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Welcome to Change and Noah Perin on the Mobile Midwife Project
by Eleanor O'Rourke 29 Mar '11

29 Mar '11

This Thursday will be the first Change meeting of the quarter. We will begin with an introduction to the seminar and short organizational discussion. This will be followed by a talk by Noah Perin of PATH who will discuss his work on the Mobile Midwife project, which leverages technology for the improvement of maternal and newborn health. *The Mobile Midwife is a mobile device platform for use by health providers on the front lines of the community health system. It provides active clinical decision support and monitoring, management of patient history and information, and serves as a vehicle for communication and education.* * The Mobile Midwife was built using Open Data Kit (ODK), an open- source collection of tools created to build information services for developing regions. Using ODK, an existing ARTH-administered postnatal care program will be adapted to run on the device. It will provide clinical decision support, patient information management, and patient education in a handheld device accessible to rural clinic and home settings. Currently the team is identifying requirements for community-based postnatal care, and building prototypes and will be testing the device among nurse midwives in the Udaipur district in India this spring. The planned study will test the assertions that the device can increase efficiency and compliance with global best practices and integrate seamlessly into existing workflows. * *This project is a partnership composed of PATH; Action, Research, and Training in Health (ARTH); and the University of Washington’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering.* Please join us for sandwiches, and to learn more about the Mobile Midwife project! *What:* Welcome to Change and Noah Perin on the Mobile Midwife Project *When:* Thursday, March 31st at noon *Where:* Paul Allen Center, Room 203

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CSE 590F: ICTD Seminar (Information and Communication Technology for Development)
by Gaetano Borriello 29 Mar '11

29 Mar '11

Yes, it is another research seminar announcement. TIME: Tuesday 1:30-2:30pm PLACE: CSE 203 WEB: http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/cse590f/10au/ Please join us in CSE 590F (Readings in Information and Communication Technology for Development) next Tuesday, October 5 for our first meeting this quarter. Since we are starting late, this first meeting will not just be organizational but will already include a discussion of a paper, which I will likely lead unless I get an early volunteer. We'll then spend some time volunteering for leading the other discussions of papers this quarter. Our readings will be mostly from the upcoming ICTD conference (if the authors give us permission) and from CHI and AI-D as well. The last two weeks will be practice talks of UW presentations at the ICTD and DEV conferences in mid-December. As usual, all are most welcome to attend. Those new to the seminar who are just curious about ICTD are particularly encouraged. There is a tentative schedule for the quarter at http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/cse590f/10au/. It will probably be modified after the first meeting and will soon include links to PDF files of each paper. Hope to see you there on Tuesday, Gaetano

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CfP: Modelling for Sustainable Development at SEFM 2011
by Jerome White 26 Mar '11

