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Tomorrow at Change: Discussion on Bridge International Academies
by Trevor Perrier 18 Apr '16

18 Apr '16

Hi All, Liberia recently announced a public private partnership (PPP) outsourcing pre-K and primary education. The deal is with Bridge International Academies - a large education innovation company with operations in Kenya and Uganda. The Bridge model focuses on training community educators and providing them with materials and lesson planes via tablets. *What:* Discussion on Bridge International Academies *When:* Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at 12pm *Where: *The Allen Center, CSE 203 Please join us tomorrow for a discussion about Bridge International Academies and education innovation. We will watch several videos about the company's model to help inform the discussion. Here are several relevant links as well: - Mail and Guardian Africa <http://mgafrica.com/article/2016-03-31-liberia-plans-to-outsource-its-entir…> - Vox <http://www.vox.com/2016/4/8/11347796/liberia-outsourcing-schools> - Statement for Liberian Minster of Education <https://medium.com/@ArkEPG/partnership-schools-for-liberia-building-a-bette…> - Trevor

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Fwd: [dub] 4/20 DUB Seminar: Joyojeet Pal (Michigan)
by Trevor Perrier 18 Apr '16

18 Apr '16

This weeks DUB talk might be relevant to members of the Change community. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Daniel Epstein <depstein(a)cs.washington.edu> Date: Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 12:00 PM Subject: [dub] 4/20 DUB Seminar: Joyojeet Pal (Michigan) To: dub <dub(a)dub.washington.edu> This week's DUB talk is from Joyojeet Pal! *Joyojeet Pal (Michigan)* April 20th, 2016 12pm - 1:20pm HUB 332 *Accessibility infrastructure and the transition to touchscreens: Evidence from Bangalore, India* *Abstract* Recent increases in access to smartphones has dramatically altered the accessibility landscape for people with visual impairments in parts of the Global South, where accessible technologies have historically been scarce. Examining ongoing transitions from button-based feature phones to devices with touchscreen interfaces in Bangalore, India, we explore the concept of an accessibility infrastructure that includes a broader set of factors that enable or inhibit the functional use of accessible technologies. We argue that the functional use of these technologies is difficult, if not impossible to extract from the larger social context in which they operate. Through the lens of social infrastructure for technology adoption – such as networks of users and technical support ecologies, we discuss ways in which touchscreens have changed the public participation of people with disabilities in important ways. On the flip side, we look at ways in which the same infrastructures can be barriers to the devices being used to their full potential. *Bio* Joyojeet Pal is an assistant professor at the School of Information at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His work focuses on social studies of accessibility in low- and middle-income countries, specifically in-depth qualitative examinations of access to technology and its impact on social inclusion. Some of his recent work has examined the use of social media in political action in India. He is the producer and researcher of the award-winning documentary “For the Love of a Man.” ~Daniel Epstein _______________________________________________ dub mailing list dub(a)dub.washington.edu http://dubber.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/dub

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Fwd: Recruiting a Senior Informatics Advisor at I-TECH/UW
by Trevor Perrier 14 Apr '16

14 Apr '16

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nancy Puttkammer <nputt(a)uw.edu> Date: Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 4:58 PM Subject: Recruiting a Senior Informatics Advisor at I-TECH/UW To: Nancy Puttkammer <nputt(a)uw.edu> Dear colleagues, I-TECH is recruiting a Senior Technical Advisor in Health Informatics. We hope that you can help us get the word out to people with passion and expertise in the use of information and communications technologies to improve health systems in diverse global settings like Haiti and Kenya. I-TECH is a center within the Department of Global Health at the University of Washington. Details on applying for the position are here <https://uwhires.admin.washington.edu/eng/candidates/default.cfm?szCategory=…>. This position is open until filled, with a preference given to applications received by April 17, 2016 (UW requisition number 131232). Thanks! Nancy Nancy Puttkammer, MPH, PhD Research and Evaluation Advisor, International Training and Education Center for Health (I-TECH) Acting Assistant Professor, Department of Global Health, University of Washington 901 Boren Ave, Suite 1100 Seattle, WA 98104 USA Tel: +1 (206) 616-5139 FAX: +1 (206) 221-4945 Skype ID: nancy.puttkammer Website: http://www.go2itech.org *I-TECH envisions a world in which all people have access to high quality, compassionate, and equitable health care.*

