Outcomes
Open Source Documentation Guide
Download as PDF As part of the #ASKnet – Access to Skills and Knowledge network intiative in South Sudan, Uganda and Kenya, r0g_agency has released it’s latest Open Skills Guide from the 2020. The Open Source Documentation Guide (#OSD), offering step-by-step instructions on how to document your work for shared and collaborative use. Acting as…
Read MoreHAPPY NEW YEAR 2020
we wish you all a very happy new year 2020 and want to thank our team, partners, supporters and funders for making 2019 such a successful year.
Read MoreOpen Hardware Guide
Following up on the 2016 “Let’s Go jHUB” programme, the OPEN HARDWARE GUIDE or #OHG is an outcome of the Open Tech and Repair Skills workshop led by Timm Wille and hosted by the Hive Colab innovation hub in Kampala. As a follow-up to the Open Learning Guide (#OLG) the Open Hardware Guide gives examples of hands-on skills possibilities and projects applying open hardware methodologies.…
Read MoreSolar.mini
A simple home-made 5V solar power charger suitable for any mobile phone. Made by a small group of students in Berlin who are also part of the international ‘open source ecology’ network the r0g_solar.mini is a fast and powerful pocketbook size charger that also simultaneously charges 4 x AA ni-cad batteries. Although there are…
Read MoreOpen Learning Guide
Download as PDF OPEN LEARNING GUIDE (#OLG) The #OpenLearningGuide is a rugged poster with lists of resources to Open Educational Resources (OER) around the topics of online literacy, technology and DIY communities. It is a product of the Step-Up Juba Media Lab – an initiative by icebauhaus and r0g_agency supporting the implementation of a community-based media training centre in Juba,…
Read More#defyhatenow Field Guide
#defyhatenow Field Guide Social Media Hate Speech Mitigation Field Guide [Version 1.0 May 2018] The #defyhatenow Field Guide offers tools and strategies to be used by community-based organisations & online campaigns for peacebuilding in South Sudan and around the world. #defyhatenow aims to raise awareness of and develop means for countering social media based hate speech, conflict rhetoric…
Read MoreA peacetech approach to mitigate mass violence in South Sudan
This article was originally published on frient-peacebuilding-forum.de/pbf-voices-blog/… How can technologies and digital media be strategically used to achieve conflict-resolution and peacebuilding objectives? To answer this question, peacetech is a growing field that allows peace advocates and local communities to develop new forms of engagement. The term peacetech thereby refers to two different approaches: 1) Utilizing existing online/social…
Read MoreASKotec
#ASKotec: Access to Skills and Knowledge open tech emergency case The #ASKotec is a kit that is designed to work as a mobile training set and is equipped with the items needed to teach others how to use Open Tech and Open Source Hardware in order to innovate, educate, and repair items, thereby providing access…
Read MoreojoVoz
Geomapping in South Sudan ojoVoz consists of an Android mobile app and a web application that allow a group of people to collaboratively create a dynamic, audiovisual documentation about their common interests and concerns. By using the ojoVoz app, messages consisting of an image, a sound recording, tags and geographic information can be composed and…
Read MoreConstructed and Open Identities in the Fog of War and Peace
Socio-Political and Historical Context of Hate-Speech in South Sudan | by Roman Deckert. The people of South Sudan have been suffering from one of the gravest humanitarian crisis since major armed conflicts erupted in 2013. About 2 million have been internally displaced, while more than 1.5 million fled to neighbouring countries, mainly Uganda, Kenia…
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