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Fwd: [dub] Tomorrow | A hunter-gatherer perspective on tech and sustainability | James Suzman Distinguished Lecture with UW Tech Policy Lab
by Kurtis Heimerl 01 Nov '17

01 Nov '17

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Hannah Almeter <halmeter(a)uw.edu> Date: Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 10:53 AM Subject: [dub] Tomorrow | A hunter-gatherer perspective on tech and sustainability | James Suzman Distinguished Lecture with UW Tech Policy Lab To: "dub(a)dub.washington.edu" <dub(a)dub.washington.edu> Join the Tech Policy Lab tomorrow to hear about tech and sustainability from a hunter-gatherer perspective with anthropologist James Suzman. James Suzman <https://www.fromthebush.com/> has lived and worked with every major Bushman group in southern Africa over the past 25 years and is the author of *Affluence without Abundance: The Disappearing World of the Bushmen. *Dr. Suzman wrote an article as part of the Guardian’s Inequality Project over the weekend, Why ‘Bushman banter’ was crucial to hunter-gatherers’ evolutionary success <https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/oct/29/why-bushman-banter-was-c…> . *Tech Policy Lab Fall Distinguished Lecture:* *Poison Arrows and Other “Killer Apps”: A Hunter-Gather Perspective on Technology and Our Future with James Suzman* Thursday, November 2, 2017, 7-8:30p Kane Hall 120, University of Washington, Free RSVP Requested: Register Here <https://tech-policy-lab-distinguished-lecture-james-suzman.eventbrite.com/> More info here <http://techpolicylab.org/events/fall-distinguished-lecture-with-james-suzma…> *Abstract: * The success of a civilization can be measured by its longevity. In that light, Southern Africa’s hunting and gathering San (“Bushmen”) are the most enduring (and successful) civilization in the history of modern Homo sapiens. What tools do the San use and how has their tool use contributed to such longevity? What of modern society? Despite technological advancements that have enabled levels of productivity unimaginable a hundred years ago, the modern world faces broad sustainability challenges. How might a better understanding of sustainable hunter-gatherer societies like the San help us respond to the social and economic impacts of modern technology, including challenges from increasing automation and computerization? How might such understanding help us to meet broader sustainability challenges? *Bio: * With a head full of Laurens van der Post and half an anthropology degree from St Andrews University under his belt, James Suzman hitched a ride into Botswana’s eastern Kalahari in June 1991. He has been living and working with Kalahari peoples ever since. Dr. Suzman holds a Ph.D. in social anthropology from Edinburgh University which he was awarded in 1996. Since then he has lived and worked with every major Bushman group in southern Africa, from the war ravaged Vasakele !Kung of southern Angola during the final phases of that civil war, to the highly marginalized Hai// om of Namibia’s Etosha National Park. Dr. Suzman is the Author of Affluence without Abundance: The Disappearing World of the Bushmen, published by Bloomsbury in 2017. ---- Hannah Almeter Program Manager Tech Policy Lab | University of Washington halmeter(a)uw.edu | (206) 685-8060 _______________________________________________ dub mailing list dub(a)dub.washington.edu http://dubber.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/dub

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UW Change Seminar 10/31: Jason Yip- Digital technologies in family participation and collaboration
by Esther Jang 31 Oct '17

