Education, open data and video games

The 31st edition took place on 22 April 2017 in Orchide's conference room and covered education, open data and video game development.

Agnesa Qerimi, programme manager at the Kosovar Youth Council (KYC) since 2012, ran projects funded by donors such as GIZ and SCO-K on youth empowerment and participation, quality in education, networking and advocacy, and was part of OBESSU's working group on vocational schools. She talked about KYC's campaign for more youth participation in education policy and two newly published reports: on how school boards work and on the running of the national Matura exam.

Partin Imeri, a software engineer at Open Data Kosovo with more than five years in ICT and a focus on web technologies, talked about turning digital data into facts and using it to advocate for solutions to social problems. He presented Open Data Kosovo projects that helped identify social problems and improve local government planning, and ODK's international work on data analysis and visualisation.

Agnesa Belegu, Game Director in the games department of Zombie Soup, had previously worked as a Game Designer at Electronic Arts (EA) Tiburon in Florida. While studying in Norway and the United States (UCF FIEA), she and her team created “Child No More”, a game based on the 1999 war in Kosovo. She talked about Zombie Soup, developing games in virtual reality and her experience in the industry.

Organised by BarCamp Ferizaj's team of young activists, under the umbrella of Iniciativa për Progres (INPO), with the support of IPKO Foundation.