[okfn-discuss] [okfn-help] Medellin digital

Tue Feb 21 09:51:19 UTC 2012

Dear Fabio

Great to hear from you. Medellin Digital looks amazing! Are you or your colleagues on the Open Government Data Working Group's list? 

If not, you should join here: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-government

The WG has its wiki: http://wiki.okfn.org/Working_Groups/Government and its home page: http://opengovernmentdata.org/

About were to start reading:

- a very good resource is: http://wiki.civiccommons.org/
- for technical aspects: http://datapatterns.org/
- a unstructured bibliography: http://opengovernmentdata.okfnpad.org/bibliography

Hope that helps

All best 
Daniel

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On 20.02.2012, at 23:54, Fabio Barone wrote:

> Hi List(s)
> 
> and sorry for crossposting.
> 
> My partner, Ana Isabel Palacios, is since two weeks in charge for the
> "Medellin Digital" program of the Medellin municipality in Colombia.
> 
> http://www.medellindigital.gov.co
> 
> The new strategy 2013-2020 of the program includes
> "Open Government - Open Data", and they state an aim
> of being 100% open data.
> 
> The program is truly fantastic, and there are a lot of committed people involved,
> which trumps the political talk.
> 
> I have been following okfn and open data quite a while, without having been involved really.
> I participated at OKCON last year in Berlin.
> 
> I have a running assignment, but I would love to assist the program, maybe consulting 
> about Open Data.
> 
> I would like to kindly ask you for support, this is a true bottom up project,
> starting from scratch. And there is budget available.
> 
> 1.) Which resources would you recommend for study? I'll start with the Open Manual
> 2.) Are there already some best-practices, especially concerning processes?
> 3.) How to go about assisting the program: where to start, etc.
> 4.) Is CKAN the only available free/open implementation, or are there alternatives?
> 5.) How to budget (items and amount of) an open data project? 
> 6.) Add whatever you see of relevance.
> 
> I can also see OKFN to be involved directly if you wish so, in any way a cooperation might be envisioned.
> Certainly a local chapter could be one of the possibilities.
> 
> Ana is exceedingly committed, motivated and open. She is the perfect person for the job
> but she needs assistance for the implementation, as her background is in design.
> 
> Any contribution to this conversation is highly welcomed.
> Excuse me if in any form I misused the list or if my request 
> is in any way offensive, misplaced or badly formulated,
> but there's some excitement over here :)
> 
> Thank you!
> Best wishes
> fabio
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