defyhatenow

By Dan Kingori | December 9, 2020

#defyhatenow #defyhatenow aims to raise awareness of and develop means to mitigate social media-based hate speech, conflict rhetoric, and online incitement to violence. The program does so through a grassroots, community-based approach to peacebuilding, training, and conflict reconciliation. The goal is to strengthen and amplify the voices of peace in the local communities and within…

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Team

By Dan Kingori | November 19, 2020

r0g_team Barbara Bichlmeier Barbara BichlmeierBarbara was born in Munich and grew up in a little village close by, where people do indeed look like stereotypical Germans in Lederhosen. After successfully finishing her apprenticeship in financial accounting, she worked for several different companies and moved to Heidelberg, a city with a magical castle, where her two…

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About

By Dan Kingori | November 19, 2020

About the r0g_agency r0g_history The r0g_agency is a nonprofit (gGmbH) that was founded in Berlin in 2013 by Susanne Bellinghausen and Stephen Kovats. After starting out in coworking spaces, the r0g_agency moved to its current location in Berlin-Charlottenburg in 2017. The r0g_agency was founded to combine on the ground work with open source methodologies in…

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Home

By Dan Kingori | October 27, 2020

Welcome to the r0g_agency Dedicated to peacebuilding, technical innovations, and access to knowledge for all.  r0g_open_culture The r0g _agency (pronounced: rogue) is a Berlin-based nonprofit dedicated to partnering with local grassroots organizations and governments to support open knowledge, open technology, and peacebuilding efforts, particularly in regions undergoing rapid and fundamental transformation, in order to support…

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#defyhatenow Field Guide Cameroon

By Susanne Bellinghausen | September 25, 2020

The #defyhatenow Field Guide Cameroon comes in English and French. For more details please see below. Le #defyhatenow Guide Pratique Cameroun est disponible en anglais et en français. Pour plus de détails, veuillez voir ci-dessous. #Defyhatenow Field Guide Cameroon 2.0 Social Media Hate Speech Mitigation Field Guide [Second Edition 2021] The #defyhatenow Field Guide Cameroon offers tools…

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#defyhatenow Guide Pratique Cameroun

By Dan Kingori | September 7, 2020

#defyhatenow Guide Pratique Cameroun Guide de terrain sur l’atténuation des discours de haine sur les réseaux sociaux  [Édition 2020 ]   Le  #defyhatenow Guide Pratique Cameroun propose des outils et des stratégies à utiliser par les organisations communautaires et les campagnes en ligne pour la consolidation de la paix au Cameroun. #defyhatenow vise à sensibiliser et à développer…

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DOTS The Impact Summit: Entrepreneurs from all over the world gather in Kenya to co-create open source local solutions to global issues

By Susanne Bellinghausen | January 7, 2020

Reported by Sara Shedden Casanovas There is something Vicy Wenzelman can do with ease: cross-pollination. She is the co-founder of the Global Innovation Gathering (GIG), a global network of 190 social and technological innovators from 42 countries. For Vicy, “people from GIG are passionate, they are all burning for what they do, they are hackers,…

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Reclaiming Self-Expression – African Feminism in Digital Spaces

By Susanne Bellinghausen | December 18, 2019

Reported by Blen Desta  Once again our Open Culture Feminist Café featured the feminist movement in Africa last September, this time in a conversation with Rosebell Kagumire, a pan-African feminist journalist and socio-political analyst, on the theme of ‘‘Reclaiming Self-Expression – African Feminism in Digital Spaces.’’ Furthermore adding quality to this edition of the feminist…

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