26 Mar '11

Call for Papers - SEFM 2011 Special Track on MODELLING FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT at the 9th International Conference on SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND FORMAL METHODS (SEFM) 14-18 November 2011 Montevideo, Uruguay URL: http://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/eventos/SEFM2011 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ IMPORTANT DATES * Title and abstract submission deadline: 23 April 2011 * Paper submission deadline: 30 April 2011 * Acceptance/rejection notification: 15 June 2011 * Camera-ready version due: 15 July 2011 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The aim of the Special Track on MODELLING FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT at SEFM 2011 is to bring together practitioners and researchers from academia, industry, government and non-government organisations to present research results and exchange experience, ideas, and solutions for modelling and analysing complex systems in various domain areas, such as economy, health, biology, ecology, climate and poverty reduction, that address problems of sustainable development. Papers that present realistic applications to sustainable development and make use of techniques such as simulation, visualisation, animation, nonlinear systems analysis, model-checking and inferential statistics are especially welcome. Authors are invited to submit original research or tool papers on any relevant topic. These can either be normal or short papers. Short papers can discuss new ideas which are at an early stage of development and which have not yet been thoroughly evaluated. TOPICS Modelling methodologies and notations include, but are not limited to: - Systems Dynamics - Systems of Differential Equations - Game Theory - Machine Learning - Agent-based Methodologies - Process Calculi - Automata-based Notations - Rewriting Systems - Membrane Systems - Cellular Automata - Discrete Optimisation Modelling - Continuous Optimisation Modelling - Empirical Modelling Application domains include, but are not limited to: - Sustainability Science - Integrated Development Planning - Evidence-based Policy - Ecosystem Science - Epidemiology - Genetics - Population and Reintroduction Biology - Climate Change - Environmental Risk Assessment and Management - Poverty Reduction KEYNOTE SPEAKER * Matteo Pedercini, Millennium Institute, USA LOCATION SEFM 2011 will be held at the NH Columbia Hotel located close to the financial center of Montevideo and enjoying excellent views of the Plata river (Río de la Plata) http://www.nh-hotels.com/nh/en/hotels/uruguay/montevideo/nh-columbia.html. SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Submissions to the special track must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and judged on the basis of originality, contribution to the field, technical and presentation quality, and relevance to the conference special track. All papers must be written in English. Research and tool papers must not exceed 16 pages in the LNCS format while short papers must not exceed 8 pages in the LNCS format (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for details). All queries on the submissions should be sent to: sefm2011-msd(a)iist.unu.edu Papers must be submitted electronically via the Easychair System: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sefm2011msd (please note that this Easychair website is distinct from the one for general submissions to SEFM 2011) Accepted papers will be included in the proceedings of SEFM 2011, which will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (LNCS, www.springer.com/lncs) After the conference, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to be considered for publication in a special issue of the SoSyM journal (Software and Systems Modeling, Springer), following the standard reviewing process of the journal. SPECIAL TRACK PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Roberto Barbuti, University of Pisa. Italy * Antonio Cerone, UN University, UNU-IIST, Macau SAR China (Chair) * Elsa Estevez, UN University, UNU-IIST, Macau SAR China * Peter Haddawy, UN University, UNU-IIST, Macau SAR China * Siu-Wai Leung, University of Macau, Macau SAR China * Paolo Milazzo, University of Pisa, Italy * Ion Petre, Åbo Akademi University, Finland * Weishuang Qu, Millennium Institute, USA * Dave Robertson, University of Edinburgh, UK * Siraj Shaikh, Coventry University, UK * Michael Sonnenschein, University of Oldenburg, Germany * Hefeng Tong, Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (ISTIC), China * Shaofa Yang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, SIAT, China

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Fwd: Call for Papers: ICTD2012 - Fifth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development
by Gaetano Borriello 26 Mar '11

