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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
So what can open knowledge do?
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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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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/
