[Okfn-dk] community building by open data landscape mapping for the world wide web foundation

Wed Apr 30 12:06:33 UTC 2014

Hey again everyone,

I just talked to the Web Foundation person.
The news is that he's enthusiastic about the idea of crowdsourcing the
information - he was even thinking this would be the way of doing it in
2015 - but will have to consult with the leadership of the The Web Index
(i.e. World Wide Web Foundation people ).
Personally speaking, I think what they're worried about is that they get
five contact people for Iceland. But I think it could potentially be
overcome if someone acts like the coordinator for Iceland.

More on Friday/Saturday from me.
Any questions until then are very welcome.

Thanks again and all the best,

miska

On 30 April 2014 11:22, miska knapek <miska at knapek.org> wrote:

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>
> Hello everyone,
>
> ( I'll write this in English just so everyone's on board… and so I get to
> recycle the email for the other Nordic countries ;)
>
> In short : I wonder if there might be an opportunity to gather the
> community around the Web Foundation's open knowledge/agency survey. ( Of
> course, one could combine this with the Open Index mapping, as there's a
> fair bit of overlap ).
> It could be a great opportunity to further build the community and get it
> thinking further about what open data is.
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> The story is that I got a request to map Norway for the Web Foundation, as
> I had last year.
> But being short of time I threw out the request to the Norwegians on the
> Nordic Open Knowledge ecosystem facebook group. It seems there's a
> community of interested folks gathering.
>
> So, while I don't know what the original surveyor for Denmark is thinking
> and what s/he'll reply to the Web Foundation, but perhaps it could make
> sense to use this task as an opportunity to gather the community in Denmark
> too.  One cold have either or both of online collaboration and/or
> get-togethers.
>
> While, again, I think the Open Data Index is great - and I've seen it
> mentioned in governmental reports ( such as the recent Swedish one ) - the
> Web Foundation's stuff goes perhaps a bit further into looking into the
> social impacts of information access.
>
> In this way, having a community do the survey also acts as a bit of an
> education into what open data/knowledge is and what it can engender.
>
>
> ( I'll just add that, having seen both the Open Data Index and the Web
> Foundation's survey, I'd say that while the Open Data Index is great, the
> Web Foundation goes into many more qualitative details, such as having to
> find several sets of media coverage of evidence for the social impacts of
> open data. It took me about ten days to do the surveying last year… and the
> task is bigger this year, as the surveys for the Open Data Barometer and
> The Web Index are being combined ).
>
>
>
> So, sorry for the long email.
>
> What do you think?
>
> all the best,
>
> miska
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