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Calling aspiring researchers, hackers, designers, thinkers for the Stanford Crowd Research Winter Program
by Melody Clark 14 Dec '15

14 Dec '15

Just passing this along for Rajan - please contact him with any questions. ** Calling aspiring researchers, hackers, designers, thinkers for the Stanford Crowd Research Winter Program** After huge success in the Spring and Summer sessions, researchers from Stanford University are inviting aspiring researchers to join them in an effort to form the largest crowdsourcing research project ever. The accepted participants will get a chance to design and develop the next-generation crowdsourcing platform - Daemo<http://hci.stanford.edu/publications/2015/crowdresearch/daemo-uist.pdf>. Besides, the program will give academic research experience and a chance to co-author paper with researchers at a top-tier conference - primarily in human-computer interaction. Students from any department, pursuing any degree are encouraged to apply. Deadline for the application is 31st December, 2015. Please check: hci.st/joinstanfordresearchers<http://hci.st/joinstanfordresearchers> for more details or contact Rajan Vaish with any questions at rvaish(a)cs.stanford.edu<mailto:rvaish@cs.stanford.edu>. ** Thanks so much, Rajan

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Fwd: ODK Discussion Series: Use of ODK after the Nepal Earthquake
by Yaw Anokwa 13 Dec '15

13 Dec '15

Sixth post from the ODK Discussion Series. Participate using the link below. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Prabhas Pokharel <prabhas.pokharel(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 7:23 AM Subject: [ODK Community] Discussion Series: Use of ODK after the Nepal Earthquake To: "opendatakit(a)googlegroups.com" <opendatakit(a)googlegroups.com>, Nirab Pudasaini <developernirab(a)gmail.com> Hi all, I am Prabhas Pokharel, and I have been a part of the ODK community since 2010. I have worked with the Formhub team, the Ona.io team, as well as with Kathmandu Living Labs (KLL) to build tools around ODK and apply them in the field. I only had the chance to meet Gaetano twice, but both times, was struck by his openness and dedication to creating a community of innovators around the ODK platform. In this series celebrating the impact of Gaetano's work, I wanted to write about how ODK was used in the aftermath of the Earthquake in Nepal earlier this year. I was in Nepal at the time, and worked very closely with local non-profit technology organization KLL for two months after the earthquake, using digital tools to facilitate coordination and systematic relief provision. Read more at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/opendatakit/T7WGCJU27VY..

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Fwd: [TIER] DTL 2016 Summer Internships at NYU Abu Dhabi
by Yaw Anokwa 13 Dec '15

13 Dec '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jay Chen <jay.chen(a)nyu.edu> Date: Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 8:46 PM Subject: [TIER] DTL 2016 Summer Internships at NYU Abu Dhabi To: TIER(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu Hi Everyone, For the past few years I have offered summer internships to a handful of outstanding students at the Design Technology Lab (DTL) (http://sites.nyuad.nyu.edu/dtl/) in NYU Abu Dhabi. We are based out of Abu Dhabi and we work actively in multiple countries including UAE, Ghana, Bangladesh, and India. If you would like to work on an exciting ICTD project with us over summer, this could be an interesting opportunity. Attached is a brief job description. Cheers, Jay Chen DTL Summer 2015 Internship Job Description: The Design Technology Lab (DTL) is looking for graduate student interns for the summer of 2015. We are looking for students with good engineering skills, an eye for design, and a strong interest in field work. The range of possible project areas are broad and include: - Networking and networked systems - Specific systems or interfaces for applications in education, finance, and health, and agriculture - Large-scale data analysis, mining, and interactive visualization Requirements: - B.S./B.A. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or closely related field - Facility in C/C++, Python, Java and/or analysis tools like Matlab Depending on your summer schedule, the internship will run from 12-14 weeks. This is a paid internship. Only students who are eligible to work in the UAE should apply. Please send your CV and a cover letter to nyuad.dtl(a)gmail.com with the subject: “DTL Summer Intern”. The deadline to apply is March 5, 2015. The Design Technology Lab is a multidisciplinary research center at NYU Abu Dhabi (UAE). Our mission is to design technologies that positively impact people’s lives. Within ICTD, our goal is to bring services to rural communities including: access to education, finance, health, and information services in rural areas. The DTL draws from a broad multidisciplinary expertise available at the Center for Technology and Economic Development (CTED), NYU, and NYU Polytechnic Institute in economics, computer science, engineering, and design. _______________________________________________ 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] Nice video profile of Nepal Wireless' founder
by Yaw Anokwa 13 Dec '15

