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Job: Dimagi is Hiring Engineers
by Yaw Anokwa 06 Mar '12

06 Mar '12

This sounds like a fantastic opportunity. The team at Dimagi is pretty awesome. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Dimagi is looking for exceptional software developers to join our ranks. We are a small and growing social enterprise based in Boston but our systems are deployed primarily in rural Africa and Asia. We offer a fun and stimulating environment, a chance to see the world, and to make a difference in places that need it most. At Dimagi, you can do right by coding well. We work on a broad range of issues, including strengthening community health programs, electronic medical records, care coordination, and remote data collection. We have projects in over 20 countries including Zambia, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Ethiopia, India, Bangladesh, Senegal, Mexico, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Kenya, Afghanistan and the United States. We are seeking a full-time programmer to join our core team in Boston and lead or support development on multiple projects. The ideal candidate prefers small organizations to large ones, multi-tasking to single-project assignments, significant international travel, and a highly social atmosphere. Our developers share a passion for rapid prototyping, new technologies, making things work in challenging environments, and seeings the impact of our work first-hand. We view our culture as one of our greatest assets, and culture fit is as important to us as technical expertise. We are highly collaborative with partner organizations, strong advocates for open source, and believers in building local software capacity in the countries where we work through our "Coded in Country" initiative. Depending on the specific skill set and preference, the candidate would focus on one of more of the following projects: - Core developer on an open source J2ME and Android mobile health application for community health workers - Core developer on a Python/Django/CouchDB based web application to help manage community health programs - Core developer on our SMS platforms to support patient outreach or supply-chain logistics - Core developer on our care coordination platform to support cervical cancer screening and home based cancer care programs Required Skills: - Excellent programming skills - Excellent technical documentation - Excellent communication skills - Excellent problem solving and debugging skills to troubleshoot complex deployments - Self-managed Representative Technlogies (not requirements for application, though please highlight any relevant skills): - Python and Django - Java/Android/J2ME - Javascript/jQuery - HTML5/CSS - CouchDB Love your work. At Dimagi, you will have tremendous freedom to pursue your own interests and grow your skill set as well as make a real impact across the world. Our developers have traveled to over 20 countries in the last 5 years. The position is available immediately. Please send your resume and cover letter to jobs(a)dimagi.com.

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Health Informatics for Nigerian hospitals
by Kunle Oguneye 06 Mar '12

06 Mar '12

Hello, I'm looking for a Health Informatics Consultant that can work on a pilot program for three States in Nigeria. The intent is to help them transition from paper records to a hybrid system of paper and electronic records. A system to generate unique numeric identifiers will have to be deployed, followed by a system for printing bar codes on to existing forms, and then scanning them into a database in the Cloud. Of major importance is training of the hospital medical records personnel in improved cataloging systems for the existing paper records. Please contact me if you are interested. Kunle Oguneye 515-771-6775 (cell) Kunle(a)mamaAfricana.com 425-818-8850 The best children's book in the world!!!!!!!! www.sikulu.com

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Job: World Bank President
by Yaw Anokwa 05 Mar '12

05 Mar '12

http://www.worldbankpresident.org is a good site to track media coverage, insider gossip, official reactions and civil society activity on the selection of the next World Bank president. Some applicant essays... Jeff Sachs: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-i-would-lead-the-world-bank/2012… Bill Easterly: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/03/05/how_i_would_not_lead_the_w… ICT4D Jester: http://ict4djester.org/blog/?p=362

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Job: Aptivate in UK Looking for Devs and PMs
by Yaw Anokwa 05 Mar '12

05 Mar '12

Aptivate is a not-for-profit organisation focusing on IT in international development. They care about having a positive social impact, and believe that IT can do a lot to empower, inform and connect people all over the world. Aptivate is looking to increase their capacity in the following areas, which have their own specific requirements. If you fit any or more than one of these roles, then they might be a good match: Full stack web developers, Devops, and Agile project managers. More at http://www.aptivate.org/vacancies and http://www.aptivate.org/role-descriptions

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Three ICTD/DEV practice talks this Thursday
by Nicola Dell 05 Mar '12

05 Mar '12

This Thursday at Change we will have three talks, all of which will be presented at the ICTD and DEV conferences in Atlanta, March 11-15. 12:00 Automated Quality Control for Mobile Data Collection ** Winner of the Best Paper Award at ACM DEV ** Benjamin Birnbaum , University of Washington, Brian DeRenzi, University of Washington, Abraham D. Flaxman, University of Washington, Neal Lesh, Dimagi, Inc. 12:30 The Changing Field of ICTD: Content Analysis of Published Research, 2000-2010 Ricardo Gomez, University of Washington, Luis Baron, University of Washington, Brittany Fiore-Silfvast, University of Washington 1:00 Facilitated Video Instruction in Low Resource Schools Richard Anderson, University of Washington; Chad Robertson, University of Washington; Urvashi Sahni, Study Hall Foundation; Esha Nabi, Study Hall Foundation; Tanuja Setia, Study Hall Foundation Please note that there will be breaks between the practice talks so you don’t need to stay for all of them. What: ICTD/DEV practice talks When: The Allen Center, CSE 203 When: Thursday March 8 at 12 noon.

