[@OKFNau] FYI: Invitation| OGP Webinar| Introducing the Open Data Working Group | Thursday, January 16, 2014|10:00-11:30 AM EST (Washington DC Time)(15:00 GMT)

Tue Jan 7 22:59:25 UTC 2014

Caveat: It's at 10am (EST). In the case of Australia, it 'd be around 2am
....

Cheers,
Silvana

*Open Government Partnership Webinar on*

*Introducing the Open Data Working Group*

*Thursday, January 16, 2014 10:00 - 11:30 AM EST (15:00 GMT)*

*REGISTER for this Webinar
**HERE*<https://events-na4.adobeconnect.com/content/connect/c1/833642795/en/events/event/shared/1126685249/event_landing.html?sco-id=1134124824&_charset_=utf-8>

*Presenters*

*Stephen Walker*
*(Senior Director, Open Government and Information Management, Treasury
Board Secretariat, Government of Canada)*

*and*

*Jos*é* M. Alonso *
*(Open Data Program Manager, Web Foundation and Member, Global Open Data
Initiative)*

*Sponsored by the Open Government Partnership (OGP) and the World Bank
Institute (WBI)*

*Description*
The Open Government Partnership (OGP) Open Data Working Group was launched
at the OGP Summit in London in October 2013. The goal of the working group
is to help countries adopt and implement more ambitious open government
commitments as part of their OGP action plans. By connecting government and
civil society experts working on similar issues in  different contexts,
countries can learn from each other while enhancing the quality of their
open government initiatives. With each working group anchored by a pair of
government and civil society leads, it will be leveraging the skills,
experience and resources of a large group of like-minded partner
organizations.

This OGP Open Data working group webinar will provide an update on its
governance and the activities that are underway in preparation for the
group’s first work plan. The OGP Open Data Working Group membership
comprises 30 nations and 60 civil society organizations (representing 170
people).

The mission of the OGP Open Data Working Group is to identify and share
good practices to help OGP governments implement their commitments and
develop more ambitious and innovative action plans related to open data.
The promises of open government data along with its perceived ease of
implementation sound appealing to policy-makers: “You just need to put data
on the web in a reusable format and the positive impacts materialize
immediately.” Further, while governments have made some data available, to
fully recognize the benefits of open data it must be shared in ways that
are easily discoverable, useable, or understandable by the public. The
effective implementation of open data requires efforts by various
stakeholders. With this in mind, the OGP Open Data Working Group aims to:

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help governments implement their OGP action plans and devel]*Providing
guidance on open data issues to help governments implement their OGP action
plans and develop ambitious new commitments *
Open data commitments are among the most popular commitments for countries
participating in OGP. The working group will serve as a forum for
peer-to-peer sharing of knowledge, good practices, tools, experiences, and
innovative ICTs among governments and civil society to help countries
implement their open data commitments. The group’s guidance and resources
could help governments expand the ambition of new commitments being
drafted. Moreover, a more collaborative approach may lead to better,
monitorable commitments and, in the end, better implementation and results.

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across the OGP]*Increasing awareness of open data issues across the OGP*
The working group will work to advance the understanding of open data
issues, challenges, and good practices by engaging in online and offline
dialogue, and supporting networking between organizations both new and
familiar to the open data arena. To this end, the working group will also
link with other OGP working groups and related resources such as the G8
open data charter.

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base for open data reforms]*Amplifying and broadening the evidence base for
open data reforms*
While the broader community of open data experts has come a long way in
developing a research agenda, significant gaps remain in the community’s
understanding of the costs and benefits of open data reforms to governments
and society. The OGP community presents a unique opportunity for assessing
the development and implementation of open government commitments.  The
working group could thus work with participating governments and
aforementioned groups to curate experiences, success stories, and case
studies, as well as develop cost-benefit analyses of OGP open data reforms.
The resources developed could constitute the much-needed evidence base for
justifying ambitious open data reforms in the future.

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existing resources*
Open data resources and analysis have been prepared by a number of
different organizations, though this work is often scattered across the
Internet and difficult to find. So, the working group could collect and
use/build on as many existing useful resources.

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data community]*Engaging with the broader global open data community*
Although open data is still a young movement, there are organizations and
groups that have been working on some of the aforementioned issues for
quite some time. These include inter-governmental organizations such as the
World Bank, United Nations, OECD, G8, EC, OAS and IADB; Civil Society-led
groups such as OKFN’s Open Government Data Group and the Global Open Data
Initiative (GODI); and bodies such as W3C. The working group will provide
an avenue for governments to link to these groups to the extent possible in
support of their OGP action plans.

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   Stephen Walker*
      Stephen Walker is the Senior Director, Information Management and
      Open Government with the Treasury Board Secretariat of the Government of
      Canada. He is responsible for leading the development and
implementation of
      both Open Government and Information Management policies and
strategies for
      the Government of Canada. Stephen was responsible for the development and
      delivery of Canada’s Open Data Portal <http://www.data.gc.ca/>, and
      is also responsible for the development and implementation of
Canada’s Open
      Government Action Plan under the Open Government Partnership (OGP). In
      November 2013, he was named co-chair of the OGP Open Data Working Group.
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   José M. Alonso *
      José Alonso is an Open Data pioneer and advocate with extensive
      experience in the e-government and web standards fields. He has been
      involved in various leading roles in Open Data projects and
initiatives at
      the local, regional, national and global levels, such as co-chairing the
      national Open Data initiative in Spain (awarded as the most-friendly in
      Europe), managing the Ghana Open Data Initiative (GODI), in
support of the
      National Information Technology Agency (NITA), and directing the Emerging
      Impacts of Open Data in Developing Countries (ODDC) project, in
partnership
      with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC).  José
serves in
      European Commission and United Nations expert panels; he recently became
      the first civil society lead for the Open Government Partnership
Open Data
      Working Group.

*OGP Webinars are sponsored by the Open Government Partnership and the
World Bank Institute (WBI).*

*N.B:  We would like to let you know that when you register for this
webinar you will receive a confirmation e-mail with the webinar link.
Kindly use the link to join the webinar session 5 minutes before its
scheduled start on Thursday, January 16, 2014. *

-- 
Silvana Fumega
PhD Candidate
University of Tasmania
Tel:  +61  448486500
@SilvanavF

Private Bag 89
Hobart - TAS 7001
Australia
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