- The document summarizes the Mekong ICT Camp workshop held in Chiang Mai from June 7-12, 2010.
- Over 67 participants from countries in the Greater Mekong Subregion attended sessions on topics like open data, information security, citizen journalism, ICT for agriculture, and more.
- Key discussions included how to create information security policies for organizations, using SMS to provide agricultural information to farmers, and ensuring volunteer management and projects have long term sustainability.
The document summarizes a workshop presentation on e-infrastructures for open data. It discusses the need for such infrastructures to improve upon merely publishing open data by enabling the full open data process of data creation, opening, finding, using and providing feedback. It presents three existing open data infrastructures - the European Union portal, Junar and ENGAGE - and analyzes their complementarity in supporting different aspects of the open data process through varying functionalities tailored to different target groups and project scopes.
Presentation by Chisholm and Harper as part of the Victoria Online Seminar Series, Tuesday 26 July 2011. The trends covered include: HTML5; Augmented reality; Cloud computing; Game mechanics; Next generation search; Agile development; Social technology; and Mobile internet.
Did you know that, open data is a global movement reaching beyond government interest and contribution requiring the awareness and participation of information professionals (librarians)? This presentation is designed to understand the open data information community and creatively expand the library and information centres role in open data development.
Ubicomp4D: Interaction and Infrastructure for International Development-The C...Nithya Sambasivan
The document discusses the application of ubiquitous computing (ubicomp) to address issues related to poverty in developing areas. It presents findings from field studies conducted in slums in Mumbai and Bangalore, India. The studies examined how residents currently use technologies like mobile phones and how technologies could be designed to better fit the needs and constraints of low-income environments. Key considerations for ubicomp design discussed are using human mediators instead of full automation, designing for disruptions, creating low-cost multi-purpose technologies, and accommodating both literacy and orality in interactions.
Technology Education in an Urban Metropolitan UniversityJoe McCarthy
The document outlines a vision for technology education at an urban university that is relevant, open, and engaging. It advocates for education that addresses local and regional problems, is openly accessible, and continuously explores new ways to engage the community. The vision is for the university to be a leader in the innovative use of technology for urban issues, serve as a model of openness, and foster ongoing engagement with the local metropolitan area through technology.
This lecture deals with the impact of digitalization on culture in a wider sense. How does the fourth industrial revolution shape our society and how do we relate to each other as human beings?
The document summarizes a workshop presentation on e-infrastructures for open data. It discusses the need for such infrastructures to improve upon merely publishing open data by enabling the full open data process of data creation, opening, finding, using and providing feedback. It presents three existing open data infrastructures - the European Union portal, Junar and ENGAGE - and analyzes their complementarity in supporting different aspects of the open data process through varying functionalities tailored to different target groups and project scopes.
Presentation by Chisholm and Harper as part of the Victoria Online Seminar Series, Tuesday 26 July 2011. The trends covered include: HTML5; Augmented reality; Cloud computing; Game mechanics; Next generation search; Agile development; Social technology; and Mobile internet.
Did you know that, open data is a global movement reaching beyond government interest and contribution requiring the awareness and participation of information professionals (librarians)? This presentation is designed to understand the open data information community and creatively expand the library and information centres role in open data development.
Ubicomp4D: Interaction and Infrastructure for International Development-The C...Nithya Sambasivan
The document discusses the application of ubiquitous computing (ubicomp) to address issues related to poverty in developing areas. It presents findings from field studies conducted in slums in Mumbai and Bangalore, India. The studies examined how residents currently use technologies like mobile phones and how technologies could be designed to better fit the needs and constraints of low-income environments. Key considerations for ubicomp design discussed are using human mediators instead of full automation, designing for disruptions, creating low-cost multi-purpose technologies, and accommodating both literacy and orality in interactions.
Technology Education in an Urban Metropolitan UniversityJoe McCarthy
The document outlines a vision for technology education at an urban university that is relevant, open, and engaging. It advocates for education that addresses local and regional problems, is openly accessible, and continuously explores new ways to engage the community. The vision is for the university to be a leader in the innovative use of technology for urban issues, serve as a model of openness, and foster ongoing engagement with the local metropolitan area through technology.
This lecture deals with the impact of digitalization on culture in a wider sense. How does the fourth industrial revolution shape our society and how do we relate to each other as human beings?
