April 2016 - change - Mailing Lists

Fwd: [TIER] ICTD2016 - Call for Participation (register, book rooms early!)
by Trevor Perrier 13 Apr '16

13 Apr '16

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kentaro Toyama <kentaro_toyama(a)hotmail.com> Date: Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 1:39 PM Subject: [TIER] ICTD2016 - Call for Participation (register, book rooms early!) To: "tier(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu" <tier(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu> [Please forward to relevant groups. Apologies for cross-posting.] REGISTER NOW BEFORE EARLY REGISTRATION ENDS, AND BOOK ACCOMMODATIONS SOON -- DISCOUNTED ROOMS WILL BE RELEASED END OF APRIL! = = = = = Registration <http://ictd2016.info/registration/> is now open for the Eighth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD2016): http://ictd2016.info/registration/. ICTD2016 features an exciting program with 26 Papers presented in plenary sessions, 36 Notes presented as posters, 32 interactive Open Sessions, and two incredible keynotes: Deepak Mishra is co-director of the World Bank's 2016 World Development Report: Digital Dividends; and Tererai Trent is the Drexel University global health professor featured in "Half the Sky" who began her adult life as a rural Zimbabwean mother of three with no formal education. The conference schedule is available at http://ictd2016.info/schedule/. Recommendations for accommodations, with discounted rates are available at http://ictd2016.info/accommodations/. (Book early, as the rooms being held will be released in late April / early May.) Early registration <http://ictd2016.info/registration/> will close on April 30, so register early! (Note also that standard registration will end on May 30, several days before the conference; on-site registration is extremely expensive, so we encourage you to register in advance.) If you have any problems or questions, please send an email to ictd2016info(a)umich.edu. See you in Ann Arbor! Kentaro Toyama ICTD2016 Chair University of Michigan _______________________________________________ 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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Dimagi is hiring!
by Anupam Jain 13 Apr '16

13 Apr '16

Hi all, Dimagi is currently recruiting for Field Managers, Technical Field Managers, Senior Software Engineers and Technical Support Analysts to join our teams in *Delhi, India* and *Cape Town, South Africa*. Dimagi is an award-winning, socially conscious technology company that develops cutting-edge software tailored for underserved communities in over 40 countries around the world. For more information on Dimagi, the open positions, and requirements to be a successful candidate, please visit our careers page located here <http://www.dimagi.com/about/careers/>. Warm Regards, Anupam -- "What is meditation?" (http://www.heartfulness.org/)

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Fwd: [TIER] Fwd: [gaia] Extremecom 2016 - The Mendonoma Expedition - Call for Papers and Demos
by Yaw Anokwa 12 Apr '16

