Building technology for technologists is NOT the tech we want.
Source: xkcd.com (CC BY-NC 2.5)

Day One – Thursday, October 17

10:00 UTC
[Opening Remarks] Why Do We Want Another Tech?

10:30 UTC
[Panel 1] The Tech We Want is Political

Since the Snowden revelations, citizen efforts have been focused in patching a broken system of surveillance, extractivism of people and the planet and rights erosion. This conversation will discuss the current state of the things and the viability of uniting technical and political efforts to move in a different direction.

	Renata Ávila – CEO, OKFN [moderator]
	Bolaji Ayodeji – DPG Evangelist and Technical Coordinator, Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA)
	Anita Gurumurthy – Executive Director, IT for Change
	Poncelet Ileleji – CEO, Jokkolabs Banjul (Open Knowledge Network Gambia)

11:30 UTC
[Panel 2] The Tech We Want is Built and Maintained with Care

	Mathieu Jacomy – Assistant Professor, Aalborg University Tantlab, and co-creator of Gephi and Hyphe
	Katharina Meyer – Director, Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund
	Sara Petti – International Network Lead, Open Knowledge Foundation [moderator]
	Allison Pike – Co-founder, Infield

12:30 UTC
[Panel 3] The Tech We Want is Sustainable for People and the Planet

	Christoph Becker – Professor, University of Toronto, author of 'Insolvent: How to Reorient Computing for Just Sustainability'
	Maxwell Beganim – Director, Open Knowledge Ghana, and Co-lead of the Open Goes COP Coalition
	Shweata Hegde – Developer at #semanticClimate and Young India Fellow at Ashoka University
	Fieke Jansen – Co-principal Investigator, Critical Infrastructure Lab
	Valmik Patel – Data Scientist, Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
	Paz Peña – Independent consultant and activist, author of 'Technologies for a Burning Planet'
	Lucas Pretti – Communications & Advocacy Director, Open Knowledge Foundation [moderator]

13:30 UTC
[Panel 4] We are Making the Tech We Want

	Isabela Fernandes – Executive Director, The Tor Project
	Patricio Del Boca – Tech Lead, Open Knowledge Foundation [moderator]
	Sid Drmay – Community Manager, Open Source Hardware Association
	Denis 'Jaromil' Roio – Director, Dyne.org Foundation
	Zoë Kooyman – Executive Director, Free Software Foundation
	Angela Oduor Lungati – Executive Director, Ushahidi

14:30 UTC
[Panel 5 in Spanish] La tecnología que queremos es un bien público

	Gerardo A. Cambiagno – Director de Transformación Digital, Gobierno de Córdoba, Argentina
	Patricio Del Boca – Tech Lead, Open Knowledge Foundation [moderador]
	Armando Manzueta – Viceministro de Innovación Pública y Tecnología, República Dominicana
	Florencia Serale – Consultora Independiente en Datos y Transformación Digital
	Andrés Vázques – Desarrollador de Software Senior, Open Knowledge Foundation

15:30 UTC
[Keynote] The Role of Openness and Software Freedom to Build the Tech We Want

	Mishi Choudhary – Founder, Software Freedom Law Centre, India
	Followed by a conversation with:
	Fernanda Campagnucci – Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Münster, and former Executive Director of Open Knowledge Brazil

16:00 UTC
[Closing Keynote with Cory Doctorow] Disenshittify or die!

	Cory Doctorow – Science fiction author, activist, and journalist
	Followed by a conversation with:
	Renata Ávila – CEO, Open Knowledge Foundation

Day Two – Friday, October 18

11:00 UTC
Demo Session 1

#semanticClimate – India 🇮🇳
A toolkit to create and use semantic documents designed for interoperability. We emphasize communal creation of dictionaries which support Linked Open Data including multilinguality.

Parijat Bhadra – Team member, #semanticClimate

TrACE.AI Seafood Traceability – Philippines 🇵🇭
Our solution is an automated electronic catch documentation and traceability software system. TrACE.AI has leveraged AI and machine learning to reduce friction in data gathering from fishermen and eliminate fraud. This mobile application works offline. This uses artificial intelligence (AI) for species identification, estimates the weight & Auto catch recording  with geo-location for vessel information.

Cherry Murillon – Founder and Lead Innovator, CAWIL.AI

From Mountains to Data: Low-Cost Weather Stations in Kyrgyzstan’s Challenging Terrain – Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬
Creating an open and secure IoT infrastructure for monitoring and preventing emergencies in landlocked mountainous countries.

Talant Sultanov – Co-Founder, ISOC Kyrgyz Chapter; Policy Advocacy Advisor, Global Digital Inclusion Partnership

12:00 UTC
Demo Session 2

Open Data Editor – Global 🌐
Open Data Editor (ODE) is an app by the Open Knowledge Foundation to make it easier for people with little to no technical skills to work with data. ODE helps users find mistakes in their datasets and correct them in no time. It also checks that all the necessary information is there for other people to use those datasets, hence increasing the quality of the data that is produced and consumed.

