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Tomorrow at Change: Waylon Brunette: ODK - 1.0 to 2.0
by Trevor Perrier 11 Apr '16

11 Apr '16

Please join us tomorrow at Change for a talk about ODK <https://opendatakit.org/>- one of the ICTD labs major projects. Waylon Brunette will be taking about the lessons learned from ODK 1.x that have lead to the ODK 2.0 tool suite. *What:* ODK: Where we've come from and where we're going *When:* Tuesday, April 12, 2016 *Where: *The Allen Center, CSE 203 *Abstract:* Open Data Kit (ODK) is an open-source, modular set of tools for building mobile data collection systems. ODK provides an out-of-the-box solution for organizations to author, deploy, and manage mobile data collection solutions. The goal of ODK is to create an ecosystem of data collection tools through modularized abstractions to enable users to mix-and-match pieces needed to build application-specific mobile information service as well as develop their own components. This presentation will give a brief introduction to ODK 1.x with a discussion of some of the successes and lessons learned from ODK 1.x. The second half of the presentation will give a preview of the new ODK 2.0 tool suite which is a parallel set of tools designed based on feedback from users and developers about limitations experienced with ODK 1.x tools. The ODK 2.0 tool suite aims to increase an organization's data collection and management capabilities by supporting data synchronization, malleable workflows, configurable presentation screens, and new data input methods on mobile devices. *Bio: *Waylon Brunette is one of the founders of Open Data Kit and is a current member of the ODK core development team. Waylon is currently a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. He is advised by Professors Richard Anderson and Magdalena Balazinska (previously by Gaetano Borriello). Waylon’s research interests include mobile systems, sensing, ubiquitous computing, and data management. His work focuses on designing systems that improve the lives of underserved populations in low-income regions by leveraging mobile computing devices and sensors.

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Fwd: Upcoming development-connected hackathon
by Trevor Perrier 11 Apr '16

11 Apr '16

Hi Change, Here's an upcoming hackathon on Earth Day weekend (April 22 - 24). Could be of interest. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Faber, Candace <Candace.Faber(a)seattle.gov> Date: Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 2:34 PM Subject: Upcoming development-connected hackathon To: Trevor Perrier <tperrier(a)cs.washington.edu> Hey Trevor, There is a hackathon coming up that looks like a great fit for your group as it’s directly connected to a key international development issue — the global fishing industry. Could you help spread the word to your group? On April 22-24 (next weekend), we are participating in Fishackathon <http://fishackathon.co/>, a globally coordinated hackathon led by the U.S. Department of State to address sustainable fishing issues. Locally, the event is sponsored by Microsoft and Vulcan, with support from the City, Open Seattle, University of Washington, the Living Computer Museum, and the Seattle Aquarium. The top submission from Seattle will be considered in the global competition, which includes the winners from all 41 participating cities. We have Ray Hilborn, *the *leading expert on overfishing, coming in from University of Washington School of Aquatic & Fishery Science to give the keynote, and a number of mentors with deep subject matter expertise, like Mark Powell, who runs Vulcan’s program on illegal fishing. Prizes include gift certificates for Smart Catch restaurants and annual memberships to the Living Computer Museum and the Seattle Aquarium. As if that’s not enough, Ethan Stowell restaurants is catering the Friday evening kickoff. It should be a ton of fun – basically, we’re gunning for the Seattle team to be the global winner by making sure the teams have everything they might need to succeed. I’m attaching a one-pager in case it’s helpful. You can also direct people to fishackathon.co/seattle to sign up. Thanks! Candace -- Candace Faber Civic Technology Advocate Department of Information Technology, City of Seattle <http://www.seattle.gov/> O: (206) 233-7032 candace.faber(a)seattle.gov [image: http://files.softicons.com/download/social-media-icons/free-social-media-ic…: http://cdn3.iconfinder.com/data/icons/free-social-icons/67/github_circle_co…] Join us on Earth Day weekend (April 22-24) for Fishackathon, a global hackathon in 41 cities: fishackathon.co/seattle

