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apply now to the MS-ICTD program at the ATLAS Institute, University of Colorado
by Revi Sterling 04 Dec '13

04 Dec '13

Design your master's degree to fit your strengths, vision and passion. Consider CU-Boulder's ATLAS Master of Science degree in Information & Communication Technology for Development (MS-ICTD) Increase your opportunities and skills to have an effective, sustainable impact in international and community development fields. [cid:aWN0ZC5qcGc$44680623$477476@colorado] The MS-ICTD degree prepares students for careers in the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to advance people and communities in developing nations and underserved regions. Central to the objectives of this program is achieving a balance between specific community development needs and the capabilities of technology. The master's program offers: * Core courses in emerging and promising technologies * A diverse cohort of peers and professors * An interdisciplinary approach to international development * Hands-on experience building ICTD projects with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and public or private ICTD organizations Click here<http://www.colorado.edu/atlas/newatlas/masters/> to apply now. Thank you for passing this on to friends, colleagues and students who might wish to explore new opportunities. ~ ~ ~ ~ Ruscha Bellefleur Cohen ATLAS Institute graduate program advisor University of Colorado Boulder 320 UCB, 1125 18th Street, 207 Boulder, CO 80309-0320 Phone: 303-492-5081 [cid:Y3Vsb2dvLmpwZw$44670817$174299@colorado][cid:QVRMQVMuanBn$44670817$446218@colorado]

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Panel on Interactive Voice Response Systems in the Developing World
by Aditya Vashistha 04 Dec '13

04 Dec '13

Hi All, If you are attending ICTD conference, please consider checking out Interactive Voice Response Systems in the Developing World panel<http://bitly.com/ivrictd2013> on Dec 7. We have experts from Freedom Fone, IVR Junction, Awaaz.De, GramVaani and EngageSpark to share their experiences with you. The session will explore the role of IVR systems to collect data from, provide information to and create knowledge communities for marginalized communities. Panelists and the audience will discuss specific ICTD application areas for IVR platforms, success and failure stories of deployments in the developing world, lessons learnt and future challenges. Best, Aditya

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TEM at MSR India is hiring!
by Ed Cutrell 02 Dec '13

02 Dec '13

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/tem/hiring.aspx Position: Full-time researcher or postdoc Location: Microsoft Research India (Bangalore) The Technology for Emerging Markets (TEM) group at Microsoft Research India is hiring! We are looking for one or more individuals to join our team, as Postdocs or Researchers at any stage in their careers, to conduct cutting-edge research in information and communication technologies for development (ICTD/ICT4D). Come work with us to study, design, build, and evaluate technologies and systems that can address the needs and aspirations of people in underserved communities around the world. ICTD is an inherently multidisciplinary domain, requiring contributions from-and collaborations between-researchers in computer science, engineering, human-computer interaction and design, public health, public policy, and a variety of social sciences including development studies, anthropology, psychology, education, economics, communication, and sociology. For this call, the departmental affiliation on your academic degree is not as important as the quality of your research and your sustained commitment to the domain. Successful candidates will have demonstrated a passion for tackling the hardest questions in ICTD in a thoughtful and rigorous way. Those without previous experience in ICTD should be able to demonstrate how their past work will inform their transition to ICTD research. Researchers are expected to define their own research agendas and publish their work in top international venues. If you are interested in applying for a full-time Researcher or Postdoc position, please submit your CV or résumé, a cover letter/research statement describing how your research relates to ICTD, two publications you feel represent your best work (one publication is sufficient for postdoc applicants), and at least three references. Our group is primarily focused on the domains of healthcare and education, but researchers with interests in other domains are welcome to apply. The minimum educational requirement for this position is a PhD or equivalent degree. Please apply online, listing Ed Cutrell as your primary contact. Review of applications will begin on January 15, 2014, and continue until the position is filled. The starting date is flexible, with a preference for late summer or fall of 2014. Applications should be made at http://bit.ly/acYHGt. Questions can be directed to cutrell at microsoft dot com. About the Technology for Emerging Markets group (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/tem/) The Technology for Emerging Markets (TEM) group seeks to address the needs and aspirations of people in the world's developing communities. Our research targets people who are increasingly consuming computing technologies and services as well as those for whom access to computing remains largely out of reach. TEM is a multidisciplinary group engaged in a range of technical and social-science research. By combining a variety of backgrounds and training, we are able to engage deeply with some of the complex problems associated with poverty and scarce resources. Our goal is to study, design, build, and evaluate technologies and systems that are useful for people living in underserved rural and urban communities. TEM is based in Bangalore with Microsoft Research India and we enjoy a remarkably open and collaborative environment. The center of India's tech boom, Bangalore is a cosmopolitan, world-class city, with a vibrant energy unlike anywhere in the world. Our location in Bangalore gives us excellent scope for direct interaction with a range of low-income urban and rural communities, and we work closely with a variety of partners, including NGOs, universities, government, private companies, and groups within Microsoft. However, our emphasis is on rigorous research and exploratory pilots rather than product or business development.

