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Fwd: ODK Discussion Series: Incorporating ODK components into existing toolset
by Yaw Anokwa 28 Nov '15

28 Nov '15

Fifth post from the ODK Discussion Series. Participate using the link below. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Marc Abbyad <marc(a)medicmobile.org> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 13:28:56 -0800 (PST) Subject: Incorporating ODK components into existing toolset To: ODK Community <opendatakit(a)googlegroups.com> Hi all, I am the product manager at Medic Mobile, a nonprofit technology company that builds and deploys mHealth tools for communities around the world. Using ODK we were able to quickly build an Android app that health workers can use in some of the most rural places on earth. Health workers use the app to register people into health programs, screen for high-risk pregnancies, submit stock reports, report disease outbreaks, and more. I'm excited to share the story of how we got there. I was fortunate to meet Gaetano at the ICTD 2013 conference in Cape Town, South Africa. Our team had been designing tools for basic phones so that we could reach people with the lowest common denominator platform. Android phones were become more prevalent for our target users, so I was keen to chat with the ODK folks from UW showcasing the new ODK 2.0. The next-generation ODK had promising features for our users - most notably visualizing data on mobile devices, which could enable real time, data-driven adaptations to service delivery. Gaetano hinted, not so subtly, that we should be using ODK. We did not want to reinvent the wheel, but from what we could tell at the time the first generation ODK seemed already in the process of being replaced, and ODK 2.0 was still very much in Alpha.... Read more at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/opendatakit/qJU25truOGk

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11/30 event: How are venues for public access to ICTs using mobile devices? Results from a survey in Latin America
by Melody Clark 25 Nov '15

25 Nov '15

Monday, November 30th, 2015 12:00-1:30pm (lunch at 12pm, talk starts at 12:30pm) Bloedel Hall 070 Use of Mobile Devices in Public Access to ICTs: Preliminary results from a study in Latin America Venues for Public Access to ICTs (PAVs) and Mobile Technologies have been extensively studied for their potential to give access to information and enabling underserved communities’ development, especially in the developing world. The field of ICT for Development (ICT4D) addressed them, one after the other, as possible ways to bridge the digital divide. At first, the rapid growth of mobile technologies adoption was considered as the end of the need for PAVs. With more than 6 billion mobile subscriptions in the world, and more people having access to a mobile than to electricity or clean water in developing countries, mobiles have been reshaping the technological ecosystem of access. Yet, PAVs have not been replaced by mobiles. While we can envision that PAVs are starting to include mobile technologies to provide their services, very few studies have been considered the topic so far. In this conversation, preliminary results from an online survey conducted among Latin American PAVs’ operators will be presented. Results will inform on both the variety of mobile-related services that PAVs are providing in the region, and on operators’ perception of mobile technologies as having a role to support development. Sara Vannini is a visiting scholar at UW’s Technology and Social Change Group (TASCHA). Sara is also a postdoctoral research fellow with the BeCHANGE group and Executive Director of the NewMinE – New Media in Education Lab at the University of Italian Switzerland (USI), Lugano, Switzerland. Sara’s research is in the field of Information and Communication Technologies for Development, focusing in particular on the issues of Public Access to ICTs and the appropriation and social representation of technologies in underserved areas of developing countries. She holds a Ph.D. in Communication Sciences from USI, and an M.A. in Latin American Literatures from Bologna University, Italy. See more at: http://www.saravannini.com<http://www.saravannini.com/> Sara Vannini, PhD Visiting Researcher - TASCHA Executive Director - NewMinE Lab PostDoctoral Researcher - BeCHANGE Research Group mailto: sara.vannini.usi(a)gmail.com<mailto:sara.vannini.usi@gmail.com> website: http://www.saravannini.com<http://www.saravannini.com/>

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Tomorrow at Change: Ted McCarthy - Gaza Sky Geeks
by Trevor Perrier 23 Nov '15

