March 2019 - change - Mailing Lists

New Order Products Needed
by Miss Anna 30 Mar '19

30 Mar '19

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New Order Products Needed
by Miss Anna 29 Mar '19

29 Mar '19

Hello change(a)change.washington.edu, We are Interested in buying your product Kindly send your company latest catalog and your best price list. Also confirm your company mode of payment. I await your feedback Best Regards, Miss Anna James(Export Director)Nichols Import & Export Company Ltd. Email Address : export@nicholsbaots.com1365 NW 159th St, Miami, FL 33169, USATel: 305-625-3454Tel: 305-469-8842

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Fwd: [dub] Research volunteers for Impact Innovation Challenge
by Matthew Johnson 10 Mar '19

10 Mar '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Frankie O'Rourke <frankieo(a)uw.edu> Date: Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 7:00 PM Subject: [dub] Research volunteers for Impact Innovation Challenge To: <dub(a)dub.washington.edu> Hello all! Looking for research volunteers to help develop problem statements for a spring social-good hackathon. Here's more info: Impact++, UW's tech for social good RSO, is hosting the Impact Innovation Challenge on May 4th, a social impact hackathon addressing the issues of homelessness & housing and healthcare & safety. The event will focus on developing solutions to the challenges faced by Seattle organizations that are actively working to resolve these issues. Research volunteers are responsible for researching these issues and compiling problem statements for event attendees. We are looking for communicative team members who care about: - engaging with community organizations - listening, trusting others' experiences, and asking questions to learn - recognizing privilege, sharing airspace, and valuing equity - learning, growing, and collaborating with empathy, humility, and no savior complex More details and interest form: https://www.google.com/url?q=http://tinyurl.com/SIHRG2019&sa=D&ust=15517413… If you're interested or have any questions/feedback, please email me or reach out by submitting the interest form. -- *Frankie O'Rourke* Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering University of Washington, class of 2020 frankieo(a)uw.edu _______________________________________________ dub mailing list dub(a)dub.washington.edu https://dubber.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/dub

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Adding Location: GDPR for Researchers Presentation
by Bree Norlander 08 Mar '19

08 Mar '19

Updated with time, date, and location! Please join us on Tuesday, March 12 from 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm in the eScience Institute WRF Data Science Studio (6th floor of the Physics/Astronomy Tower). From: Bree Norlander <norlab(a)uw.edu> Date: Thursday, March 7, 2019 at 9:43 AM To: "change(a)change.washington.edu" <change(a)change.washington.edu> Subject: GDPR for Researchers Presentation Please share! The eScience Institute and the Technology & Social Change (TASCHA) group invite you to attend a Data Science Studies Special Seminar<https://escience.washington.edu/events/data-science-studies-special-seminar…> on General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the shifting privacy landscape. Featuring Ann Nagel of the UW Privacy Office, and Emily McReynolds of Microsoft Research, who will present on, and facilitate a discussion of, the GDPR’s impact on research, regulatory developments related to data and privacy, and the University’s response to this shifting landscape. The GDPR is designed to give European Union residents more control over their personal data, providing for enhanced procedures of consent and transparency. It went into effect on May 25, 2018. The GDPR applies to “the processing by an individual, a company or an organisation of personal data relating to individuals in the EU.” As such, researchers who use data collected from individuals residing anywhere in the EU are affected by GDPR. Moreover, several similar pieces of legislation<https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/should-washington-state-…> are currently being considered by the Washington State Legislature, meaning that requirements like those established by the GDPR are likely to become more commonplace and broadly applicable. In this session, privacy researchers and UW administrators will tell you what you need to know as a researcher at the University of Washington. This seminar will happen on Tuesday, Mar. 12, from 12:30 to 2 p.m. Space is limited; please RSVP<https://goo.gl/forms/JBX1IouP5sDn9DK22> if you plan to attend. -- Bree Norlander norlab(a)uw.edu<mailto:norlab@uw.edu> Research Analyst & Coordinator Open Data Literacy<https://odl.ischool.uw.edu/> | TASCHA<http://tascha.uw.edu/> MLIS | University of Washington orcid.org/0000-0002-0431-4221<http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0431-4221>

