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Ethnographic perspectives on human centered design for social change?
by Yosem Companys 16 Dec '16

16 Dec '16

From: Misha Quill <mquill(a)cornellcollege.edu> I'm wondering if any of you could point me towards ethnographic analyses or cases studies (articles. books, grey lit) of development or humanitarian projects that use(d) design principles? I'm planning to teach an undergraduate-level course in environmental anthropology and want introduce some design principles/ processes. Ideally I'd like to include readings that point towards the benefits of this kind of approach, as well as some that reflect practical or theoretical problems (or failures). Thank you! Best, Misha *Misha Quill, Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Sociology & AnthropologyCornell CollegeMount Vernon, IA 52314*

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Re: [change] ICTD Class Poster Session Wednesday 1-2:30 Atrium
by Kurtis Heimerl 14 Dec '16

14 Dec '16

Hey all, Just a reminder this is happening in *1 Hour* ! As another incentive, here are the list of projects from the class for this quarter: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OLxTah5hOODe7d1chxClhlgmPXuOmEHG4Pb… On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 10:51 PM, Kurtis Heimerl <kheimerl(a)cs.washington.edu > wrote: > Hi All, > > The students of the ICTD Seminar (https://docs.google.com/docum > ent/d/1v2GiPrR5GuA6_pFinB2aLOTtYsiMqXmYEPdtD66-ZSo/edit) will be > presenting posters of their projects this Wednesday from 1-2:30 in the CSE > Atrium. Come marvel at the diverse sets of projects and solutions, and > discuss with them how to get this stuff working in the real world. Plus I'm > paying for drinks. >

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Hiring a Researcher at University of Oxford: Digital Entrepreneurship | Economic Geography | Sub-Saharan Africa
by Richard Anderson 09 Dec '16

09 Dec '16

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nicolas Friederici <nfriederici(a)googlemail.com<mailto:nfriederici@googlemail.com>> To: change <change(a)change.washington.edu<mailto:change@change.washington.edu>> Cc: Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2016 16:50:19 +0000 Subject: Hiring a Researcher at University of Oxford: Digital Entrepreneurship | Economic Geography | Sub-Saharan Africa We are recruiting a full-time Researcher to work with us<http://geonet.oii.ox.ac.uk/blog/hiring-a-researcher-at-oxford-digital-entre…> at the Oxford Internet Institute (University of Oxford) on a project that critically assesses the changing landscape of digital entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Researcher will conduct a grounded, comparative empirical study of digital entrepreneurship in African cities. We are interested in the practices of digital entrepreneurship, how opportunities in digital economies are created and exploited, which local actors are better or worse positioned to extract value, the emergence of clusters and ecosystems of digital entrepreneurship, and how African contexts affect these processes/how observed processes differ from the Global North. A secondary focus is on narratives and discourses around digital entrepreneurship in Africa, and how they shape on-the-ground realities. The researcher will primarily focus on fieldwork in several African cities, as well as writing and analysis, using a range of methods (interviews, participant observation, thematic/narrative analysis, surveys). We are therefore seeking a researcher with experience in conducting qualitative social science and case studies. The successful candidate will work with Professor Mark Graham<https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/mark-graham/> and Dr Nicolas Friederici<https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/nicolas-friederici/>. This work is part of a larger five-year ERC-funded project titled Geonet<http://geonet.oii.ox.ac.uk/>, aiming to understand the implications of changing connectivities for African knowledge economies. We seek candidates with a background in Economic Geography, Entrepreneurship Studies, Development Studies, (Urban) Sociology, Social Anthropology, Communications, Organisation Studies, Management or related disciplines. The position is intended for someone at the postdoctoral level (Grade 7: £31,076 – £38,183), but we will consider hiring strong candidates at the pre-doctoral stage (Grade 6: £27,629 – £32,958 p.a.). The post runs for at least one year, with the possibility of renewal thereafter, funding permitting. You can access the advert and a full job description here (deadline Jan 12, 2017): https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk/pls/hrisliverecruit/erq_jobspec_details_form.j… -- Nicolas Friederici | Postdoctoral Researcher, Oxford Internet Institute @friedema | https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/nicolas-friederici | http://cii.oii.ox.ac.uk/author/nicolas | http://www.linkedin.com/in/ictnicolas -- Nicolas Friederici | @friedema | http://www.linkedin.com/in/ictnicolas

