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Change Seminar 11/23@Noon Technologists and Ocean Governance Yoshi Ota UW School of Marine & Environmental Affairs
by Kurtis Heimerl 19 Nov '21

19 Nov '21

Title: Technologists and Ocean Governance Dr. Ota will speak on his experience leading ocean governance initiatives, and the successes and pitfalls of the ways technologists engage in this space. As a jumping-off point, we'll visit a recent high-profile PNAS paper that claims to identify fishing vessels with a high risk of labor abuse using AI. Yoshi and a team of other authors published a rebuttal to the paper, doubting the veracity of its claims and also worrying about the potential to mislead policy. Original article claiming to profile fisheries labor exploitation with AI: https://www.pnas.org/content/118/3/e2016238117 Yoshi's and team's rebuttal: https://www.pnas.org/content/118/19/e2100341118 Noon 11/23 at CSE2 271 -- Website: https://kurti.sh/ Public Key: https://flowcrypt.com/pub/kheimerl@cs.washington.edu

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Change Talk: Tu Noon CSE2 271: Kurtis Heimerl (UWCSE) Reclaiming the Internet: A Journey to Community-Held Cellular Infrastructure
by Kurtis Heimerl 15 Nov '21

15 Nov '21

Speaker will be me! Next week is Yoshi Ota of the School of Marine & Environmental Affairs ABSTRACT Mobile network operators (MNOs) are a critical component of today’s Internet access landscape. Originally borne of wireline voice telephony access, innovations in wireless data connectivity (such as GPRS and LTE) have enabled these operators to become the world's dominant Internet providers, connecting more people to the Internet than wireline networks. However, the increasing centralization of the MNO ecosystem (down to just three providers in the US) is in contrast to the general design goals of the internet, which was built to allow multiple regional autonomous systems to work together to provide connectivity. In this talk, we will discuss my group's ongoing attempts to leverage advances in wide area technology, specific open source LTE and NR, to recreate distributed access networks and help small organizations provide connectivity to their communities while still achieving the at-scale efficiencies of modern MNOs. This journey starts with an MNO partnership for GSM networks in the rural Philippines and continues in our current work with local NGOs on urban NR infrastructure. SPEAKER BIO Kurtis Heimerl is an assistant professor of Computer Science at the University of Washington working on Information and Communication Technology and International Development (ICTD), specifically universal Internet access. Before that, he received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, working under Professors Eric Brewer and Tapan Parikh. Kurtis cofounded Endaga, which joined Facebook in 2015 and has also published widely, including top conferences such as ICTD, CSCW, CHI, MobiCom, and NSDI. He was a recipient of the 2014 MIT “35 under 35” award, the 2018 UW early career Diamond Award, and has won paper awards at CHI, NSDI, COMPASS, ASSETS, and DySPAN. -- Website: https://kurti.sh/ Public Key: https://flowcrypt.com/pub/kheimerl@cs.washington.edu

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Noopur Raval at CHIWORK Nov 11
by Naveena Karusala 08 Nov '21

08 Nov '21

Hi Change community, If you're interested in research on gig work, platformization, and the future of work, please consider attending this conversation with Dr. Noopur Raval at the CHIWORK Symposium on Thursday. These conversations are a great way to engage with new ideas and socialize with researchers working in this area. See below for details! Best, Naveena Karusala <https://www.chiwork.org/> chiwork.org | @chiworksymp Noopur Raval in conversation with Neha Kumar at CHIWORK “Studying Intersectional Challenges in Gig Work: Lessons from the Global South” Thursday, November 11, at 5:30 PM UTC / 5:30 PM London / 9:30 AM Seattle / 11:00 PM New Delhi Zoom: https://washington.zoom.us/j/98578905160 About Noopur Raval Noopur Raval <https://noopur.xyz/> is a postdoctoral researcher at the AI Now Institute and an adjunct professor at the Tandon School of Engineering at New York University. She received her PhD in Informatics from UC Irvine in 2020 and is a tech ethnographer and interdisciplinary scholar at the intersection of HCI, Communication and Media Studies, Cultural Anthropology and Postcolonial History. She has written extensively on gig work, platformization and the future of work in the global South. Her new work extends to studying the cultural labor and subjective decision-making by global South data annotators in order to train AI/ML systems. Her work has appeared in CSCW, CHI, ACM Interactions among other venues. She has also worked in UX research at multiple Microsoft Research labs. Noopur is an alumna of the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and the Center for Tech, Society and Policy at UC Berkeley. About Neha Kumar Neha Kumar <https://www.nehakumar.org/> is an associate professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research lies at the intersection of human-computer interaction and global sustainable development, with a focus on global health and community informatics. Neha serves as CHIWORK Technical Program Committee co-Chair. About CHIWORK The Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work (CHIWORK) brings together experts with various backgrounds to build an understanding of how advanced HCI will support work in the future and how it will also allow workers to balance work and wellbeing. The symposium is an ongoing event, with online conversations that are held roughly once a week, throughout the year. Each conversation is 60 minutes long, split into two 30-minute segments. The first segment is recorded and it starts with a dialogue between an organizer and one or more expert guests. This dialogue is followed by questions from the audience. The second segment is not recorded – during these 30 minutes the conversation becomes a social event where participants can discuss any topic.

