[change] Global Health Nexus Undergraduate Competition

Undergraduates in Change might be interested in this student competition being held by Global Health Nexus: *?Be the Change? *is a student competition for high school, community college and *undergraduate* students in Washington state to create solutions, awareness and innovation in global health

[change] Discussion on Cancer Care in Resource-Poor Environments

This Thursday at Change we will be hosting a discussion about cancer care in resource-poor environments, led by Change members Rita Sodt, Nick Garrett, and Michael Ratanapintha. They will be joined by Addie Boone, who works with Rita in the Swanson Lab in the U

[change] Ilda Ladeira on Current Research in the ICT4D Lab at the University of Cape Town

2011 at 7:49 PM, Eleanor O'Rourke < eorourke at cs.washington.edu> wrote: > This Thursday at Change we will be hosting a talk by Ilda > Ladeira<http://people.cs.uct.ac.za/~iladeira/> from > the ICT4D Lab <http://www.ict4d.cs.uct.ac.za/> at the University of Cape >

[change] Ilda Ladeira on Current Research in the ICT4D Lab at the University of Cape Town

This Thursday at Change we will be hosting a talk by Ilda Ladeira from the ICT4D Lab at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. *Ilda Ladeira is a final year PhD student from the ICT4D Lab at the University of Cape Town r

[change] Jan Flowers of I-TECH on Interoperability for Health Information Systems

This Thursday at Change we will be hosting a talk by Jan Flowers of I-TECH. I-TECH, or the The International Training and Education Center for Health, is a center in the University of Washington?s Department of Global Health that has 10 offices and some 600 worldwide staff

[change] Undergraduate Research Day

This Thursday at Change we will be hosting Undergraduate Research Day! Three CSE undergrads will be giving short presentations on their current research in ICTD. The presenters and projects are as follows: - *Jeff Beorse* will be talking about his work on the ODK Collect user interface. In t

[change] Jason Hahn on the Grameen Foundation’s Mobile Programs

This Thursday at Change we will be hosting a talk by Jason Hahn, a Business Development Manager at the Grameen Foundation. Jason works to identify new opportunities to use Grameen?s products on behalf of the poor and poorest and support programs in the field. On T

[change] Adam Taylor on Global to Local

This Thursday at Change we will be hosting a talk by Adam Taylor of Global to Local, who will be discussing his work on improving health care in Washington state. *Global to Local is a project based in SeaTac and Tukwila, W

[change] Survey request about global health projects

message -- From: Maren Ohaks Myers Date: Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:27 AM Subject: FW: Survey request about global health projects To: Eleanor O'Rourke Eleanor, As appropriate, please encourage those affiliated with Change to respond to this survey. It is going to be an important pa

[change] Yaw Anokwa Hosts Change Trivia Lunch

This Thursday at Change, Yaw Anokwa be hosting the first ever Change Trivia Lunch (CTL)! We?ll cover topics including global health, population growth and carbon dioxide emissions and try to get a better sense of the current state of global development. Beyond the fun you?ll have, you?ll also leave

[change] Brent Barker from the Office of Global Affairs on UW Travel Services

This Thursday at Change we will be hosting a talk by Brent Barker, the Travel Security and Information Manager at the UW Office of Global Affairs. Since many people in our group travel frequently to conduct research, we thought it would be useful for Brent to come in and discuss the services provid

[change] Adnan Mahmud on the Jolkona Foundation

This Thursday at Change we will be hosting a talk by Adnan Mahmud, co-founder of theJolkona Foundation , a non-profit that connects users with global philanthropic opportunities and shows the impact of their donations. *Jolkona?s giving platform makes it easy for non-profi

[change] Welcome to Change and Noah Perin on the Mobile Midwife Project

This Thursday will be the first Change meeting of the quarter. We will begin with an introduction to the seminar and short organizational discussion. This will be followed by a talk by Noah Perin of PATH who will discuss his work on the Mobile Midwife project, which leverages technology for the imp

[change] Change Seminar - Spring Quarter

Hello Everyone, In preparation for the spring quarter, I wanted to invite you all to attend in the one credit Change Seminar (CSE590C1, SLN: 19386) on Thursdays at noon in the Paul Allen Center (Room 203). Change (http://change.washington.edu) is a group of faculty, students, and staff at the UW

[change] Paul Yager on Cell-Phone-Based Point-of-Care Diagnostics for the Developing World

This Thursday at Change, we will be hosting a talk by professor of bioengineering Paul Yager , who will discuss his work on developing cell-phone-based point-of-case diagnostics for use in developing countries. He will be joined by bioengineering postdoc Dean

