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

Fri Jul 31 18:06:33 UTC 2015

Hello everybody,

I went through the draft completely.

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.

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.

Feel free to call on me if you think there's any additional responsibility
I will be able to handle.

Looking forward to a fruitful discussion in this thread.

Regards,

Kshitiz Khanal
Open Knowledge Nepal
<goog_1253109370>
twitter.com/kshitizkhanal7

On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 11:43 AM, Bibhusan Bista <bibhusan at yipl.com.np>
wrote:

> Hi Daniel,
>
>
> Thanks for sharing the workshop agenda with me. It looks really great to
> me. I have some generic feedbcak/queries/comments as below.
>
> 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 ?
>
> 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
>
>
>
>
> 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.
>>
>>
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wFaeqNJja_pE0J-VW9h4zO1B_lxz0tomKHwvLZ6R-NA/edit
>>
>>  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.
>>
>> 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
>>
>> Kind regards
>> Daniel
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Daniel Dietrich
>> UNDESA/DPADM consultant, OGD Policy Advisor
>> See more: http://bit.ly/DPADM-OGDProject
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>>
>
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