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/

1. #mkict #BandungMeeting
some ideas & works behind
Mekong ICT Camp 2
presented in Nu-Substance Festival 2010
July 20, 2010 @ Centre Culturel Français de Bandung
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2. twitter, follow @bact
Art (bact’) Arthit Suriyawongkul
Background in software industries, open source and localization.
Now working with social enterprise, digital rights groups, activists,
and academics. Curriculum designer for Mekong ICT Camp 2.

3. Mekong ICT Camp 2 June 7-11, 2010
BarCamp Chiang Mai 3 June 12, 2010
Chiang Mai, Thailand

4. hackers, journalists, social workers
make a space, let them work together
change (destroy) the world

5. hackers, citizen journalists, health workers, government offcers, social theorists, activists, in one room!
Photo by Keng Susumpow. Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License www.fickr.com/photos/kengz/4701351918/

6. I, C, & T workshops for software
developers, hackers, media activists,
community health practitioners, civil
society, etc. in Burma, Cambodia, Laos,
Thailand, Vietnam, and connected places*
* There’re people from other regions working inside/for the Mekong region, like people from
Australia in Cambodia, from Burma in Hong Kong, from South Korea in Bangkok, we include them.

7. We do engineered the participant groups.
We did made some relatively open-minded offcials in, let them
experience themselves what it’s like working with civil society people.

8. co-organizers:
Thai Fund Foundation
Opendream
* Thai Fund Foundation is established, has network of trusts with organizations in many levels, including
grassroots and funders. Opendream has network of ICT expertise, including open source community.

9. (Thai Fund) inspiration/base:
AsiaSource
open source software/ICT4D workshop

10. (Opendream) inspiration/base:
Bicyclemark’s*
“journalists & hackers of the world united”
* at 26th Chaos Communication Congress (26C3) in Berlin 2009. Search YouTube for “bicyclemark”.

11. “Hacking here means to destroy,
format, manipulate data and the
systems of sites considered to be
hegemonic. As activism, it is more
creative than destructive.”
– from the cover of Esai Tentang Seni Video dan Media Baru /
Essays on Video Art and New Media: Indonesia and Beyond by Krisna Murti (IVAA, 2009)

12. forked/mixed/mashed-up/hacked:
Mekong ICT Camp
→ 1.0 (2008) → 2.0 (2010) →

13. source: information and
communication technology
→{ punctuation magic }→
hacked: information, communication,
and technologies

14. Information
Communication
Technologies

15. Information-Management
Communication-Advocacy
Technologies-Infrastructure

16. Information-Management-Policy
Communication-Advocacy-Movement
Technologies-Infrastructure-DIY

18. Now I have some loosely connected ideas,
but I can’t think detailedly in everything.
{ Press [F1] } HELP!

19. I know loosely about the WHY.
I don’t know yet the WHAT and the HOW.
But I know about the WHO.
(or know about the WHO who should know about the WHO)

20. I discuss my friends about the whole idea.
Sometime ask people I never know before.
Just try.

21. JUST TRY.
Experimenting.
Freedom to Fail.
(and rights to get more chances)

22. In the end I have these cool WHOs who
trusted me (or trusted a friend of mine),
and committed to do something together.

23. From this network of TRUST, I got:

24. Media ecology and P2P theorist, Government
chief information offcer, Electromagnetic
engineer, Media and cultural studies researcher,
Journalist, Photographer, Software engineer,
Wireless network engineer, Curator, Media
activist, Information security expert, User
experience designer, Web developer, Educator,
Social media expert, … some of them are
actually later selected from participants

25. Next slide is WHAT we have together ...

26. Governance 2.0, Open Public Data, Information Policy, Awareness
and Risk Assessment in the Digital Environment, Citizen
Journalism, Reporting Mekong, Piracy, Net Neutrality, Privacy, SMS
for Agricultural Applications, ICT for Volunteer Management,
Photo-documentary, Information Visualization, Public-Private
Partnership, Universal Access Design, Web Accessibility, Disaster
Management System, User-oriented Design, Running a Cause
Using Social Media, Online Fund Raising, Public-access Media
Movements, Making a Civil Society Organization Financially
Sustainable, Video Activism & Digital Mobilization, Open
Everything and P2P Production, { hey, more … }

27. OK. I got the content, the WHAT.
What about the format, the HOW?
Hehe, I don’t really know (again).

28. Keynotes & Policy talks.
Forums & Discussions.
Hand-ons workshops.
And unconference (BarCamp) at the end.

29. Two new elements, in 2010 Camp:
Policy talks – to think more about WHY
Unconference – for more participations

30. Discussions & workshops: 3 parallel tracks
Keynotes & Forums: before lunch.
Policy talks: before dinner.

32. And those are only loose categories.
Details in practice are up to the resource
people, and interaction from participants.

33. Facilitators came up with innovative ways
of co-learning. From role-playing to mini-
unconferences within the workshop.
Things that the ‘curriculum designer’ can’t really imagine alone by himself.

34. Participants from FOSS Asia, Vietnam
Photo by Keng Susumpow. Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License www.fickr.com/photos/kengz/4700670923/

35. DIY track / Community Wif mesh, Low-power Radio transmitter, SMS gateway
Photo by Keng Susumpow. Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License www.fickr.com/photos/kengz/4701326876/

36. Pete Tridish from Prometheus Radio project
Photo by Keng Susumpow. Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License www.fickr.com/photos/kengz/4700701715/

37. Low-power Radio Transmitter
Photo by Keng Susumpow. Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License www.fickr.com/photos/kengz/4700768783/

38. Social media, Read/Write Web
Photo by Keng Susumpow. Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License www.fickr.com/photos/kengz/4701236412/

39. Policy talk: Sunil Abraham, Centre for Internet and Society, on Piracy and Privacy
Photo by Keng Susumpow. Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License www.fickr.com/photos/kengz/4701241752/

40. Throw in open-minded creative people in
to a room. Provide them freedom. May be
guide them a bit with some loose themes.

41. It will be OK.
If not, that’s a lesson learned.
And that’s already something.

42. (Report guideline from one of funders)
Highlights of main activity, 3-5 bullets.
Brief description, accomplishments and results.
Challenges and how they were overcome.
Lessons learned or best practices.
Noteworthy outcomes/observations.

43. Seeking for and listening to feedbacks.
Tell everybody (and funders) about it.
What works, what’s not.

44. Funders are not only funders.
They are also partners.
We share some common goals, right?

45. Without some structures
(guidelines, themes, schedules, etc.)
it’s diffcult to work.

46. But, stick too much with structures,
you self-censored yourself.
No innovation, new ways for doing things.

47. Open and Flexible Structure.
Space to Work.
Freedom to Innovate and Participate.
(so we can solve things together)

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