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Register for the Change Seminar
by Nicola Dell 18 Sep '12

18 Sep '12

Hello Everyone, In preparation for the Fall quarter, I want to invite you all to register for the Change Seminar (CSE590C1, SLN:12581<https://sdb.admin.washington.edu/timeschd/UWNetID/sln.asp?QTRYR=AUT+2012&SL…>) on Tuesdays at noon in the Paul Allen Center Room 203. For those who attended last year, note that Change is now on Tuesdays and not Thursdays. 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 are 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. This fall we will be alternating between talks by invited speakers and group discussions. Those who sign up for credit will be asked to participate in leading one of the discussions (this requires very little work and can be done in groups). We are in the process of scheduling speakers, so stay tuned to our calendar (http://is.gd/3PkTF) Twitter ( http://is.gd/3PkVk) 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 also forward this message to the relevant mailing lists, and we hope to see you on Tuesday, September 25th at noon in Room 203 of the Paul Allen Center. Lunch will be provided. Thanks, Nicki

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Fwd: [ITID] New Fall 2012 Issue Published
by Yaw Anokwa 13 Sep '12

13 Sep '12

There is a new issue of ITID out. Looks like it's a great read. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Arlene Luck <aluck(a)law.usc.edu> Date: Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 3:54 PM Subject: [ITID] New Fall 2012 Issue Published To: Yaw Anokwa <yanokwa(a)cs.washington.edu> Dear ITID Readers, Information Technologies & International Development has just published its latest issue at http://itidjournal.org/itid. We invite you to read the following special note "From the Editors" that describes this issue and more, and then visit our web site to review the articles and items of interest. >From the Editors Before introducing the papers in this edition, we’d like to share some of the behind-the-scenes discussions at ITID. ITID is intimately tied to the community of ICT-and-development researchers, so we need your feedback with respect to expectations, concerns, and new ideas. Over the last few years, our most persistent conversations have focused on just three topics: Quality – Of papers, of editing, and of the reviewing process. We are reasonably happy with the quality of work in all three areas, and we believe ITID’s leadership among ICTD-related publications is evidence of that quality. However, we still fall short of the quality of top journals in other fields. Visibility – On relevant academic indices, within policy circles, and in the general public. We have been included in several indices, and ITID articles do well on citation counts relative to many ICT4D publications. But we could do better on those fronts, and our visibility beyond academia is still minimal. Revenue – As an open-access journal, we do not charge our authors or our readers. Thanks to the generosity of our financial and institutional sponsors, we can cover our operational costs, but only just. Additional revenue would allow us to try new approaches to increase quality and visibility. We welcome input from our readers on these topics or anything else pertaining to ITID. Feedback, suggestions, your perceptions of ITID—all are welcome. We can’t guarantee a personal response to every bit of feedback that we receive, but we promise to read all serious communication. Some of the challenges we face reflect challenges that the field faces as a whole. One trend we have observed informally is authors saving their best papers for other outlets, often in their academically “purer” home fields. A journal’s standing, of course, depends primarily on the strength of its papers, so this is a vicious cycle that turns virtuous only with a critical mass of strong papers. Along these lines, we encourage authors to submit their best ICT-and-development research work to ITID. In return, we offer quick turnaround, high-quality reviews and, of course, when accepted, publication! In our ongoing efforts to increase visibility, we are trying something new this issue with the paper introductions. Rather than provide the seemingly objective summary in which we treat all papers in an issue much as parents do their kids (e.g., we love them all equally!), one of us will write the paper introductions and inject some personal editorial commentary. Kentaro will kick things off. François Bar Kentaro Toyama Editors-in-Chief ..................................................... Article Introductions (Issue 8.3) By Kentaro Toyama It’s my great pleasure to continue my engagement with ITID as co-Editor-in-Chief. Though I don’t pretend that I will be able to assume Michael Best’s unique role