[open-development] Open MDG

Mon Nov 1 13:53:08 UTC 2010

Tariq, Rolf: would you guys be happy to facilitate a session on this? ;-)

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Tariq Khokhar <tariq.khokhar at devinit.org> wrote:
> Hi Rolf,
>
> I'd also be interested in a session with an international development / MDG
> focus as Open Government Data Camp.
>
> At aidinfo, we've also been speaking with a few Dutch, British and American
> NGOs around opening up data and I'm keen to talk more about applications
> that do something useful with it.
>
> With kind regards,
>
> Tariq
>
>
> On 31/10/2010 00:54, "Rolf Kleef" <r.kleef at nivocer.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Rufus,
>>
>> Would be good to have a brainstorm/build session at the Open Government
>> Data Camp about this?
>>
>> Several Dutch development NGOs and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs
>> are exploring open data, so we're moving towards finding best practices
>> and appropriate standards to make data sets available, and building
>> application(s) to demonstrate benefits of "being open".
>>
>> One of the challenges at hand here is showing the contribution of Dutch
>> development aid towards the MDGs. An application for that fits the
>> criteria for the Worldbank challenge...
>>
>> Rolf.
>>
>> On 30/10/10 02:19, Rufus Pollock wrote:
>>> Interesting - I also wonder whether it is tongue in cheek (given the
>>> basecamp screenshot).
>>>
>>> I did something with the MDG a few years back (at the time the MDG
>>> dataset wasn't available in bulk so scraping it was actually a useful
>>> thing to do - see<http://ckan.net/package/mdg>  for more info):
>>>
>>> <http://openeconomics.net/mdg/>
>>>
>>> I was thinking about dusting this off and finding some collaborators
>>> who might be interested in working on this for
>>> <http://appsfordevelopment.challengepost.com/>
>>>
>>> If there is anyone interested in this sort of thing or the world banks
>>> apps challenge let me know!
>>>
>>> Rufus
>>>
>>> On 29 October 2010 18:24, Jonathan Gray<jonathan.gray at okfn.org>  wrote:
>>>> Looks interesting! Anyone know what is planned?
>>>>
>>>> http://openmdg.org/
>>>>
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