Open Zone

RESPONSE: ACTIVITIES – Strategies of Political Participation

Workstation

Wed, Feb 2, 2011
11 am–10 pm
Thu, Feb 3, 2011
11 am–10 pm
Fri, Feb 4, 2011
11 am–10 pm
Sat, Feb 5, 2011
11 am–10 pm
Sun, Feb 6, 2011
11 am–10 pm

This screening will be in German language only.

RESPONSE: ACTIVITIES – Strategies of Political Participation

The Internet has evolved from the carefree online playground of the nineties to become a contested area of social and political action. In accordance with the festival theme, RESPONSE:ABILITY, a broad range of political activities is examined in this workstation.

There is a particular focus on the activist potential available to each individual that can be used to make lasting changes – provided there is an awareness of their own responsibilities. In various workshops and presentations, projects and people from around the world concerned with making a difference – by giving a voice to those who would otherwise remain unheard or by working for the open web and open access to knowledge – are presented. All these initiatives demonstrate, in the end, the need to fully understand the Internet. It is more than the sum of our private social contacts and on-demand content – the Internet is our extended road, a public space whose survival we should all support.


Workshops and presentations:

· Tactical Tech Activism, Through the Iris, Drawing by Numbers by & with Marek Tuszinsky & Stephanie Hankey from Tactical Tech

· Repetitionr by & with Les Liens Invisibles

· Response:Activities – Strategies of Political Participation by & with Allen Gunn

· Booki by Adam Hyde, Douglas Bagnall & Aleksandar Erkalovic, with Adam Hyde

· Drumbeat Workshop and Consultancy Bureau by Mozilla Drumbeat, with Henrik Moltke & Mark Surman

· Government 2.0 by & with Daniel Dietrich and Christian Kreutz

· Facebook Resistance Presentation by & with Tobias Leingruber

· Global Voices Online by & with Sami Ben Gharbia and Solana Larsen


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