with respect to ITID, I hope to contribute what I can to the considerable momentum that he, Ernest Wilson, and François Bar have generated. I’m also thankful for François’ continuing commitment as I learn the ropes. Now for the papers in this issue! In the spirit of trying something new, but at the risk of losing friends, I’ll reveal my opinions about each paper. I should note that these are my personal thoughts only, and while they may exert some influence on the journal’s selection of papers (my prerogative as co-editor), ITID’s system of Associate Editors and review by at least three reviewers drawn from a diverse pool of researchers keeps the direct influence of the Editors-in-Chief on paper selection to a minimum. Except for the occasional difficult decision, most decisions on publication are largely handled without our direct involvement. I hope the authors will forgive any critical comments below—in any case, the papers are published. And again, I request feedback from readers on this format, as it will help us determine whether this new approach to introducing an issue’s papers is worth continuing. Volume 8, Issue 3 of ITID includes six research papers and a book review. Pádraig Carmody begins the issue with a provocative question that deserves more attention: How might mobile phones be exacerbating, rather than alleviating, poverty? The paper offers a framework for thinking about such questions and enumerates the possible ways in which development is poorly served by mobile phones. It nicely organizes much of the literature on this question and critiques the prominent discourse, but unfortunately, the existing evidence is thin. Ever since Kathleen Diga’s 2007 Masters thesis first brought the possibility of consumption displacement to the ICT literature, what has been lacking is strong, direct evidence of mobiles actually causing harm. There is still a ground-breaking paper waiting to be written on this topic and based on thorough primary research—a paper that could serve as a much-needed antidote to Rob Jensen’s “Digital Provide.” (Incidentally, another line of research along these lines would look at the development shortcomings of M-PESA.) Investigations into the dark side of ICT continue in one section of Ricardo Gomez’s paper on the impacts perceived by users of Internet public access centers (PACs) in Colombia. That section is worth a close read, as interviewees recapitulate with uncanny precision what is known about the disadvantages of Internet usage in the developed world. Again, it makes one wonder what unintended consequences should be predictable for, say, digital money, by analogy to mainstream banking, money wires, credit cards, and other instruments that tempt consumers to spend. The rest of Gomez’s paper is a straightforward study of the positive impacts of PACs with few surprising results. Staying within Latin America, two papers consider different intersections of smaller businesses with telecommunications. Roxana Barrantes Cáceres and Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol look at patterns of mobile phone use among three categories of market traders in rural Peru. The groups differ with respect to the degree of professionalism they bring to trading as an enterprise, with the most active traders pursuing it full time with relatively sophisticated processes and networks; at the other end of the spectrum are subsistence farmers who make occasional treks to market to sell a portion of what they produce. In further confirmation of my favorite theory that ICTs amplify underlying human intent and capacity, the authors find that mobile usage more or less reflects the constraints and communication needs of the traders. In her article, Martha Garcia-Murillo looks at ICT less as tool and more as services sold by small and medium businesses in the Argentinean telecommunications industry. She identifies the main strategies that these entities use and finds them operating in a reactive mode, buffeted by the uncertainties of Argentina’s markets and unstable policies. Though these businesses are clearly struggling and market/political stability is of concern to macroeconomic development, it’s not clear to me that the fates of their owners and employees are of great concern to the international development community. The services being sold are conferencing and IT services that appear to cater to well-off businesses, and I suspect the firms are also staffed by middle-class employees. At any rate, the development case was not explicitly made in the paper. I would also have liked to have seen the tie to development called out in the subsequent paper by Rebecca Walton, Judith Yaaqoubi, and Beth Kolko. Walton et al. investigate the self-reported expectations of users of Internet cafés in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan. No