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Fwd: Save the Children - mobile cash transfers RFP
by Niall Keleher 06 Apr '16

06 Apr '16

Study/Consultancy opportunity with Save the Children to assess mobile money systems for a mobile cash transfer program in Liberia. If interested, see the attached RFP. >

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part-time temp digital PM at PATH
by Alex McGee 05 Apr '16

05 Apr '16

Hi all, forwarding an announcement about an immediate need at PATH... -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Fwd: FW: Help me find a part-time temp digital PM Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 16:10:55 -0700 Hi, My PATH team had our key digital project manager move to Bend and drop to 50% until we can find a replacement. So I need some temp help ASAP to get the team is supported while we make a permanent hire. If you know of anyone who meets the description below, please send them my way ASAP. I’ll be going out more formally to temp agencies starting tomorrow but I’d much prefer (always) to find someone through referral networks. Feel free to forward this, share on social media, etc. PATH’s Communications Team (managing www.path.org <http://www.path.org>) is looking for a temp short-term, half-time (40 to 60%) web development project manager to work on PATH <https://www.facebook.com/PATHglobalhealth/> institutional web properties and projects starting ASAP through roughly June 30, with possible extension if budgets and workloads permit. We’re looking for someone with experience managing a small web development team (design, UX, developer, content, testing, production) using the Agile methodology and Jira software. The team is adding features and function to our existing digital properties, as well as managing the website sustainment queue and planning future projects. We need a motivated, experienced, outcome-oriented digital PM who’s comfortable leading daily scrums and negotiating between differing perspectives on how to solve problems, and who is ready to pitch in as work ebbs and flows across our small, busy team. The position is interim until we hire a permanent full-timer (which the temp would also be welcome to apply for). Based in SLU across from Whole Foods. Hours and days are somewhat flexible and a small part of the job could be done remotely but the position is Seattle-based and requires on-site, in-person connection to the team several days a week. Contact: Tom Furtwangler tfurtwangler(a)path.org

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Next Week At Change: Free Basics Discussion
by Trevor Perrier 04 Apr '16

04 Apr '16

Hi All, Next week at the Change Seminar we will be having a discussion about Free Basics, Zero Rating, and Internet Connectivity. The seminar will start with a few videos and background by I wanted to send out a few more links that people could read to be more familiar with topic. *When:* 12pm on Tuesday, April 5, 2016 *Where:* The Allen Center, CSE 203 Some background on Free Basics: - Great summary of different point <https://medium.com/@mcandrew/the-hacker-way-forward-how-facebook-can-fix-fr…>s by Andrew McLaughlin on Medium [1] - QZ article summarizing why India blocked Free Basics <http://qz.com/612159/why-trai-backed-net-neutrality-and-killed-facebooks-fr…> [2] - Wikimedia blog post about Wikipedia Zero in 2014 <http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/08/01/wikipedia-zero-and-net-neutrality-prot…> [3] - Resolving the Free Basics Paradox <https://manypossibilities.net/2016/02/resolving-the-free-basics-paradox/> by Steve Song [4] - Trevor [1] https://medium.com/@mcandrew/the-hacker-way-forward-how-facebook-can-fix-fr… [2] http://qz.com/612159/why-trai-backed-net-neutrality-and-killed-facebooks-fr… [3] http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/08/01/wikipedia-zero-and-net-neutrality-prot… [4] https://manypossibilities.net/2016/02/resolving-the-free-basics-paradox/

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FW: OpenMRS developer consultant JD
by Waylon Brunette 04 Apr '16

