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Change Tuesday Oct 22th: Kurtis Heimerl - GSM White Space
by Trevor Perrier 18 Oct '13

18 Oct '13

What: Kurtis Heimerl: GSM White Space: Spectrum Regulation in Support of Community Cellular Networks When: Tuesday, October 22th at 12 noon Where: The Allen Center, CSE 203 Join us for this weeks Change talk by Kurtis Heimerl on his continued work with community cellular networks and the future small micotelcos. *Abstract* Community Cellular Networks, small scale community-operated microtelcos, have the potential to bring cellular coverage to the remaining 700 million people in rural areas without it. The deployments of two real world networks, our Papua network and Rhizomatica's Oaxaca network, support this vision. However, hurdles remain. One primary limitation is regulatory; the Papua network is running without a spectrum license and the Oaxaca network is limited to a 2-year experimental non-profit license. Instead, major nation-scale carriers own this spectrum and are reluctant to share it. In this work, we propose a mechanism, GSM White Space (GSMWS), for allowing secondary community cellular networks to operate in licensed bands with no negative impact to existing carriers. GSMWS uses cognitive radio designs to co-operate in the same bands as existing carriers. I will detail our early progress on these designs and future work. *About the Speaker* Kurtis Heimerl is a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley working under Eric Brewer in EECS and Tapan Parikh in the iSchool. His work focuses primarily on cellular systems and their intersection with international development. He is interested in Education, having worked on the Metamouse group learning program, Crowdsourcing, winning Best Paper at CHI for work on Kiosk-based crowdsoucing systems, and cellular systems for rural areas, winning the Community award at NSDI. He will be graduating in the winter and is very excited about the future of rural connectivity.

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Fw: Fwd: Artoo is Hiring: Rainmaker & Geeks
by Anupam Jain5 15 Oct '13

15 Oct '13

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Katy Pearce: The reproduction and amplification of gender inequality online - The case of Azerbaijan.
by Trevor Perrier 10 Oct '13

10 Oct '13

What: Katy Pearce: The reproduction and amplification of gender inequality online - The case of Azerbaijan. When: Tuesday, October 15th at 12 noon Where: The Allen Center, CSE 203 Join us for this weeks Change talk by Katy Pearce,<http://www.com.washington.edu/pearce/>assistant professor in the Department of Communication on online gender inequality in Azerbaijan. *Abstract* Inequalities found offline are replicated and are often amplified online. Results from a nationally representative survey in Azerbaijan, an authoritarian post-Soviet petrostate with a tradition of gender inequality, demonstrates that being female is not only a barrier to Internet use, but the strongest barrier to Internet use, frequency, and capital-enhancing online activities. While this study cannot explain why being female has such an effect on access, use, and Internet activities, acknowledging the relative importance of can provide insight into potential targets or entry points for an intervention. *About the Speaker* Katy E. Pearce is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington and holds an affiliation with the Ellison Center for Russian East European, and Central Asian Studies. She specializes in technology and media use in the Former Soviet Union. Her research focuses on social and political uses of technologies and digital content in the transitioning democracies and semi-authoritarian states of the South Caucasus and Central Asia, but primarily Armenia and Azerbaijan. She has a BA (2001) in Armenian, Arabic, Persian, Turkish & Islamic Studies as well as American Culture from the University of Michigan, an MA (2006) in International Studies from the University of London School for Oriental and African Studies, and a PhD (2011) in Communication from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and was a Fulbright scholar (Armenia 2007-2008). The main thrust of my research is adoption and use of information and communication technologies in diverse cultural, economic, and political contexts, mainly authoritarian post-Soviet states. The adoption side, I look at barriers to use – often socioeconomic, but sometimes political or cultural. On the outcome of ICT use side, I study outcomes like decreasing or increasing inequality due to ICTs, cosmopolitanism, capital enhancement, civic engagement, demand for democracy, and social activism.

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Fwd: Service Learning Opportunity at the International Rescue Committee
by Alan Borning 10 Oct '13

