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This free public lecture will highlight the ways the Ushahidi platform has been used for everything from tracking wildfires in Russia, to the Haiti earthquake response, to monitoring the Sudan election, to mapping the revolution in Egypt, to reporting the ongoing crisis in Libya. It will also explore the potential uses of crisis mapping in the province, whether to monitor flooding, report cycling incidents or mapping potholes in Saskatoon.
Date: Wednesday April 27, 2011
Time: 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Place: Thorvaldson Building - room 159
Biography:
Dale Zak is a mobile software developer passionate about social change.
After graduating from the University of Saskatchewan and spending a
number of years developing applications for large corporate clients such
as Caterpillar Inc, Ritchie Bros and Pitney Bowes, Dale has now shifted
his focus to helping open source initiatives and exploring ways
technology can be used for social change.
While living in Halifax, he organized the Mobile Tech 4 Social Change
and iPhone Hackathon 4 Charity events, and co-founded Apps 4 Good, an
alliance of software developers that build iPhone applications for
charity. Their second hackathon event held simultaneously in Saskatoon
and Halifax had over fifty participants across the two cities, where
they began developing applications for seven new charities.
Over the past two years, Dale has contributed to Ushahidi's crowdsourced
crisis mapping system developing an iOS and Windows Mobile app, helped
The Extraordinaries develop their revolutionary micro-volunteering
platform for the iPhone, as well as developed several open source
plugins for FrontlineSMS.
Last spring he travelled to Gitwe, Rwanda to help deploy an OpenMRS
medical record system in a small rural hospital. Dale continues to
explore ways that mobile technologies can help empower disadvantaged
groups. He holds an Honours Degree in Computer Science from the
University of Saskatchewan.
Dale has recently used Ushahidi to create http://ivotebecause.ca
Enjoy solving problems, eating pizza and getting prizes? Then come out for the Spring Programming Contest! It's a fun, local and free contest that is open to all students. Come out and claim the title of best problem solver. Novice and Intermediate levels are offered. You can register as a team or solo. When: Saturday, February 2nd, 2013The Spring Programming Contest is back!
The Department of Computer Science Professional Internship Program allows undergraduate students to obtain 12 or 16 months of practical "on-the-job" experience with a sponsoring company prior to completing the final year of their undergraduate degree program. The existence of a formally recognized internship program offers significant benefits to the students, to the industrial sponsors, to the department, and to the university as a whole. These benefits include: practical training and work experience for the students; technology transfer, productive work contribution, and prospective employee evaluation for the employer; and increased university-industry interaction for the department and the university. We are now accepting applications from companies and students interested in partcipating in the program. Interns will be placed in May/Sept 2013.
