FOREIGN POLICY CAMP VANCOUVER

To see a full pre-agenda for the Vancouver camp, download the Participant Package HERE.

You can also browse through our camp webinars to learn how to use some of our multimedia and online tools:

- Introduction and how to use our Twitter hashtag: VIDEO ONE
- How to use the Mashboard and do the Online Survey: VIDEO TWO
- How to use Live Chat for virtual attendants: VIDEO THREE
- How to use the Collaborative Wiki for notetakers: VIDEO FOUR
- How to load a photo to the Flickr photo campaign: VIDEO FIVE

Date: Monday, November 30, 2009
Time: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm PST
Location: SFU Harbour Centre, 515 W. Hastings St. Vancouver, BC
Cost: $30. Can’t afford the cost? Scholarships are readily available - please email us HERE if you are interested.
Registration: please register online in advance HERE.

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There’s a revolution going on right now in the way we think of foreign policy - it’s no longer solely what the government does, but rather what we all do to shape our role in the world. Whether they call it foreign policy or not, the groups that operate outside the purview of government — from businesses to not-for-profits to artists to technologists — are now creating Canada’s role in the world, acting as diplomats and cultural translators, and doing things we would traditionally think of as the responsibility of government.

There’s also a need for government to connect with these new ways of working and to get the advice they require to develop strong and robust policy options going forward. At the same time as this has been happening in the foreign policy realm, the camp movement has been breaking down the traditional hierarchies created at conferences, reminding us of the magic of self-organizing and idea innovation.

Given all of this, we think it’s time for a ForeignPolicyCamp. In Vancouver, we will be focusing our attention on some of the key foreign policy challenges before us - with the goal of showcasing new thinkers and doers in he Canadian foreign policy world. In Montreal, Toronto and Edmonton, organizers have created their own ForeignPolicyCamps, which will be linked to the Vancouver event live through web feeds and interactive medias. We’ve assembled a star team of collaborators across the country who are organizing various elements of this initiative - from a satellite camp in Montreal, Flash Mobs in cities across the country, exciting new interactive technologies for event participants, and social media discussions.

EVENT AGENDA AND FORMAT

Stay tuned for an updated and more time-specific visual agenda which outlines the schedule for the day, including exact times for the camp’s opening, regional case studies, and open sessions we have confirmed so far. Until then, we have a preliminary, basic agenda which can be viewed below. This event will feature THREE SEPARATE ELEMENTS which form the camp’s essential hybrid-style core.

1) Our Regional Case Studies for 6 specific regions, delivered in traditional conference format, and planned in advance by some of the foreign policy world’s most innovative and outspoken thinkers. These case studies will implement pragmatic and realistic policy analysis and focus on results and new conclusions.

2) The Open Sessions which are topics that will be proposed and formatted unconference-style by the participants themselves on the morning of the camp. Many of these sessions will not be decided until the day of the event itself - so the sky is the limit as far as what kind of session you’d like to participate in. Ideas about potential open sessions can be shared in advance on our collaborative open session Wiki seen on the navigation bar to your right.

3) Our Multimedia Lab and Gallery where we share the data and discussions from both our case studies and unconference-style open sessions leading up to this camp and on the day of the camp itself. This collaborative, new media-focused room will feature massive projectors sharing live information via tweet clouds, participation dashboards, new video-conferencing software provided by TakingITGlobal, chatrooms, and live streaming video feeds. In preparation for the dialogues which will be held at the camp, we have also just released a short SURVEY which rates your level of satisfaction with Canadian foreign policy as it exists today - please take a few minutes to fill it out, as its results will be shared with citizens across the country and in this lab.

PRE-EVENT: GUERRILLA DIPLOMACY BOOK LAUNCH

We have also planned the Vancouver launch of acclaimed book Guerrilla Diplomacy by Daryl Copeland to be held the night before ForeignPolicyCamp Vancouver at the SFU downtown campus, and we cordially invite all attendees of ForeignPolicyCamp to attend this exclusive event.

This event is completely free and refreshments will be served — Please RSVP to ensure your seat by signing up at http://websurvey.sfu.ca/survey/43458593 or by contacting Linda at ugsid AT sfu.ca. More information about this event on Facebook here.