23 Nov '15

Please join us tomorrow for the Change seminar were we welcome Ted McCarthy back to UW to talk about his experiences volunteering for the startup accelerator Gaza Sky Geeks. When: Nov 24 12pm Where: CSE 203 What: Unlikely Acceleration: Gaza Sky Geeks, Gaza's Rising Entrepreneurs. *Abstract * Gaza today struggles to overcome immense development hurdles enforced by an extremely challenging political environment and frequent destruction in times of war. The region currently experiences 43% unemployment, 80% population dependent on foreign agencies for some kind of aid, extremely limited freedom of movement, frequent and extended power outages, and more. Despite these challenges, Gaza also has potential to benefit from tremendous human capital: the population of 1.8 million possesses a 97% literacy rate, a 20% bachelors-level degree completion rate (higher even than the West Bank), and relatively high educational freedoms for women. Aiming to harness some of this potential, Gaza Sky Geeks, Gaza's first tech accelerator, was formed as an initiative by MercyCorps in 2011 and continues to thrive and grow today under the leadership of Iliana Montauk and Mai Walaa. Gaza Sky Geeks helps provide aspiring Gazan entrepreneurs with mentorship, links to customers, funding, employees, and more, and access to Gaza's only co-ed co-working space where they can work with like-minded individuals in a productive, friendly environment. Several of Gaza Sky Geek's startups have recently received early-stage funding, and the accelerator has received, and continues to receive, significant enthusiastic press.* Bio * Ted McCarthy spent a week volunteering as a mentor in Gaza Sky Geeks in June 2015, and thinks you probably should, too. He is also a user researcher working with Google Access, helping to explore opportunities and assess projects to expand fast internet access in developing regions. Prior to Google, he consulted at ThoughtWorks (- which kindly helped support his trip to Gaza, for which he is eternally grateful), and before working in industry he spent several years conducting graduate research at the University of Washington's Biomedical Health Informatics program and the University of Michigan's School of Information. He currently lives in (mostly) sunny San Francisco, and can often be found gleefully running through the Marin Headlands, or even just the hills of SF.* *

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Fwd: ODK Discussion Series: The importance of Open Standards
by Yaw Anokwa 17 Nov '15

17 Nov '15

Fourth post from the ODK Discussion Series. Participate using the link below! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Matt Berg <mlberg(a)gmail.com> Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2015 21:00:56 +0300 Subject: The importance of Open Standards. What we learned collaborating on the XLSForm spec To: ODK Community <opendatakit(a)googlegroups.com> Dear ODK Community, I wanted to contribute on the ODK series about how ODK and working with Gaetano in particular taught our team at Columbia about importance of open standards. First, I apologize this post is a few days late. As many of you may (or might not know), at the foundation of ODK are XForms. XForms are a W3C open standard for representing forms in XML. XForms aren't necessarily simple and they have many limitations, however, they do get a lot right and provided a foundation to build tools like ODK. I wasn't around for the beginning of ODK but one of the things that happened at that time is a group of early ICT4D practitioners including Dimagi, AED, Cell-Life, UW (ODK), U of Oslo (I apologize for any groups I left out!) realized wisely that while mobile data collection was still pretty nascent there was a real risk of fragmentation due to the number of tools that were starting to be developed in parallel. This could lead to a lot of duplicate efforts and wasted resources with different groups trying to solve the same difficult problems in different ways. This could lead to discussions Beta vs. VHS debates, something our space really couldn't afford... Read more at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/opendatakit/z061CM9NVus

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No Change Seminar This Week
by Trevor Perrier 16 Nov '15

16 Nov '15

Hello All, There will be no Change Seminar this tomorrow. Next week, Nov 24, there will be a seminar, however, the following week (Dec 1) many of us will be at DEV <http://acmdev.org/program.php> so there will be no seminar as well. The last Change Seminar of the quarter will be on Tuesday Dec 8. The topic for that week will be announced via email as usual. Thanks, - Trevor

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Event recording: Overview of the Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA) & the U.S. Impact Study
by Melody Clark 13 Nov '15

