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This wiki is for supporting TechCamps. This includes both the hosting of TechCamp events, support for problem-solution sets that emerge, and the hosting of TechCamp in a Box.
Upcoming TechCamp Events
TechCamp Almaty (Kazakhstan), June 14 - 15
Past TechCamp events
TechCamp:Lima (Peru), May 10 - May 11
TechCamp Lima Website: http://techcamplima.wordpress.com/
Civil Society Topics
- Social Inclusion
Agenda (En Espanol)
Problem-Solution List
TechCamp:Ramallah (West Bank), May 2 - May 3
Civil Society Topics
- Women's Empowerment
Agenda
Problem-Solution List
- How can we integrate online and offline tools to increase awareness about our organization?
- Raising Awareness to Combat Violence Against Women
- Volunteer Spark: Volunteering to Change Palestine!
- How can we use mobile technology to open communication channels between educational institutions and Palestinian students?
- How can we make a map of all the Palestinian Bloggers?
- How can we use social media to improve and bring life to the curriculum so that it is more relevant to the Palestinian youth?
- Fundraising for NGOs in Palestine
- How can we help offline women that can’t get connected?
- History of Palestine
- - Red group awaiting translation from Arabic
TechCamp:Tel Aviv (Israel), April 30 - May 1
Civil Society Topics
- Women's Empowerment
Agenda
Problem-solution Sets
- Women Educational Empowerment: Correct Entry to Marriage
- Information Pathways
- Association of Palestinian Filmmakers
- - Group Black in Hebrew, awaiting translation
- - Group Green in Hebrew, awaiting translation
- Digital Strategies for Online Project Collaboration, Tasks and Knowledge Management
- - Group Gray in Hebrew, awaiting translation
- Using Social Media for Sensitive Issues such as Domestic Violence While Protecting Privacy and Anonymity
- How can we make independent media and blogs credible?
- Keep in Tech
- - Group Violet in Hebrew, awaiting translation
TechCamp:Bangkok (Thailand), March 20 - March 21
Civil Society Topics
- Capacity Building
Agenda
Problem-Solution List
- How can relief programs map the location of each house in a refugee camp and link it with individuals that live there?
- A private and secure mean of communication between contacts and colleagues
- How can we increase awareness and mobilize the local community to slow the erosion of cultural heritage in Bangkok? “ Using the New to save the Old”
- Enabling Safer Public Reporting of Trafficking Crimes
- Secure and convenient online online donations
- “Harnessing Youth Voices, Effectively”
- How can we quickly, effectively and cheaply collect data in remote communities
- Dataflood Filter. Sorting and verifing information during a crisis situation: Saving the World.
TechCamp:Bucharest (Romania), December 15 - December 16
Civil Society Topics
- Social Inclusion
Agenda
Problem-Solution List
- How can we create a job website / platform for disabled persons?
- How do we organize youth in sustainable community service projects
- How do we engage with teachers to promote creativity and critical thinking in the education system (e.g., social media literacy skills)?
- How can American Corners engage NGOs as a way of disseminating information about the services they offer
- How do you link people leaving orphanages to potential employers or people who provide job training or housing
- How can we use new technologies in preventing school dropout?
- How can we solve the lack of IT-specialised teachers
- How can we change Roma image in the traditional and the new media, including promoting good role models
- How do we collect valid data on the Roma?
- How can we reach isolated communities (with no access to technology)?
- How to (prepare to) engage people in response to emergency situations (earthquakes/floods) and increase efficiency of response
TechCamp:Montevideo (Uruguay), September 30 - October 1
Civil Society Topics
- Education
Agenda
Problem-Solution List
- How to gauge the amount and quality of teaching done with technology after teacher training?
- How to improve the quality of learning mathmatics, science, Spanish and the English language for students in Latin America ages 5 - 18
- How to overcome the lack of job opportunities after leaving school?
- How to use ICT technologies to plan, monitor and evaluate community development projects?
- How to use mapping tools to optimize the delivery of international aid for anti-poverty, health and education projects
- How to use technology to enable parents to play a greater role in the education of their children?
