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Open Systems Solutions. Now! OKcon Geneva September 18, 2013 “I WANT AN ACCESS TO THE WORLD OF KNOWLEDGE” Malala Yousafzai, Swat District, Pakistan [email protected] follow@intertwilight Stephen Kovats, r0g_agency for open culture and critical transformation gGmbH Berlin #OSSOL / #OSJUBA / #OSBACK Mittwoch, 4. September 2013

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Open Systems Solutions. Now!OKcon Geneva September 18, 2013

“I WANT AN ACCESS TO THE WORLD OF

KNOWLEDGE”Malala Yousafzai, Swat District, Pakistan

[email protected] follow@intertwilight

Stephen Kovats, r0g_agency for open culture and critical transformation gGmbH Berlin

#OSSOL / #OSJUBA / #OSBACK

Mittwoch, 4. September 2013

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- Access to Education and Knowledge

- Post-Conflict / Post-Disaster Response

- Gender / Minority Empowerment

- Climate Change

UNESCO WSIS Action Line C3: 'Access to Information and Knowledge'

acting to mitigate 4 Key UN Challenge Areas:

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• based on free & public domain tools, licences, information and methodologies

• enable opportunity - joining skills & experience

• are active nodes in lager global communities

• create 'space' for exchange, collaboration, sustainability

• allow for accountability, transparency and participation

using Open Source Models ...

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• open input by all stakeholders and affected citizens, including outsiders with innovative ideas

• participatory governance and decision-making for the final outcome

• accumulated knowledge to be put in a knowledge commons for future use and remixing in other projects

to create Open Systems Solutions, in terms of methodology, depend on or require ...

(in this case: based on the P2P Foundation’s requirements for open urbanism)

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• Open Source Software (FOSS)

• Open Hardware / Appropriate Technology

• Open Data / Open Government

• Open Platforms / Crowdsourcing

• Open Access / creative commons (CC)

• Open Educational Resources (OER)

• Data Mobility / Device Journalism

• Open Innovation / Design / Urbanism

• iHubs, Fablabs & 'maker' spaces

Open Systems incorporate and collate different types of basic ‘open’ elements including, among others:

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innovative cross-disciplinarity DIY... DIWO (do it with others)

meta-recycling ... up-cyclingAT - Appropriate Technologies

http://www.natural-fiber.com http://stgomakerspace.com/

http://metarede.org/http://www.metareciclagem.org/ http://hexayurt.com/

comprehensive methodologies, tools, materials, techniques ...

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building & creating local economiesMittwoch, 4. September 2013

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using, i.e. open platforms- mitigating effects of climate change on local level- building knowledge commons

http://sautiyawakulima.net

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• generators of knowledge, capacity building and citizen empowerment

• gateways to quality education, resources and economic development

• fostering dialogue between citizens, communities and governments

• tools of social interaction and participation

• fostering transparency, accountability and sustainability across sectors

http://r0g-media.org/osjuba/

Open Sourcing South Sudan?

considering open systems solutions as:

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Governor Nyandeng Malek Dielic of Warrap State

developing a comprehensive ‘open systems strategy’ ...

In supporting open sytems,

she sees the linkages

between climate change

and the many dimensions

of equitable development,

security and growth

presenting both

"a crisis that must be tackled and an opportunity that must be seized."

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#OSWARRAPOpen Systems Strategy for Peace and Development

#OSBACKSouth Sudan Open Source Server Backbone

#ArchitectureofPeaceOpen Urbanism and the Post Conflict City

#kLABVirtual Academy and Open Innovation Lab

#OSJUBA Open Systems for South Sudaninitiatives include ...

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UNESCO WSIS Open Systems Recommendations

1. Enable Access

- public use and lowering barriers of access to technology.

2. Develop Open Systems criteria and vocabulary

- better understanding & rapid implementation of comprehensive solutions.

3. Recognize Open Systems as long-term sustainability priorities

- in the context of addressing UN's four key challenge areas.

4. Education of the Educators - about and via OER

- including media literacy in elementary education into and through Open Systems.

5. Support small scale, independent or user defined ‘Open’ incubators

- highlighting the interconnectivity, create comprehensive Open Systems Solutions.

6. Foster creation of Open Knowledge Commons

- including FOSS, OER, Open Data, Open Hardware & related processes, methodologies

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join ...

http://www.wsis-community.org/

over 3000 members:- contributing to information gathering and exchange

- development of ideas and projects - engaging the WSIS multi-stakeholder teams

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Open Systems Solutions. Now!OKConference Geneva September 18, 2013

Thank you!

[email protected]

follow@intertwilight

Stephen Kovatsr0g_agency for open culture and critical transformation gGmbH Berlin

CC BY 2013 Stephen Kovats

This document and its contents may be shared and freely distributed, with attribution

#OSSOL / #OSJUBA / #OSBACK

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