The official motto of BarCamp Ethiopia 2011 is

“YOUR KNOWLEDGE | YOUR COMMUNITY “

Barcamp Ethiopia 2011 is the second large Barcamp to be organized in Ethiopia, the follow-up to last years successful Barcamp at EiABC in Addis.
A Barcamp is a sort of "unconference" (BAR= "Beyond All Recognition"): It is organized and administered not by an institution or a company, but by an open community of interested individuals. It has no pre-structured program - everything is planned and coordinated through a web-based public Wiki (the page you are visiting right now) and other online tools where anyone can post ideas and participate actively through collaboration. So far, over 400 Barcamps have been held all over the world with different thematic focus, also in several other African countries, but until last year, never before in Ethiopia.

The planning and preparation of Barcamp Ethiopia will be coordinated through this wiki-page and the "BarCamp Ethiopia" group in the NING-Platform "eLearning Ethiopia": http://elearningethiopia.ning.com/group/barcampethiopia and Barcamp Ethiopia Facebook Group

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Event details

When: September 23 and 24 2011

Opening Party: September 22

Where: AAiT, Addis Ababa (ammist kilo, opposite to National Museum)

DOWNLOAD THE LATEST BROCHURE: barcampethiopia 2011 flyer

Official BarCamp Ethiopia Blog: http://barcampethiopia.wordpress.com

Where to stay in Addis?

Hotels in Addis on AddisMap
List of Hotels in Addis (from African Union)
Make a request for particular type of accommodation though Good Morning Ethiopia
100 Dormitories are available. Pre-registration is required.

Visa Issues:

If you need invitation letter for visa or sponsorship, please contact the planners below or post it at eLearningEthiopia forum.

Schedule

Thursday 22nd Sept./Evening: Inaugural party

Friday 23rd Sept.	Saturday 24th Sept.	Sunday 25th Sept. (Barcamp tour)
09:00 Introduction & establishment of session-schedule	09:00 Review of first day's results & impressions	8:30 Visiting the AAU main campus museum (Sidist kilo)
09:30 Coffee	09:30 Coffee	10:00 Travel to Entoto (mountain) and planting trees
10:00 1st round of sessions	10:00 6th round of sessions	12:00 end of the program
11:00 2nd round of sessions	11:00 7th round of sessions
12:00 Lunch	12:00 Lunch
14:00 3rd round of sessions	14:00 8th round of sessions
15:00 4th round of sessions	15:00 9th round of sessions
16:00 Coffee	16:00 Coffee
16:30 5th round of sessions	16:30 10th round of sessions
17:30 Closing	17:30 Closing
18:00 Dinner	18:00 Dinner
Evening/Party	Evening/Party

Sunday 25th of September: / Morning - Planting tree

Tips for session hosts here !

- Tele-Health in Ethiopia - Getachew Endris

- How to bring about developmental revolution /evolution to Ethiopia through IT and education - Samuel Hailemariam

- Travel the world for free: Couchsurfing - Markos

- Adaptive technology for the blind - Rufael Tesfaye

- The importance of active tech community - Markos

- Luckhunters: "The Luck Hunters": a reality TV program about two guys from Mendoza, Argentina, who travel around the world, promoting their products: MTB wine and the rock-opera "El Futre", and how Ethiopian entrepreneurs can play a role in the development of this program. - Mike Barrow

- Crowdfunding, a method for financing creative projects & startups - Ilaria & jörn

- Google + / Opportunities for developers/techies with Google - Google (Divon, Nemo, Solomon )

- Android Development (Divon, Nemo, Solomon )

- Localization Amharic and technology (Divon, Nemo, Solomon )

- Women in media (Beate)

- Enterpeneurship (Beza)

- Mind stuff - Yofthae

- The impact of poronography - Fahmi

- Movies - Girum

- Cartoon: Yemiserach

- Rights of domestic violence in Ethiopia - Blen

- Using smartphones to improve maternal health - Alex & Florida

- Hot Trends in Tech (the cloud, cyber security, mobile computing, FOSS) - Naod

- Views on ICT Education in Ethiopia - Naod

- The Internet and You - social networking, blogging, content discovery and more (Naod)

- What my art talk about? - (Mulugeta)

- localization of open library system sofware (tekelemariam)

- major events in the last decade (abel)

- Your Sexual Health - (Seble)

- Localization of Content Management Systems. Standardized translations for Typo3 and other CMS like Joomla. Amharic content as a new approach for modern website design. (Mikias)

- Psycho-cybernetics, Da vinchian wisdoms and practices, Meditation and Positive thinking (Soheib)

- Protected areas (Ameset)

- New Media in Education (oliver)

- Artificial Intellegence, Nanotechnology and Time machine (Leul)

- The Green Club (Abraham)

Planners

Planners represent the core team of organizers.

Biruh Misgnanaw http://elearningethiopia.ning.com/profile/BiruhMisganaw
Markos Lemma http://eweket.wordpress.com/about
Oliver Petzoldt www.xing.com/profile/Oliver_Petzoldt2
Elena Gaffurini http://gooutofthebox.wordpress.com/
Arianna Vassallo
Abraham T. Wate http://thegreen-club.org/

Volunteers

Volunteers are ready and willing to help out with specific tasks for the preparation of the Barcamp.

Abel Asrat
Fistum
Alem Assefa

> Task list here !

Planners & volunteers, please sign up for one or more tasks!

Participants (aka Campers)

Participants attend and take active part in the event on the 23-24. September (Tentative)

Name	Blog/Website	Topic	Interests	Comments
Biruh Misganaw	http://elearningethiopia.ning.com/profile/BiruhMisganaw	eLearning	Improving women's participation in higher educational institutes in Africa
Rufael Tesfaye	http://elearningethiopia.ning.com/profile/RufaelTesfaye	IT for the Blind	Adaptive Technology for the Blind
Elias		drug abuse among the youth	philantrophy
Abel Asrat		empowering the student	activist for student right
Mahider kebede		the culture of giving back	philantrophy
Hermela		the road to a drop of water
		SAFETY TRAINING FOR CONSTRUCTION WORKERS:MALAYSIAN EXPERIENCE
Jörn Schultz			Open innovation, eLearning, online communities
Alex Little	http://alexlittle.net	Thin client technology, Amharic virtual keyboard, mobile health apps and data collection, elearning training	elearning
AIESEC	www.aiesec.org/ethiopia	Entrepreneurship	Develop young entrepreneurs looking for a positive impact in the society
The Green Club	www.thegreen-club.org	Greening and playground construction
Biruh Misganaw	http://elearningethiopia.ning.com/profile/BiruhMisganaw	Light Talk	Open Discussion
Digital Opportunity Trust	http://ethiopia.dotrust.org	Enterpreneurship

Digital Opportunity Trust	http://ethiopia.dotrust.org	Carrier Development

Registered Participants (updates regularly)

http://barcampethiopia.wordpress.com/2011/08/23/confirmed-participants-23-8-2011/

Stats (powered by Google)

http://barcampethiopia.wordpress.com/2011/09/05/barcamp-ethiopia-participants-stats-5-9-2011/

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Please use the tag (barcampethiopia) for content related to this event

Who's blogging?

To know more: Some articles about what a Barcamp can be:

SAFETY TRAINING FOR CONSTRUCTION WORKERS:MALAYSIAN EXPERIENCE Improving women's participation in higher educational institutes in Ethiopia

http://thegreen-club.org/The

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