[open-development] Open MDG

Tue Nov 2 11:56:25 UTC 2010

Hi everyone,

I'd be very happy to participate in whatever way you need here. As you know Akvo's at the front of the Dutch government's efforts to make development aid spend visible online. 

Yesterday the Dutch Foreign Ministry confirmed its MFS2 funding allocation to 2015, and I'm delighted to say we will be providing open reporting systems online for at least €100 million worth of Dutch development aid projects over the next five years, all running on the Akvo platform. Some of you will be aware that Akvo was funded as an open source project by the Schokland Fond in the Netherlands, specifically to drive innovation in meeting the MDGs.

Tariq, maybe you could buzz me when it's convenient and we could look at what we might cover. We're also still keen to look at making the system IATI-compliant and I know you were going to share more guidelines on that.

Best regards
Mark

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On 2 Nov 2010, at 11:37, Rolf Kleef wrote:

> I've added a session proposal to
> http://opengovernmentdata.okfnpad.org/session-ideas
> 
> Do edit, add or mail suggestions! Tariq and I are willing to facilitate, and we can start online already :-)
> 
> Rolf.
> 
>    * Open MDG - Apps for development/Millennium Development Goals
> 
>    * Rationale: The Worldbank has opened their data and launched an "apps for development" contest http://appsfordevelopment.challengepost.com/. At the same time, several (N)GOs are opening data as well, for instance in the context of IATI http://www.aidinfo.org/dutch-ngos-make-progress-on-transparency-at-partos.html. This session wants to bring together users, developers and data managers, to develop innovative applications demonstrating ways to make open data work for international development.
> 
>    * Proposed by Rolf Kleef and Tariq Khokhar
> 
> On 01/11/10 14:53, Jonathan Gray wrote:
>> 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/
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Jonathan Gray
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Community Coordinator
>>>>>> The Open Knowledge Foundation
>>>>>> http://blog.okfn.org
>>>>>> 
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