Topics and types of sessions
Topics covered
- Information sobriety, data minimization, low tech and green tech: Imagining how aid actors can limit their environmental impact considering alternative solutions or revisiting their approaches.
- Information and localization: autonomization, empowerment, participation: Reflecting on how data can empower the people most at risk of this global crisis, who are the best placed to adapt to and prevent disasters, leveraging technology in support of localization and new approaches of humanitarian action.
- Information Management and its role to reveal or better respond to the environmental crisis: Presenting examples of projects and showcasing technologies which outline how Information Management can both help shine a light on and address the environmental crisis and its consequences – such as: increased number of natural disasters, populations forced to migrate, chronic humanitarian crises.
- Collaboration and more sustainable and resilient systems: Reflecting on how collaboration can help make Information Management tools and approaches a cornerstone of a more sustainable world. For instance, by considering how aid actors furthering collaboration around IM systems is key to a more open, distributed, trustful and, ultimately, efficient system.
The full abstract of the 2022 GeOnG forum’s main theme is available here.
Types of sessions
Speed Geeking
Opportunities for project managers & experts to present their ideas and tools, and get relevant feedback from attendees in a sit-down meeting.
➡ 15 minutes (repeated)
Lightning Talk
Plenary presentation about tools and projects in a fast-paced storytelling format to engage and inspire us all.
➡ 5 minutes
Roundtable
Panel of professionals & experts discussing key topics of the sector and shedding light on new stakes, with a Q&A session for participants.
➡ 1h30
Workshop
Training session focused on introducing new tools, best practices or lessons learned with a demo or an activity to further participants’ understanding.
➡ 1h30 or 2h30
Fail fest
Plenary presentation celebrating failure as a mark of leadership, innovation and risk-taking in pushing the boundaries of what is possible in the sector and aiming to share key lessons learned.
➡ 15 minutes