26 Mar '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: ICTD2012 Program Committee <program(a)ictd2012.org> Date: Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 12:32 AM Subject: Call for Papers: ICTD2012 - Fifth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development To: program(a)ictd2012.org CALL FOR PAPERS Fifth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA USA Conference dates: March 12-16, 2012 Paper submission deadline: July 22, 2011 (11:59pm UTC) Conference website: http://www.ictd2012.org Contact us at: program(a)ictd2012.org Twitter: @ICTD2012 Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ICTD2012 ICTD provides an international forum for scholarly researchers exploring the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in social, political, and economic development. The conference program and accepted papers will reflect and deepen the multidisciplinary nature of ICTD research, with anticipated representation from anthropology, computer science, communication, design, economics, electrical engineering, geography, information science, political science, public health, sociology, and so on. Submitted papers are subject to a rigorous and selective double-blind peer review; accepted papers will appear in electronic conference proceedings. A subset of the papers will also appear in a special issue of Information Technologies & International Development. ICTD2012 is the fifth of an ongoing series of conferences occurring every one-and-a-half years; previous conferences have taken place in: Berkeley, CA (USA) ICTD 2006; Bangalore (India) ICTD 2007; Doha (Qatar) ICTD 2009; and London (United Kingdom) 2010. For the purposes of this conference the term "ICT" comprises electronic technologies for information processing and communication, as well as platforms that are built on such technologies. "Development" means international development, including, but not restricted to, poverty alleviation, education, agriculture, healthcare, general communication, gender equality, governance, infrastructure, environment and sustainable livelihoods. Papers considering novel designs, new technologies, project assessments, policy analyses, impact studies, theoretical contributions, social issues around ICT and development, and so forth will be considered. Well-analyzed negative results from which generalizable conclusions can be drawn are also sought. Relevant papers reporting high-quality original research are solicited. Full papers will be reviewed by a multidisciplinary panel, and evaluated according to their novel research contribution, methodological soundness, theoretical framing and reference to related work, quality of analysis, and quality of writing and presentation. Authors are encouraged (but not required) to address the diversity of approaches in ICTD research by providing context, implications, and actionable guidance to researchers and practitioners beyond the authors’ primary domains. Only original, unpublished, full research papers in English will be considered. Submissions not meeting a minimum bar of academic research writing will be rejected without full review. Papers should contain a maximum of 8000 words. Reviews are double blind, so papers should not include author names or other information that would identify the authors (references to previous work by the authors should be in the third person). Authors should follow IEEE formats and styles http://www.ieee.org/documents/stylemanual.pdf. Samples of this are also available in PDF at http://www.ictd2012.org/ICTD2012_sample.pdf and MS Word http://www.ictd2012.org/ICTD2012_sample.doc formats. Authors will be required to sign a copyright release for publication in the conference proceedings. Additional submission details will be posted on the conference website at http://www.ictd2012.org, as the information becomes available. As a new opportunity for 2012, we are offering a peer mentorship program for paper submissions. Submit your paper early (by May 1st, 2011) to this program and get feedback from peer mentors ahead of the normal submission process and June deadline. See http://www.ictd2012.org/mentorship for details. Atlanta is a world-class city with a rich and passionate history. Spring comes early to Atlanta; March is likely to be sunny, crisp, and pleasant. The conference venue is the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center ( http://www.gatechhotel.com/) Georgia Tech is one of the top research universities in the United States, distinguished by its commitment to improving the human condition through advanced science and technology. The conference website is http://www.ictd2012.org. Follow us on Twitter @ICTD2012, or visit our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/ICTD2012Contact us at program(a)ictd2012.org. IMPORTANT DATES Peer review mentor program submission deadline: May 1, 2011 Paper submission deadline: July 22, 2011 Acceptance notifications: September 16, 2011 Camera-ready papers due: January 16, 2012 Conference dates: March 12-16, 2012 Program Committee Chairs Jonathan Donner, Microsoft Research India Beki Grinter, Georgia Institute of Technology Gary Marsden, University of Cape Town General Conference Chairs Michael Best, Georgia Institute of Technology Ellen Zegura, Georgia Institute of Technology

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m-Health Symposium -- hosted by Cayetano-Heredia U. Lima -- Friday, March 25, 2011 --- Live stream Happening now...
by Sherrilynne Fuller 25 Mar '11

25 Mar '11

Hello all - I'm attending m-Health Symposium in Lima today (hosted by Cayetano-Heredia --- Patty Garcia et al) which has a live stream --- see: http://mhealth.andeanquipu.org/ for details. (Daniel Capurro is here too.) Sherri Sherrilynne Fuller, Ph.D. Professor Biomedical and Health Informatics School of Medicine and Information School and Department of Health Services (Adj) School of Public Health Co-Director, Center for Public Health Informatics University of Washington Box 35-4812 Seattle, Washington 98195 206-491-6380 (mobile) <mailto:sfuller@u.washington.edu> sfuller(a)u.washington.edu

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Fwd: Pervasive ICT4D special issue
by Yaw Anokwa 24 Mar '11

