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Semafree

Published on March 20th, 2019A unified digital complaints and suggestion box for the community. Poster                  Video                   Slides

Zarura-Tz

Published on March 20th, 2019An emergency services application for mobile and web. Poster                  Video                   Slides

QueueX

Published on March 20th, 2019Your solution to reduce waiting time in lines. Poster                  Video                   Slides

Kazini

Published on March 20th, 2019The most transparent platform for jobseekers. Poster                  Video                   Slides  

GMTaC Director Lisa Parks Delivers Lecture at University of Montana

Published on March 14th, 2019 From https://news.umt.edu/2019/03/030519park.php University of Montana alumna and 2018 MacArthur Fellow Dr. Lisa Parks will present at UM on Wednesday, March 13, as part of the Global Public Health Lecture Series. Parks will present a lecture titled “How Information Technologies Impact Quality of Life in Africa: […]

Addressing AI’s Impact on Society

Published on February 21st, 2019Read GMTaC Director Prof. Lisa Parks’ interview with the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences on the ethical and societal challenges of AI at https://shass.mit.edu/news/news-2019-ethics-and-ai-ais-impact-society-lisa-parks. 

Solar Solutions in Rural Tanzania

Published on February 9th, 2019Imagine meeting someone from a rural area in Tanzania, what could you have in common? One answer could be Facebook. In a country with only 40% of people have access to grid electricity1 , how could they watch TV, get access to the Internet and even get […]

The Kariakoo Market: Mobile Phone Repair Workers and the Shrinking Planet

Published on February 3rd, 2019A blog post by Graduate Research Assistant Iago Bojczuk. On the second day of the Social IT Solutions Workshop (SITS) at the Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology (DIT), GMTaC lab members Han Su, Rachel Thompson, Prof. Lisa Parks, and I had the chance to visit […]

Center for Media at Risk Forum: Securing MediaMakers

Published on February 1st, 2019 The Securing MediaMakers Forum explores the growing need for security — ranging from data encryption to legal teams to protected work environments — among investigative journalists and documentary filmmakers. While this is an historical issue, panelists address these issues in the contemporary context, calling out First Amendment […]