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AUSTIN CONVENTION CENTER: LEVEL 3 5:00 PM Room 5abc 9:30 AM Room 9abc How to Make the Internet Care Empowering Communities with Civic Science & Data Should the news be more like "The Newsroom?" Join this CNN-led discussion on the intersection of news and advocacy. We'll look at ways websites are engaging their digital audiences with smack-you-in-the-face stories, powerful Web design and new takes on user participation. The goal? Slowing the constant-scan of Internet and helping users participate in stories that really matter. Amanda Kloer, Ben Montgomery, John Sutter, Jonathan Hutson Panel | Intermediate | Community + Activism | #netcares This panel explores the recent surge of grassroots movements empowering communities to understand their world through data, scalability of these projects, and their future in our Internet-reliant society. We���ll discuss how grassroots projects are reimagining the way communities engage with their environment through the use of open hardware and software tools for monitoring and data analysis. Ed Borden, Joseph Saavedra, Leif Percifield, Shannon Dosemagen Panel | Intermediate | Government + Civic Engagement | #civicdata 5:00 PM 9:30 AM Room 6ab Room 10ab Leveraging Diversity for Your Business Portfolio Home Room What do you have in common with Rupert Murdoch? You might be taking the diversity of your online audience and consumers for granted. Dori Maynard and Joshunda Sanders will give you pointers on how to prepare your business for future of diversity on the web. Dori Maynard, Joshunda Sanders Dual | Beginner | Diversity + Emerging Markets | #futurebiz A new addition to the 2013 lineup, SXSW Home Rooms are where you get the most current information about all the presentations, panels, and networking opportunities for the day ahead. SXSW Home Room also provides a great spot for you to connect, brainstorm and share ideas with other digital creatives attending the event. Meet Up | Beginner | Social + Relationships | #homeroom 5:00 PM Asian Entrepreneurs Struggle with Fear of Failure I Overthrew My Government... Now What? Social media���s effectiveness in organizing & facilitating grassroots activism played a key role in democratic change throughout the Middle East, but how is social media being used in the aftermath of regime change? Panelists will review the enormous value and challenges posed by social media in Egypt, Libya, and Syria, where democratic revolution remains unsuccessful. Christopher Harvin, Joe Trippi, Lynton Crosby, Nancy Messieh Panel | Beginner | Government + Civic Engagement | #Overthrown 5:00 PM Room 10ab There���s No Ambition Gap: Truth About Women in Tech Closing the gender gap in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) is often approached by telling girls to simply be more ambitious. But from all of the girls and women I interact with, I don���t see an ambition gap. This session is about challenging our assumptions and exploring a different truth, based on my experience leading non-profits at the intersection of women and tech. Jessica Lawrence Solo | Intermediate | Diversity + Emerging Markets | #techwomen MONDAY, MARCH 11 9:30 AM Room 5abc Bots for Civic Engagement From SmarterChild to the Low Orbit Ion Cannon to Horse_ebooks, humans have relationships of varying quality with bots. Mostly it���s commercial spam. Sometimes it���s less benign. What if instead we saw a proliferation of bots for good? This panel looks at information overload to facilitate a timely debate around the engineering, usefulness, and ethics of bots for civic engagement. Alex Leavitt, David Bausola, Erhardt Graeff, Greg Marra Panel | Advanced | Government + Civic Engagement | #civicbots 9:30 AM Room 6ab Home Room A new addition to the 2013 lineup, SXSW Home Rooms are where you get the most current information about all the presentations, panels, and networking opportunities for the day ahead. SXSW Home Room also provides a great spot for you to connect, brainstorm and share ideas with other digital creatives attending the event. Meet Up | Beginner | Social + Relationships | #homeroom 11:00 AM Room 5abc To many young Asian entrepreneurs, starting a company is an act of rebellion. It means defying their society and culture, which say: Be proper. Find a stable job. Don���t take risks. It means feeling uncertainty, shame, and fear of failure. This panel discusses where fear of failure comes from, how it affects Asian startups today, and what it means for the future of Asian innovation. Daniel CerVentus, Gwendolyn Regina T, Kira Newman Panel | Intermediate | Diversity + Emerging Markets | #failasia 11:00 AM Room 6ab Sexy, Safe & Smart Highways Europe's leading infrastructure company, Heijmans, teamed up with Dutch social designer Daan Roosegaarde to build the first 'Smart Highway' in the world. The goal is to make roads that are more sustainable and interactive by using interactive lights, smart energy and road signs that adapt to specific traffic situations. Daan Roosegaarde Solo | Advanced | Government + Civic Engagement | #smartways 11:00 AM Room 9abc Bullying: Social Media as Problem & Solution As social media platforms evolve and multiply, so too do instances of bullying. So how do we leverage a weapon to be part of the solution? Hear the innovative ways individuals and organizations are combatting the negative side to online culture. Learn how social platforms are moderated and controlled, both officially and organically to unify, protect, and respond in instances of bullying. Lee Hirsch, Marta Gossage, Priscilla Natkins, Scott Zumwalt Panel | Intermediate | Community + Activism | #cyberbully 11:00 AM Room 10ab Digital Time Machines & the Future of Learning 3D experiences are pushing their way into the classroom as media-savvy students move from textbooks to digital technologies they���ve grown up with. Using Egyptology classes at Harvard University as an example, this presentation will explore how 3D experiences transform the way we learn. As the ultimate time machine, they can transport students to any point in time to make history come to life. Al Bunshaft, Rus Gant Dual | Beginner | Community + Activism | #Giza3D 12:30 PM Room 5abc Behind the Iron Curtain For almost 50 years a sizable part of the world, the eastern half of the European continent, was sealed away behind the Iron Curtain. Now, 20 years later, former eastern countries have some of the best coding talent around world and some of the freshest startup ideas. This is the 'transition generation', people rooted in the communist past that grew into an open world and future. Alec Andronikov, Bogdan Iordache, Maria Constantinescu, Mike Butcher Panel | Beginner | Diversity + Emerging Markets | #hacklife SXSW 2013 Interactive Festival | 127 PROGRAMMING Room 9abc