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University of Washington’s Allen School Seeking new PhD Students for Research in Universal Internet Access and Community Networking
by Kurtis Heimerl 18 Nov '18

18 Nov '18

Apologies for the wide posting but I feel like these lists have the kind of people we're looking for! Feel free to forward on if there are other communities that could be interested. The ICTD Research Group at the University of Washington’s Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering (http://ictd.cs.washington.edu/) is seeking qualified students, both from the US and abroad, with an interest in universal internet access and community networking to apply to the PhD program in computer networking. The ICTD group, led by Professors Kurtis Heimerl and Richard Anderson, has long worked on the problems of Universal Internet Access internationally, with deployments and projects in both the rural Philippines (in partnership with the University of the Philippines) and Indonesia (in partnership with Ob Anggen). As our research shifts to wide-area LTE networks and the infrastructure of repair, we want to find more motivated and passionate students with interest and capacity in the space. There is a particular interest in students with personal experience with hard connectivity problems. If interested, please visit the UWCSE admissions page ( https://www.cs.washington.edu/academics/phd) All students admitted to the Allen School Ph.D. program are guaranteed funding for 3 years in the form of a research assistantship, teaching assistantship or fellowship. All or most of the cost of tuition is covered by the assistantship or fellowship. If you have any questions, please direct them to Professor Kurtis Heimerl < kheimerl(a)cs.washington.edu>. A little about the University of Washington’s Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering: Consistently ranked among the top computer science programs in the world, the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering educates tomorrow's innovators and engages in research that advances core and emerging areas of the field. We also lead a broad range of multi-disciplinary initiatives that demonstrate the transformative power of computing and are nationally recognized for our success in promoting diversity. We are located in the spectacular Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering at the heart of the University of Washington campus in Seattle — a center of innovation in software, life sciences, global health, aerospace, and many other fields — where Allen School faculty, students, and alumni are making an impact and changing the world. -- Public Key: https://flowcrypt.com/pub/kheimerl@cs.washington.edu

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JOB: Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR), Public Platforms, Omidyar Network India
by Yosem Companys 16 Nov '18

16 Nov '18

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6466278498406367232 Omidyar Network India is seeking a passionate, entrepreneurial individual who can pioneer a ‘public platforms’ approach in India to solve hard ecosystem level problems in areas such as education & skills, agriculture, livelihoods, financial inclusion, etc. This is an urgent need that Omidyar Network India must fill in the next week or so. If interested, please contact Varad Pande at varadpande(a)gmail.com.

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UW Change Seminar Tuesday, Nov 20: Naveena Karusala
by Philip Garrison 16 Nov '18

16 Nov '18

Please join us for the Change Seminar next week *Tuesday 9/20/2018* in *JHN 111*. *Who:* Naveena Karusala, UW CSE *What:* The Artful Integration of Digital Payments into Public Health Organizations in Rural Kenya *When:* Tuesday, Nov 20th, 12-1pm *Where:* Johnson Hall 111 *Abstract:* Globally, industry, government, and non-profit actors have been making concerted efforts to push the adoption of digital financial services (DFS) within complex organizations. This effort is motivated by the notion that DFS will support goals such as financial inclusionof workers, efficiency of operations, and organizational governance. Weexplore this premise through a qualitative study of how public health organizations in rural Kenya use digital payments to pay health workers, backdropped by ongoing issues with delayed and missing payments. Drawing frominterviews with salaried and non-salaried health workers as well as staffof governmental and non-governmental organizations, we describe the articulation work---or ad hoc, corrective work---required to make bank and mobile money payments usable. We highlight how this work and workers' socioeconomic and salaried status impact perceptions of digital payments and theprocess of following up with payment issues. We ! complicat e the prevalent narrative that digital payments support financial inclusion, efficiency,and governance, offering implications for the design of digital payment processes that must serve diverse individual and organizational stakeholders. *Bio:* Naveena Karusala is a Ph.D. student at the University of Washington’s Paul Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering. She graduated with a Computer Science degree from Georgia Tech in 2016. Naveena has engaged extensively in research projects in the area of human-centered computing and global development in the domains of health, gender, language, usability, and human-centered AI tools. She has conducted work in India, the United States, and Kenya.

