The Stanford Peace Innovation Lab, in partnership with jovoto is launching the first of a series of competitions centered around visualizing peace metrics. jovoto is a unique online platform that delivers creative intelligence through the power of collaboration with the global community. Together, our goal is to inspire creatives (creative people around the world) to help us name, brand and provide visualization tools for this new effort.
Our kickoff competitions are In the Name of Peace and Peace 2.0 the Icon.In the Name of Peace: The Stanford Peace Innovation Lab wants to know how you all would name these kinds of visualizations – It’s a data map of sorts, but of social, inter-group space, in which geography, group boundaries,
and time are just some of the dimensions represented. It’s also like a dashboard or instrument panel to understand peace and conflict better; Or a radar display, to better navigate a social terrain we can only see glimpses of.
Peace 2.0 The Icon: As a second step, the Stanford Peace Innovation Lab is in need of an icon for this research project – a modern symbol of peace the captures our new ability to visualize human interactions.
Earlier this year, Egyptians combined technology and political activism to revolutionary effect . After overthrowing a thirty-year dictatorship, they face new challenges to establishing democracy. Can technology help them through the divisive times ahead?
The Unconference and Hackathon for Egypt is an opportunity to find out. On May 14, programmers and engineers will gather at Stanford University to meet with Egyptian activists and discuss applications that could help their cause. Our aim is to build a community that bridges Tahrir Square and Silicon Valley to show what activists equipped with digital tools can achieve.
Bring your computers and we’ll provide the activists and the food. The d. school venue is perfectly designed to let the ideas flow. Come check it out!
Hackathon Schedule
9:30 am Registration and Networking
10:00 am Introductions
Ben Rowswell, Cloud to Street
Visit to Revolutionary Cairo: A Laboratory of Political Activism
Saad Khan, Partner, CMEA Capital
An Introduction to Hacktivism
Ahmed Saleh, Co-Founder of Kifaya
How Egyptian Activists Used Technology to Drive the Revolution
10:30 am Lightning Talks to Outline App Projects (5 minutes each)
Abdallah Helmy, A Mobile Phone App for Political Mobilization (from Cairo)
As a follow-up to Peace Dot‘s successful peace.facebook.com page, Stanford Peace Innovation Lab researcher Jane Chesher is calling on friends across political, geographic and religious conflict boundaries to come forward and share their stories through video, photography and narrative.
Here’s the scoop on how you can participate: Friends Without Borders is calling for WORLD YOUTH PEACE CHAMPIONS to celebrate and grow friending in these countries:
Israel + Palestine
Greece + Turkey
India + Pakistan
Albania + Serbia
Do you have a friend in the opposing conflict country? If so you could you be our next WORLD PEACE CHAMPION! Please EMAIL your application right away to ….
Include your name, city location, age, photo, AND a response to the question “Is world peace possible?”.
If you are chosen as a WORLD PEACE CHAMPION you’ll receive a gift incentive and become a *STAR* in our global video campaign produced in New York City!!
Khan Academy is an exemplary Peace Dot partner because they actively
track and measure the impact of what they do. By using YouTube’s built in analytics plus their own, Khan Academy can quickly identify what works, what doesn’t and refine their video courses for maximum impact.
If that wasn’t enough, Khan Academy is embracing open source, mass collaboration and open innovation by inviting people to create their own instructional videos, translate existing lessons, create interactive exercise dashboards or coach students anywhere in the world.
Want to help make education truly accessible anywhere in the world?
The Stanford Peace Innovation Lab, in partnership with jovoto is launching the first of a series of competitions centered around visualizing peace metrics. jovoto is a unique online platform that delivers creative intelligence through the power of collaboration with the global community. Together, our goal is to inspire creatives (creative people around the world) to help us name, brand and provide visualization tools for this new effort.
track and measure the impact of what they do. By using YouTube’s built in analytics plus their own, Khan Academy can quickly identify what works, what doesn’t and refine their video courses for maximum impact.
