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CCC/CRA workshop on emergency management
by Gaetano Borriello 21 May '12

21 May '12

http://www.cccblog.org/2012/05/20/emergency-management-incident-resource-an…

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Fwd: [Ihmeseminars] IHME Seminar 5/23: Dr. Ross Donaldson
by Gaetano Borriello 18 May '12

18 May '12

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dane Boog <danegb(a)uw.edu> Date: Fri, May 18, 2012 at 8:52 AM Subject: [Ihmeseminars] IHME Seminar 5/23: Dr. Ross Donaldson To: "ihmeseminars(a)uw.edu" <ihmeseminars(a)uw.edu> [image: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: IHME Update]**** ** ** Good Morning,**** ** ** I am pleased to announce Ross I. Donaldson, Global Head, Emergency & Disaster Care (EDC) Development, International Medical Corps* *as our seminar speaker on Wednesday, May 23rd * *from 4:15PM to 5:30PM at the IHME office in Belltown. Dr. Donaldson’s seminar is titled: “Developing sustainable emergency and disaster care in low- and middle-income countries.”** ** ** Emergency medical care is a key component of any health system; however, it is often neglected in low- and middle-income countries, where it is needed most. Injuries from road traffic collisions and violence are leading causes of death in children and young adults worldwide, in addition to numerous other illnesses amenable to emergency intervention spanning all ages. Emergency medical care becomes even more important in areas of conflict, where for every direct injury from conflict, there is an even greater increase in injuries from the secondary breakdown of society. **** ** ** International Medical Corps, a non-governmental humanitarian organization, has extensive experience building functioning emergency care systems in numerous countries, including most recently Iraq and Haiti. It has led the development of national emergency care plans and spearheaded the training of thousands of EMTs, nurses, and doctors worldwide, as well as the establishment of emergency prehospital and hospital-based systems of care.** ** ** ** Ross I. Donaldson, MD, MPH, CTropMed, FACEP is the critically acclaimed author of *The Lassa Ward*, a memoir about international aid work, as well as other medical texts and software. He is Global Head of Emergency & Disaster Care Development at International Medical Corps, where he has received and managed over $15 million in grants for emergency health care system strengthening. He is also the Director of the Emergency Medicine Global Health Program at Harbor-UCLA and holds appointments in the UCLA schools of medicine and public health. **** ** ** Featured on CNN, BBC, NPR, and other media outlets, Dr. Donaldson is an internationally recognized expert on the global provision of emergency and disaster care. Among other honors, he received the Humanitarian Award from the California chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians in 2010.**** ** ** Please join us at our office in Belltown (2301 5th Avenue, Suite 600) at 4:00PM for coffee and tea. The seminar will begin at 4:15PM.**** ** ** Best regards,**** Dane**** ** ** Dane Boog**** Education Program Manager**** Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation | University of Washington**** 2301 5th Avenue, Suite 600 | Seattle, WA 98121**** Tel: +1-206-897-2870 **** danegb(a)uw.edu **** http://healthmetricsandevaluation.org**** [image: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: IHME Logo]**** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** _______________________________________________ Ihmeseminars mailing list Ihmeseminars(a)u.washington.edu http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/ihmeseminars

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Job: VP of Eng position, Bridge International Academies, Nairobi
by Yaw Anokwa 18 May '12

18 May '12

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 19:52:46 +0300 From: Jeff Wishnie <jeff(a)wishnie.org> Subject: [TIER] Nairobi: VP of Eng position, Bridge International Academies To: tier <tier(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu> Just received this note?Bridge is a very ambitious Nairobi based social enterprise, they build and operate low-cost private schools. If interested, please contact Bridge directly: Bridge International Academies is looking for a VP of Engineering - a role that encompasses leading IT, Software Development, and also all of their data/reporting teams. Do you guys know of anyone suitable? http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?c=qO09VfwC&v=1&page=Job%20… - Jeff

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Fwd: Open Data for Development Camp
by Yaw Anokwa 18 May '12