Romina Colman – Product Owner, Open Data Editor

Dribdat – Switzerland 🇨🇭
An open source app to help organize short sprints and hackathons, used to document open challenges and prototypes, promote community best practices and governance principles (Open Definition, Open Licenses, School of Data Pipeline, Hack Code of Conduct, etc.). Based on Frictionless Data and Schema.org standards, Dribdat aids in data wrangling, automates event workflows, and supports a diversity of channels and output formats for social media sharing, digital signage, and summary reports.

Oleg Lavrovsky – Software engineer, activist, one of the initiators of the Swiss open data movement

Zettlr – Germany & Sweden 🇩🇪🇸🇪
Zettlr is a Markdown editor made specifically for academics and professional writers, created in 2017. It is committed to Open Science and Open Access and fully FOSS. It works on plain files on the computer, is 100% telemetry-free, cross-platform, fully supports the open Citation Style Language and Zotero integration, and uses Pandoc to import and export from and to a wide variety of document formats. Furthermore, it also has a project feature for entire papers and book projects.

Hendrik Erz – Project Lead & Maintainer, Zettlr

13:00 UTC
Demo Session 3

Deepfake Analysis Unit – India 🇮🇳
The Deepfake Analysis Unit is a collaborative space built by us for factcheckers, journalists and forensic experts and machine learning researchers to evaluate media items and flag the presence of AI manipulation in it. Launched before the Indian general elections, the DAU has analyzed more than 500 audio and visual files to provide timely information on the accuracy of content.

Denny George – Co Founder & Tech Lead, Tattle Civic Technologies

PlaceCal – United Kingdom 🇬🇧
A combination of technology, community development and public sector strategy designed to help people bring their community together by aggregating information about community groups and events.

Dr Kim Foale – Studio lead, Geeks for Social Change

Open Terms Archive – France 🇫🇷
Open Terms Archive publicly records terms of services and other contractual documents in different languages and countries several times a day, increasing their readability and highlighting their changes. This digital common addresses a critical gap in the ability of activists, journalists, researchers, lawmakers and regulators to analyse and influence the rules of online services.

Matti Schneider – Director, Open Terms Archive

14:00 UTC
Demo Session 4

MOSIP – India 🇮🇳
MOSIP (Modular Open Source Identity Platform) is an open-source project, incubated in 2018 at the International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore. An API-first, open-standards-based foundational identity platform, MOSIP can be used by countries to customize, configure and build their own national ID systems. MOSIP is currently in various stages of adoption in 20+ countries across Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean.

SasiKumar Ganesan – Head of Engineering, MOSIP

Simpler Grants.gov – United States 🇺🇸
Simpler Grants.gov is an effort to modernize grants.gov, the website through which $500 billion of grants are awarded by the United States federal government each year. What makes this effort remarkable in the context of this summit, is that this project is transparent and open source. This a model for how governments can manage their digital projects in the open and share the source code with the people who fund it. This presentation will review the current features in the codebase, efforts to involve a wider community of contributors through an open source developer evangelist and participatory advisory council, and running the project in an open and transparent fashion.

Brandon Tabaska – Open Source Developer Evangelist

FörderFunke – Germany 🇩🇪
We inform citizens proactively about state benefits and other offers of the public sector they are eligible for. Your profile becomes the search filter in information spaces. Be found by matching offers instead of: having to know about them, having to search for them and having to check your eligibility.

Benjamin Degenhart

15:00 UTC
Demo Session 5

Querido Diário – Brazil 🇧🇷
The Querido Diário (Dear Diary) project aims to classify, contextualise and expand the information contained in the official diaries of the Brazilian municipal executive branch, making them available for viewing in an open and user-friendly format. The tool seeks to facilitate the monitoring, analysis and correlation of the information published in the diaries, fostering the development of technology for civic purposes in Brazil and promoting social control to find solutions to the challenges of the public context.

Giulio Carvalho – Civic Innovation Program Manager, Open Knowledge Brazil

Decidim – Spain 🇪🇸
Decidim is a digital platform for citizen participation. Free/libre, open and safe technology with all democratic guarantees.

Nil Homedes Busquets – Director of the Technical Office, Decidim Free Software Association

Gobernantes.info – Mexico 🇲🇽
Gobernantes is a repository of verified and crowd sourced information on candidates and public officials in Latin America. On it's easy to become part of the fundamental digital infraestructures for democracy that we build at abrimos.info, we already have 7 elections in 3 countries and are in the process of simplifying the data processing pipeline and formalizing the community verifiers.

Martín Szyszlican – Technology Director, Abrimos.info

16:00 UTC
[Community Hangout] The Tech We Want Manifesto