13 Nov '15

Hello! Thank you to all of you who came to our event yesterday - we are pleased to have such a great turnout and so much interest in our work! For those who could not make it and are interested in learning more about what we at TASCHA and the U.S. Impact Study do and how you might be able to get involved, the recording is now online here: http://tascha.uw.edu/2015/11/event-recording-tascha-usimpactstudy-2015/. Thank you, Melody -- 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/> tascha.uw.edu<http://tascha.uw.edu/> _____________________________________________ From: Melody Clark Sent: Friday, November 6, 2015 8:47 AM To: 'iphds(a)uw.edu' <iphds(a)uw.edu>; 'imsim(a)uw.edu' <imsim(a)uw.edu>; 'imajors(a)uw.edu' <imajors(a)uw.edu>; 'istaff(a)uw.edu' <istaff(a)uw.edu>; faculty (ifac(a)u.washington.edu) <ifac(a)u.washington.edu>; 'EvansWorld(a)u.washington.edu' <EvansWorld(a)u.washington.edu>; 'jsisadv(a)u.washington.edu' <jsisadv(a)u.washington.edu>; 'change(a)change.washington.edu' <change(a)change.washington.edu>; dub(a)dub.washington.edu; 'tascha-share(a)uw.edu' <tascha-share(a)uw.edu>; 'iMLISnews(a)uw.edu' <iMLISnews(a)uw.edu>; publiclife(a)u.washington.edu Subject: RE: Overview of the Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA) & the U.S. Impact Study - lunch provided! Hello! Just a friendly reminder for the upcoming event, Overview of the Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA) & the U.S. Impact Study on Thursday, November 12th from 12:30-1:30pm (all details below). To help us feed you, please RSVP here<https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/melclark/285501> by Tuesday, November 10th. https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/melclark/285501 We look forward to seeing many of you there! Thank you, Melody, on behalf of TASCHA & the U.S. Impact Study -- 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/> tascha.uw.edu<http://tascha.uw.edu/> -----Original Appointment----- From: Melody Clark Sent: Monday, October 19, 2015 9:27 AM To: imlis(a)uw.edu<mailto:imlis@uw.edu>; iphds(a)uw.edu<mailto:iphds@uw.edu>; imsim(a)uw.edu<mailto:imsim@uw.edu>; imajors(a)uw.edu<mailto:imajors@uw.edu>; istaff(a)uw.edu<mailto:istaff@uw.edu>; faculty (ifac(a)u.washington.edu<mailto:ifac@u.washington.edu>); EvansWorld(a)u.washington.edu<mailto:EvansWorld@u.washington.edu>; jsisadv(a)u.washington.edu<mailto:jsisadv@u.washington.edu>; change(a)change.washington.edu<mailto:change@change.washington.edu>; dub(a)dub.washington.edu<mailto:dub@dub.washington.edu>; tascha-share(a)uw.edu<mailto:tascha-share@uw.edu>; Moonjung Yim; 'iMLISnews(a)uw.edu' Cc: David McGee; Batya Friedman; Lori Dugdale; Michael Braly; Harry Bruce; Amanda Menking; Carmen Parisi; Joseph Janes; Marwa Maziad; Lia Zheng; Eugenia Ho; Yusi Xing; JOHNNA E. WHITE; Adam M. Alessio; Randy Orwin; David Hendry; Jessica Beyer; Chris Coward; Heather Lewis; mkali; Samantha Becker; Ricardo Gomez; Andrew J. Ko; Lisa Woicik; Chi Do; Megan McGuire; Greg Lawrence; Deniz Dalton; Jevin West; Shannon Gilmore; iplan; Cortney Leach; Paul Yager; Joseph T. Tennis; Frankie Fowler; Katya Lobanova; Eileen Koven Subject: Overview of the Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA) & the U.S. Impact Study - lunch provided! When: Thursday, November 12, 2015 12:30 PM-1:30 PM (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada). Where: Bloedel Hall 070 Are you interested in the effects of technology on economic and social development? Do you wonder if mobile phones will replace PCs? Interested in the role libraries play in communities and development? Curious about open data and open research? Passionate about digital inclusion & literacy, access to technology, communication, and information resources? Well, we have a great event for you! Come learn about the Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA)<http://tascha.uw.edu/> and the U.S. IMPACT Study<http://impact.ischool.uw.edu/> on November 12th, 2015! At this event, we will introduce TASCHA and the U.S. IMPACT Study, two research groups focused on issues like digital inclusion, impact & evaluation, and access to information, communication, and technology resources. While especially targeted to newcomers to the university community, both TASCHA and the U.S. IMPACT Study are always coming up with new interests and projects so people who know us already are encouraged to come as well. We'll cover the fields we operate in, our missions, research projects, and other activities. You'll meet some of the researchers, program staff, and students who work at TASCHA and the U.S. IMPACT Study. For those interested, we'll also discuss how you can get involved with our research. There'll be plenty of time for questions and discussion, and of course, lunch! We hope to see you there! * What: Overview of the Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA) & the U.S. Impact Study - lunch provided! * Where: University of Washington, Bloedel Hall, Room 070 (lower level of Bloedel - follow signs for the Information School) * When: Thursday, November 12, 2015, 12:30-1:30pm * Online: Not in Seattle? Can't make it person? Join us online via Adobe Connect via https://ischool.adobeconnect.com/tascha/ About TASCHA<http://tascha.uw.edu/> The Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA) at the University of Washington Information School explores the design, use, and effects of information and communication technologies in communities facing social and economic challenges. With experience in 50 countries, TASCHA brings together a multidisciplinary network of social scientists, engineers, and development practitioners to conduct research, advance knowledge, create public resources, and improve policy and program design. Our purpose? To spark innovation and opportunities for those who need it most. Like us on Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/tascharesearch> | Follow us on Twitter<https://twitter.com/taschagroup> About U.S. IMPACT Study<http://impact.ischool.uw.edu/> The U.S. Impact Study research group conducts research and evaluation aimed at advancing digital inclusion initiatives at the national, state, and community levels in public libraries and community technology centers. Much of our work is aimed at developing common measures of impact and identifying the critical aspects of digital inclusion programs that lead to life-enhancing outcomes for users. Our work has provided a substrate for digital inclusion frameworks in a number of initiatives including the national Digital Inclusion Framework<http://www.imls.gov/assets/1/AssetManager/BuildingDigitalCommunities_Framew…>, a tool to support the development and growth of digitally-connected communities; the Edge benchmarks framework<http://www.libraryedge.org/> for public library technology; and the Impact Survey<http://impactsurvey.org/>, an online tool to help organizations measure the impact of their programs.