12 Apr '16

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Yahel Ben-David <yahel(a)eecs.berkeley.edu> Date: Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 7:21 PM Subject: [TIER] Fwd: [gaia] Extremecom 2016 - The Mendonoma Expedition - Call for Papers and Demos To: TIER <tier(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu> A good opportunity to explore a TIER project first hand. Should be fun... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: CHATZOPOULOS Dimitrios <dcab(a)cse.ust.hk> Date: Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 11:07 PM Subject: [gaia] Extremecom 2016 - The Mendonoma Expedition - Call for Papers and Demos To: gaia(a)irtf.org [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] ****************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS AND DEMOS 7th Extreme Conference on Communication and Computing - The Mendonoma Expedition ExtremeCom 2016 14-19 August 2016, Manchester, Medocino county, CA, USA http://www.extremecom.org/ ****************************************************************** Scope ----- The Extreme Conference on Communication and Computing (ExtremeCom) brings together researchers and practitioners in areas related to communications in rural, remote or other extreme environments, and computing in extreme operating conditions such as extreme temperatures and energy constraints, extreme quantities ("big data"), extremely large-scale systems, and extreme levels of threat and uncertainty, in order to gain experience and insight into the challenges that such environments pose for the network and the users. We welcome a broad range of topics concerning both technical and economical aspects, for example wireless communication, mobile computing, low power devices and protocols, delay tolerant networks and other networking paradigms, distributed computing paradigms, big data, distributed systems, cloud computing, business and services models, user experiences and web applications. Researches addressing computing challenges in general mobile environments (even not completely extreme) are also welcomed by the conference. Following on from the success of ExtremeCom 2009 - The Midnight Sun Expedition in Laponia, Sweden, ExtremeCom 2010 - The Himalayan Expedition in Dharamsala, India, ExtremeCom 2011 - The Amazon Expedition in Manaus, Brazil, ExtremeCom 2012 - The Swiss Alps Winter Expedition in Zurich, Switzerland, ExtremeCom 2013 - The Volcanic Expedition in the Eyjafjallajökull Volcano region in Iceland, and ExtremeCom 2014 - The Galapagos Expedition in Ecuador, we present the ExtremeCom 2016 edition: The Mendonoma Expedition. The conference will contain 3 days of excursions in the stunning nature of coastal northern California (Mendocino county). Along the way, participants will get to see and experience the varying landscape and visit coastal areas, explore the Stornetta lands national monument, and hike to the Point Arena hot springs along the Garcia river. During these excursions, we will visit the landing site of the original trans-pacific coaxial cables, which is today one of North-America's most important transoceanic fiber landing station, as well as several deployment sites of the FurtherReach.Net rural network where participants will interact with subscribers, operators and developers of this service to learn from their experience. The immersion will not only give a better idea of both the technical and user requirements of such rural deployments, but it will also give many opportunities for informal research discussions between the participants. Participants that have their own software for scenarios like this will also, to as great an extent as possible, be encouraged to test and demonstrate it within this environment. After the excursions, there will be two days of paper presentations and demos. Focus will still be on informal research discussions, with the hope that the field experience will give participants the ability to discuss the topics in a new light. ****************************************************************** Important dates --------------- Submission deadline: May 24, 2016 Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2016 Early registration deadline: July 10, 2016 Registration deadline: July 21, 2016 Conference dates: August 14-19, 2016 ****************************************************************** Submission Guidelines --------------------- Participants should submit 6 page papers about ideas and visions about the topics of the conference or demo proposals to be shown during the conference. Visionary and thought-provoking papers that are likely to generate much discussion during the conference are especially solicited. The aim of the conference is to maintain an informal environment, where new research ideas can be discussed and developed. We will also have a demo session where participants can show their implementations and systems. If you want to show a demo, please submit a 2 page demo proposal using the same submission system as for conference papers, including the prefix "Demo: " in the title. We only accept PDF files, no greater than 6 pages in length (2 pages for the demos), including text, figures and references. Manuscripts should use the ACM templates (for LaTeX, please use Option 2 files), with 9pt fonts. Topics for the conference include, but are not limited to: ---------------------------------------------------------- * Testbeds for large-scale sustainable testing of mobile communication systems * Real deployments of networks in extreme environments * Business and service models for networks in rural, remote, and other challenging environments * Delay tolerant networking * User experience research * Big data research such as mining and modeling of mobility and social network * Cloud computing for extreme scalability * Mesh networks and sensor networks * Low-power and intermittent-power protocols * Mechanisms for emergency and urgent communications * Distributed computing for mobile environments * Networked applications and services * Operating system and middleware support for mobile computing and networking * Security, privacy, and trustworthiness of extreme communications * Underwater networking * Robotic communications and mobile augmented reality * Protocols, architectures, and applications for the Internet of Things Due to logistics, the number of participants will be limited. Priority will be given to authors of papers and those who register first. ****************************************************************** Organizers ****************************************************************** General co-chairs: ------------------ Pan Hui, HKUST, Hong Kong Anders Lindgren, SICS Swedish ICT, Sweden Local organization: ------------------- Yahel Ben-David, De Novo Group, USA Gary Levenson-Palmer, USA Publicity and publication chair: -------------------------------- Dimitris Chatzopoulos, HKUST, Hong Kong Yang Chen, Fudan university, Shanghai, China Web chair: ---------- Dimitris Chatzopoulos, HKUST, Hong Kong Technical Program Committee: ---------------------------- Scott Burleigh, JPL/NASA, USA Elwyn Davies, Folly Consulting, UK Michael Doering, Bosch Research, Germany Marco Fiore, CNR, Italy Alfredo Goldman, University of California Irvine, USA Christine Julien, University of Texas at Austin, USA James Kwok, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Jörg Ott, TU Munich, Germany Zhonghong Ou, Aalto University, Finland Veljko Pejovic, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Arjuna Sathiaseelan, University of Cambridge, UK Jan Seedorf, NEC Labs, Germany Yu Wang, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Klaus Wehrle, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Lars Wolf, TU Braunschweig, Germany Steering Committee: ------------------- Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK Avri Doria, USA Tristan Henderson, University of St. Andrews, UK Pan Hui, HKUST, Hong Kong Anders Lindgren, SICS Swedish ICT, Sweden _______________________________________________ gaia mailing list gaia(a)irtf.org https://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/gaia _______________________________________________ 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] Fwd: [noise@ischool] Ford/Mozilla Open Web Fellows!
by Yaw Anokwa 12 Apr '16