10 Oct '13

Hi all - I also sent this to the dub-faculty, with the idea that this could be a great capstone project in the iSchool or HCDE (doesn't quite seem CSE-ish) .... but if any of you have other ideas please send me or Amanda a note. thanks, Alan ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Amanda Addington <Amanda.addington(a)rescue.org> Date: Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 1:49 PM Subject: Service Learning Opportunity at the International Rescue Committee To: "borning(a)cs.Washington.edu" <borning(a)cs.washington.edu> Dear Professor Borning,**** ** ** My name is Amanda Addington; I am an AmeriCorps VISTA Leader at the International Rescue Committee(IRC) in Seattle. The IRC responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. In Seattle, the IRC provides the services and support needed to assist refugees, asylees and victims of human trafficking to rebuild their lives and become independent and involved members of the community.*** * Each month the IRC hosts the King County Refugee Forum. The Refugee Forum is a membership organization providing information and networking opportunities for those serving refugees in King County. Members and meeting attendees include representatives of resettlement agencies, ethnic community organizations, community based organizations, school districts, healthcare providers, government agencies and individuals working with refugees.**** We would like to develop a website which will be a space for forum members and meeting attendees to share and exchange service-related information. Although we have content information and a general look in mind, we lack the technical skills required to build the site. We have discussed the possibility of developing a service learning opportunity that would allow a student to gain practical experience while assisting us with the limited resources we have available.**** We are looking for University faculty willing to assist in recommending and overseeing a student who is interested in applying their exceptional skills in a practical environment.**** If you are interested in learning more information, please contact me at Amanda.Addington(a)rescue.org or by phone at 607-623-2105.**** ** ** Thank you,**** Amanda Addington**** ** ** ** ** *Amanda Addington | AmeriCorps*VISTA Leader *International Rescue Committee - Refugee Support Network 100 South King Street, Suite 570, Seattle, WA 98104-2885 **** Amanda.Addington(a)rescue.org <Yvette.Sumner(a)rescue.org> | T +1 206 623 2105 * *** refugeesupportnetwork.wordpress.com [image: IRC_1] <http://www.rescue.org/us-program/us-seattle-wa>[image: fb_1]<http://www.facebook.com/IRCSeattle> **** ** **

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[announce] TA3M-Seattle #2, Mon 10/21
by Blibbet 10 Oct '13

