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09 Mar '09

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Your Account with Amazon.co.uk
by Amazon.co.uk 09 Mar '09

09 Mar '09

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CATER workshop at NYU
by Joyojeet Pal 08 Mar '09

08 Mar '09

The CATER Workshop on Technologies for Development Organized by the CATER research group http://cater.cs.nyu.edu April 10th, 2009, 9 AM - 6 PM Location: Room 109, Warren Weaver Hall Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University 251 Mercer Street, New York, NY 10012 The CATER research group cordially invites you to attend the 2009 workshop on "Technologies for Development" which showcases our ongoing research efforts in the space of appropriate technologies that aid development in under-developed areas around the world. The Cost-Effective Appropriate Technologies for Emerging Regions (CATER) is a new multidisciplinary research initiative at NYU that focuses on developing appropriate low-cost Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for addressing pressing problem in developing regions. CATER is a joint initiative comprising of faculty from Computer Science, School of Medicine, Public Policy, Economics and NYU-Poly. This workshop will feature a combination of invited talks from accomplished researchers and short talks by student researchers within CATER on their ongoing research efforts. The talks will cover four important areas within this space: * Technologies for improving access to communications in rural areas * Technologies for enhancing rural healthcare * Technologies for enhancing financial and commerce services * Technologies for enhancing rural education In addition, we will also have invited talks and a panel discussion that focuses on ground experiences working in rural developing regions. The detailed agenda of the workshop is attached. There is no registration fees for attending this event. However, since capacity is limited, we request you to RSVP in case you would like to attend the event. To RSVP, kindly send a short email to caterworkshop(a)gmail.com<mailto:caterworkshop@gmail.com> expressing your interest to attend along with your name, institution and contact email address. For enquiries regarding the workshop, kindly contact one of the workshop organizers: Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, lakshmi(a)cs.nyu.edu<mailto:lakshmi@cs.nyu.edu> Ashlesh Sharma, ashlesh(a)cs.nyu.edu<mailto:ashlesh@cs.nyu.edu> Thank you, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian Asst Professor, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University Time Program 9AM - 9.30AM Introductory Session The CATER Initiative at NYU - a brief overview Prof. Lakshminarayanan Subramanian NYU Courant Institute 9.30AM - 10.30AM Session 1: Improving Access to communication in Rural Areas Experiences deploying WiLD Networks and the Aravind Telemedicine System (invited talk) Dr. Sonesh Surana PhD, UC Berkeley Challenges extending the Web to the Rural Developing World (short talk) Jay Chen PhD candidate, NYU Courant Institute WiRE: A low-cost communications alternative to Cellular Networks (short talk) Aditya Dhananjay PhD candidate, NYU Courant Institute 10:30AM - 10:45AM Break 10.45AM - 12.30PM Session 2: Technologies for Healthcare Experiences with Rural Mobile Healthcare Solutions (invited talk) Dr. Neal Lesh Chief Technology Officer, D-Tree International and Director of Projects, Dimagi The Ghana Mobile Tele-consultation Network (short talk) Brian Levine MD., Columbia Medical School and NYU School of Medicine SmartTrack: A User Experience Report of Rural HIV-infected patients (short talk) Giulio Quarta, Phil Smith, John Trahanas NYU School of Medicine SMS-based Mobile Health Records (short talk) Arvind Kumar MS candidate, NYU Courant Institute Automated Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy (short talk) Nathan Silberman, Google Inc. Kristy Ahlrich, NYU School of Medicine 12.30PM - 1.30PM Lunch 1.30PM - 3.00PM Session 3: Enhancing Rural Financial and Commerce Services Experiences deploying Rural Microfinance Solutions (invited talk) Prof. Tapan Parikh School of Information, UC Berkeley Secure Rural ATM and Branchless Banking Services (short talk) Michael Paik PhD candidate, NYU Courant Institute Secure Supply Chain Management in Rural Settings (short talk) Ashlesh Sharma PhD candidate, NYU Courant Institute Mobile Information Search Services in Rural Contexts (short talk) Brendan Linn MS candidate, NYU Courant Institute 3.00PM - 3.15PM Break 3.15PM - 4.15PM Session 4: Tools for Enhancing Rural Education Experiences deploying Rural Educational Tools (invited talk) Dr. Joyojeet Pal University of Washington Educational Teaching Modules: The WiSEMD experience (short talk) Prof. Mary Ann Hopkins Dept of Surgery, NYU School of Medicine Educational Medical Web Portals (short talk) Trishank Karthik MS candidate, NYU Courant Institute 4.15PM - 4.30PM Break 4.30PM - 6.00PM Session 5: Experiences working in Developing Country Settings Millennium Villages Project (invited talk) Dr. Patricia Mecheal Earth Institute, Columbia University "Doctors without Borders": On-field Rural Surgery Experiences (invited talk) Prof. Mary Ann Hopkins NYU School of Medicine Followup Panel Discussion (30 min) Patricia Mecheal, Mary Ann Hopkins