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Consultancy Opportunity: Bahmni open source HMIS Community Director
by Jan Flowers 16 Nov '18

16 Nov '18

Hello All, The Bahmni Coalition has an exciting opportunity for a consultant for a 12-month contract to serve as the Bahmni Community Director. The Bahmni Community Director is a critical position to the long-term success of the Coalition. The key responsibilities of this consultancy are to ensure engagement within the Coalition, to define and execute a shared road map, to ensure management and operations needs of the coalition are addressed, and to identify funding opportunities for the Coalition and coordinate funding applications and reporting. Bahmni is a community-driven open source Hospital Management Information System (HMIS) integrating OpenMRS Electronic Medical Record (EMR), OpenELIS Laboratory Information System (LIS), and Odoo Stock Management and Billing. Bahmni has an estimated 75+ implementations in 25+ countries. The Bahmni Coalition is a group of organizations who are working together to establish and execute a common roadmap for the Bahmni product, to jointly resource the Bahmni project, and to coordinate in enhancing the Bahmni product. This Coalition is currently made up of over 15 diverse organizations - non-governmental organization, software development and implementation organizations and academic institutions. Detailed responsibilities and skills needed can be viewed here: bit.ly/bahmnicommunitydirector HOW TO APPLY 1. Please submit a cover letter and resume that addresses the responsibilities and skills outlined above. 2. Send your information to jobs(a)bahmni.org<mailto:jobs@bahmni.org>. 3. For more information on Bahmni, please see our web site: https://www.bahmni.org/ Jan Flowers, MS HPL Health Informatics, Health Policy & Law, and Global Health Clinical Informatics Research Group (CIRG), BNHI SON, Director of Global Health Informatics Digital Interventions Group (DIGIT), DGH SOM, Co-Faculty Lead University of Washington, Clinical Faculty, Research Scientist OpenMRS, Chair, Board of Directors and Leadership Team Bahmni, Governing Committee OpenELIS, Board of Directors skype: jan.flowers email: jflow2(a)uw.edu<mailto:jflow2@uw.edu>

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UW Change Seminar today Tuesday, Nov 13: Zerina Kapetanovic, FarmBeats
by Philip Garrison 13 Nov '18

13 Nov '18

Please join us for the Change Seminar *today* *Tuesday 9/13/2018* in *JHN 111*. *Who:* Zerina Kapetanovic, UW ECE *What:* FarmBeats: An AI and IoT solution for Data-driven Agriculture *When:* Tuesday, Nov 13th, 12-1pm *Where:* Johnson Hall 111 *Presentation Description: *Data-driven techniques help boost agricultural productivity by increasing yields, reducing losses, and cutting down input costs. However, these techniques have seen sparse adoption owing to the high costs of manual data collection and limited connectivity solutions. FarmBeats, is an AI and IoT platform for agriculture that enables seamless data collection from various sensors, cameras, and drones. Our system design explicitly accounts for weather-related power and Internet outages, and has had several long-term deployments across the US. *Bio:* Zerina Kapetanovic is a PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the University of Washington. She works with Professor Joshua Smith in the Sensor Systems lab and focuses on wireless technology such as battery-free sensing and low-power communication.

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Re: [change] UW Change Seminar Tuesday, Nov 6: Matt Johnson, Distributed LTE
by Philip Garrison 06 Nov '18

06 Nov '18

Starting in 2 hours! On Mon, Nov 5, 2018, 10:10 AM Philip Garrison <philipmg(a)cs.washington.edu wrote: > Please join us for the Change Seminar tomorrow *Tuesday 9/6/2018* in *JHN > 111*. > > *Who:* Matt Johnson (UW CSE) > *What:* Distributed LTE > *When:* Tuesday, Nov 6th, 12-1pm > *Where:* Johnson Hall 111 > > *Abstract: *The radio interfaces and network architectures of WiFi and > cellular systems are converging along many dimensions. While both systems > are largely adopting the centralized architecture of traditional cellular > deployments, this design comes with fundamental disadvantages that limit > how these networks grow and develop. As a response, we present Distributed > LTE (dLTE), an architecture offering the high radio performance of licensed > and coordinated waveforms as well as the openness to organic expansion and > growth of traditional WiFi. We challenge the assumption that good > performance requires a centralized packet processing core, and propose > hybrid approaches to coordination that prioritize system openness. We argue > that dLTE is a particularly good fit for rural areas, where the LTE > waveform is more appropriate than WiFi, yet it is uneconomical for > centralized providers to deploy traditional cellular systems. > > > *Bio: *Matthew Johnson is a graduate student at the University of > Washington working with Dr. Kurtis Heimerl on new tools for community > cellular networks. He was fortunate to receive an NSF Graduate Research > Fellowship and the Gaetano Borriello fellowship at UW to support his work. > Previously he has interned for X (formerly Google-X) working on balloon > based rural access, and worked at TrellisWare Technologies building > mobile-ad-hoc networks. He received a Bachelors of Science in Electrical > and Computer Engineering at the Rice University in Houston, Texas. Outside > of networking, he is excited about sustainable living, bikes, and > photography! > _______________________________________________ > change mailing list > change(a)change.washington.edu > https://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/change >

