the modi group at columbia does some really great work. if you are a dev interested in ictd, it's definitely worth a close look. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Matt Berg <mlberg@gmail.com> Date: Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 12:06 Subject: Software Engineering Postitions To: Gaetano Borriello <gaetano@cs.washington.edu> Cc: Yaw Anokwa <yanokwa@gmail.com> Dear Gaetano and Yaw, We have some open software engineering positions we're hoping to fill incase you know of some candidates. https://github.com/modilabs/jobs Thanks, Matt We are looking for various positions to join us at the Modi Research Group at the Earth Institute in Columbia University. Current positions include: Senior Software Engineer - https://github.com/modilabs/jobs/blob/master/Senior_Software_Eng.rst Front-end Software Developer - https://github.com/modilabs/jobs/blob/master/Frontend_Software_Dev.rst We make software to make development process smarter and to bring new services (health and energy) to people that need them most (primary focus on Africa and India). The tools we build incorporate geospatial planning, open-data webservices, mobile phone-based data collection and service delivery, and management dashboards used by governments. We are primarily a Python and Javascript shop but looking primarily for people with deep software engineering experience and desire to tackle challenging global problems with code. You will get to work with a dynamic team in New York, and travel to field sites in Africa and India to develop and implement solutions with clients on the ground. This is critical to our process as we do agile development heavily based on iterative user feedback. Some projects we’re currently engaged on include: SharedSolar.org - A pre-paid solar energy solution being deployed in rural Africa (http://sharedsolar.org) Assisting the government of Nigeria to map all their clinics, schools and waterpoints (30,000+ and counting!) ChildCount.org - An SMS based approach for improving child and maternal health formhub.org - a mobile data collection community Network Planner - spatial planning software used for infrastructure (electrification) planning. Currently, being used by countries across Africa.