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slides and photos from yesterday's talk
by Yaw Anokwa 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

we had about 60 attendees to yesterday's talks, so thanks for the great turnout! if want access to the slides and photos from the talk, you can find them on http://change.washington.edu/ we have a number of events next week, including a talk on a large medical record system in haiti as well as a detailed look on how computer science research can impact global development. as always, to find out more about ictd at uw follow us http://twitter.com/uwchange or subscribe to the calendar at http://change.washington.edu/about/events/ yaw

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CSE Colloquium, March 12, Kentaro Toyama
by Richard Anderson 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

Kentaro Toyama (Microsoft Research India) Computer Science Research for Global Development Colloquium Thursday, March 12, 2009 3:30 pm, EEB-105 Abstract On the same planet where there are 1.4 billion Internet users, a far less fortunate 1.4 billion people survive below the World Bank’s definition of the poverty line. The same technology that has transformed our lives - the lives of the wealthiest people on the planet - also remains out of reach and irrelevant for the poorest. How do you design user interfaces for an illiterate migrant worker? Can you keep five rural schoolchildren from fighting over one PC? What value is technology to a farmer earning $1 a day? The young field of "information and communication technology for development" (ICT4D) asks these kinds of questions in the expectation that computing and communication technologies can contribute to the socio-economic development of the world’s poorest communities. In this talk, I’ll introduce the Technology for Emerging Markets group TEM group<http://research.microsoft.com/research/tem> at Microsoft Research India, where an interdisciplinary team of researchers explores solutions in the context of agriculture, education, healthcare, microfinance, and other domains of development. There are several ongoing debates in ICT4D research, including questions about the role of computer science, project sustainability, and multidisciplinarity with academic integrity. I’ll discuss these issues in the context of MultiPoint, one of our projects where a computer-science concept not only solves a challenge in the context of under-resourced schools, but opens the door to rich avenues for further research. I hope to show that while technology alone rarely supplies the answer to the deep problems of poverty, technologists can make a significant difference as long as we retain equal measures of skepticism about the brash claims of technology and optimism about its true potential. BIO: Kentaro Toyama is co-founder and assistant managing director of Microsoft Research India (MSR India), which opened in Bangalore in January, 2005. In addition to his responsibilities to MSR India overall, Kentaro leads the Technology for Emerging Markets research group, and is a co-founder of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD). Prior to MSR India, Kentaro spent seven years at MSR in Redmond (WA) and Cambridge (UK) working on computer vision, multimedia, and geographic information systems. In 2002, he took personal leave from Microsoft to teach mathematics at Ashesi University in Ghana. Kentaro earned his Ph.D. in computer science at Yale University and received a bachelor’s degree in physics from Harvard University. http://www.cs.washington.edu/htbin-post/mvis/mvis?ID=803

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Talk Today; Saurabh Panjwani
by Richard Anderson 04 Mar '09

04 Mar '09

CSE 590f Seminar, 4pm, Wednesday, March 4. CSE 403. Title: PCs for whole-classroom instruction in developing region schools Speaker: Saurabh Panjwani, Technology for Emerging Markets, Microsoft Research (India) Abstract: Computers have found their way into numerous K-12 schools in the developing regions of the world but they are used in these schools primarily as self-learning tools for children. Our group at Microsoft Research India has been developing a technique to enable teachers in such schools to utilize computers for whole-classroom instruction. One of the essential characteristics of our technique is its reliance on paper materials (like curricular textbooks) for the purpose of generating digital content, which, we have found, not only simplifies the process of content creation considerably, but also induces significant changes in students' learning outcomes. The technique is currently being tested in two public schools in India. In this talk, I will describe what our technique is and the lessons we have learnt through our test deployments.

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Reminder: CIS Sponsored Change Event Thursday, March 5th at 11am
by Melody Clark 04 Mar '09

