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Fwd: [liberationtech] The 2nd Annual SIGCAS Showcase ~~ FREE! ~~ social responsibility, civic tech, and more!
by Kurtis Heimerl 25 Aug '22

25 Aug '22

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Doug Schuler <douglas(a)publicsphereproject.org> Date: Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 4:35 PM Subject: [liberationtech] The 2nd Annual SIGCAS Showcase ~~ FREE! ~~ social responsibility, civic tech, and more! To: LT <lt(a)lists.liberationtech.org> *We are very happy to announce the 2nd Annual SIGCAS Showcase! * [image: image.png] September 14 and 15, 2022 Two four-hour sessions (see website for specific location dates and times) *Time*: 10:00 am to 2:00 pm PDT, GMT -7 (both days start at the same time) *Website*: https://www.sigcas.org/events/sigcas-showcase-2022/ *Place*: Virtual Event (link provided at registration) *Fees*: None, but registration is required. *Registration:* 2022 SIGCAS Showcase Registration via Eventbrite <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/second-annual-sigcas-showcase-2022-tickets-395…> Although not required, we encourage everybody who's not a member to join SIGCAS. Memberships are $10/ year for students and $25/year for everybody else, regardless of professional membership. Use this link: Join SICGAS <https://services.acm.org/public/qj/gensigqj/login_gensigqj.cfm?rdr=promo=QJ…> *Overview* The ACM special interest group on Computers and Society (SIGCAS) is pleased to announce its annual event showcasing SIGCAS, its activities and exemplars. We invite you all to join us as we congratulate the 2022 SIGCAS award recipients, hear their insights and share in discussions concerning computers and their role in and impact on contemporary societal issues led by panels of experts. *SIGCAS 2022 Award winners* *Making a Difference Award Winner* *Dr. Lisa Milenkovic* is the STEM+Computer Science Curriculum Supervisor at Broward County Public Schools, the nation’s sixth largest district ( http://browardschools.com/stem) Dr. Milenkovic is the lead for the District’s Code.org Regional Partnership for CS, the K-12 STEM Olympiad and robotics, environmental stewardship, and several other grant funded programs to engage students and teachers in STEM. She believes EVERY student should find their STEM identity through experiencing an ever changing, diverse set of fun and engaging opportunities (including gaming, spatial computing, and citizen science) that provide #STEMforALL. *Outstanding Service Award Winner* In 2018, *Flo Appel* retired as a Professor of Computer Science after a 32-year academic career in Computer Science at Saint Xavier University in Chicago. During her tenure, her focus was on the development of pedagogy for computer ethics and its social impact. She was an active member of ACM SIGCAS, serving as chair for six years in the early 2000s. Upon her retirement, she recognized that she could make a significant contribution to her community by continuing to support higher education. In April 2021, she was elected to the Board of Trustees of the College of DuPage, her district's community college. *Showcase 2022 Panel Discussions* I'm looking forward to all of these but I'd like to highlight the panel on Social Responsibility in the Computing Profession, featuring two prominent people from our own society, the ACM, and a person from IEEE, also an influential professional society focused on tech. *Are we doing enough? What should we be doing? And why — and how? * Social Responsibility in the Computing Profession Neha Kumar, Georgia Tech; President of ACM SIGCHI. Katina Michael, Arizona State University; IEEE Transactions on Technology & Society Moshe Vardi, Rice University; Communications of the ACM Research in Computing for the Social Good Brett Becker, University College Dublin Kathi Fisler, Brown University Miranda Parker, San Diego State University Sustainability and Green Internet Vesna Manojlovic, RIPE Network Coordination Centre Klervie Tocze, Linköping University Civic Tech for Civic Communities Chris Coward, University of Washington Information School Anna De Liddo, Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University, UK Esther Jang, Paul G Allen School for Computer Science and Engineering *Showcase 2022 Town Hall* The last event of the Showcase will be a discussion regarding SIGCAS, what activities and initiatives should we undertake? What should we do more of? Less of? Given the tremendous impact, both good and bad, of computing, the challenges of addressing societal issues related to computing are massive. We hope you can join us! *Showcase 2022 is open to the public. Feel free to forward this note to other interested people and groups.* -- Douglas Schuler douglas(a)publicsphereproject.org Twitter: @doug_schuler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Public Sphere Project https://www.publicsphereproject.org/ <http://www.publicsphereproject.org/> Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (project) https://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns/lv <https://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns/> Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (book) https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/liberating-voices What type of activist are you? The Activist Mirror knows! https://labs.publicsphereproject.org/am -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable from any major commercial search engine. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://lists.ghserv.net/mailman/listinfo/lt. 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Fwd: Dimagi is hiring a data fellow
by Kurtis Heimerl 24 Aug '22

