1. #OKFEST SUSTAINABILITY STREAM
Stream Summary
@mrchrisadams @jacktownsend_
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2. MAJOR CHALLENGES
Last Sunday
Lowest ice levels in history
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3. I can live without polar bears but I don’t want to live on
a world where we’re hungry or at war because of
climate change @HansRosling
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4. In some IPCC scenarios, by 2100 Helsinki will be like North
Carolina @tgHerzog World Bank
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5. SO WHAT CAN OPEN KNOWLEDGE DO ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY?
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6. We need global solutions to global problems
@HansRosling & James Cameron (@Jamesogradycam)
But the politics has failed to deliver them.
The Web and Open Knowledge can help develop diverse
bottom-up solutions to the challenges of sustainability
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7. So what can open knowledge do?
INFORMED CITIZENS
Global scale
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8. LINKING UP WORLD RENEWABLES DATA
reegle.info Denise Recheis
Thomas Thurner
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9. WORLD BANK DATA TO CONVEY CLIMATE CHANGE
www.Globe-Town.org @JackTownsend_
climateknowledgeportal.worldbank.org @tgherzog
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10. GREEN HACKATHON: FUTURE CO2 HELSINKI
http://cesc.kth.se/helsinki/ @zapico
Markku Suvanto, Siemens
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11. So what can open knowledge do?
INFORMED CITIZENS
Personal scale
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12. …ACT LOCALLY
greenmap.org @wendybrawer
cindy Kohtala
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13. OWN YOUR OWN ENERGY USE
Mydex.org @williamheath
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14. COMPARING YOUR ENERGY USE WITH THE COMMUNITY
http://Opower.com
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15. So what can open knowledge do?
ACCOUNTABILITY
Accountable INDIVIDUALS
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16. SHARING YOUR ENERGY USE WITH COMMUNITY
@Sustaingranlund Ken Dooley
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17. So what can open knowledge do?
ACCOUNTABILITY
Accountable INSTITUTIONS
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18. COUNTING CARBON LIKE CASH
http://cdproject.net @Jamesogradycam
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19. TRANSPARENCY OF LAND DEALS
HTTP://landportal.info/landmatrix Neil Sorenson
Tin Geber
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20. GREEN HACKATHON: VISUALISING LAND DEALS
@RobinHouston
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21. So what can open knowledge do?
MORE OUT FOR LESS IN
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22. COORDINATING & OPTIMISING FOR EFFICIENCY
http://airbnb.com
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23. MEASURING SOCIAL & ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRESS
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24. MEASURING SOCIAL & ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRESS
http://findikaattori.fi
Ulla Rosenstrom
http://yourtopia.net
@vndimitrova @misologie
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25. So what can open knowledge do?
INNOVATION
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26. OPEN ENERGY INNOVATION
Open Source Hardware
HTTP://SOLARFIRE.ORG
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27. INNOVATION CAN CLEAN THE CLOUD
http://mastodonc.com
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28. SO WHAT CAN OPEN KNOWLEDGE DO ABOUT
SUSTAINABILITY?
@JackTownsend_ @Floppy
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29. CHALLENGES…
• Nothing is a panacea!
– “Fairy dust”
• Privacy
– Human
– Environmental Privacy
• Unintended consequences
• Not just releasing the data – it’s what you do with it
– Open knowledge into action
– Stories and images matter more than facts
– Willful misuse/false impressions
– User-focused solutions
• Digital divide
– Who is empowered?
– Western-centric value?
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30. The “hacker ethic” can bring much to the challenges of sustainability,
particularly supporting the commons by sharing, and a playful desire to
try new things out. So…
@zapico
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32. THANK YOU!
The OKFN and everyone who organized and crewed
Everyone who attended
Tim Herzog, Neil Sorenson, Tin Geber, Robin Houston, Ulla Rosenstrom,
Vincent Finat-Duclos, Dirk Heine, Karthikeya Acharya,
Ken Dooley, William Heath, James Cameron, Hans Rosling, Markku Suvanto,
Wendy Brawer, Cindy Kohtala, Denise Recheis, Thomas Turner,
Velichka Dimitrova, Jorge Zapico, James Smith, Guo Xu,
Hannes Ebner, @MrChrisAdams, @JackTownsend_
http://okfestival.org/open-knowledge-and-sustainability/
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