Strategic Relevance of the Internet Science Network of Excellence to Future I...i_scienceEU
The Network of Excellence in Internet Science aims to achieve a deeper multidisciplinary understanding of the Internet as a societal and technological artefact.
More information: http://internet-science.eu/
Twitter: @i_scienceEU
Situated Computing U Korea Forum 20080924 DraftJoe McCarthy
The document discusses situated computing and proactive displays as an approach to ubiquitous computing focused on specific places. It outlines the evolution of proactive displays from early context-aware research prototypes to more advanced systems that can sense people's presence and activities in a space and respond through large visual displays. As an example, it presents CoffeeStrands, a proposed system using loyalty cards, phones and WiFi to create a place-based social network on displays in a cafe, allowing users to share content and connect more effectively in the shared physical space.
Social media roles in crowdsourcing innovation tasks in B2B-relationshipsJari Jussila
Social media roles in crowdsourcing innovation tasks in B2B-relationships presentation at ISPIM 2013 conference in Helsinki. Co-authors Hannu Kärkkäinen and Jani Multasuo.
Online Disability Activism - University of Leicester, Mar 2011filippotrevisan
1. The document discusses research on how disabled people use the internet for political participation and discusses barriers they face both online and offline.
2. A case study of Scottish disability organizations' websites found little user-generated content and personal stories were not directly posted by users.
3. A campaign called "Barred!" allowed some user input and stories to inform the campaign's platform, but organizations ultimately controlled online communications.
Deep sea diving puts extreme pressure on the entire body, with each 30 feet adding 14 additional pounds of pressure per square inch. Rapidly reducing pressure can cause gas bubbles to form in the blood, potentially blocking blood flow to vital organs like the heart or brain. Gas bubbles can also form in tissues like joints, spinal columns or the brain, which can cause mechanical issues and permanent nerve damage.
The document discusses surviving in a desert environment. It notes that deserts are extremely hot during the day and cold at night, posing dangers like dehydration, hypothermia, and heat stroke. It recommends bringing long sleeves, pants, hats, boots, water, food, and a survival kit. If stranded, the body adapts through sweating and blood flow changes, but panic, confusion and delusions can set in if the will to survive vanishes.
The document warns about the dangers of mixing medications, specifically that medications should not be mixed with alcohol or other substances without consulting a doctor first. It discusses how the American Medical Association recently published a new alert on this issue and how the pamphlet is being distributed in pharmacy chains in the US and Canada to educate people on this important safety information.
This document discusses building additional functionality for a Drupal forum for the AASHE website. It outlines requirements that are not met by the core forum module, such as customizing the look and feel, enabling email notifications, co-branding forum sections, and displaying real names. It then proposes solutions using contributed Drupal modules to address each requirement, such as Advanced Forum, Notifications, Views, Rules, and Features. The goal is to create a centralized place for the sustainability community to share knowledge and expertise.
Why do Drupal Projects Fail?: Evaluating Success Factors and When to Use DrupalJulia Kulla-Mader
Presentation from Drupalcamp Atlanta on the results of a survey measuring the key factors for Drupal project success. You can find out more here and download the survey data:
http://www.juliakm.com/drupalcamp-atlanta-presentation-why-do-drupal-projects-fail
The document provides instructions for setting up an email marketing integration between MailChimp and Drupal using MailChimp's API. It outlines the steps to generate an API key in MailChimp, create lists and templates, configure the MailChimp module settings in Drupal, sync user subscriptions between the systems, build email campaigns including Drupal content, and view reports on sends and receives.
Effectively Engaging Stakeholders in Drupal ProjectsJulia Kulla-Mader
The document discusses how to effectively engage stakeholders in Drupal projects. It emphasizes three main points: 1) Rely on objectives, not hunches by gathering background information and developing shared objectives with stakeholders; 2) Design and implement a user-driven redesign process through card sorting, iterative wireframing and testing, and design surveys; 3) Plan for support after launch by monitoring feedback, establishing permissions and support for content editors, and updating the site code over time. The presentation provides examples and tools to help operationalize each of these three points.
