February 2017 - change - Mailing Lists

Fwd: Summer Internship 2017 IBM Africa Research Lab- Kenya
by Brian DeRenzi 14 Feb '17

14 Feb '17

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rita Muigai <RITAMUIG(a)ke.ibm.com> Date: Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 4:39 PM Subject: Summer Internship 2017 IBM Africa Research Lab- Kenya To: Brian DeRenzi <bderenzi(a)cs.uct.ac.za> *A brief of the role (more details please tell them to check for the role online, see below)-* Are you looking for an adventure? Come work with us in Africa. Where else can you work on evolving cognitive solutions for a smarter planet in healthcare, financial inclusion, blockchain, government, water, agriculture, and education, during the week and then go on Safari on the weekend? We’re looking for PhD level graduate students with strong programming skills and experience in areas such as data mining, optimization, machine learning, computer vision and deep analytics. Our research focuses on furthering the state of art in these areas from a scientific point of view as well as applying them to solve the real-world problems encountered by IBM's customers and the larger ecosystem. The challenges faced by telcos, schools, small farm investors, banks, utilities, governments, and donor agencies motivate our work. Undoubtedly, these challenges are complex and hard enough for the state of the art in industry tools, systems, and platforms. Therefore, the projects you will work on will involve developing new approaches, techniques, and tools to tackle the problem at hand by working with world-class scientists. It is expected that work in these areas will lead to high quality research. However, the ultimate goal is to solve the real-world problems faced by the local context in Africa, and to scale for replication around the world. IBM’s Smarter Planet journey began more than four years ago and took on added significance when the IBM Research – Africa Lab was announced in Nairobi, Kenya. It is the 12th IBM Research lab and our first lab dedicated to a whole continent. The lab is located on the campus of the Catholic University in the Karen-Langata area in Nairobi. Our goal is to maintain IBM's world-class research culture while evolving commercially viable innovations that impact people’s lives. Job application online that has more details: a. Log into our portal- http://www-03.ibm.com/employment/ b. Go to Kenya c. Look for the job ID *78128BR* <https://krbx.brassring.com/WelcomePages.UserInterface/ReqsPanel.aspx?paneld…> Thanking you in advance for your help and if you have any questions do not hesitate to contact me. Regards, Rita Muigai Recruitment Partner EastAfrica +254 20 515 3000 ritamuig(a)ke.ibm.com 1st Floor The Atrium Building, Chaka Road, Nairobi-Kenya. Follow us on: Twitter: IBM Middle East & Africa https://twitter.com/@IBMJobsMea Twitter: IBM Africa https://twitter.com/IBMAfricaJobs Facebook: IBM MEA Graduates https://www.facebook.com/IBMMEATalent/ <http://ibm.referrals.selectminds.com/> *#experience the difference* *"Hire Character, Train Skills" Peter Schutz*

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Tomorrow at Change: Sam Castle - Addressing the Challenges of Fraud in DFS
by Trevor Perrier 13 Feb '17

13 Feb '17

Hi All, Please join us tomorrow for a presentation by Sam Castle on his ongoing PhD research here at UW. Sam will be talking about fraud in the digital financial service ecosystem of emerging markets. *What: *Sam Castle - Addressing the Challenges of Fraud in Financial Servicesfor Emerging Digital Economies *When: *12pm, Tuesday February 14 *Where: *CSE 203 *Abstract* According to the World Bank, more than 2 billion people worldwide have no access to any financial services. In the developing world, where traditional banking infrastructure is limited, 8 out of 10 people now own a mobile phone, which can be used to save, send, and borrow money. Where there is money, there must be security, yet prior work on mobile money identified discouraging vulnerabilities in the current ecosystem. We assess these security concerns from two directions: (1) the risk introduced by existing vulnerabilities and (2) the actual exploits which occur in practice. We begin by defining a systematic threat model for this domain and applying it throughout our work. To understand existing vulnerabilities, we conducted a large-scale analysis of 197 current Android deployments and examined 71 products in more detail. After detecting substantial potential vulnerabilities, we interviewed 7 software developers in Africa and South America to investigate the root causes of ! these issues. We found that competent developers consistently lack relevant security tools, and we propose a way forward for designing such tools. In parallel research we attempted to measure the prevalence of exploits occurring in practice. Based on anecdotal evidence from users, mobile operators, and news sources, social engineering is the most common attack on mobile money users. We collected a new corpus of data on phishing over SMS, and we present an initial evaluation of this phenomenon with proposals to mitigate the risk of fraud.