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ICTD2016 - Call for Participation
by Kentaro Toyama 14 Apr '16

14 Apr '16

REGISTER FOR ICTD2016 BEFORE EARLY REGISTRATION ENDS, AND BOOK ACCOMMODATIONS SOON -- DISCOUNTED ROOMS WILL BE RELEASED END OF APRIL! Registration <http://ictd2016.info/registration/> is now open for the Eighth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD2016): http://ictd2016.info/registration/. June 3-6, 2016, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. ICTD2016 features an exciting program with 26 Papers presented in plenary sessions, 36 Notes presented as posters, 32 interactive Open Sessions, and two incredible keynotes: Deepak Mishra is co-director of the World Bank's 2016 World Development Report: Digital Dividends; and Tererai Trent is the Drexel University global health professor featured in "Half the Sky" who began her adult life as a rural Zimbabwean mother of three with no formal education. The conference schedule is available at http://ictd2016.info/schedule/. Recommendations for accommodations, with discounted rates are available at http://ictd2016.info/accommodations/. (Book early, as the rooms being held will be released in late April / early May.) Early registration <http://ictd2016.info/registration/> will close on April 30, so register early! (Note also that standard registration will end on May 30, several days before the conference; on-site registration is extremely expensive, so we encourage you to register in advance.) If you have any problems or questions, please send an email to ictd2016info(a)umich.edu. See you in Ann Arbor! Kentaro Toyama ICTD2016 Chair University of Michigan

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Fwd: [TIER] ICTD2016 - Call for Participation (register, book rooms early!)
by Trevor Perrier 13 Apr '16

13 Apr '16

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kentaro Toyama <kentaro_toyama(a)hotmail.com> Date: Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 1:39 PM Subject: [TIER] ICTD2016 - Call for Participation (register, book rooms early!) To: "tier(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu" <tier(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu> [Please forward to relevant groups. Apologies for cross-posting.] REGISTER NOW BEFORE EARLY REGISTRATION ENDS, AND BOOK ACCOMMODATIONS SOON -- DISCOUNTED ROOMS WILL BE RELEASED END OF APRIL! = = = = = Registration <http://ictd2016.info/registration/> is now open for the Eighth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD2016): http://ictd2016.info/registration/. ICTD2016 features an exciting program with 26 Papers presented in plenary sessions, 36 Notes presented as posters, 32 interactive Open Sessions, and two incredible keynotes: Deepak Mishra is co-director of the World Bank's 2016 World Development Report: Digital Dividends; and Tererai Trent is the Drexel University global health professor featured in "Half the Sky" who began her adult life as a rural Zimbabwean mother of three with no formal education. The conference schedule is available at http://ictd2016.info/schedule/. Recommendations for accommodations, with discounted rates are available at http://ictd2016.info/accommodations/. (Book early, as the rooms being held will be released in late April / early May.) Early registration <http://ictd2016.info/registration/> will close on April 30, so register early! (Note also that standard registration will end on May 30, several days before the conference; on-site registration is extremely expensive, so we encourage you to register in advance.) If you have any problems or questions, please send an email to ictd2016info(a)umich.edu. See you in Ann Arbor! Kentaro Toyama ICTD2016 Chair University of Michigan _______________________________________________ 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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Dimagi is hiring!
by Anupam Jain 13 Apr '16

13 Apr '16

Hi all, Dimagi is currently recruiting for Field Managers, Technical Field Managers, Senior Software Engineers and Technical Support Analysts to join our teams in *Delhi, India* and *Cape Town, South Africa*. Dimagi is an award-winning, socially conscious technology company that develops cutting-edge software tailored for underserved communities in over 40 countries around the world. For more information on Dimagi, the open positions, and requirements to be a successful candidate, please visit our careers page located here <http://www.dimagi.com/about/careers/>. Warm Regards, Anupam -- "What is meditation?" (http://www.heartfulness.org/)

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Fwd: [TIER] Fwd: [gaia] Extremecom 2016 - The Mendonoma Expedition - Call for Papers and Demos
by Yaw Anokwa 12 Apr '16

