Workshop on Fun Open Source, Teaching Research, and Development Aid (FOSTRADA) 2006
Raw Notes
Raw notes on Disaster Relief.Presentations
All presentations are available at http://eiao.net/fostrada/schedule.Topics
Keynote speach
Title: Open Source for Economic JusticeKeynote speaker: Bruce Perens
- Creating business in development countries.
- Building e-Government solutions independent of one single vendor.
- Enabling a development country to take development in their own hands.
FossPool - Free and Open Source Software Pool
Title FossPoolDiscussion Leader: Reidar Jortveit
- Financially sustainable way of funding Open Source software development.
- Has been tried a number of times before, but did not get sufficient traction.
- May be an attempt for use for job creation in developing countries.
Project to create and share teaching materials
Title: Project to create and share teaching materialsDiscussion Leader: Terje Gjøsæter
- How can we quickly establish a proof-of concept including all the elements to produce use and improve the teaching material
- What are the requirements we should cover in a first attempt
- What platforms (if any) are most suited
- Who could be interested in funding this, nationally, internationally
- Further potential partners to contact
- How can this support development of teaching materials and student project involving teachers and students both from the North and the South
Collaboration platform for student projects
Title:Collaboration platform for student projectsDiscussion Leader: Bruce Perens and Mikael Snaprud
Although there is a number of collaboration tools available they are not much used to pursue student projects. Much like the experience from Open Source development using online tools for sharing and organising documents and code we think a similar approach for student projects would give the students a more relevant experience and result in more useful results from the projects. At AUC we have some encouraging results from experiments with a report template and a way of organising the courses.
- What are the requirements for a teaching toolbox?
- What are the tools we would need (SVN, mailing lists, ...)?
- Guidelines for set-up and use of tools.
- Practical organisation to allow students to switch among groups and projects.
- Usefulness and feasibility of project progress monitoring indicators to present to student groups and supervisors.
- How to combine with existing tools like class Fronter?
- Could the tools be used for grading the student project?
- How can such a platform be a guide for development aid and teaching?
ICT for Disaster relief co-ordination
Title:ICT for Disaster relief co-ordinationDiscussion Leader:Not decided
The Tsunami disaster triggered many releif efforts. The resources often did not reach the people in greatest need due to poor coordination among the many largely indpenedent helpers. Ericsson has an activity on disaster relief where they are helping to rebuild damaged infrastructure. AUC Grimstad has defined the main research activity to be mobile communications Applica AS is considering to develop a self configuring system based on Open Source. The development of a disaster in phases should be prepared as input to the discussion.
- What are the co-ordination challenges in disaster coordination. E.g. How to asses the damage quickly with many partly contradictory pieces of information, how to prioritise, what about information security concerning missing and found persons.
- What could be better coordinated and how?
- What kind of ICT support can help out in the different phases of a disaster relief effort (HAM radio, self configuring communication containers, etc.)
Shipping history on the web
Title: Shipping history on the webDiscussion Leader: Mikael Snaprud and Morten Goodwin Olsen
The importance of the maritime achievements for the European development is well known. However, the details of this history are not easily available and the school curricula generally does not give a coherent overview of this development. Awareness of the historical foundation is essential to build a European unified future. Since shipping has played an important role in a unifying development in Europe we propose to develop the tools and concepts needed to establish a living network to collect, maintain, and explore maritime historical sources. This project is currently being developed and there will be some more hands-on background in August.
The collected information can be made available on the web to build awareness, encourage further research, teaching purposes, and to establish new collaborations to supplement the data and to improve the tools. In this way, three important links can be strengthened:
- between the European cultural heritage and the European future
- raising the European historical awareness as a foundation for building the future, can contribute to a better cultural understanding and build a more coherent and competitive region
- between generations in Europe. Pupils and students could use the tools to survey parts of their own local history and connect to the larger existing historical body.
- between local communities in different countries along the European coast lines. The maritime history is the history of connections and therefore both the collection tools and presentation tools should take this into account. For example the description of sailors from one town can be connected to the history of a ship builder or ship operator from another town. The trade routes would add yet an additional layer to the map.
eGovernment and benchmarking
Title:eGovernment and benchmarkingDiscussion Leader: Not decided
The selection and use of indicators for eGovernment benchmarking are likely to drive the development not only in Europe. Some of those indicators can be automatised. In the EIAO project we are working on a web accessibility indicator. An including discussion on how to establish and evolve such indicators is important for a democratic development of eGovenment applications. The EIAO machinery is designed to be extendible for additional measurements.
Issues to discuss:
- What relevant initiatives are established in this area already and to what extent are they open for collaboration (eGovernet, eGep, Cap Gemini, etc.)
- How can we enable universities to collaborate to develop indicators.
- What are the requirements to establish a research machinery to allow invited contributors to test and use new indicator software.
Hotel reservation
Hotel reservations can be made at:Hotell Norge Rica Partner Hotell
Dronnings gate 5,
4610 Kristiansand S
Phone: +47 38 17 40 00
Fax: +47 38 17 40 01
Prices:
690, - NOK for a single room
890, - NOK for a double room
Breakfast is included
Thon Hotel Wergeland
Kirkegata 15, 4611 Kristiansand S
Phone: +47 38 17 20 40
Fax: +47 38 02 73 21
Prices:
790, - NOK for a single room
990, - NOK for a double room
Breakfast is included
123 Hotel
Østre Strandgate 25,
4664 Kristiansand
Tel: +47 38 70 15 66
E-mail: post@123-hotel.no
Prices:
495, - NOK for a single room
695, - NOK for a double room
Breakfast is included
