November 2021 - change - Mailing Lists

No Change Seminar Tomorrow (11/30)
by Kurtis Heimerl 29 Nov '21

29 Nov '21

eom -- Website: https://kurti.sh/ Public Key: https://flowcrypt.com/pub/kheimerl@cs.washington.edu

1 0

Change Seminar 11/23@Noon Technologists and Ocean Governance Yoshi Ota UW School of Marine & Environmental Affairs
by Kurtis Heimerl 19 Nov '21

19 Nov '21

Title: Technologists and Ocean Governance Dr. Ota will speak on his experience leading ocean governance initiatives, and the successes and pitfalls of the ways technologists engage in this space. As a jumping-off point, we'll visit a recent high-profile PNAS paper that claims to identify fishing vessels with a high risk of labor abuse using AI. Yoshi and a team of other authors published a rebuttal to the paper, doubting the veracity of its claims and also worrying about the potential to mislead policy. Original article claiming to profile fisheries labor exploitation with AI: https://www.pnas.org/content/118/3/e2016238117 Yoshi's and team's rebuttal: https://www.pnas.org/content/118/19/e2100341118 Noon 11/23 at CSE2 271 -- Website: https://kurti.sh/ Public Key: https://flowcrypt.com/pub/kheimerl@cs.washington.edu

1 0

Change Talk: Tu Noon CSE2 271: Kurtis Heimerl (UWCSE) Reclaiming the Internet: A Journey to Community-Held Cellular Infrastructure
by Kurtis Heimerl 15 Nov '21

15 Nov '21

Speaker will be me! Next week is Yoshi Ota of the School of Marine & Environmental Affairs ABSTRACT Mobile network operators (MNOs) are a critical component of today’s Internet access landscape. Originally borne of wireline voice telephony access, innovations in wireless data connectivity (such as GPRS and LTE) have enabled these operators to become the world's dominant Internet providers, connecting more people to the Internet than wireline networks. However, the increasing centralization of the MNO ecosystem (down to just three providers in the US) is in contrast to the general design goals of the internet, which was built to allow multiple regional autonomous systems to work together to provide connectivity. In this talk, we will discuss my group's ongoing attempts to leverage advances in wide area technology, specific open source LTE and NR, to recreate distributed access networks and help small organizations provide connectivity to their communities while still achieving the at-scale efficiencies of modern MNOs. This journey starts with an MNO partnership for GSM networks in the rural Philippines and continues in our current work with local NGOs on urban NR infrastructure. SPEAKER BIO Kurtis Heimerl is an assistant professor of Computer Science at the University of Washington working on Information and Communication Technology and International Development (ICTD), specifically universal Internet access. Before that, he received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, working under Professors Eric Brewer and Tapan Parikh. Kurtis cofounded Endaga, which joined Facebook in 2015 and has also published widely, including top conferences such as ICTD, CSCW, CHI, MobiCom, and NSDI. He was a recipient of the 2014 MIT “35 under 35” award, the 2018 UW early career Diamond Award, and has won paper awards at CHI, NSDI, COMPASS, ASSETS, and DySPAN. -- Website: https://kurti.sh/ Public Key: https://flowcrypt.com/pub/kheimerl@cs.washington.edu

