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FW: [Au-instructors] Allen School Colloquium / Thursday, October 1, 2020 / Allen School / ICTD Research Group
by Richard Anderson 25 Sep '20

25 Sep '20

From: Au-instructors <au-instructors-admin(a)cs.washington.edu> On Behalf Of Marianne Kiga Sent: Friday, September 25, 2020 4:17 PM To: researchers(a)cs.washington.edu; postdocs(a)cs.washington.edu; cs-grads(a)cs.washington.edu; au-instructors(a)cs.washington.edu Cc: Kay Beck-Benton <kbeck(a)cs.washington.edu>; production - Mailing List <production(a)cs.washington.edu> Subject: [Au-instructors] Allen School Colloquium / Thursday, October 1, 2020 / Allen School / ICTD Research Group UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PAUL G. ALLEN SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM SPEAKER: Various Presenters, Allen School ICTD Research Group DATE: Thursday, October 1, 2020 TIME: 3:30 pm HOST: Kurtis Heimerl Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84511209436?pwd=eGg4bDBTS3hZZWZwU0wwVW1tcFhCZz09 Meeting ID: 845 1120 9436 Passcode: 806730 Title: Designing for users realities: Women’s technological inclusion and the Sociocultural Norms Presenter: Samia Ibtasam What prerequisites and enablers must we consider when designing for low-resourced users, especially women? Even for a technology advantaged population, the meaning and dynamics of access and use are nuanced and varied. Gendered roles, generational differences in a family, household dynamics, and the wider socio-cultural influences can impact women's technological engagement. In this talk, I will discuss how the consideration of these factors during the design and implementation processes can broaden accessibility and diversity in the acceptance and use of evolving technologies by women in emerging economies. Bio: Advised by Richard Anderson, her current work focuses on devising tools and frameworks to increase the technological and financial inclusion of women in emerging markets. Before UW, Ibtasam was the founding co-director of Innovations for Poverty Alleviation Lab (IPAL) at the Information Technology University (ITU) and taught Design Thinking, Human-Centered Design, and product development courses to undergraduate and graduate CS students. Title: Accept the Risk and Continue: Measuring the Long Tail of Government https Adoption Presenter: Sudheesh Singanamalla Across the world, government websites are expected to be reliable sources of information, regardless of their view count. Interactions with these websites often contain sensitive information, such as identity, medical, or legal data, whose integrity must be protected for citizens to remain safe. To better understand the government website ecosystem, we measure the adoption of https including the "long tail" of government websites around the world, which are typically not captured in the top-million datasets used for such studies. We identify and measure major categories and frequencies of https adoption errors, including misconfiguration of certificates via expiration, reuse of keys and serial numbers between unrelated government departments (and sometimes even different country governments), use of insecure cryptographic protocols and keys, and untrustworthy root Certificate Authorities (CAs). Finally, we observe an overall lower https rate and a steeper dropoff with descending popularity among government sites versus commercial and provide recommendations to improve government https use. In this talk, we will present our findings, discuss challenges and impact of this work. Bio: Sudheesh is a 2nd year PhD student in the ICTD lab advised by Prof. Kurtis Heimerl and Prof. Richard Anderson and broadly works at the intersection of Systems, Networks, Security and ICTD. Title: Making Chat at Home in the Hospital: Exploring Chat Use by Nurses Presenter: Naveena Karusala We examine WhatsApp use by nurses in India. Globally, personal chat apps have taken the workplace by storm, and healthcare is no exception. In the hospital setting, this raises questions around how chat apps are integrated into hospital work and the consequences of using such personal tools for work. To address these questions, we conducted an ethnographic study of chat use in nursesâ€™ work in a large multi-specialty hospital. By examining how chat is embedded in the hospital, rather than focusing on individual use of personal tools, we throw new light on the adoption of personal tools at work - specifically what happens when such tools are adopted and used as though they were organizational tools. In doing so, we explicate their impact on invisible work and the creep of work into personal time, as well as how hierarchy and power play out in technology use. Thus, we point to the importance of looking beyond individual adoption by knowledge workers when studying the impact of personal tools at work. Bio: Naveena Karusala is a 4th year PhD student in the ICTD lab, advised by Richard Anderson. Her work is at the intersection of HCI, global development, and health messaging. Title: Can Phones Build Relationships? A Case Study of a Kenyan Wildlife Conservancy’s Community Development Presenter: Matt Ziegler Wildlife conservancies across the globe are increasingly recognizing their need to support their surrounding communities to sustainably operate. Rapidly shifting environmental and sociopolitical climates increasingly stress existing resource and service provisions, forcing wildlife conservancies to co-manage with local communities shared resources like water, wildlife, soil, pollinators, and security. This work presents a case study in Laikipia, Kenya on Ol Pejeta Conservancy’s use of text-based technologies to provide services and build relationships with the many widely-dispersed communities on its borders. Through technology deployments, staff interviews, and community focus groups, we investigate a potential role for basic mobile phone services, like SMS and USSD, to help conservancy personnel disseminate accurate and timely information, gather community feedback, address grievances, and improve accountability. Our findings show that communication with locals requires intense and ongoing effort from conservancy staff. Partially successful deployments of phone services provide a proof-of-concept for their utility in community relations but highlight particular design challenges for wildlife conservancies; having critical needs for broad inclusive engagement; clear, deliberate communication; and careful trust-building. Bio: Matt is a 3rd year PhD student in the ICTD lab, working on technologies for wildlife conservation and environmental justice. *NOTE* This talk will be broadcast live via the Internet. See http://www.cs.washington.edu/news/colloq.info.html for more information. Email: talk-info(a)cs.washington.edu<mailto:talk-info@cs.washington.edu> Info: http://www.cs.washington.edu/ (206) 543-1695 The University of Washington is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accomodation in its services, programs, activities, education and employment for individuals with disabilities. To request disability accommodation, contact the Disability Services Office at least ten days in advance of the event at: (206) 543-6450/V, (206) 543-6452/TTY, (206) 685-7264 (FAX), or email at dso(a)u.washington.edu<mailto:dso@u.washington.edu>.