12 Apr '16

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Yahel Ben-David <yahel(a)eecs.berkeley.edu> Date: Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 7:21 PM Subject: [TIER] Fwd: [gaia] Extremecom 2016 - The Mendonoma Expedition - Call for Papers and Demos To: TIER <tier(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu> A good opportunity to explore a TIER project first hand. Should be fun... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: CHATZOPOULOS Dimitrios <dcab(a)cse.ust.hk> Date: Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 11:07 PM Subject: [gaia] Extremecom 2016 - The Mendonoma Expedition - Call for Papers and Demos To: gaia(a)irtf.org [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] ****************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS AND DEMOS 7th Extreme Conference on Communication and Computing - The Mendonoma Expedition ExtremeCom 2016 14-19 August 2016, Manchester, Medocino county, CA, USA http://www.extremecom.org/ ****************************************************************** Scope ----- The Extreme Conference on Communication and Computing (ExtremeCom) brings together researchers and practitioners in areas related to communications in rural, remote or other extreme environments, and computing in extreme operating conditions such as extreme temperatures and energy constraints, extreme quantities ("big data"), extremely large-scale systems, and extreme levels of threat and uncertainty, in order to gain experience and insight into the challenges that such environments pose for the network and the users. We welcome a broad range of topics concerning both technical and economical aspects, for example wireless communication, mobile computing, low power devices and protocols, delay tolerant networks and other networking paradigms, distributed computing paradigms, big data, distributed systems, cloud computing, business and services models, user experiences and web applications. Researches addressing computing challenges in general mobile environments (even not completely extreme) are also welcomed by the conference. Following on from the success of ExtremeCom 2009 - The Midnight Sun Expedition in Laponia, Sweden, ExtremeCom 2010 - The Himalayan Expedition in Dharamsala, India, ExtremeCom 2011 - The Amazon Expedition in Manaus, Brazil, ExtremeCom 2012 - The Swiss Alps Winter Expedition in Zurich, Switzerland, ExtremeCom 2013 - The Volcanic Expedition in the Eyjafjallajökull Volcano region in Iceland, and ExtremeCom 2014 - The Galapagos Expedition in Ecuador, we present the ExtremeCom 2016 edition: The Mendonoma Expedition. The conference will contain 3 days of excursions in the stunning nature of coastal northern California (Mendocino county). Along the way, participants will get to see and experience the varying landscape and visit coastal areas, explore the Stornetta lands national monument, and hike to the Point Arena hot springs along the Garcia river. During these excursions, we will visit the landing site of the original trans-pacific coaxial cables, which is today one of North-America's most important transoceanic fiber landing station, as well as several deployment sites of the FurtherReach.Net rural network where participants will interact with subscribers, operators and developers of this service to learn from their experience. The immersion will not only give a better idea of both the technical and user requirements of such rural deployments, but it will also give many opportunities for informal research discussions between the participants. Participants that have their own software for scenarios like this will also, to as great an extent as possible, be encouraged to test and demonstrate it within this environment. After the excursions, there will be two days of paper presentations and demos. Focus will still be on informal research discussions, with the hope that the field experience will give participants the ability to discuss the topics in a new light. ****************************************************************** Important dates --------------- Submission deadline: May 24, 2016 Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2016 Early registration deadline: July 10, 2016 Registration deadline: July 21, 2016 Conference dates: August 14-19, 2016 ****************************************************************** Submission Guidelines --------------------- Participants should submit 6 page papers about ideas and visions about the topics of the conference or demo proposals to be shown during the conference. Visionary and thought-provoking papers that are likely to generate much discussion during the conference are especially solicited. The aim of the conference is to maintain an informal environment, where new research ideas can be discussed and developed. We will also have a demo session where participants can show their implementations and systems. If you want to show a demo, please submit a 2 page demo proposal using the same submission system as for conference papers, including the prefix "Demo: " in the title. We only accept PDF files, no greater than 6 pages in length (2 pages for the demos), including text, figures and references. Manuscripts should use the ACM templates (for LaTeX, please use Option 2 files), with 9pt fonts. Topics for the conference include, but are not limited to: ---------------------------------------------------------- * Testbeds for large-scale sustainable testing of mobile communication systems * Real deployments of networks in extreme environments * Business and service models for networks in rural, remote, and other challenging environments * Delay tolerant networking * User experience research * Big data research such as mining and modeling of mobility and social network * Cloud computing for extreme scalability * Mesh networks and sensor networks * Low-power and intermittent-power protocols * Mechanisms for emergency and urgent communications * Distributed computing for mobile environments * Networked applications and services * Operating system and middleware support for mobile computing and networking * Security, privacy, and trustworthiness of extreme communications * Underwater networking * Robotic communications and mobile augmented reality * Protocols, architectures, and applications for the Internet of Things Due to logistics, the number of participants will be limited. Priority will be given to authors of papers and those who register first. ****************************************************************** Organizers ****************************************************************** General co-chairs: ------------------ Pan Hui, HKUST, Hong Kong Anders Lindgren, SICS Swedish ICT, Sweden Local organization: ------------------- Yahel Ben-David, De Novo Group, USA Gary Levenson-Palmer, USA Publicity and publication chair: -------------------------------- Dimitris Chatzopoulos, HKUST, Hong Kong Yang Chen, Fudan university, Shanghai, China Web chair: ---------- Dimitris Chatzopoulos, HKUST, Hong Kong Technical Program Committee: ---------------------------- Scott Burleigh, JPL/NASA, USA Elwyn Davies, Folly Consulting, UK Michael Doering, Bosch Research, Germany Marco Fiore, CNR, Italy Alfredo Goldman, University of California Irvine, USA Christine Julien, University of Texas at Austin, USA James Kwok, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Jörg Ott, TU Munich, Germany Zhonghong Ou, Aalto University, Finland Veljko Pejovic, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Arjuna Sathiaseelan, University of Cambridge, UK Jan Seedorf, NEC Labs, Germany Yu Wang, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Klaus Wehrle, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Lars Wolf, TU Braunschweig, Germany Steering Committee: ------------------- Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK Avri Doria, USA Tristan Henderson, University of St. Andrews, UK Pan Hui, HKUST, Hong Kong Anders Lindgren, SICS Swedish ICT, Sweden _______________________________________________ gaia mailing list gaia(a)irtf.org https://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/gaia _______________________________________________ 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] Fwd: [noise@ischool] Ford/Mozilla Open Web Fellows!
by Yaw Anokwa 12 Apr '16

