[open-sustainability] Open Sustainability at OKFest

Wed Jul 9 13:56:54 UTC 2014

Thanks Jack for sharing the info!
Is there any Open Susty meeting planned during the Fest?

Looking forward to meeting the Open Susty folks!

Adrien

*>> Mapping socio-ecological innovation Fringe Event, 18th of July,
10AM-6PM: http://mapping.14mmm.org/ <http://mapping.14mmm.org/>*

>> http:// <http://berlin.thinkfarm.de/>transition-lab.org

On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Jack Townsend <jack at jacktownsend.net> wrote:

> If you're coming to *OKFest* <http://2014.okfestival.org/> 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* <http://mapping.14mmm.org>
>
> Jack
>
> Web, Open Data & Sustainability University of Southampton
> @JackTownsend_  <https://twitter.com/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
> <http://okfestival2014.sched.org/event/155e864e96760a0b817c17c5ff66da6a#>*
>
> Click here for this session's Etherpad
> <http://new.okfnpad.org/p/DIY_Making_for_Social_and_Environmental_Justice>
> 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
> <http://okfestival2014.sched.org/event/33fad0efdb6ae98dc8508e37a403c17f?iframe=no#>*
>
>  Click here for this session's Etherpad
> <http://new.okfnpad.org/p/Detecting_Climate_Change_in_Open_Weather_Data>
>   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
> <http://okfestival2014.sched.org/event/9d9d59d7b5f1017418b615d308fd8135?iframe=no&w=i:0;&sidebar=yes&bg=no#>*
>
>  Click here for this session's Etherpad
> <http://new.okfnpad.org/p/Open_Product_Datification>
>   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
> <http://okfestival2014.sched.org/event/e4bbd839a247c7a42587fe45185c505a#>*
>
>  Click here for this session's Etherpad
> <http://new.okfnpad.org/p/Mapping_BP>
>   “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.
>
> ____________________________________________________________
>
>  *Wednesday*, July 16 • 14:00 - 16:00
>
> *   E-waste exploration: Opening up our gadgets and looking into what
> happens when they die
> <http://okfestival2014.sched.org/event/43fcb1a5e0288825391d8356b26f3024#>*
>
>  Click here for this session's Etherpad
> <http://new.okfnpad.org/p/E-waste_exploration>
>   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.
>
> ____________________________________________________________
>
>  *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
> <http://okfestival2014.sched.org/event/07a6f58b9309227c522637b26f3b9c52?iframe=no&w=i:100;&sidebar=yes&bg=no#>
> *
>  Click here for this session's Etherpad
> <http://new.okfnpad.org/p/Land_Rights_Data>
>   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.
>
> ____________________________________________________________
>
>  *Tuesday*, July 15 • 18:00 - 20:30
>
>  *   Sensors, Uncensored: Using Sensors to Enrich Storytelling
> <http://okfestival2014.sched.org/event/4e0f01947a132f061e0f09a0a0d656f0#>*
>
>  Click here for this session's Etherpad
> <http://new.okfnpad.org/p/Sensors_Uncensored>
>   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.
>
> ____________________________________________________________
>
> *Friday *18.07.2014 : 10 - 18
> Wilhelmine-Gemberg-Weg. 10179 Berlin-Mitte
>
> *mapping the alternatives - towards a new collaborative society and
> economy* <http://mapping.14mmm.org>
>
> 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.
>
> ____________________________________________________________
>
> Summary of official OKFest Open Sustainability sessions here
> <http://okfestival2014.sched.org/overview/type/open+sustainability?iframe=no&w=i:0;&sidebar=yes&bg=no>
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> Jack
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> Web, Open Data & Sustainability University of Southampton
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> @JackTownsend_  <https://twitter.com/JackTownsend_> jack at jacktownsend.net
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Adrien Labaeye

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