[change] Saurabh Panjwani on Designing for End-to-End Security in Branchless Banking

A quick reminder that Saurabh Panjwani will be speaking this morning at 11am in 203! On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Eleanor O'Rourke < eorourke at cs.washington.edu> wrote: > On Monday, March 7 at 11am we will be hosting a roundtable discussion with > Saurabh

[change] Saurabh Panjwani on Designing for End-to-End Security in Branchless Banking

On Monday, March 7 at 11am we will be hosting a roundtable discussion with Saurabh Panjwani , a post doc researcher with the Technology for Emerging Markets group at Microsoft Research India. Saurab

[change] Discussion on the Role of Gender in Development

This Thursday at Change, Monica Caraway and Nell O?Rourke will be leading a discussion about the role of gender in development efforts. They will present a background on gender issues in developing countries and highlight some research indicating that a focus on girls and women in areas like educat

[change] Gates Foundation Speaks: Dr. Regina Rabinovich at the UW

This talk might be of interest: - *Gates Foundation Speaks: Dr. Regina Rabinovich at the UW* On behalf of the Medical Student Association, it is our distinct pleasure to announce an evening lecture to be delivered on UW upper campus by the Director of Infec

[change] Eleanor O’Rourke on Communication Systems for Peripheral Health Facilities

This Thursday at Change, Computer Science graduate student Nell O?Rourke will giving a talk on her quals work that investigates communication systems for peripheral health facilities in developing countries. *Health systems have a broad range of communication needs and depend on accurate data coll

[change] Kiersten Israel-Ballard on Innovative Technologies for Infant Feeding and HIV in Resource-Poor Countries

This Thursday at Change, we will be hosting a talk by Kiersten Israel-Ballard of PATH . Kiersten is an expert in maternal and child health and nutrition, and will be discussing innovative technologies for improving infant feeding and HIV in resource-poor counties. In particula

[change] Discussion on Mechanical Turk for Development

This Thursday at Change, Nathan Breit, Peter Lipay, Jennifer Apacible, and Fransiskus Xaverius will be leading a discussion on the use of Amazon Mechanical Turk for development. Mechanical Turk is a crowdsourcing system which pays people small amounts of money for completing tasks that are diff

[change] Gaetano Borriello discusses ODK Tables

This Thursday at Change, CSE faculty member Gaetano Borriello will be leading a discussion about a proposed smartphone application ODK Tables. He will provide a brief overview of the system and ask for feedback from the group on the approach and design elements of the application. SMS services

[change] Experiencing Research in Low-Resource Environments (Exploration Seminar)

Hi Everyone, Check out the following opportunity for participating in ICTD research in Ghana this summer, which was mentioned at the Change Seminar last Thursday. This seminar is organized by Dr. Araba Sey and Chris Rothschild of the UW iSchool. Communication Technologies &

[change] Ricardo Gomez on Public Access to Computing

This Thursday at Change, we will be hosting a talk by Ricardo Gomez, an Associate Professor at the iSchool who specializes in the social impacts of communication technologies, especially in community development settings. People who don?t have computers at home or at work go to public places suc

[change] Review of ICTD and ACM DEV 2010

This Thursday at Change, we will be hosting a discussion on the recent co-located conferences ICTD and ACM DEV, which were held in London in December 2010. We will provide a overview of the goals and intended audiences of both conferences and talk about the development of the ICTD community. We

[change] David Sherwin on Designing the Design Problem

This Thursday at Change, David Sherwin, a Senior Interaction Designer at frog design, will be discussing their work on developing design methodologies for social technology projects. How does a designer identify possible solutions for systematically impacting ?wicked problems,? such as the spre

[change] Welcome to Change and Eduardo Jezierski on InSTEDD

Welcome back! This Thursday will be the first Change meeting of the winter quarter. We will be introducing new members to the Change group, discussing plans for the upcoming weeks, and hearing a talk from the chief technology officer at InSTEDD, Eduardo Jezierski. InSTEDD is a non-profit that ha

[change] Change Seminar - Winter Quarter

Happy Holidays from the Change group! In preparation for the winter quarter, I wanted to invite you all to attend in the one credit Change Seminar on Thursdays at noon in the Paul Allen Center (Room 203). Change (http://change.washington.edu) is a group of faculty, students, and staff at the

[change] Discussion on Information Access in Developing Countries

This Thursday at Change, Luis Baron, Aniruddh Nath, and Wayne Gerard will be leading a discussion about current research that looks at information access in rural areas of developing countries. They will be providing short overviews of three articles, and leading a discussion around questions in

