[open-development] open-development Digest, Vol 56, Issue 15

Fri Mar 14 12:53:03 UTC 2014

Hola Stephen,

Really love reading your email this morning. I am writing to you from Cali
Colombia where everyone have been talking about a soon to be "post
conflict". The conflict in Colombia is "a typical" compare to others - I am
interested in your work....as I engaging a multitude of stakeholders to
engage in a (pre) post conflict. There is no data and the region here will
experience hyper-individual flows of money and efforts. Individually all of
them will have an "impact" but collectively I believe it think there will
be major lost of efficiencies in the human and financial flows.....I am
presenting tonight at a university and would love to put your work in
context.

Luc Lapointe

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>    1. Re: OKFest session proposal: Perspectives on      open knowledge:
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> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 09:14:17 +0100
> From: stephen kovats <kovats at r0g-media.org>
> To: giselesc at usp.br
> Cc: Michelle Brook <michelle.brook at okfn.org>,
>         open-development at lists.okfn.org
> Subject: Re: [open-development] OKFest session proposal: Perspectives
>         on      open knowledge: an open panel
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> Hi Gisele,
>
> as part of the work/research i'm doing vis-a-vis open knowledge in crisis
> and post-conflict transformation i'm interested in exploring in more detail
> the point that you mention on the dialogue between 'civic hackers/open data
> activists and social leaderships/grassroot movements'.
>
> This is a really fundamental 'hinge' point when it comes not only to
> engaging dialogue, but to look at the social/cultural methodologies
> employed by creative open culture hactivists, which of course also includes
> artists and other cultural operators. Although for me this is a general
> question and interest, this particular 'thread' of activity applies to two
> initiatives I'm involved in, one of which I hope to 'bring to the table' at
> OKfest. The first being the development of strategies for 'post-conflict
> open urbanist development' (in connection with an initiative called the
> 'architecture of peace', which began with a look at Balkan urbansim, and is
> now being formulated to be considered within the process of urbanism in
> some african proto-urban contexts, i.e. Juba, South Sudan), the other being
> a 'critical makers' event that may take place in Indonesia next year. A
> number of the players in this, and lead projects are coming from Brazil
> (such as metareciclagem and the bricolabs network
>  ). As such, i'd be really interested to talk to you about the Sao Paolo
> work, and if you will indeed be at OKfest, then perhaps you can join the
> 'post-conflict open urbanism' discussion (if it gets on the agenda).
> Creating plausible interaction, and moving to urban/civic action is the key
> challenge here.
>
> Does anybody else on the 'opendev' thread here know about further 'open
> urbanism' issues being taken up at OKfest?
>
> Greetings,
>
> Stephen
>
>
> On 12.03.2014, at 14:31, giselesc at usp.br wrote:
>
> > 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 S?o Paulo
> > Av. Arlindo B?tio, 1000
> > +55 11 3091-8134/8829
> >
> > 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 Mar?o 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 'Diversity, 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.htmlwhich 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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