Bar Camp Central Asia Kazakhstan Concept Eng

the Concept

Agenda

• Kazakhstan Internet market overview (difficulties\perspectives)

• Wtf barcamp (definition, concept, experience – Kiev, Riga, Bishkek)

• BarCamp Central Asia 2009 (concept, goals, expectances)

• Organizational team

• Ways of cooperation

• Contact us

Kazakhstan Internet market overview

Current situation: 2009

Population 15 mln -> 2 mln. OnlineMostly used by urban (Internet relatively accessible (Megaline $40 a month))High growth of Internet penetration from 6% (2005) to 14% (2008)Female on the net 44% Russian 94%, Kazakh 5%, English 1%

Weaknesses:

• Lack of knowledge• Fast changes• Low quality content in Kaznet• Politicizing • Law changes

* OpenNet Initiative http://opennet.net/research/profiles/kazakhstan

Market statics: 2009

Most visited sites in Kazakhstan

Benefits & Perspectives

+ together be ready for the future, web 2.0 future

Internet = Future = Web 2.0

Web 2.0

people sharing and connecting

=Conference 2.0

User Generated ContentUser Generated Conference

learning

discussing

working having fun

very personal human matters

very social FUTURE

multi choice, multi directional &

Wtf BarCamp?

Concept

BarCamp is a unique international conference for specialists in new media, blogging, podcasting, social networking, citizen

journalism, web projects development, web 2.0 concept, open source software, mobile phone \ Internet connection, web

design and everything else linked with listed above.

It is organized by new media enthusiasts and volunteers that get together for the idea of promotion new technologies

for the society development.

History & Experience

• October 2007 – Kiev, Ukraine• February 2008 – Riga, Latvia• June 2008 – Vilnius, Lithuania• June 2008 – Tbilisi, Georgia• August 2008 – Moscow, Russia• August 2008 – Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan• August 2008 – Baku, Azerbaijan• October 2008 – Kiev, Ukraine• December 2008 – Minsk, Belarus• February 2009 – Riga, Latvia• April 2009 – Almaty, Kazakhstan

Success story #1: Kiev

Blogcamp CIS and Baltics 2007 : the first barcamp in Eastern Europe.

Kiev, October 2007

Participants:• 300 participants from Ukraine, • 9 CIS and Baltics countries • Core audience – bloggers,

internet and IT professionals; journalists, marketing and PR specialists.


Blogcamp CIS and Baltics 2007:

• 2 days • 60 presentations• 800 reports in blogs• 80 items in printed and online media

Sponsors: Open Society Institute,Internews, Transitions Online (TOL)

Media partners: Domashiy PC (Home PC), е-mobile, hi-Tech Pro, Internet UA

PR partner: PRP Ukraine


Blogcamp CEEthe 2 blogcamp for CEE region

Kiev, October 2008

• Registered users: 1976 • 821 participants from Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, USA, Russia, Uzbekistan and Estonia. • 100 sessions • almost 29 sponsor logo on the site• Investor’s Day for ‘great IT minds’• social\educational trainings\camps before&after

Success story #2: Riga

BarCamp Baltics 2008

Riga, February 2008

• more than 500 people from 23 countries

• Incubator of Ideas - 74 projects participated

• BarCamp.lv website had more than 30,000 absolute unique visitors

• from 75 to 95 presentations during a day• TOL, OSI came looking for brave web-projects

Success story #2: Riga

BarCamp Baltics 2009

Riga,February 2009

• from 500 to 600 specialists of various IT-science fields representing Baltic States and CIS, and Central and Western Europe and America.

• participants are the leaders in the development of information technology, creators and owners of the websites that have a stable reader’s audience;

• developers, designers, entrepreneurs, marketers, mass media employees and social relations specialists. • sessions of presentations, BarCamp Idol, panels, etc.

BarCamp Central Asia 2008: Bishkek

BarCamp Central Asia 2008

Bishkek, August 2008

• 300 bloggers, web-delevopers, programmers and journalists from Central Asia, CIS, Eastern Europe and Scandinavia • bloggers' reimbursement systems and media centers networks, mobile Internet development и Mobile 2.0 service, Wordpress and Drupal, Web 2.0 localization, video and photo blogging, video blogging in the US • working languages - Russian and English• OSI, Soros Youth Action Fund, HIVOS, etc.