24 Aug '22

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Brian DeRenzi <bderenzi(a)dimagi.com> Date: Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 5:25 AM Subject: Dimagi is hiring a data fellow To: Kurtis Heimerl <kheimerl(a)cs.washington.edu> Hey Kuris, Hope you're well. We're hiring a data fellow -- can you share with the Change and TIER lists if appropriate? Kind regards, Brian Dimagi is hiring a data fellow to work on their research and data team. Dimagi leads the open-source CommCare platform--the world's most widely-used mobile data collection platform for frontline workers. This role will support research projects, current and future data-driven project work, and exploratory initiatives to develop high-quality research outputs to share and disseminate learnings with larger communities. Find out more at: https://www.dimagi.com/careers/ https://www.dimagi.com/careers/job/4496060/ (direct link to the US-based job application. Other locations available from the main careers page) Or, for more information, reach out to Brian DeRenzi <bderenzi(a)dimagi.com> About Dimagi Dimagi is an award-winning social enterprise and a certified B-corp and Benefit Corporation. We build software solutions and provide technology consulting services to improve the quality of essential services for underserved populations.

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Software development student positions with UW's Clinical Informatics Research Group (CIRG Student Summer 2022)
by Justin McReynolds 24 Jun '22

24 Jun '22

Help us build great software for clinical care, research, and public health! Our team is looking for energetic, detail-oriented, and self-guided students (graduate or undergraduate) with work or study experience in web app development / software engineering / health informatics to contribute to our health information systems. This is an hourly student employee position for the summer, which could continue through the academic year. About us: The University of Washington's Clinical Informatics Research Group (CIRG) designs, develops, builds, and operates information systems that securely manage health information for projects in the Clinical, Public Health, Consumer Health, and Global Health Informatics domains, for both research and usual care. Our collaborators are based at the University of Washington, in national and state governments, and at health care and research organizations across the US and around the world. Our team is led by Dr. Bill Lober, whose background is in emergency medicine and computer engineering, and our staff consists of software developers, system programmers, experts in interaction design/usability and health data system operations, and both graduate and undergraduate students. https://www.cirg.washington.edu DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Working with the rest of the team to develop, configure, and support software systems. Specific duties include: * Writing code * Testing / QA: We really need someone who will try to break our software! * System configuration (often via command line) * Troubleshooting * Support MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS Experience working with Linux systems at the command line and any of the following concentrations: Demonstrated development experience with Python or PHP. or Demonstrated database experience with PostgreSQL or MySQL. or Experience with devops, including VM management and/or docker container management Desired experience: * HTML5, CSS, Javascript. * Development and consumption of RESTful APIs. * FHIR standard, FHIR servers and related tooling * Python Flask, CakePHP. * Mobile app dev. * Git & Git workflows. EDUCATIONAL BENEFITS This is a great opportunity for students to gain experience with open-source software engineering and health informatics. TO APPLY, SEND YOUR CV/RESUME AND A BRIEF COVER LETTER TO cirgjobs(a)uw.edu<mailto:cirgjobs@uw.edu>. Justin McReynolds Technical Program Manager Clinical Informatics Research Group Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Informatics University of Washington

