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Fwd: [jsde] Fwd: [Csssfac] [CSSS-seminar] TODAY - CSSS Seminar: Emma Riley, UW/Economics, Wednesday, Feb 23 at 12:30 pm via Hybrid
by Kurtis Heimerl 23 Feb '22

23 Feb '22

Good related talk in Econ! ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Rachel M Heath <rmheath(a)uw.edu> Date: Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 9:46 AM Subject: [jsde] Fwd: [Csssfac] [CSSS-seminar] TODAY - CSSS Seminar: Emma Riley, UW/Economics, Wednesday, Feb 23 at 12:30 pm via Hybrid To: <jsde(a)uw.edu>, <econfacall(a)uw.edu>, <econgrad(a)uw.edu> Dear Colleagues, See below for details of Emma Riley's talk in CSSS today, which is likely to be of interest to many of you! best wishes, Rachel ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Center for Statistics & the Social Sciences <csss(a)uw.edu> Date: Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 8:38 AM Subject: [Csssfac] [CSSS-seminar] TODAY - CSSS Seminar: Emma Riley, UW/Economics, Wednesday, Feb 23 at 12:30 pm via Hybrid To: csss-seminar(a)uw.edu <csss-seminar(a)uw.edu> Please join us for our next speaker in the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences Seminar Series. TODAY Wednesday, February 23) at 12:30 pm, Emma Riley <https://emmaalriley.wordpress.com/>, UW Professor of Economics, will give a seminar titled, “Leaders’ Role in Technology Adoption: Evidence from Mobile Banking in Ghana.” This seminar will be offered as a Hybrid session. Below please find the abstract and information about joining in-person or on Zoom. Abstract Mobile banking services have the potential to transform access to banking, by allowing individuals to access far away bank accounts from their mobile phones. However, adoption of these services frequently remains low, especially amongst rural populations, who have the most to gain from them but lack the knowledge or experience to use these services. In this study, we examine how best to inform and encourage use of mobile banking services, comparing individual encouragement to encouragement of adoption by a peer leader. We do this using an RCT with 400 female microfinance clients where we provide combinations of training on mobile banking with small incentives to encourage adoption of mobile banking services for the individual or for the group leader. Using both administrative data and a self-reported endline survey two months after the interventions, we find that individual incentives increase use of mobile banking services by 16 percentage points, double the control mean of 15% using mobile banking services. However, incentives for the group leader to encourage others in the microfinance group to use mobile banking services result in significantly higher use of 36 percentage points, along with increases in the value and number of mobile banking transactions. We collect detailed data on mechanisms, and find that incentives for the group leader result in large increases in knowledge about mobile banking, frequency of knowledge sharing with peers, and confidence in how to safely conduct digital transactions. Heterogeneous treatment effects reveal that women in microfinance groups where the group leader had already used mobile banking services see significantly larger treatment effects. These findings highlight the importance of thinking about influential members of a social group in encouraging technology adoption. To join in-person in Savery 409, please register here: https://signup.com/go/rAZNgfe To join by Zoom, please use the information below. 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Fwd: Announcing Interspeech-2022 ASR Challenge in Hindi
by Aditya Vashistha 14 Feb '22

14 Feb '22

Hi, This might be of interest to folks in the list! - Aditya ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Aaditeshwar Seth <aseth(a)gramvaani.org> Date: Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 4:18 AM Subject: Announcing Interspeech-2022 ASR Challenge in Hindi Dear all, Hope you have been well. I wanted to pass along this ASR challenge at InterSpeech. Please do share with anybody you feel might be interested. regards Aadi --- We are excited to announce the Interspeech-2022 ASR challenge in Hindi using the data collected by Gram Vaani - a social technology enterprise. The data consists of 100 hours of transcribed data and 1000 hours of unlabelled data. More details about the challenge can be found in the attached flyer or at the following website: https://sites.google.com/view/gramvaaniasrchallenge/home?authuser=0 We solicit your participation in this challenge, and innovative work done as part of this challenge may be submitted to the Interspeech-2022 Special Session on Low Resource ASR Development ( https://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/mig/low-resource-asr-development-special-sessi… ) Thanks! best regards Prasanta Ghosh, IISc Umesh, IIT Madras Aaditeshwar Seth, IIT Delhi -- Aaditeshwar Seth Co-founder, Gram Vaani Gram Vaani: Tech innovations powering community-led development for the next billion. Appropriate | Ethical | Agile Learn more: www.gramvaani.org Latest@GV: Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/gramvaani>| Twitter <https://www.twitter.com/gramvaani>| LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/company/gramvaani>| Instagram <https://www.instagram.com/gramvaani>

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Fwd: Social Media Influencers and the New Political Economy in South Asia and Africa
by Kurtis Heimerl 11 Feb '22

11 Feb '22

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Joyojeet Pal <joyojeet(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 8:27 PM Subject: Fwd: Social Media Influencers and the New Political Economy in South Asia and Africa To: Ishtiaque Ahmed <ishtiaque(a)cs.toronto.edu>, Aditya Vashistha < adityav(a)cornell.edu>, Kurtis Heimerl <kheimerl(a)cs.washington.edu>, Neha Kumar <neha.kumar(a)gatech.edu>, Nicola Dell <nixdell(a)cornell.edu>, Rajesh Veeraraghavan <Rajesh.Veera(a)georgetown.edu>, Priyank Chandra < priyank.chandra(a)utoronto.ca> Hi folks, Here's a great event at Michigan that some of your students (and you!) may be interested in. Please consider forwarding to relevant mailing lists? **** Social Media Influencers and the New Political Economy in South Asia and Africa *April 7-8, 2022, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor* In Person at Room 2435, North Quad, 105 State Street, Ann Arbor, and available online through registration 9 AM – 5 PM, US Eastern Time The University of Michigan is hosting a symposium on social media influencers at the University of Michigan, 2435 North Quad, on April 7-8, 2022, and will be available for remote participation for registered attendees. The event features a number of social media influencers, and those who study them, from two regions with the fastest growing social media user populations -- Continental Africa and South Asia. The workshop brings together a range of professionals and scholars - dissidents, bureaucrats, artists, movie stars, comedians, commentators, and industry professionals to explore the ways in which social media influencing is changing social, political, and cultural engagements. Registration is available for in-person and online attendance. For details and a list of confirmed speakers, please see here: https://influencers.conference.si.umich.edu <https://influencers.conference.si.umich.edu/> The event is co-sponsored by the Center for South Asia Studies, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the School of Information, the Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing.

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In Resident Economist at the Internet Society - Remote
by Amreesh Phokeer 09 Feb '22

09 Feb '22

Hello, Change community, This might be of interest to you. The Internet Society is looking to engage an In-Resident Economist on contract for 9-12 months to support the organization’s mission to help grow, strengthen, and protect the Internet. The Economist will bring strong economic modeling and policy assessment skills to help build the appropriate toolkit to evaluate the economic impact of actions that threaten the fundamental properties of the Internet. The in-resident Economist will join the relevant project teams and focus on researching and building the appropriate econometric models to estimate both the direct and indirect impact of these threats on economic growth. More information on how to apply here: https://internetsociety.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=165 Regards, -- Amreesh Phokeer

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