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Fwd: [TIER] Connectivity research openings at Facebook
by Matt Podolsky 07 Dec '16

07 Dec '16

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Shaddi Hasan <shaddih(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 10:59 PM Subject: [TIER] Connectivity research openings at Facebook To: "tier(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu" <tier(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu> The Express WiFi team at Facebook is hiring researchers to help connect more folks to the Internet. Express WiFi is a great project that works with entrepreneurs and ISPs to build affordable pre-paid WiFi networks. You can read about the project here: https://info.internet.org/en/story/expresswifi/. It's admittedly light on details, but you can find some press coverage as well (e.g., http://thenextweb.com/facebook/2016/11/28/facebook-tries- connect-india-express-wifi/). Here are the specific job postings: - Market Researcher (Growth) in Menlo Park (https://www.facebook.com/care ers/jobs/a0IA000000G3iTVMAZ/) - Quantitative Researcher (Growth) in Menlo Park ( https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/a0IA000000G3E8uMAF/) We're also hiring: - Solution Architect in Menlo Park (https://www.facebook.com/care ers/jobs/a0I1200000JXc5eEAD) - Integration Engineer in New Delhi (https://www.facebook.com/care ers/jobs/a0I1200000JXZH7EAP) - Deployments Technical Program Manager in London ( https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/a0I1200000JXc4vEAD) Feel free to get in touch with me if you'd like more info! Shaddi _______________________________________________ TIER mailing list Website: http://tier.cs.berkeley.edu TIER(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tier

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Fwd: [TIER] Third Workshop on Computing within LIMITS - CFP
by Trevor Perrier 07 Dec '16

07 Dec '16

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Jay Chen" <jay.chen(a)nyu.edu> Date: Dec 7, 2016 12:40 AM Subject: [TIER] Third Workshop on Computing within LIMITS - CFP To: <tier(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu> Cc: Call for Papers -------------------- ACM LIMITS 2017 Third Workshop on Computing within LIMITS June 22-24, 2017 Santa Barbara, CA, USA http://acmlimits.org/2017/ 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. Paper submission deadline: March 1, 2017 Paper reviews available: March 19, 2017 Camera-ready paper deadline: April 10, 2017 Bonnie Nardi, UC Irvine, nardi(a)uci.edu, Workshop Co-Chair Bill Tomlinson, UC Irvine, wmt(a)ics.uci.edu, Workshop Co-Chair For more information, please visit: http://acmlimits.org/2017/ _______________________________________________ TIER mailing list Website: http://tier.cs.berkeley.edu TIER(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tier

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Connectivity research openings at Facebook
by Melody Clark 06 Dec '16

06 Dec '16

From: Shaddi Hasan <shaddih(a)gmail.com<mailto:shaddih@gmail.com>> via tier(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu<mailto:tier@tier.cs.berkeley.edu> The Express WiFi team at Facebook is hiring researchers to help connect more folks to the Internet. Express WiFi is a great project that works with entrepreneurs and ISPs to build affordable pre-paid WiFi networks. You can read about the project here: https://info.internet.org/en/story/expresswifi/. It's admittedly light on details, but you can find some press coverage as well (e.g., http://thenextweb.com/facebook/2016/11/28/facebook-tries-connect-india-expr…) Here are the specific job postings: - Market Researcher (Growth) in Menlo Park (https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/a0IA000000G3iTVMAZ/) - Quantitative Researcher (Growth) in Menlo Park (https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/a0IA000000G3E8uMAF/) We're also hiring: - Solution Architect in Menlo Park (https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/a0I1200000JXc5eEAD) - Integration Engineer in New Delhi (https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/a0I1200000JXZH7EAP) - Deployments Technical Program Manager in London (https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/a0I1200000JXc4vEAD) Feel free to get in touch with me if you'd like more info! Shaddi

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Tomorrow at Change: Vulker Wulf - Social Media Use in Events of Political Unrest
by Trevor Perrier 05 Dec '16