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Fwd: Public Interest Technology summer speaker series
by Kurtis Heimerl 09 Jun '22

09 Jun '22

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Chris Coward <ccoward(a)uw.edu> Date: Thu, Jun 9, 2022 at 7:14 AM Subject: Public Interest Technology summer speaker series To: Kurtis Heimerl <kheimerl(a)cs.washington.edu>, lazowska <lazowska(a)cs.washington.edu>, Ryan Calo <rcalo(a)uw.edu>, Jodi Sandfort <jrs1(a)uw.edu> Cc: Anind K Dey <anind(a)uw.edu> The Public Interest Technology University Network has created a summer speaker series that may be of interest to your students. Starts June 20. Registration required. Please circulate https://pitcases.org/public-interest-technology-summer-speaker-series/ -Chris --- Chris Coward Senior Principal Research Scientist Affiliate Associate Professor Information School, University of Washington Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA), Director Center for an Informed Public, Co-founder The University of Washington acknowledges the Coast Salish peoples of this land, the land which touches the shared waters of all tribes and bands within the Suquamish, Tulalip and Muckleshoot nations

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ACM COMPASS and ICTD 2022 Conferences: Call for Participation - Early registration deadline
by Waylon Brunette 07 Jun '22

07 Jun '22

(Apologies if you receive this notice multiple times) Dear Colleagues, It is our great pleasure to invite you to participate in the ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS) 2022 and the International Conference on Information & Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD) 2022. The early registration fee deadline is fast approaching on June 8th. COMPASS<https://compass.acm.org/> and ICTD<https://ictd.org/> will be co-located as a hybrid conference (in-person and online) at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, USA. ICTD will be held from June 27 to June 29, and COMPASS will be held from June 29 to July 1. On June 29, COMPASS and ICTD will have a shared conference program. To register, visit the combined registration site for COMPASS and ICTD: https://web.cvent.com/event/1686fe24-bbdc-4921-9f71-90a05490f667/summary Information about the accepted papers & notes: COMPASS Accepted Papers & Notes<https://compass.acm.org/accepted-papers-and-notes/> ICTD Accepted Papers<https://ictd.org/accepted-papers/> ICTD Accepted Notes<https://ictd.org/accepted-notes/> We are looking forward to seeing you at ICTD 2022 & ACM COMPASS 2022! Warm Regards, Waylon Brunette, University of Washington, COMPASS General Co-Chair Engineer Bainomugisha, Makerere University, COMPASS General Co-Chair Richard Anderson, University of Washington, ICTD General Chair ABOUT THE CONFERENCES ACM COMPASS<https://compass.acm.org/> - Inspired by the broad agenda of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs<https://sdgs.un.org/goals>), ACM COMPASS is an international forum for the presentation and publication of research that supports the growth of sustainable societies worldwide, from a broad array of disciplines, including computer and information sciences, social sciences, environmental sciences, and engineering. The ACM COMPASS community has a particular commitment to approaches and research that address the challenges faced by under-represented and marginalized communities, and explicitly promotes multi-disciplinary and cross-disciplinary research and practice that address key challenges for sustainable societies including, but not limited to, equity, health, education, poverty, accessibility, conservation, climate change, energy, infrastructure and economic growth. We also welcome research on the ethics of technology, especially from a critical perspective, that explores limitations and concerns with technology-led solutions for sustainable societies. ICTD<https://ictd.org/> - A research conference that explores the role of information and communication technologies (ICT) in global development. The conference reflects the multidisciplinary and multisectoral nature of ICTD work, with representation from a broad range of areas (anthropology, communication, computer science, design, economics, electrical engineering, geography, global health, information science, political science, sociology, and many others), as well as participation from academia, industry, civil society, and government.