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Fwd: [TIER] ICTD 2016, Ann Arbor, MI, USA—FULL PAPERS DEADLINE 11/20
by Yaw Anokwa 11 Nov '15

11 Nov '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Susan Wyche <spwyche(a)msu.edu> Date: Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 3:18 AM Subject: [TIER] ICTD 2016, Ann Arbor, MI, USA—FULL PAPERS DEADLINE 11/20 To: tier(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu ***DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF FULL PAPERS IS 11/20**** Upload submissions here: http://j.mp/ictd2016PaperSubmission The Eighth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD2016), to be hosted at the University of Michigan from June 3-6, 2016, cordially invites you to submit Full Papers and Notes. Held in cooperation with ACM SIGCHI and ACM SIGCAS, ICTD2016 will provide an international forum for scholarly researchers to explore the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in social, political, and economic development. The ICTD conferences have been taking place approximately every 18 months since 2006; 2016 marks the first time that the conference will go to an annual cycle. Important dates November 20, 2015: Deadline for submission of Full Papers* January 15, 2016: Notification of acceptances for Full Papers January 29, 2016: Deadline for submission of Notes February 26, 2016: Notification of acceptances for Notes March 25, 2016: Camera-ready Full Papers and Notes due All submissions are due 11:59 pm UTC. Over the past several decades, as radio and television have been joined by computers, the Internet, and mobile devices, information and communication technologies (ICTs) have become more pervasive, more accessible, and more relevant in the lives of people around the world. Virtually no sphere of human activity remains apart from ICTs, from markets to health care, education to governance, family life to artistic expression. Diverse groups across the world interact with, are affected by, and can shape the design of these technologies. The ICTD conference is a place to understand these interactions, and to examine, critique, and refine the persistent, pervasive hope that ICTs can be enlisted by individuals and communities in the service of human development. There are multidisciplinary challenges associated with the engineering, application and adoption of ICTs in developing regions and/or for development, with implications for design, policy, and practice. For the purposes of this conference, the term ICT comprises electronic technologies for information processing and communication, as well as systems, interventions, and platforms that are built on such technologies. Development includes, but is not restricted to, poverty alleviation, education, agriculture, healthcare, general communication, gender equality, governance, infrastructure, environment and sustainable livelihoods. The conference program will reflect the multidisciplinary nature of ICTD research, with anticipated contributions from fields including (but not limited to) anthropology, computer science, communication, design, economics, electrical engineering, geography, human-computer interaction, information science, information systems, political science, public health, and sociology. Full Papers An ICTD Full Paper, which is up to 10 pages in the ACM two-column format (including references, figures and tables), must make a new research contribution and provide complete and substantial support for its results and conclusions. Accepted papers typically represent a major advance for the field of ICTD. Full Papers will be evaluated via double-blind peer review by a multidisciplinary panel of at least three readers, one of whom will come from outside the paper?s disciplinary domain in order to ensure broad readability. Accepted Full Papers will be presented as oral presentations at the conference. Full Papers will be evaluated according to their novel research contribution, methodological soundness, theoretical framing and reference to related work, quality of analysis, and quality of writing and presentation. Manuscripts considering novel designs, new technologies, project assessments, policy analyses, impact studies, theoretical contributions, social issues around ICT and development, and so forth will be considered. Well-analyzed negative results from which generalizable conclusions can be drawn are also sought. Authors are encouraged (but not required) to address the diversity of approaches in ICTD research by providing context, implications, and actionable guidance to researchers and practitioners beyond the authors? primary domains. Full Papers typically present mature work whereas Notes (see below) are used for presenting preliminary research that is still work-in-progress. All accepted Full Papers will be archived in the ACM Digital Library. A subset of the Full Papers will also appear in a special issue of the Information Technologies & International Development journal. All Submissions Only original, unpublished, research papers in English will be considered. Full Papers and Notes must use the ACM templates (LaTex and Word), and must be no longer than 10 pages and 4 pages respectively. (The main text, figures, tables, footnotes, references, etc. must fit within these page limits.) Additional material may be included in an Appendix, but the text within the page limits must read as a standalone work. Submissions longer than the page limits, not in the template format, not related to the conference themes, and/or not meeting a minimum bar of academic research writing will be rejected without full review. For each accepted Full Paper and Note, at least one of the authors will be required to register and present it at ICTD2016. If not, the submission will not be published in the final proceedings. For Full Papers, see the ACMs copyright policies and options. Copyright for Notes will be retained by the authors. Submitted Full Papers and Notes must not include names or other information that would identify the authors. Note that since the Full Paper and Notes submission review cycles will be sequential; it will be possible to revise, shorten, and resubmit elements of promising but non-selected Full Papers in time for reconsideration in the separate Notes review round. For more information, see http://ictd2016.info or email Susan Wyche at spwyche(a)msu.edu. General Conference Chair Kentaro Toyama, University of Michigan Program Committee Chairs Lakshmi Subramanian, New York University Susan Wyche, Michigan State University Notes Chairs Carleen Maitland, Pennsylvania State University Janaki Srinivasan, International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore Senior Program Committee Richard Anderson, University of Washington Elizabeth Belding, U.C. Santa Barbara Michael Best, United Nations University / Georgia Institute of Technology Josh Blumenstock, University of Washington Jay Chen, New York University - Abu Dhabi Marshini Chetty, University of Maryland Ed Cutrell, Microsoft Research India Rogerio de Paula, IBM Research Brazil Vanessa Frias-Martinez, University of Maryland Heather Horst, RMIT University Dorothea Kleine, Royal Holloway University of London Rich Ling, Nanyang Technical University Joyojeet Pal, University of Michigan Balaji Parthasarathy, International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore Tapan Parikh, U.C. Berkeley Nimmi Rangaswamy, Xerox Research Center India Aaditeshwar Seth, IIT Delhi Araba Sey, University of Washington Charles Steinfield, Michigan State University Revi Sterling, NetHope Bill Thies, Microsoft Research India ICTD Steering Committee Francois Bar, University of Southern California Michael Best, United Nations University / Georgia Institute of Technology Ken Keniston, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Balaji Parthasarathy, International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore Krithi Ramamritham, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay AnnaLee Saxenian, University of California, Berkeley Kentaro Toyama, University of Michigan Ernest Wilson, University of Southern California Susan P. Wyche, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Media and Information Michigan State University spwyche(a)msu.edu http://www.susanwyche.com/ _______________________________________________ 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] ICTD 2016, Ann Arbor, MI, USA—FULL PAPERS DEADLINE 11/20
by Melody Clark 11 Nov '15

