#ciudadanoi

Nuestra directora @avilarenata en @eldiarioes sobre #Midterms2018 : "Lo que se define acá es mucho más que la política interna de EEUU. Es la posibilidad de frenar a los déspotas alineados con una administración que mira con desdén a los derechos humanos": https://t.co/OBz791seRp

Es escándalo de corrupción más grande del mundo, aquí en números. Fuente de datos: https://t.co/7YXhEQRb7j http://pic.twitter.com/YDKG16OgDP

El Cuarto Juzgado de Garantía de Santiago declaró admisible la querella presentada por Fundación Ciudadano Inteligente en contra de Jaime Orpis, senador por la región de Arica y Parinacota. La acción judicial fue presentada contra el parlamentario y demás personas que resulten responsables por el delito de cohecho.

Según detalla el contenido de la querella, entre los años 2010 y 2013, Jaime Orpis habría recibido mensualmente la suma de 2 millones de pesos por parte de la empresa Corpesca del Grupo Angellini. El dinero recaudado habría sido utilizado por Orpis con el fin de financiar su campaña política de 2009 para obtener la reelección en el cargo de Senador.

En el mismo documento se describe que estos pagos habrían sido realizados mientras Jaime Orpis pertenecía a la Comisión de Pesca del Senado durante la discusión de la Ley de Pesca, instancia en la que el senador habría votado reiteradamente a favor de indicaciones que favorecían a Corpesca.

Al respecto, el Director Ejecutivo de Ciudadano Inteligente, Pablo Collada declaró: “en el caso del senador Orpis tenemos muchas razones para creer que este caso va más allá de una falta de carácter tributario. Aquí está en juego una falta a la fe pública y a la probidad”.

Un día cuando salí de mi casa decidí que no tomaría el mismo camino de siempre en mi bici para llegar al trabajo. Pedalee un poco más de la cuenta y llegué a un lugar llamado Angkor Wat y entonces justo cuando caché que me había perdido, que no tenía plata, que no me entendían lo que hablaba me pillé con @jgarrido ahí trabajando.

Y la conversación siguió como esto:

D: “Hola loco! Qué te pasó? Te perdiste?”

F: “Si, quiero ir a ver a la Fiera”.

D: “Conoces a la Fiera?”

F: “Si, claro trabajo con ella hace varios años”

D: “Puedo ir contigo?”

F: “Claro, y me muestras el camino de vuelta por que no sé cómo volver”

Y así fue como Damián nunca más se fue del lado de la Fiera.

Acá aparece @jgarrido mostrando sus antiguos utensilio de trabajo.

Estaba yo tranquilamente caminando por la calle cuando el paisaje comenzó a cambiar muy muy lentamente hasta que se veia así:

La gente en este nuevo lugar (Taipei) era muy muy amable con las personas que no sabían hablar/leer/escribir chino. Entre tanta amabilidad me encontré con un conocido CLKao, antiguo amigo que conocí producto de poplus. CL me contó una historia sobre Taiwan y sus movimiento sociales. A principios de año el partido oficialista trató de pasar una ley en el Legislative Yuan (立法院) que buscaba asegurar un tratado de libre comercio con China llamado CSSTA. Este proceso se intentó realizar sin una revisión clausula a clausula. Es importante hacer notar que el CSSTA podría implicar que muchas empresas taiwanesas se vieran afectadas económicamente. Si quieres ver como se vería tu empresa afectada por el CSSTA puedes verlo acá y la versión traducida acá.

Este hecho causó que los estudiantes taiwaneses lideraran un movimiento que reunió a muchas organizaciones de la sociedad civil como ONGs además de académicos, etc y se tomaran el congreso por más de 13 días. Este hecho funcionó como combustible para los movimientos sociales que se encontraban trabajando de manera segregada y sin coordinación.

En este contexto, las tecnologías abiertas fueron muy importantes para coordinar e informar a un grupo gigantesco de personas, organizaciones e intereses diferentes.

Esto es una introducción para contarles sobre lo que vino después: CL me invitó a la 1era g0v summit, que justo estaba por ocurrir por esos días =) a lo que por supuesto dije que si.

