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Fwd: 4th IEEE Connecting The Unconnected Challenge - Submit 500 Word Abstract (Phase I) - June 5 Deadline
by Kurtis Heimerl 13 May '24

13 May '24

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Ashutosh Dutta, Ph.D. Founding Co-Chair, Connecting The Unconnected (CTU) <ashutosh.dutta-ieee.org(a)shared1.ccsend.com> Date: Fri, May 10, 2024 at 9:08 PM Subject: 4th IEEE Connecting The Unconnected Challenge - Submit 500 Word Abstract (Phase I) - June 5 Deadline To: <kheimerl(a)cs.washington.edu> <https://j6l9pbyab.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001zICtaIULsdmOdPpVwWcqbI508xly6c-5Rx…> The Fourth IEEE Connecting the Unconnected Challenge Call for Submissions - https://ctu.ieee.org Contact email: ieee-ctu(a)ieee.org Phase 1 submission deadline: June 5, 2024 Submit 500 words abstract by 5 June 2024 for Phase I Calling all innovators to enter the 2024 IEEE Connecting the Unconnected Challenge! Help IEEE contribute to worldwide digital inclusion by submitting a novel, early-stage project (proof-of-concept) or concept that offers unique ways to increase Internet access and usage for the 2.9 billion unconnected people around the world. The global 2024 IEEE Connecting the Unconnected Challenge is now open for submissions of unique solutions to bridge the digital divide. Deadline is 5 June 2024. Internet access is critical to education, industry, and healthy living. Unconnected populations lack access to buy and sell goods and services online. Unconnected students lack access to the flourishing remote education market. The IEEE Connecting the Unconnected Challenge seeks to further connectivity by calling for early-stage projects and concepts that pursue unique ways to increase broadband access and usage for unconnected or under-connected populations/geographies. Start-ups, grassroots organizations, universities, and others working toward digital inclusion in original ways are encouraged to participate. Read the competition rules and learn about how to enter your novel projects at the CTU website: https://ctu.ieee.org/ Important dates: Phase 1 submission opening: April 12, 2024 Phase 1 submission closing: June 5, 2024 The 2024 CTU Challenge will continue with a "Best Overall Gender Inclusion" award. This award will go to the Proof-of-Concept or Concept track contestant in any category (TA, BM, or CE) whose project or solution makes a significant impact or effort in closing the gender digital divide. Applicants will have an opportunity during Phases 2 and 3 of the competition to demonstrate how they have focused on gender inclusion within various KPIs, and generally. For more information, be sure to read the Contest Rules and Call for Participation. Additionally, all contestants who make it to Phase 2 will have the opportunity to submit ideas for possible standard proposal for how they might further address the digital divide in the future. For more information: CTU Challenge contact email: ieee-ctu(a)ieee.org SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL NOW! <https://j6l9pbyab.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001zICtaIULsdmOdPpVwWcqbI508xly6c-5Rx…> ------------------------------ Sincerely, Sudhir Dixit and Ashutosh Dutta Co-chairs CTU Working Group, IEEE Future Networks {{my.Comm Preferences:default=edit me}} <https://j6l9pbyab.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001zICtaIULsdmOdPpVwWcqbI508xly6c-5Rx…> © {{my.copyright year}} IEEE– All rights reserved. Unsubscribe <https://j6l9pbyab.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001zICtaIULsdmOdPpVwWcqbI508xly6c-5Rx…> | Website <https://j6l9pbyab.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001zICtaIULsdmOdPpVwWcqbI508xly6c-5Rx…> | Privacy Policy <https://j6l9pbyab.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001zICtaIULsdmOdPpVwWcqbI508xly6c-5Rx…> | Contact <https://j6l9pbyab.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001zICtaIULsdmOdPpVwWcqbI508xly6c-5Rx…> <https://j6l9pbyab.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001zICtaIULsdmOdPpVwWcqbI508xly6c-5Rx…> <https://j6l9pbyab.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001zICtaIULsdmOdPpVwWcqbI508xly6c-5Rx…> <https://j6l9pbyab.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001zICtaIULsdmOdPpVwWcqbI508xly6c-5Rx…> IEEE Future Networks | 9616 Dapper Town Row, Laurel, MD 20723 Unsubscribe kheimerl(a)cs.washington.edu <https://visitor.constantcontact.com/do?p=un&m=001KNFNxiC784wldh97y2q_1Q%3D&…> Update Profile <https://visitor.constantcontact.com/do?p=oo&m=001KNFNxiC784wldh97y2q_1Q%3D&…> | Constant Contact Data Notice <https://www.constantcontact.com/legal/customer-contact-data-notice> Sent by ashutosh.dutta(a)ieee.org powered by [image: Trusted Email from Constant Contact - Try it FREE today.] <http://www.constantcontact.com/landing1/vr/home?cc=nge&utm_campaign=nge&rmc…> Try email marketing for free today! <http://www.constantcontact.com/landing1/vr/home?cc=nge&utm_campaign=nge&rmc…>

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Change Seminar 05/14: Dr. Michaelanne Thomas - Community as Connectivity: The relationality of digital ecosystems in contexts of precarity
by Innocent Obi 09 May '24

09 May '24

Hi everyone! Next Tuesday,* May 14th*, Change Seminar is excited to have Dr. Michaelanne Thomas from UMSI's Anthropology & Technology Lab (ATL) research group. Her talk is titled "*Community as Connectivity: The relationality of digital ecosystems in contexts of precarity*" *Seminar Details* Location: Tuesdays from 12-1pm in 271 CSE2 (The Bill and Melinda Gates Center) Zoom: https://washington.zoom.us/my/innoobi (subscribe to our public calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=Y19kZjM0MjNlMjE4NzFhYWRhNWY0Mj…> or check our website <https://change.washington.edu/>) *Description:* Over the past several decades, Cubans have developed multiple collective strategies to navigate extended periods of constraint and precarity, from resource shortages to a global pandemic. With the increasing presence of internet technologies in Havana, digital media has become entangled in these processes, resulting in overlapping internet ecosystems supported by human relationships. In this talk I unpack the social nature of internet engagements in Havana through the lens of relational infrastructure—the people, relationships, and social practices that Cubans rely on to sustain overlapping internet ecosystems as they adapt and endure through social, economic, and political pressures. Drawing on in-person and virtual ethnographic data from the last 10 years, I describe how people in Havana achieve their goals: by stitching together the digital, the physical, and the social. Looking at sociotechnical engagements through this lens reveals innovative strategies alongside power dynamics and structural inequalities, thereby challenging reductive assumptions regarding the impact of internet technologies. I argue that if we want to understand the impact of the “internet” in Havana—in addition to exploring the economic, political, and recreational dimensions of digital engagements—we must also consider how relationships enable and constrain networked exchanges within communities. *Bio:* Dr. Michaelanne Thomas is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan where she directs the Anthropology & Technology Lab (ATL) research group. As a sociotechnical anthropologist, Thomas and her students use ethnographic methods to explore how marginalized communities collaboratively design and engage with information communication technologies (ICTs) for survival, resistance, and social change. Her primary fieldsite is Havana, Cuba, where she has been investigating the collaborative creation of internet ecosystems since 2014. Her work has been published and awarded in top venues, such as CHI, CSCW, WWW, and The Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), and her work has been featured in The Atlantic, New Scientist, Motherboard, CNN, Reuters, and Vice, among others. Before her professorship, Thomas earned a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Michigan and a Microsoft Research PhD fellowship while receiving her PhD in Human-Centered Computing from Georgia Tech. Best, UW Change Organizers

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