Holistic ICT for EcoLiving

On Sept 27, OVF will organize the 2nd Community Day Event officially titled: ICOS2009 – oneVillage Community Day on “Dissemination of Innovation”. Community day is a secondary or sub-event that will take place in Taipei, Taiwan, at the International Conference on Open Source (ICOS) 2009.

Event Theme & Title: ICOS2009 – oneVillage + GELI Community Day is dissemination of innovation.

Event Design: This discussion is a sub-event of the ICOS2009 Summit. Go here for more general information about the ICOS event: http://icos.org.tw

Time and Date: Sept 27th, 2009 between 9:00 AM and 12:00 PM

Background: oneVillage Community Day is an event first launched in May 09 to build momentum for the 2009 oneVillage Ecotour Service and Learning field trip to Ghana that was coordinated with the National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) students, faculty and administrators.

OVF’s oneVillage Initiative / process seeks to disseminate these kinds of best practices using the example of Ghana. As part of OVI, we seek to promote multipurpose, hub-centered models of collaboration and capacity building approaches to information development called Open Digital Villages. The Winneba Open Digital Villages (WODiV) is an example and flagship engaging human networks and defining building blocks towards dissemination and human capacity building. We see such integrated approaches as key to the successful deployment of open source in emerging markets.

The OVF Community Day presentation will also look at the work of our colleagues and partners involved in Taiwan’s National Tsing Hua University’s International Volunteers Student Program; in particular those involved in the EMate Program (coordinated in Taiwan by Apple Jia of the Bamboo Community University), which supports Indonesia’s Gayo E-Learning and Informatika (GELI) Project.

Event Focus: The morning’s discussion will focus on the idea that it is not just about the development of technologies, but how they are designed, implemented and deployed with the stakeholder’s needs as the first consideration.

oneVillage Initiative Holistic ICT deployment brings community development & technology efforts together so that that they complement each other. Our goal is to manifest the larger vision of the OVF Open Digital Village Program to break down barriers between OS users and designers through a hub training and capacity building environment that empowers the end-user with open source tools that are easy to use.

See ICOS 09 oneVillage Community Day Open Digital Village wiki page for more details: http://www.opendigitalvillage.net/index.php?title=27-Sept-2009