10 Oct '13

What: TA3M-Seattle #2 event announcement When: October 21st (3rd Monday), 6:30-9:00pm Where: Black Coffee Coop, 501 E. Pine St; Seattle, WA 98122 http://blackcoffeecoop.com TA3M-Seattle (Techno-Activism, 3rd Mondays) is a monthly event for people that either work on or want to learn more about online surveillance and censorship, the open source tools that are used to combat it, and issues and initiatives associated with this area. The idea is to 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 September 2013. For more information about TA3M-Seattle, see the wiki. https://wiki.openitp.org/events:techno-activism_3rd_mondays:seattle We're happy to have a busy event for you this month, with three guests! Two speakers, with educational talks, and one to briefly announce an upcoming hackathon. And if that weren't enough, we're starting a book study group for the Crypto Party Handbook in the pre-event networking time. And for those that only attend for the stickers, this month Chris has some DuckDuckGo stickers for anyone that gives us feedback as to how we can make TA3M-Seattle a better event. :-) ========== New ta3m-seattle announce mailing list Note: This will be the last month we spam lots of mailing lists to announce our meetings. We have a new ta3m-seattle mailing list setup, and will use that for the November-onward meetings. Please subscribe to this announce-only mailing list for future announcements (or at least view the list's archives on the 3rd Sunday). https://lists.openitp.org/pipermail/ta3m-seattle/ ========== Schedule: 6:30-7:00, pre-event networking; and Theresa leads Crypto Party Handbook study group 7:00-7:10, Chris, "Welcome to TA3M-Seattle #2" 7:10-7:15, Noah Swartz, "Announcing the Seattle Aaron Swartz Hackathon" 7:15-7:25, break (10min) 7:25-8:10, Jeremy Johnson, "Protecting your privacy, anonymity and security with Linux and Open Source tools" 8:10-8-25, break (15min) 8:25-9-00, Jamela Debelak, Technology & Liberty Director, ACLU of Washington, "Reigning in Government Surveillance in Washington" ========== Pre-event activity: Crypto Party Handbook study group starts this month The first presentation begins at 7:00, but we'll be there starting at 6:30 for networking, since other TA3M cities apparently find networking as useful as presentations. Starting this month, we're going to try something new, we're starting a book study group for the "Crypto Party Handbook". Beginners are encouraged to participate and learn; advanced users are encouraged to help teach beginners, and optionally submit patches to the book. If interested, please bring a copy of the PDF or EPUB on your tablet/netbook/phone, read chapters 1-2 before attending, and come with a list of open questions, and be prepared to discuss the material. It's a short 30-minute period, so come prepared with questions. This month, Theresa will be leading the round-table discussion. http://www.cryptoparty.in/documentation/handbook https://github.com/cryptoparty/handbook ========== Special Event Announcement: Noah Swartz, "Announcing the Seattle Aaron Swartz Hackathon" Noah Swartz will be briefly announcing an upcoming event, the "Seattle Aaron Swartz Hackathon", taking place November 8-10. This will be part of a second set of global hackathons centered around Aaron's work and legacy, with the hope of fostering a recurring bi-yearly event promoting social and technical activism. While goal of the event is to continue the Aaron started, what Noah needs help with is figuring out what current problems need solutions, as well as finding local participants and project ideas for this hackathon. The event will happen simultaneously with a number of other coordinated events around the world, but the Seattle event will need to have it's own specific projects to work on, so please start thinking of ideas to give Noah. http://aaronswartzhackathon.org/ https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Worldwide_Aaron_Swartz_Memorial_Hackathon_… ========== Presentation 1: Jeremy Johnson, "Protecting your privacy, anonymity and security with Linux and Open Source tools" Our first speaker is Jeremy Johnson. In this presentation, "Protecting your privacy, anonymity and security with Linux and Open Source tools", Jeremy gives an overview of the available tools and configurations for basic through advanced level security and privacy measures. He will discuss example configurations, communication methods, and on-going operational security. All slides and presentation notes will be available for download. The talk will not include specific instructions for setup, but will have several resources available in the downloadable materials. If conditions allow, Jeremy will have a QubesOS laptop for demonstrations and hands-on purposes. Jeremy has been using UNIX/Linux since 1996 both personally and professionally. While Ubuntu/Debian based distributions are his current platforms, Jeremy remains agnostic about which OS is superior as they all have strengths and weaknesses. Since 2001, Jeremy has been concerned about privacy and users' rights and has been doing something about it since 2004. The latest NSA revelations have spurred him to share with anybody who will listen (and sometimes those who won't) the tools and techniques that he uses. Jeremy currently works as a System Security Administrator at a Tribal Casino but has been a Database Administrator, Web Developer, HIPAA Compliance Officer, Network Engineer, and a UNIX Administrator in the past. For fun, he volunteers with a Mountain Rescue unit and attends the annual DefCon conference, a large and popular hacker conference. Twitter: @beyondnegative Tumblr: https://beyondnegative.tumblr.com Email: jeremy/at/sectiva/com GPG Key: https://sectiva.com/public.key ========== Presentation 2: Jamela Debelak, "Reigning in Government Surveillance in Washington" Our second speaker is Jamela Debelak. In this presentation, "Reigning in Government Surveillance in Washington", Jamela will be speaking about the ACLU-WA's work focused on government use of surveillance technology. She will discuss various types of new technology such as automated license plate readers and drones and what the ACLU-WA is doing to ensure that government use of these technologies does not infringe upon our privacy rights. Jamela Debelak is the Technology and Liberty Director at the ACLU of Washington where she works to promote technology policy that protects and advances civil liberties in Washington. Prior to joining the ACLU-WA, she was Executive Director of the Center on Law and Information Policy at Fordham Law School. While there, she led research and programming on issues related to children's privacy, internet intermediary liability and online speech. She previously worked as an attorney at Dechert LLP in Philadelphia and New York, specializing in corporate and intellectual property issues. Jamela graduated magna cum laude from Temple University School of Law in 2005 and holds an undergraduate degree from The Ohio State University. http://aclu-wa.org/ ==========

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Fwd: Faculty positions in NYU Abu Dhabi and NYU Shanghai
by Yaw Anokwa 09 Oct '13

09 Oct '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lakshminarayanan Subramanian <lakshmi(a)cs.nyu.edu> Date: Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 6:20 PM Subject: Faculty positions in NYU Abu Dhabi and NYU Shanghai To: tier(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu, sig-dev(a)googlegroups.com Hi all, NYU has opened up new campuses in Abu Dhabi and Shanghai. There are faculty openings in both these campuses. The ad links are below. NYUAD: http://nyuad.nyu.edu/about/careers/faculty-positions.html NYUSH: http://shanghai.nyu.edu/about/open-positions-faculty Feel free to forward to others you know who may be interested in your universities and elsewhere. NYUAD has two openings with a focus on HCI and Networked systems. NYUSH is looking for someone who specializing in scalable distributed systems. cheers lakshmi -- "Have a dream, pursue it!" -- Anonymous -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SIGDEV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sig-dev%2Bunsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.

