How to best curate knowledge and how to build or scale to meet the global challenges? What are the best ways in which we should be curating knowledge, how will we be scaling from local to global, how do we build global civic tech, what are the best examples of global impact, collaborations & co-creation?

10:00 – 12:30

Keynote speakers

Location: Bucuresti building

Mark Cridge (mySociety)

Alma Rangel (Codeando Mexico)

Tatiana Proskuryakova (World Bank)

Sandra Pernar (OGP)

Matt Stempeck (Civic Tech Field Guide)

12:30 – 14:00

Lunch Break

14:00 – 15:30

I’ve Heard It Through the Grapevine: Using Technology to Combat Disinformation

Session type: Panel

Location: Bucuresti building

How do we make the difference between when we are informed or misinformed? How much harm was inflicted by technology and how much good can it do in return?  How can we better fight disinformation, in fast-paced movement of data, with little to no means of holding disseminators accountable? What are the digital tools we have or need to develop to catch up with the ever changing mechanisms of disinformation? These are all areas that we will explore in this discussion bringing together technologists, civic technologists and journalists.

Saving Lives as a Global Objective: Building Disaster Relief Tech Infrastructure

Session type: Topical Working Group

Location: Roma building – Space 1

An earthquake feels the same in Chile as it does in Turkey. We are not only equally vulnerable in the face of such events, but most of the challenges we are facing during or after a natural disaster are similar across the world. The 2017 earthquake in Mexico brought the civic tech community together like never before as they delivered app after app that made a huge impact in the hours and days after the strike. In the meantime, as Romanians are waiting for the next major earthquake, the civic tech community also started looking at how to build technology that will support efforts both before and after disaster strikes. This is how the cooperation between Codeando Mexico and Code for Romania came into being with the objective in mind to build a disaster relief infrastructure that is scalable and can be redeployed all over the world. The working group is meant to inform on the work so far, build a broader coalition and map the strategic steps ahead.

Using Technology for Climate Resilience

Session type: Topical Working Group

Location: Roma building – Space 2

Environmental issues are some of the most important challenges we are facing together as humanity. The panel will bring together civic technologists that have worked on the topic to share their insights on how we can put technology to work to help protect the environment and analyze how we can work together in scaling these initiatives around the world.

Effective information flows within civic tech community

Session type: Workshop

Location: Viena building – Space 1

A good information flow within the Civic Tech community is essential for the redeployment of projects, making better use of open source contributions and measuring what works and what doesn’t across the sector. This workshop will focus on what information we need for our activities, how we encounter information (actively, passively, in contextual search), how it should be curated and circulated to serve as a best resource for the community.

How to Build for Scale: Taking Civic Technology from Local to Global

Session type: Strategical Working Group

Location: Viena building – Space 2

One of the objectives of civic tech is to save money, time and effort through the reuse of products, modules or code. But in order for that to happen civic apps should be redeployable by design. This working group will map how we should design and build civic technology in a way that makes it more easily scalable and redeployable.

Open Government

Session type: Strategical Working Group

Location: Atena building – Space 1

Join an open conversation together with institutional representatives and civil society organisations to discuss the different perspectives on how civic technology can support open government and how the OGP landscape can welcome the development and adoption of civic apps.

15:30 – 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 – 17:30

A quest for an internet that serves us: Findings from Mozilla’s Internet Health Report

Session type: Presentation

Location: Bucuresti building

What does it mean for the Internet to be healthy? And how do we measure progress and setbacks? Working with researchers, digital rights activists, and a broader community, the Internet Health Report tells a collaborative story of how the Internet is – and isn’t a resource for good. The issues range from privacy to connectivity, to online harassment and the economics of online platforms. Our aim is to connect the dots between these often siloed issues and to look at the human experience of the Internet as a whole. This talk will share findings from the 2018 Internet Health Report, and start a discussion about how we might use the concept of ‘internet health’ as a tool to catalyze change in our communities. The talk might include interactive quiz elements, as well as one inflatable dinosaur.

The Democratic Commons: Using Technology for Democratic Resilience

Session type: Topical Working Group

Location: Roma building – Space 1

This working group will explore and define the concept of the Democratic Commons. It will seek to build on efforts such as the Civic Tech Field Guide to assess what role technology can play to help strengthen democracy around the world and explore which are the areas that civic technologists need to focus on moving forward for greater resilience.

Open Legislation

Session type: Topical Working Group

Location: Roma building – Space 2

Starting from drafting legislation, to supporting and facilitating public consultation and “translating” juridical terminology, civic tech can play a major role in improving access to legislation and bridging the gap between law and the citizens who must abide it. Through the past months, Code for Romania, OpenUp and ePantswo Foundation have been engaged in an exchange and co-creation process around open legislation. This working group will share the findings so far and engage further on the subject.

Mapping the Civic Tech Space

Session type: Strategical Working Group

Location: Viena building – Space 1

We will discuss the standardization of civic tech’s taxonomy and metadata, sustainability on civic tech catalogs, and effective exchange mechanisms. A good information flow within the Civic Tech community is essential for the redeployment of projects, making better use of open source contributions and measuring what works and what doesn’t across the sector.

Designing the Global Mechanism for Co-Creation in Civic Tech

Session type: Strategical Working Group

Location: Viena building – Space 2

With very few exceptions, civic tech organizations are modeled to act and solve national or regional problems. However, more and more of the problems that impact our lives are of a global nature. Pollution does not stop at national borders. Earthquakes create the same problems wherever they happen. Likewise, many of the problems that democracy is facing throughout the world manifest in the same way across different countries. Against this background, it makes no sense to spread our limited resources thin trying to solve these problems in isolation across the world. However, for a global concentrated effort to solve the issues that impact us all, we need a mechanism for co-creation at the global level, a mechanism that would bring together and make use of the strength and resources of civic tech groups and organizations around the world to solve these global challenges.