The Unconference “Decentralizing Communities and Communications” will happen on Saturday April 27 at Port Creative Hub (10A Naberezhno-Khreschatytska Street) between 11 am and 19pm
We’re progressively shaping the program of talks and workshops. This is an “unconference”, so some talks may be proposed at the very last minute.
Program:
11am – 12am – welcoming, coffee / lunch / snacks
12am – 2pm – talks
2pm – 3pm – lunch
3pm – 5pm – talks Part 2
5pm – 5:30 pm – break
5:30 pm – 7pm – workshops / working groups
- Hacking with Delta Chat team members [decentralized messaging / email / encryption / mapping and location streaming and other…]
- Designing better UX/UI for decentralized messengers [a workshop open for everyone to talk and imagine how to explain hard things to non tech-users and make tools smoother]
- Human rights and tech — what can be done? [round-table]
Confirmed presentations:
Sasake: “Experience of diffusion and adoption of secure messaging in the Ukrainian anarchist movement” (General context of surveillance in Ukraine; risks for anarchists; technological needs of anarchist movement; and – WHY anarchists DO NOT adapt secure communication channels after digital security trainings?)
Xenia [Delta Chat]: “Disinformation refugees welcome: why do users abandon centralized networks and where do they go?” (a field research on usage of federated social networks, e.g. Mastodon, Matrix and beyond)
Mykola [Digital Security Lab Ukraine]: “Why adoption of decentralized messengers is not an easy thing for us?” (based on the experience of a digital security traininer)
Donna [Syster Servers]: Feminist perspectives on information sovereignty and autonomy: why I felt completely at home in the free software movement. Presenting a personal story of the two projects I’ve been involved in: the Eclectic Tech Carnival and Systerserver.
Martha [Heart of Code]: Leaving Patriachy behind, founding a feminist hack space Experiences of building a female* community of tech enthusiats in Berlin.
substack [DAT project]: “decentralized mapping and cooperative infrastructure”: how we’re designing batch processing and hosting for peermaps using networks of volunteer computers and p2p protocols
Maria Hurieva [Amnesty International Ukraine] – “Digitalisation and human rights”
Oleksiy Bida [Ukraine Helsinki Human Rights Union] – “Documenting war crimes in the Eastern Ukraine” si