Pull Request: Restructuring the Global Power Paradigm through Open Source

Nnenna Nwakanma, Manuela Yamada, Carolyn Florey, Christoph Beier
How do we need to change our systems in order to eradicate poverty
and enable the world’s population to meet basic demands of all
people? What do governments and development organizations need to
change in order to create real change and impact? Two speakers will
present their views before engaging in a fire-side chat on open
access to for information and technology for development. Nnenna
Nwakanma is the voice behind the chant “All the Internet, all the
people, all the time”. She is one of the key advocates for open
data, open government and the open Web across Africa, for instance
by driving forward the Africa Open Data movement and the African
Declaration on Internet Rights and Freedoms. She represents the Web
Foundation in the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development
Data. Manuela Yamanda is one of Brazils young change makers
advocating a systemic change in politics and business toward a
sustainable, open society. She is doing so by heading the Ouishare
Brazil Chapter and by running MateriaBrasil, a free open source
platform that works as a library for social-environmentally
responsible materials, products and services available in Brazil.
Together they will present and discuss their change agenda for
governments, development organizations and civil society on how to
restructure the Global Power Paradigm through Open Source. Concrete
suggestions for the apation and implementation of digital
development principles will be made.