1) The document discusses open systems solutions for addressing key UN challenge areas like climate change, education, and gender empowerment. 2) Open source models enable opportunities through free tools, licenses, and global communities. They create space for collaboration and accountability. 3) Open systems incorporate open source software, hardware, data, platforms, education resources, and more. Comprehensive open approaches can help mitigate climate change and empower citizens.

1. Open Systems Solutions. Now.
UNESCO WSIS+10 Review Paris February 26, 2013
Stephen Kovats, r0g_agency for open culture and critical transformation Berlin
“I WANT AN ACCESS
TO THE WORLD OF
KNOWLEDGE” Malala Yousafzai, Swat District, Pakistan
kovats@r0g-media.org follow@intertwilight

2. http://www.cablemap.info/
Open Systems Solutions & the UN’s Key Challenge Areas:
‣ Climate Change and Environmental Responsibility
‣ Access to Quality Education and Knowledge
‣ Post-Conflict and Post-Disaster Response
‣ Gender and Minority Empowerment

3. Open Source Models ...
• based on free & public domain tools, licences,
information and methodologies
• enable opportunity - joining skills & experience
• are active nodes in lager global communities
• create 'space' for exchange, collaboration,
sustainability
• allow for accountability, transparency and
participation

4. Open Source to Open Systems Models,
in terms of methodology, depend on or require ...
• 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
(in this case: based on the P2P Foundation’s requirements for open urbanism)

5. Open Systems incorporate and collate different types of
basic ‘open’ elements including, among others:
• Open Source Software (FOSS)
• 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

6. Open Systems Solutions ...
• comprehensive
• cross-disciplinary
• range of ‘open’ forms
• aka Open Development
• tools + methodologies
• materials + techniques

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Open Source tools, platforms
mitigating Climate Change, empowering citizens
fostering communication - building knowledge commons

8. http://ushahidi.com/ http://sahanafoundation.org/
Crowdsourcing
• help empowers civil society - gives voices to the unheard
• enables interaction between authorities & citizens
• rapid, adaptable, visual

9. http://www.natural-fiber.com http://stgomakerspace.com/
innovative cross-disciplinarity DIY... DIWO (do it with others)
http://www.metareciclagem.org/ http://hexayurt.com/ http://metarede.org/
AT - Appropriate Technologies meta-recycling ... up-cycling

10. http://opensourceecology.org/
build & create local economies

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Support active engagement in problem solving

13. http://r0g-media.org/osjuba/
Open Sourcing South Sudan
• global Open Source movements as generators of
knowledge, capacity building and citizen empowerment for
the democratic and civic development of society
• using Open Data as gateways to better education and
knowledge, fostering dialogue between numerous
communities across society
• applying Open ICT as tools of social interaction and
community development - using the key principles of
openness and inclusiveness, user-based design, building on
experience, scalability, and sustainability

14. Essential UNESCO 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 four key challenge areas.
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