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Post-HLab14 Dissemination Session at Tech4Dev International Conference, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, 4-6 June 2014

The UNESCO Chair in Technologies for Development hosted by the Cooperation and Development Center (CoDEV) will hold the third International Conference on Technologies for Development and asks "What is Essential?" How to alleviate poverty in this world? Innovative technologies? What is appropriate technology?

Panel Discussion (Part of the official Conference; 4 June)

TH2-SE02-11 The Openness Paradigm: How Synergies Between Open Access, Open Data, Open Science, Open Source Hardware, Open Drug Discovery Approaches Support Development?

Panel Chairs:

Sachiko Hirosue, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Denisa Kera, National University of Singapore

Water Hackathon (Parallel Event; 6, 7 June)

Water Hackathon 6-7 June 2014Open Source Technologies for Rivers, Oceans and Lakes - Explore the Possibilities of Open Hardware for Open Science Projects
co-produced by BIO-DESIGN for the REAL WORLD and hackteria.org

With

Gabriella Levine Tisch School of the Arts New York University, and Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design

Nur Akbar Arofatullah Lifepatch, UGM

Enrollment

Register! Only a few days left...almost at the enrollment maximum For the hackathon, please register online prior to the event, so we know who will be joining us.

Everyone who is registered on the site above for the hackathon will have a Friday day pass to the Conference at the Convention Center.

People are required to pick up their badge on Friday morning (open starting 8:30am) at the Conference Registration at the Swiss Tech Convention Center on EPFL campus.

If you are already attending the Conference, and you would like to sign up, please look for us in the main hall, where we will have an exhibition space throughout the conference.

Venues

1) Exhibition table at entrance hall of the Swiss Tech Convention Center conference venue

4-6 June, During the whole conference, place to show some prototypes, discuss, welcome people, last minute on-site enrollment etc.
/ setup the day of

At the ground floor of the conference center there will be "poster sessions"

2) Hackathon Lab Space within the Swiss Tech Convention Center conference venue ROOM 3A

6 June 10 am to 5pm / setup the day of

3) hackuarium @ UniverCité 5 Ch. du Closel, 1020 Renens

6 June after 5pm, and full day Saturday 7 June. (24/7 access)

New biohacker space, launched by Luc Henry, Yann Heurtaux

how to get there

EPFL campus can be easily accessed by public transport. The new Swiss Tech Convention Centre is on EPFL campus.
UniverCité is at 5 Ch. du Closel, 1020 Renens. From the CFF stop Renens, take Bus 17, 3 stops.

You can find a google map with the venues pinned here.

What happens When?

Friday 6 June

During the day, we are part of the tech4dev Conference. The full conference program for Friday can be found here.

08:30 onwards, Walk-in Registration

10:30 - 12:30 Hackathon

13:30 - 15:00 Hackathon

15:30 - 17:00 Closing Session - (our report of the day's activities will be part of the Return of Day 3 conversations)

After the Conference, we will move the hackathon to univercité in Renens.

Saturday 7 June

Core Team

making sure we have a nice program and sufficient materials available for the waterhackathon:

- Gabriella Levine (June 3rd to June 7th (or longer))
- Nur Akbar Arofatullah (June 3rd to 15th)
- Urs Gaudenz (June 4th to 8th)

In collaboration with:

   UNESCO Chair in Technologies for Development
   hackteria
   Lifepatch
   biodesign for the real world
   hackuarium
   univercité

With support from:

   Migros Kultur Prozent
   seeed studio
   Swiss National Science Foundation 

Affiliations:

   Open Source Hardware Association
   Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0
   Open Hardware

Participants

- Marc Dusseiller
- Denisa Kera
- PECHBLENDA bIOpUNKhACKs
- ...
- about 25 hackaton participants

Accommodations

Guest: For those of you coming from out of town, and requested housing in the sign-up form, we will try to pair you up with a local host.
Host: For those of you who signed up for hosting, we will contact you shortly

Suggested Topics

- building and testing boats and floats
- water snail robot
- water sampling methods and containers
- water filtration
- build and test water sensors
- DIY nanodrop
- experimenting with daphnia-sensor

Planned Side Events

- Discussion on UNESCO Bioethics declaration
"unique capacity of human beings to reflect upon their own existence, to perceive injustice, to avoid danger and to assume responsibility, to seek cooperation"

- ...

Material

Provided by SGMK
- Electronics lab equipement
- soldering irons
- lamps
- electronic tools like tweezers, side cutters
- wires
- breadboards
- aligator clips
- arduinos
- batteries
- batterie holders
- switches
- wires
- hot glue
- board material
- ...

Provided by EPFL (Biodesign)
- Wetlab materials
- pipetes
- tubes
- ...

Provided by GaudiLabs
- Silkprinting materials
- OpenPCR
- WebCam Mircoscope
- DIY Nanodrop
- DIY GelBox
- ..

Provided by LifePatch
- Some seeed studio materials

Provided by UniverCity
- 6 tables with corresponding 6 chairs each
- electrical outlets, and extension cables
- running water/faucet

optionally
- good sound system
- projector
- fridge

Items to be sold at the conference:

micam3.0 kit by Akbar
T-Shirts by Marc

Links

http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001461/146180E.pdf