05 Dec '16

Please join us tomorrow for the last Change Seminar of the quarter. Volker Wulf from the University of Siegen and Fraunhofer FIT in Germany will be joining us to talk about his work on understanding social media use in areas of political unrest. *What: *On the Ground in the Arab World: Understanding Social Media Use in Events of Political Unrest *When: *Tuesday, Dec 6 *Where: *The Allen Center, CSE 203 *Abstract:* Social media usage during the recent uprisings in Arab countries has gained increasing attention. Over the last five years, we have conducted empirical studies ‘on the ground’ dealing with three Arab countries: Tunisia, Palestine, and Syria. In Tunisia, we interviewed political activists in Sidi Bouzid, the Tunisian town where the ‘Arab Spring’ started. We identify four effects social media had on the local uprising: (a) the publication of classified materials via WikiLeaks challenged the regime’s legitimacy, (b) social media connected local activists with Arab satellite TV, (c) social media linked the young activists with actors in other cities in Tunisia, (d) social media allowed organizing resistance inside Sidi Bouzid. In Palestine, we worked with two sites: (1) We investigated political activists in a Palestinian village which organizes weekly demonstrations against Israel’s settlement policy and the separation wall. We described the activists’ background and their efforts to organize these demonstrations under conditions of military occupation. Over a period of 4 years, we observed the role both digital and material factors played in the organization of the protest. (2) Working with two refugee camps, we explored how to potentially bridge the social and economic divide that has plagued West Bank society for a period of more than six decades. We examined how computer clubs enable the emergence of social ties among residents of the camp and university students acting as tutors. Even though these ties turned out to be small-scale and informal, they have the potential to generate new and wider opportunities for exchange that may eventually support more social integration between the camp's marginalized and the wider Palestinian population. We also conducted an interview study with Syrian refugees in Turkey, Jordan, and Germany. This study adds insights on the use of mobile media, by opposition forces and political activists during the Syrian civil war. The study is based on interviews with Syrian FSA fighters, activists and refugees. A first analysis showed evidence for some very specific use patterns during wartime. The study also describes a fragmented telecom infrastructure in Syria: government-controlled regions offer fairly intact infrastructures while rebel controlled regions have been cut-off from telephone and Internet. Moreover, the central and very critical role of mobile video for documenting, mobilization, and propaganda is discussed. Methodologically, we will question a too deterministic view of the role of new media and the representativeness of investigative techniques that uniquely use the new media in order to assess their impact. At the same time our talk will indicate that rigorous investigations ‘on the ground’ are extremely difficult but essential in better understanding the political uses of social media. *Bio* Volker Wulf is a professor of Information Systems and New Media at the University of Siegen, Germany. He is also the Managing Director of the School of Media and Information (iSchool) at the University of Siegen. His research interests lie primarily in the area of IT design in real-world contexts. This includes the development of innovative applications in the domains of cooperation systems, social media, knowledge management, and community support. One special focus lies on flexible software architecture which can be adapted by end-users. Further research looks at methods of user- oriented software development and introduction and appropriation processes.

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FW: Short-Term Research Associate Vacancy on Digital Economies and Development: University of Manchester
by Melody Clark 02 Dec '16

02 Dec '16

From: ciresearchers-owner(a)vancouvercommunity.net [mailto:ciresearchers-owner@vancouvercommunity.net] On Behalf Of Richard Heeks Sent: Friday, December 2, 2016 8:03 AM To: ciresearchers(a)vancouvercommunity.net Subject: [ciresearchers] Short-Term Research Associate Vacancy on Digital Economies and Development: University of Manchester **Please forward to relevant potential applicants** We are currently advertising a short-term Research Associate post relating to digital economies and developing countries, with an application deadline of 2 Jan 2017: https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/displayjob.aspx?jobid=12606 The post involves support for a research network including research dissemination, organisation of workshops and writing research reviews, plus opportunities to undertake pilot research and/or write up existing research, and prepare bids for future research. Salary in the range £31,076 to £38,183 per annum. We welcome applications from those who meet the essential person specification criteria, and who would like to join our Centre for Development Informatics research team for this exciting new initiative. Richard Heeks, Director, Centre for Development Informatics<http://www.cdi.manchester.ac.uk/>, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, UK

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Volker Wulf Visiting UW and Available for Meetings 12/5 and 12/6 Inbox x
by Nick Logler 01 Dec '16

