---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <ict4dev-request@lists.csail.mit.edu> Date: Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 19:00 Subject: Ict4dev Digest, Vol 47, Issue 4 To: ict4dev@lists.csail.mit.edu Send Ict4dev mailing list submissions to        ict4dev@lists.csail.mit.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit        https://lists.csail.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/ict4dev or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to        ict4dev-request@lists.csail.mit.edu You can reach the person managing the list at        ict4dev-owner@lists.csail.mit.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Ict4dev digest..." Today's Topics:   1. Fwd: [TIER] ICTD position (emma brunskill) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 08:03:38 -0700 From: emma brunskill <emma@eecs.berkeley.edu> Subject: [Ict4dev] Fwd: [TIER] ICTD position To: ict4dev@csail.mit.edu Message-ID: <BANLkTikPYPg8UK1JriHxBd0+R7WBWy7BSA@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Gudrun Wicander <gudrun.wicander@kau.se> Date: Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 12:06 AM Subject: [TIER] ICTD position To: tier@tier.cs.berkeley.edu, tier-bounces@tier.cs.berkeley.edu Cc: Gudrun Wicander <gudrun.wicander@kau.se> Research Assistant (or Postdoc) position at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford Grade 6: Salary ?25,751 - ?30,747 p.a. We are a leading international research and policy Institute looking for a full-time Research Assistant to work with Dr Mark Graham on the ESRC-DFID funded project, The Promises of Fibre-Optic Broadband: A Pipeline for Economic Development in East Africa. Employing case-studies, interviews, surveys and textual analysis in Kenya and Rwanda, this project examines the expectations and stated potentials of broadband Internet and compares those expectations to on-the-ground effects that broadband connectivity is having in the production networks of three economic sectors: tea production, ecotourism, and business process outsourcing. Applicants should have a graduate or postgraduate qualification in one of the social sciences, experience of social science research, and be willing to conduct extended fieldwork in East Africa. The successful candidate will be able to take a lead in project management, data collection and analysis, and the dissemination of results. Based at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, this position is available from 1st October 2011 for 28 months in the first instance, with the possibility of renewal thereafter funding permitting. It may be possible to hire at Postdoctoral Research Fellow level given the right candidate. Applications for this vacancy are to be made online. Only applications received before 12:00 midday on the 21st July 2011 can be considered. Interviews for those short-listed are currently planned to take place in the week commencing 8th Aug 2011. Full job details and online application are available at the following link:?https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk/pls/hrisliverecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobsp... More details about the project available here: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/projects/?id=59 ***** _______________________________________________ TIER mailing list Website: http://tier.cs.berkeley.edu TIER@tier.cs.berkeley.edu https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tier -- Emma Brunskill http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~emma/ ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Ict4dev mailing list Ict4dev@lists.csail.mit.edu https://lists.csail.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/ict4dev End of Ict4dev Digest, Vol 47, Issue 4 **************************************