12 Apr '16

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Melissa Densmore <mho(a)ischool.berkeley.edu> Date: Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 10:54 AM Subject: [TIER] Fwd: [noise@ischool] Ford/Mozilla Open Web Fellows! To: TIER <tier(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Joseph Lorenzo Hall <joehall(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 11:28 PM Subject: [noise@ischool] Ford/Mozilla Open Web Fellows! To: "noise(a)ischool.berkeley.edu" <noise(a)ischool.berkeley.edu> I highly encourage folks to consider this program and especially those of you who have more global tech policy interests. ---- Be on the frontlines to protect the open Internet: apply by March 20th to become a Ford-Mozilla Open Web Fellow! Mozilla is seeking talented developers, activists, educators and other technologists eager to protect the open Internet. The goal? Combat threats to digital freedom and defend policy that keeps the Web open and free. The 2016 cohort will be a global group working on a variety of projects that protect the open Internet. This year’s host organizations are: Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law —Nairobi, Kenya The Citizen Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto—Toronto, Canada ColorOfChange.org—New York, NY Data & Society—New York, NY Derechos Digitales—Santiago, Chile European Digital Rights (EDRi) —Brussels, Belgium Freedom of the Press Foundation—San Francisco, CA Privacy International—London, United Kingdom This is a 10-month fellowship. The application window is open until March 20, and fellows will be announced in June. They’ll begin work in September of this year. For more information, visit https://advocacy.mozilla.org/open-web-fellows/. Questions? Email OpenWebFellows(a)mozilla.com -- Joseph Lorenzo Hall Chief Technologist, Center for Democracy & Technology [https://www.cdt.org] e: joe(a)cdt.org, p: 202.407.8825, pgp: https://josephhall.org/gpg-key Fingerprint: 3CA2 8D7B 9F6D DBD3 4B10 1607 5F86 6987 40A9 A871 CDT's annual dinner, Tech Prom, is April 6, 2016! https://cdt.org/annual-dinner -- Chief Technologist, CDT https://josephhall.org/ https://cdt.org/ -- This message was sent to noise(a)ischool.berkeley.edu Unsubscribe or update your options: https://calmail.berkeley.edu/manage/list/options/noise@ischool.berkeley.edu _______________________________________________ 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] Hiring early stage, high-level positions for health marketplace startup in Kenya
by Yaw Anokwa 12 Apr '16