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ICTD / DEV Practice talk (UPDATE)
by Richard Anderson 05 Mar '12

05 Mar '12

There are seven UW talks at the ICTD (http://ictd2012.org/) and DEV (http://dev2012.org/ ) conferences next week (22% if the total paper presentations!). All seven will be given as practice talks this week at UW. Change Seminar, Thursday, 12:00 - 1:30 pm, March 8, CSE 203, We will have a 90 minute Change seminar on Thursday, March 8, with three talks. (There will be breaks between the practice talks - so you don't need to stay for all of them.) 12:00 Automated Quality Control for Mobile Data Collection ** Winner of the Best Paper Award at ACM DEV ** Benjamin Birnbaum , University of Washington, Brian DeRenzi, University of Washington, Abraham D. Flaxman, University of Washington, Neal Lesh, Dimagi, Inc. 12:30 The Changing Field of ICTD: Content Analysis of Published Research, 2000-2010 Ricardo Gomez, University of Washington, Luis Baron, University of Washington, Brittany Fiore-Silfvast, University of Washington 1:00 Facilitated Video Instruction in Low Resource Schools Richard Anderson, University of Washington; Chad Robertson, University of Washington; Urvashi Sahni, Study Hall Foundation; Esha Nabi, Study Hall Foundation; Tanuja Setia, Study Hall Foundation Tuesday, 12:30-2:30 pm, March 6, CSE 203 12:30 Improving Community Health Worker Performance Through Automated SMS Brian DeRenzi, University of Washington; Leah Findlater, University of Washington; Jonathan Payne, D-Tree International; Benjamin Birnbaum, University of Washington; Joachim Mangilima, D-tree International; Tapan Parikh, University of California, Berkeley; Gaetano Borriello, University of Washington; Neal Lesh, Dimagi, Inc. 1:00 Digitizing Paper Forms with Mobile Imaging Technologies Nicola Dell , University of Washington, Nathan Breit, University of Washington, Gaetano Borriello, University of Washington 1:30 Open Data Kit Sensors: Mobile Data Collection with Wired and Wireless Sensors Rohit Chaudhri , University of Washington, Waylon Brunette, University of Washington, Mayank Goel, University of Washington, Rita Sodt, University of Washington, Jaylen VanOrden , University of Washington, Michael Falcone, University of Washington, Gaetano Borriello, University of Washington 2:00 Design of a Phone-Based Clinical Decision Support System for Resource-Limited Settings, Yaw Anokwa, University of Washington; Nyoman Ribeka, Regenstrief Institute; Tapan Parikh, University of California, Berkeley; Gaetano Borriello, University of Washington; Martin Were, Regenstrief Institute

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'Sustainable ICTD' at ICTD 2012
by Anupam Jain5 05 Mar '12

05 Mar '12

Hi all, We are organizing an Open Session at ICTD 2012 focussed on 'financial sustainability' of ICTD Projects. Included below is a brief about it. If you feel for the topic or have a perspective, please do come by and express your thoughts. Here, we will try to gather inputs from people from different domains, discuss each other's perspectives and then come up with a few concrete suggestions on what we ought to do next. In case, you are not able to attend but would like to tell your story/give your thoughts, please do email us and we would be happy to consider it for inclusion in the program. Thanks! All of us (Anupam Jain, Arun Kumar, Amit A Nanavati, Nitendra Rajput, Jerome White) IBM Research - India p.s Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email. Sustainable ICTD Date/Time : March 12 (10-11:15am) (11:45am-1pm) Room: Conference 3 Overview The last 5 years have seen an interesting momentum in the growth of technologies primarily meant for developing regions. Various research conferences, diverse social and technology platforms have seen an upsurge in ICTD literature as the world sees some amazing ideas and innovative solutions to problems that have the potential to help the next billions. It is a well known fact that the end users addressed by these efforts have a very limited financial income. But has there been enough research done in the area of financially sustainability for projects done for this population? We may have funds for good research work, good field studies and pilots but we may not always have enough funding for full scale deployments of these wonderful technologies to continually help the next billions in the long term. There's an imminent need to figure out ways to generate enough revenue from 'within' the development projects themselves and hence make them self-sustaining. The advent of Web 2.0 enterprises that offer everything for free to end users and generate income via third parties (like advertisers etc.) is one example of how financially sustainable models can be created for technologies where charging the end user may not be a viable option. Though we may touch upon technical, social, and organizational sustainability during the session if and when required but we intend to primarily focus on financial sustainability of ICTD Projects. Speakers Dr. Richard J. Gowen, IEEE Foundation Dr. Kentaro Toyama, School of Information, University of California, Berkeley Leslie Dodson, University of Colorado-Boulder Linda Raftree, Plan International Structure of the session Have 4 speakers with diverse backgrounds talk about 'atleast' one of the following: 1) Their failure/success ICTD stories where financial sustainability played a major role 2) Their perspective on the need for financial sustainability in ICTD 3) Their idea of solving the problem Please note that the speakers may/may not (and are not required to) converge on their ideas/perspectives on the above or the problem statement itself A moderator summarizes all the talks and then the audience splits into groups for brainstorming. After a brainstorming session, each group comes up with some concrete next steps or recommendations.