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Y Combinator Will Now Fund Nonprofits Too
by Joy Ming 09 Oct '13

09 Oct '13

*We just opened applications for the winter 2014 Y Combinator batch, and we're happy to announce that there's something new this time: an application form for nonprofits. We're going to start including nonprofits in every YC batch.* * * *We'd been thinking about this for a while. We had a hypothesis that many newly founded nonprofits could benefit from the same techniques we use to help startups. We tested this with Watsi in the Winter 2013 batch and it worked wonderfully. They did all the same things as the other startups, including present at Demo Day (which is after all a room with lots of rich people in it).* * * *Since some people were confused when we funded Watsi, I'd better clarify that the money we're putting into the nonprofits will be a charitable donation, rather than an investment in the narrow sense. We won't have any financial interest in them.* * * *We don't know how many nonprofits we'll fund, or what type of ideas we'll like. We like Watsi a lot, because they help people who really need help, and do it in an efficient and transparent way. But fundamentally this is an experiment, just like YC itself was at first. So we don't want to tell people too precisely what we're looking for, because we're not sure yet what we're looking for.* http://ycombinator.com/np.html *If you have a nonprofit or social venture that you feel would benefit from "the most prestigious program for budding digital entrepreneurs", applications <http://ycombinator.com/apply.html> for Winter 2014 close October 21.* -- *Joy Ming *| Harvard University '15 How are you using technology to impact the world? www.developersfordevelopment.org

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FW: [EvansWorld] GSEC Information Sessions! This week - Thurs, Oct 10!
by Melody Clark 07 Oct '13

07 Oct '13

From: evansworld-bounces(a)mailman2.u.washington.edu [mailto:evansworld-bounces@mailman2.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Mary Kay Gugerty Sent: Monday, October 07, 2013 10:04 PM To: evansworld(a)uw.edu Subject: [EvansWorld] GSEC Information Sessions! This week - Thurs, Oct 10! For all UW students - undergraduate, graduate and professional Join us for one of two information sessions to learn more about the Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition (GSEC) http://www.foster.washington.edu/centers/gbc/globalsocialentrepreneurshipco…! We are hosting two information sessions this week on Thursday, October 10th. One session on north campus and one on south campus. North campus: Thursday, October 10, 2013 12:30pm - 1:00pm MacKenzie Hall Room 137, McCabe Room (in the Global Business Center) in the UW Foster School of Business Map: http://uw.edu/maps/?mkz South campus: Thursday, October 10, 2013 4:30pm - 5:00pm Harris Hydraulics Laboratory (Department of Global Health), Large Conference Room - Room 322 Map: http://uw.edu/maps/?hhl GSEC is an international student social business plan competition that challenges university-level students worldwide to use business principles to create sustainable, positive solutions to some of the world's most challenging issues-poverty, health and development. Semi-finalist student teams from around the globe are invited to Seattle to present their ideas to coaches, mentors and judges and compete to win prizes. Join us to learn how, through GSEC, you could win $12K, get exposure to 400+ professionals, and receive expert coaching to develop a social venture in developing economies. A great place to find team members/join a team! Deadline to apply is November 12, 2013 by 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time! We hope to see you there! Charlene Balick Assistant director, global business center Michael G. Foster School of Business * University of Washington T: 206.543.4109<tel:206.543.4109> * C: 206.683.6296<tel:206.683.6296> cbalick(a)uw.edu<mailto:cbalick@uw.edu> and Jennifer Lucero-Earle Assistant Director, Global Health Resource Center (GHRC) Department of Global Health, University of Washington Phone: 206.685.7418<tel:206.685.7418> | Fax: 206.685.8519<tel:206.685.8519> Email: jearle(a)uw.edu<mailto:jearle@uw.edu> * To Coordinate * To Connect * To Catalyze GHRC Web: http://globalhealth.washington.edu View our calendar of events and more: http://globalhealth.washington.edu/about_us/connected.php _______________________________________________ Ghrc_advisoryboard mailing list Ghrc_advisoryboard(a)u.washington.edu<mailto:Ghrc_advisoryboard@u.washington.edu> https://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/ghrc_advisoryboard -- _______________________________________ Mary Kay Gugerty Associate Professor, Evans School of Public Affairs Senior Faculty Advisor, Nancy Bell Evans Center on Nonprofits & Philanthropy Co-Director, Evans Policy Analysis & Research Group (EPAR) University of Washington gugerty(a)uw.edu<mailto:gugerty@uw.edu>

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Fwd: Medical Informatics positions at Partners In Health
by Yaw Anokwa 07 Oct '13

