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Tech4Dev waterhackathon in Lausanne, 6-7 June 2014

As part of the Hackterialab 2014 Yogyakarta Dissemination Phase, hackteria is co-hosting a waterhackathon, open and free to the public, that will be held 6, 7 June 2014 at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. This is a satellite program of the 2014 Tech4Dev International Conference UNESCO Chair in Technologies for Development: What is Essential?, where Denisa Kera and Sachiko Hirosue will co-chair the session: The Openness Paradigm: How Synergies Between Open Access, Open Data, Open Science, Open Source Hardware, Open Drug Discovery Approaches Support Development?

FOR UP-TO-DATE DETAILED INFORMATION, please visit the wiki.

While the event is free, registration is required. To sign-up, visit this site here. REGISTRATION CLOSED – you are welcome to come to univercité.

The 3 day Conference Program from 4-6 June also promises to be exciting! (please note registration fees apply for the main conference).


Water Hackathon: Open Source Technologies for Rivers, Oceans and Lakes – Explore the Possibilities of Open Hardware for Open Science Projects

City coastlines and rivers suffer from human activities like oil and chemical leaks, plastic trash, biological wastes and fecal run-offs as well as metal toxins. We all have the capabilities and the technologies to take a hands-on approach to these challenges. Hands-on exploration of open hardware can be integrated into promoting innovation and generating solutions for international development issues.

In this workshop, you will gain an on-the-ground understanding of DIY & the Open Hardware movement and its history. Through discussion and hands-on hardware hacking, we expect open exchange on the implications and possibilities of sharing technology to approach environmental exploration and preservation.

For 2 days of building, hacking, designing, and collaborating, we will build simple robotic floating boats and sensors. We will wire simple electrical circuits, use the Arduino Microcontroller, write simple Arduino code, and plug in environmental sensors, and actuate servo motors & DC motors. We will head to the water to test our boats and sensors to gather some water samples. Then we will head back to the workshop to modify inexpensive web-cams to take a close look at some of the microorganisms we collected.

WHEN: 6, 7 June 2014

WHERE:

6 June: Swiss Tech Convention Centre @ EPFL. EPFL can be readily reached by public transportation.

7 June: univercité in Renens

The hackathon mentors are:


Gabriella Levine is an artist and hardware designer interested in the relationship between technology and ecology. Current work includes Protei.org (open source sailing drones), and Sneel.cc (biomimetic swimming snake robots). She teaches at Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at Tisch School of the Arts New York University, and Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design (CIID), is President of Open Hardware Association, and of Global Open Ocean Collaboration Platform (OCP). She has presented globally at symposia and lectures, received the 2012 Prix Ars Electronica Hybrid Arts Award, and was a fellow of Unreasonable at Sea.


Nur Akbar Arofatullah is a researcher currently studying at the Department of Biotechnology, Gadjah Mada University (UGM) Yogyakarta, Indonesia. His focus is on the field of fermentation techniques in various systems, such as liquid and solid-state fermentation. Several of his main research interests are bioethanol fermentation from sweet sorghum juice, biofertilizer design and production, organic farming, and silage fermentation for cattle feeds. He is an open hardware enthusiast, an active member of Lifepatch and the hackteria network, and has built and shared Open Hardware for both research and educational settings in Yogyakarta and abroad.

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