18 May '12

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Laura Newman <laura.new...@okfn.org> Hi all, Someone just brought this event to my attention. You may know about it already, but thought I would pass it on just in case. Open Data for Development Camp - 28th and 29th June in Nairobi, 29th June in Amsterdam. More details: http://openforchange.info/ Cheers, Laura -- Laura Newman Community Coordinator Open Knowledge Foundation http://okfn.org/ Skype: lauranewmanonskype Twitter: @Newmanlk

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Fwd: [dub-students] World Lab Summer Institute
by Yaw Anokwa 17 May '12

17 May '12

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: James Landay <landay(a)cs.washington.edu> Date: Thu, May 17, 2012 at 5:55 PM Subject: [dub-students] World Lab Summer Institute To: "dub-faculty (dub-faculty(a)dub.washington.edu)" <dub-faculty(a)dub.washington.edu>, "dub-students(a)dub.washington.edu" <dub-students(a)dub.washington.edu>, "dub(a)dub.washington.edu" <dub(a)dub.washington.edu> As those of you who saw my dub retreat talk know, we will have a new innovative program this summer on the UW campus: The World Lab Summer Institute. We will put 10 UW students (strong undergrads and young grad students) together with 10 top students from Tsinghua University in China. Students will work on interdisciplinary teams (designers, technologists, and social scientists) that are also cross-cultural (Chinese and Americans) to make impact on the Environment, Health, or Education. The students will work on 7-week projects (from mid-July to late August) with an optional week in Beijing to show off the demos/videos that are produced. The program will include morning lectures/design exercises, team work the rest of the day, and Friday industry lab tours. This entire program will be funded by industry at no cost to the students. I am now recruiting for the UW participants in the program. If you are interested in joining us in this incredible effort, please drop me a note telling me about yourself. I've attached a high level summary of the program as well as a link to a tentative schedule (we will be adding more design thanks to Prof. Tad Hirsch and more entrepreneurship lectures TBD): http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/landay/teaching/world%20lab%20summer/ Thanks! James PS dub Faculty, if you know of appropriate students for this special opportunity please encourage them and pass this information on. --- James A. Landay 刘哲明 Short-Dooley Professor Department of Computer Science & Engineering University of Washington 642 Allen Center, Box 352350 Seattle, WA 98195-2350 landay(a)cs.washington.edu http://cs.washington.edu/homes/landay/ Co-author of The Design of Sites: Patterns for Creating Winning Web Sites _______________________________________________ dub-students mailing list dub-students(a)dub.washington.edu http://dub.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/dub-students

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Fwd: "Unreasonable at Sea" Opportunity
by Yaw Anokwa 17 May '12

17 May '12

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kate Otto <katherine.otto(a)gmail.com> Check out this very interesting opportunity if you are a "company using technology to address a massive social or environmental problem" ("We are looking for ventures focusing on telemedicine, mobile banking, clean-tech, democratized education, disaster relief...etc. In short, we are searching for companies leveraging technology to have significant impact.") http://unreasonableatsea.com/criteria/

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Fwd: [dub] Summer Social Webshop for PhD Students
by Yaw Anokwa 17 May '12

17 May '12

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Charlotte P. Lee <cplee(a)uw.edu> Date: Thu, May 17, 2012 at 8:39 AM Subject: [dub] Summer Social Webshop for PhD Students To: "dub(a)dub.washington.edu" <dub(a)dub.washington.edu> Possibly of interest. - Charlotte --------------------- Summer Social Webshop http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/webshop2012/ Sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Social Media Research Foundation Doctoral students in computer science, iSchool, sociology, communications, political science, anthropology, psychology, journalism, and related disciplines are invited to apply to attend this summer’s 4-day intensive workshop on Technology-Mediated Social Participation (TMSP). Technology-Mediated Social Participation includes social networking tools, blogs and microblogs, user-generated content sites, discussion groups, problem reporting, recommendation systems, and other social media applied to national priorities such as health, energy, education, disaster response, political participation, environmental protection, business innovation, or community safety. During the 4-day workshop, students will attend presentations from an interdisciplinary group of leaders in the field and engage in other research and community-building activities like working on short-term projects, sharing research plans, developing new research collaborations, learning relevant software, analysis methods and data collection tools, and meeting Federal policy makers. Accepted students will receive financial support. We will provide suggested places to stay, but students may arrange to stay with friends or relatives in the area. _______________________________________________ dub mailing list dub(a)dub.washington.edu http://dub.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/dub