The document summarizes the author's experience studying at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT). It describes the welcoming environment and natural beauty of the campus. While coursework was challenging and required long hours of study, AIT also provided opportunities to relieve stress through social activities. Friendships formed with other students from around the world were highly valuable. Overall, the author feels fortunate for the opportunity to study at AIT and gains skills and life lessons that will help in their future beyond just an academic degree.
presented in Nu-Substance Festival 2010
July 20, 2010 @ Centre Culturel Français de Bandung
Nu-Substance Festival 2010
Festival for Open Culture, Technology, and Urban Ecology
http://nusubstance.commonroom.info/
This document announces a call for papers for a special issue of the ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST) on intelligent multimedia systems and technology. It seeks papers on machine learning and data mining techniques for understanding, indexing, searching, and consuming the large amount of multimedia data available online and on mobile devices. Topics of interest include intelligent systems for multimedia data management and search, content understanding of images, video and audio using machine learning, social media analysis, and large-scale learning algorithms for multimedia. Papers will be peer-reviewed and the special issue will be published in two parts, with submission deadlines in February/April 2010 for the first issue and April/May 2010 for the second issue
Workshop II on a Roadmap to Future GovernmentSamos2019Summit
In this session we proceed to presentations and discussion concerning the the development of the new roadmap for digital government. Two projects (Gov3.0 roadmap and Big Policy Canvas) will join forces in this exciting endeavor.
Organizers: Maria Wimmer, Professor, Koblentz University, Germany; Francesco Mureddu, Associate Directorr, Lisbon Council, Belgium; Juliane Schmeling Fraunhofer Institut FOKUS, Researcher, Germany; Shoumaya Ben Dhaou, Researcher, United Nations University, PT
VinCo is a research project studying innovative virtual collaboration and business networks. The project is led by Anu Sivunen and includes researchers from the Virtual and Mobile Work Research Unit. The project has strong academic collaborations and connections to companies. It examines trends in collaboration and productivity in virtual environments. Methods being developed include ethnography and social network analysis in virtual worlds. Research also analyzes benefits and challenges of using 3D virtual environments in business. The project is conducting various studies including on business models in virtual worlds and land auction data. Academic papers are being published on topics including overcoming challenges of distributed teams using virtual environments.
“Using the cloud to automatically personalize interfaces and materials for those facing difficulties due to disability, literacy or aging: the future of social clouds and inclusive infrastructures”
Strategic Relevance of the Internet Science Network of Excellence to Future I...i_scienceEU
The Network of Excellence in Internet Science aims to achieve a deeper multidisciplinary understanding of the Internet as a societal and technological artefact.
More information: http://internet-science.eu/
Twitter: @i_scienceEU
Situated Computing U Korea Forum 20080924 DraftJoe McCarthy
The document discusses situated computing and proactive displays as an approach to ubiquitous computing focused on specific places. It outlines the evolution of proactive displays from early context-aware research prototypes to more advanced systems that can sense people's presence and activities in a space and respond through large visual displays. As an example, it presents CoffeeStrands, a proposed system using loyalty cards, phones and WiFi to create a place-based social network on displays in a cafe, allowing users to share content and connect more effectively in the shared physical space.
Social media roles in crowdsourcing innovation tasks in B2B-relationshipsJari Jussila
Social media roles in crowdsourcing innovation tasks in B2B-relationships presentation at ISPIM 2013 conference in Helsinki. Co-authors Hannu Kärkkäinen and Jani Multasuo.
Online Disability Activism - University of Leicester, Mar 2011filippotrevisan
1. The document discusses research on how disabled people use the internet for political participation and discusses barriers they face both online and offline.
2. A case study of Scottish disability organizations' websites found little user-generated content and personal stories were not directly posted by users.
3. A campaign called "Barred!" allowed some user input and stories to inform the campaign's platform, but organizations ultimately controlled online communications.
Deep sea diving puts extreme pressure on the entire body, with each 30 feet adding 14 additional pounds of pressure per square inch. Rapidly reducing pressure can cause gas bubbles to form in the blood, potentially blocking blood flow to vital organs like the heart or brain. Gas bubbles can also form in tissues like joints, spinal columns or the brain, which can cause mechanical issues and permanent nerve damage.
The document discusses surviving in a desert environment. It notes that deserts are extremely hot during the day and cold at night, posing dangers like dehydration, hypothermia, and heat stroke. It recommends bringing long sleeves, pants, hats, boots, water, food, and a survival kit. If stranded, the body adapts through sweating and blood flow changes, but panic, confusion and delusions can set in if the will to survive vanishes.