31 Oct '17

Please join us for the Change Seminar this week on *Tuesday 10/31/2017* in HUB 214. *Who:* Jason Yip (UW iSchool) *What:* *How do digital technologies support how families participate and collaboratively learn together?* *When:* Tuesday Oct 31 *Where:* 12pm in HUB 214 *Abstract:* The overarching goal of my research program is to answer the question: “How do digital technologies support how families participate and collaboratively learn together?” This question is pertinent for many reasons. Families today are adopting technologies for learning at unprecedented rates. As well, digital youth are often not separate from their families. Instead, the family unit can be a long lasting and impactful influence on how technology is utilized for life-long learning (both formal and informal learning). Specifically, one area of my research is examining how English-language learning (ELL) families collaborate together in learning and problem solving. To understand these family collaborations, my research 1) builds new sociotechnical systems to promote family engagements; and 2) examines how current sociotechnical systems influence family interactions. In this talk, I will highlight two sociotechnical systems. The first is *BlockStudio*, a programming tool for families and children (ages 8 – 13) facing English-literacy challenges (building). The second is how ELL families and children (ages 10 – 17) search the internet together. This talk will conclude with a brief discussion on lessons learned about family collaboration among ELL populations. *Bio:* Jason Yip is an assistant professor at the Information School in University of Washington. His research examines how technologies can support parents and children learning together. He is a co-principal investigator on a National Science Foundation Cyberlearning project on designing social media technologies to support neighborhoods learning science together. He is the director of KidsTeam UW, an intergenerational group of children (ages 7 – 11) and researchers co-designing new technologies and learning activities for children, with children. Dr. Yip is the principal investigator of a Google Faculty Research Award project that examines how Latino children search and broker online information for their English-language learning parents. He is a senior research fellow at the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop. He holds a B.A. (2001) in chemistry and M.S.Ed (2002) in science and math education from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. (2014) in curriculum and instruction from the University of Maryland.

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Fwd: LIMITS Workshop, Call for Papers
by Kurtis Heimerl 30 Oct '17

30 Oct '17

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bonnie Nardi <nardi(a)ics.uci.edu> Date: Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 12:34 PM Subject: LIMITS Workshop, Call for Papers To: SIGCAS-ANNOUNCE(a)listserv.acm.org *LIMITS 2018Fourth Workshop on Computing within LimitsMay 12-13, Toronto, Canada* *computingwithinlimits.org <http://computingwithinlimits.org>* *ABOUT ACM LIMITS 2018* 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. This year we are colocating for the first time with ICT4S. *PROGRAM COMMITTEE* Oliver Bates, Lancaster University, o.bates(a)lancaster.ac.uk Eli Blevis, Indiana University, eblevis(a)indiana.edu Jay Chen, NYU, jay.chen(a)nyu.edu (co-chair) Steve Easterbrook, University of Toronto, sme(a)cs.toronto.edu Elina Eriksson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, elina(a)kth.se Kurtis Heimerl, University of Washington, kheimerl(a)cs.washington.edu Lara Houston, Goldsmiths, University of London, l.houston(a)gold.ac.uk Ann Light, University of Sussex, ann.light(a)sussex.ac.uk Bonnie Nardi, UC Irvine, nardi(a)ics.uci.edu (co-chair) Lisa Nathan, UBC, lisa.nathan(a)ubc.ca Teresa Cerratto Pargman, Stockholm University, tessy(a)dsv.su.se Daniel Pargman, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, pargman(a)kth.se Don Patterson, Westmont College, dpatterson(a)westmont.edu Birgit Penzenstadler, bpenzens(a)gmail.com Barath Raghavan, ICSI, barath(a)icsi.berkeley.edu Christian Remy, University of Zurich, remy(a)ifi.uzh.ch Debra Richardson, UC Irvine, djr(a)ics.uci.edu Nithya Sambasivan, Google, nithyas(a)gmail.com Bill Tomlinson, Victoria University of Wellington, bill.tomlinson(a)vuw.ac.nz *IMPORTANT DATES* Abstract registration deadline: Feb 2, 2018, 11:59pm Pacific Time Paper submission deadline: Feb 9, 2018, 11:59pm Pacific Time Paper reviews available: March 7, 2018 Bonnie Nardi Professor Department of Informatics School of Information and Computer Sciences 5088 Bren Hall UC Irvine 92697-3440 http://darrouzet-nardi.net/bonnie NEW BOOK: Heteromation and Other Stories of Computing and Capitalism (with Hamid Ekbia, MIT Press, 2017) ------------------------------ You can unsubscribe for this list at any time through this link: Unsubscribe <https://optout.acm.org/unsubscribe.cfm?rl=SIGCAS-ANNOUNCE&RE=KHEIMERL@CS.WA…>

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CU Boulder faculty position in Engineering for Developing Communities
by Richard Anderson 30 Oct '17