G0v es una comunidad online que funciona principalmente con voluntarios, que son muy diversos, que van desde académicos, periodistas, activistas de distintos tipos, personas de todos los partidos políticos, programadores, etc. Funcionan como paraguas de muchas iniciativas.

Cuando llegué a la Academia Sinica en Taipei, me di cuenta de lo importante que g0v significaba para Taiwan. Los asistentes sobrepasaban los 600 y tenían más de 100 voluntarios trabajando para levantar un evento impresionante. Cuando comentaba con alguno de los asistentes que estaba impresionado con la capacidad de reunión me contaban que g0v era similar a una celebridad en Taiwan.

Ya ahora les voy a contar de algunas herramientas/proyectos que me parecieron interesantes:

Loomio es una de las herramientas que se utilizan en g0v para tomar decisiones de manera colectiva.

team Popong son un grupo koreano de activistas/académicos que crean herramientas utilizando open-data y open source para transparentar datos del gobierno de Korea del sur.

Partido Pirata: Creo que acá todo el mundo los conoce, pero una de las cosas que más me llamó la atención fue saber que el PartidoPirata alemán no son una organización eminentemente online, si no que por el contrario tienen muchas reuniones presenciales.

Acá pueden revisar algunos proyectos amparados por g0v.

Ya, pero ahora vamos a las preguntas dificiles de responder:

Cómo llegó a formarse este movimiento con tanta fuerza y organización? Aparentemente, la respuesta a esta pregunta está en las comunidades de software libre (que son muy fuertes en TW) y en las relaciones sociales previamente existentes.

Qué viene ahora? Como se menciona en este artículo, creo que la ciudadanía taiwanesa estará mucho más activa y organizada. Además, el sunflower movement funciona como inspiración a otros movimientos como por ejemplo el Occupy Central with Love and Peace de Hong Kong (Artículo en la wikipedia).

Como conclusión puedo decirles que tenemos mucho que aprender de los movimientos sociales de esta parte del planeta y que esto no para señores =).

This is the story of my adventures in Berlin, July 2014, this is not intended as a working report, so please don't expect much seriousness.

Short version but less interesting:

I went to Berlin, I got lost, overslept, missed a inter-continental plane but I made loads of friends =).

Longer and more interesting version:

@pablocollada (FCI's new executive president) and I (handsome coder at FCI) went to Berlin to attend to one of the most of massive events in the field of democracy, open government, technology the other molecule, open-culture.

Objectives:

To promote the use of our tools.

Promote Poplus.

To see what the rest of our community is up to.

To meet and network with potential partners and collaborators.

In short, to save the world.

We got in the same Sunday as the Word Cup Final (Germany-Argentina), you might imagine all the excitement in the streets of Berlin, the flags, flags everywhere, everythings with a German flag. I was kind of missing all the latin-american mess and it was such a funny experiment to think of how crazy the streets of Buenos Aires would have been at the same time.

I thought that the best way to get rid of the awful jet lag was to stay up and ride a bike all around town. Right when I thought that I wasn't going to meet anyone I saw the Argentine crowd from Democracy Os headed towards the Kulturbrauerei to watch the game drinking beer and eating pretzels. The rain seemed not diminish the enthusiasm of any of them, although unfortunately the jet lag did to me what the rain didn't. So about an hour before the match, I rode my bike back to the hostel where I watched the game with a beer and some germans that were cheering for Argentina (funny thing isn't?). I passed out 5 minutes after the game finished. The end.

Next day was a completely different thing. I didn't have a trace of jet lag (at least I thought so) and the only thing I could think of was more biking and exploring the city, and that's exactly what I did. So I got to see the memorial at Bernauer Straße and then I got a bit lost. Next thing on the list, meet my new roommates for the next 4 days at 4 PM in Eberwalder Straße. That was about the time I met Jorge Díaz @YAYjorge and Martín Szyszlican and together with @pablocollada we shared a very nice apartment in central Berlin for 4 days.

I got late at the meeting (predictable) and the guys were inside the apartment already set and ready to go to the first activities of #okfest14 here you can see the programme. I went to the fair where I got to see all the projects mentioned in the slot from 18 to 19 hours on thursday. I met my friend Breyten, you might know him for projects like Politwoops or the Dutch openspending. I also met Paul Lenz, Jen, Mark, Tony and Tom from mySociety. We went to see Artists without a cause @ArtistsWAC and their Politaoke which basically is a karaoke but with political speeches. I promised myself I was going to send them a speech of Salvador Allende's.

