[spectre] #OSJUBA - Open Source Culture and Post-Conflict Development

[stephen kovats]

Dear Spectrites, 

if you are in Berlin (or online for the stream) please join us for #OSJUBA, an event bringing open source, hactivist and digital collaborative strategies together with the challenges faced by emergent states. The event is framed by the case of South Sudan which gained its independence from Sudan one year ago via an internationally recognised and supported referendum process. Can the diverse and community based structures that 'power' open source, accessible data and free culture methodologies play a decisive role in helping to create sustainable and viable states, especially those emerging from - or still very much in the grips of - lingering conflict? 


#OSJUBA 
Juba. The world's first Open Source City?
Open Source Strategies and Post-Conflict Development in South Sudan
Berlin June 21-22, 2012

Thursday June 21 | 19.00 - 21.00		
KOW | Brunnenstr. 9, 10119 Berlin	
South Sudan and Open Source Culture 	

Friday June 22 | 10.00 - 18.00
SUPERMARKT | Brunnenstr. 64, 13355 Berlin
#OSJUBA Conference / Workshop

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

In many parts of the world, new governments and civic societies emerging from shattering conflict and revolution are facing the challenge to (re)construct nothing less than entirely new nations. After more than four decades of brutal conflict, South Sudan, the world's newest country is faced with the need to define political participation, state identity, economic development, self-determination and freedom to speak, learn, move and - very often- to reconcile among resolute opponents. Juba, nominally a capital since the 1972 Addis Ababa peace accords granted the South autonomy, must now act as both an efficient administrator as well as the showcase of the fledgling nation's identity. However recent reports of massive stolen oil revenues and renewed border conflicts underscore the tenuous fragility of the new state's very existence, transforming a seemingly local conflict into an issue of global concern. 

Why Open Source and South Sudan? #OSJUBA (aka Open Source City Juba) considers these scenarios of fundamental transformation in the age of social networks, citizen media, open innovation and digital collaboration. The conference proposes to apply the innovative mechanisms and sustainable methodologies of the global open source movements as effective engines for a new form of post-conflict development practice. Using open data and crowdsourcing technologies, digital mobility for networking information and communication, new forms of citizen and device journalism the essential characteristic of the open source model is one of sustainability - a key criteria for successful development and knowledge exchange. In doing so, #OSJUBA proposes the creation of the first Open Source Capital City - a model in Africa, for the world.
 
In collaboration with its partners Media in Cooperation and Transition (MICT) and SUPERMARKT Berlin, r0g_agency for open culture and critical transformation, are bringing together leading local and international developers, activists and policy makers to identify and present innovative Open Source projects, platforms and methodologies, while critically examining their robustness and feasibility in an international development and post-conflict context.

Venzha Christ, HONF (Yogyakarta), Daudi Were, Ushahidi (Nairobi), Nadia EL-Imam (Strasbourg), Geraldine de Bastion newthinking (Berlin), Micz Flor, Sourcefabric (Berlin/Prague), Maja Bott, KfW (Frankfurt a. Main), Kai Voeckler, Archis Interventions (Offenbach/Amsterdam), Jörn Schultz, icebauhaus (Weimar), Simon Höher + Emanuel Schwarz, knowable.org (Berlin), Christian Bauer, Artesian (Vienna), Jan Tretschok + Carolin Wiedemann, xm:lab (Saarbruecken), Nikolay Georgiev, Open Source Ecology (Karlsruhe), Johnny West, OpenOil (Berlin), Stephanie Hankey, Tactical Technology Collective (Berlin), Georgios Papadopoulos, alt. economies (Athens)

#OSJUBA begins with an introduction to South Sudan one year after independence with special guests Duer Danier Galwak (SPLM / Germany) and Johannes Lehne (German Foreign Office) at KOW (Brunnenstrasse 9, Berlin) Thursday June 21, 2012 from 19.00 – 21.00 followed by a Conference/Workshop focussing on Open Source and Post-Conflict Development June 22nd at SUPERMARKT (Brunnenstr. 64, Berlin) from 10.00 - 18.00. 

Both are free and open to the public. Full program info: http://r0g-media.org/osjuba/osjuba-program

The #OSJUBA talks on Friday June 22nd will be streamed live courtesy of Streampark AG via: http://www.supermarkt-berlin.net/content/osjuba-juba-worlds-first-open-source-city

http://r0g-media.org/osjuba/
Facebook Event and Stream: http://www.facebook.com/events/387391117973861/
Twitter: #osjuba


greetings, and apologies if you've already received this info via other channels,

stephen



-------------------------------------------------------------------
r0g_media
agency for open culture and critical transformation

supermarkt studio 3
brunnenstrasse 69
13355 berlin

+49 170 5887806
r0g-media.org
tweet @intertwilight

 //  ------------------  //
#OSJUBA *towards an Open Source South Sudan*

Part 1: South Sudan and Open Source Culture
@KOW Brunnenstrasse 9, Berlin
Thursday June 21, 19.00 - 21.00

Part 2: #OSJUBA conference / workshop
@SUPERMARKT Brunnenstrasse 64, Berlin
Friday June 22, 10.00 - 18.00 (doors open / coffee 09.30)

http://r0g-media.org/osjuba/
discuss: http://www.facebook.com/events/387391117973861/ 
tweet: #osjuba 
follow: @intertwilight 
 //  ------------------  //


** THANKS for recent r0g_EVENTS **

CIRCUM / POLARITY + C_plexus Solaris
featuring: Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag and Mark Resch
February 29, 19.00 @ Marshall McLuhan Salon
Embassy of Canada Berlin
http://www.mcluhan-salon.de/calendar
http://arcticperspective.org

Free Culture Incubator #12 
January 26, 19.00 @Supermarkt2011 Berlin
Part of transmediale.12 VORSPIEL
http://www.supermarkt-berlin.net/en/content/free-culture-incubator-12-finale
-------------------------------------------------------------------