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X4D#3: Technology-Mediated Mental Health Support (October 7, 9.30am-11am US EDT)
by Neha Kumar 21 Sep '20

21 Sep '20

Hi all, We invite you to the third session of our "X4D" virtual speaker series <https://sites.google.com/view/x4d/home>on *October 7th.* Our speakers include the following: *Dr. Munmun De Choudhury, *School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Tech, USA *Title: Interdisciplinary and Collaborative Approaches to Digital Mental Health: A Tale of Engaging with Three Stakeholders* Digital traces, such as social media data, supported with advances in the computer science field, are increasingly being used to understand the mental health of individuals and populations. With these approaches offering promise to change the status quo in mental health for the first time since mid-20th century, interdisciplinary collaborations have been greatly emphasized. But what are some models of engagement for computer scientists that augment existing capabilities while minimizing the risk of harm? This talk will describe the experiences from working with three different stakeholders in projects relating to digital mental health–first with a governmental organization, second with healthcare providers, and third with a non-profit, all in the United States. The talk hopes to present some lessons learned by way of these engagements, and to reflect on approaches we need to realize a dream of many computer scientists: how to have their research contribute to positive societal impacts. *Dr. Becky Inkster, *Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge University; Finance & Economics Programme, The Alan Turing Institute; Self-Employed Neuroscientist & Digital Mental Health Advisor, UK *Title: Rhymes Equal Actual Life in the Youth*: Connecting Mental Health Support with Hip-Hop Culture* It is essential that we build digital mental health tools that are engaging and sensitive to both culture and context. In this talk, I will explore how hip-hop music and culture can be combined in a powerful way with human-centred algorithmic solutions, computational creativity and music therapy in order to support mental health and wellbeing. I am a Co-Founder of Lyrical Kombat and Hip Hop Psych, and will illustrate examples based on these initiatives. *lyrics by KRS-ONE *Dr. John Naslund,* Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA *Title: Design, Development, and Evaluation of a Digital Training Program for Building Capacity of Frontline Health Workers and Scaling Up Depression Care in Rural India* Mental disorders are a leading cause of disability worldwide; yet, in most countries, individuals living with mental disorders are more likely to have access to a mobile phone than basic mental health care. The increasing reach and availability of digital technologies in low-income and middle-income countries, such as smartphones and mobile Internet, present new opportunities to support task sharing through training and supporting community health workers in treating mental disorders. In this presentation, my objective is to describe the development and design of a digital program for training community health workers as part of a broader effort to scale up task sharing of a brief psychological treatment for depression in primary care settings in rural India. Specifically, I will describe efforts to involve community health workers throughout the iterative development and user testing of a digital training program accessible from a smartphone app, as well as the initial findings from a randomized controlled pilot study conducted in one district of Madhya Pradesh. I will discuss next steps and implications of leveraging emerging digital technologies for task sharing and bridging the global care gap for mental disorder. *Dr. Maryam Mustafa, *School of Science and Engineering, LUMS, Pakistan *Title: Designing Digital Safe Spaces For Peer Support and Connectivity in Patriarchal Contexts*There is a deep stigma and taboo attached to mental health disorders and care in countries like Pakistan. Most people have little to no access to mental health support and women are particularly susceptible in patriarchal contexts like Pakistan. In this talk , I will explore the opportunities and challenges in designing peer-support and mental health mechanisms for low-income, low-literate women in Pakistan, a patriarchal and religious context where women’s movements, social relations and access to digital technologies are restricted. This is a context where shame and fear of defamation restrict the seeking of support for personal narratives around taboo subjects like abortion, sexual harassment, rape and domestic abuse. I will also discuss our findings from our participatory workshops in exploring the design of peer-support technologies for support seeking with low-income, low-literate women. *When: *October 7 | 9.30am-11am US EDT (1.30pm-3pm UTC) *Where:* https://ucl.zoom.us/j/95338644599 And please join our X4D-friends Google group <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/x4d-friends> if you'd like to stay informed of future sessions! Warmly, X4D Organizers

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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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