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ICTD2022: Call for Open Sessions
by Aditya Vashistha 03 Mar '22

03 Mar '22

Hi all, Please find below the call for submissions for open sessions at ICTD 2022. Apologies for cross posting. I'd appreciate it if you can forward it in your networks. Call for Submissions for Open Sessions 12th International Conference on Information & Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD 2022) <https://ictd.org/>, June 27-29, 2022 University of Washington in Seattle, USA ------------------------------ The 12th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD) invites you to submit two-page proposals for open sessions by April 1, 2022. ICTD 2022 will be hosted at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA on June 27-29 2022. ICTD as a field aims for inclusivity and ICTD 2022 as a conference aims to include perspectives and participation from industry, policymakers, civil society, practitioners, academia, and government. The Open Sessions provide this opportunity to ensure the representation of projects, experiences, and viewpoints that will benefit the ICTD community, especially where they do not fit the full papers or notes formats. Open sessions <https://ictd.org/ictd2022/participate/call-for-open-sessions/> typically include multiple presenters convening around important, cross-cutting themes. They may take the form of panels, workshops, “ignite” talks, debates, participatory activities, or other types of communication and exchange. Successful proposals will work towards inclusiveness, relevance, and excellence, and examples from some previous conferences can be found here: ICTD 2016 <https://ictd2016.info/schedule/> and ICTD 2012 <http://ictd2012.org/open-sessions/>. Session organizers may extend invitations to particular participants to attend, or present based on emerging themes in ICTD; likewise, participation is open to any conference attendee who wishes to join in on the day of the session. To propose an open session, please fill out this Google form <https://forms.gle/XWC2kj6rr84TrkQDA>, providing a 75-word summary and an additional 2-page description detailing your goals for the session and how you plan to achieve them. The deadline for submission is April 1, 2022, at 11.59 pm Anywhere on Earth (AoE). Guidelines Open Sessions welcome a variety of submissions and formats. We invite extended abstracts that include proposals for panels, workshops, doctoral colloquium submissions, young researchers meet-ups, and more. Open sessions will be 90 minutes in length by default. They can also be 180 minutes long, but only if there is sufficient justification. Although sessions (and session proposals) will be held in English, we are also open to proposals for sessions in other languages. In such cases, please note the proposed language and indicate why it is important to the session topic. Given the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we also expect some attendees to be joining the open sessions remotely. So, please describe an appropriate plan to make open sessions inviting and accessible to both remote and in-person attendees. Proposals for sessions will be reviewed and assessed according to the criteria below. - They should be accessible to a highly interdisciplinary ICTD audience. - They should be lively, inclusive, and participatory in style and content. - They should be on topics relevant to the ICTD community. - They should demonstrate careful planning and a clear agenda. Examples of sessions and formats, based on prior years are indicated below. - A panel of researchers and practitioners to discuss and brainstorm post-PhD opportunities for ICTD researchers. - A workshop organized by 2-3 researchers to discuss in small breakout sessions the role of gender (what it is and what it should be) in ICTD projects. - A short course on co-design in research areas pertaining to global health. - A workshop to set an agenda for future research on digital financial services. - An ice-breaker session for ICTD researchers and practitioners to learn about and from each other and their work. - A series of short, lightning talks followed by an open discussion, where each talk represents an extended abstract on a common, chosen topic such as caste-related inequities in ICTD contexts. Dates April 1, 2022: Deadline for submission of Open Sessions (using this form <https://forms.gle/XWC2kj6rr84TrkQDA>) April 8, 2022: Notifications sent Open Session Chairs - Aditya Vashistha (adityav(a)cornell.edu) - Agha Ali Raza (agha.ali.raza(a)lums.edu.pk) If you have any questions, please reach out to both the chairs via email.

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Fwd: [jsde] Ted Miguel in JSDE on Monday, March 7
by Kurtis Heimerl 02 Mar '22

