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An assembly is a group of members of an organization who meet periodically to make decisions about a specific area or scope of the organization.

Assemblies hold meetings, some are private and some are open. If they are open, it is possible to participate in them (for example: attending if the capacity allows it, adding points to the agenda, or commenting on the proposals and decisions taken by this organ).

Examples: A general assembly (which meets once a year to define the organisation's main lines of action as well as its executive bodies by vote), an equality advisory council (which meets every two months to make proposals on how to improve gender relations in the organisation), an evaluation commission (which meets every month to monitor a process) or a guarantee body (which collects incidents, abuses or proposals to improve decision-making procedures) are all examples of assemblies.

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About this assembly

Ovillage is an open source third place located in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. It defines itself as a space for collective intelligence and social innovation.

This workspace brings together a number of young Ivorians: entrepreneurs, employees, freelancers, teleworkers, self-employed workers and project leaders. All these players from different backgrounds come together in this place of mutual aid, exchange and collaboration to innovate together and build shared knowledge. The free, independent and competent community is built up in this space of collective intelligence, and fosters social innovations linked to digital technology. Young people learn to use free software. They create applications for mobile phones, which are widely used in Africa. Each participant can implement an innovation using free software. This represents a means of socio-professional integration. In the future, these young people will be able to participate in a real digital economy.

Ovillage's mastery of open-source software enables it to manage projects and promote the reinvention of territories based on third places. The “concierge” acts as guarantor of the reception process and the animation of the space. Ovillage also has a project manager, who evaluates and monitors all projects developed in the territories. Ovillage members support villagers in discovering and appropriating the contributions of the “collective” through the sharing of networks, skills and experience.

To find out about the communities (OpenStreetMap CI, JerryClan CI, Wiki CIV, Afriworkers, Logiciels Libres and Arduino & Raspberry Pi) that meet every day at Ovillage and the projects developed (Blah N'Deh, Gbata, Open Djeliba, ...)