11 Nov '15

From: Susan Wyche <spwyche(a)msu.edu<mailto:spwyche@msu.edu>> Date: November 11, 2015 at 12:18:41 PM PST To: tier(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu<mailto:tier@tier.cs.berkeley.edu> Subject: [TIER] ICTD 2016, Ann Arbor, MI, USA—FULL PAPERS DEADLINE 11/20 ***DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF FULL PAPERS IS 11/20**** Upload submissions here: http://j.mp/ictd2016PaperSubmission The Eighth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD2016), to be hosted at the University of Michigan from June 3-6, 2016, cordially invites you to submit Full Papers and Notes. Held in cooperation with ACM SIGCHI and ACM SIGCAS, ICTD2016 will provide an international forum for scholarly researchers to explore the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in social, political, and economic development. The ICTD conferences have been taking place approximately every 18 months since 2006; 2016 marks the first time that the conference will go to an annual cycle. Important dates * November 20, 2015: Deadline for submission of Full Papers* * January 15, 2016: Notification of acceptances for Full Papers * January 29, 2016: Deadline for submission of Notes * February 26, 2016: Notification of acceptances for Notes * March 25, 2016: Camera-ready Full Papers and Notes due All submissions are due 11:59 pm UTC. Over the past several decades, as radio and television have been joined by computers, the Internet, and mobile devices, information and communication technologies (ICTs) have become more pervasive, more accessible, and more relevant in the lives of people around the world. Virtually no sphere of human activity remains apart from ICTs, from markets to health care, education to governance, family life to artistic expression. Diverse groups across the world interact with, are affected by, and can shape the design of these technologies. The ICTD conference is a place to understand these interactions, and to examine, critique, and refine the persistent, pervasive hope that ICTs can be enlisted by individuals and communities in the service of human development. There are multidisciplinary challenges associated with the engineering, application and adoption of ICTs in developing regions and/or for development, with implications for design, policy, and practice. For the purposes of this conference, the term ICT comprises electronic technologies for information processing and communication, as well as systems, interventions, and platforms that are built on such technologies. Development includes, but is not restricted to, poverty alleviation, education, agriculture, healthcare, general communication, gender equality, governance, infrastructure, environment and sustainable livelihoods. The conference program will reflect the multidisciplinary nature of ICTD research, with anticipated contributions from fields including (but not limited to) anthropology, computer science, communication, design, economics, electrical engineering, geography, human-computer interaction, information science, information systems, political science, public health, and sociology. Full Papers An ICTD Full Paper, which is up to 10 pages in the ACM two-column format (including references, figures and tables), must make a new research contribution and provide complete and substantial support for its results and conclusions. Accepted papers typically represent a major advance for the field of ICTD. Full Papers will be evaluated via double-blind peer review by a multidisciplinary panel of at least three readers, one of whom will come from outside the paper?s disciplinary domain in order to ensure broad readability. Accepted Full Papers will be presented as oral presentations at the conference. Full Papers will be evaluated according to their novel research contribution, methodological soundness, theoretical framing and reference to related work, quality of analysis, and quality of writing and presentation. Manuscripts considering novel designs, new technologies, project assessments, policy analyses, impact studies, theoretical contributions, social issues around ICT and development, and so forth will be considered. Well-analyzed negative results from which generalizable conclusions can