South Sudan

South Sudan: The #OSJUBA event stresses early moves by net activists
South Sudan: The #OSJUBA event stresses early moves by net activists 09 August 2012 FD

Imagine a city torn by war, overwhelmed with daily influx of people from the countryside, becoming the capital of a country from one day to the next. And then picture crazy computer people ruffled together in an abandoned supermarket, thousands of kilometres away, in another city, trying to fix the first city. These two images put together are called #OSJUBA.

Juba, the world's first open source city?
Juba, the world's first open source city? 20 June 2012 Stephen Kovats

In the age of social networks, citizen media and digital collaboration, #OSJUBA seeks to apply the means and tools of creative open source culture to post-conflict development. #OSJUBA hosts their first event on June 21, 2012 in Berlin to mobilise free culture, accessible technologies and hacktivist communities in creating a vision for the new capital of South Sudan.

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