Events

Crisis Camp Haiti – London

Vinay Gupta [Hexayurt Project http://www.hexayurt.com] and myself [http://www.geekyoto.com] recently kick started the London chapter of the CrisisCommons project [http://www.crisiscommons.org] and helped initiate a series of workshops, Crisis Camp Haiti – London.
Already there is a dedicated group co-ordinating with the US crisis camps and central CrisisCommons teams and making sure that the work done at these workshops is useful and vital to the whole aid / emergency and redevelopment work that is going into Haiti.
We have a space over at the London Knowledge Labs [http://www.lkl.ac.uk/cms/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&Itemid=27&agid=233&year=2010&month=01&day=23] for the next few Saturdays and have started contributing to the Relief Web project
(in fact for a report on what has happened at the first workshop look at this wiki page [http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/Crisis_Camp_London_Ongoing]).
Of course, we still need more help. If you can do something then please get in touch.
* The wiki is here: http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/Crisis_Camp_London
* Join the Google Group here: http://groups.google.com/group/crisis-camp-london/subscribe
* Follow and use this tag on twitter http://twitter.com/search?q=%23crisiscampldn #crisiscampldn
* Follow this Twitter list http://twitter.com/georgeweyman/crisis-camp-london/
* and the Twitter account @crisiscampLDN
* Ning group http://crisiscampldn.ning.com/ and Facebook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=265208869243
Crisis Commons London is going to exist beyond the events in Haiti because things will happen again, if you can take part, help out in some way (and help is needed not just in the area of code but in everything) then please do take the time to stand up and help.
Thanks
mark
Further reading:
Hexayurt Country [http://hexayurt.com/hexayurt_country/]
Architecture For Humanity – Haiti Quake: A Plan for Reconstruction [http://architectureforhumanity.org/updates/2010-01-17-haiti-quake-a-plan-for-reconstruction]
The Right Testicle of Hell: History of a Haitian Holocaust by Greg Palast [http://www.gregpalast.com/the-right-testicle-of-hell-history-of-a-haitian-holocaust/]
Follow the news at [http://haiti.com/] and Demotix [http://www.demotix.com/haiti-earthquake]

Vinay Gupta [Hexayurt Project] and myself recently kick started the London chapter of the CrisisCommons project and helped initiate a series of workshops, Crisis Camp Haiti – London.

Already there is a dedicated group co-ordinating with the US crisis camps and central CrisisCommons teams and making sure that the work done at these workshops is useful and vital to the whole aid / emergency and redevelopment work that is going into Haiti.

We have a space over at the London Knowledge Labs for the next few Saturdays and have started contributing to the Relief Web project

(in fact for a report on what has happened at the first workshop look at this wiki page).

Of course, we still need more help. If you can do something then please get in touch.

* The wiki is here: http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/Crisis_Camp_London

* Join the Google Group here: http://groups.google.com/group/crisis-camp-london/subscribe

* Follow and use this tag on twitter http://twitter.com/search?q=%23crisiscampldn #crisiscampldn

* Follow this Twitter list http://twitter.com/georgeweyman/crisis-camp-london/

* and the Twitter account @crisiscampLDN

* Ning group http://crisiscampldn.ning.com/ and Facebook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=265208869243

Crisis Commons London is going to exist beyond the events in Haiti because things will happen again, if you can take part, help out in some way (and help is needed not just in the area of code but in everything) then please do take the time to stand up and help.

Thanks

mark

Further reading:

Hexayurt Country [http://hexayurt.com/hexayurt_country/]

Architecture For Humanity – Haiti Quake: A Plan for Reconstruction [http://architectureforhumanity.org/updates/2010-01-17-haiti-quake-a-plan-for-reconstruction]

The Right Testicle of Hell: History of a Haitian Holocaust by Greg Palast [http://www.gregpalast.com/the-right-testicle-of-hell-history-of-a-haitian-holocaust/]

Follow the news at [http://haiti.com/] and Demotix [http://www.demotix.com/haiti-earthquake]

Events, geekyoto09

‘What Is The Exact Nature of The Catastrophe?’

In July 1968, New Worlds magazine asked this very question:

New Worlds July 1968 Cover. Issues #182
New Worlds July 1968 Cover. Issues #182

Now is the time to pose the question again, back in 1968 science fiction writers took that challenge and produced some of the bleakest yet compelling dystopian and catastrophe based works ever written.

Now some of those same writers throw up their hands as they cannot imagine worse than the world is putting forwards right now.

geekyoto 2009  London

  • Date: TBA
  • Time: 0900 – 1730

‘What is the exact nature of the catastrophe?’

