[open-development] OKFest session proposal: Perspectives on open knowledge: an open panel
giselesc at usp.br
giselesc at usp.br
Wed Mar 12 13:31:33 UTC 2014
Hi everybody,
Tom and Tim, thanks for inviting me. I really apreciate the two topics raised.
Not sure if I can help in both discussions, but I would like to add one more perspective:
- how gender and others important characteristics affect the dialogue between civic hackers/open data activists
and social leaderships/grassroot movements ?
We have been studying the adoption of a web tool for local budget public oversight (Caring for My Neighbourhood)
in marginalized districts of Sao Paulo and we observed many challenges. To transform data into information and then
into knowledge and then into action is crucial the relationship between these two groups. We saw
that the access to internet/mobile, level of education, motivations, gender and others groups´ characteristics
are very contrastant.
Maybe my msg is a little bit off-topic (going beyond the gender discussion) and maybe you have debated
such issues at lot. I thank if you can send me links for the previous discussions or documents.
all the best,
Gisele
Profa. Dra. Gisele S. Craveiro
Universidade de São Paulo
Av. Arlindo Bétio, 1000
+55 11 3091-8134/8829
----- Mensagem original -----
> De: "Tim Davies" <tim at practicalparticipation.co.uk>
> Para: "Duncan Edwards" <D.Edwards at ids.ac.uk>
> Cc: "Everton Zanella Alvarenga" <tom at okfn.org.br>,
> open-development at lists.okfn.org, "Gisele da Silva Craveiro"
> <giselesc at usp.br>, "Michelle Brook" <michelle.brook at okfn.org>
> Enviadas: Quarta-feira, 12 de Março de 2014 10:00:33
> Assunto: Re: [open-development] OKFest session proposal: Perspectives
> on open knowledge: an open panel
> Hello Duncan, Tom (+ hi Gisele), & cc in Michelle Brook who I've also
> spoken with about OKFest sessions on diversity.
> I think there might indeed be two sessions here, one more
> theoretical, and one more practical.
> The session I was proposing was more at the theoretical end of the
> spectrum: asking what does the concept of open knowledge mean in
> different contexts. There is often a reductive tendency in some core
> Open Knowledge advocacy to refer to the open definition, or to some
> simple set of defining characteristics of knowledge as an artefact.
> Yet, as we discussed in the OKFest 2012 Open Development stream,
> there are many different visions of open knowledge, and different
> interests that draw people into an open knowledge space. I would
> love it if this session was able to pull out understandings of open
> knowledge both from different national and gender perspectives, as
> well as from different thematic strands of the open knowledge
> community: science, development, hardware etc.
> The more practical session (though, of course, no less theoretical),
> might perhaps start from Duncan's questions, and go into an
> exploration of what practical steps are needed in the Open Knowledge
> community to put greater diversity into practice, as well as
> pursuing an honest exploration of the challenges that can create.
> There was a diversity track at OKFest2012, so I'm guessing there will
> also be people involved in that working up session ideas - but
> Duncan, if you were up for developing a proposal idea on this second
> one (sorry for missing your 'D iversity, inclusiveness, and voice'
> line in the move across hackpads, I though it was unclaimed, so had
> left it off) - that would be great.
> All the best
> Tim
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 7:37 AM, Duncan Edwards < D.Edwards at ids.ac.uk
> > wrote:
> > Hi Tom,
>
> > I suggested a session looking at diversity, inclusiveness, and
> > voice
> > on the hack-pad which has now disappeared. I suspect it has morphed
> > into the session Tim is proposing.
>
> > My original thought was to look at diversity in terms of
> > inclusion/exclusion and looking at what real inclusion might mean
> > in
> > an Open Data/knowledge world.
>
> > I was thinking perhaps to bring some focus to a session we could
> > frame it around inclusion, voice, and representation in the
> > creation
> > of data, information, and knowledge.
>
> > · What do mean by inclusion? What different aspects of inclusion
> > should we be considering? Gender? Class? Urban/rural? Ethnicity?
> > Geography? Language?
>
> > · How is different knowledge and the way it is voiced valued? Just
> > because someone has “access” to a process of knowledge creation
> > doesn’t mean their contributions are considered to have equal
> > value.
>
> > I thought an interesting case study could be
> > http://www.zerogeography.net/2014/01/uneven-geographies-of-user-generated.html
> > which highlights some of these dimensions in relation to the
> > creation of knowledge on Wikipedia – specifically looking at
> > Wikipedia content related to the Middle East and North Africa
> > region.
>
> > Tim – how would this focus work with what you were thinking?
> > Looking
> > at your proposal what I’m suggesting feels like it is in a slightly
> > different area?
>
> > Tom – Does this fit with what you’re thinking?
>
> > Cheers,
>
> > Duncan
>
> > From: open-development [mailto:
> > open-development-bounces at lists.okfn.org ] On Behalf Of Everton
> > Zanella Alvarenga
>
> > Sent: 12 March 2014 04:47
>
> > To: open-development at lists.okfn.org
>
> > Cc: Gisele da Silva Craveiro
>
> > Subject: Re: [open-development] OKFest session proposal:
> > Perspectives
> > on open knowledge: an open panel
>
> > Hi Tim,
>
> > this sounds interesting. Are you happy to include gender gap we
> > have
> > in the open world? I'm just asking this, since the subject is fresh
> > on my head for we are discussing who from OKF Brazil networking
> > will
> > be part of the advisory board of OKF Central, and it was noted the
> > big bias we have here < http://okfn.org/about/advisory-board/ >
> > with
> > its majority composed of guys - for sure when I mention the gap in
> > open world I mean a broaden problem instead of a particular
> > advisory
> > board.
>
> > I'm also ccing here professor Gisele Craveiro, president of the
> > Open
> > Knowledge Brazil, who might be interested to join this
> > presentation.
>
> > Tom
>
> > 2014-03-11 20:52 GMT-03:00 Tim Davies <
> > tim at practicalparticipation.co.uk >:
>
> > > Hello all
> >
>
> > > We had a great call this morning talking about possible session
> > > proposals for OKFest 2014. Under current actions in the Hackpad
> > > at
> > > https://hackpad.com/OpenDev-at-OKFest14-SDobXcJkwPC you can find
> > > a
> > > list of all the possible sessions that were talked about*.
> >
>
> > > One I promised to work up a proposal for was titled 'Open
> > > Knowledge
> > > &
> > > Diversity' - with the idea that we repeat the 'open panel' idea
> > > used
> > > in Helsinki[1] (sort of like a Fishbowl debate on stage) to
> > > discuss
> > > what open knowledge means from different contexts - and surface
> > > some
> > > of the tensions and opportunities that come up when we think
> > > about
> > > the important aspects of open knowledge from the perspective of
> > > different countries, level of development, or issues.
> >
>
> > > The draft proposal is at:
> > > https://hackpad.com/Open-Knowledge-Diversity-An-open-panel-7tNuWvLQVTX
> >
>
> > > I would love feedback (including on the title - currently changed
> > > to
> > > 'Perspectives on Open Knowledge') and anyone who wants to be
> > > named
> > > as a co-organiser, or who might be willing to be a starting
> > > panelist
> > > for this if it was accepted.
> >
>
> > > Thanks in advance
> >
>
> > > All the best
> >
>
> > > Tim
> >
>
> > > [1]:
> > > http://www.timdavies.org.uk/2012/10/02/reflections-on-an-open-panel/
> >
>
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> > > days.
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> > > voice is particularly important!
> >
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