24 Mar '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lakshminarayanan Subramanian <s.lakme(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 14:20 Subject: Pervasive ICT4D special issue To: sig-dev(a)googlegroups.com Hi all, IEEE Pervasive Computing has a special issue on ICT4D. Attached is the CFP. For more details, refer to: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/pccfp3 Thanks lakshmi Special issue on Pervasive Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) Submission Deadline: 1 September 2011 Publication: July–September 2012 Works in Progress Submission Deadline: 21 July 2011 IEEE Pervasive Computing invites submissions on the use of pervasive computing technologies for social and economic development, especially in contexts where conventional solutions are impractical due to factors such as income levels, literacy rates, and available infrastructure. These mobile and wireless technologies hold the potential to significantly improve the lives of large populations in developing regions. Example topics for this special issue include but are not limited to the following: Pervasive computing applications for education, health, finance, agriculture, governance, etc. in developing regions Adapting content and applications to local languages and education levels User interfaces on pervasive devices for low-literacy and/or intermittently connected populations Low-cost computing devices and low-cost network connectivity Energy-efficient and intermittent-energy devices, networks, and systems Mechanisms for minimizing energy, latency, and storage Embedded sensing and/or participatory sensing systems for ecology, sustainability, agriculture, etc. in developing regions Shared access to pervasive computing infrastructure, including personalization and privacy concerns Security challenges for pervasive technologies in developing regions Case studies of operational Pervasive ICT4D devices and systems Surveys of recent research in Pervasive ICT4D Special Issue Guest Editors Elizabeth Belding , University of California, Santa Barbara Ramón Cáceres, AT&T Labs Tapan Parikh, University of California, Berkeley Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, New York University Submission Information Submissions should be 4,000 to 6,000 words long and should follow the magazine's guidelines on style and presentation. All submissions will be anonymously reviewed in accordance with normal practice for scientific publications. Submissions should be received by 1 September 2011 to receive full consideration. In addition to full-length submissions, we also invite work-in-progress submissions of 250 words or less (submit to pervasive(a)computer.org) These will not be peer-reviewed but will be reviewed by the Department Editor Anthony Joseph and, if accepted, edited by the staff into a feature for the issue. The deadline for work-in-progress submissions is 21 July 2011. For full author guidelines: www.computer.org/pervasive/author.htm For submission details: pervasive(a)computer.org To submit an article: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/pc-cs -- "Have a dream, pursue it!" -- Anonymous

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Four Peaks Salon with Jessica Rothenberg-Aalami
by Scott Macklin 24 Mar '11

24 Mar '11

Four Peaks Salon with Jessica Rothenberg-Aalami Thursday, April 14, 2011 from 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM (PT) University of Washington, KANE HALL Walker-Ames room Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Markets: What’s Good for Them, Is Good for Us Jessica Rothenberg-Aalami, Managing Partner of the Gobee Group and co-author of "Technology at the Margins: How IT Meets the Needs of Emerging Markets", will kick things off with a live on-camera interview with Media Space host Hanson Hosein. The Media Space conversation will explore how innovation in emerging markets threatens some of our business models here in the developed world; so much so that we're either looking to partner with those who are developing those innovations, or we're importing them. Is what's good for them good for us? Salon participants will enjoy light refreshments while they catch an exclusive viewing of the 30-minute multi-cast Media Space TV interview as it’s happening live from the UWTV studios. Immediately following the interview, Jessica will join the salon partipants and Four Peaks thought leaders to initiate a larger, participatory conversation to explore the emergence of a new global ethos of innovation that designs technology solutions that catalyze efforts with a social conscience. Jessica Rothenberg-Aalami's most recent book, Technology at the Margins, is a call for local organizations and corporations who are eager to remain competitive and effective to leverage change through useful, nimble, and impactful information and communication technologies (ICTs). "Technology at the Margins demonstrates that by making IT more accessible, affordable, and relevant, new mass markets can be opened. Based on solid insights generated in key areas of health, education, finance and the environment, the book offers practical recommendations and insights from world leaders, innovators, practitioners and new users of emergent technologies." Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner, provides the forward and Beth Kanter, social media for change leader, refers to the book as “a must-read for nonprofit leaders and technologist who want to leverage the power of IT to help solve global poverty.” Rothenberg-Aalami heads the Gobee Group - an international firm that works at the intersection of technology and social impact. To make technology meaningful, she and her teams integrate policy, information and communication technologies, creativity, and grassroots expertise to design and deliver unique solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. As a research scholar affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE), she worked extensively on technology innovation in emerging markets and global corporate social responsibility. She holds a doctorate in Economic Geography and a Master's degree in International Political Economy. Her book is titled Technology at the Margins: How IT Meets the Needs of Emerging Markets and is coauthored with Sailesh Chutani and Akhtar Badshah. registration at: http://fourpeaksapril.eventbrite.com - Scott Scott Macklin Associate Director – Master of Communication in Digital Media University of Washington 206-616-5054