1 0

Noopur Raval at CHIWORK Nov 11
by Naveena Karusala 08 Nov '21

08 Nov '21

Hi Change community, If you're interested in research on gig work, platformization, and the future of work, please consider attending this conversation with Dr. Noopur Raval at the CHIWORK Symposium on Thursday. These conversations are a great way to engage with new ideas and socialize with researchers working in this area. See below for details! Best, Naveena Karusala <https://www.chiwork.org/> chiwork.org | @chiworksymp Noopur Raval in conversation with Neha Kumar at CHIWORK “Studying Intersectional Challenges in Gig Work: Lessons from the Global South” Thursday, November 11, at 5:30 PM UTC / 5:30 PM London / 9:30 AM Seattle / 11:00 PM New Delhi Zoom: https://washington.zoom.us/j/98578905160 About Noopur Raval Noopur Raval <https://noopur.xyz/> is a postdoctoral researcher at the AI Now Institute and an adjunct professor at the Tandon School of Engineering at New York University. She received her PhD in Informatics from UC Irvine in 2020 and is a tech ethnographer and interdisciplinary scholar at the intersection of HCI, Communication and Media Studies, Cultural Anthropology and Postcolonial History. She has written extensively on gig work, platformization and the future of work in the global South. Her new work extends to studying the cultural labor and subjective decision-making by global South data annotators in order to train AI/ML systems. Her work has appeared in CSCW, CHI, ACM Interactions among other venues. She has also worked in UX research at multiple Microsoft Research labs. Noopur is an alumna of the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and the Center for Tech, Society and Policy at UC Berkeley. About Neha Kumar Neha Kumar <https://www.nehakumar.org/> is an associate professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research lies at the intersection of human-computer interaction and global sustainable development, with a focus on global health and community informatics. Neha serves as CHIWORK Technical Program Committee co-Chair. About CHIWORK The Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work (CHIWORK) brings together experts with various backgrounds to build an understanding of how advanced HCI will support work in the future and how it will also allow workers to balance work and wellbeing. The symposium is an ongoing event, with online conversations that are held roughly once a week, throughout the year. Each conversation is 60 minutes long, split into two 30-minute segments. The first segment is recorded and it starts with a dialogue between an organizer and one or more expert guests. This dialogue is followed by questions from the audience. The second segment is not recorded – during these 30 minutes the conversation becomes a social event where participants can discuss any topic.

1 0

Fwd: [Ictd] Opportunity to connect with African university students
by Kurtis Heimerl 01 Nov '21

01 Nov '21

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Jake Kendall <jake(a)cariboudigital.net> Date: Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 2:29 AM Subject: [Ictd] Opportunity to connect with African university students To: <ictd(a)cs.washington.edu> Hi All I know it's been a super long time since I have posted here - I hope it's the right forum! I have an African startup founder who is looking for university students from top tier US universities to be beta testers on a new audio product that connects students from African universities with others in the world. The founder is great - Harvard grad, well respected in the local ecosystem. [For those who don't know/remember, I was at UW but now run DFS Lab which is an early stage investor in African tech] Blurb here from the founder (reach out directly if you are open to being a tester or want to talk to him about the product - edymagema(a)gmail.com) Univus is the first edtech company that is bringing all the world's students to connect, learn and collaborate on one single student-only platform. In its initial phase, Univus is connecting American college students, including students at top universities like U. Washington with those at Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Yale and notable African universities like the Africa Leadership University to foster communities where learners can chat on any range of social and intellectual topics in real time. Over the long term, Univus will create visual and messaging to deepen learner networks and offer additional use cases in learning and collaboration. Univus is currently seeking beta testers for its flagship audio product and sees the U. Washington CS department as an attractive test bed. We request an introduction and access to 20 CS undergrad students who are using Android phones to help us test, refine and build the existing Android app. Your support will be highly appreciated. Best Ed Magema edymagema(a)gmail.com LinkedIn <http://www.linkedin.com/in/ed-magema-b7305846> Cheers! -- Jake Kendall Director, DFS Lab <http://www.dfslab.net/> WhatsApp: +1-917-324-5987 Sign up for the DFS Lab mailing list here <https://cariboudigital.us13.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=665090c913eeda856ce…> . Apply to join the Sufficient Capital community here <https://www.sufficient.capital/>. _______________________________________________ Ictd mailing list Ictd(a)cs.washington.edu https://mailman.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/ictd -- Website: https://kurti.sh/ Public Key: https://flowcrypt.com/pub/kheimerl@cs.washington.edu

1 0