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No Change Seminar This Week
by Trevor Perrier 15 May '17

15 May '17

Hi All, There will be no Change Seminar tomorrow (May 16). Our next seminar will be the following week May 23. Thanks, - Trevor

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FW: Tech Inclusion Seattle, June 14-15, Pioneer Square/ Volunteer opps -- do it!
by Melody Clark 12 May '17

12 May '17

From: iMLISChat [mailto:imlischat-bounces@mailman11.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Cynthia del Rosario Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2017 9:48 AM To: iDiversity(a)uw.edu; imajors(a)uw.edu; imsim(a)uw.edu; imlischat(a)uw.edu; 'iphds(a)uw.edu' <iphds(a)uw.edu>; ifac(a)uw.edu Subject: [iMLIS Chat] Tech Inclusion Seattle, June 14-15, Pioneer Square/ Volunteer opps -- do it! Tech Inclusion Seattle!<https://seattle17.techinclusion.co/home> June 14-15, 2017 Galvanize Seattle - Pioneer Square 111 S Jackson St. Seattle WA 98104 Conference - Career Fair & Startup Showcase Driving An Inclusive Future! #TechInclusion We Need Volunteers! Find out more here<https://techinclusion.co/volunteer>! We can't do this without great volunteers like you. [https://res.cloudinary.com/bizzaboprod/image/upload/c_crop,g_custom,f_auto/…] Join us in driving an inclusive future for everyone. Tech Inclusion Seattle focuses on solutions to jobs, access and opportunity, empathy and allyship, inclusive and accessible design, creating inclusive teams and much more! Day 1: Conference & Startup Showcase. Keynotes, panel discussions, solo talks and immersive workshops focusing on solutions to diversity and inclusion across the local and national tech ecosystem. Plus a Startup Showcase and startup mentor office hours. Day 2: Career Fair. Quality underrepresented tech candidates meet local tech companies who care about diversity. Entry-, mid- and senior-level candidates across engineering, product, data, UX, marketing, finance and several other positions. Job candidates also have access to resume workshops and career coaching. Come join us if you're interested in learning what others are doing to drive diversity and inclusion in tech, if you're looking for startup mentorship, diverse dealflow, career development, tech jobs, personal growth and best practices. We can all be part of the solution! You are safe and included here. Tech Inclusion events are a safe and innovative space for people across every gender, race, ethnicity, religion, country of origin, sexual orientation, visible and invisible ability, and age, as well as veterans and people formerly incarcerated. We work to make our events accessible to everyone - we've partnered with Ava app (beta) to provide live captioning, if you need an ASL interpreter or a volunteer guide, or have other accessibility needs please let us know. Calling Startup Founders! Are you an underrepresented startup founder in EdTech, FinTech, PeopleTech or FutureTech? Apply to pitch at Tech Inclusion 2017 and join our Startup Fellows Program<https://www.f6s.com/techinclusionsstartupshowcase/apply>! We Need Volunteers! Find out more here<https://techinclusion.co/volunteer>! We can't do this without great volunteers like you. [cid:image001.jpg@01D18529.7F2A0A70] <<<<<>>>>>=====<<<<<>>>>>=====<<<<<>>>>> Cynthia del Rosario Diversity, Equity and Access Officer iSchool Diversity: ischool.uw.edu/diversity<http://www.ischool.uw.edu/diversity> Box 352840 MGH 420 Seattle WA 98195 206-543-9779 [cid:image002.png@01D1ECE0.F593F940]

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Tomorrow at Change: Meg Young - Privacy and Public Records in a ‘Smart’ Puget Sound
by Trevor Perrier 08 May '17

08 May '17

Hello All, Please join us at Change tomorrow. Meg Young will be presenting results from her research with the Tech Policy Lab and Urban Infrastructure Lab. Meg has been looking at the implications of smart cities on privacy and social change. *What: *Privacy and Public Records in a ‘Smart’ Puget Sound *When: *Tuesday May 9 *Where: *12pm in CSE 203 *Abstract* This talk presents the preliminary results of my work on the privacy and public records implications of ‘smart city’ data collection programs in the City of Seattle and the State of Washington. I will examine three different technologies; Acyclica traffic sensors, Landis + Gyr smart meters, and Verizon Networkfleet’s telematics. These three technologies collect high-resolution, identifiable information, such as MAC address, energy consumption, or geo-coordinates over time. I examine how Washington State’s Public Records Act presents unique risks for the collection of smart cities data, such as exposure of identifiable information in the event of a public records request; most often, exemptions under the Act do not shield resident privacy. I explore other privacy ‘threat frontiers’ in smart cities data, such as contract terms that enable vendors to make secondary use of identifiable data and to retain it for longer than necessary. Based on these empirical examples, I locate opportunities to improve the design of smart cities data collection programs moving forward. *Bio*: Meg is a PhD student in the Information School. She is a member of the Tech Policy Lab and Urban Infrastructure Lab.