The document warns about the dangers of mixing medications, specifically that medications should not be mixed with alcohol or other substances without consulting a doctor first. It discusses how the American Medical Association recently published a new alert on this issue and how the pamphlet is being distributed in pharmacy chains in the US and Canada to educate people on this important safety information.
This document discusses building additional functionality for a Drupal forum for the AASHE website. It outlines requirements that are not met by the core forum module, such as customizing the look and feel, enabling email notifications, co-branding forum sections, and displaying real names. It then proposes solutions using contributed Drupal modules to address each requirement, such as Advanced Forum, Notifications, Views, Rules, and Features. The goal is to create a centralized place for the sustainability community to share knowledge and expertise.
Why do Drupal Projects Fail?: Evaluating Success Factors and When to Use DrupalJulia Kulla-Mader
Presentation from Drupalcamp Atlanta on the results of a survey measuring the key factors for Drupal project success. You can find out more here and download the survey data:
http://www.juliakm.com/drupalcamp-atlanta-presentation-why-do-drupal-projects-fail
The document provides instructions for setting up an email marketing integration between MailChimp and Drupal using MailChimp's API. It outlines the steps to generate an API key in MailChimp, create lists and templates, configure the MailChimp module settings in Drupal, sync user subscriptions between the systems, build email campaigns including Drupal content, and view reports on sends and receives.
Effectively Engaging Stakeholders in Drupal ProjectsJulia Kulla-Mader
The document discusses how to effectively engage stakeholders in Drupal projects. It emphasizes three main points: 1) Rely on objectives, not hunches by gathering background information and developing shared objectives with stakeholders; 2) Design and implement a user-driven redesign process through card sorting, iterative wireframing and testing, and design surveys; 3) Plan for support after launch by monitoring feedback, establishing permissions and support for content editors, and updating the site code over time. The presentation provides examples and tools to help operationalize each of these three points.
The document summarizes the author's experience studying at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT). It describes the welcoming environment and natural beauty of the campus. While coursework was challenging and required long hours of study, AIT also provided opportunities to relieve stress through social activities. Friendships formed with other students from around the world were highly valuable. Overall, the author feels fortunate for the opportunity to study at AIT and gains skills and life lessons that will help in their future beyond just an academic degree.
presented in Nu-Substance Festival 2010
July 20, 2010 @ Centre Culturel Français de Bandung
Nu-Substance Festival 2010
Festival for Open Culture, Technology, and Urban Ecology
http://nusubstance.commonroom.info/
This document announces a call for papers for a special issue of the ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST) on intelligent multimedia systems and technology. It seeks papers on machine learning and data mining techniques for understanding, indexing, searching, and consuming the large amount of multimedia data available online and on mobile devices. Topics of interest include intelligent systems for multimedia data management and search, content understanding of images, video and audio using machine learning, social media analysis, and large-scale learning algorithms for multimedia. Papers will be peer-reviewed and the special issue will be published in two parts, with submission deadlines in February/April 2010 for the first issue and April/May 2010 for the second issue
Workshop II on a Roadmap to Future GovernmentSamos2019Summit
In this session we proceed to presentations and discussion concerning the the development of the new roadmap for digital government. Two projects (Gov3.0 roadmap and Big Policy Canvas) will join forces in this exciting endeavor.
Organizers: Maria Wimmer, Professor, Koblentz University, Germany; Francesco Mureddu, Associate Directorr, Lisbon Council, Belgium; Juliane Schmeling Fraunhofer Institut FOKUS, Researcher, Germany; Shoumaya Ben Dhaou, Researcher, United Nations University, PT
VinCo is a research project studying innovative virtual collaboration and business networks. The project is led by Anu Sivunen and includes researchers from the Virtual and Mobile Work Research Unit. The project has strong academic collaborations and connections to companies. It examines trends in collaboration and productivity in virtual environments. Methods being developed include ethnography and social network analysis in virtual worlds. Research also analyzes benefits and challenges of using 3D virtual environments in business. The project is conducting various studies including on business models in virtual worlds and land auction data. Academic papers are being published on topics including overcoming challenges of distributed teams using virtual environments.