Speakers (subject to change):

Dr. Maxwell Jones – Manchester University

Jody Boehnert – Eco Labs

Patrick Andrews – River Simple

Gavin Starks – AMEE

The Beagle Campaign

Suw Charman Anderson – Ada Lovelace Day

and more to be confirmed.

join us. Tickets will be available soon.

UPDATE:

The date has to change, I will be posting an update to the date and venue shortly and tickets will be available as soon as I can confirm the new date.

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geekyoto 2009 – August 15th Conway Hall

Just a note, though it has been quiet at gk HQ in fact we have been rather busy.

Just this last weekend, we ran the first Africa Gathering, here in London as the launch of the geekyoto global briefings. It was an amazing day and we will have more reports here and over at the AG website.

We are also planning some more events but I did want to say that the next geekyoto conference is provisionally booked for August 15th, back at Conway Hall.

The theme this year is:

‘What Is The Exact Nature of The Catastrophe?’

Yes, there will be more information soon and tickets released.

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geekyoto 2009

As you may have guessed from the silence the three days in March is not currently going to happen. Its still on our cards to do the thing we had planned, but may have to wait for a bit.

We will be holding an event, hopefully May/June time and somewhere interesting.

In the meantime, join us at http://www.africagathering.org on April 25th, London for the first of the geekyoto Global Briefings.

Events, global briefings

global briefings – part 2

 

geekyoto global briefings

In our last post we announced our next project to work with Edward Scotcher on developing a day to continue the conversation that was started with his talk at geekyoto ’08.

We hope that beyond this we will be able to bring the world to you in an interesting way and also instill the geekyoto idea in many other parts of the world.

What we would be interested in hearing though is what parts of the world do you want to hear about, we have our ideas of where we would like to explore but what would interest you.

Let us know in the comments if you have any requests.

Events, geekyoto09, global briefings

global briefings

Part of the idea behind geekyoto was to find a way to find out about places, what is happening in the world around us, what can we take into our lives. Equally it is about the general wonder we should all feel about other places on this planet, other peoples lives. With such a rich tapestry of places, peoples and culture we should relish the adventure of just finding out about somewhere else.

With this thought in mind I am extremely pleased to announce that geekyoto is working with Edward Scotcher on what we hope will be the first of a series of events about other places on this planet. The geekyoto Global Briefings.

If you got to geekyoto 2008 you might remember Edwards talk about Africa and technology and his wonderful telling of the story of Fashoda. If you can not remember or did not make it you can watch a video:

On April 25th 2009, in London we plan to hold Africa Gathering a day for thinkers, supporters, sponsors, doers, geeks, dreamers – and everybody else to come and share, promote, highlight, progress and evolve issues related to ICT, social networking and technology in Africa.

We hope that you will join us.

Events

reporting a pandemic

This evening at the National Theatre, London, Demos and TED collaborated to help grant the TEDPrize wish of photographer James Nachtwey.

He wanted to brake a story globally, the story of extremely drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB).

Projected upon the National Theatre were these photographs:

It was cold out there on the southbank, and the photographs are powerful. There is a project now, to see if a story can be broken and communicated across the globe via both traditional and new media. It will be interesting to see if in this image saturated online world a story can still be told by the carefully constructed work of a photojournalist.

Events, geekyoto08

Some videos

Yes, it is taking far too long. I will try and get more videos encoded and online.

In the meantime I do have a couple up there.

We have videos for Christian Nold and Vincenzo Di Maria currently available at vimeo.

I have also posted the video of Bryony Worthington speaking about Sandbag at the Internet Archive.

There was no rhyme nor reason why these videos were posted first, apart from the fact that Bryony has recently ‘officially’ launched Sandbag.org.uk which is also the first site to form a part of the Guardian Environment Network. Excitingly geeKyoto was a catalyst for Bryony getting a lot of the support that has gotten her to this launch and we are all very excited for her and the project.

I will get all the videos posted up to the Internet Archive eventually, please feel free to link and to distribute them as widely as you can.

Also, get ready for geeKyoto 2009 ‘Possible Futures’. More details soon.

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storycubes and notebooks

at geekyoto, Proboscis, one of our supporters distributed their StoryCubes and diffusion e-Notebooks to everyone. Some of them were completed and we collected them up and Giles took them back to scan in.

He has now published them to the web.

So here are 24 of the geeKyoto StoryCubes.

Here are some of the notebooks.

Please take some time to have a look and comment on them and let us know what you thought of the idea of using them at the conference.

(Next time, we will make sure we give you more information on what they are about before we begin).

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