Dear all, This is about something that has been simmering in our minds ever since Siddharth Hande and I attended the opendatacamp in Bangalore earlier this year. I have also been discussing this with some of you offline. We have finally mustered the confidence that we can pull together an interesting event in Hyderabad that builds on some of what we learnt at the ODC at Bangalore.
The website for the event is at Do Din <http://www.do-din.org> http://www.do-din.org facebook community is at Do Din Facebook Community<https://www.facebook.com/pages/Do-Din/399386580160963> The idea is to organize a two-day event called Do Din over the weekend of December 14 and 15 of this year. We are thinking of this as an annually recurring event. This being the first year, is our first attempt to put in place and test the principles of organizing an urban event of this kind. We want to blur the divides between technology, social science and art. So, we are organizing the event in two intertwined tracks: one being an urban technology track in which we are broadly thematizing as urban data: maps, apps and visualization. We want to pack in a series of brainstorming sessions and thick interactive and collaborative work sessions involving data users (e.g. government and non governmental). The other is an urban art track in which we are organizing a series of events that will allow people to share stories about living in these cities. We see this really as an opportunity to bring together data practioners and users of different kinds together around the urban question. The event will be organized in an area that will be easily accessible to everyone from all over the city. We will keep updating you as we go along. But we need help in brainstorming and organizing the sessions. So please do look up the website and the fb page. And we look forward to suggestions / ideas on this list (or offlist) on how to make this work. anant maringanti On behalf of Do Din organizing committee -- http://www.hyderabadurbanlab.com Hyderabad Urban Labs Phone: +91 9618251776 10-5-71/1,*Gulshan*-*E*-*Khalil*,Masab Tank, Opposite Garden Tower, Hyderabad India 500028 -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
