Pollution and Tech Activism: Lessons from Taiwan and Nigeria.
Exponential growth in tech for modern economies & systems has had negative impacts on resources and the environment. Speakers from Nigeria and Taiwan will discuss how they track pollution and hold polluters accountable.
When: 6 August (Saturday) from 11:30 to 13:30 UTC
The event will be live streamed on the Facebook of the Newbloom online maganize
Speakers:
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Brian Hioe: Brian Hioe (丘琦欣) is a writer, editor, translator, activist, and DJ based out of Taipei. He is one of the founders of New Bloom Magazine (破土), an online magazine covering activism and youth politics in Taiwan and the Asia Pacific that was founded after the Sunflower Movement.
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Sam Robbins: Sam Robbins is an editor and translator for Taiwan Insight, and a writer on tech, politics and Taiwan. He is a nobody in Taiwan’s g0v community and a former project coordinator at Open Culture Foundation. This last year, he has been working with MAJI and other international communities to promote environmental monitoring.
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Okoro: Okoro Onyekachi Emmanuel is a short-length documentary film-maker, network professional, participatory project developer and environmental campaigner who have been working with marginalised groups living in rural and urban poor communities in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria for over 15 years.
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Peii: Peii is a researcher of Citizen of the Earth, Taiwan (CET), specializing in advocacy to reduce factories on farmland. CET co-develops Disfactory, an illegal factory report platform, with g0v civic tech community and successfully leverages data from >1800 citizen reports on site and more than >5000 players’ data labelling on satellite images to push the government’s law enforcement, budget allocation and policy changes.
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Mike Jensen: Starting his professional life as a research scientist studying the impacts of acid-rain pollution, Michael Jensen subsequently became a journalist, aiming to build public awareness of environmental issues. Over the past three decades, Mike has advised on digital infrastructure and services on behalf of governments, intergovernmental organisations, development agencies, the private sector, foundations and NGOs in over 50 countries around the world, especially in Africa.
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Wulung Hsu: WuLung Hsu is the founder of LASS, a tech community promoting community engagement with environmental monitoring across Taiwan. He is a former product line director of a chip design company and currently serves as a consultant for many businesses