Makerspace
18:45 - 19:45
English
Workshop
Beginner
EmanziTech
#ASKotec: an emergency field kit for Access to Skills and Knowledge

Kurzthese

#ASKotec; the 'Access to to Skills and Knowledge Open Tech Emergency Case' is a resource kit for community trainers, created for mobile field-use where there is neither easy power nor internet connectivity in low-infrastructure regions or rural areas. Intended as ‘Open Tech for Good’, #ASKotec was created through a series of hub development workshops by a community of young innovators intent on bringing skills training and peacebuilding together in the effort to end the South Sudan conflict.

Beschreibung

Currently being field-tested, both in South Sudan and refugee settlements in Northern Uganda, #ASKotec is designed and being further developed as a multi-functional hands-on resource, tool and repair kit for community trainers to tackle basic education, skills and access to information challenges in such regions. Intended to be presented as an example of how 'Tech for Good' is applied in post-conflict development by local communities. #ASKotec can be put to action, for example, to show how to build a simple solar charger for mobile phones or create other #OpenTech out of the box and even set-up a pop-up Repair Café in the middle of nowhere.

#ASKotec is packed in a dust-proof case with basic tools and materials to distribute knowledge, repair other tools and equipment, to learn about basic (open source) IT, solar technology, or up-cycling old material to create new forms of open innovation …anywhere! It contains 40 items incluing basic electronics and connections, soldering and cutting tools, mechanical and measurement tools, learning guides as well as a light Linux computer decked with a package of free and open software.

Eva Yayi Mawa from the GoGirls ICT Initiative and Open Source Ecology Germany’s Timm Wille aiming to discuss the role of skills training in conflict situations, getting feedback from experienced field-trainers, open tech and hardware advocates, development specialists and the GIG community. Combining the session with Repair Café aspects of trainings they did for South Sudanese in Refugee Settlements in Northern Uganda. You're welcome to join the hands-on session.