30 Oct '17

CU Boulder has a tenure track faculty position<https://cu.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?job=11157&lang=en> open in Engineering for Developing Communities at the College of Engineering and Applied Science (CEAS) level. The search is open to ICTD candidates, alongside other engineering disciplines with a focus on sustainable community development. Successful candidates can be based out of ATLAS<https://www.colorado.edu/atlas/?>, Mortenson Center for Engineering for Developing Communities<https://www.colorado.edu/mcedc/>, alongside other departments within Engineering. The College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Colorado Boulder invites applications for a tenure-line faculty position in engineering for developing communities. This faculty search fits with the overall vision of the college as being a world leader for excellence and innovation in engineering research and education while addressing global societal challenges and improving life. This is an interdisciplinary search, and candidates would have the opportunity to join the engineering faculty where their research and teaching efforts are aligned with their interests in engineering for developing communities. The position is targeted at the Assistant Professor level, but candidates with exceptional qualifications for higher rank will be considered. We are looking for candidates who show promise and interest in establishing and leading a research group to explore transdisciplinary fields and paradigms in sustainable community development, produce internationally recognized work, and develop collaborative relationships in academia as well as industry and the community. The candidates should show ability to work across several sectors of the college of engineering working on problems related to engineering in developing communities, including the Mortenson Center in Engineering for Developing Communities (http://www.colorado.edu/mcedc/) ATLAS (http://atlas.colorado.edu/) and other centers across campus. Successful candidates will be expected to engage in both undergraduate and graduate teaching, contribute to professional service, contribute to service-learning initiatives at the undergraduate and graduate levels, develop externally funded research programs, and collaborate with other faculty, organizations working in developing communities, and community members. Professional registration or an ability to become a registered professional engineer is desired. While the target of hiring is at the assistant professor level, outstanding applicants may be considered at all levels including those who would further strengthen the diversity of our faculty. Qualifications Application Materials Required: Cover Letter, Resume/CV, List of References, Statement of Research Philosophy Application Materials Instructions: Applicants must submit their applications on-line at CU Careers (https://www.cu.edu/cu-careers/cu-boulder) Submit a PDF file containing a cover letter (1 page), names and contact information for 3 to 5 references, curriculum vita, and statements describing your goals related to teaching and research (2-3 pages). Review of applications will start on November 15, 2017 and will continue until the position is filled. Job Category : Faculty Primary Location : Boulder Department: B0001 -- Boulder Campus - 10298 - College Engineering & App Sci Schedule : Full-time Posting Date : Oct 20, 2017 Unposting Date : Ongoing Posting Contact Name: Professor Bernard Amadei Posting Contact Email: amadei(a)colorado.edu Position Number: 00737449

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Shift Lab wins Global Health Innovator Award
by Richard Anderson 27 Oct '17

27 Oct '17

Beth Kolko, a professor in HCDE, has been working on a startup for the last several years - Shift Labs, which has been developing low-cost technology for global health. The main product they have been focusing on is a low cost monitor for IV infusions. Shift Labs has just received the Global Health Innovator award recognizing this work. Congratulations Beth!!!! Here is a press release announcing the award. http://www.prweb.com/releases/2017/10/prweb14788607.htm And Beth's blog post with a photo of a very big check http://www.shiftlabs.com/single-post/2017/10/25/Global-health-comes-to-MedT…

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UW Change Seminar 10/24: Electronic immunization registries
by Esther Jang 24 Oct '17

24 Oct '17

Please join us for the Change Seminar next week on *Tuesday 10/24/2017* in the large conference room of *Harris Hydraulics* from *12-1 pm*. Note the room change for this week!! *Who:* Samantha Dolan (UW SPH DGH) *What:* *Electronic immunization registries: Understanding fidelity, sustainability, and potential for scale-up in low-resource settings using implementation science research* *When:* Tuesday Oct 24 *Where:* 12pm in the Large Conference Room of the Harris Hydraulics building (DGH) *Abstract:* Open source software is becoming more widely used to digitalize the collection of routine program and client-level data amongst health programs in low-resource settings. However despite being “free”, these software products require significant resources to update, maintain, and scale-up before becoming effective health information systems. Using the example of electronic immunization registries built using Open Smart Register Platform (OpenSRP), we will present implementation science methods for understanding the fidelity, acceptability, cost, and impact of these types of systems and how findings could be used to drive investments and policy-making. *Bio:* Samantha is a PhD student in the Department of Global Health. She works as a research and evaluation advisor at UW’s International Training and Education Center for Health (I-TECH) and is also an intern at PATH for the Better Immunization Data initiative. Her work aims at building and scaling electronic immunization registries in Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia. She is also involved with developing guidance on how to conduct health information system evaluations in low-resource settings and designing a surveillance system for healthcare-associated infections at acute-care hospitals.

