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IOM_ Germany Q&A with two team members of the Migrant Media Network
#MMN – Migrant Media Network featured by IOM – Germany written by Olumide Olufemi Yahya Moro Yapha, a Gambian Diaspora Mentor of #MMN who has had first-hand experience with irregular migration alongside Susanne Bellinghausen, Project Manager for the #Migrant Media Network Project were interviewed by IOM_Germany on their impactful work in raising awareness across Ghana and…
Read MoreThe #237footBERLIN calendar 2023
Featuring Cameroonian diaspora football clubs based in Berlin in an effort to identify and support the voices in these clubs that can help support peacebuilding efforts in Cameroon.
Read MoreLaunch of the #237footBERLIN Calendar 2023 An initiative of #defyhatenow / Lancement du calendrier #237footBERLIN 2023 Une initiative de #defyhatenow
Time: Friday, December 16th, 6pm – 8pmLocation: r0g_agency OPEN CULTURE SPACE Knobelsdorffstr. 22 14059 Berlin Title: Football, Peacebuilding, and Human Rights An evening of discussion and reflection & Launch of the #237footBERLIN Calendar 2023 An initiative of #defyhatenow The #defyhatenow project seeks to provide community-based and data-driven solutions to the problem of hate speech, disinformation,…
Read MoreNo Roses From My Mouth, Featuring Stella Nyanzi – Open Culture Feminist Café Event.
This Open Culture Feminist Café event will highlight Stella’s work and we will learn more about her continued resistance while in exile. She will also read a selection of poems from her books, as writing poems is an integral part of her fight against oppression and her way of inspiring a revolution.
Date: Friday, December 9th, 2022
Was macht eigentlich “Open Culture” ? r0g_agency wurde in der Berliner Lokalzeitung, dem Kiezblatt, vorgestellt.
r0g_agency was featured in Berlin’s local newspaper, the Kiezblatt. The KiezBlatt is the neighborhood newspaper for Klausenerplatz in Berlin. It is published by the Kiezbündnis and appears four times a year. The newspaper has a circulation of 4000 copies. It is free of charge and is distributed in stores, restaurants and other establishments. The KiezBlatt…
Read Morer0g_newsletter: fall 2022
With fall having arrived here in Berlin, we wanted to slow down for a moment to look back over the past few months and provide you with some updates about our projects.
We hope you enjoy reading it. As always, feel free to contact us if you have any questions or would like to get involved.
Crushing the Hate Curve – How peace technologies counter violent extremism online.
Time: Monday, November 7th, 6pm – 8pmLocation: r0g_agency OPEN CULTURE office Knobelsdorffstr. 22 14059 Berlin r0g_agency’s #defyhatenow initiative to counter social media hate speech and online incitement to violence was born in reaction to the sudden explosion of violent conflict in South Sudan at the end of 2013. When the relationship between social media and…
Read MoreJon Stever: Hacking Public Policy
Time: Friday, September 30th, 2022, 6pm Location: r0g_agency office Knobelsdorffstr. 22 14059 Berlin How can a global citizen’s assembly impact democracy? Jon Stever will introduce several tools and methods of governance innovation and will talk about the co-creation of the Nigeria Startup Bill and the first global citizens’ assembly. Jon is co-founder and managing director of…
Read MorePart 3: Talk about Success
The enthusiastic participation of Youth in GoGirls season 2022- Image: Aleon Visuals In our previous posts about GoGirlsICT, we talked about the value of education and involving women in science. But in South Sudan, there is still a lot of work to do in dispelling old beliefs that women do not belong in education, science,…
Read MorePart 2: GoGirlsICT Centering the Community
In an earlier post, we talked with Yine Yenki, co-founder and Mentorship Director at GoGirls ICT, an #ASKnet hub, in South Sudan, about gender and the importance of education for women. Another way in which GoGirls ICT is working to empower women and thereby strenghten their communities is by actively learning to involve women in…
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