OKFestival Sustainability Stream Summary

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#OKFEST SUSTAINABILITY STREAM

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@mrchrisadams @jacktownsend_

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MAJOR CHALLENGESLast Sunday

Lowest ice levels in history

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I can live without polar bears but I don’t want to live on a world where we’re hungry or at war because of climate change @HansRosling

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In some IPCC scenarios, by 2100 Helsinki will be like North Carolina @tgHerzog World Bank

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SO WHAT CAN OPEN KNOWLEDGE DO ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY?

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We need global solutions to global problems@HansRosling & James Cameron

(@Jamesogradycam)

But the politics has failed to deliver them.

The Web and Open Knowledge can help develop diverse bottom-up solutions to the challenges of sustainability

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INFORMED CITIZENS

Global scale

So what can open knowledge do?

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reegle.info

LINKING UP WORLD RENEWABLES DATA

Denise RecheisThomas Thurner

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www.Globe-Town.org @JackTownsend_

climateknowledgeportal.worldbank.org @tgherzog

WORLD BANK DATA TO CONVEY CLIMATE CHANGE

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GREEN HACKATHON: FUTURE CO2 HELSINKI

http://cesc.kth.se/helsinki/ @zapico

Markku Suvanto, Siemens

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INFORMED CITIZENS

Personal scale

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greenmap.org @wendybrawercindy Kohtala

…ACT LOCALLY

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OWN YOUR OWN ENERGY USE

Mydex.org @williamheath

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COMPARING YOUR ENERGY USE WITH THE COMMUNITY

http://Opower.com

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ACCOUNTABILITY

Accountable INDIVIDUALS

So what can open knowledge do?

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@Sustaingranlund Ken Dooley

SHARING YOUR ENERGY USE WITH COMMUNITY

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ACCOUNTABILITY

Accountable INSTITUTIONS

So what can open knowledge do?

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http://cdproject.net @Jamesogradycam

COUNTING CARBON LIKE CASH

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HTTP://landportal.info/landmatrix Neil Sorenson

Tin Geber

TRANSPARENCY OF LAND DEALS

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GREEN HACKATHON: VISUALISING LAND DEALS

@RobinHouston

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MORE OUT FOR LESS IN

So what can open knowledge do?

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COORDINATING & OPTIMISING FOR EFFICIENCY

http://airbnb.com

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MEASURING SOCIAL & ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRESS

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http://findikaattori.fi Ulla Rosenstrom

http://yourtopia.net @vndimitrova @misologie

MEASURING SOCIAL & ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRESS

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INNOVATION

So what can open knowledge do?

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HTTP://SOLARFIRE.ORG

Open Source Hardware

OPEN ENERGY INNOVATION

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INNOVATION CAN CLEAN THE CLOUD

http://mastodonc.com

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SO WHAT CAN OPEN KNOWLEDGE DO ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY?

@JackTownsend_ @Floppy

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CHALLENGES…

• Nothing is a panacea!– “Fairy dust”

• Privacy– Human – Environmental Privacy

• Unintended consequences• Not just releasing the data – it’s what you do with it

– Open knowledge into action– Stories and images matter more than facts– Willful misuse/false impressions– User-focused solutions

• Digital divide– Who is empowered?– Western-centric value?

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The “hacker ethic” can bring much to the challenges of sustainability, particularly supporting the commons by sharing, and a playful desire to try new things out. So… @zapico

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THANK YOU!

The OKFN and everyone who organized and crewed

Everyone who attended

Tim Herzog, Neil Sorenson, Tin Geber, Robin Houston, Ulla Rosenstrom, Vincent Finat-Duclos, Dirk Heine, Karthikeya Acharya,

Ken Dooley, William Heath, James Cameron, Hans Rosling, Markku Suvanto,Wendy Brawer, Cindy Kohtala, Denise Recheis, Thomas Turner,

Velichka Dimitrova, Jorge Zapico, James Smith, Guo Xu, Hannes Ebner, @MrChrisAdams, @JackTownsend_

http://okfestival.org/open-knowledge-and-sustainability/