I’m taking Information Visualization and have been looking around for interesting data sets to work with for my first assignment. Ultimately, I’ll probably try to work with a data set measuring information about thermostats and energy usage, but for this early assignment, I’m looking around for data sets of development, governance, peace and conflict information.
I [...]
Buzz, living up to its name, is generating headlines and is the new favorite case-study for my iSchool class discussions. Frequently, there’s some tech story in the headlines that makes its way into a wide range of class discussions — often discussions about policy, ip, security/privacy; sometimes about design — the iPad vs Kindle. Google [...]
I’ve got my fingers in a lot of pots for the coming few months. I’m working on the Virtual Tribunal — the work for the moment is mostly coordination. Our team has grown, which is terrific for our project, and now it is really time to start making our system. What this means for me [...]
One class I’m taking this term is in UX Research method and practice. Some useful resources from class and for the next phase of my work on the VT — writing requirements.
Jacob Nielson, Usability 101: Introduction to Usability
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20030825.html
What (Definition of Usability)
Usability is a quality attribute that assesses how easy user interfaces are to use. The [...]
Curious about who is working to build capacity in IT. Found some organizations/projects in the country and hope to speak with people involved.
Bar Camp, Oct 3-4, 2009
(http://barcampphnompenh.org) was held at Pannasasstra University (PUC); there are 1100+ people registered on the site as attending; sponsored by local and international companies.
Conical Hat Software
(http://www.conicalhat.com) Based in Phnom [...]
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~changmin/virtualtribunal.htm
This Fall, I joined a project at Berkeley called the Virtual Tribunal. The Virtual Tribunal is envisioned as an interactive online multimedia repository for the documents of war crimes tribunals from Nuremberg to the present. In addition to the documents of the court, the Virtual Tribunal will include documents related to the associated wars and [...]
On a farm on Sat, I saw a really innovative way of creating a gas cookstove in a house. This farm is owned by David and Jen — David is the CKW coordinator, Jen his wife, a geography teacher in a local school. They also have a farm on which they raise crops, cows, goats, [...]
My work this summer is to find potential partners in Uganda with whom to develop technological projects to help with agricultural development. I think it was assumed we’d be developing the ICT parts in Berkeley over the next year. We are working in loose partnership with AppLab with the notion that we might have a [...]
Visited Chimp Island (http://www.ngambaisland.org/) today, in the middle of Lake Victoria. We rode a speedy boat to the island, crossing the equator, arriving on Chimp Island to view a feeding of the 40+ chimps who live there. All were rescued from captivity – some as babies, some as adults – and now reside [...]
Jon Gosier spoke with us about the current projects at Appfrica (http://appfrica.net), including among many, Question Box, a sort of 411 service, and Status Ug, a mobile social networking portal for Ugandans. We had all read papers about Question Box in various classes at Berkeley, so hearing about and seeing Question Box in [...]