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ACM COMPASS and ICTD 2022 Conferences: Call for Participation
by Waylon Brunette 24 May '22

24 May '22

(Apologies if you receive this notice multiple times) Dear Colleagues, It is our great pleasure to invite you to participate in the ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS) 2022 and the International Conference on Information & Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD) 2022. COMPASS<https://compass.acm.org/> and ICTD<https://ictd.org/> will be co-located as a hybrid conference (in-person and online) at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, USA. ICTD will be held from June 27 to June 29, and COMPASS will be held from June 29 to July 1. On June 29, COMPASS and ICTD will have a shared conference program. To register, visit the combined registration site for COMPASS and ICTD: https://web.cvent.com/event/1686fe24-bbdc-4921-9f71-90a05490f667/summary Information about the accepted papers & notes: COMPASS Accepted Papers & Notes<https://compass.acm.org/accepted-papers-and-notes/> ICTD Accepted Papers<https://ictd.org/accepted-papers/> ICTD Accepted Notes<https://ictd.org/accepted-notes/> We are looking forward to seeing you at ICTD 2022 & ACM COMPASS 2022! Warm Regards, Waylon Brunette, University of Washington, COMPASS General Co-Chair Engineer Bainomugisha, Makerere University, COMPASS General Co-Chair Richard Anderson, University of Washington, ICTD General Chair ABOUT THE CONFERENCES ACM COMPASS<https://compass.acm.org/> - Inspired by the broad agenda of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs<https://sdgs.un.org/goals>), ACM COMPASS is an international forum for the presentation and publication of research that supports the growth of sustainable societies worldwide, from a broad array of disciplines, including computer and information sciences, social sciences, environmental sciences, and engineering. The ACM COMPASS community has a particular commitment to approaches and research that address the challenges faced by under-represented and marginalized communities, and explicitly promotes multi-disciplinary and cross-disciplinary research and practice that address key challenges for sustainable societies including, but not limited to, equity, health, education, poverty, accessibility, conservation, climate change, energy, infrastructure and economic growth. We also welcome research on the ethics of technology, especially from a critical perspective, that explores limitations and concerns with technology-led solutions for sustainable societies. ICTD<https://ictd.org/> - A research conference that explores the role of information and communication technologies (ICT) in global development. The conference reflects the multidisciplinary and multisectoral nature of ICTD work, with representation from a broad range of areas (anthropology, communication, computer science, design, economics, electrical engineering, geography, global health, information science, political science, sociology, and many others), as well as participation from academia, industry, civil society, and government.

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Fwd: HotCarbon 2022: 1st Workshop on Sustainable Computer Systems Design and Implementation
by Kurtis Heimerl 03 May '22

03 May '22

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: George Porter <gmporter(a)cs.ucsd.edu> Date: Mon, May 2, 2022 at 4:28 PM Subject: HotCarbon 2022: 1st Workshop on Sustainable Computer Systems Design and Implementation To: Kurtis Heimerl <kheimerl(a)cs.washington.edu> Hi Kurtis, We're putting together a one-day workshop the Sunday before OSDI called "HotCarbon 2022: 1st Workshop on Sustainable Computer Systems Design and Implementation." and thought you might be interested. Additionally, we're hoping you can share this information with folks you know who might be interested. Key Dates and locations: Date: July 10, 2022 (immediately before OSDI 2022) Location: UC San Diego, La Jolla, Calif. and Zoom (it will be a hybrid event) Paper or Panel proposal submission deadline: May 10, 2022 (AoE) Notification: June 3, 2022 Website and registration link: https://hotcarbon.org We solicit 5-page position papers that address sustainability and/or the carbon footprint of computer and networked systems. An ideal submission has the potential to open a line of inquiry that results in multiple conference papers by different authors in related venues, rather than a single follow-on conference paper. Position papers that frame larger new challenges and opportunities are encouraged. The program committee will explicitly favor papers likely to stimulate reflection and discussion, addressing the root causes of unsustainability in current designs. The full CFP and program committee list is available at https://hotcarbon.org/ If you could forward this to those who might be interested we'd greatly appreciate it! Warm regards, George Porter and Tom Anderson Program Co-Chairs, HotCarbon'22