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Fwd: [Ictd] Opportunity to connect with African university students
by Kurtis Heimerl 01 Nov '21

01 Nov '21

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Jake Kendall <jake(a)cariboudigital.net> Date: Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 2:29 AM Subject: [Ictd] Opportunity to connect with African university students To: <ictd(a)cs.washington.edu> Hi All I know it's been a super long time since I have posted here - I hope it's the right forum! I have an African startup founder who is looking for university students from top tier US universities to be beta testers on a new audio product that connects students from African universities with others in the world. The founder is great - Harvard grad, well respected in the local ecosystem. [For those who don't know/remember, I was at UW but now run DFS Lab which is an early stage investor in African tech] Blurb here from the founder (reach out directly if you are open to being a tester or want to talk to him about the product - edymagema(a)gmail.com) Univus is the first edtech company that is bringing all the world's students to connect, learn and collaborate on one single student-only platform. In its initial phase, Univus is connecting American college students, including students at top universities like U. Washington with those at Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Yale and notable African universities like the Africa Leadership University to foster communities where learners can chat on any range of social and intellectual topics in real time. Over the long term, Univus will create visual and messaging to deepen learner networks and offer additional use cases in learning and collaboration. Univus is currently seeking beta testers for its flagship audio product and sees the U. Washington CS department as an attractive test bed. We request an introduction and access to 20 CS undergrad students who are using Android phones to help us test, refine and build the existing Android app. Your support will be highly appreciated. Best Ed Magema edymagema(a)gmail.com LinkedIn <http://www.linkedin.com/in/ed-magema-b7305846> Cheers! -- Jake Kendall Director, DFS Lab <http://www.dfslab.net/> WhatsApp: +1-917-324-5987 Sign up for the DFS Lab mailing list here <https://cariboudigital.us13.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=665090c913eeda856ce…> . Apply to join the Sufficient Capital community here <https://www.sufficient.capital/>. _______________________________________________ Ictd mailing list Ictd(a)cs.washington.edu https://mailman.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/ictd -- Website: https://kurti.sh/ Public Key: https://flowcrypt.com/pub/kheimerl@cs.washington.edu

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Change Talk: Nithya Sambasivan (Google) Tuesday Noon CSE2 271
by Kurtis Heimerl 31 Oct '21

31 Oct '21

*The myopia of model centrism* AI models seek to intervene in increasingly higher stakes domains, such as cancer detection and microloan allocation. What is the view of the world that guides AI development in high risk areas, and how does this view regard the complexity of the real world? In this talk, I will present results from my multi-year inquiry into how fundamentals of AI systems---data, expertise, and fairness---are viewed in AI development. I pay particular attention to developer practices in AI systems intended for low-resource communities, especially in the Global South, where people are enrolled as labourers or untapped DAUs. Despite the inordinate role played by these fundamentals on model outcomes, data work is under-valued; domain experts are reduced to data-entry operators; and fairness and accountability assumptions do not scale past the West. Instead, model development is glamourised, and model performance is viewed as the indicator of success. The overt emphasis on models, at the cost of ignoring these fundamentals, leads to brittle and reductive interventions that ultimately displace functional and complex real-world systems in low-resource contexts. I put forth practical implications for AI research and practice to shift away from model centrism to enabling human ecosystems; in effect, building safer and more robust systems for all. *Bio:* Nithya Sambasivan is a Research Scientist at PAIR, Google Research and leads the human-computer interaction (HCI) group at the India lab. Her current research focuses on designing responsible AI systems by focusing on the humans of the AI/ML pipeline, specifically in the non-West. Her research is seminal to Google's products and strategy for emerging markets, while also winning numerous best paper awards and nominations at top-tier computing conferences. Nithya has a PhD. in Information and Computer Sciences from UC Irvine. -- Website: https://kurti.sh/ Public Key: https://flowcrypt.com/pub/kheimerl@cs.washington.edu

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Change Seminar: Matt Johnson and Philip Garrison presenting their CSCW '21 papers
by Kurtis Heimerl 25 Oct '21

25 Oct '21

HI All, Tomorrow, Matt Johnson will present "Network Capacity as Common Pool Resource: Community-Based Congestion Management in a Community Network" and Philip Garrison will present "The Network Is an Excuse': Hardware Maintenance Supporting Community" (winner of a best paper award!). CSCW has a short talk format this year so we'll cover both in one session. Looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow in CSE2 271 at Noon. -- Website: https://kurti.sh/ Public Key: https://flowcrypt.com/pub/kheimerl@cs.washington.edu

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Change Seminar: Tu Noon @ CSE2 271 Reshaping rural borders: youth, ICT and socio-technical implications of Covid-19 pandemic in family farming by Matias Centeno
by Kurtis Heimerl 18 Oct '21