12 Apr '16

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Melissa Densmore <mho(a)ischool.berkeley.edu> Date: Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 10:54 AM Subject: [TIER] Fwd: [noise@ischool] Ford/Mozilla Open Web Fellows! To: TIER <tier(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Joseph Lorenzo Hall <joehall(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 11:28 PM Subject: [noise@ischool] Ford/Mozilla Open Web Fellows! To: "noise(a)ischool.berkeley.edu" <noise(a)ischool.berkeley.edu> I highly encourage folks to consider this program and especially those of you who have more global tech policy interests. ---- Be on the frontlines to protect the open Internet: apply by March 20th to become a Ford-Mozilla Open Web Fellow! Mozilla is seeking talented developers, activists, educators and other technologists eager to protect the open Internet. The goal? Combat threats to digital freedom and defend policy that keeps the Web open and free. The 2016 cohort will be a global group working on a variety of projects that protect the open Internet. This year’s host organizations are: Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law —Nairobi, Kenya The Citizen Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto—Toronto, Canada ColorOfChange.org—New York, NY Data & Society—New York, NY Derechos Digitales—Santiago, Chile European Digital Rights (EDRi) —Brussels, Belgium Freedom of the Press Foundation—San Francisco, CA Privacy International—London, United Kingdom This is a 10-month fellowship. The application window is open until March 20, and fellows will be announced in June. They’ll begin work in September of this year. For more information, visit https://advocacy.mozilla.org/open-web-fellows/. Questions? Email OpenWebFellows(a)mozilla.com -- Joseph Lorenzo Hall Chief Technologist, Center for Democracy & Technology [https://www.cdt.org] e: joe(a)cdt.org, p: 202.407.8825, pgp: https://josephhall.org/gpg-key Fingerprint: 3CA2 8D7B 9F6D DBD3 4B10 1607 5F86 6987 40A9 A871 CDT's annual dinner, Tech Prom, is April 6, 2016! https://cdt.org/annual-dinner -- Chief Technologist, CDT https://josephhall.org/ https://cdt.org/ -- This message was sent to noise(a)ischool.berkeley.edu Unsubscribe or update your options: https://calmail.berkeley.edu/manage/list/options/noise@ischool.berkeley.edu _______________________________________________ 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] Hiring early stage, high-level positions for health marketplace startup in Kenya
by Yaw Anokwa 12 Apr '16

12 Apr '16

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Melissa Densmore <mho(a)ischool.berkeley.edu> Date: Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 9:00 AM Subject: [TIER] Hiring early stage, high-level positions for health marketplace startup in Kenya To: TIER <tier(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu>, ictd-group < ictd-group(a)ischool.berkeley.edu> [image: Inline image 2] mPango is a marketplace for family planning services that enables customers to seek out family planning advice through a digital voice and text based system, and connect with registered providers of those services. Launched initially in Western Kenya, we are looking to make two key hires. 1. *Vice President of Growth* - you are an entrepreneurial go getter with previous start-up experience who can scale mPango’s user base regionally, nationally and internationally in the next 2–3 years, and build mPango into the world’s most trusted brand for family planning services. 2. *Technology Director* – you are an entrepreneurial go getter with previous start-up experience who can lead a top notch engineering team to execute on mPango’s product vision by designing, architecting, and building out mPango’s product offerings and enable the service to scale regionally, nationally and internationally in the next 2-3 years. Both key positions will be supported by senior advisors at Population Council, Duke University, and the CTO of TinyURL. Each of these positions is a unique opportunity to take on a senior leadership role at an early stage startup. Both positions will start on contract with Population Council in Nairobi. Upon successful completion of key milestones in the coming months each hire will transition to a full-time salaried senior leadership role with the promise of significant equity. See attached job descriptions for more information. *Interested candidates who meet the above required qualifications and experience should submit on or before April 15th, 2016 a cover letter, detailed Curriculum Vitae (CV) listing three professional references to recruitment(a)mpango.co <recruitment(a)mpango.co> with the appropriate subject: “VP Growth” or “Technology Director”. Applications without the right subject heading will automatically be disqualified. Please do not attach any certificates. Only qualified short-listed candidates will be contacted. * _______________________________________________ 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] Fwd: KIndly forward the call for round 2 papers and notes
by Trevor Perrier 12 Apr '16

