27-Sept-2009

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Event Theme & Title: ICOS2009 - oneVillage + GELI Community Day is Dissemination of Innovation.

Event Design: This morning discussion is a sub-event of the ICOS2009 Summit, which is a two day event going from Sep 25th to the 27th. Go here for more general information about the ICOS event: http://icos.org.tw

Location/Venue: The Technology Building in Taipei, Taiwan.

Schedule Time and Date: Sept 27th, 2009 between 10:00 AM and 12:00 PM (Taipei is located in the GMT+8 time zone). For more about the ICOS Scheduling go here: http://www.slat.org/icos.wiki/index.php/ICOS_2009_Schedule

Background: oneVillage Community Day is an event first launched in May 09 to build momentum for the 2009 oneVillage Ecotour Service and Learning Program. OVF's oneVillage Initiative / process seeks to disseminate these kinds of best practices using the example of Ghana.

As part of OVI, we seek to promote multipurpose, hub-centered models of collaboration and capacity building approaches to information development called Open Digital Villages. The Winneba Open Digital Villages (WODiV) is an example and flagship engaging human networks and defining building blocks towards dissemination and human capacity building. We see such integrated approaches as key to the successful deployment of open source in emerging markets.

The OVF Community Day presentation will also look at the work of our colleagues and partners involved in Taiwan's National Tsing Hua University's International Volunteers Student Program; in particular those involved in the EMate Program (coordinated in Taiwan by Apple Jia of the Bamboo Community University), which supports Indonesia's Gayo E-Learning and Informatika (GELI) Project.

Event Focus: The morning's discussion will focus on the idea that it is not just about the development of technologies, but how they are designed, implemented and deployed with the stakeholder's needs as the first consideration.

Event Program:

ICOS2009 - oneVillage + GELI Community Day on "Dissemination of Innovation"
27 September, 2009
Section IOVF and GELI Introduction of two Unique
OS Development Concepts		Speakers
10:00-10:30 Joy Tang will talk about OVF's mission and vision and how we use ICT as an enabler of human capacity development and improvement of human Collective IQ (for more see our wiki page on Doug Engelbart's Collective IQ work).

Zulfikar Ahmad will introduce a wonderland in Indonesia called Central Aceh, 1,200m high above the mountains, including Gayo people, coffee planting and rain forest conservation, and why they initiate the Gayo E-Learning and Informatika (GELI) Project there.

Joy Tang - Founder OVF


Zulfikar Ahmad - Central Aceh Gov.

Section IIOpen Source Deployment and Development from OVF
Open Digital Village and Gayo E-Learning Center		Speakers
10:30-11:30 Taiwan National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) Students: Field Agent Report on Open Source Deployment - Recently 10 National Tsing Hua University students traveled to Ghana for one month to get service learning experiences focusing on Information Development and Digital Philanthropy. Their activities included basic ICT training for junior high school students and their teachers as part of the New Academic Year IT School which took place at Winneba Open Digital Village, a human capacity training and innovation & incubator center. Before traveling to Ghana, the NTHU students recieved training from Prof Hung in Taiwan. Once in Ghana through the trainings at WODiV, they introduced his OS USB system to the "digital accelerators" in the field - disseminating the OS concept and practices for rural ICT center development.

The NTHU youth also went to the following areas while in Ghana:

  • Went to Jukwa and produced a digital archive for Denkyira Kingdom.
  • Went to Okurase and documented the production of the African drums and to study region's forestry habitat at Okurase.
  • Attended Maker Faire Africa, an event that promotes grassroots innovations in appropriate technologies, which was held at the Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT in Accra.

These efforts combined further builds the bridge for ICT4D that's empowered by Open Source collaboration between Ghana/Africa and Taiwan!

The GELI Partnership: A Case Study of how Community Development Advocates & Open Source Techies can Worth together - Ahmad Haris is a developer on Indonesia BlankOn Linux distribution, working at AirPutih (White Water) ICT Foundation. in 2004 he went to Aceh, just like hundreds of other NGOs, to join the Tsunami and Aceh conflict relief work. There, he met Prof. Taufik from Syiah Kuala University in Banda Aceh, Mr. Zulfikar from Central Aceh County Government and even E-Mate ICT Volunteers from NTHU and the Bamboo Community University, Taiwan. These groups agreed to collaborate with the Gayo people to:

  • Develop a mission focused on conserving the ecology as well as enabling the development of their communities and facilitating this process with the effective use of ICT and open source solutions.
  • Collaborate with Universitas Gajah Putih (UGP = White Elephant University)
  • Build up a Pelita (Light and Hope) community among the youth, that includes an e-learning center;
  • Utilize BlankOn and Sabily - a Linux distro designed for Muslims
  • Cultivate ICT + ecology volunteer project called GELI (They will sign an MOU with UGP this year to develop a global partnership between Aceh, Indonesia, Taiwan and - Ghana! That's the spirit of oneVillage + GELI!)
NTHU Volunteers Ghana Team 2009 for oneVillage Ecotour Service and Learning


Ahmad Haris - AirPutih

Section IIIA Process-driven Discussion: Where do we go from here?Speakers
11:30-

12:00

- Considering the IDEO Model: Exploring a Process-driven Approach to ICT4D - Ilya Eric Lee will lead a discussion on IDEO's design process, which focuses on the human behavior / thinking and communicating rather than the technical driven mindset. We will explore how oneVillage Initiative or a similar design concept could be used in international/digital development for such purpose. While the settings, practices and experiences from oneVillage's and GELI's Case Studies, may be different, the IDEO approach to solving problems and creating an innovation culture may be relevant to both. Ilya will compare and contrast the development of 'social networking' (collective IQ) verses the top-down traditional academia model (which is how IDEO evolved prior to the Internet's development) to find solutions in the field. Common themes of the two projects in relation to the vision of oneVillage Community Day will also be explored.

Discussion Talking Points:

  • How do we manifest the larger vision;
  • How IDEO model can be implemented in the field;
  • Break down barriers between OS users and designers;
  • Consider the hub training and capacity building environment;
  • Empower the end-user with open source tools that are easy to use.

The outcome of this discussion is expected to provide some understanding of how combine community development process and appropriate technologies in synergistic and complementary ways to promote a regional approach to sustainable development using Open Source diven ICT.

Ilya Eric Lee - Academia Sinicia

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