DOKUTECH

AUGUST 06-07
2016 PRIZREN

The DOKU:TECH experience includes keynote talks, panels, theme sessions, startup pitches, fireside chats, workshops, musical gigs and networking events.



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DOKU:TECH is an inspirational and interactive annual event which brings together individuals and tech talent to meet with top-tier international future makers, executives and thinkers. In 2014 and 2015, DOKU:TECH convened over 3,000 attendees and more than 50 renowned speakers for the two-day event.


TALKS


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We will gather to share knowledge and experiences, discuss issues related to our internet freedom, digital security and surveillance, open knowledge.



WORKSHOPS AND
MASTERCLASESS

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In DOKU:TECH, it is always exciting to learn new things. We do like inspiring talks, but we like even more that people at our event really learn some practical skills.



SPEAKERS

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DOKU:TECH features intensive and powerful talks from speakers with various backgrounds and common interest in technology.

Laura
Mersini-Houghton
The universe chaser
Mike Butcher
TechCrunch/Techfugees
Thorsten
Wiedemann
A MAZE
Peter Sunde
The Pirate Bay/Flattr

Josephine Goube
COO at Techfugees
Josipa Majic
CEO at ID Guardian
Valto Loikkanen
Grow VC Group
Aral Balkan
Ind.ie

Uri Aviv
Utopia Festival
Simone Cortesi
Digital Pilgrim
Tobias Stone
Identit / NewSquare
Lama Mansour
BOLD Gadgets

Addie
Wagenknecht
Deep Lab
Sebastian Mitchel
Ushahidi
More surprises
to be announced


SCHEDULE

Venue: Albanian League of Prizren (Lidhja Shqiptare e Prizrenit)

18:50
Kushtrim Xhakli
DOKU:TECH (Opening welcome)

EXCUSE ME, YOUR UNICORN KEEPS SHITTING IN MY BACK YARD, CAN HE PLEASE NOT?

The matrix is inverted and my teddy bear is spying on me. Why am I covered in unicorn shit?� I was only browsing the web. No, I do not want another cookie. Why are you feeding me cookies? Is that my treadmill? Am I the milk of magnesia to your unicorn�s constipation? How can you hear me when I�m not saying anything? I can�t seem to look away. Hello, White Man on the Cloud! Why can He see me, but I can�t see Him? Who, exactly, is getting smarter about whom? And why is Oettinger�s donut so red?

TITS OR GTFO

How many of us more or less discovered sex or about our bodies from the web? We are at a moment where we have the potential to see a huge potential to shift the way we view sex, pornography, art and even ourself These discoveries are a universal experience, but the majority of our relationships are now being controlled by modern corporate censorship models . As a result of these obfuscated terms of service, we are erasing contemporary art and entire groups of society. The operating assumption of US Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart toward pornography vs art�"I know it when I see it"�is increasingly impossible to apply in a space where Facebook defines our intents on their Terms.

Sebastian will outline Ushahidi�s toolkit and various key examples of successful past deployments. He will then give a detailed walkthrough of the newest version of the Ushahidi platform, covering the updated features and workflows. He will also cover best practices, common difficulties and how to overcome them, and tips on effective data management. Drawing on Ushahidi�s consulting experience, Sebastian will also offer custom technology and deployment strategy advice to the participants.

20:00
Music / Networking

DISCONNECTED - A 48H VIRTUAL REALITY (VR) TRIP OR THE BEGINNING OF VR TRAVEL

It is now the year 2026. People spend much of their time in Virtual Reality (VR) for entertainment, education, training, enjoying themselves in thousands of digital worlds. New art-forms and ways of storytelling have prevailed. It is normal that you jump into VR to meet your international friends in Social VR Rooms and go on crazy adventures together. You visit locations you'd never dreamt of, learn languages and cooking skills in authentic environments.

TECHCRUNCH / TECHFUGEES

The tide of people flooding into Europe has flummoxed Governments and panicked legislators. A new UK initiative has crowdsourced the technology community and is finding answers via hackathons and combined intelligence. The goal is to kick-start the world�s developer community to deliver relevant and essential tools into the hands of displaced people everywhere, giving them a voice, dignity and support.