13 Dec '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Colin Scott <cs(a)cs.berkeley.edu> Date: Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 5:07 AM Subject: [TIER] Nice video profile of Nepal Wireless' founder To: "tier(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu" <tier(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu> Founder is a Nepalese man, Mahabir Pun: https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/148060514 _______________________________________________ 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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DTL 2016 Summer Internships at NYU Abu Dhabi
by Waylon Brunette 12 Dec '15

12 Dec '15

Hi Everyone, For the past few years I have offered summer internships to a handful of outstanding students at the Design Technology Lab (DTL) (http://sites.nyuad.nyu.edu/dtl/) in NYU Abu Dhabi. We are based out of Abu Dhabi and we work actively in multiple countries including UAE, Ghana, Bangladesh, and India. If you would like to work on an exciting ICTD project with us over summer, this could be an interesting opportunity. Attached is a brief job description. Cheers, Jay Chen DTL Summer 2015 Internship Job Description: The Design Technology Lab (DTL) is looking for graduate student interns for the summer of 2015. We are looking for students with good engineering skills, an eye for design, and a strong interest in field work. The range of possible project areas are broad and include: - Networking and networked systems - Specific systems or interfaces for applications in education, finance, and health, and agriculture - Large-scale data analysis, mining, and interactive visualization Requirements: - B.S./B.A. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or closely related field - Facility in C/C++, Python, Java and/or analysis tools like Matlab Depending on your summer schedule, the internship will run from 12-14 weeks. This is a paid internship. Only students who are eligible to work in the UAE should apply. Please send your CV and a cover letter to nyuad.dtl(a)gmail.com<mailto:nyuad.dtl@gmail.com> with the subject: “DTL Summer Intern”. The deadline to apply is March 5, 2015. The Design Technology Lab is a multidisciplinary research center at NYU Abu Dhabi (UAE). Our mission is to design technologies that positively impact people’s lives. Within ICTD, our goal is to bring services to rural communities including: access to education, finance, health, and information services in rural areas. The DTL draws from a broad multidisciplinary expertise available at the Center for Technology and Economic Development (CTED), NYU, and NYU Polytechnic Institute in economics, computer science, engineering, and design.

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Fwd: CfP for CHI Workshop in San Jose | Development Consortium 2016: HCI Across Borders
by Nicola Dell 10 Dec '15