be drawn are also sought. Authors are encouraged (but not required) to address the diversity of approaches in ICTD research by providing context, implications, and actionable guidance to researchers and practitioners beyond the authors? primary domains. Full Papers typically present mature work whereas Notes (see below) are used for presenting preliminary research that is still work-in-progress. All accepted Full Papers will be archived in the ACM Digital Library. A subset of the Full Papers will also appear in a special issue of the Information Technologies & International Development journal. All Submissions Only original, unpublished, research papers in English will be considered. Full Papers and Notes must use the ACM templates (LaTex and Word), and must be no longer than 10 pages and 4 pages respectively. (The main text, figures, tables, footnotes, references, etc. must fit within these page limits.) Additional material may be included in an Appendix, but the text within the page limits must read as a standalone work. Submissions longer than the page limits, not in the template format, not related to the conference themes, and/or not meeting a minimum bar of academic research writing will be rejected without full review. For each accepted Full Paper and Note, at least one of the authors will be required to register and present it at ICTD2016. If not, the submission will not be published in the final proceedings. For Full Papers, see the ACMs copyright policies and options. Copyright for Notes will be retained by the authors. Submitted Full Papers and Notes must not include names or other information that would identify the authors. Note that since the Full Paper and Notes submission review cycles will be sequential; it will be possible to revise, shorten, and resubmit elements of promising but non-selected Full Papers in time for reconsideration in the separate Notes review round. For more information, see http://ictd2016.info<http://ictd2016.info/> or email Susan Wyche at spwyche(a)msu.edu<mailto:spwyche@msu.edu>. General Conference Chair Kentaro Toyama, University of Michigan Program Committee Chairs Lakshmi Subramanian, New York University Susan Wyche, Michigan State University Notes Chairs Carleen Maitland, Pennsylvania State University Janaki Srinivasan, International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore Senior Program Committee Richard Anderson, University of Washington Elizabeth Belding, U.C. Santa Barbara Michael Best, United Nations University / Georgia Institute of Technology Josh Blumenstock, University of Washington Jay Chen, New York University - Abu Dhabi Marshini Chetty, University of Maryland Ed Cutrell, Microsoft Research India Rogerio de Paula, IBM Research Brazil Vanessa Frias-Martinez, University of Maryland Heather Horst, RMIT University Dorothea Kleine, Royal Holloway University of London Rich Ling, Nanyang Technical University Joyojeet Pal, University of Michigan Balaji Parthasarathy, International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore Tapan Parikh, U.C. Berkeley Nimmi Rangaswamy, Xerox Research Center India Aaditeshwar Seth, IIT Delhi Araba Sey, University of Washington Charles Steinfield, Michigan State University Revi Sterling, NetHope Bill Thies, Microsoft Research India ICTD Steering Committee Francois Bar, University of Southern California Michael Best, United Nations University / Georgia Institute of Technology Ken Keniston, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Balaji Parthasarathy, International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore Krithi Ramamritham, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay AnnaLee Saxenian, University of California, Berkeley Kentaro Toyama, University of Michigan Ernest Wilson, University of Southern California Susan P. Wyche, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Media and Information Michigan State University spwyche(a)msu.edu<mailto:spwyche@msu.edu> http://www.susanwyche.com/ _______________________________________________ TIER mailing list Website: http://tier.cs.berkeley.edu TIER(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu<mailto:TIER@tier.cs.berkeley.edu> https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tier