“Using the cloud to automatically personalize interfaces and materials for those facing difficulties due to disability, literacy or aging: the future of social clouds and inclusive infrastructures”
The document proposes developing national and global public inclusive infrastructures (NPIIs) to address problems with existing accessibility solutions. It suggests creating an infrastructure that would (1) help people determine needed accessibility supports and store preferences, (2) allow stored preferences to enable accessibility anywhere, and (3) provide tools to help developers create and deliver new accessibility solutions easily. This would simplify accessibility, provide solutions for all disabilities and emerging technologies, and spur innovation to expand markets and lower costs.
Social Space for Geospatial InformationNaturNetPlus
The document discusses building a "fourth way" to develop spatial data infrastructures (SDI) by combining standards, commercial initiatives, and community contributions. It proposes a "Geoportal4everybody" that would allow sharing spatial and non-spatial information through social networks and other means. The approach is based on open-source software and aims to make SDI development more accessible and distributed.
Social Space for Geospatial InformationNaturNetPlus
This document summarizes a paper presented at the IST-Africa 2011 conference that introduces an approach called the "4th way to SDI building" and the concept of "Geoportal4everybody". The 4th way combines standardization efforts with commercial initiatives and support from voluntary communities. It aims to make spatial data infrastructure more accessible to people. Geoportal4everybody is a solution based on open source software that integrates spatial and non-spatial information using standards, and enables communication through social networks. The paper discusses background on previous related concepts of Geohosting and Uniform Resource Management, and proposes a "spider net" paradigm rather than a pyramid model for spatial data infrastructure.
This document summarizes a paper presented at the IST-Africa 2011 conference that introduces an approach called the "4th way to SDI building" and the concept of "Geoportal4everybody". The 4th way combines standardization efforts with commercial initiatives and support from voluntary communities. It aims to make spatial data infrastructure more accessible to people. Geoportal4everybody is a solution based on open source software that integrates spatial and non-spatial information using standards, and enables communication through social networks. The paper discusses background on previous related concepts of Geohosting and Uniform Resource Management, and proposes a "spider net" paradigm rather than a pyramid paradigm for building a global SDI.
Opportunities and methodological challenges of Big Data for official statist...Piet J.H. Daas
1) The document discusses opportunities and challenges of using Big Data for official statistics. It describes Big Data as data that is difficult to collect, store, or process using conventional statistical systems due to issues of volume, velocity, structure, or variety.
2) The author outlines their experiences at Statistics Netherlands using various Big Data sources like traffic sensor data, mobile phone data, and social media data. They discuss methodological challenges in accessing and analyzing large volumes of data, dealing with noisy and unstructured data, and addressing issues of selectivity.
3) The document emphasizes the need for new skills like data science, high performance computing, and people with open and pragmatic mindsets to work with Big Data. It also addresses privacy
Lorena Pocatilu - strategies for smart city knowledge platform and open datatu1204
The document discusses strategies for implementing smart city knowledge platforms and open data. It describes how knowledge platforms can provide access to new information, open data, connect users, and enable collaboration and innovation. As more people live in cities, knowledge platforms and open data can help manage information more efficiently to improve quality of life. Successful implementation requires addressing barriers like cultures opposed to openness and data quality problems. Open data offers opportunities to analyze and visualize data from different sources which is important for addressing societal challenges in smart cities. Several initiatives for open data are also described.
Virtual Communities of Practice – does technology make a difference?Paul Penfold
How can new technologies be introduced to help the growth of Communities of Practice?. What are some useful tools and how do you choose the most appropriate technologies to develop and enhance the Community.
The document discusses the opportunities and issues related to using semantic technologies for e-government initiatives. It covers the background of semantic technologies and knowledge societies, opportunities they provide like better information access, and challenges like technology gaps and ensuring trust and representation of community knowledge. Examples of semantic technology applications in areas like social networking and e-government services are also mentioned.
Knowledge-Centric Paradigm: A New World of IT SolutionsEd Dodds
The document discusses the potential of a knowledge-centric paradigm for government IT solutions. It outlines 10 realities of a knowledge-based world, and describes three approaches to knowledge-centric services: citizen-centric systems that know, advanced analytics systems that learn, and smart operations systems that reason. It also summarizes an agenda for a leadership symposium focusing on clarifying goals, mobilizing support and taking action for networked government.
From eGov 2.0 to eGov 3.0: The Research Agendasamossummit
The research agenda of the eGov area will be discussed in this session, focusing on innovative ideas and directions for its advancement from the eGov 2.0 to a new eGov 3.0 paradigm.
