#OS SOUTH SUDANOpen Systems Strategies for Peace, Innovation and DevelopmentEthio-German Konnect (#EGK13), November 11, 2013

„For knowledge, too, itself is power.“ Francis Bacon

„Wissen ist Macht“

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Clemens Lerche, r0g_agency for open culture and critical transformation gGmbH Berlin

#OSJUBA / #OSBACK / #OSWARRAP

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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)

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

• enable opportunity - sharing skills & experience

• collaboration and empowerment

• create 'space' for exchange and sustainability

• allow for accountability, transparency and participation

using Open Source Models ...

• Open Source Software (FOSS, Linux)

• 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:

innovative operating system DIY... DIWO (do it with others)

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

http://www.ubuntu.com/ http://stgomakerspace.com/

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

comprehensive methodologies, tools, materials, techniques ...

- create 'space' for exchange, dialogue and collaboration- enable opportunity, innovation, exploration- enable cross-disciplinary peer based capacity building- open and active nodes in a global community (i.e. fablabs, iHubs)- based on free & public domain tools, licences, methodologies- create open resources, knowledge bases, exchange potentials- stimulate new forms of sustainable entrepreneurship

celebrate getting together !

Open Source Models - as Space and Place

building & creating local economies

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 goals for development

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

• 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

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Open Sourcing South Sudan?

considering open systems solutions as:

#OSWARRAPOpen Systems Strategy for Peace and Development

#OSBACKSouth Sudan Open Source Server Backbone

#ArchitectureofPeaceOpen Urbanism and the Post Conflict City

#jLABVirtual Academy and Open Innovation Lab

#OSJUBA Open Systems for South Sudaninitiatives include ...

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."

• 94% of South Sudan’s population practices agro- pastoralism (agriculture & livestock for prestige and an income generating activity), quote CEPO

• The biggest challenge is cattle rustling

• Mobile penetration is good in warrap’s capital Kuajok (Gemtel, MTN, Vivacell, Zain); but not good or not available in other counties

• Conflict mapping and open data

• Introduction of OjoVoz mobile technology (non-text base interface, easy use) help farming and pastoralist communities create their own 'shareable memory' resources or knowledge base

• Mobile Cinemas displayed in various cattle camps across warrap state (CEPO/Kapital Movies, in process)

#OSWARRAP

add bottum-up movement to top-down policies

for every African challenge there is a OS solution

if not, invent it yourself, by remixing or revising old and new African knowledge (= innovation)

include diaspora OS knowledge in your strategy

Pan-African

reboot Africa with OS, just like #OSJUBA

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Ethio-German Konnect (#EGK13), November 11, 2013

#OS SOUTH SUDANOpen Systems Strategies for Peace, Innovation and Development