04 Apr '16

See attached opportunity for an OpenMRS developer. Waylon ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Scott Barnhart <sbht(a)uw.edu<mailto:sbht@uw.edu>> Date: Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 1:31 PM Subject: FW: OpenMRS developer consultant JD To: "DANIEL J. GROSSMAN" <djg7(a)uw.edu<mailto:djg7@uw.edu>> Cc: Joanna Diallo <jdiallo(a)uw.edu<mailto:jdiallo@uw.edu>> Hi Dan: We are looking for some CS expertise to help with our transition of an electronic medical record onto the OpenMRS platform. Is there a good way to share a JD with CS graduate students. Does Change work for this kind of networking? Thx. Scott From: Joanna Diallo Sent: Friday, April 1, 2016 5:03 PM To: Scott Barnhart <sbht(a)uw.edu<mailto:sbht@uw.edu>> Cc: nathaelfhyppolite(a)itech-haiti.org<mailto:nathaelfhyppolite@itech-haiti.org>; jeanguyhonore (jeanguyhonore(a)itech-haiti.org<mailto:jeanguyhonore@itech-haiti.org>) <jeanguyhonore(a)itech-haiti.org<mailto:jeanguyhonore@itech-haiti.org>> Subject: OpenMRS developer consultant JD Hi Scott, Would you be able to share this with the CS department to see if a student matches the skill set and who would be available April-Sept 2016 at about 20 hrs a week? My other thought would be in the Tech mgmt-MBA program at Foster, there may be someone qualified and available. Thanks! Joanna Joanna Diallo Senior Program Manager - Haiti International Training & Education Center for Health (I-TECH) Department of Global Health, University of Washington 901 Boren Avenue, Suite 1100, Seattle WA 98104 Office: +1 (206) 221-3579<tel:%2B1%20%28206%29%20221-3579> Fax: +1 (206) 221-4945<tel:%2B1%20%28206%29%20221-4945> Skype: joanna.diallo Website: http://www.go2itech.org<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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FW: Power, Politics and Digital Development – Sept 2016 UK DSA Conference panel
by Melody Clark 29 Mar '16

29 Mar '16

-- Melody Clark Communications Specialist 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/> From: Richard Heeks [mailto:richard.heeks@manchester.ac.uk] Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2016 2:23 PM To: Richard Heeks <richard.heeks(a)manchester.ac.uk> Subject: CfP: Power, Politics and Digital Development – Sept 2016 UK DSA Conference panel Call for Abstracts – “Power, Politics and Digital Development” panel UK Development Studies Association conference, 12-14 Sep 2016, University of Oxford, UK This is a call for abstracts/presentations on power, politics and digital development, with an initial deadline of 25 April 2016. The panel will cover the broad intersection of power, politics and digital development including both directionalities – the impact of power and politics on design, diffusion, implementation and outcomes of ICT application; and the impact of ICT application on power and politics – and their mutual interaction. We welcome work anywhere along the spectrum from the micro-exercise of power within individual ICT4D initiatives through the politics of national ICT-using organisations and institutions to global Internet governance. Other topics for papers might include but are not limited to: - The organisational politics of ICT4D - Digital resources as foundations of power in development - Reproduction and transformation of power and inequality through digital development - Digital development discourse as a source and reflection of power - The institutional logics that conflict and contest to shape digital development - How national and international ICT policies address and express issues of power The following timeline will be observed: - 25 April 2016 - prospective presenters to submit a “paper proposal” (title, author names & emails, short abstract of <300 characters; long abstract of <250 words) via the conference online form<http://www.nomadit.co.uk/dsa/dsa2016/paperproposal.php5?PanelID=4461>. Panel details and link to paper proposal online at: http://www.nomadit.co.uk/dsa/dsa2016/panels.php5?PanelID=4461 - 5 May: decision made on paper proposals - 6 June: conference registration opens (early-bird discounts close 11 July) - 12-14 September: conference If you have any queries prior to abstract submission, do please ask: richard.heeks(a)manchester.ac.uk<mailto:richard.heeks@manchester.ac.uk> Panel Organisers: - Richard Heeks, Centre for Development Informatics<http://www.cdi.manchester.ac.uk/>, GDI, University of Manchester, UK - Mark Graham, Oxford Internet Institute<http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/>, University of Oxford, UK - Ben Ramalingam, Institute for Development Studies<http://www.ids.ac.uk/team/digital>, University of Sussex, UK ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This panel is an initiative of the DSA’s Information, Technology and Development study group<http://www.devstud.org.uk/studygroups/information_technology_and_developmen…> General call for papers details at: http://www.nomadit.co.uk/dsa/dsa2016/cfp.shtml