Back at the apartment, it didn't take us too long to start a conversation with @YAYjorge and @martinszy about what were the main issues in our beloved latin america, and it didn't take us much of the conversation to find out that it was the sexism embedded as part of our culture is a real problem across all the region and we all agreed that we would so something about it (I think that the content of these conversations didn't get much further but if you want to join please don't hesitate). Twit us at @lfalvarez, @pablocollada, @martinszy and @YAYjorge.

I overslept the next day and I got to the Festival in the middle of the keynotes =/. Anyway, I attended to the Open Access Global Review, where I got to see some of the most interesting updates regarding opendata from around the world.

Right after that I started talking with @tmtm about VoteIt, here I want to stress the usefulness of this project and specially for us at @ciudadanoi and probably to a lot of NGOs that are working with votes and their interpretation.

In the afternoon I attended to Open Data Communities, which was a session about finding who is doing what around the world. If you want you can check the session link.

Later I attended a session called "Global Elections Toolbox". I was drawn to that session because I feel some kind of love for our project VotaInteligente. The projects here were presented by @stefvangrieken and he showed us several projects intended to promote transparency and better participation around the globe. NOTE: I could not find the presentation does anyone have it?.

After that I had the opportunity to talk to several mexican guys, working on great things, that I'm going to describe now:

Juan Pablo Escobar from Codeando México, we realized that they were working on a project called "Congreso Abierto" which seemed to me that was really close to our CongresoAbierto. (This project was born in DAL 2012).

The guys from the Laboratorio para la Ciudad de México who I realized were doing a really interesting work that is worth keeping an eye at, not just in terms of the code that they produce but also in terms of the cultural scene that they are promoting in Mexico. Particularly I had the opportunity of talking with MikeSaurio who has been working on Traxi.

On thursday I participated in the "Money, Politics and Transparency" session hosted by the Money, Politics and Transparency initiative where I had to introduce the work with Quién te financia?. If you want to read more about this session you can go here.

Right after that and just out of mere chance I met @fancynancynyc and @lksriv whom I had a really interesting conversation about feminism and also I met for the first time Circle of 6 which is an app that helps prevent the violence against women before it happens.

During the afternoon I went to the unfestival to a session about promoting the use of poplus where we met a lot of people who wanted to see what was this all about. Particularly I had the oportunity of talking to Jaroslav from Kohovolit about how was write-it coded and how NapišteJim.cz was the inspiration for it. And see if there was a possibility for us to collaborate.

Later in the afternoon I went to dinner invited by Panthea Lee from Reboot. There I had the opportunity to meet Anne Mugai and my old pal Daniela Silva and suddenly the same conversation about sexism arose and I realized that Daniela was an activist pro women in technology back in Brazil and that our problems in Latin America were very similar to the ones that Anne was facing in Africa.

After a bike riding day in Berlin, Saturday was the day for me to leave and get back to Santiago. But things were not going to be any easy were they? So I got to the Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport and 15 minutes before departing we were offered to stay one more night in Paris in exchange for a few euros, so naturally, I took it. Finally got to Santiago on Monday morning straight to work and I had Sunday to see wonderful Paris.

And that's it.

Who to follow?

Besides the people mentioned above, I met some really interesting people in my trip and I want you to check them out:

The guys from Open-steps project who have been mapping initiatives related to open knowledge.

The guys from the OpenKratio an spanish #opengov and #opendata citizens group, particularly I had the chance to talk to Félix.

Andra Bucur from Romanian Foundation from an Open Society.

The guys from the brand new and spanish CEPID, focusing on investigative journalism.

Doing an amazing job from Philadelphia Andrew Thompson from Azavea.

Working in open data from South Africa Hannah Williams, she is one of the School of Data fellows and she has an awesome site.

Making humanitarian data easy to find and useHumanitarian Data Exchange.

I didn't have the chance to speak much with Javie, but now I'm checking and his work in Uganda is really amazing please follow this link to check it out Uganda speaks.

I would add

I really don't want to write anything else can this be a working report?

Where to go now

OkFestival

The programme and the notes to all of the sessions

UnFestival

Thanks