* Please Note: Changes have been made to Tuesday's Schedule! *
THE SOUL OF THE NEW MACHINE - NYC
May 4, 2009: 9AM-9PM
May 5, 2009: 9 AM-7PM 12 PM-7PM
Brooklyn Creative League, 540 President Street (btwn 3rd & 4th Aves), Brooklyn, NY (Union Street Station (M, R))
The Soul of the New Machine-NYC is a viewing hub and barcamp for individuals to explore new technologies and their applications for the practice of human rights.
"How can a mobile phone become a tool for documenting human rights abuses? Which organizations are crowd-sourcing data during crises to understand group violence? What's the best way to use online social networks to organize human rights activists?"
The Soul of the New Machine conference, organized by the Human Rights Center at the University of California Berkeley, will address all of these questions and more through two days of expert panels and workshops. Featured events at the New York hub include:
- 8PM, May 4: Wine & Cheese Networking event with video-streamed keynote address by James Suroweicki (author, Wisdom of Crowds)!
- 9AM, May 5: Breakfast Q&A (speaker TBA)
- 9AM-12PM Barcamp sessions both days! See schedule below.
All events (and most food and refreshments) are FREE.
Please RSVP as soon as possible to Cristina Moon (me[at]cristinamoon[dot]com) to suggest a barcamp topic or to lead a session, and so we can bring adequate food and refreshments. No RSVP required.
Full schedule of events (Eastern Daylight Time)
Conference website: www.newmachineconference.org
Monday, May 4
Registration & Breakfast - 9AM-9:30AM
Welcome & Introduction to Barcamp - 9:30AM-9:45AM
Barcamp Session 1 - 9:45AM-10:40AM
Barcamp Session 2 - 10:45AM-11:40AM
Barcamp Session 3 - 11:45AM-12:40PM
Break for Lunch - 12:40PM-1:45PM
Participants:
Cristina Moon (me[at]cristinamoon[dot]com) - organizer
Allan Benamer - Social Markets
Lova Rakotomalal - FOKO Madagascar
Innokenty Grekov - Human Rights First
Olga Filatova
Solana Larsen (maybe) - Global Voices
Gabe Hopkins - Digital Democracy
Jack Hidary
Molly Beutz Land - New York Law School
Moe Thee Zun
Carlos Toro
Ram Singh - inforMediq
Patrick Meier - Ushaidi
http://www.linkedin.com/in/ferola Michael Ferola, mferola@ferola.com, IT Consultant
Sameer Padania (possibly) - WITNESS
Tags:
Update on Twitter with the main conference hashtag #newmachine.
Tweeting about a specific panel or session? Use panel-specific tags:
* GIS/GPS: #conf_GIS
* Social Networking: #conf_snet
* Digital Photography and Video: #conf_vid
* PDA's and Phones for Data Collection: #conf_PDA
* Databases/Data Collection: #conf_data
* Blogging Human Rights: #conf_blog
* Multimedia, Games, and Animation: #conf_anim
* Corporate Social Responsibility: #conf_CSR
* Forensics: #conf_for
* Media Advocacy and Leadership: #conf_adv
What is a viewing hub?
Thanks to Fora.tv, the proceedings of the Soul of the New Machine conference in Berkeley will be live-streamed on the internet. Sure, you could watch the talks at home in your pajamas, but the New York hub will provide a great opportunity to network with other human rights practitioners and technologists. We'll also have sessions in New York - you can lead one, too!
Sessions You Want to See/Lead:
Tech for Human Rights in Madagascar - Lova Rakotomalal
Health IT
Handheld Human Rights in Burma
Follow us on Twitter: @hrcberkeley
