How otelos impact society and how to develop one at your town. otelos (open technology labs) provide space for the community to meet, discuss, experiment, exchange, play and probe. It's free and everybody is welcome!

2. high unemployment
increasing brain drain
loss of regional identity and culture
In almost all rural areas ...
Why?

3. Welcome…
…to your future

4. • inspiring community space
• invite to share
• realize ideas
• network of innovation-culture

5. • free basic infrastructure to think, play, experiment and create
• enables to exchange, explore and develop in creative, within interactive
meetings  community education
• assists people of all ages to intensify and realize their ideas and plans
Otelo offers …

6. • easily accessible research- and
experimental laboratories
• un-lock civic engagement and
creative potentials
• regional future catalysts and
regional knowledge hubs
Social and
economic Impact…

7. being welcome, part of a diverse,
open community, invited to take
part and contribute,
adventuresome, free, touched,
inspired, alive, arrived
The Otelo charter condensed

8. Starting the organisation…
Magic 5
team
Otelo
space
Otelo
network
Network meetings
Sharing ideas
Cooperation
Charta
150-700m² space
Cooperation with local
partners
Local network
Local hosting-team
Starting a otelo group on a
volontary level
Creating the support network

11. The Process …
The NODE-
model suporting
the groups
Think-level,
Game-level
Project-level

12. The Process …
Project-
level
Internal
project
Move to the
otelo
cooperative
Independend
Start-up

13. • 16 labs, 28 node-Groups (groups, they are using the labs permanent),
• about 700 active participants
• latent vacancy spaces in a municipality become a “room of opportunities”
• 20,000 participants per year are reached with otelo activities
• 8 Locations in development
Status Quo of
OTELO…

14. The otelo ecosystem

15. Local association
Otelo Model
Magic 5 Team
Otelo charter
Non profit
Local ecosystem

16. Simple and cost-effective organization
OTELO space
150 – 1500m²
provided by
the municipality
local team as hosts
Magic 5 team
local association
foundation
Inspiring program
Make potenzials
visible
Community
education
Nodes – Labs using the space
Groups found
guided
laboratories
Local network
Pro-bono
partners
Funding members
Supporting
members ensure
sustainability
Int. Network
Innovation
transfer between
locations OTELO
Otelo Charta

17. Magic outreach-team
Otelo charter
Incubator
Host for projects
Ambassador program
National ecosystem

18. Int. outreach-
team
Otelo charter
Int. Ambassador
program
Support network
International ecosystem