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“Open Source Landscape Analysis” – Request for Proposal due July 12
by Andrew Russell 06 Jul '21

06 Jul '21

Hi everyone - Please see below, this looks like a great opportunity, right in the wheelhouse of several of you! I am sure Govind would be happy to answer questions. Andy > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Govind Shivkumar <gshivkumar(a)omidyar.com> > Subject: “Open Source Landscape Analysis” – Request for Proposal > Date: June 30, 2021 at 1:12:12 AM EDT > > > Open Technology Ecosystems such as Open-Source Software, Open Standards, Open Protocols etc. have played a significant role in lowering barriers of innovation, making systems interoperable, and providing alternatives to proprietary software. > > Omidyar Network is seeking a consultancy to conduct a landscape analysis of this Open Technology Ecosystem, identify critical challenges that need capacity building, and issue a set of recommendations for Omidyar Network to evaluate and intervene. > > Please indicate a preliminary budget, team credentials, and expression of interest by July 12th, 2021, and a full proposal by July 26th, 2021. Please include “Open Source Landscape Analysis” in your subject line and send it to gshivkumar(a)omidyar.com <mailto:gshivkumar@omidyar.com> > > > Thanks, > G > > > > Govind Shivkumar > Responsible Technology > Omidyar Network > > Read the latest <https://medium.com/positive-returns/sending-strength-and-support-amid-covid…> about how Omidyar Network is responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and the inspiring work of our grantees who have turned their attention to address the crisis and lay the groundwork to build a more resilient and inclusive economy and tech sector. >

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CFP--CBI Symposium "Automation by Design: Politics, Culture, and Landscape in an Age of Machines That Learn"
by Jeffrey Yost 06 Jul '21

06 Jul '21

Dear Colleagues, Hope everyone is doing well. Our Program Committee (see below) is pleased to announce (provide this CFP for) CBI's interdisciplinary symposium, "Automation by Design." Bearing in mind the pandemic, and its possible influence on research plans this past year, we are offering considerable advance notice--proposals are due in late April 2022. Please email me, or other committee members, with any questions or if we can be of assistance. If your research aligns with any of the wide-ranging themes of "Automation by Design," we encourage you to submit a proposal. Please share this CFP with others who might be interested. Many thanks! Best, Jeff [image: logo cbi.jpg] *CALL FOR PAPERS: * *Automation by Design: Politics, Culture, and Landscape in an Age of Machines That Learn* (A CBI Symposium) *Automation by Design* is a global, interdisciplinary, virtual CBI symposium on the politics and culture of digital automation. We welcome papers in a broad range of fields across the humanities and social sciences. These include history, STS, sociology, anthropology, media studies, policy, legal studies, geography, communication, rhetoric, information studies, and philosophy. The platformization of society, fueled by automation and machine learning, impacts IT users in deleterious, discriminatory, democracy-threatening, and at times deadly, ways that intersect and compound. This symposium seeks papers that explore how automation—from its algorithmic and architectural design to its structuring, materiality, maintenance, and use—has developed jointly with social politics. We are especially interested in papers that address education, law, capitalism, labor, science, medicine, leisure, privacy/security, surveillance, the body, and the environment. *Automation by Design* is a 1.5-day virtual symposium to be held Friday-Saturday, Feb. 17-18, 2023. Presenting authors agree to submit a draft paper by a deadline preceding the event (to facilitate the delivery of feedback through videoconferencing workshops prior to the event), and a revised paper for consideration to an edited volume to be published with a major academic publisher. To apply: Please send a 300 to 450-word abstract that includes discussion of research themes/questions, methods, and sources and a 2pp. CV. Please send (single PDF) to cbi(a)umn.edu by the *deadline of April 29, 2022*. (For accepted applicants, papers will be due Jan. 6, 2023). *Program Committee:* Dr. Jeffrey Yost, CBI Dir. & Res. Prof., HSTM, Univ. of Minnesota <https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/jeffrey-r-yost-phd> Dr. Gerardo Con Diaz, Assoc. Prof., STS, Univ. of California, Davis & Stanford Univ. Fellow <https://sts.ucdavis.edu/people/condiaz> Dr. Honghong Tinn, Asst. Prof., HSTM & ECE, Univ. of Minnesota <https://cse.umn.edu/hstm/honghong-tinn> Dr. Colette Perold, Asst. Prof., Media Studies, Univ. of Colorado <https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/people/media-studies/colette-perold> [The Charles Babbage Institute (CBI) for Computing, Information, and Culture is a leading interdisciplinary research center and archives to advance the infrastructure and understanding of computing and society.] CBI Website <https://cse.umn.edu/cbi> *"Injustice wears the same harsh face wherever it shows itself."*-Ralph Ellison Jeffrey R. Yost, Ph.D. Director, Charles Babbage Institute Research Professor, Program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Co-Editor (w/ Gerard Alberts), Springer, History of Computing Book Series Founder and Co-Editor (w/ Amanda Wick), *Interfaces: Essays and Reviews in Computing and Culture* c <https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces>se.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces <https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces> 222 21st Avenue South University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455 612 624 5050 Phone 612 625 8054 Fax

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