Yannis Charalabidis, University of the Aegean, Greece
Exploration & Promotion: Implementation Strategies of Corporate Social SoftwareAlexander Stocker
The document discusses two archetypes for adopting corporate social software:
1) Exploration - The potential uses of new software are not fully known and must be explored over time through continuous identification of feasible usage scenarios. This allows uses to evolve organically.
2) Promotion - Usage scenarios are clearly defined and communicated upfront through targeted training. There is an expectation of certain benefits aligned with business goals.
Both strategies may be used together, with Exploration suited for newer technologies and Promotion better for more established software where uses are known.
Presentation by Andrea Bohn, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
In collaboration with:
Mark Bell, University of California at Davis
Shahid Akbar, Bangladesh Institute for ICT in Development
Phil Malone, Access Agriculture
Plenary Session: Extension in ICT Overdrive
on 6 Nov 2013
ICT4Ag, Kigali, Rwanda
Talk on "Community Led Activities" given at JISC Emerge online event on 7 June 2007.
See http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/online/emerge-2007-06/
Similar to Report on Mekong ICT Camp Chiang Mai 2010 (20)
1. Report
on
Mekong
ICT
2010,
Chiang
Mai
(7-‐12
June)
(by: Borort Sort)
Mekong ICT Camp workshop + Bar Camp Chiang Mai
- 67 participants from different countries in the GMS (mostly from Cambodia, Laos, Myanma,
Thailand, and Vietnam)
- 20 facilitators & speakers from 9 countries
Attended Sessions & Topics
Day1:
Government 2.0 and Civil Information Society (by Laurence Millar, ex-Gov CIO for New
Zealand)
Laurence provided a keynote about the usefulness of open data and data sharing. He pointed out the
benefit of Government’s data that huge enough for sharing which could help to solve major global
issues. This referred to raw data which can be used for further processing.
“Share the sharing”, What, Why, and How
Open Data: data available in the right way.
The future of OAIs
Government should set their data free
Why should we free our data?
- Public access improve quality
- Marginal cost of distribution is minimal
- Increases economic and public value
www.gvg.net.nz
www.opengovdata.org
Slide: http://www.slideshare.net/laurence.millar/mekong-ict-june-2010
Security 2.0: Information Policy and Strategy for Organizations (by: Dmitri Vitaliev, security
expert)
Dmitri introduced about how to plan for security policy in an organization in order to prevent computer
system and data from any kinds of threats. There are three types of policy that an organization should
consider:
- Staff policy (Employment, Conduct)
- Office policy (Access, Safety)
- Operational policy (Mission, Communications, Information)
In addition the strategy involved in information security policy is specified as follow:
- Information Type -> Format -> Methods of Storage -> Access Determining
Group discussion: Create policy for a Mekong NGO (Staff Policy, Field Policy, Backup Policy,
Community Policy)
Citizen Journalism (News Reporting as Part of a Social Movement) (by: Sean Ang, SeaCam,
Malaysia)
Learning how to use TweetDesk (Free twitting desktop application) for twitting and find popular
interest topic by people from Twitter.
2. Panel Discussion: Public Policy Related to the Internet (Network, Neutrality, Piracy, and
Privacy) (by: Sunil Abraham, Center for Internet & Society, India).
This session was the discussion on the copyrights issue
Day2:
Agriculture Support with SMS (By Justin Lorenzon &Milina Chan)
Types of SMS Services:
- Push (Broadcast, e.g. bulletin..)
- Pull (Data query, e.g. expert consultation..)
What does a farmer want to know? -> Group Discussion: Design an agricultural SMS information
System. Find out possible services for which a farmer can use SMS to get access/request.
ICT for Volunteer Management: Mahiti (By: Sunil Abraham)
Brainstorming on Volunteer Challenges:
- Misrepresentation of organization
- Personal Agenda
- Too much management bandwidth
- Tension Between Staff & Volunteer
- Linguistic & Cultural Barrier
- Short/Intense/Motivation/Commitment/Accountability
Group Discussion: How to solve each of the above challenges
Panel Discussion:
OpenDream (Social & Business Strategy)
For their sustainability:
- Social benefit organization workload (90%)
- Business Sector workload (10%)
Slide: http://www.slideshare.net/keng/overview-of-opendream
Latest Project: collaborate with InSTEDD (http://instedd.org/) and Google.org on Mobile Disease
Surveillance Project
Public-Private Partnership: A Case of Mobile Disease Surveillance Project at Thailand Borders
(by: Channe Suay from InSTEDD and Patipat Susumpow from OpenDream)
InSTEDD and OpenDream jointly made a discussion about the benefit of PPP of their collaboration on
Mobile Disease Surveillance Project. They considered PPP as the win-win strategy that can ensure the
project’s sustainability. They also discussed about the criteria for creating partnership, corporate social
responsibility (CSR), as well as tangible and intangible benefit.