- Improving Monitoring and Evaluation Systems
- Lack of a 'best practices' network for those who implement ICT in Latin America
- Many teachers do not know how to use technology effectively
TechCamp:Moldova, July 15-16, 2011
Civil Society Topics
- Open Government
Agenda
Problem-Solution List
- Changing current University application process: Introducing online admissions applications
- Creating a system for combating corruption
- Creating a templated government website that offers necessary documents in a user friendly manner
- Creating a textbook database to modernize outdated teaching methods
- Foreign aid monitoring
- Improving library services to generate more traffic, on and off line
- Improving mechanisms for voter lists
- Mapping handicapped access throughout Chisinau; additional services for people with disabilities
- Mechanism for comparing and rating school performance and profiles
- Monitoring how the government spends money
- Monitoring performance and integrity of public officials
- Motivating citizens
Photos [1]
Check out Camilla Hawthorne's Storify to see TechCamp:Moldova in pictures and tweets
TechCamp:Vilnius (Lithuania), June 29-30, 2011
Civil Society Topics
- Democracy and Civic Engagement
Agenda
Problem-Solution List
- Circumventing internet site blockages in restrictive societies
- Creating a trusted system of community reporting for victims of violence and crime
- Ensuring access to critical and verified information for conflict prevention NOTE - this set is missing at present
- Facilitating coordination between NGOs in targeting new audiences and resources
- Making the invisible visible in a repressive regime, in countries that can easily shut down all online tools and networks
- Mobilizing a network of students for social good
- Protecting your identity and security when receiving donated funds or grants
- Stopping important election information from being suppressed by spam filters
- Supporting and helping unregistered or ‘illegal’ NGOs
- Tracking and measuring what happens after someone submits a complaint to a prosecutor - NOTE -- this set is missing at present
- Using data from monitoring reports to achieve real impact
- Using mobile phones to gather data
- Using online tools to help candidates running for local election
- Using technology and online tools to empower democracy efforts in countries where democracy is new or has a bad image
TechCamp:Jakarta (Indonesia), May 19-20, 2011
Civil Society Topics
- Disaster Preparedness
- Climate Change
Experience Sharing
- Women's Role in Disaster Information Management in West Sumatra’s Earthquake
- Community Radio and Disaster Information System
- Analysis and paper presented at TechCamp Jakarta on social media use after the March 11, 2011 earthquake in Japan
Agenda
Problem-Solution List
- Collecting, integrating and sharing Information
- Combining Social Media with Direct Action and Social Movements
- Communication and Language Barriers
- Giving a Voice to the People
- Managing Volunteers
- Mission 4636 for Indonesia
- TechCamp:Jakarta Problem-Solutions
- Using Mainstream Social Media for Organizing Disaster Response - Hands on Training Session (Noel Dickover)
- Using Social Media to Encourage and Educate People
- Where is my money going?
Photos [2]
TechCamp Santiago (Chile), November 20, 2010
Civil Society Topics
- Disaster Preparedness
- Climate Change
- Civic Engagement
- Economic Opportunity
Agenda
Problem-Solution List
- Country Transparency Project
- Ecuador Amazonia Disaster Risk Awareness
- Juarez Connections (Trusted Space for Citizens fo Ciudad Juarez)
- Local Power (Local Inclusion in Assistance and Reconstruction Projects)
- NGO Collaboration Space
- NGO Sustainment Before and After a Crisis
- Post-Disaster Communication
- Post-Disaster Pychology Volunteers
- Promoting Marketing of Microbusinesses
- SMS Startup Now (Microbusinesses in Reconstruction and Developing Countries
- SMS-based Emergency Assistance Routing
- Simplifying NGO Transparency Message to Larger Audiences
- System of Communication Between Health Center and Patients
- Telemedicine/Mobile Medicine
- Wiki for Climate Change Visualization
Photos [3]
TechCamp in a Box (In Progress)
- Facilitator Guidance: Guidance for facilitators who prepare for and run the TechCamp event
- TechCamp Ground Rules
- Sample Problem Statements
Problem-Solution Template: The problem-solution Teemplate provides a method to detail everything needed to galvanize support for addressing a critical problem facing an NGO or grass roots organization.
- Problem-Solution Template - Romanian (MS Word)
- TechCamp Timeline (PDF)
- Agenda with Tech Trainer Instructions
