[okfn-discuss] [OKFN-Local-Coord] Just finished the "Open Data in China" Workshop on 21 Oct

Thu Oct 23 22:03:48 UTC 2014

That's fantastic Feng, well done!

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-> http://okfncommunity.tumblr.com/submitastory

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On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Burt Lum <bytemarks at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the update Feng. Please keep me posted on next year's event. I
> am interested in attending.
>
> Aloha,
> Burt
>
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 1:16 AM, FENG GAO <gaofeng860918 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear friends:
>>
>> With the generous funding and tremendous support from the World Bank, Open
>> Data China <http://opendatachina.com> and Lab for Digital and Mobile
>> Governance, Fudan University successfully held the first ever "Open Data in
>> China" Workshop on 21 Oct. This workshop brought government officials from
>> 7 different open data initiatives in China, 6 representatives from demand
>> side, and 5 international and regional open data experts into together to
>> share their experience, challenges, concerns and ideas on open data
>> development in China.
>>
>> We feel really honor that we can have Mrs Amparo Ballivian from the World
>> Bank and Mr Joel Gurin from the GovLab, NYU as our keynote speakers. Their
>> talks on latest evidence on open data for economic growth and social
>> innovation really inspire Chinese Gov audience to understand the concept
>> and why they should do it.
>>
>> We also feel really glad that this time we can have 7 government
>> representatives which feature: Shanghai initiative, Beijing Initiative,
>> Wuhan Initiative and NanHai District (under the Foshan City, GuangDong
>> Province) Initiative .
>>
>> We'll soon share more about this workshop at workshop.opendatachina.com (in
>> Chinese now) and an english Agenda is attached for your connivence now.
>>
>> But, one highlight and big surprise we'd like to share you now is that
>> the open data already becomes the new sightseeing at the bund, Shanghai.
>> Why? please have a look at here:
>> https://twitter.com/OKFNCN/status/525241834444836864
>>
>> We are now starting thinking about next year's workshop and let us know
>> if you have interest in coming :)
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> Feng
>>
>>
>>
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