[open-development] OpenDev Proposals for OKFestival 2014

Thu Feb 27 12:29:16 UTC 2014

Hi folks,

I've added some thoughts to the
Hackpad<https://hackpad.com/OpenDev-at-OKFest14-SDobXcJkwPC>,
largely on the following points:

1. For me, the most useful session at OKCon13 was the extra day on Open
Dev, after the end of the conference-proper. It worked because it was
free-form and demand-driven, with no pre-set agenda at all. I would fully
support something similar for OKFest14.

2. I feel we don't think / talk enough about power and politics in open
development. A session on this would be useful, or even more specifically
on (avoiding) the risk of open data further empowering those who are
already relatively powerful. It could be linked to privacy, but I think
they are both big enough issues to justify separate sessions.

3. A session unpacking "infomediaries" in the context of developing
countries would I think be useful to many people. Who are they/we? What are
their/our incentives? What are their/our capacities? Etc.

4. There are some more general issues around open dev and/or this working
group that we could usefully discuss. Rolf suggested (somewhere?) defining
"open dev", and I would add a related point to this: participation /
leadership of this group from developing countries.

I am ready and willing to assist organising any of the above.

Best wishes,
Ben

On 26 February 2014 20:01, Duncan Edwards <D.Edwards at ids.ac.uk> wrote:

>  Hi everyone,
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> Just a quick update from my side. I joined a call hosted by Beatrice and
> Zara lasted Friday for an initial call to kick off the planning.
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> The OKFest 2014 will be built around three streams framed around
> Knowledge, Tools, and Society - I think this is fantastic idea! In the
> words of the late Harold Ramis "we'll cross the streams" (
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OOF0FpKiYk)... Hopefully we won't end up
> covered in marshmallow.
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> I think many of us were feeling that there was a fair amount of siloing
> happening in the many different streams but that some common opportunities
> and challenges were being faced but that learning is not necessarily
> happening across these silos. So pulling it back to 3 streams could be a
> great opportunity to enable people to come together to learn. Privacy and
> ethics is clearly one area that leaps out. Diversity is another.
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> Having said that, I think we need to think very seriously about how we
> maximise this opportunity - in my mind the biggest challenge we will face
> is how to effectively facilitate sessions so that participants (up to 2000
> at the whole event!) who will be coming with very different perspectives
> and experiences are able to engage productively. I also think we need to
> pull together some more clear messaging on how and why underlying
> assumptions on the value and risks associated with applying "open" in
> different contexts can be very different.
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> One of the things that I thought would be good to put up front at the
> festival is something looking at how the world has changed, is changing,
> and will change. How ideas around developed/developing/North/South are a
> little outmoded. How the aid landscape is changing. Rising powers such as
> Brazil, India, and China.
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> I would LOVE to see a session looking at the tensions of advocacy vs
> critical reflection in "Open".
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> On the Open Dev side event idea - we did one at the OKCon last year which
> was, from my perspective at least, hugely useful.
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> Cheers,
>
> Duncan
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> *From:* open-development [mailto:open-development-bounces at lists.okfn.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Claudia Schwegmann
> *Sent:* 26 February 2014 18:33
> *To:* OKF Development List
> *Subject:* Re: [open-development] OpenDev Proposals for OKFestival 2014
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> Dear all
>
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>
> This is great. Thanks a lot Pernilla. It is really time for us to get
> going :)
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> Just to keep you in the loop. I had a discussion today with the German
> development ministry and GIZ (the implementing agency) about the OKFest.
> They want to get involved either by suggesting session or by doing a side
> event. They are worried however, that not enough people would turn up for a
> side event. But if people here are interested to have a "development day"
> without going through the proposal process e.g. on Friday 18th that may be
> possible. This does not mean there cannot be joint sessions with other
> streams during the okfest.  I would really love to hear what people think
> about that. I am also trying to do the "Pernilla-trick" in Germany and get
> some funding for travel bursaries. But that is very uncertain so far.
>
>
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> My second thought is that we may use the opportunity to do IATI TAG stuff.
> For example some the issue of privacy and ethis keeps coming up. At one
> point the Open Society Foundation was very interested in IATI but had huge
> concerns about that. This is also a major issues for NGOs in Germany when
> talking about IATI. Wouldn't it be interesting to try and collect some best
> practices and new ideas on how to deal with that?
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> Really looking forward to talk more next week!
>
> Best wishes
>
> Claudia
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> Claudia Schwegmann
> *Open Knowledge Foundation Germany* <http://okfn.de>
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> 2014-02-26 17:52 GMT+01:00 Sarah.Louise.johns <
> sarah.louise.johns at gmail.com>:
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>  Great initiative Pernilla, thanks for kickstarting us! If we're looking
> at privacy,  might be worth hooking up with the folk over at the
> responsible data forum who are getting a conversation going around opendev
> data. Typing this on a crap phone so can't link to them but google it!
> Think Christopher is on this list too.
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> Cheers, Sarah
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> Sent from Samsung Mobile
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> -------- Original message --------
> From: Pernilla Näsfors
> Date:26/02/2014 3:58 PM (GMT+00:00)
> To: Open Development OKFN working group
> Subject: [open-development] OpenDev Proposals for OKFestival 2014
>
> Dear OpenDev friends,
>
>
>
> Nice to meet many of you recently in Montreal for OD4DC and IATI TAG! It's
> time to continue planning for next time to meet - at OKFestival in Berlin
> this summer! See the Call for proposals below if you haven't seen it
> already.
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> I think we should schedule a Skype call where we can discuss ideas. I have
> set up a Doodle with suggestions next week and the week after. I hopefully
> picked a time that is not too bad for any time zone... Here it is:
> http://doodle.com/hazac6w2wkmrtd9i. *Answer before 15 GMT on Friday* so
> that we can decide what time we choose and send out an invite.
>
>
>
> Do you think we should have a separate email list or group for planning
> for OKFest or would people be OK with using this list for that purpose..?
>
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> Rolf sent out this link before to an etherpad with notes from our meeting
> about OKFest in Montreal (http://okfnpad.org/p/okfest2014-opendev) and
> suggested to have that as a workspace. Open source ether pads are of course
> nice, but I became quite fond of Hackpad in Montreal since it is a bit more
> user friendly and easier to create a wiki-like structure... I therefore took
> the liberty to set one up where we can start collecting ideas and proposals
> for sessions:
>
> https://hackpad.com/OpenDev-at-OKFest14-SDobXcJkwPC
>
> There you can also add you're names to the People section if you're
> interested to participate in the planning process. I also created a Session
> Proposal Template that you can copy and use when writing proposals:
> https://hackpad.com/OKFest-Session-Proposal-Template-pJI8M4ZvTNp
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> I saw that it seems like we have some OpenDev allies in the Programme
> team, e.g. Anahi and Duncan. Perhaps you have some insight in what other
> sessions and workshops are in the making that we could perhaps tap in to,
> to spread our "development message" to a wider audience..?
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> This year, there are three bigger streams: Knowledge, Tools and Society,
> so instead of planning for a whole OpenDev stream like we did for Helsinki
> 2012 I am thinking we can take the opportunity to collaborate more with
> others from other OKFN working groups (http://okfn.org/wg/), e.g. Open
> Government, Open Spending, or why not Open Hardware in a development
> context - such as the Global Village Construction Set (
> http://opensourceecology.org/wiki)?
>
>
>
> Personally, I'd also like to see a continuation on the theme about Ethics
> and Risks that you apparently had at OKCon that I unfortunately missed... (
> http://blog.okfn.org/2013/11/05/ethics-and-risk-in-open-development/)
> Perhaps focus on Privacy now that it is such a big topic overall in this
> NSA monitored world... We could collaborate with the Personal Data and
> Privacy group: http://personal-data.okfn.org/
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> That's all my thoughts for now. :)
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> Best wishes,
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> Pernilla Näsfors, World Bank / Open Aid Partnership
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> Date: Thursday, February 20, 2014
> Subject: Call for Proposals for OKFestival 2014
> To: pernillan at gmail.com
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>    Announcing the Call for Proposals for OKFestival
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> Now that the OKFestival website is live and tickets are on sale<https://sendy.okfn.org/l/XMvlAmCbwO5KjtYlOTyWSQ/lMWAi892zvwWPkHnmZ2FJ3uA/E8DFCo5uE1892zyhY3ANnaxw>,
> we can share more details about the *narrative streams* that will run
> through the event. We're also pleased to * open the call for session
> proposals* at this time.
> A Theory of Change
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> The programme for the 2014 edition of the festival is fuelled by a *theory
> of change. *Using this theory as our outline, the event provides an ideal
> opportunity for the open movement to come together to co-create the roadmap
> that will guide its next steps.
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> *Our Theory: we believe that Knowledge, Tools and Society are the levers
> of Change*. As such, Knowledge, Tools and Society will be the three
> streams that form the architecture of the programme.
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> *Knowledge*: Knowledge *informs* change. At OKFestival we're keen to
> discuss ways of unlocking, expanding and sharing knowledge through open
> access, open research data, open educational resources, open science, data
> journalism and campaigning, data visualisation and literacy.
>
> *Tools*: Tools *enable* change. We'll be discussing facilitating the flow
> of knowledge through non profit technology, open source software, open
> hardware, design, architecture and urban planning.
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> *Society*: The group(s) who *effect* change. Topics may include designing
> institutions, building communities and protecting environments.
> Additionally, powering economies through open government, transparency,
> open tech businesses, open development, open education, open culture, open
> sustainability and open economy will feature on the programme. Security and
> privacy-related topics also fit into this stream.
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> The festival will weave together these three streams of open knowledge
> innovation and impact. Each session will go deep within its realm as well
> as identifying interdisciplinary features that span different domains or
> discipline.
> Submit your proposal
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> Never facilitated a session at an event before? Don't let that stop you!
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> Please share this call far and wide!
> The selection process
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> Once the deadline for proposals has passed, all submissions will be
> reviewed by the Programme Team. The proposals that we'll select will
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>    (see the festival's theory of change)?
>    - Does the proposal give concrete value to participants via its
>    proposed outcome?
>    - Does the proposal offer unique benefit to the agenda?
>    - Is the proposal interactive? Hint: slides and lectures strongly
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>    - Does the proposal value and build on OKFestival's principles of
>    inclusivity and diversity?
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