21:10
Music / Networking
18:50
Vladan Joler
DOKU:TECH (Opening welcome)

RAISING ECOSYSTEMS FROM THE GROUND UP

Creating new startups require nurturing ecosystems around them. Just like startups, even if it may seem so sometimes, ecosystems do not develop by accident, but by decision, systematic approach and commitment by multiple parties. How do you develop them? How do you raise ecosystems from the ground up and know what is relevant and why? Valto will address these questions and talk also about key challenges behind ecosystems.

THE JOURNEY OF HARDWARE AND CROWDFUNDING FROM SCRATCH

This speech is like an inspirational diary of a college girl in the Middle East who studies literature, and who ended up a year later running a hardware start-up company in Europe. The speech takes the crowd through the obstacles, the ups and downs, and how crowdfunding and hardware startups can be built from scratch with minimum resources and support.

INNOVATION, ACCELERATORS, E-RESIDENCY

Tobias Stone tells the story of how he created a new kind of accelerator, building an ecosystem around eye-care. Along this journey he had startups using Estonia's e-Residency on his program and started to work with the Estonian Government to support the e-Residency Program. He then built an ecosystem around this program, and is developing more programs in healthcare. He explains how accelerators, e-Identities, networks, and connectivity tie together to create better innovation.

20:00
Music / Networking

AUGMENTED REALITY DRIVES INFORMATION VISUALIZATION

Today's economy makes it easy for people in any part of the world to disseminate and collect information about a crisis. Platforms are becoming easy to set-up and people are using tools such as Heroku, Carto.DB and dropchop.io to do so. But how can you visualize in more advanced ways through technologies such as Augmented Reality, that has driven the world crazy through apps like Pokemon Go?

RED INK: SCIENCE FICTION AND THE VOCABULARY OF THE FUTURE

Science fiction is a highly creative story-telling art form, a source for unbound inspiration for designers, entrepreneurs and scientists, a wonderful platform to engage kids with STEM education and to the wide public with science, technology and innovation. Alongside these wonderful attributes, I�d like to suggest to you science fiction as a laboratory for ideas, a research facility for thought experiments. Through the exploration of the impossible, science fiction expands our conversation and understanding of the possible. Science fiction creatives offer us new words, a vocabulary for things that have yet to be, enabling us to better articulate the present and the future ahead. Science fiction offers us the red ink we desperately need for a progressive, inclusive and better tomorrow.

21:10
Music / Networking
Saturday, August 6, at Hamam.

jCoders Academy works on building a culture of innovation by youngsters to create technology. jCoders has a project based, learn by doing curricula to teaches programming and technology to children from age 8+. Children bring to life ideas by combining code, electronics, robotics and more. We invite all to see what our precious young generation will bring to DokuTech 2016.

FACEBOOK ALGORITHMIC FACTORY: HOW YOUR BEHAVIOUR IS TRANSFORMED INTO PROFIT

Depending on what you like and where you click the most, Facebook implements algorithm systems to track your interests and generate advertisements that you might find interesting and click on them. Vladan Joler from SHARE Foundation will delve into how Facebook makes a profit out of your browsing time and online behaviour during DOKU:TECH 2016!

PGP ENCRYPTION AND VPN PROTECTION

�This information is not available in your country.� Ever wondered what these messages (or similar ones online) mean? There are ways unlock some content online that might not be available to you otherwise. Peter Sunde from Flatter, together with Markus Kopimi from Piratbyran will conduct a masterclass dedicated solely to this topic.

Sunday, August 7, at Hamam.

UNDERSTANDING METADATA: WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM YOUR METADATA

Our online presence is growing with each day, and more and more information goes online and becomes a part of our daily routine. Metadata is information that is used to explain other information in short summaries and makes it easy to find certain information. Oli Solis from SHARE Foundation will delve into the world of metadata and how it can be used to study and learn about groups of people in today�s world during her masterclasses session.

SECRETS TO A SUCCESSFUL INTERVIEW

Jitters before the big interview of that job you have always wanted are only normal, and participants of Vullnet Latifi�s workshop will learn just what they need to go through a successful job interview. Vullnet works in the Human Resources department of L�Oreal, and will deliver some insightful knowledge of how a proper interview should take place and how one can prepare for it.

GEOLOCATION MAPPING / UNDP ANTICORRUPTION

Geolocation mapping is the identification of the real world geographic location of a user or device. Simone Cortesi from OpenStreetMap will conduct a masterclasses workshop dealing with Geolocation Mapping and Anti Corruption, and will go into detail of how this information can be further used by different parties of changemakers in the world.