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Fwd: CfP: HCI Across Borders Symposium at CHI 2017
by Kurtis Heimerl 10 Feb '17

10 Feb '17

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Neha Kumar <neha.kumar(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 4:30 PM Subject: CfP: HCI Across Borders Symposium at CHI 2017 To: "Kumar, Neha" <neha.kumar(a)cc.gatech.edu> Please share widely. Apologies for cross-posting! --- *Call for Proposals* HCI Across Borders <http://hcixb.org> Symposium in Denver (CO, USA) at CHI 2017 6th-7th May, 2017 *About the Workshop* The Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community at CHI is increasingly embracing research being performed on topics and in regions that have been understudied in the past. To promote these efforts, the Development Consortium Workshop titled *HCI Across Borders* was held at CHI 2016 in San Jose. With support from SIGCHI and in collaboration with Facebook and Google, it was attended by 70+ researchers from 20 countries across the globe, with some of these countries being represented at CHI for the first time. The goal of this Consortium was to build community and invite collaborations *across borders* on themes of interest to the participants – those actively involved in international HCI projects, with most of them conducting research in understudied areas and with underrepresented individuals and communities across the world. This year marks another milestone as this event has grown to be a CHI Symposium. Our goal is to build on the efforts from the Development Consortium at CHI 2016 and to grow the community working in the area of HCI Across Borders (HCIxB), by providing an opportunity for interested researchers to come together as a community, improve the visibility of their work, and to bring greater awareness to the challenges that plague international research, particularly research that takes place in resource-constrained settings, to the larger HCI community. *Participation* We solicit participation from HCI researchers and practitioners across the globe who work with underserved, underrepresented, and/or under-resourced communities. We particularly invite participants who are keen to explore collaborations across borders. “Borders”, in this context, include geographic boundaries, but also boundaries of other kinds, such as disciplines, methodologies, ideologies, and more. Research areas of focus can be diverse, including but not limited to learning, global health, crisis informatics, civic engagement, mobile banking, etc. While this is no exhaustive list, examples of topics/themes of submission might include: - Leveraging participatory design and co-design approaches - Factoring cultural sensitivities in the design of new technologies and/or HCI methods - Designing to accommodate power differentials in communities - Devising innovative techniques for engaging new technology users - Designing for sustainability - Studying the intersection of HCI and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - And more! These are examples of projects that our Symposium might include, as the Consortium did last year <https://hci4dacrossborders.wordpress.com/>: - Emotional Wellbeing: Technology for Mental Health in Developing Countries - HCI, Forced Migration & Refugees: Collaborations across Borders and Fields - ICT Intervention for Agricultural Development: Exploring Prospects for Pakistani Farmers - Cuba Intercambio: Cultural and Information Exchange for Cuba - Online Learning Across Diverse Low-Resource Indian Contexts - Cognitive Modeling for Illiteracy Eradication - Mobile Technology-Based Supports for Prenatal Care Among the Ngäbe in Panama *Submissions* Please submit a proposal (3-5 pages in the CHI Extended Abstracts <https://chi2017.acm.org/submission-formats.html> format) *starting now *and before *April 15th, 2017*. We would appreciate early submissions. You will receive a decision within 15 days of submitting so you can plan your registration and travels accordingly. All submissions will be reviewed by the organizers and a program committee. They will be selected in accordance with their potential to contribute to the Symposium and to foster discussion. Accepted submissions will be available on our website before the conference. Authors of accepted submissions will also be invited to present posters of their proposals at CHI (although not mandatory). Please submit your PDFs at https://hcixb17.hotcrp.com/. Please note that we will accept contributions until the number of available attendees is reached, which may be before the ultimate deadline. *Bursaries* We are working on obtaining funding to pay travel expenses (or at least a portion thereof) for attendees in need. Please note that CHI guidelines require at least one author of each accepted submission to attend and be registered for the Symposium. *Organizers* Neha Kumar, Georgia Tech (USA) Susan Dray, Dray & Associates (USA) Christian Sturm, Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences (Germany) Nithya Sambasivan, Google (USA) Laura S. Gaytan-Lugo, University of Colima (Mexico) Leonel Morales, Francisco Marroquin University (Guatemala) Negin Dahya, University of Washington (USA) Nova Ahmed, North South University (Bangladesh) *Contact* For updates, please check: http://hcixb.org Email us your questions at: admin(a)hcixb.org

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Fwd: [TIER] Citi Tech4Integrity Challenge
by Yaw Anokwa 08 Feb '17

08 Feb '17

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Temina Madon <tmadon(a)berkeley.edu> Date: Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 5:01 AM Subject: [TIER] Citi Tech4Integrity Challenge To: tier(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu Citi and its allies are proud to present the Citi Tech for Integrity Challenge (T4I), an open innovation challenge to source solutions that promote integrity, accountability and transparency in the public sector. Solve for real-life problem statements that are relevant to government organizations globally. www.techforintegritychallenge.com Today Citi officially opened the application process for companies to submit ideas. T4I will accept applications until March 6, 2017. The accelerator program will run from March to April, when finalists will be selected to participate in Demo Days. _______________________________________________ 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: Jessica Crawford - VillageReach: Health System by Phone
by Trevor Perrier 06 Feb '17