[change] Joe Cook on Water Accessibility in Ethiopia

This Thursday at Change, Joe Cook from the Evans School of Public Affairs will be speaking about his work on measuring water accessibility in Ethiopia. The vast majority of academic research pertaining to water supply projects in developing countries has focused on health improvements, although

[change] Shawn McGuire on Solar Powered Vaccine Refrigerators

This Thursday at Change, Shawn McGuire from the Seattle-based global health nonprofit PATH will be speaking about his work developing solar powered refrigerators for storing vaccines. Immunization programs are one of the most successful global health initiatives, preventing 2.5 million child de

[change] Jackie Logan and Richard Anderson on TB surveillance in Tanzania

This Thursday at Change, Jackie Logan and Richard Anderson will be discussing their recent work with PATH in Tanzania to derive the requirements for an electronically supported national Tuberculosis (TB) surveillance system. The goal of TB surveillance programs is to detect new cases of the dise

[change] change seminar room change for 10/28

Reminder - we're in 403 today! On Oct 27, 2010, at 3:38 PM, Yaw Anokwa wrote: > sorry for the late notice but due to all the cse affiliates activity > going on in the building, the change seminar has moved to room 403. > ___ > change mailing list > chan

[change] Discussion on Transportation Topics in ICTD

This Thursday at Change, Brian Ferris, Krysta Yousoufian, and Kyle Rector will be leading a discussion about current projects that use technology to address transportation issues in developing countries. They will be providing short overviews of three articles, and leading a discussion around qu

[change] Ken Pawlak and Fredrik Winsnes on Mobile Applications for Developing Markets

This Thursday at Change, Ken Pawlak and Fredrik Winsnes from the Microsoft Startup Business Group will be presenting their work with Microsoft OneApp. Specifically, they will be discussing the core economic drivers of the mobile handset ecosystem and how these need to be factored when designing

[change] This Thursday: Discussion on Computer Vision projects in ICTD

This Thursday at Change, Nicki Dell will be leading a discussion about current projects using Computer Vision for medical applications in ICTD. She will be providing short overviews of three projects, and leading a discussion around questions inspired be this work. Projects covered will include:

[change] This Thursday: Introduction to ICTD Faculty

This Thursday at Change, we will be hearing introductions from the UW faculty members involved in ICTD research. Each faculty member will give a short overview or his or her current work, and will take a few questions. This will be a great opportunity for us to hear more about ICTD projects on c

[change] Welcome Back!

Welcome back everyone! I wanted to remind you all that we will be having our first Change Seminar meeting this week from 12pm to 1pm in room 203 of the Paul G. Allen Center. This quarter we will be alternating between talks by outside speakers and discussions led by Change members. See our ca

[change] Change Seminar: Ed Cutrell, Director of the Technology for Emerging Markets group MSR India

This Thursday at Change, we will hear from our first speaker Ed Cutrell, director of the Technology for Emerging Markets (TEM) group at Microsoft Research India (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/tem/). Ed will be providing an overview of current TEM projects, and answering questions

[change] Correction: Change Seminar - Fall Quarter

The SLN Number for Change is actually 12384. My apologies! On Sep 4, 2010, at 2:38 PM, Eleanor O'Rourke wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > In preparation for the fall quarter, I wanted to invite you all to attend in > the one credit Change Seminar on Thursdays at noon in the

[change] Change Seminar - Fall Quarter

Hello Everyone, In preparation for the fall quarter, I wanted to invite you all to attend in the one credit Change Seminar on Thursdays at noon in the Paul Allen Center (Room 203). Change (http://change.washington.edu) is a group of faculty, students, and staff at the UW who are exploring th

[change] DEV 2010 Submission Guidelines

Some notes on the submission guidelines for the ICTD DEV 2010 conference from Lakshmi Subramanian -- Hi all, Apologies if you receive multiple copies. The submission site for DEV 2010 is up. The paper submission deadline is July 10th, 11:59:5

[change] Darius Jazayeri on OpenMRS

This Thursday at Change, Darius Jazayeri will be discussing his work on OpenMRS Our world continues to be ravaged by pandemics of epic proportions, as over 40 million people are infected with or diseases such as HIV/AIDS, multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, and malaria ? most (up to 95%) of these

[change] Check out these games!

