Digital technologies can help to counter challenges with innovative solutions; Photo credit: re:publica/Gregor Fischer (CC BY 2.0)
Tech for Good
Wir leben in einer vernetzten Welt, in der digitale Technologien unsere Kommunikation beschleunigen, Informationen zugänglicher machen und Produktionsprozesse transparenter werden. So die Hoffnung. Jedoch hat weltweit nur etwa die Hälfte der Menschen Zugang zum Internet und wir stehen am Anfang des 21. Jahrhunderts immer noch vor großen Herausforderungen: Armut, Hunger, unzureichender Zugang zu Bildung oder Gesundheit, Konflikte und Korruption sind immer noch Alltag für viele Menschen.
Digitale Technologien können mit innovativen Lösungen dazu beitragen solche globalen Herausforderungen zu meistern. Dazu muss die digitale Zukunft gemeinsam mit Partnern aus Afrika, Asien und Lateinamerika gestaltet werden.
Mit seiner wachsenden jungen Bevölkerung ist Afrika ein Kontinent der Chancen – junge Tüftler und Unternehmerinnen entwickeln innovative digitale Anwendungen - von mobilen Bezahlsystemen wie M-Pesa bis hin zu 3D-Druckern aus Elektroschrott.
Das Topic „Tech for Good“ sucht nach inspirierenden Beiträgen und fragt: Schafft die Digitalisierung Zugang zu Bildung für alle? Retten Start-ups die Welt? Wird die Landwirtschaft dank smarter Sensoren und Apps noch effizienter? Wie können beispielsweise Big Data, Blockchain oder Open Source Software-Lösungen global zu mehr Effizienz, Transparenz und Gerechtigkeit beitragen?
Die Sessions können Beispiele für Lösungsansätze und Erfolgsgeschichten aufzeigen, aber auch die Herausforderungen und Risiken, die mit dem digitalen Wandel einhergehen, diskutieren. Wir möchte gerne u.a. Visionäre, Techies, Maker, Entwickler, Experten, Innovateure und kreative Köpfe aus den Ländern Afrikas auf die Bühne holen für einen offenen Dialog zur digitalen Transformation auf der re:publica Accra und Perspektiven aus der ganzen Welt einbringen. Seid dabei und gestaltet die globale digitale Zukunft!
Die re:publica Accra und das Topic 'Tech for Good' werden durch das Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ) als Hauptpartner unterstützt. Das BMZ unterstützt ebenfalls Sessions in den Topics “Female” und “Data”: HerStory - Insights from Female Leaders und Tackling Financial Crime: Open and Big Data for Investigative Journalism.
- Science & TechnologyTech for Good-Computer vision is becoming one of the focus areas in artificial intelligence (AI) to enable computers to see and perceive like humans.
In a collaboration with the Royal Holloway University, we applied deep learning to locate small scale mines in Ghana using satellite imagery, scaled training using Kubernetes and investigated their impact on surrounding populations & environment. - Politics & SocietyTech for GoodCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Germany (CC BY-SA 3.0 DE)-Almost half of the world’s population are online by now. But online experiences differ greatly, depending on income, geography and gender. In fragile contexts, internet usage is often constrained by power outages, high costs and a lack of digital skills. The session discusses how civil society organizations in South Sudan, Lebanon and Pakistan use digital skills training to teach women and girls how to navigate the internet safely and take full advantage of its opportunities.
- Politics & SocietyTech for Good-Once freed of the tyranny of the Twitter timeline, how we would look to ourselves? How a custom made data visualization could raise awareness on our echo chambers and the ones in our public institutions and in our elected officials? In this data clinic, the participants will be able to export/scrap and visualize in original ways, their own public Twitter data (or the one of public institutions and elected officials) to answer such questions and they also will raise and share new ones and tentative answers.
- Politics & SocietyTech for GoodCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Germany (CC BY-SA 3.0 DE)-Video games have become more accessible to more people, now more than ever. It's now the primary medium where people voluntarily spend time and engage other people even without materialistic motives. In 2013, Spil Games reported that 1.2 billion people are now playing games worldwide, with 700 million of those online. That number has since increased, dramatically.
In the last couple of years, the world saw the rise of social impact games such as Mini Metro, Papers Please, Democracy, This War of Mine. These games have had critically acclaim and are commercially successful without compromising their chosen advocacies.
Given the positive impact it could generate worldwide, juxtaposed with the world as we know it today, there is a an urgent need to develop more and more social impact games to serve as critical tools in humanitarian and educational initiatives. - Politics & SocietyTech for GoodCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Germany (CC BY-SA 3.0 DE)-2 billion people worldwide are without a passport. Your identity acts as enabler to accessing education, jobs, financial inclusion, and many other governmental and business services. But how far can the individual decide what happens with their data?
India's centralized identity solution Aadhaar has shown great merits, but its centralized architecture poses risks of data leaks.
This session discusses blockchain-based solutions for self-sovereign identity, looks at their potential decentralizing personal data management from the perspective of German and European principles of privacy and informational self-determination, and contextualizese their potential use for vulnerable populations in developing economies and refugees.