12 Apr '16

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Melissa Densmore <mho(a)ischool.berkeley.edu> Date: Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 4:43 AM Subject: [TIER] Fwd: KIndly forward the call for round 2 papers and notes To: TIER <tier(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu>, ictd-group < ictd-group(a)ischool.berkeley.edu> [image: Inline image 1] Inaugural African Human Computer Interaction Conference Kujenga madaraja, kubomoa vizuizi - Building Bridges, Breaking Barriers 21-25th November Nairobi, Kenya www.africhi.net 2nd round for Paper and Note Submissions We are very happy to have received a healthy number of Paper and Note submissions for our inaugural AfriCHI conference. We are currently reviewing the submissions and will notify each author on the status of their submission(s) on Wednesday 30th March, 2016. Additionally, we have received a significant number of requests from authors who wish to submit full papers to AfriCHI, but have missed the submission deadline. This being an inaugural conference, they only received word of AfriCHI after the submission deadline of 10th February 2016. Given our interest in promoting HCI in, from and about Africa, we have decided to open the 2nd round of Paper and Note submissions to new submissions. This means that papers and notes not submitted in the first round can now submit in the second round without doing the 2-round review process. The submission platform for new submissions will open on 14th April 2016, and close on 27th April 2016. For fairness however, new papers submitted in the second round will undergo a rigorous accept-reject review process, compared to those submitted in the first round which are undergoing a two-round review process. The two-round review process is tailored to considerably improve papers rather than only judge them. Those who intend to make a new submission on 27th April 2016 but have minimal writing experience can send their paper/note to the mentoring chairs Hossana and Bukelwa, who will provide some writing mentoring before submission. Hossana and Bukelwa can be reached on fullpapers(a)africhi.net. Those in need of mentoring should contact them at least two weeks before the submission deadline. For more information on how to submit Papers and Notes kindly visit http://africhi.net/papers-and-notes/. The submission deadlines for all tracks are available online at http://africhi.net/important- We look forward to your submissions! Kagonya Awori and Nic Bidwell AfriCHI Technical Co-chairs On behalf of AfriCHI’16 Organising Committee _______________________________________________ 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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Tomorrow at Change: Waylon Brunette: ODK - 1.0 to 2.0
by Trevor Perrier 11 Apr '16

11 Apr '16

Please join us tomorrow at Change for a talk about ODK <https://opendatakit.org/>- one of the ICTD labs major projects. Waylon Brunette will be taking about the lessons learned from ODK 1.x that have lead to the ODK 2.0 tool suite. *What:* ODK: Where we've come from and where we're going *When:* Tuesday, April 12, 2016 *Where: *The Allen Center, CSE 203 *Abstract:* Open Data Kit (ODK) is an open-source, modular set of tools for building mobile data collection systems. ODK provides an out-of-the-box solution for organizations to author, deploy, and manage mobile data collection solutions. The goal of ODK is to create an ecosystem of data collection tools through modularized abstractions to enable users to mix-and-match pieces needed to build application-specific mobile information service as well as develop their own components. This presentation will give a brief introduction to ODK 1.x with a discussion of some of the successes and lessons learned from ODK 1.x. The second half of the presentation will give a preview of the new ODK 2.0 tool suite which is a parallel set of tools designed based on feedback from users and developers about limitations experienced with ODK 1.x tools. The ODK 2.0 tool suite aims to increase an organization's data collection and management capabilities by supporting data synchronization, malleable workflows, configurable presentation screens, and new data input methods on mobile devices. *Bio: *Waylon Brunette is one of the founders of Open Data Kit and is a current member of the ODK core development team. Waylon is currently a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. He is advised by Professors Richard Anderson and Magdalena Balazinska (previously by Gaetano Borriello). Waylon’s research interests include mobile systems, sensing, ubiquitous computing, and data management. His work focuses on designing systems that improve the lives of underserved populations in low-income regions by leveraging mobile computing devices and sensors.

