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UCB TIER Group

@ucbtier

TIER is a research group at the University of California at Berkeley, investigating the design and deployment of new technologies for emerging regions.

 Berkeley, CA
tier.cs.berkeley.edu
Joined February 2011
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ODK@getodk13 Apr 2017
Please take the survey about ODK's future! catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/… We want to hear from all users so we can grow ODK together.
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Congrats to Endaga founders and TIER members @kheimerl, @shaddih, and @kashif_k_ali, who have joined Facebook. dil.berkeley.edu/founders-of…
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Nice article on Development Engineering with coverage of TIER's @eric_brewer and @kheimerl, ICTD, and more. devex.com/news/a-new-kind-of…
A new kind of development professional: The development engineer

A new kind of development professional: The development engineer

At the University of California, Berkeley, engineers and computer scientists are in the same rooms as economists and political scientists, working together to test, implement, and scale technologies...

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Umar Saif
@umarsaif4 Dec 2014
Our first paper from ITU at ACM DEV on Rescue Base Station for disaster-hit areas, in collaboration with UC Berkeley acmdev.org/program/
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#ICT4D: @Endaga, a @ucbtier Startup, Brings Rural Villages Online With Cell Network in a Box recode.net/2014/12/01/endaga…
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So many thanks to everyone @Blum_Center for all of their hard work in putting on a very successful @DevImpactLab-hosted #HESN #TechCon!
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Replying to @eric_brewer
@eric_brewer at #TechCon pushes for importance of "pre-surveys" in #globaldev research, using example of rural electrification in Kenya.
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DevImpactLab@DevImpactLab11 Nov 2014
.@eric_brewer discusses importance of remote #sensing to inform development interventions at #TechCon #HESN
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DevImpactLab@DevImpactLab11 Nov 2014
2/2 TIER scales sustainable tech - & tall trees - to bring cell service to rural villages #DevEng #tech4dev engineering.berkeley.edu/201…
Outback technology - Berkeley Engineering

Outback technology - Berkeley Engineering

TIER scales sustainable technology - and tall trees - to bring cell service to rural villages.

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DevImpactLab@DevImpactLab11 Nov 2014
1/2 @Cal_Engineer highlights @DevImpactLab /TIER’s @eric_brewer, @kheimerl @shaddih & their work on sustainable tech engineering.berkeley.edu/201…
Outback technology - Berkeley Engineering

Outback technology - Berkeley Engineering

TIER scales sustainable technology - and tall trees - to bring cell service to rural villages.

engineering.berkeley.edu
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DevImpactLab@DevImpactLab10 Nov 2014
.@rajshah welcomes us to #TechCon day 3 at @UCBerkeley! Shout outs @BlumCenter @cega_uc @ucbtier
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Congrats to Kurtis Heimerl @kheimerl winning a TR35 award for his community cellular work! tier.cs.berkeley.edu/drupal/… technologyreview.com/lists/i…
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In which I sow the seeds of a global citizen science spectrum monitoring project - bit.ly/1xT8uKn
Spectrum Safari!

Spectrum Safari!

Previously I’ve written about why experts find it so hard to agree on spectrum regulation.  However there is one aspect of spectrum that I haven’t touched on and that is …

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TIER is at #DSAGlobalSummit this week! Looking forward to some good discussions about dynamic spectrum and GSM whitespace.
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Congratulations to TIER's @shaddih for winning Best Paper at IEEE DySPAN 2014 for GSM Whitespaces:An Opportunity for Rural Cellular Service!
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Great coverage of our work on Community Cellular Networks in Papua: arstechnica.com/information-…
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Our sincere thanks to @marcozennaro for the many copies of the 3rd ed of WNDW he sent the team! Free e-version @ wdnw.net
Cellular Repeaters for Rural Coverage: by @kheimerl tier.cs.berkeley.edu/drupal/…
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GSM and Dynamic Spectrum wp.me/pbDh9-G3
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Abstract Cloud@eric_brewer11 Dec 2013
Tier's cellular service in Indonesia: technologyreview.com/news/52… #tier #ictd2013
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