Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Development 2019 - Doctoral Consortium

该奖项支持学生参加第十届信息和通信技术促进发展国际会议(ICTD)。信息和通信技术促进发展中心研究并寻求改善技术对社会、政治和经济发展的影响，特别是在资源较少的地区和国家。这些背景提供了独特的约束和机会，可以突出关于我们如何构建和设计技术的假设；解决这些假设可以提高我们在美国和国外设计和部署有益技术的能力。这些资金将主要支持被选入会议博士联盟的美国学生，这些学生没有其他可用的资金来支持他们的出席。作为学术讨论会的参与者，这些学生将收到关于他们论文研究的宝贵反馈，并有机会与一些ICTC学者，特别是博士生联盟导师进行互动。这反过来又为他们的专业发展提供了机会，并加强了信息和通信技术促进发展研究界。组织者将特别努力接触到传统上在计算机和信息科学与工程领域任职人数较少的学生，以扩大研讨会的影响。研讨会将于2019年1月4日举行。在座谈会之前，学生和导师将通过阅读对方的材料进行准备。大部分座谈会将由小组讨论组成，在小组讨论中，导师和学生围绕每个参与者的论文提案互动讨论重点、贡献、方法和伦理考虑。此外，还将就职业问题进行全组讨论，如在就业市场导航、开发和资助研究项目，以及谈判工作与生活的平衡。申请将由三个组织者审查，并根据他们的研究与会议主题的相关性和清晰度、学生的职业阶段和经济需求进行选择。组织者还将努力确保在研究主题、方法、地点、机构以及学生的个人和智力背景方面的多样化出席和指导。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award supports student participation at the Tenth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICTD). ICTD studies and seeks to improve the impact of technologies on social, political, and economic development, particularly in lower-resource contexts and countries. Such contexts pose unique constraints and opportunities that can highlight assumptions about how we build and design technology; addressing these assumptions can improve our ability to design and deploy beneficial technology both in the U.S. and abroad. The funds will primarily support U.S. students selected for the conference's doctoral consortium who do not have other available funding to support their attendance. As colloquium participants, these students will receive valuable feedback about their dissertation research and have opportunities to interact with a number of ICTC scholars, particularly the doctoral consortium mentors. This, in turn, provides opportunities for their professional development and strengthens the ICTD research community. The organizers will make a particular effort to reach students traditionally underrepresented in computer and information science and engineering in order to broaden the impact of the workshop.The colloquium will take place on Jan 4, 2019. Before the colloquium, students and mentors will prepare by reading each others' materials. The bulk of the colloquium will consist of small-group discussions in which mentors and students interactively discuss the focus, contributions, methods, and ethics considerations around each participant's dissertation proposal. There will also be full-group discussion of professional issues, such as navigating the job market, developing and funding a research program, and negotiating work-life balance. Applications will be reviewed by three of the organizers and selected based on the relevance and clarity of their research to the conference topics, students' career stages, and financial need. The organizers will also work to ensure diverse attendance and mentorship in terms of research topics, methods, locations, institutions, and student's personal and intellectual backgrounds.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.