12 Apr '16

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Melissa Densmore <mho(a)ischool.berkeley.edu> Date: Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 9:00 AM Subject: [TIER] Hiring early stage, high-level positions for health marketplace startup in Kenya To: TIER <tier(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu>, ictd-group < ictd-group(a)ischool.berkeley.edu> [image: Inline image 2] mPango is a marketplace for family planning services that enables customers to seek out family planning advice through a digital voice and text based system, and connect with registered providers of those services. Launched initially in Western Kenya, we are looking to make two key hires. 1. *Vice President of Growth* - you are an entrepreneurial go getter with previous start-up experience who can scale mPango’s user base regionally, nationally and internationally in the next 2–3 years, and build mPango into the world’s most trusted brand for family planning services. 2. *Technology Director* – you are an entrepreneurial go getter with previous start-up experience who can lead a top notch engineering team to execute on mPango’s product vision by designing, architecting, and building out mPango’s product offerings and enable the service to scale regionally, nationally and internationally in the next 2-3 years. Both key positions will be supported by senior advisors at Population Council, Duke University, and the CTO of TinyURL. Each of these positions is a unique opportunity to take on a senior leadership role at an early stage startup. Both positions will start on contract with Population Council in Nairobi. Upon successful completion of key milestones in the coming months each hire will transition to a full-time salaried senior leadership role with the promise of significant equity. See attached job descriptions for more information. *Interested candidates who meet the above required qualifications and experience should submit on or before April 15th, 2016 a cover letter, detailed Curriculum Vitae (CV) listing three professional references to recruitment(a)mpango.co <recruitment(a)mpango.co> with the appropriate subject: “VP Growth” or “Technology Director”. Applications without the right subject heading will automatically be disqualified. Please do not attach any certificates. Only qualified short-listed candidates will be contacted. * _______________________________________________ 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] Fwd: KIndly forward the call for round 2 papers and notes
by Trevor Perrier 12 Apr '16

12 Apr '16

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Melissa Densmore <mho(a)ischool.berkeley.edu> Date: Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 4:43 AM Subject: [TIER] Fwd: KIndly forward the call for round 2 papers and notes To: TIER <tier(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu>, ictd-group < ictd-group(a)ischool.berkeley.edu> [image: Inline image 1] Inaugural African Human Computer Interaction Conference Kujenga madaraja, kubomoa vizuizi - Building Bridges, Breaking Barriers 21-25th November Nairobi, Kenya www.africhi.net 2nd round for Paper and Note Submissions We are very happy to have received a healthy number of Paper and Note submissions for our inaugural AfriCHI conference. We are currently reviewing the submissions and will notify each author on the status of their submission(s) on Wednesday 30th March, 2016. Additionally, we have received a significant number of requests from authors who wish to submit full papers to AfriCHI, but have missed the submission deadline. This being an inaugural conference, they only received word of AfriCHI after the submission deadline of 10th February 2016. Given our interest in promoting HCI in, from and about Africa, we have decided to open the 2nd round of Paper and Note submissions to new submissions. This means that papers and notes not submitted in the first round can now submit in the second round without doing the 2-round review process. The submission platform for new submissions will open on 14th April 2016, and close on 27th April 2016. For fairness however, new papers submitted in the second round will undergo a rigorous accept-reject review process, compared to those submitted in the first round which are undergoing a two-round review process. The two-round review process is tailored to considerably improve papers rather than only judge them. Those who intend to make a new submission on 27th April 2016 but have minimal writing experience can send their paper/note to the mentoring chairs Hossana and Bukelwa, who will provide some writing mentoring before submission. Hossana and Bukelwa can be reached on fullpapers(a)africhi.net. Those in need of mentoring should contact them at least two weeks before the submission deadline. For more information on how to submit Papers and Notes kindly visit http://africhi.net/papers-and-notes/. The submission deadlines for all tracks are available online at http://africhi.net/important- We look forward to your submissions! Kagonya Awori and Nic Bidwell AfriCHI Technical Co-chairs On behalf of AfriCHI’16 Organising Committee _______________________________________________ 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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