01 Dec '16

Hi Everyone, Volker Wulf, a professor of Information Systems and New Media at the University of Siegen, will be visiting the iSchool early next week. He will be giving two talks, one at the iSchool on Monday afternoon (3:30 – 4:30 pm) on grounded design and one at Change on Tuesday mid-day (12:00 – 12:50 pm) on his work in the Arab world. See below for details. Volker will be available for individual meetings on *Monday (Dec. 5) from 11:00 – 3:00* and *Tuesday (Dec 6) from 1:30 – 5:00*. If you would like to meet with Volker, please reply to me with a few times when you're available. We'll do our best to accommodate everyone. All best, Nick ============================ *Grounded Design: A Practice-based Approach to the Design and Use of IT Artefacts* December 5th, 2016 3:30 – 4:30 pm Odegaard 220 Presentation will be streamed for those unable to attend in person: https://uw-ischool.zoom.us/j/640495440 *On the Ground in the Arab World: Understanding Social Media Use in Events of Political Unrest* December 6th, 2016 12:00 - 12:50 pm The Allen Center CSE 203 *Biography* Volker Wulf is a professor of Information Systems and New Media at the University of Siegen, Germany. He is also the Managing Director of the School of Media and Information (iSchool) at the University of Siegen. His research interests lie primarily in the area of IT design in real-world contexts. This includes the development of innovative applications in the domains of cooperation systems, social media, knowledge management, and community support. One special focus lies on flexible software architecture which can be adapted by end-users. Further research looks at methods of user-oriented software development and introduction and appropriation processes. Most of Volker Wulf’s more than 250 publications have been internationally peer-reviewed. These include also his books “Expertise Sharing: Beyond Knowledge Management“ and “Social Capital and Information Technology“, (both with MIT Press, Cambridge MA) and “End User Development“(Springer, Dordrecht).

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Fwd: Another way to give this holiday: Hacked Toys
by Trevor Perrier 29 Nov '16

29 Nov '16

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Anat Caspi <caspian(a)cs.washington.edu> Date: Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 12:23 AM Subject: Another way to give this holiday: Hacked Toys To: postdocs(a)cs.washington.edu, cs-staff - Mailing List < cs-staff(a)cs.washington.edu>, cs-grads - Mailing List < cs-grads(a)cs.washington.edu>, faculty - Mailing List < faculty(a)cs.washington.edu>, professional-staff(a)cs.washington.edu Hello! Jumping on the GivingTuesday bandwagon, here's another opportunity to give this season: FAQ: *Q: Where will you be hacking toys? * A: The Toy Hack will be at the UW Commotion MakerSpace 11/12 10-1pm. Since space for participants is limited, please be sure to sign up only if you truly intend to participate. *Q: Do I need to know how to solder in order to volunteer for the toy hack? * A: No. While soldering skills are helpful, there is quite a bit else to do. This could certainly be an opportunity for volunteers to learn how to solder. We will have several 'trainers' at the event and you can work in teams. *Q: What does it really mean to 'switch-adapt' toys?* A: We basically open each toy and splice in a mono-jack in parallel with the toy's activation switch, then sew or screw the toy back together. *Q: If I choose to donate, where is my $30 going and is it tax deductible?* A: $30 roughly covers the cost of the toy and shipping. The donation is tax deductible. *Q: Can I sponsor a toy for a specific child or institution?* A: Yes. Please contact uwtcat(a)uw.edu directly. *Q: If I know a family or child that can benefit from these kinds of toys, can they sign up for a toy?* A: While we cannot guarantee a toy to each family, with a successful campaign we would love to offer a toy to every child that is referred to us. Please ask caregivers/family to contact uwtcat(a)uw.edu directly. If the family does not have access to internet or is experiencing other access barriers, please feel free to contact uwtcat(a)uw.edu directly. *Q: Who is this helping?* A: The toys are headed to private homes and developmental preschools mostly in the Puget Sound area. The toys are adapted to allow kids with motor or developmental disabilities access the toys. By adding a mono-jack to the toy, you are opening a whole world of possible switches that could activate the toy. Please don't hesitate to address any remaining questions to uwtcat(a)uw.edu Happy Giving! -- Anat Caspi, PhD Director, Taskar Center for Accessible Technology Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington caspian(a)cs.washington.edu _______________________________________________ Cs-grads mailing list Cs-grads(a)cs.washington.edu https://mailman.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/cs-grads

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