[OKFN-NP] Preliminary Agenda for Nepal 3 day OGD workshop

Fri Aug 7 17:08:41 UTC 2015

Dear Kshitiz,

thanks for reaching out. I apologise for being slow with this answer. Comments inline.

> On 31 Jul 2015, at 20:06, kshitiz khanal <khanal1990 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Daniel, do you think it will be a good idea to present the precise gaps in Open Government Data? I can prepare a 10 minutes presentation by drawing upon my experience as reviewer / researcher in last year's Open Data Index, and this year's ongoing Open Data Barometer research project. 

Yes, very much! We could add this to the presentation "OGD Assessment initial findings for Nepal". I am happy if you could cover the data part (added this preliminary to the agenda). What is your affiliation?

> Also, I am a grad student of Energy Planning. So sustainable development (by achieving SDGs) is the main application of the degree I am pursuing. This workshop is more interesting to me than other OG initiatives as it is in line with my ambitions as a future sustainability policy maker. I am looking forward to actively participating, contributing, and learning. 

Great to hear, we are actually looking for a facilitator of the Working Group of OGD for sustainable environmental development. Do you think you might be a candidate? Or would you have other suggestions? 

All the best
Daniel

> Feel free to call on me if you think there's any additional responsibility I will be able to handle. 
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> Looking forward to a fruitful discussion in this thread. 
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> Regards,
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> Kshitiz Khanal
> Open Knowledge Nepal
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> On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 11:43 AM, Bibhusan Bista <bibhusan at yipl.com.np> wrote:
> Hi Daniel, 
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> 
> Thanks for sharing the workshop agenda with me. It looks really great to me. I have some generic feedbcak/queries/comments as below. 
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> 1. What are the kind of participants we are looking at (eg. is it only for gov officials or is it also open for larger CSO and Open Data communities, including techhies ?)
> 2. What is number of participants we are aiming for (this is important because based on the number certain approach might / might not work)
> 3. I see tha NIC is your government counterpart for this workshop. In this context, do you see the relevance of involving other government agenceis as well (eg. National Planning Commission, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of federal affairs and local development, etc.). Also, what about parliamentarians ?
> 4. Since most of the gov and CSO participants will be pretty naive to the entire discourse of Open Data, it might be good to have some time explaining the basic concepts right at the begining (eg. the difference between Open Data and Open Government Data)
> 5. I can see that you have provisions for different sectoral groups (pvt sector, gov, etc. ) speak about opportunities and challenges in different panel discussions. However, I think it would be very contextual if there was an opportunity to share open data journey in Nepal so far in some plenary session itself. This would then help people see how the workshop actually relates to initiatives that are or have happened in Nepal. 
> 6. I can see that the workshop is aimed at helping NIC come up with OGD action plan at the end. For this to happen, there needs to be a lot of preparatory consultation  done with NIC. Also, OGD action plan might not make sense if we do not have ownership from key government agencies (eg. educaiton, agriculture, finance, health, statistics bureau) who hold vital government data. So, my opinion is that they need to be constructively engaged during the workshop. 
> 7. You've mentioned AGENCY in the agenda. Can you shed more light on who this agency is ?
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> I don't know if these make sense to you or not but these are based on my individual observation and experience. I'm happy to discuss more on it if that is helpful. 
> 
> Best,
> Bibhusan
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> On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 10:17 PM, Daniel Dietrich <ddie at ddie.me> wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I am happy to share an update on the planned national workshop in Nepal on OGD sensitization, gap assessment and strategic planning (3-day long). The dates still need to be confirmed.
> 
> I would like to invite you to have a look at the preliminary agenda and send me your comments.
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> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wFaeqNJja_pE0J-VW9h4zO1B_lxz0tomKHwvLZ6R-NA/edit
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>  It is very important for us to have significant involvement and buy-in from local civil society. So please share with e your thoughts on how to make this operational, if you have ideas how to improve the agenda so its useful to all stakeholders. You can also add comments and suggestions )(e.g. for speakers) directly in the Google doc.
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> The workshop is part of the project on Strengthening of capacities of developing countries to provide Access to Information for Sustainable Development through Open Government Data. See http://bit.ly/DPADM-OGDProject
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> Kind regards
> Daniel
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