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Dec 10 Workshop on accessible technology in ICTD
by Joyojeet Pal 02 Dec '13

02 Dec '13

Workshop on Accessible Technology in ICTD Dec 10, 2014, at the ICTD 2013 <http://www.ictd2013.info/> Conference in Cape Town, South Africa Location: Kramer 5B, University of Cape Town Time: 14.00 – 17.30 hrs http://ictd.si.umich.edu/accessibility/ This free open session is a free half-day workshop introducing attendees to accessibility and adaptive technology and their role in ICTD. A lecture and interactive form workshop will introduce concepts of disability studies, international law related to accessibility and various accessible technologies. Please register free at the above link. *Organizers: * Joyojeet Pal <http://joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/>, University of Michigan Derrick Cogburn <http://www.american.edu/sis/faculty/dcogburn.cfm>, American University Ed Cutrell <http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/cutrell/>, Microsoft Research Deepti Samant Raja<http://bbi.syr.edu/about/team/Consultants/Deepti_Samant_Raja.html>, Syracuse University

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Reminder: No Change Seminar This Week
by Trevor Perrier 25 Nov '13

25 Nov '13

Hello, There is no Change Seminar this week or next week. We are currently trying to fill the schedule for next quarter, so if you or anyone you know would like to share their research with the Change community please let me know. Thanks, - Trevor

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Fwd: [TIER] Engineering Opportunities at Gram Power
by Yaw Anokwa 24 Nov '13

24 Nov '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Yashraj Khaitan <yashraj(a)grampower.com> Date: Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 6:04 AM Subject: [TIER] Engineering Opportunities at Gram Power To: tier(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu Hi Everyone, I'm Yashraj Khaitan from Gram Power. We're a young energy technology company out of UC-Berkeley that's working on innovative smart grid technologies and business models to address the 'energy access' and 'energy lost' problems in India. Just a quick background, India has 77 million households off the grid, and on the grid the country loses close to $50 Billion/year towards losses largely due to theft, pilferage and non-payment - the specific challenges that Gram Power is addressing. Our technical team is rapidly growing now. New openings are posted on www.grampower.com/careers. I request the members of this group to pass on the word and anyone interested, please reach out to me directly. Cheers, -- Yashraj Khaitan Co-Founder & CEO ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The information in this message, including any attachments, is the property of Gram Power, Inc. (discloser), is intended solely for the use of the individual(s) or entity to which this message is addressed, and contains confidential or privileged information. Therefore, the use or disclosure by a person who is not an intended recipient is prohibited. Use or distribution by the intended recipient is permitted if distribution is pursuant to an agreement with discloser authorizing distribution, or distribution is to those that have been previously approved by the discloser for sharing. If you are not the intended recipient, or the person responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, please notify the sender and immediately delete this message. _______________________________________________ TIER mailing list Website: http://tier.cs.berkeley.edu TIER(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tier

