re:publica & GIG, Berlin
Dear Friends,
We’d love to welcome you to our second annual r0g_agency ‘Meet ‘n Greet’ at our new location in Charlottenburg! We’ll take the opportunity to introduce three of our project colleagues from South Sudan, our guests at a series of events including the 11th edition of re:publica, Global Innovation Gathering (GIG), and the 1st Berlin Offline Camp…
Achol Jok Mach
#defyhatenow project manager and cultural podcaster
Jaiksana Amarüda José
cultural activist, songwriter and open tech community trainer
Hakim George Hakim
freelance photo-journalist, film maker and social media activist
Thursday May 4th, 2017
18.00 – 22.00
r0g_agency for open culture and critical transformation gGmbH
Knobelsdorffstrasse 22
14059 Berlin-Charlottenburg
The evening will feature a special sneak preview screening of ZAWAJA GALI (‘Marriage is Expensive’) the new film by Sam Lukudu and Cont de Monk, starring Joyce Maker, shot and produced entirely on location in Juba, South Sudan!
re:publica 2017
Monday May 8, @ 19.45 – 20.45 (Stage 2)
Since gaining independence in 2011 the Republic of South Sudan has become embroiled in a protracted civil conflict claiming thousands of lives and displacing over a million people. When violent clashes between government and opposition forces erupted in the capital Juba on the eve of its fifth anniversary in July 2016 the role played by social media in stoking violence, fear and ethnic hatred came to the fore. Initiatives such as #defyhatenow, working with local communities to identify and mitigate social media hate speech, along with the surveying and monitoring of ethnic hate terminology by the Peace Tech Lab seek to create mechanisms to curb conflict rhetoric as urgent peace-building measures.
Wednesday May 10, @ 10.30 – 11.00 (Stage 2)
Clemantine Wamarya and Achol Jok Mach are honoring this year´s theme “Loving out Loud” by defining what love might be in respect for oneself, for community, for country and for the world; discussing the importance of being aware of what is in our way of loving outloud as opposed to hating in silence, rooted in their personal lived experience.
Global Innovation Gathering (GIG) 2017
GIG Makerspace & Program @ re:publica
The Global Innovation Gathering (GIG), a sub-conference developed by re:publica, brings together innovation hub managers, makers, hackers and entrepreneurs from across the world. In the last four years GIG has become a central part of the conference programme, showcasing tech innovation and maker projects from Asia, Africa and Latin America. At re:publica 2017 GIG will come together for its fifth annual gathering; its members will take over the #rp17 stages on numerous occasions during the three re:publica days and GIG will host a pop-up Makerspace together with the FabLab Berlin.
2017 GIG is taking place in collaboration with the StartHubs Asia Berlin project, initiated by the City of Berlin, and GIZ. Over 20 different nationalities will be hosting talks and workshops ranging from using the open-source software Ushahidi for reporting extra judicial killings in the Philippines, to open citizen data projects in Indonesia, Columbia and Brazil, and self-made ISPs in the Amazon jungle. The programme also covers current and global political developments and discusses various issues such as the prevailing debate on online hate speech and how to mitigate it, in particular in conflict regions such as South Sudan.