06 Feb '17

Hi All, There's no snow in the forecast so please join us tomorrow at Change. Jessaca Crawford from the Seattle based NGO VillageReach <http://www.villagereach.org/> will be joining us talk about a an IVR system being run in Malawi called Chipatala Cha Pa Foni (CCPF) <http://www.villagereach.org/impact/ccpf/>- or Health Center by Phone. *What: *Jessica Crawford - VillageReach: Health System by Phone *When: *12pm, Tuesday February 7 *Where: *CSE 203 *Abstract:* Chipatala Cha Pa Foni (CCPF), or Health Center by Phone in English, was originally designed and piloted in a rural district of Malawi by VillageReach, the Malawi Ministry of Health and Concern Worldwide Innovations in Maternal and Child Health. CCPF has two main components; 1) a toll-free hotline staffed with health workers providing health information and advice, and 2) a “tips and reminders” mobile messaging service providing weekly messages tailored to the client’s week of pregnancy or a child’s age. An impact evaluation of the pilot project demonstrated that CCPF has a statistically significant impact on MNCH knowledge and behavior such as; increased antenatal care within the first trimester, use of bed nets during pregnancy and among children under-5, early initiation of breastfeeding, and knowledge of healthy behaviors during pregnancy, such as avoiding harmful medicines. Furthermore, CCPF users trust the service and cite the ability to access health information from home, saving time, and saving travel costs, as key benefits. Since the pilot project concluded in 2013, VillageReach has been working with the MOH and local partners to scale the service to additional districts and ultimately transition the service to MOH ownership and management. Recently, CCPF merged with Airtel Malawi’s Dial-A-Doc program to form *Airtel CCPF*, a zero-rated service providing health information and advice beyond RMNCH with physician triage ability. CCPF is now positioned and on-track to scale nationally by the end of 2017 and transition to MOH management by the end of 2018. This presentation will discuss key elements to the successful scale-up and transition planning as well as lessons learned throughout the process. *Bio:* Jessica Crawford is a Senior Manager and Group Lead for the Health Systems Group at VillageReach. With VillageReach, she has led various last mile health systems strengthening projects in Malawi, Tanzania, and Mozambique for over 8 years and most recently served as the VillageReach Malawi Country Director where she led a broad portfolio of work including human resources development, supply chain strengthening, mHealth, and community based health programs. Jessica holds an MPH and MA in Policy Studies from the University of Washington.

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Global health tech company Medic Mobile is hiring an interaction designer
by Isaac Holeman 01 Feb '17

01 Feb '17

Hi Everyone, I work with a non-profit tech company called Medic Mobile and wanted to let you know that we're looking to hire an interaction designer to be based at one of our offices (San Francisco, Nairobi, Katmandu) or work remotely. See the full posting below and feel free to contact me if you have any questions! cheers, Isaac Full posting: https://www.medicmobile.org/join/interaction-designer *Interaction Designer* Medic Mobile is a nonprofit technology company that was founded in 2010 to improve health in underserved communities. Our organization builds mobile and web applications for community health workers (CHWs), health system managers, and decision-makers. We see healthcare service delivery gaps through the eyes of our users and their patients, and co-design improved workflows and systems with local implementing partners. Medic Mobile has worked with over 60 partners across 23 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the US. Based in San Francisco with regional offices in Africa and Asia, our technology supports over 14,000 frontline health workers and is helping improve healthcare delivery for over 8 million people. *Job Description* Position: Interaction designer Type of employment: Full-time Location: Flexible. Medic has offices in San Francisco, Nairobi, and Kathmandu, and 30% of our teammates work remotely. As Medic’s primary interaction designer, you will help bring the insights from our human-centered design field work into an intuitive mobile web interface. You will work in a collaborative environment to create visual interactive prototypes for usability testing and for our developers to implement. You will help conduct and process user feedback into features and interfaces that empower community health workers through mobile technology. At Medic, creative solutions to complex problems are the norm. We work in environments with extreme constraints and are inspired by how technology can bridge gaps and reinvent workflows. We’re also a team of realists and shape our tools based on what is most useful and sustainable for our users and partners. Some of our users have never used a touchscreen before; others have several of their own devices. Many of our users work in low-connectivity environments. As an interaction designer, you’ll be inspired to create intuitive interfaces to help health workers feel supported, informed, and connected to their peers, managers, and patients. You’ll be joining a distributed product team and should be comfortable working independently and collaborating in virtual space. We have service designers in Nairobi and Kathmandu to be close to our partners and users, product managers in San Francisco and Toronto, and developers in many time zones to provide round-the-clock support. As interaction designer, you will report to Medic’s Chief Design Officer based in San Francisco. -- www.isaacholeman.org Twitter @isaacholeman My TEDx talk: http://bit.ly/1mzlh3z

