[euopendata] 2 event tips: Any interesting events/conferences 2011

Fri Nov 5 12:02:30 UTC 2010

Antti,

we are planning an Open Government Data Conference Austria for June 2011 in Vienna
and as I know there will be an additional one in Ireland in early/mid 2011 in Dublin, Ireland
organised by DERI Galway....

Regards - martin

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Today's Topics:

   1. Any interesting events/conferences 2011 (Antti Poikola)
   2. Re: Any interesting events/conferences 2011 (Julian Tait)
   3. Open data and the NGOs (Antti Poikola)
   4. Re: Open data and the NGOs (Peter Krantz)

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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 17:44:58 +0200
From: Antti Poikola <antti.poikola at gmail.com>
Subject: [euopendata] Any interesting events/conferences 2011
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Hi,

It's time of the year that many organizations including my current 
employer are doing financial planning for the next year. I was kindly 
asked to suggest some international events and conferences that I would 
like to participate next year :)

So, do you know events/conferences that are thematically tying togeather 
technology and society (especially civil society)?

Some random keywords:
-Digital civic action
-Participatory planning, -budgeting, -governance, -democracy
-Gov 2.0
-Open Government Data
-Data journalism
-Civic journalism
-Local participation
-Peer production
...

BR,

-Jogi

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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 17:57:25 +0000
From: Julian Tait <julian at futureeverything.org>
Subject: Re: [euopendata] Any interesting events/conferences 2011
To: Antti Poikola <antti.poikola at gmail.com>
Cc: EU Open Data Working Group <euopendata at lists.okfn.org>
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Hi Antti,

FutureEverything www.futureeverything.org in Manchester 11-14th May 2011. But I would say that as I help programme part of it.

It focusses on the Societal Impact of technology and how it is reconfiguring the way we live our lives.

Perennial themes are Mass Participation and Open Data. Full programme will be announced soon

Cheers

Julian

On 4 Nov 2010, at 15:44, Antti Poikola wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> It's time of the year that many organizations including my current employer are doing financial planning for the next year. I was kindly asked to suggest some international events and conferences that I would like to participate next year :)
> 
> So, do you know events/conferences that are thematically tying togeather technology and society (especially civil society)?
> 
> Some random keywords:
> -Digital civic action
> -Participatory planning, -budgeting, -governance, -democracy
> -Gov 2.0
> -Open Government Data
> -Data journalism
> -Civic journalism
> -Local participation
> -Peer production
> ...
> 
> BR,
> 
> -Jogi
> 
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 12:15:58 +0200
From: Antti Poikola <antti.poikola at gmail.com>
Subject: [euopendata] Open data and the NGOs
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Hi,
(sorry for asking every day something...)

I'm going to have a lecture about open data for the Finnish NGOs (30 
NGOs, heterogeneous sizes, functions and areas from Red Cross, to 
Student organizations...). I'm looking for case examples on how the NGOs 
could benefit from open data? All ideas and hints are more than wellcome!

What kind of data the NGOs could generally make open?
What kind of open data the NGOs could use?

Best regards,
-Antti Poikola

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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 11:59:02 +0100
From: Peter Krantz <peter.krantz at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [euopendata] Open data and the NGOs
To: Antti Poikola <antti.poikola at gmail.com>
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On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 11:15, Antti Poikola <antti.poikola at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> What kind of data the NGOs could generally make open?
> What kind of open data the NGOs could use?

NGOs may share a similar issue with public sector orgs:
accountability. Some of them receive money from donors who want to
know how it was spent. In Sweden we are about to release open aid data
shortly with the ambition to provide transparency on how and where it
was spent.

This may be beneficial both to donors and to people in the recipient
countries who may be unaware of the amounts and initiatives. If money
is lost to corruption along the road open data from NGOs may be a tool
for the press in the recipient country I guess ("where are the 30
wells that were supposed to be drilled by X?").

So, data about projects would be one thing. For each project, data
about locations, amounts, timespans, donors etc. If this was provided
as open linked data you could aggregate data from various NGOs in a
way that could make coordination a lot easier. Some vocabularies off
the top of my head: http://hyperdata.org/xmlns/project/ - for generic
project details, FOAF for organization details.

Also, check http://www.aidtransparency.net/ and see how it relates to NGOs.

Regards,

Peter Krantz
http://www.opengov.se

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