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GDPR for Researchers Presentation
by Bree Norlander 07 Mar '19

07 Mar '19

Please share! The eScience Institute and the Technology & Social Change (TASCHA) group invite you to attend a Data Science Studies Special Seminar<https://escience.washington.edu/events/data-science-studies-special-seminar…> on General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the shifting privacy landscape. Featuring Ann Nagel of the UW Privacy Office, and Emily McReynolds of Microsoft Research, who will present on, and facilitate a discussion of, the GDPR’s impact on research, regulatory developments related to data and privacy, and the University’s response to this shifting landscape. The GDPR is designed to give European Union residents more control over their personal data, providing for enhanced procedures of consent and transparency. It went into effect on May 25, 2018. The GDPR applies to “the processing by an individual, a company or an organisation of personal data relating to individuals in the EU.” As such, researchers who use data collected from individuals residing anywhere in the EU are affected by GDPR. Moreover, several similar pieces of legislation<https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/should-washington-state-…> are currently being considered by the Washington State Legislature, meaning that requirements like those established by the GDPR are likely to become more commonplace and broadly applicable. In this session, privacy researchers and UW administrators will tell you what you need to know as a researcher at the University of Washington. This seminar will happen on Tuesday, Mar. 12, from 12:30 to 2 p.m. Space is limited; please RSVP<https://goo.gl/forms/JBX1IouP5sDn9DK22> if you plan to attend. -- Bree Norlander norlab(a)uw.edu<mailto:norlab@uw.edu> Research Analyst & Coordinator Open Data Literacy<https://odl.ischool.uw.edu/> | TASCHA<http://tascha.uw.edu/> MLIS | University of Washington orcid.org/0000-0002-0431-4221<http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0431-4221>

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UNOPS position in AI research
by Matt Stevenson 07 Mar '19

07 Mar '19

Interesting job at the intersection of ICT4D and AI https://jobs.unops.org/pages/viewvacancy/vadetails.aspx?id=17504

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UW Change Seminar Tuesday, Mar 12: Cancelled
by Philip Garrison 06 Mar '19

06 Mar '19

Yesterday's change seminar was the last of the quarter. Next week's seminar is cancelled, so we will resume in the spring on April 9. Enjoy spring break, and good luck with the end of the quarter. (April 9 is the second Tuesday of the quarter, as April 2nd is reserved for our Change planning meeting, which anyone who wants to help run the seminar is welcome to attend.)

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UW Change Seminar Tuesday, Mar 5: Cliff Schmidt, Amplio Network, Audio and Analytics
by Philip Garrison 05 Mar '19