Hi everyone, Just a reminder to take a look at these three games that will be discussed during the Change seminar tomorrow: http://www.worldwithoutoil.org/ http://www.superstructgame.org/ http://www.urgentevoke.com/ See you all tomorrow, Nell On May 25, 2010, at 2:35 PM, Eleanor O'R

[change] Mark Chen and Katie Van Horne on Games to Save the World

This Thursday at Change, Mark Chen and Katie Van Horne will be leading a discussion about how online games can be used to address global issues like hunger, poverty, and homelessness. This discussion will be based around a talk by Jane McGonigal of the Institute for the Future given during TED2

[change] Ryan Hartford on VillageReach

This Thursday at Change, Ryan Hartford will be discussing his work at VillageReach (villagereach.org). VillageReach saves lives and improves well being in low-income countries by increasing last-mile access to healthcare services and medical commodities through an integrated solution of a dynam

[change] Natalie Linnell on improving interaction for Digital Green

This Thursday at Change, Natalie Linnell will be discussing her work using mobile phones to improve interaction during Digital Green video instruction. In this talk I will discuss a project that uses mobile phones to increase interactivity in video-based agricultural extension. Digital Green is

[change] Waylon Brunette and Nell O'Rourke on Mobile Banking

This Thursday at Change, Waylon Brunette and Nell O'Rourke will be leading a discussion about banking in the developing world and how technology can be used to improve financial services. This discussion will be based around a talk by Ignacio Mas of the Gates foundation during the April TEDxSe

[change] Visit by Eric Blantz of Inveneo

Hi Everyone, Just a reminder that Eric Blantz from Inveneo will be here in a half an hour to give an overview of his work and meet with people in the Change group. I heard his talk at PATH this morning and Inveneo is involved in many connectivity and development projects that would be of inter

[change] Wireless at Change

Hi Everyone, We have set up a guest account for the wireless network in the CSE building so that people without a CSE username and password can connect to the wireless during Change meetings. Network Name: CSE-Local Username: wifiguest05 Password: change2010 Please let me know if you have any

[change] This Thursday: HCDE/CSE Capstone Project Presentations

This Thursday at Change, come hear about three ongoing projects in a joint CSE-HCDE course: The Ugandan Midwives' Ultrasound, ODK Data in Any Order, and MultiLearn for Seattle Area Schools. The student groups will give short presentations on their projects and there will be time for questions an

[change] Charles Johnston on SeeYourImpact

This Thursday at Change, Charles Johnston will be discussing his work with SeeYourImpact, a non-profit organization that aims to match donors with charities that allow donors to receive tangible feedback about their impact. The following diagram provides an overview of the SeeYourImpact giving m

[change] Announcing ACM DEV 2010: The First Annual Symposium on Computing for Development

Hi all, I am happy to announce the First ACM Annual Symposium on Computing for Development (DEV 2010). ACM DEV 2010 will be co-located with ICTD 2010 and the focus of the symposium will be on new computing innovations for development. The scope of DEV 2010 is broad covering a wide range of res

[change] Change Forum - Post questions for next week!

at: URL: uwchange.posterous.com Password: uwchange (you should only need to enter this once) See you all Thursday at 12pm in PAC 203! On Apr 8, 2010, at 2:05 PM, Eleanor O'Rourke wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > This is a reminder to post your questions for our panel discussion next

[change] Change Forum - Post questions for next week!

Hi Everyone, This is a reminder to post your questions for our panel discussion next week to the new Change Forum. The panel will consist of Change members with experience working in developing countries, and they will be answering questions about their experiences and whether they've found th

[change] Bo Qin on SmartVMS

This Thursday at Change, Bo Qin will be discussing his work on SmartVMS, an alternative messaging system designed for people who prefer using a vocal interface. SmartVMS is a communication tool built to provide a low-cost option for people who prefer a voice interface to sending messages, but p

[change] Change Discussion Forum

Hi Everyone, In response to our meeting last Thursday, I set up a blog to provide us with a space for talking about potential discussion topics for this quarter. Check it out: URL: uwchange.posterous.com Password: uwchange (you should only need to enter this once) For those of you who missed

[change] This Thursday at Change

Welcome Back Everyone! Tomorrow (Thursday April 1) will be the first Spring Quarter Change Meeting at 12pm in room 203 in the Paul Allen Center. We have no talk scheduled for this week so it will be an informational meeting, but it will provide a good opportunity for you to meet or reconnect w

[change] Change Seminar - Spring Quarter

Join the Change Seminar during the Spring quarter on Thursdays at noon in the Paul Allen Center (Room 203). Change (http://change.washington.edu) is a group of faculty, students, and staff at the UW who are exploring the role of information and communication technologies (ICT) in improving the

[change] Nell O'Rourke discussing Kentaro Toyama's talk "Ten Myths of Technology and Development"

This Thursday at Change, Nell O'Rourke will provide an overview of the key points of Kentaro Toyama's talk "Ten Myths of Technology and Development" and lead a discussion about this material. Please take a brief look at the slides (http://change.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/2009-11