July 2020 - change - Mailing Lists

Inaugurating the "X4D" Virtual Speaker Series (August 4, 11am-12.30pm EDT)
by Neha Kumar 02 Sep '20

02 Sep '20

Hi all, We invite you to participate in our new "X4D" virtual speaker series, with a focus on unpacking the intersections of technology and global development from different disciplines and/or epistemic locations. Our inaugural session will take place on August 4, 3-4.30pm UTC (that's 11am-12.30pm EDT, 4-5.30pm BST, and 8.30pm-10pm IST). The Zoom link: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/78811443025?pwd=VHI1SitTVmovSVBuWmp5SHExM0lNUT09 We are delighted to have these speakers at our inaugural session, who will be presenting their perspectives on the value and importance of interdisciplinarity, and opportunities to productively engage in interdisciplinary work, in attempting to address the problems that impact us globally: Dr. Kentaro Toyama University of Michigan, USA Title: 15 years of ICTD research Dr. Dorothea Kleine University of Sheffield, UK Title: Gender and Intersectionality in ICT4D Dr. Aaditeshwar Seth Indian Institute of Technology Delhi & Gram Vaani, India Title: Making ICTD More Impactful Dr. Rediet Abebe Harvard Society of Fellows & UC Berkeley, USA Title: Roles for Computing in Social Justice Event details including abstracts of talks and bios are available on our website https://sites.google.com/view/x4d. We also aim to keep you informed about future events over email and invite you to join this Google group <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/x4d-friends>. We plan to organize an event every 3-4 weeks; the exact time will be determined based on what works best for all our presenters, but keeping in mind that we must be inclusive of many time zones. The next topic will be feminist perspectives on technology design, followed by mental health as a global concern. See you next week! Neha Kumar, Georgia Tech, USA Akhil Mathur, Nokia Bell Labs, UK

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Final call for submissions: Data4Good Workshop at ACM AVI 2020 (Deadline: July 31)
by Neha Kumar 29 Jul '20

29 Jul '20

If you care about data and ICTD/HCI4D, we invite you to submit to this workshop. Deadline is this Friday the 31st! The workshop will be online (if there was any doubt). Regards, Luigi, Neha, & Akhil ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Akhil Mathur <akhilmathurs(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 3:14 PM Subject: 2nd Call for Papers: Data4Good Workshop at ACM AVI 2020 [Submission deadline: July 28] To: Luigi De Russis <luigi.derussis(a)polito.it>, Neha Kumar < nehakumar(a)gmail.com> ACM AVI 2020 Workshop Data4Good: Designing for Diversity and Development https://sites.google.com/view/data4good/home September 28th, 2020 Island of Ischia, Italy ***Remote attendance will be facilitated*** OVERVIEW As smartphone penetration continues to expand throughout the Global South, and various "AI for/and Social Good" efforts prepare to dominate technology trends in such parts, challenges related to the robustness and utility of data infrastructures become increasingly pressing. For data to be meaningful, they must be collected, stored, understood, analyzed, and visualized, all from a holistic and contextually appropriate perspective. There are challenges encountered in each of these stages, however, given the cultural, technological, and/or infrastructural specificities of multilingually diverse and resource-constrained parts of the Global South. This is also increasingly true for many diverse regions in the North. Across domains of global development such as global health, education, and agriculture, among others, all prominent focus areas for AI for Social Good efforts in the Global South, the data burden is borne by low-literate workers from socioculturally and economically diverse backgrounds. Low digital expertise and different vantage points mean that these workers lack the kind of data literacies required of them by their employers. Although AI for Social Good as well as Machine Learning for Development (ML4D) conversations are rapidly unfolding in computing venues such as NeurIPS and International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), they may benefit from taking a more human-centered approach towards the design, deployment, and evaluation of AI-based technologies in global development contexts. These are the important conversations that our workshop seeks to advance. DATES July 31st: Submission deadline August 6th: Notification of acceptance August 21st: Camera-readies and registration due September 28th: Half-day workshop September 28th-October 2nd: AVI 2020 (main conference) CONTRIBUTIONS We invite researchers and practitioners in the interdisciplinary domains intersecting HCI, AI, ML, design, and global development to engage in dialog around how a human-centered design perspective might be suitably factored into the technological advancements being researched in upcoming AI- and ML-focused work. We solicit participation across members of the HCI research community who are motivated to address the following topics: Interfaces and Visualization - Novel Interfaces for Deriving Qualitative/Quantitative Insights from Data - Interfaces to support data literacy among Multilingual users - Information Visualization Tools and Techniques for Data Literacy - Data Literacy for End-Users in the Global South Data Infrastructures for Social Good - Data Collection and Field Research - Data Quality - Data Sharing - Privacy and Transparency in Data Analytics User-Centered AI - Interfaces for Explainable AI - User-centered Evaluations Techniques and Methods for AI-based Technologies in the Global South - Study of Public Concerns with AI technologies Data Literacy in Specific Application Areas, such as: - Public/Global Health - Education - Agriculture - Refugee Resettlement PARTICIPATION We invite submissions of position papers in the CHI Extended Abstracts format, 2-4 pages in length. PDFs of submissions can be emailed to Luigi De Russis at luigi.derussis(a)polito.it. These will be reviewed by all organizers based on relevance, originality, and overall quality. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to participate in our workshop. All workshop participants (including non-authors) are required by the conference to register for the workshop (not necessarily for the conference). We do plan to facilitate remote attendance. OUTCOMES Accepted and presented papers will be made available on CEUR Workshop Proceedings, while workshop results will be published on our website. Notifications will be mailed to the authors within 15 days of receipt (and no later than the dates reported above). Workshop results will be summarized and submitted as an article or blog post in Interactions or Communications of the ACM. ORGANISERS Luigi De Russis, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Neha Kumar, Georgia Tech, USA Akhil Mathur, Nokia Bell Labs & University College London, UK

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Fwd: Apply to Google’s 2020 exploreCSR funding for undergraduate computing research workshops
by Kurtis Heimerl 07 Jul '20

07 Jul '20

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Ben Greenstein <bengr(a)google.com> Date: Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 2:24 PM Subject: Apply to Google’s 2020 exploreCSR funding for undergraduate computing research workshops To: Kurtis Heimerl <kheimerl(a)cs.washington.edu>, Shyamnath Gollakota < gshyam(a)cs.washington.edu> Hi Shyam and Kurtis, Google has opened applications for exploreCSR, a funding program that supports universities to host computer science research (CSR) workshops in order to increase the number of students from underrepresented groups pursuing CS graduate studies and research careers. The website <http://research.google/outreach/explore-csr> and this flyer <http://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/ecsr_2020_overview.pdf> have more information. *Applications* <http://research.google/outreach/explore-csr>* close July 30, 2020 at 11:59:59pm PDT.* I encourage you to apply and share this announcement through your networks. Please contact exploreCSR(a)google.com with questions. Take care, Ben -- Public Key: https://flowcrypt.com/pub/kheimerl@cs.washington.edu

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