[ogdcamp] intro - Federico Morando (NEXA Center)

Thu Jul 21 12:29:24 UTC 2011

Hi all,

following Jonathan's suggestion, I'd like to introduce myself to the list.

My name is Federico Morando and I'm the managing director and a research 
fellow of the NEXA Center for Internet and Society [0], a research 
center that is active on various open data related fronts, from research 
to policy support and going through specific operative projects.

As some of you probably know, we coordinated the COMMUNIA European 
thematic network on the digital public domain [1] and we currently lead 
the LAPSI European thematic network on the legal aspects of public 
sector information [2]. We're also part of the Share-PSI.eu initiative 
in the context of the European Digital Agenda [3] and member of EVPSI, a 
multidisciplinary research project about PSI [4]. Thanks to these 
experiences, we supported the regional government of Piedmont in 
launching the first open data portal in Italy [4], we co-organized the 
first Italian open data call for ideas [5] and we're involved in the 
first (forthcoming) apps competition in Italy [7]. Together with OKFN, 
we're also supporting IT.CKAN.NET. (And I'm quite sure I'm forgetting 
something, since open data is really a hot topic for us right now!)

Being one of the enthusiastic participants in the first OGDCamp, I'm 
happy to be involved in organizing this edition, which - I'm sure - will 
be even better than the (already excellent) first one!

All the best,

Federico

[0] http://nexa.polito.it
[1] http://www.communia-project.eu/ (see also: 
http://www.communia-association.org/)
[2] http://www.lapsi-project.eu/
[3] http://share-psi.eu/
[4] http://www.evpsi.org/
[5] http://www.dati.piemonte.it/
[6] http://biennaledemocrazia.it/opendata/
[7] http://www.apps4italy.org/

On 07/15/2011 10:18 AM, Jose M. Alonso wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Jonathan asked me to send a brief intro to this list. I'm not sure who is in but pretty sure several I've already met, looking forward to meet you all later this year.
>
> My name is José Manuel Alonso (aka José and Josema) and I'm the Open Data Program Manager at the World Wide Web Foundation [0]. This program intends to improve people's lives in low and middle income countries by releasing data that matters. We plan to do in-country implementation of OGD programs establishing a local sustainable OGD ecosystem, build open replicable pieces that could be of use to others, and support a global community around some OGD topics.
> Some of you may remind a first step: the Open Data feasibility studies in Ghana and Chile we released earlier this year [1].
>
> In my other life as Open Data Manager at CTIC (Spain) [2], I've led several Open Data projects for local and regional governments in Spain and I'm still involved in the national Open Data initiative. You may also find me at European Open Data expert panels from time to time.
>
> I've been also involved for quite some time with W3C where I held several positions; managed the W3C Office in Spain [3], established and led the W3C eGovernment Activity [4], co-chaired the W3C eGovernment Interest Group [5], and served as Member of the W3C Advisory Committee.
>
> I'm happy to join this effort and I'm sure we all will help to make it a success once again.
>
> Cheers,
> Josema.
>
>
> [0] http://webfoundation.org
> [1] http://www.webfoundation.org/2011/05/open-government-data-reports-published/
> [2] http://datos.fundacionctic.org
> [3] http://w3c.es
> [4] http://w3.org/egov
> [5] http://w3.org/egov/IG
>