 2017 Camera-ready paper deadline: April 10, 2017 Bonnie Nardi, UC Irvine, nardi(a)uci.edu, Workshop Co-Chair Bill Tomlinson, UC Irvine, wmt(a)ics.uci.edu, Workshop Co-Chair For more information, please visit: http://acmlimits.org/2017/ _______________________________________________ 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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Connectivity research openings at Facebook
by Melody Clark 06 Dec '16

06 Dec '16

From: Shaddi Hasan <shaddih(a)gmail.com<mailto:shaddih@gmail.com>> via tier(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu<mailto:tier@tier.cs.berkeley.edu> The Express WiFi team at Facebook is hiring researchers to help connect more folks to the Internet. Express WiFi is a great project that works with entrepreneurs and ISPs to build affordable pre-paid WiFi networks. You can read about the project here: https://info.internet.org/en/story/expresswifi/. It's admittedly light on details, but you can find some press coverage as well (e.g., http://thenextweb.com/facebook/2016/11/28/facebook-tries-connect-india-expr…) Here are the specific job postings: - Market Researcher (Growth) in Menlo Park (https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/a0IA000000G3iTVMAZ/) - Quantitative Researcher (Growth) in Menlo Park (https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/a0IA000000G3E8uMAF/) We're also hiring: - Solution Architect in Menlo Park (https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/a0I1200000JXc5eEAD) - Integration Engineer in New Delhi (https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/a0I1200000JXZH7EAP) - Deployments Technical Program Manager in London (https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/a0I1200000JXc4vEAD) Feel free to get in touch with me if you'd like more info! Shaddi

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Tomorrow at Change: Vulker Wulf - Social Media Use in Events of Political Unrest
by Trevor Perrier 05 Dec '16

05 Dec '16

Please join us tomorrow for the last Change Seminar of the quarter. Volker Wulf from the University of Siegen and Fraunhofer FIT in Germany will be joining us to talk about his work on understanding social media use in areas of political unrest. *What: *On the Ground in the Arab World: Understanding Social Media Use in Events of Political Unrest *When: *Tuesday, Dec 6 *Where: *The Allen Center, CSE 203 *Abstract:* Social media usage during the recent uprisings in Arab countries has gained increasing attention. Over the last five years, we have conducted empirical studies ‘on the ground’ dealing with three Arab countries: Tunisia, Palestine, and Syria. In Tunisia, we interviewed political activists in Sidi Bouzid, the Tunisian town where the ‘Arab Spring’ started. We identify four effects social media had on the local uprising: (a) the publication of classified materials via WikiLeaks challenged the regime’s legitimacy, (b) social media connected local activists with Arab satellite TV, (c) social media linked the young activists with actors in other cities in Tunisia, (d) social media allowed organizing resistance inside Sidi Bouzid. In Palestine, we worked with two sites: (1) We investigated political activists in a Palestinian village which organizes weekly demonstrations against Israel’s settlement policy and the separation wall. We described the activists’ background and their efforts to organize these demonstrations under conditions of military occupation. Over a period of 4 years, we observed the role both digital and material factors played in the organization of the protest. (2) Working with two refugee camps, we explored how to potentially bridge the social and economic divide that has plagued West Bank society for a period of more than six decades. We examined how computer clubs enable the emergence of social ties among residents of the camp and university students acting as tutors. Even though these ties turned out to be small-scale and informal, they have the potential to generate new and wider opportunities for exchange that may eventually support more social integration between the camp's marginalized and the wider Palestinian population. We also conducted an interview study with Syrian refugees in Turkey, Jordan, and Germany. This study adds insights on the use of mobile media, by opposition forces and political activists during the Syrian civil war. The study is based on interviews with Syrian FSA fighters, activists and refugees. A first analysis showed evidence for some very specific use patterns during wartime. The study also describes a fragmented telecom infrastructure in Syria: government-controlled regions offer fairly intact infrastructures while rebel controlled regions have been cut-off from telephone and Internet. Moreover, the central and very critical role of mobile video for documenting, mobilization, and propaganda is discussed. Methodologically, we will question a too deterministic view of the role of new media and the representativeness of investigative techniques that uniquely use the new media in order to assess their impact. At the same time our talk will indicate that rigorous investigations ‘on the ground’ are extremely difficult but essential in better understanding the political uses of social media. *Bio* Volker Wulf is a professor of Information Systems and New Media at the University of Siegen, Germany. He is also the Managing Director of the School of Media and Information (iSchool) at the University of Siegen. His research interests lie primarily in the area of IT design in real-world contexts. This includes the development of innovative applications in the domains of cooperation systems, social media, knowledge management, and community support. One special focus lies on flexible software architecture which can be adapted by end-users. Further research looks at methods of user- oriented software development and introduction and appropriation processes.

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