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UW Change Seminar Tuesday, Nov 6: Matt Johnson, Distributed LTE
by Philip Garrison 05 Nov '18

05 Nov '18

Please join us for the Change Seminar tomorrow *Tuesday 9/6/2018* in *JHN 111*. *Who:* Matt Johnson (UW CSE) *What:* Distributed LTE *When:* Tuesday, Nov 6th, 12-1pm *Where:* Johnson Hall 111 *Abstract: *The radio interfaces and network architectures of WiFi and cellular systems are converging along many dimensions. While both systems are largely adopting the centralized architecture of traditional cellular deployments, this design comes with fundamental disadvantages that limit how these networks grow and develop. As a response, we present Distributed LTE (dLTE), an architecture offering the high radio performance of licensed and coordinated waveforms as well as the openness to organic expansion and growth of traditional WiFi. We challenge the assumption that good performance requires a centralized packet processing core, and propose hybrid approaches to coordination that prioritize system openness. We argue that dLTE is a particularly good fit for rural areas, where the LTE waveform is more appropriate than WiFi, yet it is uneconomical for centralized providers to deploy traditional cellular systems. *Bio: *Matthew Johnson is a graduate student at the University of Washington working with Dr. Kurtis Heimerl on new tools for community cellular networks. He was fortunate to receive an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and the Gaetano Borriello fellowship at UW to support his work. Previously he has interned for X (formerly Google-X) working on balloon based rural access, and worked at TrellisWare Technologies building mobile-ad-hoc networks. He received a Bachelors of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Rice University in Houston, Texas. Outside of networking, he is excited about sustainable living, bikes, and photography!

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Compass 2019, Accra, Ghana, 3-5 July 2019
by Richard Anderson 05 Nov '18

05 Nov '18

Computing and Sustainable Societies 2019 Accra, Ghana | 3-5 July 2019 Conference Announcement This is a preliminary announcement of the second annual ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS2019) which will be held in Accra, Ghana from July 3-5, 2019. COMPASS is a re-creation of the ACM DEV conference, which was held annually between 2010 and 2016. The first COMPASS was held in Menlo Park, California in 2018. The COMPASS conference expands the focus of the original ACM DEV conference to explicitly welcome work on underrepresented communities worldwide and to include work on sustainability. To ensure strong technical contributions, the conference will accept papers based on tracks corresponding to the computing areas they draw upon. The tracks for the 2018 conference were Systems, HCI, Data Science/AI, and Applications. Accra, Ghana, as the capital of a dynamic west African nation will be an excellent venue for the conference to bring together researchers working in areas of information and communication for development (ICTD), HCI, computational sustainability, and AI for social impact. The conference will be held at a hotel in downtown Accra. The conference will have full papers and notes. The program committee chairs will be announced soon along with a call for papers. The submission date is likely to be in March 2019. General Conference Chair Richard Anderson, University of Washington Program Committee Chairs To be announced soon Notes Chairs To be announced soon Local Arrangement Chairs Angela Owusu Ansah, Asheshi University Nathan Amanquah, Asheshi University Ayorkor Korsah, Asheshi University CSG Steering Committee Richard Anderson, University of Washington Nicola Dell, Cornell Tech Melissa Densmore, University of Cape Town Carla Gomes, Cornell University Jennifer Mankoff, University of Washington Aaditeshwar Seth, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Lakshmi Subramanian, New York University Miland Tambe, University of Southern California Bill Thies, Microsoft Research New England Ellen Zegura, Georgia Tech

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Fifth Workshop on Computing within LIMITS
by Kurtis Heimerl 02 Nov '18

