diff --git a/_config.yml b/_config.yml index dbb13b4..ff02137 100755 --- a/_config.yml +++ b/_config.yml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -baseurl: "/ASKnet.Community_teaser" # the subpath of your site, e.g. /blog +baseurl: "" # the subpath of your site, e.g. /blog url: "" # the base hostname & protocol for your site, e.g. http://example.com # Build settings diff --git a/_data/settings.yml b/_data/settings.yml index ea9c24a..ca296ca 100644 --- a/_data/settings.yml +++ b/_data/settings.yml @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ title: '#ASKnet' logo: assets/img/asknet-logo.png author: '#ASKnet' description: "Access to Skills & Knowledge network" -email: info@asknet.community +email: coordinator@asknet.community phone: address: screenshot: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ASKnetCommunity/ASKnet.Community/51b8d4f7a3a772eb2a55968b721b98bb657db161/screenshot.png @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ menu: - {name: Resources, link: '/#resources'} - {name: Media, link: '/media'} # - {name: "#ASKtools", link: '/#asktools'} -- {name: Timeline, link: '/#timeline'} +- {name: Our Story, link: '/#timeline'} - {name: Contact, link: '/#contact'} @@ -56,7 +56,31 @@ about: about-description-2: "The nine members of #ASKnet address local community challenges, support empowerment with knowledge and skills, inspire regional innovation and creativity, and engage peacebuilding and community empowerment among all members of society." about-description-3: "#ASKnet is supported by r0g_agency (Berlin, Germany) and Hive Colab (Kampala, Uganda) as implementing partners. The project in the period of 2022-2025 is funded by the German Ministry of Economic Development and Cooperation (BMZ)." about-profile-button-title: "Our Organizational Framework" -about-flyer-link-title: "#ASKnet Flyer" + + +#------------------------------- +# Services Section + +services-title: Services +services: +- { + name: Community, + icon: fas fa-users, + description: 'We bring together people and ideas to help build resilient environments for strong knowledge exchange within numerous communities - in towns, villages, and local neighborhoods, including within refugee or IDP settlements. We strive to harness and make public the collective knowledge and skills of local experts, refugees, activists, and CSOs to deepen local impact and create opportunities for mutual support and collaboration.', + active: # Add true to select section + } +- { + name: Media Literacy, + icon: fab fa-osi, + description: '#ASKnet embraces the philosophy of open knowledge sharing and encourages its community to openly share their work and invite others to engage and learn from it as a means to break down silos and barriers to learning. This catalyzes collaboration, peer-to-peer exchange, and civic engagement, strengthening and creating paths to new opportunities, entrepreneurship, and further networks of skills and resources.', + active: # Add true to select section + } +- { + name: Media Development, + icon: fas fa-laptop, + description: '#ASKnet contributes to create an environment where the media plays a constructive role in fostering democracy, accountability, and public participation. Education about media literacy is crucial and involves helping individuals critically evaluate and understand the media they consume, discerning reliable information from misinformation.', + active: # Add true to select section + } #------------------------------- @@ -78,6 +102,74 @@ hub-section-description: | hub-section-contact: "Are you interested to become a member? Get in contact with us!" +#------------------------------- +# Timeline Section + +timeline: + title: "Our Story" + text: | + #### Where do we come from? + + Building on the context from which #ASKnet emerged as an initiative for improved access to information, media literacy and proactive peacebuilding, a cross-border network of peers and experts is now evolving into an independent, self-sufficient network. + + section: timeline + # left is the default + #start_align: "left" + events: + - title: "The jHUB ‘Pioneers’" + year: "2015" + desc: "The program started with a series of community-based media trainings. The participants, hailing from various parts of South Sudan, drafted and signed a Charter of Common Values, launching the Juba Open Knowledge and Innovation Hub (jHUB). Later that year the jHUB community co-created the first #peacehackcamp!" + image: assets/img/timeline/2015.jpg + alt: + url: https://openculture.agency/peacehackcamp-2015/ + - title: "Migrations, New Horizons" + year: "2016" + desc: 'As armed conflict erupted again in South Sudan, the community scattered, with some members taking refuge in neighboring countries. Hosting of trainings were taken on by partners in Addis Ababa, Nairobi, Kigali, Kampala. The #ASKotec kit was developed and a network of local initiatives that has since evolved into what is now #ASKnet.' + image: assets/img/timeline/2016.jpg + alt: + url: https://github.com/ASKnetCommunity/ASKnet.Community + - title: "New Members" + year: "2017" + desc: 'A number of new, initially informal organizations were established and launched by former jHUB members, who began sharing various skills with local participants in their specific contexts. These also included refugee settlements such as Rhino Camp in Northern Uganda, and towns in South Sudan such as Bor.' + image: assets/img/timeline/2017.jpg + alt: + url: + - title: "An Informal Network" + year: "2018" + desc: "#ASKnet emerges as an informal network as a collaboration of media organizations and local experts starts to grow. A first collective training session, focused on Media, IT, Open Tech innovation and repair culture was held in the Rhino Camp South Sudanese refugee settlement." + image: assets/img/timeline/2018.jpeg + alt: + url: + - title: "Community Practices" + year: "2019" + desc: "Six ‚pioneer‘ hubs, all legally registered organizations, form the first collective #ASKnet community. In collaboration with the Global Innovation Gathering (GIG) with members coming together from 5 continents, DOTS, the first international #ASKnet summit was held in Nakuru, Kenya." + image: assets/img/timeline/2019.jpg + alt: + url: + - title: "Decentralized Actions" + year: "2020" + desc: "In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, #ASKnet evolves from hosting local trainings to a more decentralized network of online activity. With the online training and mentoring ‚tracks‘ - focusing on organizational development and on digital media and open tech skills, a community of individual #ASKnet experts, as well as formalized media hubs emerged." + image: assets/img/timeline/2020.jpg + alt: + url: + - title: "Hub Strengthening" + year: "2021" + desc: "#ASKnet hubs increase their own community engagement, with a broad range of media and life skills training, also helping to empower more community members in need of support and attention. The ‚Labmobile‘ at Rhino Camp, and an locally sourced housing prototype at the Pagirinya Refugee Settlement in Uganda join a family of resources and programs established earlier in South Sudan." + image: assets/img/timeline/2020.jpg + alt: + url: + - title: "Founding an International Innovation Consortium" + year: "2022 / 2023" + desc: "Adaptation of the informal international #ASKnet group of hubs into a consortium, with a legal registration in South Sudan. Foundations are laid for an inclusive cross-border and self-governed network of South Sudanese led youth-led media and innovation organizations able and open to bring on more members." + image: assets/img/timeline/2020.jpg + alt: + url: + # you can enforce the alignment: + # align: right + # end: + # title: "Add new training, event, or project!" + # link: "https://github.com/ASKnetCommunity/ASKnet.Community/issues/new?assignees=&labels=content-submit%2Cnew-timeline-event&template=new-timeline-event.yml&title=Add+Timeline+Event%3A+" + #------------------------------- # LEAD Section @@ -99,7 +191,7 @@ resources-description: | resources-sub-sections: - { title: "#ASKtraining", text: "An initial prototype of the #ASKtraining platform, to be used to compile, share and streamline the running of workshops, learning content and deliver ‚how to‘ instructions is created to make training easier and more accessible. In this way, experiential knowledge is secured, which improves the sustainability of activities and facilitates the induction of new members and participants.", image-url: "assets/img/tools/training.jpg", button-text: "Go To #ASKtraining", button-url: "https://training.asknet.community/training/", button-is-internal: false } - { title: "#ASKotec", text: "#ASKotec - the ‘Access to Skills and Knowledge open tech emergency case’ is a resource kit for community trainers that is designed as a light and handy mobile workshop creation set, equipped with a broad range of items needed to teach others. The kit is especially valuable to communities where access to tools, power and materials is often scarce.", image-url: "assets/img/resources/askotec.jpg", button-text: "More about #ASKotec", button-url: "https://askotec.openculture.agency/", button-is-internal: false } - - { title: "#OpenGuides", text: "#ASKnet has so far released five ‘OpenGuides’, providing beginners and advanced users with methods and strategies to apply open culture principles more effectively - opening doors to new creative opportunities for collaboration, learning and developing new skills.", image-url: "assets/img/resources/open-guides.png", button-text: "view Open Guides", button-url: "_pages/open-guides.md", button-is-internal: true } + - { title: "#OpenGuides", text: "#ASKnet has so far released five ‘OpenGuides’, providing beginners and advanced users with methods and strategies to apply open culture principles more effectively - opening doors to new creative opportunities for collaboration, learning and developing new skills.", image-url: "assets/img/resources/open-guides.png", button-text: "view Open Guides", button-url: "open-guides", button-is-internal: true } #------------------------------- @@ -108,88 +200,6 @@ resources-sub-sections: tools-title: "#ASKTOOLS" tools-description: "" -#------------------------------- -# Timeline Section - -timeline: - title: "Timeline" - text: "Projects, trainings and activities" - section: timeline - # left is the default - #start_align: "left" - events: - - title: "The Pioneers" - year: "2015" - desc: "The program started in South Sudan with the creation of a community-based media training center, Juba’s Open Knowledge and Innovation Hub (jHUB). The program has since evolved into a collection of smaller hubs and local initiatives in South Sudan and Uganda known as #ASKnet." - image: assets/img/timeline/2015.jpg - alt: - url: https://openculture.agency/peacehackcamp-2015/ - - title: "#ASKnet Pilot Workshop" - year: "2016" - desc: 'A pilot workshop with trainers, 3 #ASKotec kits, and 30 students was held in Uganda.' - image: assets/img/timeline/2016.jpg - alt: - url: https://github.com/ASKnetCommunity/ASKnet.Community - - title: "First Hubs Launched" - year: "2017" - desc: 'Four hubs were established and launched. They began teaching various skills to local participants. More emerging through initiatives of the "jHUB Pioneers" Community members' - image: assets/img/timeline/2017.jpg - alt: - url: - - title: "Official #ASKnet Kickoff" - year: "2018" - desc: "Trainings on organizational development and #OpenTech were held in Uganda at the Rhino Camp refugee settlement. The first community repair café took place and was a great success. #ASKnet emerges as an official program and the network of hubs and experts starts to grow." - image: assets/img/timeline/2018.jpeg - alt: - url: - - title: "Community Trainings" - year: "2019" - desc: "Trainings are held in Adjumani, Uganda on the collaborative, online documentation process. Since then, 25 trainings have been conducted, with an average of 15 participants per training." - image: assets/img/timeline/2019.jpg - alt: - url: - - title: "Decentralized Trainings, New Satellite Hubs" - year: "2020" - desc: "#ASKnet evolves from hosting local, individualized trainings with a limited number of participants to a more decentralized network of activity. Many more trainings take place across Uganda, South Sudan, and online, allowing remote communities to interact. Repair cafés continue to be held. Stronger, more autonomous hub identities continue to develop. " - image: assets/img/timeline/2020.jpg - alt: - url: - - title: "Coming soon" - year: "2021-2022" - desc: "A story yet to be told, stay tuned!" - image: assets/img/timeline/2021.jpg - alt: - url: - # you can enforce the alignment: - # align: right - end: - title: "Add new training, event, or project!" - link: "https://github.com/ASKnetCommunity/ASKnet.Community/issues/new?assignees=&labels=content-submit%2Cnew-timeline-event&template=new-timeline-event.yml&title=Add+Timeline+Event%3A+" - -#------------------------------- -# Services Section - -services-title: Services -services: -- { - name: Community, - icon: fas fa-users, - description: 'We bring together people and ideas to help build resilient environments for strong knowledge exchange within numerous communities - in towns, villages, and local neighborhoods, including within refugee or IDP settlements. We strive to harness and make public the collective knowledge and skills of local experts, refugees, activists, and CSOs to deepen local impact and create opportunities for mutual support and collaboration.', - active: # Add true to select section - } -- { - name: Media Literacy, - icon: fas fa-laptop, - description: '#ASKnet embraces the philosophy of open knowledge sharing and encourages its community to openly share their work and invite others to engage and learn from it as a means to break down silos and barriers to learning. This catalyzes collaboration, peer-to-peer exchange, and civic engagement, strengthening and creating paths to new opportunities, entrepreneurship, and further networks of skills and resources.', - active: # Add true to select section - } -- { - name: Open Access, - icon: fab fa-osi, - description: '#ASKnet embraces the philosophy of open knowledge sharing and encourages its community to openly share their work and invite others to engage and learn from it as a means to break down silos and barriers to learning. This catalyzes collaboration, peer-to-peer exchange, and civic engagement, strengthening and creating paths to new opportunities, entrepreneurship, and further networks of skills and resources.', - active: # Add true to select section - } - #------------------------------- # Client Slider Section diff --git a/_includes/about-section.html b/_includes/about-section.html index c0f3143..1ee637e 100644 --- a/_includes/about-section.html +++ b/_includes/about-section.html @@ -28,10 +28,7 @@
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