02 Mar '22

Another good upcoming jsde talk! ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Isabelle Cohen <imcohen(a)uw.edu> Date: Wed, Mar 2, 2022 at 11:21 AM Subject: [jsde] Ted Miguel in JSDE on Monday, March 7 To: <jsde(a)u.washington.edu>, <econgrad(a)u.washington.edu>, <econfacall(a)uw.edu > Dear colleagues and students, We are pleased to announce that *Ted Miguel* (UC Berkeley) will be presenting at JSDE next week. The seminar will be held from *11:00 am - 12:30 pm *on *Monday, March 7*. The seminar and visit will be fully remote, with the talk held at the link below. The title and abstract of the talk are below. *Zoom link: *https://washington.zoom.us/j/98113334162. We have limited slots to meet with Professor Miguel. (1) *Faculty members*: Please sign up at this link <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c5wNZAkXt_4eVq1TrbpD3DGSwDfH22RRANn7lAT…>. If there are no spots remaining, please feel free to email me at imcohen(a)uw.edu. (2) *Graduate students*: If interested, please email me at imcohen(a)uw.edu with your availability to meet on Monday, but note that we are unlikely to be able to accommodate all requests. *Title*: *What does donor conditionality do? Causal evidence from Kenyan electrification *(joint with Catherine D. Wolfram, Eric Hsu and Susanna B. Berkouwer) *Abstract*: Multilateral organizations often impose conditions on the use of financing they provide low- and middle-income countries, but what do they do in practice? This question has been debated contentiously by governments, multilateral organizations, and academics since at least the 1980s. It is difficult to answer causally due to the endogeneity and low sample size of multilateral financing. To provide causal micro-evidence on this topic, we leverage an unusual feature of Kenya’s nationwide electrification program: the quasi-random allocation of villages across multilateral funding sources. We conduct detailed on-the-ground engineering assessments of transformers, conductors, and poles; collect minute-by-minute household-level outage and voltage data; and conduct household surveys on connection quality and usage. We find that relatively burdensome World Bank contracting procedures delayed the start and progress of construction by 6–10 months relative to African Development Bank funded projects, and led to significantly fewer connected sites and households four years later. Yet these conditions generated no detectable impact on construction quality, power outages, voltage quality, or household energy usage and spending. To disentangle two key dimensions of conditionality—ex ante contracting steps versus ex post audits—we implement a randomized audits scheme mimicking the latter, and find that this improves household connections at low cost and without delays. In this context, combining rigorous audits with more streamlined upfront contracting could potentially improve the quality of public projects while limiting construction delays. We look forward to seeing many of you there. Best, Isabelle -- Isabelle Cohen (pronouns: she/her) Assistant Professor, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance University of Washington _______________________________________________ jsde mailing list jsde(a)u.washington.edu http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/jsde

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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. Join Zoom Meeting https://washington.zoom.us/j/91889204671 Meeting ID: 918 8920 4671 One tap mobile +12532158782,,91889204671# US (Tacoma) +12063379723,,91889204671# US (Seattle) Dial by your location +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 206 337 9723 US (Seattle) +1 602 753 0140 US (Phoenix) +1 669 219 2599 US (San Jose) +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) +1 720 928 9299 US (Denver) +1 971 247 1195 US (Portland) +1 213 338 8477 US (Los Angeles) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) +1 786 635 1003 US (Miami) +1 267 831 0333 US (Philadelphia) +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 470 250 9358 US (Atlanta) +1 470 381 2552 US (Atlanta) +1 646 518 9805 US (New York) +1 646 876 9923 US (New York) +1 651 372 8299 US (Minnesota) Meeting ID: 918 8920 4671 Find your local number: <https://washington.zoom.us/u/apl21CPtX> https://washington.zoom.us/u/apl21CPtX Join by SIP 91889204671(a)zoomcrc.com Join by H.323 162.255.37.11 (US West) 162.255.36.11 (US East) 221.122.88.195 (China) 115.114.131.7 (India Mumbai) 115.114.115.7 (India Hyderabad) 213.19.144.110 (Amsterdam Netherlands) 213.244.140.110 (Germany) 103.122.166.55 (Australia Sydney) 103.122.167.55 (Australia Melbourne) 209.9.211.110 (Hong Kong SAR) 64.211.144.160 (Brazil) 69.174.57.160 (Canada Toronto) 65.39.152.160 (Canada Vancouver) 207.226.132.110 (Japan Tokyo) 149.137.24.110 (Japan Osaka) Meeting ID: 918 8920 4671 _______________________________________________ CSSS-seminar mailing list CSSS-seminar(a)u.washington.edu http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/csss-seminar _______________________________________________ Csssfac mailing list Csssfac(a)u.washington.edu http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/csssfac -- Rachel Heath Associate Professor of Economics Milliman Distinguished Scholar University of Washington rmheath(a)uw.edu <http://faculty.washington.edu/rmheath/> http://faculty.washington.edu/rmheath/ _______________________________________________ jsde mailing list jsde(a)u.washington.edu http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/jsde

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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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Correction: Talk title is “That courage to encourage”: Participation and Aspirations in Chat-based Peer Support for Youth Living with HIV
by Kurtis Heimerl 06 Dec '21

06 Dec '21

Whoops, wrong talk. See you all tomorrow. On Mon, Dec 6, 2021 at 10:11 AM Kurtis Heimerl <kheimerl(a)cs.washington.edu> wrote: > Final seminar of the quarter tomorrow, hope to see you all there. > > Abstract: Popular chat apps are increasingly being leveraged to make a > combination of patient-provider communication and peer support more > accessible beyond formal healthcare settings. However, how these > interventions are experienced in Global South contexts with phone sharing > and intermittent data access is understudied. The context of stigmatized > illnesses like HIV further complicates privacy concerns. We explore these > concerns through a qualitative study of a six-month pilot of WhatsApp-based > facilitated peer support groups, serving youth living with HIV in an > informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya. We draw on chat records and > interviews with youth and the facilitator to describe their experience of > the intervention. We find that despite tensions in group dynamics, > intermittent participation, and contingencies around privacy, youth were > motivated by newfound aspirations and community to manage their health. We > use our findings to discuss implications for the design of chat-based peer > interventions, negotiation of privacy in mobile health applications, and > the role of aspirations in health interventions. > > Bio: Naveena is a PhD candidate at University of Washington in the School > of Computer Science and Engineering. She studies how emerging technologies > have shaped care work in parts of the Global South, including in community > health, nursing, and forms of telehealth. Her work uncovers the > relationships between the design of sociotechnical systems and the > valuation of care work, and what power relations they reproduce or resist > in health and global development. > > -- > Website: https://kurti.sh/ > Public Key: https://flowcrypt.com/pub/kheimerl@cs.washington.edu > _______________________________________________ > change mailing list > change(a)change.washington.edu > https://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/change > -- Website: https://kurti.sh/ Public Key: https://flowcrypt.com/pub/kheimerl@cs.washington.edu

