LOTE4 Program

#LOTE4

The Stewardship

23-26 October, 2014 // Matera, Italy

We believe the ability to come together to take care of assets in an unstable context is a key skill for surviving and thriving in the future.

This event aims to set the foundations for a global Stewardship ecosystem encouraging free flow of information, knowledge and actors between different contexts, sectors and leadership roles.

Fabrizio Barca General Director at the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance.

Ben Vickers Curator of Digital at Serpentine Gallery,unAbbot at the unMonastery.

Robin Chase is the founder and CEO of Buzzcar, a peer-to-peer car sharing service, board member of World Resources Institute, World Economic Forum’s Transportation Council, and US National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. (t.b.c)

Amelia Andersdotter Chair of the European Pirate Party. Previously member of the European Parliament on behalf of the Swedish Pirate Party.

Nadia EL-Imam Co-Founder and CEO of Edgeryders. Nominated for Parliament in Sweden in 2014.

David De Ugarte is one of the originators of the Spanish cyberpunk scene and co-founder of Las Indias Society, a multinational worker cooperative and new kind of socio-economic scene.

Event design

We will have three tracks: Communities stewarding physical assets, communities stewarding digital assets and communities stewarding communities.

We will have three roles: curators, stewards, support team, but not spectators.

We will have three kinds of activities: keynotes to get on the same page, parallel session to get in deep, action workshops to try out some practical stewarding.

The event is designed to: encourage maximum manageable diversity of participants in a process engineered to ensure respectful and constructive interaction between everyone involved.

Community stewardship: a third way?

Over the centuries, nation states have developed or acquired control of assets of all kinds. The overarching logic behind this development and acquisition is generally to enable the provision of public services. In recent decades this model has become overstretched: states have found themselves struggling to find the resources to keep those assets manned so that provision of such services could continue, and had to retreat from many non-core services. Consequently, many such assets lie unused; some are beginning to deteriorate.

In an effort to correct this situation, some public assets have been turned over to the private sector. This move has had mixed results: while some financial advantages for states have indeed materialized, at least in the short term, many privatization programs suffer unintended consequences. The general consensus seems to be that it might be interesting to explore new avenues.

Communities have been singled out as candidates for taking care of some public assets, in particular those that can be used to provide services to the community itself.

There is now evidence available to indicate that communities can indeed provide stewardship. The EdgeRyders community has itself accumulated significant experience in this area. We believe the ability to come together to take care of assets in an unstable context is a key skill for surviving and thriving in the future.

#LOTE4

Stewardship

23-26 October, 2014

Matera, Italy

Preliminary: Program is under construction here.

Day 1 Day 2 Day 3
08:00 - 09:30 Welcome breakfast
09:30 - 10:00

Fabrizio Barca, General Director for Development at the Italian Treasury // Ben Vickers, unAbbot at the unMonastery

Amelia Andersdotter, Chair of the European Pirate Party// Giulio Quaggiotto, Pulse Lab Manager at UN Global Pulse

David De Ugarte, Grupo Cooperativo de Las Indias // Nadia El-Imam Co-Founder and CEO, Edgeryders

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break

10:40 - 11:05

Who are the key actors and trends in Stewardship? Overview of the three parallel sessions

11: 05 - 13:00 Lightning talks and discussions Lightning talks and discussions Lightning talks and discussions
13:05 - 14:20 Lunch

14:20 - 14:30

Unconference sessions: Introduction to talks and workshops proposed and selected by participants

14:30 - 15:30 Unconference session \#1 Unconference session \#2 Unconference session \#3
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:30 - 17:00 Plenary: Groups report back
17:00 - 18:00 unConference session \#4 unConference session \#5 unConference session \#6
18:00 - 18:30 Plenary: Groups report back

18:30 - 19:00

What have we learned? Wrap up of the discussions

19:00 - 20:00

Juha Van’t Zelfde, Artistic director of Lighthouse in Brighton // Eric Osiakwan, Technology entrepreneur and investor.

Rasigan Maharajh, chief director of Institute for Economic Research on Innovation (t.b.c) // Noemi Salantiu, Founding Director and Community Mangager at Edgeryders

Riel Miller, Head of Foresight at Unesco// Nadia EL Imam, Founding Director and CEO of Edgeryders

20:00 Dinner Dinner Dinner
22:00 The Stewardship Award ceremony and party