keynote - un global youth summit on hiv
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Here's the slides and notes for a presentation I recently gave. It's an adapted version of the 'Open Everything' talk I used to give with case studies added for "What The HIV/Aids Movement Can Learn From The Green Movement About The Power of Networks". The case studies are Reel Youth, The Fresh Air Media Centre, and DeSmog Blog.TRANSCRIPT
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The Future: Open Everything
The world is already sharing
Open Media: citizen media making
Document Everything
Participatory Group Culture
Open Source Technology
Cast off the shackles of your oppressors
Open Culture: Give it away!
(photo by Franz Patzig)
effective dissemination
encourage participation
yes we can!
Become a Google Ninja!
distributed life/work
Tactical Toolbox
Go Forth!
What Can The HIV Movement Learn From The Green Movement
AboutTHE POWER OF NETWORKS
Bamako, Mali, AfricaApril 15th 2011
Kris Krü[email protected]
THE POWER OF NETWORKS:Case Studies
• PHYSICAL NETWORK: Fresh Air Media Centre - Blogger & social media hub at Copenhagen Climate Change Summit, December 2009. (COP15)
• ONLINE NETWORK:DeSmogBlog - Climate change news aggregator & “debunking the debunkers” portal, 2005-present.
• HUMAN NETWORK:Reel Youth - Training, tools & support for online youth empowerment through media-making. 2001-present.
• Audience: bloggers, activists, citizen journalists, online media, community organizers.
• Services: daily media briefings, debates, networking, electricity, wifi, desk space, telecom, coffee, food, water, beer.
• Goals: provide communications support services to ‘outsider’ and unaccredited media during COP15.
• Intangibles: ideas, sharing, collaboration, connections, friendships, partnerships, inspiration, solidarity, the building of a network.
Fresh Air CentreCOP15 Blogger and Social Media Media Centre
• Audience: enviro bloggers, climate activists, environmental journalists, online media.
• Services: information, education, experts, analysis, quotes, networking.
• Goals: discredit climate change deniers & oil/gas lobbyists, provide clear science-based information about climate change.
• Intangibles: resistance, traffic, search optimization.
DeSmog BlogDebunking the climate change skeptics!
Reel Youthyouth empowerment through media making
• Audience: activists youth, indiginous youth, at-risk youth, oppressed youth, youth leaders.
• Services: training, access to technology, media skills, videography skills, editing skills, directing, producing.
• Goals: help youth find their voice through media making skills and training workshops and an international youth film festival.
• Intangibles: diversity of voices, stories told in youth’s own voices, increased community media making capacity.
“I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”