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Fwd: RSVP Invite: 4/27 (Wed) Innovation & Design Talk: Service Design for Afghan Refugees and Beyond
by Huatong Sun 25 Apr '22

25 Apr '22

Dear DUB community and ICTD Community, You're cordially invited to join us for a virtual talk event on April 27 (Wednesday)! Event flyer is attached. *UWT Innovation & Design Minor Career Talk Series * Service Design: Design for Impact and Social Change April 27 (Wednesday) 12:30-1:20 pm RSVP at bit.ly/GIDSERIES4 for the Zoom link. - Learn about the booming area of service design and the service design project for newly arrived Afghan refugees <https://depts.washington.edu/globalid/news/innovation-and-design-students-w…> done in TGID 320 Innovation & Design Studio course in the winter quarter - Explore student opportunities with the Global Innovation & Design (GID) Lab and Innovation & Design Minor Accommodation requests related to a disability should be made by 4/25 2 pm to globalid(a)uw.edu. [image: 1.png] *Speaker Info*: Artist and cultural producer Janeil Engelstad produces multiform, interdisciplinary projects, public art and exhibitions that address social and environmental concerns throughout the world. The Founding Director of Make Art with Purpose, Janeil is currently Visiting Faculty and the Artist in Residence at UWT’s Institute for Innovation and Global Engagement. *Stay Tuned* - Check out the recordings of our past events: - Design a Good Game for Your Career <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLvPghT9s5c> - Enterprise User Experience <https://youtu.be/8axc2ynVwnM> - Marketing with Design <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEIhrULc3CA> - Participate in our first-ever social media competition <https://depts.washington.edu/globalid/news/looking-for-most-innovative-soci…> as a social influencer and minor ambassador--Deadline extended to May 2! *Questions or Feedback? * Send email to globalid(a)uw.edu Huatong Sun | 孙华彤 (she/her), Ph.D. Associate Professor, Digital and Social Media & Global Design School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences Associate Director, Global Innovation and Design Lab University of Washington Tacoma http://faculty.washington.edu/htsun/ OUP Author: Global Social Media Design: Bridging Differences Across Cultures <https://global.oup.com/academic/product/global-social-media-design-97801908…> (2020) & Cross-Cultural Technology Design <https://global.oup.com/academic/product/cross-cultural-technology-design-97…> (2012)

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Youth Digital Stewards Seattle Community Network Celebration
by Esther Jang 10 Mar '22

10 Mar '22

Dear Change community, The UW ICTD Lab's spin-off community networking nonprofit the Local Connectivity Lab, along with Black Brilliance Research Project and other organizational collaborators, have been teaching a small pilot cohort of a youth STEM enrichment program on community technologies called *Youth Digital Stewards* over the last few months in order to get local high school students involved in the Seattle Community Network <https://seattlecommunitynetwork.org/> project. We're having our end-of-program celebration and final project presentations *this Sunday 3/13/22 at 12-2pm* and y'all are warmly welcome to come! Please share our flyer widely on your networks if you can to support our local youth! [image: YDS_community_celebration_flyer.png] Thanks so much, -Esther

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Call for submissions: 4S conference | Toward reunion: Conversations, criticisms, reconfigurations of ICTD
by Philip Garrison 08 Mar '22

