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4SITEDC

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Saved by David Munir Nabti / منير دافيد نبتي (AltCity / Hibr.me)
on April 16, 2010 at 12:15:56 pm
 

4SITE DC4SITEDC is a combined lighting talks & BarCamp style "unconference" event to gather people to talk about challenges to, and opportunities for, fostering and supporting social innovation in the WANA (West Asia/North Africa) region. This event is organized the day before the Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship, and aims to bring together social innovators and social innovation/social entrepreneurship support organizations (and others) to discuss real issues, real opportunities, innovative ideas, and success stories. Please join us!

This page is primarily for the barcamp segment of the event... full details on the whole event and free registration up at: http://4SITEDC.eventbrite.com

4SITE (Investing in Sustainability, Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship) is a collaborative initiative working to promote innovation and entrepreneurship in the WANA region, with an emphasis on sustainable and social innovation/entrepreneurship.

This is event is held alongside, but independent of, the Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship.  

 

Event details

When: Sunday, April 25, 2010, 10am-4pm

Where: George Washington University, School of Business (Duques Hall 151, 2201 G Street, NW (entrance on 22nd Street), Washington, DC 20052 )

 Any questions, please contact us at <4SITE [at] therootspace [dot] org>

Organizers

 

(We would be happy to have a small-scale sponsor to cover costs for food/drinks/basic stationary supplies... please contact us if you're interested.)

Schedule

  • 10:00 - 10:15:   Intros and overview of the day 
  • 10:15 - 10:30:  Framing Intro
  • 10:30 - 10:45:  Q & A, Intros
  • 10:45 - 11:00: Quick break, setup of first presentations
  • 11:00 - 12:00:  Six Rapidfire Presentations Part 1 - 5mins for presentation / 5 mins for Q & A each 
  • 12:00 - 12:30: Break / networking 
  • 12:30 - 13:30:  Six Rapid fire presentations Part 2 - 5mins for presentation / 5 mins for Q & A each
  • 13:30 - 13:40: Quick Introduction to Barcamp sessions
  • 13:40 - 14:00: Break and session planning 
  • 14:00 - 14:45: Barcamp Session 1 (small breakout sessions) 
  • 14:45 - 15:30: Barcamp Session 2 (small breakout sessions) 
  • 15:30 - 15:45: Closing wrap-up, sharing of top points from each Barcamp session
  • 15:45 - 16:00: Q & A / closing comments
  • 16:00 onwards - dinner/s in nearby restaurants, Summit registration, etc

RapidFire Sessions

We're inviting anyone with an innovative idea/approach to fostering social innovation in the WANA region, with an emphasis on the more fragile, post-conflict, and developing countries, to present a rapid-fire 5 minute presentation (15 slides of 20 seconds each), followed by five minutes of questions. If it's not clear from the presentation, the first two questions will be:  

  1. what is the innovation?, and
  2. what is the potential social impact?  

We are not just looking for social innovations, we are looking for innovative ways to foster social innovation!

If you are interested in submitting, please send the following to <4SITE [at] therootspace [dot] org>

  1.   a brief (200 word max) description of the project you would like to present
  2. full contact information (name, email, phone, country of origin, organization contact info, website, twitter, etc) 
  3. 4 sample slides (of the 15 final slides), and describe your presentation

Barcamp Sessions Topic Ideas

Any (relevant...) idea welcome! Post your suggestions here, but we'll make the actual schedule on the day of the event.

Topic Idea
 Proposed by (Name/Org)
I Like! (add +1 for topics you like)
   
 1
     
     
     

 

Volunteers (would be great to have some volunteers on the day of the event!) 

In addition to the very basic tasks in the Task List below, would be great to have a few people volunteer to help out with a few basic things at the day of the event... basically setup in the morning (9am-10am), managing the registration desk (1 hour shifts between 9am and noon), and cleanup/packup (4pm-5pm).  Please email us at <4site [at] therootspace [dot] org> if you are interested in helping out!

Participants (aka Campers)

Task List

The people at GWU and GWU/CFEE are AMAZING!  Most things are taken care of... last few remaining things are...

Non-tech

  • Breakfast snack/coffee/tea/snacks
  • Early afternoon drinks/coffee/tea/snacks
  • Basic Stationary (name tags, colored papers (half letter size), big sheets of paper, colored marker pens, tape)

If you can help with any of these things, please post up here and/or email us at  <4SITE [at] therootspace [dot] org>

Tags for flickr, delicious, ma.gnolia, technorati etc.

Please use the tag 4SITEDC for content related to this event

Who's blogging?

  • anybody?

 

Anything else we're missing? Other ideas? Please let us know! <4SITE [at] therootspace [dot] org>

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