OpenTech 2020

Online from June

OpenTech 2020 — Now, Next, and Beyond

For those who’ve not been before... OpenTech is an informal, low cost, one-day conference on slightly different approaches to technology, problems and democracy. You would have been guaranteed a day of thoughtful, thought-provoking talks leading to lively conversations with friends… but for coronavirus.

We can’t do an in person event right now (and probably not next year either), so here’s a new process:

Published talks:

• Technology can be used to increase social injustice- where do you stand? by Tracey Gyateng (the links mentioned in the talk)
• A day in the life of a school child in data by Defend Digital Me

People had less time for talks and organising than we hoped.

This event's predecessors, in 2015, 2013, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, and 2005 were low cost, one-day conferences about technologies that anyone can have a go at, from "Open Source"-style ways of working to repurposing everyday electronics hardware. Before that was NotCon 2004, an informal, low-cost, one-day conference on things that technologies were perhaps not intended to do.