OpenDream partners with TELCO (DTAC) for SMS gateway services, while InSTEDD (Cambodia)
partners with Smart Mobile in Cambodia for Local SMS Gateway. This partnership allows them to
reduce the cost in using the SMS gateway services for their project.
3. Universal Assess Design & Web Accessibility
Web Content Accessibility Guideline (WCAG), Priority 1 to 4
Slide: http://www.slideshare.net/poakpong/universal-access-design-web-accessibility-mekong-ict-
camp-2010
ICT for Education and Knowledge Commons (by: Sunil Abraham & Milina Chan)
Discussion on: Pro and Con of medium of Education
- Radio
- Web/Internet
- Television
- SMS
- Email
Example from participant of: Paper Tiger Television
Group Discussion: Combination of Educational Medium for (which could help):
- Disabilities
- Women studying from home
- Small children
- High education
- Vocational Training
Discussion about FOSS & Open Access:
Four Freedoms of FOSS:
- Get for free
- Can be used for any purposes
- Reverse engineering
- Sharing (for Free/Fee)
Open Access: Example of oaister.org (oaister.worldcat.org) using of OAI technologies.
Day 3:
Sahana Open Souce Disaster & Development Management System (by: Michael Howden)
- Introduction about Sahana (benefit, modules, technology, and community)
- Introduction about Google Summer code on Sahana
User-Oriented Design (by: InSTEDD team)
SMS Mobile Application (e.g of GeoChat)
Slide: http://www.slideshare.net/nditada/mkict-user-oriented-design
Day 4:
Managing Information Systems Project (by: Michael Howden, expert on Sahana, Open Source
Disaster & Development Management Software, ADPC)
“Never use technology for technology shake”
Implementing Information System
- PATICIPATION
4. Designing Information System
Specification: First thing to do before developing the system
Panel Discussion: Aspect of Openness (by: Michel Bauwens, P2P Foundation)
Concept of Openness
Looking for collaboration regarding open policy
Running a Cause Using Social Media (by: Milina Chan)
Benefit of Social Media such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Flickr, WordPress, LinkedIt, etc.. for
promoting social and community activities.
- Example of Obama election campaign using Social Media
- Success and Failure of using such Social Media
Security 2.0: Preparing for and Responding to Denial of Service Attacks (by: Dmitri Vitaliev)
DOS & DDOS attack, Strategies for prevention
Website Hacking (bootpage)
Day 5:
Making a Civil Society Organization Financially Sustainable (by: Sunil Abraham)
Fund Raising Strategies:
- DRM/CRM (civiCRM, sugarCRM)
- Friends & Family
- Elevator Pitch
- Annual Report for Public
- Newsletter
- Thank you note/Receipt
- Fund Raising Kit
How to write a Fund Raising proposal
Role play
Open Discussion with Michael Howden (expert on Sahana, Open Source Disaster & Development
Management Software) about User Participation in Information System Project
Asking why many projects failed because of lack of user participation, he provided some ideas for
brainstorming:
It is very import to keep involve with the users to see if they really want to use the system. Ask users:
Do you want to use the system?
- Yes
- No (Some say yes, because they do not want to say No)
Why don’t you use the system?
- Busy/No time
- Internet connection is slow
- Difficult to use
5. - Scared of Technology
- System has no benefit/Cannot see the benefit (until there is data)
- Don’t want to share
Are users the right users?
BarCamp Chiang Mai (June 12, 2010) – At Chiang Mai Art Center
I had a chance to present a topic: “Open Source Digital Library (DSpace)” to a group of more than 10
people. Most of them had not known about DSpace before. After a 30mn presentation of DSpace
introductory aspects, some of them were very interested in the benefit of this free and open source
software. They also wondered if they could have a place where they can access to all useful and
relevant documents which could help with their learning and research. I also introduced them a little bit
about kids-d project and referred them to the project website for them to learn more about us.