Call for Talks: g0v Summit (May 14-15, Taiwan)

[Chia-liang Kao]

Greetings!  (apologies for cross-post)

Returning for a second year after 2014, the g0v Summit 2016 will take place in May 14-15, 2016 at Taipei's Academia Sinica.  Call for talks is open until Feb 22.

We are pleased to invite the global civic tech community to share their experiences for collaboration between public servants, technologists, and NGO workers.  We are pleased to have Felipe Heusser, founder and former Director of the Chilean NGO Ciudadano Inteligente and Fellow at the Berkman Center, as our keynote speaker.

g0v Summit 2014 had 43 speakers from 9 countries with diverse backgrounds, including Open Data evangelists, public servants, NPO/NGO workers, scholars, and entrepreneurs.  

Fork and Merge

"Openness", "Transparency" and "Participation" have become popular keywords.  The global civic tech communities are experimenting with mass participation, new media forms and making better use of data, which is essentially "forking" the government like an open source movement.  We would like to see how these processes and practices can be sustainably "merged" into daily governance, as well as having interdisciplinary conversation about these changes and impacts.

Calling for Speakers

We would like to invite talk submissions about stories on open collaboration and civic tech, with the following topics:

．Administration

．Oversight / Participatory Democracy

．Activism and Mobilization

．New Media / Art & Design

．Crowd / Citizen Science 

．Disaster / Environment

．Care and Welfare

．Education

．Anything related to Open Collaboration and Civic Tech

The session of each topic is 30 minutes. If there are many similarly themed discussion topics, we may also adjust the format to a panel.  There will also be unconference sessions for people to extend conversation.

To submit a talk in g0v Summit 2016, please go to http://g0v-summit2016.kktix.cc/events/g0v-cfp#en

The submission is open until February 22. We will notify and publish the results on February 29.  If you have any question, please contact the program committee at g0v-summit-c...@googlegroups.com

Traveling and accommodation

We have limited funding for travel and accommodation for overseas speakers.  If you have your own funding source, we would be happy to list the funding organization as a sponsor of the event.

About g0v

g0v is a civic tech community established in late 2012 with deep open-source roots. With 1,000+ contributors through 30+ hackathons, it is recognised as one of the largest group in the global civic tech community.  The results are many civic-made tools for better information disclosure, citizen engagement, and online democracy.  g0v community is one of the major driving forces for official adoption of better Open Data practices in Taiwan, whose achievement is recognised by OKFN in their 2015 survey.

International Early Bird Program

g0v Summit 2016 International Early Bird Program is for residents in countries other than Taiwan. Applicant should provide his/her proof of residence in forms of blog, Facebook / Google plus / LinkedIn profile with Location, along with a post like "I'm visiting Taiwan for g0v Summit 2016".

Application period is 2/15 - 2/29.  For further information, please visit http://summit.g0v.tw/2016/

Best,

clkao