Aptivate - Consensus Driven IT for International Development

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every individual has the right to inform and be informed

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Short slide presentation showing how our organisation Aptivate based in the UK works with open source development within a consensus-driven supportive open and transparent work culture to help bridge the digital divide (and have fun cooking and eating too)

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every individual has the right to inform and be informed

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@aptivateukwww.aptivate.org

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81% of North America has internet

Www.wearesocial.sg/blog/2014/01/social-digital-mobile-2014

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Www.wearesocial.sg/blog/2014/01/social-digital-mobile-2014

Compared to 18% in Africa

But it's is quite slow and intermittent :-(

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The average webpage in 2014 is over

1500K

http://httparchive.org/trends.php

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Bandwidth in rural Zambia is less than

256kbps

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We think it everyone should get good web content wherever they are

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Does a 60kb site have to be ugly?

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The way we think and work is a bit different...

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It's a cultural work thing

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We earn the same salary

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We eat a tasty lunch together every day

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We connect all day with remote workers

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working flexible hours with no silly overtime

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contributing to the open source community

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Participation, Agile, Lenovo, Ubuntu, Django

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:-)

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Decisions are difficult to make

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Every voice should be heard

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So we developed Econsensus

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but...

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We are living in a cosy human trust bubble

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Trust online isn't the same for every organisation

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How can groups of diverse thinkers make effective decisions everywhere

?

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@aptivateukwww.aptivate.org