[open-development] Open MDG

Tue Nov 2 12:53:13 UTC 2010

Hi Mark,

Many congratulations to Akvo – I’m really looking forward to seeing the
results of an open reporting platform like yours being integrated with a
donor's activities so closely.

Thanks for bearing with me on the IATI guidelines – we’ve now got a
technical tutorial around the XML side of things drafted. I'll share these
and get in touch about other ideas off-list.

Partos is convening a meeting on the 11th of November in Amsterdam where my
colleague Bill Anderson will be talking about IATI compliance - if there's
an appetite to discuss this more broadly on the 18th/19th, I'm sure we can.

With kind regards,

Tariq  

On 02/11/2010 15:56, "Mark Charmer" <mark at movementdesign.org> wrote:

> 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.htm
>> l. 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
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