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Tomorrow at Change: Computing and Financial Services for the Poor
by Trevor Perrier 28 Mar '16

28 Mar '16

Please join us tomorrow for the first Change seminar of the quarter. Professor Richard Anderson <http://www.cs.washington.edu/people/faculty/anderson> from UW CSE will be talking about a new project at UW focused on financial access. *What:* Computing and Financial Services for the Poor *When:* Tuesday, March 29, 2016 *Where: *The Allen Center, CSE 203 *Abstract: * Improving access to financial services has been identified as an important mechanism for reducing poverty. While mobile money offers opportunities for creating new services, and there have been notable successes such as mPesa in Kenya, uptake in many countries have remained slow. Challenges that have been identified include fraud and cyber security, managing identity, credit scoring, and developing easy to use proximity payment solutions. Work is being initiated at University of Washington to investigate these challenges from a computer science perspective. This talk will provide an introduction to the area, and discuss some the potential research problems at the intersection of Computer Science and the development of financial services for the poor.

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Talk by Umar Saif, Monday, March 28, 4:30 pm, CSE 110
by Richard Anderson 27 Mar '16

27 Mar '16

Monday, March 28, 4:30 pm, CSE 110, University of Washington Title: How $100 Smartphones are Transforming the Government in Pakistan Abstract: Pakistan is the 6th largest country in the world by population. Over half of the population lives below $2 poverty line; 40% of the adult population is unable to read or write; 30% lack access to clean drinking water; 85% of the world's polio cases are from Pakistan. At the same time, with over 137 Million cellphone users in Pakistan, almost every household has a cellphone; Pakistani's sent over 320 Billion SMS last year; you can buy a smartphone for less than $50 in Pakistan. In this talk, I will present a number of smartphone-based systems we have developed to monitor government work, improve civic services and collect citizen feedback in Pakistan. This talk will explain how we used smartphones to track and contain a Dengue epidemic, identify crime hotspots, measure teacher presence and monitor visits of rural doctors. I will specifically talk about an innovative vaccinator tracking application that has totally transformed the vaccination program in Pakistan to eradicate Polio. Speaker bio: Prof. Umar Saif works as the Chairman of the Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB), heading all public-sector IT projects in Punjab. He is also the founding Vice Chancellor of ITU, a newly setup research university in Lahore. Prof. Saif received his PhD in 2001 at University of Cambridge and worked at MIT for several years before returning to Pakistan. He was named as one of the top 35 young innovators by the MIT Technology Review (TR35) in 2011 and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2010. He received a Google Faculty Research award in 2011. In 2014, Prof. Saif was awarded Sitara-i-Imtiaz, one of the highest civil awards by government of Pakistan. He was named among the 500 most influential Muslims in the world in 2015 and 2016.

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ICT position at IREX
by Chris Coward 25 Mar '16

25 Mar '16

This would be a great opportunity for the right person. We've partnered with IREX on many ICTD projects. -chris From: Kristin Lord [mailto:klord@irex.org<mailto:klord@irex.org>] Sent: Friday, March 18, 2016 9:10 AM To: Kristin Lord Subject: Please help us find a new ICT for Development Advisor All: We are currently hiring an ICT for Development (ICT4D) advisor at IREX. This is a fantastic opportunity and I'd be grateful if you would help to connect us with strong candidates. A link to the job description is here: https://www.irex.org/careers/all-positions?p=job%2Fog1Q2fwT Please feel free to contact me with questions. All the best Kristin ------------------------------------------------- Chris Coward Principal Research Scientist & Director Technology & Social Change Group University of Washington Information School o 206.616.9102 m 206.437.4592

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