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

Fri Mar 14 08:14:17 UTC 2014

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 São Paulo
> Av. Arlindo Bétio, 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 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 '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.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/
> * There might be a flurry of OKFest e-mails over the next few days. If you have any questions about this - don't hesitate to ask and speak-up. If you are new to the open-development list then your voice is particularly important!
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