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Panel on ICTS/SIDS at ICTD 2012 (and online)
by Yaw Anokwa 04 Mar '12

04 Mar '12

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 13:41:22 -0500 From: THAKUR Dhanaraj <dhanaraj.thakur(a)uwimona.edu.jm> Subject: [TIER] Please distribute - Panel on ICTS and SIDS - participate online - March 12, 2012 (2pm-4:30pm eastern standard time) To: "tier(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu" <tier(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu> Message-ID: <4F53B752.1070309(a)uwimona.edu.jm> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Invitation to Participate in a Panel Discussion: Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) We wish to invite you to join us online for a panel discussion on ICTs and SIDS which will take place at the Fifth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD2012), Atlanta, USA, Monday, March 12, 2012 from 2:30pm to 4pm (eastern standard time). To follow the discussions live and participate online please join us at: https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/813799999 The goal of this panel is to examine the various ways in which ICTs can be used to overcome the unique development challenges that are faced by SIDS. The topic will be addressed by panelists from a variety perspectives including: * Christina Higa, Director, Pan-Pacific Education and Communication Experiments by Satellite (PEACESAT), Hawaii, USA - "Universal Service and Public Service ICT for Development: Pacific Island Experiences." * Ilan Kelman, Senior Research Fellow, Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Oslo, Norway - "SIDS and ICTs: Applications for Disaster Risk Reduction, Including Climate Change Adaptation." * Dhanaraj Thakur, Lecturer, Department of Government, The University of the West Indies, Jamaica. - "National ICT Policies in the SIDS Context." * Elena De Jesus, Associate Sustainable Development Officer, SIDS Unit, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs - "ICTs and Coordinating Action across SIDS: SIDS Net" The panel will be chaired by Prof. Gillian Marcelle (Wits Business School, South Africa). Note that there is no cost to participating online. We look forward to your attendance. https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/813799999

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ACM Dev / ICTD Practice talks
by Richard Anderson 02 Mar '12

02 Mar '12

The ACM Dev and ICTD conferences are being held in Atlanta the week after next ACM Dev, http://dev2012.org/, March 10-11 ICTD, http://ictd2012.org/, March 12-15 Next week we will have a series of practice talks for UW Speakers. These will take place Tuesday, March 6 and Thursday March 8. Tuesday, March 6, CSE 203 12:30 Improving Community Health Worker Performance Through Automated SMS Brian DeRenzi, University of Washington; Leah Findlater, University of Washington; Jonathan Payne, D-Tree International; Benjamin Birnbaum, University of Washington; Joachim Mangilima, D-tree International; Tapan Parikh, University of California, Berkeley; Gaetano Borriello, University of Washington; Neal Lesh, Dimagi, Inc. 1:00 Digitizing Paper Forms with Mobile Imaging Technologies Nicola Dell (University of Washington), Nathan Breit (University of Washington), Gaetano Borriello (University of Washington) 1:30 Open Data Kit Sensors: Mobile Data Collection with Wired and Wireless Sensors Rohit Chaudhri (University of Washington), Waylon Brunette (University of Washington), Mayank Goel (University of Washington), Rita Sodt (University of Washington), Jaylen VanOrden (University of Washington), Michael Falcone (University of Washington), Gaetano Borriello (University of Washington) 2:00 Design of a Phone-Based Clinical Decision Support System for Resource-Limited Settings, Yaw Anokwa, University of Washington; Nyoman Ribeka, Regenstrief Institute; Tapan Parikh, University of California, Berkeley; Gaetano Borriello, University of Washington; Martin Were, Regenstrief Institute Thursday, March 8, CSE 203, 12:00-1:00 (Change Seminar) 12:00 Automated Quality Control for Mobile Data Collection Benjamin Birnbaum (University of Washington), Brian DeRenzi (University of Washington), Abraham D. Flaxman (University of Washington), Neal Lesh (Dimagi, Inc.) 12:30 Facilitated Video Instruction in Low Resource Schools Richard Anderson, University of Washington; Chad Robertson, University of Washington; Urvashi Sahni, Study Hall Foundation; Esha Nabi, Study Hall Foundation; Tanuja Setia, Study Hall Foundation

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Course Announcement for Spring 2012: Entrepreneurship of Global Health
by Bingjie Wang 02 Mar '12

02 Mar '12

Hello, I've attached information about a new interdisciplinary course that might interest global/public health students, CS/engineering students, and international studies students. It would be great if you could distribute this out to your listservs. The Foster School in conjunction with the Department of Global Health and the UW Center for Commercialization is collaborating to host an interdisciplinary course,* IBUS 490B/GH 590M*, to examine emerging markets in global health. Students will work hands-on in interdisciplinary teams with Seattle based companies in exporting the company's global health product. Possible companies include Cascade Design and Mirador. *Please see the attached flyer and syllabus* for more details. Email Jim at jws4(a)uw.edufor an add code. Thanks! Bingjie Wang UW C4C Intern

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