10 Dec '15

We are organizing an awesome workshop at CHI 2016 that focuses on "HCI across borders". I think many of you will find interesting. Please submit and attend if you can! *Call for Proposals* Two-Day Workshop in San Jose (CA, USA) at CHI 2016 <http://chi2016.acm.org/> Development Consortium 2016: HCI Across Borders <http://hci4dacrossborders.wordpress.com/> 7th-8th May, 2016 *About the Workshop* The Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community at CHI has expanded its scope in recent years to study technology use in under-served, under-represented, and under-resourced regions around the world. This area of work is identified (not without debate) at CHI as HCI4D*, where the ‘D’ is used for highlighting the ‘developing world’ context where much of this work has taken place. To work around the limitations imposed by this term, we invite individuals who identify themselves as HCI4D researchers/practitioners, *and also more broadly* – those who are keen to pursue research and practice in these under-served, under-represented, and/or under-resourced contexts. Nearly a decade ago, at CHI 2007, the first workshop on user-centered design and international development was held – also in San Jose. Since then, we have seen an explosion of work in this area. This has been accompanied by a growth of sophistication in understanding, methods, approaches, and techniques towards devising solutions to problems seemingly intractable due to logistical and methodological challenges. As the area has grown, it has understandably become harder for us to stay connected with the expanding scope of research and practice and the increasing number of people involved. While technological and methodological advances are critical for further development of our field, so too is it important for us to stay connected. We often work in relatively isolated contexts, geographically dispersed across the globe, and rarely find the opportunity to associate with the larger community even though we know this could be helpful. Why work across borders? Though every country and context is unique, and much of our work aims to design for “situatedness”, there are lessons to be learned across borders as well. Questions we would like to ask include: What are common themes that tie together different resource-constrained contexts? For instance, could a maternal health project in India benefit from lessons learned from a project in Kenya and vice versa? How can we – as a community – work within countries *and* across them as well? The primary objective of this event is to bring together HCI voices from across the globe at one venue as they develop themes of common interests and work on potential projects/proposals they can pursue together as collaborators. Our secondary, and larger, objective however is to launch a series of such workshops that will help advance towards a richer, stronger, and a fundamentally more cohesive community overall. ** Unpacking the term HCI4D will be one of the undertakings of this workshop. Though debated, the term helps us refer to the area that applies what we know about human-centered processes and technology design to work that aspires towards economic, social, and human development. * *Participation* Our workshop will take place over two days – *7th/8th May 2016* – and solicit participation from HCI researchers and practitioners across the globe who work with under-served, under-represented, and/or under-resourced communities. We invite participants keen to explore collaborations across borders and geographies. We define “borders” and “geographies” broadly to include both national boundaries and more localized boundaries such as those between cities or different groups within a country. Research areas of focus can be diverse, including but not limited to education, healthcare, civic engagement, mobile banking, etc. We welcome all methodological and ideological leanings. Examples of topics/themes of interest might include, among others: - Leveraging participatory design and co-design approaches - Factoring cultural sensitivities in the design of new technologies - Designing to accommodate power differentials - Devising innovative techniques for engaging users - Designing for sustainability Examples of projects might include, among others: - Study of Facebook use and gender roles in South Africa vs. in Namibia - Design of mobile-based reporting systems for targeted African-American and impoverished citizens to report police brutality in Atlanta (GA), Minneapolis (MN), and New York (NY) - Design of mobile media for maternal and newborn health in India and Pakistan - Study of IVR use to provide information on agricultural practices in Peru and Ethiopia - Development of mobile technology-based supports for prenatal care among the Ngabe-Bugle and the Embera in Panama *Submissions* Please submit a proposal (2-4 pages in the CHI Extended Abstracts <http://www.sigchi.org/publications/chipubform/sigchi-extended-abstracts-for…> format) by *21st December 2015* for early notification of acceptance (by 31st December) and *15th January 2016* for notification by *19th February*. Submissions should discuss a plan or intent to collaborate ‘across borders’, articulating an area of work and research questions of interest. If these include potential projects and collaborators, even better! Submissions can be crafted by *a set* of authors (who may like to meet and discuss at the workshop), or by a smaller group/individual seeking additional team members. If additional collaborators are sought, submissions should describe desired expertise/profiles/locations. These submissions will seed small group discussions and informal presentations at the workshop. All submissions will be reviewed by the organizers and selected according to their potential to contribute to the workshop’s goals and foster discussion. Accepted submissions will be available on our workshop website at least two weeks before the conference to allow participants to prepare. In addition, organizers may consider the publication of revised versions of accepted papers as part of a special issue in a related journal. Please send submissions to hci4d.across.borders(a)gmail.com. All deadlines will be observed at 11.59pm AoE <http://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/aoe>. *Bursaries* CHI workshop guidelines require that at least one author of each accepted submission attend and that each (physical) participant be registered for the workshop and one day of the conference. If these constraints become limiting, please contact us so that workarounds might be considered. We are working on obtaining funding to pay travel expenses (or at least a portion thereof) for attendees in need. So if you do work in this area and are hesitating because you believe that obtaining travel money will be difficult to impossible, please go ahead and submit anyway. We will work with you to try and fund (or partially fund) your travel. *Virtual Participation* We understand that not everyone who wishes to participate (with or without a submission) will be able to attend physically, be it due to financial or other constraints. We invite you to express an interest to participate (via email) and we will work with you to accommodate you on our ‘virtual track’ where you will also have the chance to work with a mentor and on a team. *Organizers* Neha Kumar, Georgia Tech, co-chair (USA) Susan Dray, Dray & Associates, co-chair (USA) Andrew Dearden, Sheffield Hallam University (UK) Nicola Dell, Cornell Tech (USA) Melissa Densmore, University of Cape Town (South Africa) Brian DeRenzi, University of Cape Town (South Africa) Beki Grinter, Georgia Tech (USA) Zhengjie Liu, Dalian Maritime University (China) Mario A. Moreno Rocha, Universidad Tecnologica de la Mixteca (Mexico) Eunice Sari, University of Western Australia (Australia) Bill Thies, Microsoft Research, India (India) Indrani Medhi Thies, Microsoft Reearch, India (India) William Tucker, University of the Western Cape (South Africa) Elba Valderrama Bahamondez, Universidad Technologia de Panama (Panama) Susan Wyche, Michigan State University (USA) *Contact* For more details, please check the workshop website: https://hci4dacrossborders.wordpress.com/ Email us your questions at: hci4d.across.borders(a)gmail.com

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Senior Software Engineer positions at BabaJob
by Aditya Vashistha 08 Dec '15