08 Mar '22

We invite submissions to our open panel titled Toward reunion: Conversations, criticisms, reconfigurations of ICTD to be hosted at the 4S Annual Conference in Cholula, México, Dec 7-10th, 2022. —------------------------------------------- Conference date: December 7-10, 2022 Location: Cholula, México Deadline: April 14, 2022 Notifications: May 25, 2022 Submission: 250 word abstract, in Spanish or English Submission instructions: https://www.4sonline.org/meeting/call-for-submissions/ —------------------------------------------- Toward reunion: Conversations, criticisms, reconfigurations of ICTD <https://www.4sonline.org/143-toward-reunion-conversations-criticisms-reconf…> This panel approaches the theme of knowledges and technosciences for living together through the lens of Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICTD). ICTD is a contested and multidisciplinary field and banner for projects that try to address systemic and societal issues (infrastructure, connectivity, socio-economics, education, etc.) through innovation and reconfiguration of information and communication technologies. The description of the joint meeting states that “Reunion indicates there has been a break in relations, providing an opportunity to engage differently, this time.” ICTD can include novel forms of neocolonial extraction but also enacting relationality and the responsibility of living well together. We invite papers from/about ICTD, or those that disavow that ICTD/development, on the theme of reunion. Reunion, perhaps, between technosciences, internationalism, and critique of development. We welcome submissions in both the social studies of technologies in development and the social studies of ICTD-the-field. We invite papers from a variety of contexts, including but not limited to: - Decolonial and postcolonial computing - Indigenous knowledges in design/production of technologies - Tools of knowledge production in development and ICTD - Critique and analysis of development paradigm; alternatives to development - Transnational flows of computing materials - Ethical practices of development practitioners - Community-centered work, perspectives, and relationships between a communities and researcher/practitioner collaborators - Transfers, translations, and lifecycles of ICTD collaborations and technologies —------------------------------ Invitamos a participantes para nuestro panel abierto titulado Hacia el reencuentro: Conversaciones, críticas, reconfiguraciones de ICTD, que se llevará a cabo en la Conferencia Anual 4S en Cholula, México, del 7 al 10 de diciembre de 2022. —------------------------------ Fecha de la conferencia: del 7 al 10 de diciembre de 2022 Ubicación: Cholula, México Fecha límite: 14 de abril de 2022 Notificaciones: 25 de mayo de 2022 Presentación: resumen de 250 palabras, en Español o Inglés Instrucciones de envío: https://www.4sonline.org/meeting/call-for-submissions/ —------------------------------ Hacia el reencuentro: Conversaciones, críticas, reconfiguraciones de las TICD <https://www.4sonline.org/143-toward-reunion-conversations-criticisms-reconf…> Este panel aborda el tema de los saberes y las tecnociencias para la convivencia a través del lente de las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación para el Desarrollo (TICD). TICD es un campo disputado y multidisciplinario para proyectos que intentan abordar problemas sistémicos y sociales (infraestructura, conectividad, socioeconomía, educación, etc.) a través de la innovación y la reconfiguración de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación. La descripción de la reunión conjunta establece que "La reunión indica que ha habido una ruptura en las relaciones, lo que brinda la oportunidad de participar de manera diferente, esta vez". TICD puede incluir formas novedosas de extracción neocolonial, pero también promulgar la relacionalidad y la responsabilidad del buen vivir. Invitamos artículos de/sobre TICD, aquellos que rechazan TICD/desarrollo, o sobre el tema de la reunión. Reunión, quizás, entre tecnociencias, internacionalismo y crítica del desarrollo. Damos la bienvenida a presentaciones tanto en estudios sociales de tecnologías en desarrollo como en estudios sociales del campo TICD. Invitamos artículos de variedad de contextos, que incluyen, entre otros: - Computación decolonial y poscolonial - Conocimientos indígenas en el diseño/producción de tecnologías - Herramientas de producción de conocimiento en desarrollo y TIC - Crítica y análisis del paradigma del desarrollo; alternativas al desarrollo - Flujos transnacionales de materiales informáticos - Prácticas éticas y razonamiento moral de los practicantes del desarrollo - Trabajo centrado en la comunidad, perspectivas y relaciones entre comunidades y colaboradores investigadores/practicantes - Transferencias, traducciones y ciclos de vida de colaboraciones TIC y tecnologías

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