02 Nov '18

Call for Papers -------------------- LIMITS 2019 Fifth Workshop on Computing within LIMITS June 10-11, 2018 Lappeenranta, Finland http://computingwithinlimits.org/2019/ The ACM LIMITS workshop aims to foster discussion on the impact of present and future ecological, material, energetic, and societal limits on computing. These topics are seldom discussed in contemporary computing research. A key aim of the workshop is to promote innovative, concrete research, potentially of an interdisciplinary nature, that focuses on technologies, critiques, techniques, and contexts for computing within fundamental economic and ecological limits. A longer-term goal is to build a community around relevant topics and research. We hope to impact society through the design and development of computing systems in the abundant present for use in a future of limits. A recent article <https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/10/231374-computing-within-limits/abstr…> in the Communications of the ACM provides a good primer on Computing within Limits. This year we are co-locating with ICT4S in Europe. Abstract submission deadline: Feb 1, 2019 Paper submission deadline: Feb 8, 2019 Paper reviews available: March 14, 2019 Camera-ready paper deadline: March 28, 2019 Jay Chen, NYU Abu Dhabi, jchen(a)cs.nyu.edu, Workshop Co-Chair Oliver Bates, Lancaster University, o.bates(a)lancaster.ac.uk, Workshop Co-Chair For more information, please visit: http://computingwithinlimits.org/2019/ -- Public Key: https://flowcrypt.com/pub/kheimerl@cs.washington.edu

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Tech & Social Good: Could You Share Syllabi & Readings?
by Yosem Companys 31 Oct '18

31 Oct '18

Hi All, Does anyone know whether there's a collection of all syllabi and readings on technology and social good (or public good or social change)? If such a collection doesn't exist, could you help me create one? The readings can be from any discipline, seminal or not, and academic or not. I'd like to get cross-cultural readings, so we have representation of diverse perspectives from around the world. For the Stanford Program for Liberation Technology, I once made a list of all the topics on social good that I found on Twitter that intersected with technology. These included the following: - Accountability, Corruption, Openness, and Transparency (e.g., Open Data, Freedom of Information - FOI) - Activism, Protests, and Movements (e.g., Occupy, Anonymous, Hacktivism) - Agriculture, Farming, and Food Security (e.g., eAgri, Fishing, Mariculture, Aquaponics, Aquaculture) - Censorship, Repression, and Freedom (e.g., Freedom of Expression - FoE, Free Speech, NetFreedom, Right to Information - RTI) - Construction, Housing, and Real Estate (e.g., Smart Homes, Internet of Things) - Democracy, Politics, Elections, and Voting (e.g., Netroots, Tea Party, eVoting) - Development (e.g., Information and Communication Technologies for Development - ICT4D, Tech for Development - Tech4Dev, Global Development - GlobalDev) - Economics (e.g., Participatory Economy, Peer-to-Peer Economy, Commons) - Education (e.g., Information and Communication Technologies for Education - ICT4E, Open Education, eLearning, MOOCs) - Energy and Power (e.g., Microgrids) - Entrepreneurship (e.g., Social Entrepreneurship - socent, Social Innovation) - Environment (e.g., Brownfields, Landfills, Superfund Sites, Climate Change, and Land, Water, and Air Preservation) - Finance (e.g., Microfinance, FinTech, Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies) - Governance (e.g., eGovernance - eGov, Open Governance - OpenGov, Governance 2.0 - gov20) - Health (e.g., eHealth, mHealth, Telemedicine) - Human rights - Manufacturing (e.g., Additive Technologies, 3D Printing, Do-It-Yourself - DIY, Robotics) - Media (e.g., Journalism, Social Media) - Organizing and Organizations (e.g., Nonprofits, Community-Based Organizations, Cooperatives, Labor Unions) - Physical Spaces and Locations (e.g., Libraries, Coworking Spaces, Makerspaces, Hackerspaces, Fab Labs, Tool Sharing Libraries, Smart Cities, Mapping) - Policy and Law (e.g., Policy Innovations, Legal Innovations) - Privacy (e.g., Rules, Regulations, Laws, Frameworks) - Resilience During Conflicts, Natural Disasters, and Other Crises (e.g., Crisis Mapping; Robotics) - Security, Physical or Cyber - Social Science (e.g., Impact of Technology on Society) - Transportation and Supply Chain on Land, Water, and Air (e.g., Hyperloop, Autonomous Vehicles, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Drones, Smart Roads) - Volunteering (e.g., Crowdsourcing, Participatory Mapping) - Water Security (e.g., Watersheds, Water Purification) The list above isn't meant to be exhaustive, so please feel free to suggest other forms of grouping topics or let me know if I missed an important topic or hashtag. I truly appreciate your help and advice, and I look forward to hearing from you soon. Thanks, Yosem

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