context was provided for understanding the study’s relationship to development, and that interview subjects were urban students and university graduates didn’t make it easy to surmise. At one point, the authors make a curious comment: “Though interviews were conducted solely in Bishkek, an urban area, many interviewees shared both urban and rural perspectives, having lived in a rural area or having close ties with rural relatives.” This struck me as a protest-too-much grasp for development relevance. The study is otherwise well-executed, though new insights into Internet café user inclinations are few. In their respective papers, both Garcia-Murillo and Walton et al. raise the question of whether we are being too liberal in what counts as “development.” I believe ITID should be open to a wide range of definitions, but are we accepting any activity taking place in a lower-GDP country as development? That seems as misguided as excluding ICT use in North American homeless shelters. Regardless, I appeal to authors to make the development issues clear in their submissions. The last research paper in this issue is by Øystein Sæbø and Devinder Thapa, and it applies the “Asset Pentagon Model” to attempt an analysis of the Nepal Wireless Networking Project. I’ll withhold my direct criticisms of the paper and note that it is carefully written and makes appropriate references to the literature. I’ll rant about a larger phenomenon in the ICT4D literature, of which this paper is an example, in a moment. Jorge Zapico brings the issue to a close with reviews of two books on ICT and environmental sustainability. The books take opposing views on ICT’s value to sustainability, and while neither book was written specifically about international development, Zapico finds the lessons apply to ICT4D as well. Finally, my rant: I’d like to take up the topic of “frameworks” and their place in scholarly research papers. The ICT-and-development community sees no shortage of assessment frameworks because it inherits so many from its constituent disciplines, as attested to by the 161-page “Compendium on Impact Assessment of ICT-for-Development Projects” (Heeks & Molla, 2009). As far as I understand—because I have never written a paper based on a framework, nor recommended to anyone that they do so—these frameworks are meant to help “ICT4D practitioners, policy-makers and consultants to understand the impact of informatics initiatives in developing countries” by providing “ways of understanding ICT4D projects and organising knowledge about them” (Heeks & Molla, 2009). I worry that some authors misunderstand these frameworks as formulas for writing research papers, where the framework specifies a checklist of things one should attend to, and a paper is a flat enumeration of the haphazard observations one has made for each item on the checklist. I worry because I have seen more than a few such papers submitted to the various publications for which I review papers. These papers are consistently earnest, neatly structured to reflect their frameworks, and unfortunately, empty of the novel insight that a research paper should provide. A good research paper says much more than whether Project X succeeded or failed along the various dimensions of any given framework; it provides hypotheses regarding cause, strong supporting evidence, support or counterexample to theory, insightful analysis, lessons that expand human knowledge, and so forth. (I refer to a previous ITID publication for what constitutes a good ICTD paper: Burrell & Toyama, 2009).) Research, of course, isn’t formulaic, and it’s worth noting that Heeks and Molla did not include researchers, scholars, and academics in the list of people for whom the frameworks are designed. Personally, even for the recommended audience, I think frameworks provide a false sense of rigor—it’s all too easy to cherry pick isolated pieces of data and pretend that organizing them in conceptual bins results in a meaningful analysis. And having thrown down that gauntlet, I’ll sign off with one last request for feedback—on ITID, on editorializing editors, and on frameworks! Kentaro Toyama Co-Editor-in-Chief kentaro_toyama(a)hotmail.com References Burrell, J., & Toyama, K. (2009). What constitutes good ICTD research? Information Technologies & International Development, 5(3), 82–94. Retrieved from http://itidjournal.org/itid/article/view/382/178 Heeks, R., & Molla, A. (2009). Compendium on impact assessment of ICT-for-development projects. IDRC. Retrieved from http://ict4dblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/idrc-ia-for-ict4d-compendium1.… ...................................................... 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Fw: 12th International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries
by Anupam Jain5 12 Sep '12