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Fwd: Summer Internship at Telefonica Research Madrid
by Yaw Anokwa 24 Mar '11

24 Mar '11

Telefonica Research Madrid is looking for interns for this summer 2011. The intern will be a member of the EducaMovil project, which is a collaboration between Telefonica Research, Telefonica Foundation and Sumbi, an NGO in Lima, Peru. EducaMovil is a game-based cell phone learning tool to provide educational contents for afterschool programs in low-income communities. The internship will focus on the development of adaptation algorithms for the personalization of the interface and the educational contents to the learners' specific knowledge and learning abilities. Candidates should: - Be enrolled in a CS/EE PhD program, although MSc students with research experience might also be considered. - Have expertise in the areas of machine learning and data mining - Be fluent in Java and ideally have notions of J2ME The internship has a duration of three months. The deadline for submissions is April 15th. Please email your CV to Vanessa Frias-Martinez <vanessa(a)tid.es>.

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Fwd: $50k in Prizes: Calling all mobile developers who create for the U.S.: Deadline May 16
by Yaw Anokwa 23 Mar '11

23 Mar '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <mobileactive-discuss%2Bnoreply(a)googlegroups.com> Arthur Grau IV <simplicitous(a)gmail.com> Mar 21 08:23AM -0700 ^ Hi Mobile Actives, we are pleased to announce that we're offering fifty thousand in cash and prizes for mobile applications that serve the underserved in the areas of health, jobs, money and education. You can read more at our site. We're looking forward to seeing your entries. http://applicationsforgood.org/contests/

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Fwd: Announcing OpenMRS Summer of Code 2011
by Yaw Anokwa 18 Mar '11

18 Mar '11

I-TECH / UW Clinical Informatics Research Group is mentoring one of the OpenMRS Summer of Code projects. The UW project is the "PDQ Supplier Module" which translates to improving a current project to use standards based data exchange between our OpenELIS lab system and OpenMRS. If you are thinking of doing the Google Summer of Code, this could be a great match. Email jflow2(a)uw.edu for more info. -----Original Message----- From: announce(a)openmrs.org [mailto:announce@openmrs.org] On Behalf Of Michael Downey Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 12:54 PM To: openmrs-announce-l(a)LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU Subject: [OPENMRS] Announcing OpenMRS Summer of Code 2011 The OpenMRS community is pleased to announce that it has been selected to participate as a mentoring organization for a 5th year in Google Summer of Code(tm). We've enjoyed participating in this great program in the last 4 years and are even more excited about the projects and mentors we have available this year. Coding for OpenMRS is a great way to practice your coding skills and, at the same time, help benefit people in developing countries who are on the front lines of the battle against HIV/AIDS, TB, and Malaria. Google Summer of Code is an annual program that gives university students studying computer science and related fields a chance to use the skills they learn to solve real-world problems and participate in active open source development communities. At OpenMRS, our projects are ideas developed within our communities that have the potential to reach millions and help medical professionals save lives in some of the poorest places on the planet. Students will have the opportunity to work closely with experienced development mentors who are experts in their fields, and will also have the chance to work with other developers, users, and students from every continent. If you are a currently-enrolled university student, you are likely eligible to participate in the program, organized by Google's Open Source Programs Office. Fore more information about the program and our proposed projects, visit the Summer of Code page on the OpenMRS Wiki: http://go.openmrs.org/soc2011 Good luck to all students who apply. We're looking forward to working with you! Best regards, Michael Downey OpenMRS Community Infrastructure Team michael(a)openmrs.org - http://openmrs.org

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