18 Oct '21

Join us tomorrow in CSE2 271 for Matias Centeno's talk *Reshaping rural borders: youth, ICT and socio-technical implications of Covid-19 pandemic in family farming * Abstract: Since decades ago, digital change has been a heterogeneous process affecting modalities of communication, management and organization. In family farming, the main activity of the agricultural sector in the world (Graeub et. al., 2016), the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sit across the intersection of crucial concerns that have surrounded this ancient human activity for centuries. The agricultural setting is a relevant field to think about contemporary youth, their trajectories, dilemmas and strategies in an interconnected and uncertain world. The research is based on the assumption that, fueled by the integration of ICT in different spheres of life, young people are configuring new experiences that defy the frontiers of agricultural activity. At the same time they are boosting the revision of some historical categories, including rurality, agricultural practices, rural youth and farming culture, among others. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated unprecedented transformations. It has highlighted the digital acceleration in daily life and the dematerialization of the economy. This process is expanding gaps that exist within fragile economic and political cycles as well as the inequities in technological and socio-cultural shifts. The research seeks to understand the socio-technical trajectories of ICT in family farming and their socio-cultural configurations in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. Situating young people as central actors, the project will track the communication modalities of youth in family farming and the developments they have drawn from digital technologies. Problematizing agriculture and its territorial fabric from the social sciences, in particular from the encounter between sociology and technology, represents a relevant opportunity for technological and rural development studies aimed to better understand the spread of digital culture in agricultural life. Research contributions can also allow new insights about family farming, presenting it not only as a productive activity but above all, as a sociocultural dimension. The rurban approach may introduce a newfangled insight for rural studies in the United States, allowing new academic synergies with Latin American studies. -- Website: https://kurti.sh/ Public Key: https://flowcrypt.com/pub/kheimerl@cs.washington.edu

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Fwd: COMPASS Submission site open!
by Kurtis Heimerl 12 Oct '21

12 Oct '21

Hi All, The HotCRP paper submission system for ACM COMPASS'22 <https://compass.acm.org/>, the ACM Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies, is now open and accepting paper submissions: https://compass22.hotcrp.com/ Please spread the word widely in all your email lists, slack channels, etc. The first round paper deadline is October 27th, AoE time. Many thanks! -- Website: https://kurti.sh/ Public Key: https://flowcrypt.com/pub/kheimerl@cs.washington.edu

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Change Seminar: Tu Noon in CSE2 271 Matt Ziegler on “How’s Shelby the Turtle today?” Strengths and Weaknesses of Interactive Animal-Tracking Maps for Environmental Communication
by Kurtis Heimerl 11 Oct '21

11 Oct '21

Hello Everyone, In preparation for the Fall quarter, I want to invite you all to register for the one credit Change Seminar (CSE 590 C1, SLN: 13550) on Tuesdays from 12-1pm in Gates Hall, CSE2 271. Change (http://change.washington.edu) is a group of faculty, students, and staff at the UW who are exploring the role of information and communication technologies (ICT) in improving the lives of underserved populations, particularly in the developing world. We cover topics such as global health, education, micro finance, agricultural development, and general communication, and look at how technology can be used to improve each of these areas. We are in the process of scheduling speakers, so stay tuned to our calendar (http://is.gd/3PkTF) or mailing list (http://is.gd/3PlkS) for more information. Please consider enrolling. If you are unable to enroll, feel free to come to any of the meetings you are interested in attending! The seminar is available for all UW students and the content is designed to be widely accessible. We encourage students from all departments to enroll/attend if interested. Please forward this message to any other relevant mailing lists, and we hope to see you tomorrow for Matt Ziegler's Talk from his COMPASS 2021 Honorable Mention Paper *“How’s Shelby the Turtle today?” Strengths and Weaknesses of Interactive Animal-Tracking Maps for Environmental Communication * Abstract: Interactive wildlife-tracking maps on public-facing websites and apps have become a popular way to share scientific data with the public as more conservationists and wildlife researchers deploy tracking devices on animals. Environmental organizations engage with the public for a variety of reasons: to raise awareness of environmental causes, build relationships with potential partners, and encourage people to take political and personal actions. However while there is a large body of work comparing different media strategies for environmental communication goals, the effectiveness of interactive data visualizations for these purposes remains unclear. This work examines the strengths and weaknesses of interactive wildlife-tracking maps for environmental communication. We interview conservationists about their aspirations for using these maps with their own data, and conduct a study gauging lay users’ reactions to different designs. Many conservationists aspire to create deep, immersive user engagements with these maps—letting users relate to data-driven stories about individual animals and freely explore the nuances of the tracking data. Our findings show potential for the most highly-motivated users to deeply engage with these data and stories, but more casually-interested audiences struggle with the maps’ complexities. However for casual audiences, wildlife tracking maps can still superficially but effectively showcase the organizations’ work to protect the species; perhaps inspiring hope for their future, attracting audiences to other communication channels to learn more, and adding to the organizations’ credibility. Following these insights, we present a set of design considerations for further development of similar wildlife-tracking map applications; emphasizing their needs for user onboarding, context for data interpretation, and integration with relatable media. Thanks, -- Website: https://kurti.sh/ Public Key: https://flowcrypt.com/pub/kheimerl@cs.washington.edu

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FW: Lessons from the First Internet Ages
by Chris Coward 04 Oct '21

04 Oct '21

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