07 Oct '13

The informatics team at PIH does great work! If you are interested go to http://www.pih.org/pages/employment. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ellen Ball <eball(a)pih.org> Date: Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 3:50 PM Subject: Medical Informatics positions at Partners In Health To: Ellen Ball <eball(a)pih.org> Hope this message finds you well. We are reaching out to our fellow compatriots in the OpenMRS/global health community in hopes that someone can recommend candidates for the Medical Informatics (MI) team at Partners In Health. With Evan's departure in August, the team structure has changed. His position has transformed to the Associate Director of Medical Informatics, reporting to Lisa Hirshhorn, Director of Monitoring Evaluation & Quality (MEQ) and MI. Thanks in advance for looking through the positions below, and please feel free to spread the word. These jobs are described in greater detail: http://www.pih.org/pages/employment Associate Director, Medical Informatics – Boston A strong background in project management and a systems thinker who can identify healthcare challenges and apply appropriate technological solutions. This position will include both administrative and management responsibilities and systems analysis to support the development work of the Medical Informatics team. This person will need to have the ability to analyze country medical informatics needs and current systems and then work with the medical informatics team and stakeholders to develop and implement solutions. Previous experience in EMR implementation in resource poor settings would be a great advantage. Business Analyst, Medical Informatics – Boston Facilitate the design of cohesive, integrated software applications by PIH’s Medical Informatics team. Working with a range of staff at PIH sites (primarily Haiti in the next year), he or she will consolidate functional requirements and work with the software development team to ensure that systems deliver the right functionality to the right user at the right time. Medical Informatics Manager, University Hospital (UH) of Mirebalais – Haiti Analytical lead on the implementation of electronic Health Information Systems (HIS) including EMRs (particularly OpenMRS), supply chain management, and lab systems. He or she will be the main point of contact between UH and the Boston-based Informatics team, as well as third-party software vendors. Regards, Ellen

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Matthew Thompson: Identifying children with serious illness in resource poor settings – how can vital signs be more useful?
by Trevor Perrier 07 Oct '13

07 Oct '13

What: Matthew Thompson: Identifying children with serious illness in resource poor settings – how can vital signs be more useful? When: Tuesday, October 8th at 12 noon Where: The Allen Center, CSE 203 Join us for the second Change seminar of the fall quarter. This week Matthew Thompson from the Department of Family Medicine at UW will be speaking about how vital signs can be used to more effectively identify serious illness. *Abstract* Vital signs are key physiological measures that are used to assess the overall severity of illness in children, particularly in primary or community clinical settings. They include heart rate, breathing rate, temperature, and sometimes blood pressure, oxygen saturations and capillary refill time. Currently, the WHO’s Integrated Management of Childhood Illness only routinely uses breathing rate, and even in established primary care clinics low/middle income settings, vital signs are measured infrequently. So why aren’t vital signs used routinely to assess children? As with any ‘signal’, vital signs will only be useful for identifying children with serious illness if A) They can be measured accurately B) There are thresholds that define abnormal values, C) The diagnostic value of one or more abnormal vital signs is known, and D) vital signs provide diagnostic value over and above other clinical assessments. Over the past 7 years our Oxford-based group has explored novel ways of measuring breathing rate in children using the photoplethysmogram signal from pulse oximeters, developed new evidence-based centile charts of heart rate and breathing rate in children which are now being adopted worldwide, quantified the interaction of temperature with heart rate and with breathing rate, and evaluated the diagnostic accuracy of different combinations of vital signs for identifying children with serious illness in various settings. Vital signs could probably identify the majority of children with serious illness in primary care settings, but there are major gaps that prevent vital signs from being adopted routinely to assess unwell children. In this seminar I will share these research findings with the aim of exploring possible research collaborations across departments at UW in developing low cost technological solutions to vital sign measurement, interpretation/integration, as well as diagnostic accuracy studies that could inform child assessments in first contact settings in low/middle income countries *About the Speaker* Matthew Thompson has recently moved from the University of Oxford to take up a new position as Professor and Vice Chair of Research at the Department of Family Medicine at UW. He has a background as a Family Physician and trained and worked in the USA, UK and S Africa. He completed his MPH at UW and a DPhil in diagnostic research at the University of Oxford. His research as a clinical epidemiologist in Oxford over the last 10 years has focused on diagnostics, child health and infectious diseaseshttp://www.phc.ox.ac.uk/team/researchers-n-z/matthew-thompson. He set up and led the Oxford Centre for Monitoring and Diagnosis, which evaluates and conducts clinical studies on diagnostic tests and technologies relevant to primary care, including point of care tests and electronic devices. His child health research has explored more accurate ways to identify children with serious illness (e.g. meningitis) in primary care using clinical features and decision support. He is also currently PI of an EU-funded study to evaluate a mobile platform based version of IMCI and vital signs in Malawi, and is working on a Wellcome Trust study assessing the diagnostic value of vital signs in children in community clinics in Cape Town.

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