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Research and Reading Groups
Technology and Sustainable
Economic Development (TaSED) is a multi-departmental reading and discussion
group focused on the social and economic issues of deploying technologies
for development. You are invited to join the
mailing list.
We will be meeting about once a month this semester for
dinner discussion groups, starting at the end of September.
Technology and Infrastructure for
Emerging Regions (TIER) is an
interdisciplinary research group, primarily in the computer science
department, doing various deployments in India, Cambodia, and Tijuana.
You can learn more about some of our field work from the journals on
my website.
Conferences
Bridging the Divide is an annual
conference hosted jointly by UC
Berkeley and UNIDO in April. Every year, several interdisciplinary
teams of students are awarded
fellowships to support research on the application of technology to
problems of developing regions.
The First International
Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development
(ICTD), is being hosted by the School
of Information Management & Systems on May 25-26, 2006. Submission
deadlines are in December, with abstracts due in October.
Other Groups of Interest
- Engineers for a Sustainable World
Human Subjects Requirements
(From UCB Graduate Division Publications)
Are you conducting research using human subjects? Note this new requirement.
Beginning this month, all graduate and undergraduate students who are engaged in human subjects research must complete and pass all appropriate Collaborative IRB Training Initiative (CITI) web-based education program modules in order to serve as lead investigator or key personnel on any research project involving human subjects. The CITI link (https://www.citiprogram.org/default.asp) allows you immediately to register and begin the course. If you have questions, contact the Office for the Protection of Human Subjects (OPHS), 101 Wheeler Hall, via email (cphs@berkeley.edu) or phone (510) 642-7461. The UCB Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects website (http://cphs.berkeley.edu) is being updated and is "down" while that takes place, but should be operational in about a week.
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