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Re: [change] Event: Libraries & ICTs in Africa - A discussion with Dr. Buhle Mbambo-Thata - 5/8/17
by Melody Clark 08 May '17

08 May '17

Just a quick, friendly reminder about this exciting opportunity to learn more about libraries in Africa - brown bag event this Monday, May 8th from 12pm-1pm. Details below. Hope to see you there! Melody From: Melody Clark Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2017 1:51 PM To: 'iworld(a)uw.edu' <iworld(a)uw.edu>; 'imlischat(a)uw.edu' <imlischat(a)uw.edu>; 'idiversity(a)uw.edu' <idiversity(a)uw.edu>; 'EvansWorld(a)u.washington.edu' <EvansWorld(a)u.washington.edu>; 'change(a)change.washington.edu' <change(a)change.washington.edu> Subject: Event: Libraries & ICTs in Africa - A discussion with Dr. Buhle Mbambo-Thata - 5/8/17 Hello, all - We hope that you will join us for a brown bag lunch event with Dr. Buhle Mbambo-Thata of AfLIA<http://aflia.net/> (African Library and Information Association and Institutions) from South Africa, where she will discuss AfLIA and how the library field in Africa is evolving with ICTs and other initiatives. She will also discuss libraries in general in Africa and how they are contributing to community development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Buhle is a long-time partner and friend of the Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA), and while she is in town for meetings with us, she graciously offered to meet with students who are interested in libraries in Africa. This is a perfect event for any of you interested in libraries around the world, international development, and international librarianship. When: Monday, May 8th, 12pm-1pm Where: Bloedel Hall 070A Brown bag lunch event - please bring your own lunch About Buhle: Dr. Buhle Mbambo-Thata is the Director of Resources Development of the African Library and Information Association and Institutions (AfLIA). Prior to that she was Executive Director of Library Services at the University of South Africa from 2006 until her retirement in 2016. She served as University Librarian at the University of Zimbabwe from 2001 until 2006. She serves as member of the Board of Directors of the National Library of South Africa, and Council on Research Libraries CLIR. Dr Mbambo-Thata has served as Governing Board member of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). She was a member of the Strategic Advisory Network of the Global Libraries Programme of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. She has previously served on various committee affiliations including the Library Network of the Association of Commonwealth Libraries, the E-Knowledge Society for Women in Southern Africa (of which she was chairperson), the advisory committees of EIFL Found.net, 2004-2007; the Gender in Africa Information Network 1996-2001 and the Access to Learning Award of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Her research interests are in women and ICT and ICT applications in libraries. She is passionate about Library development generally, and in Africa in particular. -- Melody Clark Communications Manager Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA) University of Washington Information School melclark(a)uw.edu<mailto:melclark@uw.edu> | 206.303.7910 Twitter: @taschagroup<https://twitter.com/taschagroup> | @melodyrclark<https://twitter.com/#!/melodyrclark> tascha.uw.edu<http://tascha.uw.edu/>

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Re: [change] Top 10 Flexible PCB manufactuer from China
by Joe 06 May '17

06 May '17

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by Joe 05 May '17

05 May '17

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Tomorrow at Change: Aditya Vashistha and Pooja Sethi - Respeak
by Trevor Perrier 01 May '17

01 May '17

Hi All, Please join us tomorrow at the Change Seminar. Aditya Vashistha and Pooja Sethi will be talking about their project Respeak - which will be presented at CHI 2017 next week. *What:* Respeak: A Voice-based, Crowed-powered Speech Transcription System *When: *Tuesday May 2 *Where: *12pm in CSE 203 *Abstract:* Speech transcription is an expensive service with high turnaround time for audio files containing languages spoken in developing countries and regional accents of well-represented languages. We present Respeak — a voice-based, crowd-powered, accessible speech transcription system that capitalizes on the strengths of crowdsourcing and automatic speech recognition (instead of typing) to transcribe such audio files. We created Respeak and optimized its design through a series of cognitive experiments. We deployed it with 25 university students in India who completed 5464 micro-transcription tasks transcribing widely-varied audio content with a word error rate of 10%, and collectively earning USD 46 as mobile airtime. Our findings suggest that Respeak improves the quality of speech transcription while enhancing the earning potential of low-income populations in resource-constrained settings. *Bio:* In this talk, Aditya Vashistha and Pooja Sethi will present Respeak. Aditya is a Computer Science PhD candidate and Pooja is a senior undergraduate Computer Engineering major at the Allen School.

