[open-development] OKFest session proposal: Perspectives on open knowledge: an open panel

Wed Mar 12 11:37:12 UTC 2014

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
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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<mailto: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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