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FW: Any one have a suggestion of an Internship for U Capetown 2nd Year student in Game Programming -Dec 2013-Feb 2014??
by Sherrilynne Fuller 19 Nov '13

19 Nov '13

Hello - If you have any suggestions for Jimmy please reply directly to him. Sherri Sherrilynne Fuller, Ph.D. Professor Department of Biomedical Informatics School of Medicine and Department of Health Services (Adj) School of Public Health and Information School Co-Director, Center for Public Health Informatics University of Washington SLU - BIME BOX 35-8047 Seattle, Washington, 98195-4985 206-616-4575 206-221-2671 (FAX) 360-440-7341 (Cell) sfuller(a)uw.edu SKYPE: sherrilynne_fuller From: Jimmy Macharia [mailto:kmacharia@usiu.ac.ke] Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2013 1:32 AM To: sfuller(a)u.washington.edu Subject: Internship for UCT 2nd Year student in Game Programming -Dec 2013-Feb 2014 Hi Friend Greetings. Might you know any one/company that might be interested to take one student in the name of Mwangi WANJOHI ( from university of Cape Town) for 3 months internship in Game Programming from December 2013 to Feb 2014? If so let me know. Thank you Jimmy Macharia, www.usiu.ac.ke DISCLAIMER: All the information contained in this email message is strictly confidential and may be legally privileged. Such information is intended exclusively for the use of the designated recipient(s). Any disclosure, copying or distribution of all or part of the information contained herein or other use of or the taking of any action in reliance upon this information by third parties is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this email message in error please delete it immediately and notify the university through email at ulc(a)usiu.ac.ke

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Tom Ball: TouchDevelop - Productive Scripting on and for Touch-based Devices and Web Services
by Trevor Perrier 15 Nov '13

15 Nov '13

What: Tom Ball: TouchDevelop - Productive Scripting on and for Touch-based Devices and Web Services When: Tuesday, November 19th at 12 noon Where: The Allen Center, CSE 203 Please join us for this weeks Change talk by Tom Ball on TouchDevelop - a framework for creating touch based applications. TouchDevelop will be presented at an open session in the upcoming ICTD2013 conference. *Abstract* TouchDevelop <http://www.touchdevelop.com/> is a programming environment that provides high-level abstractions to enable the productive creation of scripts on and for touch-based devices that access web services. TouchDevelop has four main components: 1. A statically typed scripting language with novel abstractions to support (a) stateless GUIs with support for live programming and (b) replicated data for collaborative applications; 2. A browser-hosted touch-based integrated development environment that makes it possible to productively create small scripts with a single finger on a variety of devices. 3. A set of high-level APIs to make it easy to access device sensors/resources and web services; 4. A cloud back-end that enables a social approach to software development. In this talk, I'll first briefly demonstrate TouchDevelop and show how it is being used in education at various levels. I'll then dig into the language abstractions and run-time support for live programming and replicated data, as well as the research opportunities opened up by hosting a software environment in the cloud. *About the Speaker* Thomas (Tom) Ball is a Principal Researcher and Research Manager at Microsoft Research. From 1993-1999, he was at Bell Laboratories, where he made contributions in program visualization and profiling. His 1997 PLDI paper on path profiling with colleagues Ammons and Larus received the PLDI 2007 Most Influential Paper Award. In 1999, Tom moved to Microsoft Research, where he started the SLAM software model checking project with Sriram Rajamani, leading to the Static Driver Verifier (SDV) tool for finding defects in device driver code. A 2001 PLDI paper on SLAM's predicate abstraction procedure for C programs received the PLDI 2011 Most Influential Paper Award. Tom and Sriram received the 2011 CAV Award for SLAM/SDV. Tom is a 2011 ACM Fellow for "contributions to software analysis and defect detection". At Microsoft, he has nurtured research areas such as automated theorem proving, program testing/verification, and empirical software engineering.