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UW Change Seminar 10/17: An Exploration of Smartphone based Mobile Money Applications in Pakistan & An Investigation of Phone Upgrades in Remote Community Cellular Networks
by Matthew Johnson 17 Oct '17

17 Oct '17

Please join us for the Change Seminar this week on *Tuesday 10/17/2017 in CSE 203 from 12-1 pm*. We will be covering two shorter conference style talks this week, so please try and arrive on time! *Who:* Samia Ibtasam (UW CSE) *What: **An Exploration of Smartphone based Mobile Money Applications in Pakistan* *Who: *Kushal Shah (UW CSE) *What: **An Investigation of Phone Upgrades in Remote Community Cellular Networks* *When: *Tuesday Oct 17 *Where:* 12pm in CSE 203 (Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science and Engineering) *Kushal: An Investigation of Phone Upgrades in Remote Community Cellular Networks* In the last decade, billions of people worldwide have upgraded from basic 2G feature phones to data-enabled 4G smartphones. In most cases, people upgrade in areas with 4G coverage (typically cities and large towns), but increasingly, people choose to upgrade in areas that only have 2G coverage or no cellular coverage at all. This counterintuitive behavior – upgrading your phone despite living in an area that does not actively support many of the features of that new device – is the focus of this work. We investigate the rates and reasons for 4G upgrades and adoption in two extremely remote areas in Indonesia and the Philippines. Our mixed-methods approach combines the quantitative analysis of several years of mobile phone registration logs with the qualitative analysis of multiple interviews in one of these communities. *Bio:* Kushal is a Masters student in the Information School at UW. He is working as a Research Assistant with the ICTD lab to analyze different datasets to find ways to improve Financial Services for the Poor. He also works on projects in other domains such as Telecom Connectivity, Crisis Informatics and Urban Computing. --- *Samia: An Exploration of Smartphone based Mobile Money Applications in Pakistan* Worldwide, two billion people remain unbanked, the majority of whom reside in resource-constrained environments. While banks have limited reach due to high overhead costs of physical expansion, the global increase in mobile penetration has created opportunities to serve the unbanked using mobile-based Digital Financial Services (DFS). However, access to mobile applications alone is insufficient to ensure their trial, adoption, or continued usage. In this paper, we report a three-phase learnability evaluation (N=118) of smartphone-based mobile wallet applications conducted in Pakistan. We discuss ways in which previous exposure or domain knowledge improve learnability, and we recommend that metrics for learnability should include effectiveness and help sought, independent of usability. We also identify DFS adoption opportunities such as user readiness, interface improvements, and women's independence. All of these opportunities stem from awareness and understanding of relevance, which in our case occurred as a consequence of exposure to the application under evaluation. *Bio: * Samia is a second a second year Ph.D. student in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington and is advised by Richard Anderson. Previously, she worked as the founding co-director of Innovations for Poverty Alleviation Lab (IPAL) at Information Technology University, Pakistan and taught courses like DLab: Global Development, Human Centered Design, Design thinking, and Technology for Global Development. She has been working as a researcher in using Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) since 2010. She started her work with speech interfaces for low-literate users with Umar Saif, Roni Rosenfeld and Agha Ali Raza. At IPAL, she worked to design Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health (MNCH) solutions including information systems, diagnosis applications etc. She also worked with Government of Punjab, Pakistan to redesign the Immunization card and creating digital health records for the province of Punjab. Currently, she is using her knowledge in Human-Computer Interaction to work with unbanked to design and adapt financial technologies and to expand the financial inclusion. She is Acumen Fund Regional Fellow for 2015 and sometimes tweets at @SamiaRazaq *Subscribe to the Change mailing list:* http://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/change *Google Calendar link: * https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/uwchange%40gmail. com/public/basic.ics

