unConference
Japanese draft translation is available here. 日本語はこちらをご覧ください unConference日本語。 Quick guide (if you are catching up now ;) )
Welcome. This is the three asks.
Come and join the unConference segment
Come up with questions or topics to lead a co-creating conversational session
Write your question/topic to the spreadsheet below to host or initiate session following the explanation in How two unConference sessions are going to be conducted on the day below.
Invitation
It's your turn. Your conference will complete itself with an unconventional unConference part at the last part where you can actively and collaboratively engage in creative discussions by embracing a more bottom-up approach. Started already, we are collecting (1) questions that you wish to ask to clarify and (2) topics that you can offer your time and experience to share and discuss in a tool called Pol.is. Pol.is is a real-time survey system for conversation and is widely used to promote pluralistic views by gathering, voting, analyzing, and understanding more about each other. Your pre-meeting and during-meeting contribution to our Pol.is survey is essential to make your gathering count.
Please do vote for topics, and write your questions and a topic that you can offer to introduce at https://pol.is/8meknjnn2v. The URL leads you to a screen that says "Welcome to a new kind of conversation - vote on other people's statement" and allows you to vote immediately or helps you to "Share your perspective" in a free text entry area above the "Submit" button. Plurality Tokyo asks all of you to disclose your identity through Twitter or Facebook when you comment or vote although your vote is publicly visible with the private link. Contribute now and come back regularly (or subscribe to notification for new opinions) to vote occasionally to help us reflect the voices of all of you. A real-time analysis for questions and topics is available here at https://pol.is/report/r7ecvt5zr2zuskbh2ahjc . A little before the event, Plurality Tokyo will consolidate them and guide you, but ultimately you will be going to choose where you like to go at the very moment when the unConference part begins. If you enter to propose a topic that you introduce or if you like to lead a voted topic that others have created, please send us a separate email at plurality.tokyo@gmail.com with the following details. In the mail subject, write <<pol.isProposeTopic>> for "propose a topic" or <<pol.isLeadTopic>> for "like to lead a voted topic" and in the body indicate the topic you entered so that we can contact you to invite you to introduce the topic and will share how to maximize the benefits of unConference sessions.
Ground rules of unConference
Our unConference preserves the format and beauty of "unConference." We strongly promote the notion for the principles that:
Whoever comes are the right people
Wherever it happens is the right place
Whatever happens is the only thing that could have
Whenever it starts is the right time
When it's over, it's over
Your active participation is essential and critical for your successful (un)Conference. Even in the middle of ongoing sessoin or someone speaking, please do and feee free to: move to somewhere that you will learn and contribute, if you feel that you are not learning or contributing.
How two unConference sessions are going to be conducted on the day.
1. in this shared spreadsheet (subject to change in case we experience malicious attacks), you will write (before we start sessions): which topic you will speak about (if you advocate any topic)
for which topic you will be joining to collaborate by asking or discussing
everyone moves to a table or circle of people
find one to two facilitators and note-takers
As assigned to the shared spreadsheet, your note should remain editable and visible to everyone talking about the same topic. Logged on users can edit or add comments as long as no one objects to the statement or finds the fragment of notes consistent with what's being discussed. Remove anything that is written for unpresented, promotional pieces
(if you are talking somewhere in the room) organizing staff will talk to you start a session on the topic ;)
2. at the end of the session, go back to step 1