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BitMate: BitTorrent for the developing-world
by Yaw Anokwa 16 May '12

16 May '12

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Umar Saif <u...@lums.edu.pk> Hi - I am not sure if I have sent an email regarding our BitTorrent client designed for low-bandwidth nodes in the developing-world. We released BitMate almost a year ago -- to date, it has been downloaded more than 35,000 times by users from 173 countries. It is fully compliant with the BitTorrent protocol and compatible with existing BitTorrent clients. BitMate is implemented using azureus (Vuze) code base. We have subtly changed the underlying mechanism (GPL'ed) without changing the UI or the codebase that deals with the Vuze platform. BitMate is designed to specifically improve the performance of low-bandwidth peers (5-20 KB/sec); in our target conditions, Bitmate can almost double your download performance. At the same time, it performs at least as well as the traditional BitTorrent clients for high-bandwidth peers (but you'll see most performance benefit for low-bandwidth peers in the developing-world). Importantly, it improves its performance without cheating (strategic behavior). Instead, it actually improves its download performance by improving its upload contribution (by as much as 1000% !) More info: http://www.dritte.org/bitmate.html Code + download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitmate/ ( https://github.com/umairwaheed/BitMate) Our ACM HotNets'11 paper: http://people.csail.mit.edu/umar/hotnetsX-final40.pdf Cheers, -Umar

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From SMS to Smartphones cfp special issue of JCMC (due 30 June 2012)
by Yaw Anokwa 16 May '12

16 May '12

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Call for papers: Special Issue of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication From SMS to Smartphones: Tracing the Impact of the Mobile Phone in Asia Publication date: October 2013 The mobile phone has had a discernible impact on Asia, given its affordability, versatility and ubiquity as the key platform for computer-mediated communication. It has been widely deployed in virtually every aspect of everyday life, be it in commerce, politics, governance, education, religion, entertainment or recreation. The diversity and complexity of this fast-growing region has birthed innovative and ground-breaking applications of the mobile phone. While basic feature phones are already a mainstay in both rural and urban Asia, the smartphone is now rapidly diffusing through the region at a rate exceeding the rest of the world. Bringing the idea of the ubiquitous web to fruition, the smartphone's heightened connectivity and thriving app market are enabling yet more revolutionary uses of the mobile phone. While the rising adoption of the smartphone burgeons with potential for civic action, commercial enterprise, employment and educational opportunities and social service provision, challenges are also emerging for consumers, industries and governments alike. The early phase of mobile communication research was influenced by studies and theorization from North America and Europe. Spurred on by the wide diffusion of mobiles globally, research is now very much seeking to understand the international underpinnings of this form of mediated communication, especially as it increasingly blurs the lines between computers, Internet, and phones. Over the past decade, Asian research has been important in addressing the rapid diffusion, transformation, and shift in mobiles. Such research is growing, but is still relatively incipient. Against this backdrop, this special issue seeks to bring together the latest research findings, regional understandings, conceptualizations, and theories of the mobile in Asia. Article proposals are sought for topics including but not limited to the following: * does a digital divide exist in Asia with regard to mobile phone penetration and usage trends and if so, how can and should they be remedied? * what are the implications of the development of mobiles - especially smartphones and mobile Internet - for contemporary media in Asia? * how is the growing proliferation of the smartphone facilitating unprecedented forms and scales of communication? * how do issues of broad infrastructure provisions and market pricing influence the behaviour of mobile phone users? * how are the location based services offered by smartphones altering user behaviour and lifestyles? * how does mobile Internet use complement and possibly complicate fixed location Internet use? * what implications does the growth of smartphone apps have for the cultural complexion of Asian countries? * how is the mobile phone serving the needs of marginalised communities in Asia? * to what extent do smartphones and the behaviour which they enable test the boundaries of existing regulatory frameworks? * how does the rising ubiquity of the smartphone and by implication, that of always-on, always-available Internet access challenge prevailing theoretical frameworks relating to inter alia, technology acceptance, mobility, communication, social influence and identity? Please submit an 800 word abstract and a 100 word biographical note to both special issue editors as an e-mail attachment no later than 30 June 2012. Authors of accepted abstracts will be notified by 15 July 2012 and invited to submit a full paper. Manuscripts should be no more than 8,000 words, including notes and references, conform to APA style, and submitted by 30 October, 2012. All papers will be subject to anonymous peer review following submission. Important dates Deadline for abstracts 30 June 2012 Decisions to authors 15 July 2012 Full paper submission 30 October 2012 Decisions 30 January 2013 Revised paper submission 30 April 2013 Final proofs 30 June 2013 Issue publication October 2013 Special issue editors: Sun Sun LIM, National University of Singapore, sun...@nus.edu.sg Gerard Goggin, University of Sydney, gerard.goggin@<gerard.gog...@usyd.edu.au> sydney.edu.au

