Falanster Profile
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Basic information
| Organization name | Youth Non-Governmental Organization “Falanster” |
| Acronym | Youth NGO “Falanster” |
| Contact person | Sviatlana Yermakovich |
| Registered address | Minsk, Z.Biaduli, 3, room 2N |
| Phone Number | +375 29 860 23 12 |
| falanster.by@gmail.com | |
| Chairperson | Mikhail Volchak |
| Year of foundation | 2010 |
| Registration number | № 05/0904 |
| Other contacts | FB, VK |
Mission
We are a team of social innovators. We help to create a more autonomous and dynamic Belarusian society through open and free, digital and humanitarian technologies.
We promote the widespread use of open source, hardware, content, transparent approaches to management and decision-making. Also we support use of free-culture movement principles among local communities, public organizations, activists, ordinary citizens and official institutions.
Vision
For this we want to redistribute power with the help of educational, organizational, and infrastructural activities. We are eager to reveal the true nature of digital technologies and show examples of how it can be directly and practically applied by society and citizens.
The result of our work is a society that is actively involved in law-creation, development and decision-making.
Values
- innovativeness
- autonomy
- collectivism
- openness
- cooperativeness
- inclusiveness
- social equality
Goals
- To spread the use of open source, open hardware and content among public organizations, official institutions, communities and citizens.
- To strengthen topic and local communities through knowledge of digital management of their infrastructure.
- To help public organisations, communities and citizens with updating humanities and technical knowledge to activate and involve them in decision-making at all levels and law-creation.
Activities
At present we have three main activities:
- Wikification is the activity for the development of modern methods of media education for everyone, strengthening of knowledge in the Belarusian language, the spread of self-management principles, Belarusian wiki-community development.
- Digital Lab is a help for civil initiatives to improve their digital infrastructure through the development of volunteering among IT-specialists.
- "Hradka" is open source and content in the public official institutions, legislation and among civic communities.
Achievements
- Numbers. Since 2011 more than 500 people have volunteered in our educational clubs and projects. Over 3,000 people took part in events.
- Digital Lab. Participants of the Drupal-club (2011-2012) and then Digital Lab (since 2016) have created more than 15 online platforms for non-commercial organizations, solved more than 100 tasks for public organizations, conducted about 40 consultations, and dedicated more than 900 hours.
- Cycling campaign. "Cyclist Handbook" (2013 - 2017) was created. It is a brochure for cyclists (800 printed copies, more than 1500 downloads), whose purpose is to draw public attention to cycling problems in Belarus. Now Falanster supports the cycling campaign through the 'Cycling corner'.
- Wikification. During the active development of the organizational and educational activities the number of Wikipedia articles has almost doubled: from 80,000 (2014) to 145,000 (2017). More than 40 events took place, community infrastructure was improved, the Belarusian user-group was created (2015), the first international event Wikiletnik was held(2017), and also "Wiki Handbook" - a guide for novice Wikipedia editors was co-created in 2015. (300 printed copies, over 600 downloads as well).
- "Hradka". Promotion of open source and content led to the creation of a branch Creative Commons (2014), and in 2017 a copyright law changes proposal was made regarding open source licenses. Hradka's team managed to organize more than 30 public lectures, workshops, and consultations with a total audience of more than 800 people.
Falanster is an EVS accredited organization, the founder of Wiki-community User-group, co-founder of the Young Pirates of Europe, a member of the Pirate Parties International, a branch of Creative Commons, a member of WebWeWant network, and is actively engaged in international activities.
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