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Fwd: Invitation for PhD students interested in future faculty positions at Ashesi
by Alan Borning 13 Nov '13

13 Nov '13

This is a great opportunity for students interested in teaching in Africa - I spent some time at Ashesi on my sabbatical some years ago. cheers, Alan ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Svandenbelt <svandenbelt(a)ashesi.org> Date: Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 12:59 PM Subject: Invitation for PhD students interested in future faculty positions at Ashesi To: borning(a)cs.washington.edu Hi Alan, Marcia Grant<http://www.ashesi.edu.gh/news-and-events/news/1662-ashesi-welcomes-new-prov…>, Ashesi’s Provost, is coming to Seattle this month and is holding an open meeting on November 18 for Ghanaian/West African PhD students who are interested in learning about faculty opportunities at Ashesi. Do you know of anyone that might be interested? Please let me know and help us spread the word! The invitation is below. If you have any questions or ideas for how we can get the word out about the event, I would love to hear them. Please feel free to contact me. Best, Sara -- Sara Vandenbelt Donor Relations Coordinator Ashesi University Foundation 206-545-6988 www.ashesi.org *Ethical leadership and innovative thinking for a new Africa.* Learn more: Community Report<http://files.flipsnack.com/iframe/embed.html?hash=ft32hgg2&wmode=transparen…>– CNN Interview<http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/01/world/africa/patrick-awuah-ashesi-ghana>– *Forbes Interview <http://www.forbes.com/sites/skollworldforum/2013/10/14/educating-a-new-gene…>* Calling all potential faculty: An introduction to Ashesi University<http://www.ashesi.edu.gh/>in Ghana By Marcia Grant<http://www.ashesi.edu.gh/news-and-events/news/1662-ashesi-welcomes-new-prov…>, PhD, Ashesi University Provost Monday, November 18, 2-4 pm Café Allegro <http://seattleallegro.com/contact/> 4214 University Way NE RSVP to jbargeron(a)ashesi.org Dr. Grant is interested in meeting Ghanaian and West African PhD students to discuss faculty and teaching opportunities on campus. Areas of focus include engineering, business, computer science, mathematics, and humanities (African history, English, psychology). Join Marcia to learn about Ashesi’s curriculum, the educational community that makes it unique, and how you can be part of it. *About Ashesi*: Ashesi <http://www.ashesi.edu.gh/> is a world-class institution that combines a rigorous liberal arts core with in-depth majors in business and computer science, and a 4-year commitment to ethical leadership development. Our mission is to educate a new generation of ethical and entrepreneurial leaders in Africa; to cultivate within our students the critical thinking skills, the concern for others, and the courage it will take to transform their continent. Over 95% of Ashesi graduates have chosen to stay in Africa. 100% of Ashesi graduates have received quality placement offers. Ashesi and its leadership have received numerous awards<http://www.ashesi.edu.gh/about/awards-and-recognition-20.html>for their work improving higher education in Africa including recognition from the World Economic Forum, Aspen Institute, and UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. *Learn more*: Ashesi Catalog<http://www.flipsnack.com/FB8F8BAD75E/ftnlwm9p>-- Patrick Awuah’s TED Talk<http://www.ted.com/talks/patrick_awuah_on_educating_leaders.html> -- Ashesi on CNN<http://www.ashesi.edu.gh/news-and-events/publications/brochures/1675-millio…> *For questions, contact*: Ashesi University Foundation at 206-545-6988 or jbargeron(a)ashesi.org.

