[change] Fwd: UW CSE Colloquium / Tuesday, March 3, 2015 / Heimerl / UC Berkeley / Community Cellular Networks

[Trevor Perrier]

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Next Tuesday...

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
Computer Science and Engineering
COLLOQUIUM

SPEAKER:   Kurtis Heimerl, UC Berkeley

TITLE: Community Cellular Networks

DATE:  Tuesday, March 3, 2015
TIME:  3:30pm
PLACE: EEB-105
HOST:  Richard Anderson

ABSTRACT:
Cellular networks are one of the most impactful technologies of the last
century, with over 3.5 billion active users in just under 25 years of
operation. However, over a billion people, primarily in rural areas, still
live without this basic service. There are two primary reasons for this:
First, rural areas are difficult for incumbents to cover profitably, as
costs are higher and revenue is lower. Second, current cellular
regulations only allow for incumbents to bring coverage, forbidding other
organizations from covering underserved areas. In order to resolve these
concerns and bring coverage to communities, we developed three core
technologies. The first is "Community Cellular Networks": small-scale,
locally owned and operated cellular networks. The second is Virtual
Coverage, a mechanism for reducing the cost of rural cellular through
smart duty cycling. The third is GSM White Space, a technology and
regulatory framework for community cellular networks utilizing spectrum
sensing available on standard GSM phones. We demonstrate the value of all
three technologies through an ongoing, sustainable, 2 year long
installation in rural Papua, Indonesia, which generates over 1000
USD/month in revenue for the local community while supporting over 400
subscribers and handling over 500,000 communications. Lastly, we discuss
the future of cellular in the context of our company Endaga, the broader
Community Cellular movement, and opportunities in disaster relief.

Bio:
Kurtis Heimerl is a postdoctoral researcher in UC Berkeley's TIER group as
well as the CEO and cofounder of Endaga. Kurtis received his BS in
Computer Engineering from the University of Washington and his MS and Ph.D
in Computer Science from UC Berkeley under Professors Eric Brewer and
Tapan Parikh. Kurtis's research focuses on enabling rural cellular access
through empowering local entrepreneurs to set up and manage their own
community cellular networks, for which he was named to Technology Review's
2014 list of "35 under 35" Innovators Heimerl profile Kurtis has
previously worked on education (Metamouse, a system for converting
single-player educational games into multiplayer games) and crowdsourcing
(Umati, the crowdsourcing vending machine). He has published widely and
won numerous paper awards including best paper at CHI and DySPAN and a
community award at NSDI.

Refreshments to be served in room prior to talk.

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http://www.cs.washington.edu/news/colloq.info.html for more information.

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[change] Fwd: [dub] HCDE Invited Lecture: Neha Kumar - "Mobiles, Media, and Marginality"

[Trevor Perrier]

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Date: Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 9:27 AM
Subject: [dub] HCDE Invited Lecture: Neha Kumar - "Mobiles, Media, and
Marginality"
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*Please join the department of Human Centered Design & Engineering next
Tuesday, March 3, for a special guest lecture.*

*Mobiles, Media, and Marginality*

*Neha Kumar*

Tuesday, March 3
9:30 - 10:30 a.m.
Sieg Hall, Room 233

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With the rapid proliferation of mobile phones across the world, marginal
technology users are fast becoming the majority as they begin to engage
with technologies on their own terms. My research focuses on understanding
these emerging sociotechnical contexts in under-represented communities
across the world and leveraging this understanding to design and build
appropriate technological interventions for the benefit of these
communities. I engage with a growing body of Science and Technology Studies
(STS) literature to critically analyze and constructively inform the
processes of technology design.

In this talk, I will present my ethnographic findings on the appropriation
of mobile technology by Indian youth from socioeconomically disadvantaged
backgrounds. My research shows how these youth, through their offline and
online media engagements, end up creating informal spaces of learning for
themselves. Thus I emphasize that 'development-friendly' outcomes can and
do result from less-studied recreational uses of technology. I will
subsequently discuss how I operationalize these findings towards the design
and implementation of two distinct mobile health initiatives, before
presenting future directions for my work.

*Bio:*

*Neha Kumar *is a postdoctoral researcher at the Annenberg School of
Communication in University of Southern California. Prior to this, she was
at the University of Washington for a year, working as a postdoc with
Profs. Richard Anderson and Gaetano Borriello in the Computer Science and
Engineering department. She completed her PhD at the School of Information
at UC Berkeley, where she was advised by Prof. Tapan Parikh. She carries
two masters degrees from Stanford University, one in Computer Science and
the other in Learning, Design & Technology. She was a recipient of the
Google Anita Borg Memorial Fellowship in 2012.



Human Centered Design & Engineering 

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