BarCamp is an international network of user generated non-conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants — often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats.
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BarCamp Central Asia 2008 will be the first non-conference of such kind in Central Asia. The event will be attended by new media professionals and bloggers from Central Asia and other former Soviet Union countries. It is also expected that specialists from China and Turkey will be invited as well.
Recently BarCamp movement became very popular in different parts of the Earth. The BarCamp is regularly conducted in such countries as Canada, USA, India, Germany, UK, Netherlands, France, Australia, and others.
The first BarCamp on the territory of the former Soviet Union was held in October 2007 in Kyiv, Ukraine. The next one was held in Riga, Latvia, and it had new media professionals from Central Asia among the participants, including organizers of BarCamp Central Asia.
Expected number of participants: 400-500
Goal: To improve quality and safety of Internet technologies within Central Asian countries
Tasks:
• To unite different cultures by building a platform for experience exchange
• To attract sponsors to innovative web-related projects of participants
• To establish long-term business relations within the enclosed region
• To give opportunity to advanced specialists to mate each other personally
• To decrease the level of plagiarism in the web, and thus to develop new norms of ethics in Internet space
The plan of BarCamp:
August 1 Arrival and registration of participants
August 2 Presentations
August 3 Innovation Incubator
Venue:
American University of Central Asia
205 Abdumomunova st.,
Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic
www.auca.kg
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