12 Sep '12

Call for Papers: WG 9.4: Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries 12th International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries Conference Theme: Into the Future: Themes, insights and agendas for ICT4D research and practice Ocho Rios Jamaica, 19-22 May, 2013 Submission Deadline :November 26th, 2012 http://www.ifipwg94.org/ifip-conference-2013 Please circulate widely to your colleagues The Working Group 9.4 of the International Federation for Information Processing gathers scholars and practitioners that deal with the issue on how ICT affects social development. In the last three decades this issue has been attracting scholars from information systems and a variety of other areas such as development studies, political science, political economy, social anthropology, and sociology. The theme of the 12th International Conference of the IFIP 9.4 Working Group 2013 in Jamaica is “Into the Future.” The importance of this theme is fundamental to our research domain, namely how might information and communication technologies shape the future of development within developing counties. At the conference we seek to not only present scholarly conference papers in and around the different tracks but also to provoke thought and discussion in and around how we might set the agenda for the future for ICT4D research and practice. Thus we seek to problematize the past, present and the future of ICT4D. To do this we welcome contributions from a wide range of perspectives. We want to think through the future agenda in the area of ICT4D for theory, methodology and practice. This requires us to not only make clear our own positions but to encourage us to actively question them. The conference thus will seek to promote critical debate across a range of perspectives. In order to organize the discussion, we have 16 tracks that cover a wide range of themes. We look forward to welcoming you to IFIP 9.4 in Jamaica! Niall Hayes (Lancaster University, UK) and Renata Lèbre La Rovere (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazi) Conference Chairs

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Student programmers for global health software projects
by Jan Flowers 11 Sep '12

11 Sep '12

Looking for graduate and undergrad students who program in Java and/or PHP to work on open source global health web-based software[1][2][3][4] with UW I-TECH[6][7]. Healthcare/clinical experience not necessary. Gain experience working here at UW with international teams on projects for Haiti, Kenya, Cote d'Ivoire, Namibia, and Viet Nam. Opportunities for collaboration on posters and publications. Future work includes expansion into mobile development for mHealth with open source tools such as OpenDataKit[8]. Hourly and RA opportunities. Please contact Jan Flowers at jflow2(a)uw.edu<mailto:jflow2@uw.edu> outlining experience and availability. Links: [1] OpenELIS Global - Laboratory Information System<http://sites.google.com/site/openelisglobal/> [2] OpenELIS Global Source Code<http://code.google.com/p/openelisglobal/> [3] iSante Electronic Medical Record System in Haiti<http://code.google.com/p/isante/> [4] OpenMRS Electronic Medical Record in Namibia +<http://www.openmrs.org/> [5] UW CIRG<http://cirg.washington.edu/> [6] UW I-TECH<http://www.go2itech.org/> [7] UW I-TECH Informatics Projects<http://www.go2itech.org/what-we-do/heath-systems-strengthening/informatics-…> [8] UW OpenDataKit<http://www.opendatakit.org/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jan Flowers Informatics Program Manager, Global Health University of Washington Department of Global Health, International Training and Education Center for Health (I-TECH) School of Nursing, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems (BNHS) Clinical Informatics Research Group (CIRG) e: jflow2(a)uw.edu<mailto:jflow2@uw.edu> p: 206.334.5263 skype: jan.flowers UW Tower Box 359442, 4333 Brooklyn Ave NE, Seattle 98195 ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Call for Proposals for the UNESCO Mobile Learning Week
by Nicola Dell 11 Sep '12