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Clinical Assistant Professor of ICTD, Civic Engagement, Design, Making, AND/OR Entrepreneurship at University of Michigan
by Kentaro Toyama 13 Oct '17

13 Oct '17

Hi Everyone, The University of Michigan School of Information is seeking to fill a Clinical Assistant Professor position with someone who has expertise in one or more of the following areas: ICTD, civic engagement, design, making, or entrepreneurship. Candidates should have real-world experience in at least one of these areas, as well as some experience engaging with university students. Research background is not necessary. More details here: https://www.si.umich.edu/prospective-faculty/clinical-track-position Please feel free to forward to relevant individuals and mailing lists. Thanks! Kentaro

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Give Work - Talk by Leila Janah on Oct 18, 2:30 pm at HUB 334
by Ricardo Gomez 12 Oct '17

12 Oct '17

Don't miss this opportuntity to hear Leila Janah next week on Wednesday Oct 12 at 2:30 at HUB 334. She is a great speaker, and an energetic leader of Samasource, a company she founded to use information technology and fight world poverty. She was named one of Fortune's 40 Under 40 in 2017, Condé Nast's Daring 25 and Elle's 2016 Top Women in Tech. She has been profiled in the New York Times, Fast Company, Wired, Forbes, Glamour, Real Simple, and Inc. Look her up. Leila Janah founded Samasource with the mission to move people out of poverty by connecting them with digital jobs. Samasource pioneered the concept of impact sourcing, and now provides cutting-edge data work, including image annotation to build training data for machine learning, data enrichment, content services, and more, for companies like Microsoft, TripAdvisor, Google, and Walmart. Samasource proves the concept that tech advances don't need to leave behind those without opportunity, and that advances in AI can actually create jobs. In her upcoming book, Give Work, Leila describes how companies can do business better by deepening their impact and including economic diversity in their supply chains to move the needle on global poverty. [cid:image001.png@01D34334.D9562C20] Ricardo Gomez Associate Professor, iSchool, University of Washington www.ricardogomez.net<http://www.ricardogomez.net/> - rgomez(a)uw.edu<mailto:rgomez@uw.edu>

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UW Change Seminar 10/10: Community-based Cellular Network Repair
by Esther Jang 09 Oct '17

09 Oct '17

Please join us for the Change Seminar this week on *Tuesday 10/10/2017 in HUB 214 at 12-1 pm*. *Who:* Esther Jang (UW CSE) *What: **Crowdsourcing Rural Network Maintenance and Repair via Network Messaging* *When: *Tuesday Oct 10 *Where:* 12pm in HUB 214 *Abstract: * Repair and maintenance requirements limit the successful operation of rural network infrastructure. Current best practices are centralized management, which requires travel from urban areas and is prohibitively expensive, or intensively training community members, which limits scaling. We explore an alternative model: crowdsourcing repair from the community itself. At a Community Cellular Network deployment site in a rural town in the Philippines, we sent SMS to all active network subscribers (n = 63) requesting technical support. From the pool of physical respondents, we explored their ability to repair through mock failures and conducted semi-structured interviews to learn about their experiences with repair. We learned that community members would be eager to practice repair if allowed, would network to recruit more expertise, and seemingly have the collective capacity to resolve some common failures. They are most successful when repairs map directly to their lived experiences. Using these interviews, we suggest infrastructure design considerations that could make repairs more tractable and argue for an inclusive approach to infrastructure maintenance. *Bio: *I'm a second-year PhD student in the ICTD lab <http://ictd.cs.washington.edu/> at UW CSE interested in connectivity and appropriate technology for developing regions. I spent the summer in the Philippines working on network deployments with the Wireless Communications Engineering Laboratory (WCEL <https://www.eee.upd.edu.ph/research/research-laboratories/wireless-communic…>) at the University of the Philippines, and performed this study with the members of the lab along with my PhD advisor Kurtis Heimerl <http://kurti.sh/>. *Subscribe to the Change mailing list:* http://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/change *Google Calendar link: * https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/uwchange% 40gmail.com/public/basic.ics

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