Tech4Dev

Post-Session at Tech4Dev International Conference, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, 4-6 June 2014

The UNESCO Chair in Technologies for Development hosted by the Cooperation and Development Center (CODEV) will hold the third International Conference on Technologies for Development and asks "What is Essential? How to alleviate poverty in this world? Innovative technologies? What is appropriate technology?"

Panel Discussion TH2-SE02-11 The Openness Paradigm: How Synergies Between Open Access, Open Data, Open Science, Open Source Hardware, Open Drug Discovery Approaches Support Development?

Panel Chairs:

Sachiko Hirosue, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Denisa Kera, National University of Singapore

Water Hackathon 6-7 June 2014Open Source Technologies for Rivers, Oceans and Lakes - Explore the Possibilities of Open Hardware for Open Science Projects

With

Gabriella Levine Tisch School of the Arts New York University, and Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design

Nur Akbar Arofatullah Lifepatch, UGM

Water Hackathon 6-7 June 2014Open Source Technologies for Rivers, Oceans and Lakes - Explore the Possibilities of Open Hardware for Open Science Projects co-produced by Biodesing.cc and hackteria.org (http://hackteria.org)

For clarification on what this waterhackathon is, it is - a satellite program of the UNESCO Conference Chair in Technologies for Development: What is Essential?, of the Open Science session, co-chaired by Sachiko Hirosue and Denisa Kera http://cooperation.epfl.ch/2014Tech4Dev/WaterHackathon

Enrollement

We start on 6 Friday, people are required to register on Friday morning. Everyone who is registered for the hackathon will have access to the conference center Friday all day There will be partallel session from begining of the conference (Wednesday) on in the entrance hall

Venues

1) Exhibition table at entrance hall of conference venue During the whole conference, place to show some prototypes, discuss, welcome people etc.

2) Hackaton Lab Space within the conference venue 6 June 10 am to 5pm / setup the days before

3) UniverCity / hackuarium in Renens 6 June after 5pm, and full day Saturday 7 June. (24/7 access) New biohacker space launched by Luc Henry, Yann Heurtaux (official opening, vernissage on Monday 26th of Mai 2014)

At the ground floor of the conference center there will be "poster sessions"

Core team making sure we have a nice program and sufficient materials available for the waterhackathon:

Gabriella Levine Nur Akbar Arofatullah Urs Gaudenz

Provided by SGMK: - Electronics lab equipement - soldering irons - lamps - electronic tools like tweezers, side cutters - wires - breadboards - aligator clips - arduinos - ...

Provided by EPFL (Sachikos Lab) - Wetlab materials - pipetes - tubes - ...

Provided by GaudiLabs - Silkprinting materials - OpenPCR - WebCam Mircoscope - DIY Nanodrop - DIY GelBox - ..

Provided by LifePatch: - Some seeed studio materials

Provided by UniverCity - 6 tables with corresponding 6 chairs each - electrical outlets, and extension cables - running water/faucet optionally - good sound system - projector - fridge

Items to be sold at the conference: micam3.0 kit by Akbar T-Shirts by Marc