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Fwd: [dub] May 17 3:30pm - Talk by Darren Gergle on "The Wikipedia Language Gap: Understanding and Designing for Global Communities"
by Trevor Perrier 30 Apr '17

30 Apr '17

Many in the Change community will find this upcoming talk interesting. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Benj. Mako Hill <makohill(a)uw.edu> Date: Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 8:33 PM Subject: [dub] May 17 3:30pm - Talk by Darren Gergle on "The Wikipedia Language Gap: Understanding and Designing for Global Communities" To: dub(a)dub.uw.edu Greetings dub folks! The Scheidel Lecture is the Department of Communications big annual lecture. This year, the speaker is Darren Gergle:a an HCI and social computing researcher who I hope will be of interest to many folks at DUB! The event is open to the public and free but an RSVP is requested. Also, please feel free to forward on the email and link to other places! Lots of details are below! WHO: Darren Gergle, Professor in the departments of Communication Studies and Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (by courtesy) at Northwestern University WHAT: The Wikipedia Language Gap: Understanding and Designing for Global Communities WHEN: Wednesday, May 17, 2017 | Presentation: 3:30 PM | Reception: 4:30 PM WHERE: Room 120 of the Communications Building (CMU) at UW LINKS: Overview: http://www.com.washington.edu/2017/04/2017-thomas-scheidel- lecture-darren-gergle-nu/ RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2017-thomas-scheidel-lecture- featuring-darren-gergle-nu-tickets-33687641643 ABSTRACT: Everyday people produce an extraordinary amount of user-generated content in peer- production and social media systems such as Wikipedia, Reddit, Flickr, Instagram and Facebook. These large-scale repositories have been shown to provide accurate and wide-ranging coverage of a variety of events, topics and information. Yet, language barriers coupled with community- based coverage biases can undermine the availability, accessibility and usefulness of the information. In this talk, Professor Gergle will present research that illustrates both the challenges and opportunities of user- generated content in the context of multilingual Wikipedia. In doing so, he aims to achieve the following three goals: (1) to describe large-scale data analysis techniques that can be used to empirically assess content diversity and coverage biases that exist across language editions of Wikipedia, (2) to elaborate the effect these diverse representations and biases can have on both individuals that make use of the knowledge as well as technologies that rely upon the peer-produced data structures, and (3) to demonstrate new approaches to the design of technologies that better support global knowledge representation. SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY: Professor Gergle’s research is in the fields of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) with an interest in developing a theoretical understanding of the role that visual information plays in supporting communication and group interactions. A key component of his work is the application of social and cognitive psychology theory to the design, deployment and evaluation of computing technologies. ABOUT THE SCHEIDEL LECTURE: The Thomas Scheidel Lecture has been a long-standing tradition since 1998 after the Thomas M. Scheidel Faculty Lecture Fund was created in 1997. It honors Scheidel’s lifetime of scholarship, teaching, and academic leadership by bringing distinguished scholars to the UW Department of Communication to meet with and lecture to faculty and students who are pursuing advanced study in communication. During Scheidel’s more than twenty-year career at the UW, he held the positions of Associate Dean and Departmental Chair twice, and was awarded for his Distinguished Service, Research, and as a Scholar. Scheidel was inducted into the Department Alumni Hall of Fame, Class of 2014. Regards, Mako -- Benjamin Mako Hill http://mako.cc/academic/ Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results. --GNU Manifesto _______________________________________________ dub mailing list dub(a)dub.washington.edu http://dubber.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/dub

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Co-Design Across Borders: Join our discussion group at CHI in Denver!
by Isaac Holeman 27 Apr '17