BarCamp Central Asia 2009 Almaty. Kazakhstan

17-19 April, 2009

In Brief

BarCamp Central Asia 2009 is the 2d open non-commercial educational international conference for New Media specialists.

Founded in 2008, BarCamp Central Asia offers open and free barcamp-style event along with incubator of ideas, special events & panel discussions, Central Asian market orientation sessions + social added value.

Location: Almaty, Kazakhstan

Dates: 17–19 April, 2009

Concept

• Open. BarCamp is an event organized by its participants in web 2.0 spirit. BarCamp initiative group made of volunteers and web-enthusiasts creates a platform, participants create a content. Everybody can change, upgrade, modify, debate, etc.

• Informal. Fully informal spirit leads presentations, brainstorming sessions, master classes, round tables and other activities and stimulates deep involvement of all participants.

• Interactive. No 'tourists' at BarCamp at all. If visiting, stay connected, express yourself and your opinion, commit, share, help, communicate and be involved in what’s going on in the BarCamp!

Target AudienceNumber of participants: about 300-400 delegatesRegions: Central Asia, CIS, Eastern and Western Europe Age: 22+ years (core audience)

Professional/Personal interests:• Journalism & New Media• Blogging, pod- and videocasting, civil journalism• Internet, Media Law • Internet, IT, mobile technologies• Online projects development• IT entrepreneurship• Marketing and PR

Schedule

First day

• Foreign participants: arrival and lodging\registration;• Free time/excursions executed by Almaty participants;• [un]Official opening of BarCamp, welcome drink in an informal atmosphere.

Second day

• Participants registration;• Official opening of the first day;• Press-conference of organizers of the BarCamp;• Simultaneous presentation sessions;• “Thematic” Dinners

Third day

• Panel discussions;• Innovation Incubator;• Official closing ceremony of BarCamp;• closure party;• Departure of the participants

Goals

• To stimulate the development of new media, journalism and IT projects in Central Asia;

• To assist experience exchange;• To strengthen the connections between participating specialists and

participants; • To create the cooperation environment and common vision on development

regionally and globally;• To ease the conditions for developing joint projects, including the international;• To brainstorm on implementing and cooperating in developing non-

commercial projects in Central Asia (Creative Commons, Global Voices Online, Wikipedia, etc.);

• To develop the citizen journalism and promote the idea of blogging and networking, etc.

Social Added Value

We believe all the knowledge and experience participants get during the event will help them in future:

• in promoting themselves to get a better job,

• in executing projects they are passionate about,

• in exchanging experience and develop the field they are working in,

• in gaining more knowledge and professional experience in the field,

• in practicing foreign languages during the event,

• in doing something as volunteers for the idea to make life/work/future in the region and world better.

Organizational Team

Initiative Group

the Core

Sergey Sabanov, Voronezh, RussiaHuman rights activist, blogger, ITspecialist, Drupal CMS specialistInt. Youth Rights Protection Action activist (http://yhrm.org), informational service coordinatorCo-founder of WS-Team (web specialist and human rights activists helping making sites for NGOs)BarCamp Central Asia 2009 site developer

Yelena Jetpyspayeva, Almaty, KazakhstanJournalist, blogger, creator, web-evangelistNewEurasia – Blogging Central Asia Managing Editor (Russian)BarCamp Central Asia 2008, 2009 organizer

Inessa Shlapak, Almaty, KazakhstanJournalist, bloggerNewEurasia – Blogging Central Asia contributorBarCamp Central Asia 2009 organizer

+ barcamps’ teams;volunteers;

Ways of Cooperation

Partnership

We are looking for supporters that are highly motivated and interested in the same ideas of ‘better and interactive future’ promotion via

• active participation and sharing the view and experience;

• supporting active people of Kazakhstan & CA be able to come to the event;

• supporting active and interesting people outside (CIS) come to the event share the experience and teach the knowledge;

• support the Ideas Incubator Incubator projects;

• any other options would be just great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Our future starts today with what we do now,

with whom we communicate at the moment, what we believe and invest.

BarCamp is a step to your future, new and promising.

It can be shaped as you want, it gives back 100% of investment + more

To remember!

Contact Us

Website: www.barcampkz.net E-mail: [email protected]

Yelena [email protected] +7 705 464 39 91

Inessa [email protected]+7 777 396 54 63

Contact Us

Thank you!

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