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[announce] TA3M-Seattle #3, Mon 11/18
by Blibbet 11 Nov '13

11 Nov '13

[BCC'ed Seattle Privacy, DC206, SASAG, Debian Seattle, UW Change, GSLUG, FreeGeek Seattle, LibrePlanet-US-WA, JigRen DaVinci. Sorry for duplicates. Feel free to forward to others.] What: TA3M-Seattle #3 When: November 18, 2013, 6:30-9:00pm Where: Adas Technical Books (425 15th Ave E, Seattle, WA 98112; <http://adasbooks.com/>) ====== TA3M-Seattle (Techno-Activism, 3rd Mondays) is a monthly event focusing on online surveillance and censorship, open access, and open technology. We focus on the open source tools that are used to combat it, and issues and initiatives associated with this area. We bring together software developers, activists, concerned citizens, and others, so we they can both educate each other, and share knowledge. TA3M events take place in dozens of cities worldwide; Seattle started in August 2013. For Seattle, please see the wiki and ta3m-seattle announce mailing list. https://wiki.openitp.org/events:techno-activism_3rd_mondays:seattle https://lists.openitp.org/pipermail/ta3m-seattle/ This month, we are lucky to have three speakers, lots of interesting things to learn! There are two Tor talks, the first is for developers (but users can also benefit from it), the second is for users. Note also the new location! [We could use A/V recording help, if anyone has the ability!] ====== New Location: Adas Books For the last two months, we've been very grateful to have been hosted by Black Coffee CoOp <http://blackcoffeecoop.com/>. Starting this month we'll be hosted at Ada's Technical Books, 425 15th Ave E, Seattle, WA 98112, <http://adasbooks.com/>. We started TA3M #0 in August at Ada's; since then they've moved to a new location with a larger event space. ====== Schedule: 6:30-7:00, pre-event networking: CryptoParty Handbook study group, or Swartz Hackathon projects 7:00-7:05, Chris, welcome to TA3M Seattle 7:05-7-20, Lisha Sterling, "Introducing Geeks Without Bounds and Random Hacks of Kindness" 7:20-7:25, break 7:25-?:??, Damian Johnson, "Tor Ecosystem: Developers Guide to Contributing to the Tor Project" ?:??-?:??, break ?:??-9:00, Lee Colleton, "Operating nodes in the Tor network" ====== Pre-event activity: Last month, we tried to start a study group for the Crypto Party Handbook, but only a handful were ready. This month, during the 6:30-7:00 pre-event networking period, we'll try to split into two groups: 1) Continue the Crypto Party Handbook study group. Please read chapter 2 in advance, and come with any open questions/comments. Or 2) Continue working on any projects started at the recent Aaron Swartz Hackathon. ====== Lisha Sterling, "Introducing Geeks Without Bounds and Random Hacks of Kindness" Our first speaker is Lisha Sterling. In this presentation, "Introducing Geeks Without Bounds and Random Hacks of Kindness", Lisha will tell us about how GWOB supports humanitarian open source projects by organizing hackathons like the semi-annual global RHoK events and by mentoring promising projects through their accelerator program. Lisha is the Developer Coordinator at GWOB and serves as one of the technical mentors in the accelerator. You can read her very short rants on Twitter at @lishevita or read her longer adventures in tech at <http://alwayssababa.com>. ====== Damian Johnson, "Tor Ecosystem: Developers Guide to Contributing to the Tor Project" Our second speaker is Damian Johnson, a local volunteer Tor Developer. In this presentation, "Tor Ecosystem: Developers Guide to Contributing to the Tor Project", Damian will describe the myriad of sub-projects in the Tor ecosystem and how you can get involved with development. Damian is has been a volunteer with the Tor project since 2009, and is the main author behind arm <https://www.atagar.com/arm/> and stem <https://stem.torproject.org/>. ====== Lee Colleton, "Operating nodes in the Tor network" Our third speaker is Lee Colleton. In this presentation, "Operating nodes in the Tor network" in the support and defense of free speech, free association and protecting anonymity online, Lee will be demonstrating the setup and operation of Tor on various platforms: on a desktop computer, on a tiny router and also on an Android device in the form of Orbot from The Guardian Project. Hardware will be given away free to attendees who agree to run a Tor node. Lee is a systems administrator and a member of the Seattle Privacy Coalition. ======

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