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CfP: Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries
by Yaw Anokwa 15 May '12

15 May '12

---------- Forwarded message ---------- http://www.ifipwg94.org/ifip-conference-2013 1st 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 23, 2012 The International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) invites you to the 12th International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries. The conference will be held in Jamaica, on 19-22 May 2013. 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 propose 16 different tracks, listed below: 1. Applying systems thinking in ICT4D<http://www.ifipwg94.org/track-1-systems-thinking-in-ict4d> 2. Caring for a Connected Humanity: eHealth, and the Transformation of Healthcare in the Global South<http://www.ifipwg94.org/track-2-caring-for-a-connected-humanity> 3. Designing Applications, Services, Systems and Infrastructure for Development <http://www.ifipwg94.org/track-3-designing-for-development> 4. Early Childhood and ICT4D: Promises and Perils<http://www.ifipwg94.org/track-4-early-childhood-and-ict4d> 5. How ICT Frame Development Goals<http://www.ifipwg94.org/track-5-how-ict-frame-development-goals> 6. ICT’s, Collaboration & Service Innovation: Bridging Boundaries and Cultures<http://www.ifipwg94.org/track-6-icts-collaboration-a-service-innovation> 7. ICTD in the Caribbean - Articulating Unique Challenges and Solutions<http://www.ifipwg94.org/track-7-ictd-in-the-caribbean> 8. Infusing Gender into ICT4D: Innovating Research, Practice and Policy<http://www.ifipwg94.org/track-8-infusing-gender-into-ict4d> 9. Open & Inclusive Development<http://www.ifipwg94.org/track-9-open-a-inclusive-development> 10. Open Source for Public Health Systems: Making them work<http://www.ifipwg94.org/track-10-open-source-for-public-health> 11. Organisational Applications of Web 2.0<http://www.ifipwg94.org/track-11-organisational-applications-of-web-20> 12. Sen’s Capability Approach and ICT4D<http://www.ifipwg94.org/track-12-capability-approach-and-ict4d> 13. Social Media and Development<http://www.ifipwg94.org/track-13-social-media-and-development> 14. Understanding the Actors: Actor-Network Theory in ICT for Development Research<http://www.ifipwg94.org/track-14-understanding-the-actors> 15. University-Community Engagement<http://www.ifipwg94.org/track-15-university-community-engagement> 16. Into the Future: Themes, insights and agendas for ICT4D research and practice <http://www.ifipwg94.org/track-16-into-the-future> In addition to papers from the field of information systems, we also welcome multidisciplinary papers. Who Should Attend The conference will bring together academics, practitioners (from the private sector, NGOs, and public sector), and policy advisors who are involved with ICT and development in developing countries. Conference Papers and Submissions All papers will be double blind reviewed. Note that in case of acceptance, at least one author must have registered for the conference by March 1, 2013 for the paper to be included in the electronic proceedings. We look forward to welcoming you to IFIP 9.4 in Jamaica!

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