08 Dec '15

Babajob, a start-up in India, is looking for Senior Software Engineers to expand their technology and operations. Babajob is a great place to work and has smart people working in the heart of Bangalore. Please contact Bharani Setlur (bharani(a)babajob.com) and Jyothika Lobo ( jyothika.lobo(a)babajob.com) for any questions. Best, Aditya Job Description: Senior Software Engineer At Babajob we are building a company that helps people at the bottom of the pyramid find a better job. We operate in the hardest job verticals that serve the bottom billion and have brought together 4 million jobseekers with over 100,000 employers across India. Through innovative technology, Babajob is making job information accessible to anyone with a mobile phone and transforming the way employers find candidates and hire talent in these sectors. We are looking for talented and passionate senior software engineers to join us. As a Senior Software Engineer your mission is to improve Babajob experience for all our customers. Use the power of your code to change the way aspiring jobs seekers find better jobs. We’re looking for software engineers passionate about software and scale. Write to us at iwanttobeaseniorengineer(a)babajob.com Key Responsibilities: - Take the lead to architect new features - Write code of the highest quality with proper object-oriented design and unit tests - Mentor other developers in your team Desirable: - Experience with multiple programming paradigms like OOP, Functional Programming. - Experience with Design Patterns - Experience in TDD - Good communicator and writer. Write a blog, takes sessions at conferences/internally. - Contribute to opensource projects. Can encourage us to open source our code. - Fit into our culture. Our Culture: - We question everything and everybody. If someone doesn’t respect this culture we don’t want them at Babajob no matter how senior they might be. - We have deep empathy for our coworkers and users. - We hold you accountable for results - E.g. increase the number of job seekers that appear for interviews. - We believe in leaving the code better than we found it. Technologies that we use: - C#, IIS, ASP.NET MVC, Protobuf, JSON - SQL Server, Petapoco - Redis, ElasticSearch - Javascript, jQuery, React Perks: - We will give you free AWS credits if you want to experiment something - We will buy you technical books - All the machine you need to kick ass at your job.  Spacious, well-ventilated office with an amazing view of Cubbon Park located in the heart of the city  Complimentary meals and a kitchen stacked with goodies all the time

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Last Change of the Quarter Tomorrow
by Trevor Perrier 07 Dec '15

07 Dec '15

Hello All, The Change seminar WILL meet tomorrow at 12:00 in CSE 203. As a quarter wrap up we will have a brief summary of the recent DEV conference <http://acmdev.org/program.php> followed by a group activity. See you there, - Trevor

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Fwd: DIL Mobile Data Collection Webinar: Tuesday, December 7 10am
by Matt Podolsky 04 Dec '15

04 Dec '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sarah White <sarahwhite(a)berkeley.edu> Date: Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 11:29 AM Subject: DIL Mobile Data Collection Webinar: Tuesday, December 7 10am To: Dear Colleagues, We invite you to join us for DIL's first webinar in a series focused on mobile data collection platforms and tools this *Tuesday, December 7 *from* 10am to 11am PT*. This webinar is co-hosted by the Development Impact Lab (DIL) and Engineering for Change <http://www.engineeringforchange.org/>. Details can be found below. Please share widely with your networks and make sure to RSVP. We hope you will join us! Kind regards, *Sarah White *| * Senior **P**rogram Associate* | *DIL <http://dil.berkeley.edu/>* Center for Effective Global Action <http://cega.berkeley.edu/> | 510.642.4361 UC Berkeley | 207 Giannini Hall | Berkeley, CA 94720 e-bulletin <http://visitor.r20.constantcontact.com/manage/optin?v=001qV_LMxK9XFVxXA4XvF…> | facebook <https://www.facebook.com/CenterforEffectiveGlobalAction> | @CEGA_UC <https://twitter.com/CEGA_UC> | *@DevImpactLab <http://twitter.com/DevImpactLab>* * <http://cega.berkeley.edu/> * DIL-Engineering for Change Webinar*Mobile Data Collection: A New Frontier of Tech4Dev Research* *Tuesday, December 8* *10:00am PST - 11:00am PST* RSVP HERE <http://berkeley.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d113155700fc4aabeba0f937…> The wide-spread availability of phone-based communications, and the increasing availability of smartphones and tablets offers researchers, practitioners, and students working in international development an array of new tools and techniques for collecting field data. As adoption of ICTs by development researchers and organizations becomes more widespread, many uses have emerged - from data collection for monitoring, visualization, and analysis. Join the Development Impact Lab (DIL <http://berkeley.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d113155700fc4aabeba0f937…>) and Engineering for Change (E4C <http://berkeley.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d113155700fc4aabeba0f937…>) and hear from leading organizations on the challenges of data collection in field research, how data collection has been leverage, and where the data collection field is headed.

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No Change Seminar Tomorrow
by Trevor Perrier 30 Nov '15

30 Nov '15

Just a quick reminder that there will be no Change Seminar this week. We will meet next week for a final session.

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