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

Wed Mar 12 12:08:13 UTC 2014

Good Morning,

At Rights Con last week* there was a great session called Web Women Want
session. It was not livestreamed, but a friend created a Vizthink on the
conversation.

http://viz.bl00cyb.org/web-women-want/

The full blog notes: http://www.rightscon.org/live/

The Program: https://www.rightscon.org/program.php

*RightsCon - I participated virtually off hours.

Heather

On 12 March 2014 07:37, Duncan Edwards <D.Edwards at ids.ac.uk> wrote:

>  Hi Tom,
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> ·         What do mean by inclusion? What different aspects of inclusion
> should we be considering? Gender? Class? Urban/rural? Ethnicity? Geography?
> Language?
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> ·         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.
>
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> Tom - Does this fit with what you're thinking?
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> Cheers,
>
> Duncan
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> *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.
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> I'm also ccing here professor Gisele Craveiro, president of the Open
> Knowledge Brazil, who might be interested to join this presentation.
>
> Tom
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> 2014-03-11 20:52 GMT-03:00 Tim Davies <tim at practicalparticipation.co.uk>:
>
>  Hello all
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> 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*.
>
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> 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.
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> The draft proposal is at:
> https://hackpad.com/Open-Knowledge-Diversity-An-open-panel-7tNuWvLQVTX
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> 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.
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> Thanks in advance
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> All the best
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> Tim
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> [1]: http://www.timdavies.org.uk/2012/10/02/reflections-on-an-open-panel/
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