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UW iSchool Preview Day, Nov 14th: Learn about our grad programs!
by Melody Clark 10 Nov '15

10 Nov '15

You're invited! Please join us at the following event to learn about the UW Information School's graduate degree programs: UW INFORMATION SCHOOL PREVIEW DAY Saturday, November 14, 2015 Check-in begins at 12:30 pm Event runs from 1 - 4:30 pm Mary Gates Hall Room 389 Attend University of Washington's Information School Preview Day and learn how earning a graduate degree in information science will help you build a career in data science, IA, librarianship, information security, UX, IT consulting, information management https://ischool.uw.edu/infograd. The event includes opportunities to: . Hear more about all three of our graduate programs: Master of Science in Information Management, Master of Library and Information Science, and PhD in Information Science . Learn about the curriculum and what distinguishes the iSchool . Attend a sample class taught by a faculty member . Get tips on the application process and find resources for financing your education . Speak to current students about their experience at the iSchool . Find out about career and research opportunities available to our students RSVP preferred: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/ioss/172150 Email iask(a)uw.edu with any questions about this event. We hope to see you this Saturday! ----------------------------------------------- Marie Potter, M.Ed. Assistant Director for Student Services MLIS Academic Advisor mardup(a)uw.edu Information School | ischool.uw.edu University of Washington _______________________________________________ GPAA mailing list GPAA(a)u.washington.edu http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/gpaa

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Re: [change] Overview of the Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA) & the U.S. Impact Study – lunch provided!
by Melody Clark 09 Nov '15