05 Mar '19

Please join us for today's Change seminar with Cliff Schmidt! *Who:* Cliff Schmidt, of Amplio <https://www.amplio-network.org/> *When:* Tuesday, Mar 5, 12-1pm *Where:* CSE 203 *What:* Audio and Analytics: Strengthening Health Knowledge and Outcomes in Remote Communities *Abstract: *In the most isolated and remote communities in Ghana and Kenya, citizens face challenges in accessing credible, consistent information about their health, well-being, and rights. Low literacy combined with poor infrastructure, low nurse-patient ratios, and limited access to mainstream media are barriers to the development of thriving and resilient communities. To address these development challenges, Amplio Network’s partners in Ghana and Kenya leverage the Talking Book, a rugged, hand-held, battery-powered audio device, which provides on-demand access to information for people who can't read. Our partners use Talking Books to deliver targeted, behavior change messaging in the form of interviews, songs, and dramas in local languages and dialects, to inform, educate, and prompt rural communities to practice and adopt key behaviors to reduce poverty, generate demand for essential services, and improve community health and protection outcomes. A recent randomized control trial co-designed by UNICEF Ghana found that people with access to health messages on Talking Books were 50% more likely to use bed nets and 50% more likely to wash their hands with soap. *Bio* Cliff founded Amplio Network (formerly named Literacy Bridge) in 2007 to address global poverty and disease by making practical agriculture and health knowledge accessible to those who need it most. He led the development of an audio-based mobile device called the “Talking Book” for people with minimal literacy skills living in rural areas without electricity or Internet access. Cliff received the Microsoft alumni Integral Fellow Award presented by Bill and Melinda Gates twice (in 2010 and 2014) and was selected as a member of the Clinton Global Initiative by President Bill Clinton. He received the top prize at the Tech Awards in 2012 and Computerworld Honors in 2013 and was featured by the PBS Newshour as one of five Agents for Social Change in 2013. Prior to starting Amplio Network, Cliff was a software developer for Microsoft and a nuclear engineering officer for the U.S. Navy Submarine Force. Cliff holds a B.S. in cognitive science from MIT and an M.S. in computer science and engineering from the University of Washington. Cliff loves music and playing tenor saxophone.

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Data Then & Now 3/13: Cal Biruk, "Cooking Data: Culture and Politics in an African Research World"
by Anissa Tanweer 01 Mar '19

01 Mar '19

***Please feel free to distribute*** Time & Location Wednesday Mar. 13, 4:00-5:00 pm, WRF Data Science Studio, 6th Floor of the Physics/Astronomy Tower <http://uw.edu/maps/?pat> Speaker Cal Biruk - Oberlin College Title Cooking Data: Culture and Politics in an African Research World Abstract This talk is based on my recently published book, Cooking Data: Culture and Politics in an African Research World (2018, Duke University Press). Drawing on long term ethnography with demographic survey research projects in rural Malawi, the book tells the life story of quantitative health data, tracking and analyzing their transformation from pencil marks recorded on a survey page into statistics consumed by policy makers, researchers and the public. In this talk, I trace how demographers’ scientific investments in pure, clean data—symbolically represented in surveys that act as a recipe for data collection—are made and unmade by Malawian fieldworkers’ practices and processes on the ground. First, through close analysis of everyday data collection practices, I illustrate how frictions between epistemological metrics for data and the particularities of everyday fieldwork produce—and come to validate—the numerical evidence we use to understand the AIDS epidemic in Malawi. I focus, in particular, on the cultural translation of survey concepts such as probability, the techniques used by fieldworkers to uncover the truth of rural Malawian social realities, and researchers’ efforts to harmonize encounters between fieldworkers and research participants. Standards of data collection, I show, make stability and fixity in numerical representation possible, not despite but because of, their customization by fieldworkers in the field (here, I counter racialized suspicions that fieldworkers are liabilities and center their indispensability to making good numbers). I conclude by gesturing toward connections between my past and present research and reflecting on what anthropology might contribute to critical data studies in the age of Big (and small) Data. Bio Cal Biruk <cbiruk(a)oberlin.edu> is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Oberlin College. Cal is the author of Cooking Data: Culture and Politics in an African Research World (Duke U Press, 2018) and numerous articles in venues such as Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Journal of Modern African Studies, Critical Public Health and Critical African Studies. Her research and teaching interests are at the intersection of medical anthropology, critical data studies and global health studies. Her second book project, Fake Gays: Metrics, Ethics and Authenticity in African Aid Economies, draws on long term ethnographic work with an LGBT-rights NGO in Malawi to capture the relations and transactions that constitute diverse political, identity, and economic projects that play out within aid geographies in the global South. Fake Gays melds insights from queer theory and critical data studies to show how numbers and quantification become unlikely resources in queer projects on the ground. -- Anissa Tanweer Research Scientist, eScience Institute Ethnography & Human-Centered Data Science University of Washington -- Anissa Tanweer Research Scientist, eScience Institute Ethnography & Human-Centered Data Science University of Washington

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