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- James: he's seen something called U-Report from UNICEF
- It has a dashboard where young people can track users and other things they can quantify into usable data, which they can use to engage with local or community leaders on a particular issue.
- We're talking about an encounter with a local leader or a company official, what have you, so we have an exchange
- Can our tool be connected to another platform where different stakeholders can understand and engage and interact with young people?
- These systems can feed into each other, the stakeholders in the community we're trying to reach can engage with the young people
- how can we make tools user-friendly to different groups?
- Integration with other systems: if we build an integration point, we can get a force of magnification by being able to connect to so many other things
- James: http://www.ureport.ug/
- This is a little different
- This site is used in Uganda, Rwanda and ___
- It's meant to tap into adolescents and get their perspectives
- Another platform that exists is called Follow The Money
- It's meant to hold people accountable
- It's a monitoring device so the public can keep track of resource distribution
- https://www.ushahidi.com/
- http://followthemoneyng.org/
- Use this data to do evidence-based advocacy
- It raises consciousness of people to be able to fight corruption and make sure they receive services at the lowest point in the community and have a good standard of living
- We're trying to map out a youth organization, how to we bring on board the voices of young people with learning differences
- There's no easy walk to freedom, sometimes to you have to fight for it
social rights (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic,_social_and_cultural_rights)
- Social rights tend to be a tradeoff for participation
- We want to inspire and support young people with learning differences, but also use their voices for advocacy and monitor that
- Many young people have mobile phones, how can they use an SMS system to share their story?
- Maybe send a code and it sends to an online system and the story is shared, just by sending an SMS, regardless of the number of words.
- It's a user at the margins, this is what we want, we can bring out their voices
- Alan: in parts of Africa, they don't have internet coverage but do have reliable SMS access or similar telecom
- James: this is one of the reasons, but also few young people are trained in the use of computers
- Many young people are on facebook, etc, but it's about training them to use this other option, another platform to raise their voices as an advocacy tool
- They use facebook as a social tool, but we want to make a facebook for empowerment
- Alan: (how) can we educate young people in the use of this platform?
- Complications arise when people are using big corporate-owned websites
- James: Some of these companies are interested in supporting small community initiatives
- 60% of the African population is young people
- How do you get a group of young people passionate about Social Justice issues
- It's almost 2:00 and we haven't covered any of the things we meant to :)
- Liam: #betterthanexpected
- Topic that was more interesting than the agenda, we throw out the agenda
- Applying some of the ground rules for unconferencing
- Alan: are there any questions about the travel arrangements for DEEP?
- James may ask us to book the ticket for him since he just cleared his tuition and expects his next payment kind of last-minute
Actions:
- James will send an email to Alan and he'll loop Iris into the discussion
- Dana: we owe Liam that MOU stuff so we'll get that
- We'll book another time to talk more about a new design crit some time in the near future, at least a week ahead
- We'll send an email to the list which will let people join
- We can show the latest demo at that point as well