HARAKATI: The Geek Social Connection


This is an initiative of CPU, Kipp John of Kenya and other participants of the Infoactivism Camp India 2009.

Please contact Rick (rick at cp-union dot com) or Kipp John (kipp.guru at gmail dot com) for coordination. Visit our social network at Ning.com.

General Objectives

  1. Create a global network of geeks to support social movements
  2. Develop a platform for collaboration and skills sharing.
  3. Gather relevant references to support integration of technology in campaigns of social movements.

Specific Objectives

  1. Regional skills sharing conferences
    1. Africa
    2. Asia and India
    3. Europe
    4. America
  2. Deploy an online portal for collaboration
  3. Focus on issues and campaigns common to social movements in different continents
  4. Determine strategies and tools for focused issues.

Tools

  1. HARAKATI@NING

Activities

  1. Coordinators' Meeting - June 2009, Nairobi, Kenya (?)
  2. Built a list of available resources
  3. Case studies of collaboration that works
  4. List of upcoming tech events, so that the CSO/NGO/movement need for tech help could be highlighted
  5. Looking at the possibilities of barcamp/social camp/ tech4change

Structure

  • Global Coordinating Committee
  • composed of regional coordinators
  • Secretariat
  • Responsible for the day to day coordination between the coordinating committee and members
  • Resource generation

Articles

 Harakati? What's that?