11 Sep '12

Hello, Please consider posting the Call for Proposals for the UNESCO Mobile Learning Week -- below or at http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/ED/pdf/MLW_Call_for_Propo… Thanks, Steve Vosloo UNESCO Programme Specialist ------------ Call for Proposals: UNESCO Mobile Learning Week 18-22 February 2013 Mobiles for literacy, education quality and gender equality UNESCO is currently inviting proposals to present at Mobile Learning Week 2013 (MLW). This important event will be hosted at the organization’s headquarters in Paris, France from 18-22 February 2013. Presenters will have an opportunity to address an international audience of mobile learning experts, high-level education policy makers, and individuals from relevant NGOs and corporations. To submit a proposal, please review the themes and submission guidelines below. We also encourage you to refer to the website for the First UNESCO MLW which was held in 2011. UNESCO looks forward to receiving your proposal and would like to thank you in advance for your time and participation. Themes Presentations for MLW 2013 should relate directly to one or more of the following themes, which stem from UNESCO’s Education for All (EFA) goals: Mobiles for Literacy: According to the latest data from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, approximately 793 million adults lack basic literacy skills, almost one fifth of the world’s adult population. Nearly two-thirds of these people are women and most live in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Literacy levels for millions of children are also disturbingly low. As in the adult population, illiteracy disproportionately affects females and is concentrated in specific geographic regions. UNESCO is committed to understanding how mobile devices—either alone or in combination with other information and communication technology (ICT) and education initiatives—can support the literacy development of adults and children. Presentations focused on this theme should showcase innovative case studies or research that explores how mobile technology is being used (or might be used) to support literacy development. Presentations can also highlight particular policies and practices capable of supporting progress in this area. Mobiles to Support Teachers and Promote High-Quality Education The need to train high-quality teachers is urgent. In order to meet the EFA goal of providing universal primary education, the world needs to train and employ an additional 5.4 million teachers by 2015. Compounding this numerical challenge are concerns surrounding teacher quality. Data collected by the UN has shown that a large number of teachers are unqualified or underprepared to meet the educational demands of the twenty-first century. Far from being evenly distributed, teacher shortages and deficits in teacher quality are most urgent in communities confronting other difficulties, including high unemployment, poverty, unreliable infrastructure, and political instability. Conversations about ICT in Education sometimes overlook the key role played by teachers in learning processes. For this reason, UNESCO wishes to explore, directly rather than as an afterthought, how mobile technologies can (or might) support teachers and contribute to their professional development. Presentations on this theme should illustrate how mobile technologies can help ensure that teachers who work with students are skilled and empowered professionals. Mobiles for Gender Equality in Education For every 100 boys in school in Afghanistan there are just 66 girls. In Somalia gender inequality is even more severe, with only 55 girls in school for every 100 boys. Despite important progress in gender parity, educational opportunities for men and boys and women and girls are often inequitable. Had the world achieved gender equality at the primary level in 2008, there would be an additional 3.6 million girls in school today. While the primary global challenge with respect to gender parity is making education more accessible and inclusive of women and girls, increasingly men and boys are not taking advantage of educational opportunities at the same rate as females, especially at the secondary and post-secondary level. The 2012 UNESCO World Atlas of Gender Equality in Education explains that “whereas the challenge of gender equality was once seen as a simple matter of increasing female enrolments, the situation is now more nuanced.” In light of this data, UNESCO hopes to understand how mobile technologies can help ensure that all people—women and men, girls and boys—have full and equal access to education of good quality. In addition to gender gaps in education, a gender gap also exists in the ownership and use of mobile devices. On average, fewer women than men own mobile phones in low- and middle-income countries. This gap is primarily attributed to the total cost of ownership of mobile devices, technical literacy, and cultural barriers that discourage or prevent some women and girls from owning or using mobile technology. UNESCO wishes to explore how some of these challenges be overcome to ensure that women and girls have full access to mobile learning opportunities. Presentations on this theme should share the best examples of achieving gender equality through the use of mobile technologies. Selection for presentations A review panel comprised of UNESCO members and participating organisations will review submitted presentations. Specifically the panel will be looking for presentations that: Have topical relevance to the themes of MLW 2013. Advance cutting-edge research. Describe innovative pilot projects that can be replicated elsewhere. Introduce new project approaches and designs. Explicate valuable lessons learned. Share projects with implications for mobile learning policies. Presentations in English, Spanish or French will be accepted. Format of presentations and proposal template Presentations should last 15 minutes with an additional 5 minutes for questions and answers. PowerPoint presentations as well as other audiovisual materials are welcome. UNESCO encourages presentations that involve interactivity and engagement. The organization hopes that presenters will involve the audience in dialogue and utilize the expertise of collected participants. Live demos of mobile learning initiatives are especially encouraged. To submit a presentation proposal please use the template below and email it to mlw(a)unesco.org with the subject line MLW 2013. To be considered, presentations must be received by UNESCO on or before midnight Paris time, 15 October 2013. Proposal template (English) - http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/ED/pdf/MLW_Submission_of_… Important dates Call for Proposals 1 September Proposals due to UNESCO By 15 October Notification of selected presenters 15 November Presenters to confirm attendance 22 November Draft presentations due 15 December Final presentations due 15 January UNESCO MLW 18-22 February Thank you for your interest in participating in the MLW. Please note that although there are no registration fees for MLW 2013, presenters and participants will be responsible for all costs associated with attendance. Contact Information For any enquiries related to the MLW please contact us at mlw(a)unesco.org. _______________________________________________ TIER mailing list Website: http://tier.cs.berkeley.edu TIER(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tier

