The document discusses open systems solutions and their potential to address key UN challenge areas like access to education, post-conflict response, and climate change. It proposes using open source models, participatory processes, and knowledge commons to create solutions that empower citizens, build capacity, and foster dialogue. Specific initiatives mentioned include developing an open systems strategy for the state of Warrap in South Sudan around peace, development, urban planning, and education. The document calls for enabling access, developing criteria for open systems, prioritizing long-term sustainability, educating about open educational resources, and fostering open knowledge commons.

1. Open Systems Solutions. Now!
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2. -Access to Education and Knowledge
- Post-Conflict / Post-Disaster Response
- Gender / Minority Empowerment
- Climate Change
UNESCO WSIS Action Line C3:
'Access to Information and Knowledge'
acting to mitigate 4 Key UN Challenge Areas:
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3. • 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
using Open Source Models ...
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4. • 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
to create Open Systems Solutions,
in terms of methodology, depend on or require ...
(in this case: based on the P2P Foundation’s requirements for open urbanism)
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5. • 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
Open Systems incorporate and collate different types of
basic ‘open’ elements including, among others:
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6. innovative cross-disciplinarity DIY... DIWO (do it with others)
meta-recycling ... up-cyclingAT - Appropriate Technologies
http://www.natural-fiber.com http://stgomakerspace.com/
http://metarede.org/http://www.metareciclagem.org/ http://hexayurt.com/
comprehensive methodologies, tools, materials, techniques ...
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7. building & creating local economies
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9. using, i.e. open platforms
- mitigating effects of climate change on local level
- building knowledge commons
http://sautiyawakulima.net
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11. • generators of knowledge, capacity building and citizen empowerment
• gateways to quality education, resources and economic development
• fostering dialogue between citizens, communities and governments
• tools of social interaction and participation
• fostering transparency, accountability and sustainability across sectors
http://r0g-media.org/osjuba/
Open Sourcing South Sudan?
considering open systems solutions as:
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12. Governor Nyandeng Malek Dielic of Warrap State
developing a comprehensive ‘open systems strategy’ ...
In supporting open sytems,
she sees the linkages
between climate change
and the many dimensions
of equitable development,
security and growth
presenting both
"a crisis that must be tackled and
an opportunity that must be seized."
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13. #OSWARRAP
Open Systems Strategy for Peace and Development
#OSBACK
South Sudan Open Source Server Backbone
#ArchitectureofPeace
Open Urbanism and the Post Conflict City
#kLAB
Virtual Academy and Open Innovation Lab
#OSJUBA Open Systems for South Sudan
initiatives include ...
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14. UNESCO WSIS Open Systems Recommendations
1.EnableAccess
-publicuseandloweringbarriersofaccesstotechnology.
2.DevelopOpenSystemscriteriaandvocabulary
-betterunderstanding&rapidimplementationofcomprehensivesolutions.
3.RecognizeOpenSystemsaslong-termsustainabilitypriorities
-inthecontextofaddressingUN'sfourkeychallengeareas.
4.EducationoftheEducators-aboutandviaOER
-includingmedialiteracyinelementaryeducationintoandthroughOpenSystems.
5.Supportsmallscale,independentoruserdefined‘Open’incubators
-highlightingtheinterconnectivity,createcomprehensiveOpenSystemsSolutions.
6.FostercreationofOpenKnowledgeCommons
-includingFOSS,OER,OpenData,OpenHardware &relatedprocesses,methodologies
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15. join ...
http://www.wsis-community.org/
over 3000 members:
- contributing to information gathering and exchange
- development of ideas and projects
- engaging the WSIS multi-stakeholder teams
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16. Open Systems Solutions. Now!
OKConference Geneva September 18, 2013
Thank you!
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Stephen Kovats
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