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Job: Product Design Fellow at Grameen AppLab in Uganda
by Yaw Anokwa 14 Jun '12

14 Jun '12

Forwarded message: Job Summary: The Product Design Fellow (PDF) will drive human-centered design thinking for AppLab Money's projects. The PDF will work with the AppLab Money team to develop and execute user research and product testing strategies, track the user experience during pilots, and work with the technology team to ensure that the products are improved to meet the needs of users. The project: Mobile money has yet to reach its full potential. Though nearly 150 mobile network operators have deployed mobile money, few have successfully reached poor consumers. Even fewer have explored the latent demand for anything other than payments products-from savings, to microinsurance, to loans. To address this problem, the Consultative Group Assisting the Poor (CGAP) and Grameen Foundation (GF) have collaborated to create an incubator that tests innovations in mobile financial services. The incubator combines in-depth research approaches with rapid product testing to develop mobile financial services that are appropriate for the poor and move the industry beyond payments. The Product Design Fellow will be joining a diverse team of highly motivated individuals with a passion for developing commercially sustainable products for the poor. We comprise a range of skills - from a PhD in mobile money to research experts to an IT guru who has launched mobile deployments across Africa - and we are looking for a creative designer to join us. http://www.grameenfoundation.applab.org/uploads/frontend/mcfile/Product_Des…

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Data on African telecommunications
by Yaw Anokwa 13 Jun '12

13 Jun '12

If you are looking for stats on African telecommunications, there is a great thread on Mobile Active with lots of information. https://groups.google.com/group/mobileactive-discuss/browse_thread/thread/5…

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No Change today
by Nicola Dell 07 Jun '12

07 Jun '12

Hi everyone Quick reminder that there is no Change seminar today. Have a great summer and see you in the fall! Thanks Nicki

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Call for feedback: impact of ICT programs for development
by Melody Clark 06 Jun '12

06 Jun '12

I thought some of you might want to review and comment on a new short note on how to evaluate the impact of ICT programs by the Open Development Technology Alliance (ODTA<http://www.opendta.org/>), in collaboration with the World Bank's OPCS' Governance and Anticorruption Team (GAC<http://go.worldbank.org/32PINXVIJ0>) and the Social Development Network (SDV<http://go.worldbank.org/8WWCZQW5Q0>). There are also other calls for feedback about ICTs and development. http://blogs.worldbank.org/ic4d/call-for-feedback-how-to-note-on-a-framewor… -- Melody Clark Research Coordinator | Global Impact Study Technology & Social Change (TASCHA) http://about.me/melodyclark melclark(a)uw.edu<mailto:melclark@uw.edu> | 206.685.7819 Twitter: @ictimpact<http://twitter.com/#!/ICTimpact> | @melodyrclark<https://twitter.com/#!/melodyrclark> www.globalimpactstudy.org<http://www.globalimpactstudy.org/>

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My article for Washington Post
by Umar Saif 05 Jun '12

05 Jun '12

Hi - I recently wrote an article for Washington Post on the startups for the 'other' 4 Billion -- a topic which will strike a chord with several of you: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-innovations/a-tale-of-two-tech-st… Regards, -- Umar Saif | http://people.csail.mit.edu/umar

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Poster Session - Technology for Resource Constrained Environments, Wed June 6, noon-1:30 pm, CSE Atrium
by Richard Anderson 05 Jun '12

05 Jun '12

This year's projects in the multi-disciplinary CSE481K - Designing Technology for Resource-Constrained Environments will be giving poster presentations in the CSE Atrium from noon to 1:30 pm WHAT: CSE481K Designing Technology for Resource-Constrained Environments Project Posters and Demos DATE: Wednesday, June 6, 2012 TIME: 12:00pm - 1:30pm PLACE: Atrium, Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering, UW Campus http://www.washington.edu/maps/?l=CSE http://www.cs.washington.edu/news/maps.html HOSTS: Richard Anderson (CSE), Ruth Anderson (CSE), Beth Kolko (HCDE), Nicki Dell (CSE) This years six projects are: SmartPhone Job Aids for Front-line Medical Workers Interactive Public Health Videos for South Seattle in collaboration with Global2Local Using Smartphones for Vaccine Registries Map based Public Health Modeling to support national immunzation programs Encouragement Systems for Maternal Health in Kenya Open Data Kit / District Health Information System integration to support SmartPhone reporting of health indicators Come check it out tomorrow! Richard Anderson, Ruth Anderson, Beth Kolko, Nicki Dell

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Presentations of 3 student senior projects
by Gaetano Borriello 31 May '12