09 Nov '15

Just a friendly reminder to RSVP by 5pm Tuesday, November 10th for food planning purposes. Hope to see many of you there! To help us feed you, please RSVP here<https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/melclark/285501> by Tuesday, November 10th. https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/melclark/285501 Cheers! Melody -- 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/> tascha.uw.edu<http://tascha.uw.edu/> _____________________________________________ From: Melody Clark Sent: Friday, November 6, 2015 8:47 AM To: 'iphds(a)uw.edu' <iphds(a)uw.edu>; 'imsim(a)uw.edu' <imsim(a)uw.edu>; 'imajors(a)uw.edu' <imajors(a)uw.edu>; 'istaff(a)uw.edu' <istaff(a)uw.edu>; faculty (ifac(a)u.washington.edu) <ifac(a)u.washington.edu>; 'EvansWorld(a)u.washington.edu' <EvansWorld(a)u.washington.edu>; 'jsisadv(a)u.washington.edu' <jsisadv(a)u.washington.edu>; 'change(a)change.washington.edu' <change(a)change.washington.edu>; dub(a)dub.washington.edu; 'tascha-share(a)uw.edu' <tascha-share(a)uw.edu>; 'iMLISnews(a)uw.edu' <iMLISnews(a)uw.edu>; publiclife(a)u.washington.edu Subject: RE: Overview of the Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA) & the U.S. Impact Study – lunch provided! Hello! Just a friendly reminder for the upcoming event, Overview of the Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA) & the U.S. Impact Study on Thursday, November 12th from 12:30-1:30pm (all details below). To help us feed you, please RSVP here<https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/melclark/285501> by Tuesday, November 10th. https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/melclark/285501 We look forward to seeing many of you there! Thank you, Melody, on behalf of TASCHA & the U.S. Impact Study -- 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/> tascha.uw.edu<http://tascha.uw.edu/> -----Original Appointment----- From: Melody Clark Sent: Monday, October 19, 2015 9:27 AM To: imlis(a)uw.edu<mailto:imlis@uw.edu>; iphds(a)uw.edu<mailto:iphds@uw.edu>; imsim(a)uw.edu<mailto:imsim@uw.edu>; imajors(a)uw.edu<mailto:imajors@uw.edu>; istaff(a)uw.edu<mailto:istaff@uw.edu>; faculty (ifac(a)u.washington.edu<mailto:ifac@u.washington.edu>); EvansWorld(a)u.washington.edu<mailto:EvansWorld@u.washington.edu>; jsisadv(a)u.washington.edu<mailto:jsisadv@u.washington.edu>; change(a)change.washington.edu<mailto:change@change.washington.edu>; dub(a)dub.washington.edu<mailto:dub@dub.washington.edu>; tascha-share(a)uw.edu<mailto:tascha-share@uw.edu>; Moonjung Yim; 'iMLISnews(a)uw.edu' Cc: David McGee; Batya Friedman; Lori Dugdale; Michael Braly; Harry Bruce; Amanda Menking; Carmen Parisi; Joseph Janes; Marwa Maziad; Lia Zheng; Eugenia Ho; Yusi Xing; JOHNNA E. WHITE; Adam M. Alessio; Randy Orwin; David Hendry; Jessica Beyer; Chris Coward; Heather Lewis; mkali; Samantha Becker; Ricardo Gomez; Andrew J. Ko; Lisa Woicik; Chi Do; Megan McGuire; Greg Lawrence; Deniz Dalton; Jevin West; Shannon Gilmore; iplan; Cortney Leach; Paul Yager; Joseph T. Tennis; Frankie Fowler; Katya Lobanova; Eileen Koven Subject: Overview of the Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA) & the U.S. Impact Study – lunch provided! When: Thursday, November 12, 2015 12:30 PM-1:30 PM (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada). Where: Bloedel Hall 070 Are you interested in the effects of technology on economic and social development? Do you wonder if mobile phones will replace PCs? Interested in the role libraries play in communities and development? Curious about open data and open research? Passionate about digital inclusion & literacy, access to technology, communication, and information resources? Well, we have a great event for you! Come learn about the Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA)<http://tascha.uw.edu/> and the U.S. IMPACT Study<http://impact.ischool.uw.edu/> on November 12th, 2015! At this event, we will introduce TASCHA and the U.S. IMPACT Study, two research groups focused on issues like digital inclusion, impact & evaluation, and access to information, communication, and technology resources. While especially targeted to newcomers to the university community, both TASCHA and the U.S. IMPACT Study are always coming up with new interests and projects so people who know us already are encouraged to come as well. We’ll cover the fields we operate in, our missions, research projects, and other activities. You’ll meet some of the researchers, program staff, and students who work at TASCHA and the U.S. IMPACT Study. For those interested, we’ll also discuss how you can get involved with our research. There’ll be plenty of time for questions and discussion, and of course, lunch! We hope to see you there! • What: Overview of the Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA) & the U.S. Impact Study – lunch provided! • Where: University of Washington, Bloedel Hall, Room 070 (lower level of Bloedel – follow signs for the Information School) • When: Thursday, November 12, 2015, 12:30-1:30pm • Online: Not in Seattle? Can’t make it person? Join us online via Adobe Connect via https://ischool.adobeconnect.com/tascha/ About TASCHA<http://tascha.uw.edu/> The Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA) at the University of Washington Information School explores the design, use, and effects of information and communication technologies in communities facing social and economic challenges. With experience in 50 countries, TASCHA brings together a multidisciplinary network of social scientists, engineers, and development practitioners to conduct research, advance knowledge, create public resources, and improve policy and program design. Our purpose? To spark innovation and opportunities for those who need it most. Like us on Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/tascharesearch> | Follow us on Twitter<https://twitter.com/taschagroup> About U.S. IMPACT Study<http://impact.ischool.uw.edu/> The U.S. Impact Study research group conducts research and evaluation aimed at advancing digital inclusion initiatives at the national, state, and community levels in public libraries and community technology centers. Much of our work is aimed at developing common measures of impact and identifying the critical aspects of digital inclusion programs that lead to life-enhancing outcomes for users. Our work has provided a substrate for digital inclusion frameworks in a number of initiatives including the national Digital Inclusion Framework<http://www.imls.gov/assets/1/AssetManager/BuildingDigitalCommunities_Framew…>, a tool to support the development and growth of digitally-connected communities; the Edge benchmarks framework<http://www.libraryedge.org/> for public library technology; and the Impact Survey<http://impactsurvey.org/>, an online tool to help organizations measure the impact of their programs.

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