Workshops are open during DOKU:TECH days from 17:00 till 21:00

Science for Youth gives youth the possibility of using science for good purposes. While keeping in mind the importance of science and the necessity of making the project sustainable, team members aimed to give youth the chance to take part in scientific events by listing events and cooperating with organizations that fit with the objective.

Eco Solution team is tackling the water pollution with heavy metals, coming as a result of the waste releases by factories, mines, and other sources. Consisting of chemistry students, the team is currently prototyping an ecological membrane that prevents water pollution and can be further used to clean the water - a product which will be verified and launched to the market.

This project seeks to get students more involved in science, culture, and art by creating a science fair in which they could participate. The work of science, culture, and art of students in Vushtrri was displayed to the community - a fair which succeeded in attracting interest through the commitment of both students and professors.

Consisting of young students, passionate about astronomy, AstroFER team plan to give lectures in ten different schools in Ferizaj for a whole week, every day. Upon completion, they will offer telescope viewing and essential information on planets, as well as organize an astronomical camp for three days consisting of educational activities and debates.

Podium � a program that teaches adolescents of the most marginalized groups in Kosovo how to advocate for the needs and rights of their communities. Podium gives teens skills on community needs assessment, how to build and manage a campaign, how to lobby with decision-makers and how to make their community�s issue big through media.

KoVo � Kosovo�s first and only match-making platform between Civil Society Organizations and Volunteers. This platform helps inform youth about volunteer opportunities that have two way benefits: help the community as well as give youth invaluable skills and experiences for which they will get officially certified, and doing all this while supporting CSOs achieve developmental goals for Kosovo.

Critical Media Literacy � a non-formal educational response that expands the notion of literacy to include mass and social media. It gives youth a means of understanding and evaluating information from a critical perspective, so as to challenge indoctrination, anti-social messages, and radicalization.

Aims to increase awareness on air quality and pollution issues, by conducting air quality measurements, creating campaigns, and presenting outcomes and solutions to local stakeholders. The project will show how open source software, open source hardware, digital maker practices and open design can be effectively used by local communities to appropriate their own technological sensing tools, make sense of their environments, and address pressing environmental problems in air.

BONEVET is a non-profit community center where people gather to share resources and knowledge, work on projects, network, and build. It is an informal combination of a lab, a shop and a conference room which encourages �hands-on� exploration by providing resources that are usually unavailable to individuals working alone.

Girls Coding Kosova purpose is to encourage women to reach full academic and professional potential in technical fields. At DOKU:TECH they will present the Walk Freely application, a mobile app they have developed together with Open Data Kosovo, to report sexual harassment. The collected data can be used as evidence to support preventive measures.

Prishtina Hackerspace is an open experimentation space established exclusively for technological, educational, cultural and scientific purposes. They�re coming to DOKU:TECH to reveal an exciting project based on community work, which uses digital cameras and other components to scan books page-by-page.



DOKU:TECH featured intensive and powerful talks from speakers coming from various backgrounds with a common interest in technology, such as:




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ORGANIZERS




IPKO Foundation�s goal is to seed and support the development of the next generation of leaders with a digital vision for Kosovo. These leaders may come from any sector or discipline but are united in their embrace of technology, knowledge, internet and the information society.



Share Foundation is a nonprofit organization from Serbia that is dedicated to protecting the rights of Internet citizens and promoting positive values of openness, decentralization, social media activism, free access and exchange of knowledge, information and technology.



DOKUFEST, the International Documentary and Short Film Festival, is the largest film festival in Kosovo. Each year the festival fills the cinemas and improvised screening venues around historic city center of Prizren with a selection of more than 200 hand picked films from around the world.




TEAM

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To back the statement that DOKU:TECH is not only for tech-geeks, the team behind this conference is comprised of digital economists, lawyers, sociologists, policy makers and various profiles that joined together to embrace technology:

Kushtrim Xhakli
Executive Producer
Teresa Crawford
Co-Design/Curator
Abetare Gojani
Director
Vladan Joler
Curator

Doruntine Demiri
Production
Daors Sahatciu
Production
Zana Cana
Production
Genc Bokshi
Production

Taulant Devolli
Social Media
Erjona Pllashniku
Media and Communication

SPONSORS

Sponsors of DOKU:TECH 2016 edition.

MEDIA SUPPORTERS

  • RTK
  • Tribuna
  • Kosovo 2.0
  • Digjitale

We also thank previous DOKU:TECH sponsors that helped make possible the event last year.

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