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12/7 Final Change Seminar: Naveena Karusala Making Chat at Home in the Hospital: Exploring Chat Use by Nurses
by Kurtis Heimerl 06 Dec '21

06 Dec '21

Final seminar of the quarter tomorrow, hope to see you all there. Abstract: Popular chat apps are increasingly being leveraged to make a combination of patient-provider communication and peer support more accessible beyond formal healthcare settings. However, how these interventions are experienced in Global South contexts with phone sharing and intermittent data access is understudied. The context of stigmatized illnesses like HIV further complicates privacy concerns. We explore these concerns through a qualitative study of a six-month pilot of WhatsApp-based facilitated peer support groups, serving youth living with HIV in an informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya. We draw on chat records and interviews with youth and the facilitator to describe their experience of the intervention. We find that despite tensions in group dynamics, intermittent participation, and contingencies around privacy, youth were motivated by newfound aspirations and community to manage their health. We use our findings to discuss implications for the design of chat-based peer interventions, negotiation of privacy in mobile health applications, and the role of aspirations in health interventions. Bio: Naveena is a PhD candidate at University of Washington in the School of Computer Science and Engineering. She studies how emerging technologies have shaped care work in parts of the Global South, including in community health, nursing, and forms of telehealth. Her work uncovers the relationships between the design of sociotechnical systems and the valuation of care work, and what power relations they reproduce or resist in health and global development. -- Website: https://kurti.sh/ Public Key: https://flowcrypt.com/pub/kheimerl@cs.washington.edu

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Fwd: [gaia] Routing for Communities film festival - 3 December
by Kurtis Heimerl 01 Dec '21

01 Dec '21

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Carlos Rey-Moreno <carlos.reymoreno(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 8:36 AM Subject: [gaia] Routing for Communities film festival - 3 December To: gaia <gaia(a)irtf.org> Dear all, The Local Networks (LocNet) initiative, led by APC in partnership with Rhizomatica, is pleased to invite you to the *Routing for Communities film festival*, an online screening of short films about community networks and people decentralising the internet for change. Taking place on *3 December (Friday)*, the film festival offers the opportunity to see a series of creative and inspiring short videos produced by communities in Africa, Asia and Latin America. We will be publicly screening for the first time a series of short films made by communities and organisations, after a process of feedback and exchange with the LocNet initiative for the past few years. We will also present films made by APC members and LocNet partners on diverse experiences with community networks. The films capture the different contexts and initiatives of community networks around the world, exploring both the challenges and joys of their work, and also the relationship between the right to communication through access to communications technologies and other fundamental rights and ways of living. Please join us on 3 December, when 12 short films will be presented in two screening sessions of six videos each, aimed at covering different time zones: one at 9:00 UTC and another at 14:00 UTC. The sessions will also open up the opportunity for a Q&A with the filmmakers and/or community members involved in the production of the films. *Save the date and register to attend here:* - Session 1 - 9:00 UTC <https://apc-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Qr2pLDnfSJCSdKrSoPuKXQ> (English) - Session 2 - 14:00 UTC <https://apc-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YsUoRI6fSbeJ7EmAJv4naQ> (English, Spanish and Portuguese): We will use the email registered and the APC website <https://www.apc.org/en/node/37784/> to provide further information on the films being screened. *About the Local Networks (LocNet) initiative* Led by APC in partnership with Rhizomatica, LocNet aims to directly support the work of community networks and contribute to an enabling ecosystem for the emergence and growth of community-based connectivity activities in the global South. Support for the production of some of the films and the film festival was made possible through funding from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) as part of the project "Connecting the unconnected: Supporting community networks and other community-based connectivity initiatives". [image: image.png] -- Carlos Rey-Moreno, PhD Co-lead Local Networks: Policy and Strategy Association for Progressive Communications https://www.apc.org/en/project/local-access-networks-can-unconnected-connec… Cel: +27 (0) 76 986 3633 Skype: carlos.reymoreno Twitter: Creym _______________________________________________ gaia mailing list gaia(a)irtf.org https://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/gaia -- Website: https://kurti.sh/ Public Key: https://flowcrypt.com/pub/kheimerl@cs.washington.edu

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No Change Seminar Tomorrow (11/30)
by Kurtis Heimerl 29 Nov '21

29 Nov '21

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