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Dimagi Fellowships in India
by neal.lesh＠gmail.com 11 Sep '12

11 Sep '12

Hi everybody. Dimagi India is looking to have an exciting year ahead, and we're looking to recruit more fellows to join the team! Please see below if interested. take care, neal ------ <http://www.dimagi.com/> Dimagi is seeking Field Fellows for our expanding work in India. We are looking for adventurous individuals who are eager to work on the front-line with community health workers. These on-the-ground players help us deploy <https://www.commcarehq.org/> CommCare, a mobile app for community health workers to improve health care delivery in urban and rural communities. We have an impressive range of partner organizations across 8 states in India and as a fellow you will travel to field sites from the cloud forests of Maharashtra to the arid deserts of Rajasthan to the dusty plains of Uttar Pradesh to meet with them and their health workers. Your work will include conducting trainings, doing research, and providing support for the CommCare program. You'll join our team of international fellows and share best practices and expertise from across the globe. Our Field Manager program is designed for people seeking field experience. Fellows will receive a small, volunteer stipend to cover living costs, all travel expenses, and healthcare benefits. Position Requirements & Qualifications Requirements: English and a working knowledge of Hindi or another Indian language. Ideal qualifications: . A proven interest in global health and development . International experience . Communication skills necessary to work with a variety of partners and constituents . Planning and problem solving skills that result in successful implementation and follow through on project-based work . Pluses: technical skills, research experience, other foreign languages You: An outstanding communicator and problem solver who adapts easily to new environments, enjoys travel and field work, likes to tinker with things, and prefers autonomy and improvisation to a more specified & managed role. If interested, please send your resume and cover letter to jobs(a)dimagi.com.

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Fwd: IEEE GHTC 2012 Early Bird Registration Extended to September 16, 2012
by Waylon Brunette 09 Sep '12

