[open-sustainability] Open Sustainability at OKFest

[Jack Townsend]

If you're coming to OKFest next week in Berlin, check out some of these sustainability related sessions

If you'd like to say hello while you're there, email me direct with your details.  Planning to go for dinner on Wednesday night, so get in touch if you'd like to join. 

If you're still in town on Friday, check out the fringe session by Adrien Labaeye (details below)   mapping the alternatives - towards a new collaborative society and economy

Jack

Web, Open Data & Sustainability		University of Southampton
@JackTownsend_ 					jack at jacktownsend.net

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Tuesday, July 15 • 18:00 - 20:30
Wednesday, July 16 • 16:30 - 17:30     

  DIY Making for Social and Environmental Justice

Click here for this session's Etherpad
Public Lab is a community which develops and applies open-source tools to environmental exploration and investigation. By democratizing inexpensive and accessible Do-It-Yourself techniques, Public Lab creates a collaborative network of practitioners who actively re-imagine the human relationship with the environment. Public Lab has created a number of low cost tools for monitoring including aerial imaging, remote sensing, and water and air quality monitoring. This session will facilitate the learning process of embedding Public Lab methodology into DIY style making for environmental good. In this session, participants will learn the importance of grassroots co-creation in conceptualizing tools and techniques for environmental health monitoring. It will demonstrate the importance of community involvement in metholodogical design, from the first step of problem identification, to show how open hardware and software tools can be scaled and replicated into other locations.

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Wednesday, July 16 • 12:00 - 13:00

  Detecting Climate Change in Open Weather Data

Click here for this session's Etherpad
NOAA and many other government organizations provide massive repositories of information on current, future, and historical weather patterns. With this data, even the most novice of hackers can contribute to the debate on climate change and global warming. We'll show you how to access and work with the data and brainstorm ideas for applications and visualizations that might begin to shift people's perspectives and opinions on climate change.

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Thursday, July 17 • 12:00 - 13:00

Tracking Supply Chains with Open Data

Click here for this session's Etherpad
For people with technical skills; hack together the POD and Sourcemap database to encourcage the development of each.
For people without technical skills; challenge to see how much information they can find on products from their barcode and the information on the packaging to create a profile there of. 

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Thursday, July 17 • 12:00 - 13:00

Mapping BP: an Open Data Approach to creating corporate webs

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“Mapping BP” will present an open data approach to building searchable and visualised networks of webs of corporate influence in order to increase oversight on the way international business is done. OpenOil has been working with local partners in three African countries on pilots which will be augmented during the session by participants.

Much information around multinational corporations remains secret. But open data already provide an opportunity to map connections between hundreds of thousands of companies systematically. Who owns who, does business with who, who sits on whose board or serves as a company officer, which companies share business addresses, or accountants. Using open source graph databases such as Neo4j, OpenOil will engage the audience in adding data using an established methodology. This will prove how it is now possible to create a global corporate map by global collaboration, in a way that is useful and safe for partners in the global South.

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Wednesday, July 16 • 14:00 - 16:00

  E-waste exploration: Opening up our gadgets and looking into what happens when they die

Click here for this session's Etherpad
While we owe much of the growth of “Open Knowledge” to physical networks, hardware and electronics, we often ignore its material aspects and the consequences. E-waste is the fastest growing waste stream in many countries. While export of e-waste is banned by international law, it occurs. 

There is an increasing amount of data available about electronics purchasing, e-waste collection, export, but little interpretation, and few attempts to make this "real" for people.

We propose a session focused on collaboratively generating insight into local and global dynamics that starts with two explorations: one of our gadgets themselves - we will open, explore what's inside, and another of existing data on electronic waste.

The session will culminate in a mini data expedition with the goal of helping the average person gain an understanding of the dimension of e-waste produced and what happens to it. 

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Wednesday, July 16 • 16:30 - 17:30

Property Rights Partnerships: Increasing Transparency of Land Data to Secure Rights for Communities while Decreasing Opportunities for Land Grabs
Click here for this session's Etherpad

Over 70% of the global population has little or no secure property rights, and where property
rights do exist, the rights are often out of date and inaccurate. 

Formal property rights can only be supplied by recognized government authorities within 
nation states. However, many governments are the major cause of restricted supply due 
to outdated land and property rights policies, inefficient and corrupt bureaucracies, lack of 
customer service, and perverse incentives to serve only the elite.

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Tuesday, July 15 • 18:00 - 20:30

  Sensors, Uncensored: Using Sensors to Enrich Storytelling

Click here for this session's Etherpad
As the digital landscape evolves, sensors are bridging the virtual world with the physical world and opening the door to a whole new kind of storytelling. While still nascent in practice, a trend called “sensor journalism” is growing as journalists experiment with new technology and tools to gather information and expand on knowledge about environmental factors like air quality, water quality, and even urban sound design.
The emergence of sensor journalism is an opportunity to cultivate a culture of experimentation, engage new audiences, build communities within crowdsourcing, and democratize the storytelling process. 

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Friday 18.07.2014 : 10 - 18
Wilhelmine-Gemberg-Weg. 10179 Berlin-Mitte

mapping the alternatives - towards a new collaborative society and economy

Join our intermediary review of this international mapping process and learn more about collective mapping in the age of data.

Collaborative efforts are thriving everywhere, but still lack visibility. Where cartographic visualizations exist, they are limited in scope, scattered and under-used. Facing this challenge over two dozen actors joined forces to comprehensively map the alternative societies and economies.

This session tackles the following questions: 

* How can we break up the data silos to map the diversity of the alternative economy ?
* How to get thousands of collaborative and local initiatives on one up-to-date map ?

This session is an intermediary review in the development of this process. It started in December 2013, gathering now over twenty organizations and initiatives. They range from community gardening over collaborative economy to commons. The map is based on OpenStreetMap's technology (OSM).

The session is conceived as a mapping workshop to assess the usability of the interface.
Sustainably minded people, linked data aficionados as well as OSM contributors are encouraged to join us.

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Summary of official OKFest Open Sustainability sessions here  although doesn't include all the above











Jack

Web, Open Data & Sustainability		University of Southampton

@JackTownsend_ 					jack at jacktownsend.net

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