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

[Daniel Dietrich]

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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