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Re: [change] [liberationtech] Liberationtech List Reminder
by Yosem Companys 01 Feb '17

01 Feb '17

Thanks, Bram. Noted. In the spirit of democracy, we are going to compile all the feedback we get, tabulate it, and send it to the list once it's done. Then, we will start working on some of the projects and hopefully subscribers will volunteer whatever they can to make them happen. On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 7:17 AM, Bram Wets <bram(a)privacytraining.org> wrote: > Hi Yosem and all, > > Thanks for the invitation to share some ideas for Liberationtech. > > Idea 1: > An idea list where the Liberationtech community can post ideas for > projects, upvote (and downvote) them, put your name with an idea to > contribute. > This would facilitate your call for ideas/projects ;-) > I actually like the format of software bugtracking. It maybe can be used > for such an idea list. Or a github-like structure with pullrequests... > > Idea 2: > An overview of tips, good practices, tools and apps for secure > communication and digital privacy. And the organisations and platforms that > work on this topic. > Yes, there is a lot out there and some organizations already have done > terrific work. So the focus has to be on the overview, not on doing all > there work over again. > Additionally we can add good practices in how to reach people and teach > them those privacy tools. > > Best regards, > Bram Wets > > > Bram Wets > co-founder > PRIVACY TRAINING CENTER > www.privacytraining.org > > Unencrypted e-mail can be read by anyone! Talk to me in private using > encryption. Here's my PGP public key: https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/ > lookup?op=get&search=0x919C9EBCA0430B96 > > Yosem Companys <companys(a)stanford.edu> schreef op 1 februari 2017 > 06:00:57 CET: > >> We are Stanford Liberatiiontech. >> >> Our home page is here: http://cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/libtech. >> >> To sign up to our 4K-strong mailing list, click here: https://mailman. >> stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. >> >> We have also curated a list of Liberationtech content at >> https://twitter.com/Liberationtech. >> >> If you prefer to read our list as a newspaper, you could always check our >> Paper.li account: http://paper.li/Liberationtech#/ >> >> Our Liberationtech blog has been dead for a while, but we are working on >> reviving it. If you are interested in helping out, please let us know. >> >> We also have a series of listservs on topics related to Liberationtech. >> The most important lists are the following: >> >> - Events: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/ >> liberationtech-events >> - Jobs: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/ >> liberationtech-jobs >> - CfP: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/ >> liberationtech-cfp >> >> For the aforementioned lists, we try to compile a list of all events, job >> opportunities, and call for papers related to Liberationtech from all over >> the world. >> >> It's not a comprehensive list, so your assistance would be helpful. If >> you hear of a job, event, or cfp that would be of benefit to Liberationtech >> subscribers, please let us know. >> >> Finally, we want to take Liberationtech to the next level. What that >> means, we don't know. But the world has changed a lot since we started back >> in 2008: Censorship is on the rise. Internet freedom is on the decline. And >> we have become much more of a community of hackers and cybersecurity >> professionals who seek to protect vulnerable communities around the world. >> >> So if you have ideas of projects you would like to see us take on, please >> let us know. We want the Liberationtech community to drive the process. Any >> idea is welcome. Dream big or small. Just let us know how you think we can >> best help. >> >> Thanks, >> Yosem >> (One of the moderators) >> >

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Liberationtech List Reminder
by Yosem Companys 31 Jan '17

31 Jan '17

We are Stanford Liberatiiontech. Our home page is here: http://cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/libtech. To sign up to our 4K-strong mailing list, click here: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. We have also curated a list of Liberationtech content at https://twitter.com/Liberationtech. If you prefer to read our list as a newspaper, you could always check our Paper.li account: http://paper.li/Liberationtech#/ Our Liberationtech blog has been dead for a while, but we are working on reviving it. If you are interested in helping out, please let us know. We also have a series of listservs on topics related to Liberationtech. The most important lists are the following: - Events: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech-events - Jobs: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech-jobs - CfP: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech-cfp For the aforementioned lists, we try to compile a list of all events, job opportunities, and call for papers related to Liberationtech from all over the world. It's not a comprehensive list, so your assistance would be helpful. If you hear of a job, event, or cfp that would be of benefit to Liberationtech subscribers, please let us know. Finally, we want to take Liberationtech to the next level. What that means, we don't know. But the world has changed a lot since we started back in 2008: Censorship is on the rise. Internet freedom is on the decline. And we have become much more of a community of hackers and cybersecurity professionals who seek to protect vulnerable communities around the world. So if you have ideas of projects you would like to see us take on, please let us know. We want the Liberationtech community to drive the process. Any idea is welcome. Dream big or small. Just let us know how you think we can best help. Thanks, Yosem (One of the moderators)

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