04 Mar '09

________________________________________________________________ MICROSOFT RESEARCH'S TECHNOLOGY FOR EMERGING MARKETS GROUP WHAT: Microsoft Research will be presenting a two-hour series of 15-minute talks on some of their projects (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/tem) Food and drinks will be provided. WHERE: Gates Commons (Rm 691) of the Allen Center (http://www.washington.edu/home/maps/southcentral.html?CSE) WHEN: Thursday March 5th, 2008 11am-1pm ABSTRACT Begun in 2005 in Bangalore, the Technology for Emerging Markets group at Microsoft Research India does research to better understand potential users of technology in developing countries and to design technologies and systems that serve their needs and aspirations. As a research lab, they focus on rigorous studies, prototypes, and project evaluations, working extensively with target communities in rural and urban environments in India and other developing countries. Previous research projects include Digital Green (video for agriculture extension), MultiPoint (multiple mice for multiple students per PC), Warana Unwired (SMS text-messaging for agriculture cooperatives), and Text-Free User Interfaces (UIs for non-literate users), etc. In this series of short presentations, they'll present a broad sampling of their more recent work, including topics such as mobile banking (actual use in four countries + UI issues), computer literacy for low-income office staff, an electronic pillbox for tuberculosis patients, comparisons of UIs of mobile-phone systems, etc. The group plans to be at UW for most of the day, and hopes to meet with faculty and students at UW who are interested in related work. Please feel free to get in touch with individuals directly, for topics, as below. (If in doubt, contact kentoy(a)microsoft.com) SPEAKERS: Kentaro Toyama (mailto:kentoy@microsoft.com): TEM group head, ICT4D research strategies, featherweight computing, HCI, telecenters David Hutchful (mailto:davihu@microsoft.com): ICT in education, MultiPoint templates for easy content creation, and connecting NGOs via the Internet Indrani Medhi (mailto:indranim@microsoft.com): UIs for non-literate users, free-access PCs for slum households, mobile banking UI, and UI options for delivering services over mobile phones Aishwarya Ratan (mailto:aratan@microsoft.com): Technology for microfinance, free-access PCs for low-income workers, and value of digital literacy Bill Thies (mailto:thies@microsoft.com): Electronic pillbox, UI options for delivering services over mobile phone, and DVD-based interactive multimedia SPONSORED BY: Center for Information & Society (CIS) with support from the iSchool, HCDE, CSE, and Change. Please join us in Gates Commons (Rm 691) of Allen Center (CSE) on Thu, Mar 5, 2009 11:00 AM -1:00 PM. For those who will not be there, the talks will recorded and made available on (the newly launched) http://change.washington.edu/ ________________________________________________________________ Box 354985 Seattle, WA 98195 Tel 206.616.9101 Fax 206.616.5149 cisinfo(a)u.washington.edu www.cis.washington.edu

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Two Mobile Innovation Challenges currently open for submissions
by joe michiels 03 Mar '09

03 Mar '09

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Seminar, Saurabh Panjwani, Wed, March 4, 4pm
by Richard Anderson 03 Mar '09

03 Mar '09

CSE 590f Seminar, 4pm, Wednesday, March 4. CSE 403. Title: PCs for whole-classroom instruction in developing region schools Speaker: Saurabh Panjwani, Technology for Emerging Markets, Microsoft Research (India) Abstract: Computers have found their way into numerous K-12 schools in the developing regions of the world but they are used in these schools primarily as self-learning tools for children. Our group at Microsoft Research India has been developing a technique to enable teachers in such schools to utilize computers for whole-classroom instruction. One of the essential characteristics of our technique is its reliance on paper materials (like curricular textbooks) for the purpose of generating digital content, which, we have found, not only simplifies the process of content creation considerably, but also induces significant changes in students' learning outcomes. The technique is currently being tested in two public schools in India. In this talk, I will describe what our technique is and the lessons we have learnt through our test deployments.

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Fwd: [gshci4d] Need your mobile apps for SURVEY on "Mobile Applications for Social Development"
by Yael Schwartzman 03 Mar '09

03 Mar '09

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Katrin <katrinverclas(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 12:52 PM Subject: [gshci4d] Need your mobile apps for SURVEY on "Mobile Applications for Social Development" To: Graduate Students in HCID <gshci4d(a)googlegroups.com> - Show quoted text - Dear all -- We are looking for your mobile application! MobileActive.org is collecting detailed information about mobile applications used for health, social development, advocacy, education, civic media, human rights, and other civil society areas. If you have or are developing a mobile application used in social development, please complete this survey: http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/?p=WEB228VQ3HV6D3 There is currently no comprehensive database of mobile applications for social development available. We need your help in building a more complete Mobile Applications Database, and learn more about your mobile apps used for social development. Please complete the survey here: http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/?p=WEB228VQ3HV6D3 We will share all applications widely with organizations, press, and interested donors. The survey again is here: http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/?p=WEB228VQ3HV6D3. The deadline for submissions is March 20th. Thank you very much! Katrin P.S. Feel free to forward to relevant organizations, lists, and individuals! Katrin Verclas Co-Founder and Editor MobileActive.org katrin(a)mobileactive.org + 1 413 687 9877 skype: katrinskaya Read the latest about mobiles in social change work at http://mobileactive.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Graduate Students in HCID" group. To post to this group, send email to gshci4d(a)googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to gshci4d%2Bunsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com<gshci4d%252Bunsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gshci4d?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

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