27 Apr '17

Hi Change list, I'll be co-hosting a discussion of co-designing across borders at CHI this year, on Monday May 8th at 11:30 am. We'd be thrilled to have you join us, more info about the conversation below: In recent years the evolving practice of co-design has continued to shift the roles of designers, researchers and the collection of partners formerly known as users. Most co-design studies have taken place in European and North American workplaces, but a growing community of researchers is pursuing this work "across borders." The greatly varied contexts of such work present distinctive challenges related to culture, power, language, etc. This SIG will convene co-design practitioners and researchers to discuss these challenges. Through attention to methods, tools and values in co-design, we will consider how co-design is traveling to new scenes around the world. We aim to form new relationships, develop themes of common interest, foster collaborations and build research infrastructure for this rapidly growing community. Organizers: Isaac Holeman, Edwin Blake, Melissa Densmore, ‘Maletšabisa Molapo, Fiona Ssozi, Elizabeth Goodman, Indrani Medhi Thies and Susan Wyche See our entry in the CHI program: http://bit.ly/2q87yG2 We'll also be at the HCIxBorders Symposium <http://www.hcixb.org/> on May 6th-7th, see our extended abstract here: http://bit.ly/2q8fM0V -- Isaac Holeman www.isaacholeman.org Twitter @isaacholeman My TEDx talk: http://bit.ly/1mzlh3z

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Fwd: Research Symposium: Dr. Nkurunziza (4/27, 3:30-5pm, Allen Auditorium)
by Trevor Perrier 27 Apr '17

27 Apr '17

This talk should be of interest to the Change community. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nick Logler <nlogler(a)uw.edu> Date: Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 10:04 AM Subject: Research Symposium: Dr. Nkurunziza (4/27, 3:30-5pm, Allen Auditorium) ===================================================== Please join us for the next iSchool Research Symposium: *Dr. Nkurunziza *from* Never Again Rwanda* *Peace Building in Post Conflict Country: The Experience of a Rwandan NGO* Thursday, April 27, 2017 3:30-5:00pm Allen Auditorium If you are interested in meeting with Dr. Nkurunziza, please contact Nick Logler nlogler(a)uw.edu *Abstract* *Peace Building in a Post Conflict Country: The Experience of a Rwandan NGO* *Building lasting peace in war-torn societies is among the most daunting of challenges for global peace and security* *-United Nations* Broken relationships, hatred, trauma, poverty, family conflict and anger were some of the effects resulting from the 1994 genocide against the Tutsis. After that dark past that left the country torn and its citizens having fear and doubts on their sleeves, it was hard to imagine that peace and stability would be possible again. But due to the government and other stakeholders relentless commitment to peace building - through home grown solutions such as Gacaca courts which provided justice for victims - the dream of peace and reconciliation is coming true. Twenty-three years down the line Rwanda is considered as one of the countries in Africa that is making tremendous progress. However, with the increase in development, there is a need for provision of accurate historical information about the past and resources to reach out to a wider population in order to create a sustainable impact across the population as a whole in order to avoid past mistakes. The challenges for peace building continue to be widespread across the entire population in Rwanda, with the younger generation particularly at risk in ways that could both hinder their future progress and lead to various forms of manipulation. In this talk, I will examine specific peacebuilding approaches for youth and adults in post genocide Rwanda and highlight some of the possible ways that have been used to overcome consequences of the genocide. In particular, I will discuss Never Again Rwanda's approach to peacebuilding and the relevant adoption of home-grown solutions, initiative that are unique to the country's history, the Rwandan culture, traditional practices, and value systems. Such consideration are paramount in addressing challenges left behind by the genocide against the Tutsi. *Biographical Information* Joseph Ryarasa Nkurunziza, is a medical doctor with over 10 years’ experience in the clinical field, Public health and Peace Building. He is currently the Country Director of Never Again Rwanda, a peace building organization that promotes human rights and advocating peace among the Rwandan youth and the population at large. He has also initiated projects that engage Youth in the Democratic Process in Rwanda, which are implemented in some Rwandan high schools and higher institutions of learning that aim at helping to provide the nation’s youth with the skills to make informed decisions in governance and human rights and raise interest in national policy issues and leadership. Dr. Nkurunziza’s work in Rwanda gives young people the guidance, encouragement and knowledge to be active citizens. Dr. Nkurunziza is also the Board Director and Co-Founder of Health Development Initiative-Rwanda (HDI), a local NGO committed to improving the health of disadvantaged populations across Rwanda. He has worked extensively with international organizations and Rwandan civil society, and is closely connected to members of the government, international agencies, and local communities. Previously he served as the Clinical Services Specialist for the Department of Defence at the US Embassy in Rwanda from 2011 until April 2016. He has supervised and developed projects to empower and educate communities in health promotion and disease prevention specifically in HIV/AIDS, Malaria and TB.In November 2010 Joseph was honored by Junior Chambers International as one of the 2010 ten outstanding young persons of the world in Osaka Japan.

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