31 May '12

tomorrow, Friday, June 1, at 2:00-3:30pm in CSE503. Here are abstracts: Open Data Kit Tables Hilary Worden Tables are used to organize data in a wide variety of situations, but the spreadsheet applications that are commonly used to store tables lack features that many organizations might like to have in their data management software. For example, a clinic might want to edit data through custom forms to reduce errors, allow patients without computers to schedule appointments through SMS messages, or design their own display screens that connect tables for patients, appointments, and doctors together to create a unified application. ODK Tables is an Android application that allows users to control how their data is managed and displayed with just HTML and JavaScript, to provide a customized app with low overhead. ODK Tables Cloud Synchronization Dylan Price ODK Tables requires a data synchronization system to help users backup and share their data. It is built on top of the existence data storage layer provided by ODK Aggregate permitting cloud-based implementations as well as a server deployed by an organization for its own private purposes. The system is a flexible, open source solution which will enable organizations to give workers in the field the ability to share data between phones, as well as save the data to a server or the cloud in a robust, scalable manner. In this talk, I will cover the basic concepts and usage of the synchronization protocol, then delve into 2 or 3 design challenges I faced while building it. Finally I will discuss some evaluations and performance numbers of the protocol and finish with the expected future direction of this work. Vaccine Cold-Chain Visualization Melissa Winstanley As new vaccines are introduced in countries around the world, one important restriction on the success of immunization programs is the health of a country’s vaccine cold chain. To address the issue of cold chain management, the organization Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH) developed the Cold Chain Equipment Manager (CCEM) to maintain, analyze, and predict the success of a country’s vaccine cold chain. CCEM does not, however, contain any tool to visualize data geographically. To rectify this deficiency, we developed a CCEM Visualizer application to display cold chain data. The Visualizer is a Ruby on Rails web application that relies on the Google Maps API, allowing for custom mapping features. Initial user feedback and analysis confirms that the CCEM Visualizer would be useful for national health workers to manage vaccine cold chain vitality and coordinate responses.

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HCI4D community
by Ed Cutrell 30 May '12

30 May '12

All— ACM SIGCHI has initiated a series of forums for different sub-interests called “communities.” These include large, well-established groups with conferences (UIST, CSCW, UbiComp) as well as smaller interest groups with specific aims (e.g., Research-Practice Interaction). This looked like a nice opportunity for a number of us, so we created an HCI4D community for people interested in the nexus of HCI and development: http://www.sigchi.org/communities/hci4d Note that this community is open to anyone interested in HCI and development (whatever that means to you). If you’re not an ACM member, you can still affiliate with the community—the only thing you can’t do is vote or hold office. Please join us! This is brand new, so we’re still working out what the community will be—come help us figure that out. For now I’m the acting chair, but we’ll be setting up governance, elections, etc. before long. And… spread the word! -ed

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CSE and HCDE technology for developing regions projects round 2!
by Nicola Dell 28 May '12

28 May '12

This week at Change we will have presentations on *another* three exciting projects that have been built by the CSE and HCDE students in the Computing for Development capstone class over the last two quarters. Come and join us! Note that this will be the last meeting of the year! Have a great summer and see you all in the fall :-) What: CSE and HCDE technology for developing regions projects round 2! When: Thursday, May 31 at 12 noon Where: The Allen Center, room CSE 203

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Webinar on Effectively Applying Mobile Technologies to the World Bank’s Development Planning
by Yaw Anokwa 27 May '12

27 May '12

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Effectively Applying Mobile Technologies to the World Bank’s Development Planning Thursday, June 07, 2012 Online Webinar 11:30 am - 12:30pm EST Using mobile technologies to achieve development goals (M4D) could present a tremendous opportunity to rapidly meet development objectives, including promoting transparency, supporting skill development, increasing access to health care and education, and expanding economic opportunity. Yet, focusing on mobile technologies can be seen as a quick fix by governments and development organizations, especially if they choose to invest in M4D rather than tackle complex structural problems. Mobile technologies also remain unevenly incorporated into development planning, as rapid changes in the field make it difficult to anticipate new technologies. As a critical source of financial and technical assistance around the world, the use of mobile technologies by the World Bank Group presents a chance to accelerate the achievement of development goals or deepen negative impacts. Join the Bretton Woods Committee, in cooperation with Development Alternatives, Inc, for a webinar to examine the opportunities and challenges for the World Bank Group to use mobile technologies to meet its objectives. Speakers Include Ineke Buskens, Research Director, Gender Research into Information Communication Technology for Empowerment Jessica Heinzelman, Senior ICT Specialist, DAI Tim Kelly, Lead ICT Policy Specialist, infoDev, World Bank http://brettonwoods.org/events/index.php/80/Effectively_Applying_Mobile_Tec…

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