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Fwd: Upcoming development-connected hackathon
by Trevor Perrier 11 Apr '16

11 Apr '16

Hi Change, Here's an upcoming hackathon on Earth Day weekend (April 22 - 24). Could be of interest. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Faber, Candace <Candace.Faber(a)seattle.gov> Date: Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 2:34 PM Subject: Upcoming development-connected hackathon To: Trevor Perrier <tperrier(a)cs.washington.edu> Hey Trevor, There is a hackathon coming up that looks like a great fit for your group as it’s directly connected to a key international development issue — the global fishing industry. Could you help spread the word to your group? On April 22-24 (next weekend), we are participating in Fishackathon <http://fishackathon.co/>, a globally coordinated hackathon led by the U.S. Department of State to address sustainable fishing issues. Locally, the event is sponsored by Microsoft and Vulcan, with support from the City, Open Seattle, University of Washington, the Living Computer Museum, and the Seattle Aquarium. The top submission from Seattle will be considered in the global competition, which includes the winners from all 41 participating cities. We have Ray Hilborn, *the *leading expert on overfishing, coming in from University of Washington School of Aquatic & Fishery Science to give the keynote, and a number of mentors with deep subject matter expertise, like Mark Powell, who runs Vulcan’s program on illegal fishing. Prizes include gift certificates for Smart Catch restaurants and annual memberships to the Living Computer Museum and the Seattle Aquarium. As if that’s not enough, Ethan Stowell restaurants is catering the Friday evening kickoff. It should be a ton of fun – basically, we’re gunning for the Seattle team to be the global winner by making sure the teams have everything they might need to succeed. I’m attaching a one-pager in case it’s helpful. You can also direct people to fishackathon.co/seattle to sign up. Thanks! Candace -- Candace Faber Civic Technology Advocate Department of Information Technology, City of Seattle <http://www.seattle.gov/> O: (206) 233-7032 candace.faber(a)seattle.gov [image: http://files.softicons.com/download/social-media-icons/free-social-media-ic…: http://cdn3.iconfinder.com/data/icons/free-social-icons/67/github_circle_co…] Join us on Earth Day weekend (April 22-24) for Fishackathon, a global hackathon in 41 cities: fishackathon.co/seattle

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Fwd: Save the Children - mobile cash transfers RFP
by Niall Keleher 06 Apr '16

06 Apr '16

Study/Consultancy opportunity with Save the Children to assess mobile money systems for a mobile cash transfer program in Liberia. If interested, see the attached RFP. >

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part-time temp digital PM at PATH
by Alex McGee 05 Apr '16

05 Apr '16

Hi all, forwarding an announcement about an immediate need at PATH... -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Fwd: FW: Help me find a part-time temp digital PM Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 16:10:55 -0700 Hi, My PATH team had our key digital project manager move to Bend and drop to 50% until we can find a replacement. So I need some temp help ASAP to get the team is supported while we make a permanent hire. If you know of anyone who meets the description below, please send them my way ASAP. I’ll be going out more formally to temp agencies starting tomorrow but I’d much prefer (always) to find someone through referral networks. Feel free to forward this, share on social media, etc. PATH’s Communications Team (managing www.path.org <http://www.path.org>) is looking for a temp short-term, half-time (40 to 60%) web development project manager to work on PATH <https://www.facebook.com/PATHglobalhealth/> institutional web properties and projects starting ASAP through roughly June 30, with possible extension if budgets and workloads permit. We’re looking for someone with experience managing a small web development team (design, UX, developer, content, testing, production) using the Agile methodology and Jira software. The team is adding features and function to our existing digital properties, as well as managing the website sustainment queue and planning future projects. We need a motivated, experienced, outcome-oriented digital PM who’s comfortable leading daily scrums and negotiating between differing perspectives on how to solve problems, and who is ready to pitch in as work ebbs and flows across our small, busy team. The position is interim until we hire a permanent full-timer (which the temp would also be welcome to apply for). Based in SLU across from Whole Foods. Hours and days are somewhat flexible and a small part of the job could be done remotely but the position is Seattle-based and requires on-site, in-person connection to the team several days a week. Contact: Tom Furtwangler tfurtwangler(a)path.org

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