09 Sep '12

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: IEEE GHTC 2012 Early Bird Registration Extended to September 16, 2012 Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 23:38:35 -0400 From: Wan, Gim <GWan(a)vicr.com> GHTC Banner <http://www.ieeeghtc.org/> *Early Bird Registration with Discount Extended to September 16, 2012!**** www.ieeeghtc.org <http://www.ieeeghtc.org/>* ** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *This 2nd annual premier conference provides the perfect venue for anyone involved in humanitarian projects to join their peers in Seattle. The audience for this conference includes technologists, representatives from NGOs, governments, academe, funders and industry. Come share your work, meet others involved in humanitarian technology, create new projects and meet with funders. Our sessions will address a wide range of topics and we hope you'll plan to join us in Seattle. Home to a growing medical and biotech industry along with world leading software companies and a host of foundations you'll find the conference can offer a wealth of opportunities to improve your knowledge, increase your network and expand your reach. We look forward to seeing you in Seattle. Preliminary Conference Program: http://www.ieeeghtc.org/files/2012/01/Program-Table-072012.pdf Keynote Speakers: http://www.ieeeghtc.org/event/keynote-speakers <http://www.ieeeghtc.org/event/keynote-speakers/> * * *Robert A. Freling, Executive Director of the Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF)* * *Gretchen Kalonji, Assistant Director General for Natural Sciences at UNESCO* * *Gertjan Van Stam, CEO of LinkNet Zambia* * *Krista Bauer, Director of Global Program for GE Company* * *Gordon Day, IEEE President and CEO* * *Peter Staecker, IEEE President-Elect* * *Jim Fruchterman, CEO of Benetech* * *Byron Reese, Chief Innovation Officer for Demand Media* * **Tutorials: <http://www.ieeeghtc.org/event/keynote-speakers/>http://www.ieeeghtc.org/event/tutorials** * 1. *Building affordable wireless networks for research, education and humanitarian use.* 2. *Village energy systems: understanding the problem and comparing rural energy options.* 3. *Innovation process for the Base of the Pyramid.* 4. *(ICT) Business models for the Base of the Pyramid.* ** GHTC Patrons ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IEEE Non-Discrimination Policy <http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?r=248835102&sid=19832978&m=2155257&u=IEEEC…>

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Fwd: Jobs Available at an Innovative Tech Startup in Ghana - Please pass through your networks
by Sunil Garg 07 Sep '12

07 Sep '12

I visited Esoko/BusyLab last year and they're definitely doing some cool stuff. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Michael Best <mikeb(a)cc.gatech.edu> Date: Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 3:06 AM Subject: [Lab] Fwd: Jobs Available at an Innovative Tech Startup in Ghana - Please pass through your networks Begin forwarded message: *From: *Laura Drewett <lmdrewett(a)gmail.com> *Date: *September 5, 2012 3:06:02 AM GMT+02:00 *To: *"Laura M. Drewett" <laura(a)esoko.com> *Subject: **Jobs Available at an Innovative Tech Startup in Ghana - Please pass through your networks* Hi All, Esoko is currently recruiting for both tech and business positions, and we need your help. Please circulate this around your networks, or, if you know anyone who is interested in working on for an innovative startup, let me know. Based in Accra, Esoko is an innovative social enterprise that has launched a disruptive new technology for agricultural markets, harnessing mobiles and the free flow of information to transform the way the sector works. Currently in 16 countries, Esoko seeks to improve the lives of smallholder farmers, while contributing to the IT sector in Ghana. Esoko allows farmers, traders, businesses, and projects to connect with the right people and market content through a rural media platform. We are looking for dynamic, fun people to join our team, contribute to our mission, and build our product and consulting services. If you or anyone you know would be interested in joining our team, please encourage them to apply. Check out the full job descriptions on our website: http://www.busylab.com/jobs/index.htm I have also attached a brief summary. Hope you all are well. Laura

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Fwd: Text Messaging to Improve Attendance at Post-Op Clinic Visits after Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention
by Yaw Anokwa 07 Sep '12

07 Sep '12

Text Messaging to Improve Attendance at Post-Operative Clinic Visits after Adult Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention: A Randomized Controlled Trial http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0043832 This was work that was done at UW and it is a pretty interesting read. I'm sure Thomas (info below) can answer any questions you have about the study. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Thomas Odeny <odeny(a)uw.edu> Date: Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 10:51 PM Subject: An Article from PLoS Forwarding for your interest (or to forward to anyone at Change who may be interested in this kind of study) -- Thomas A. Odeny, MBChB, MPH Fogarty International Clinical Research Fellow KEMRI / University of Washington, Seattle WA Email: odeny(a)uw.edu or taodeny(a)gmail.com Tel: +254 722 819 835

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Congratulations to Abie Flaxman
by Gaetano Borriello 04 Sep '12

04 Sep '12

for being named to 2012's TR-35 list. http://www.technologyreview.com/tr35/profile.aspx?trid=1323

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