[open-development] Open Development Open Space at #ogdcamp

Wed Oct 26 18:33:22 UTC 2011

Hello all,

On Saturday a number of members of this list met at a Satellite event of the
Open Government Data Camp in Warsaw for a morning of open space discussions
about open data for development, and open data in developing countries.

There are some notes from the session at
http://opengovernmentdata.okfnpad.org/open-development - but looking back at
this etherpad, it looks like many more notes were taken by people on their
own computers (the WiFi was a little flaky). Topics covered
included: Getting more data -> making the case; Open Data Manuals; Building
blocks of Open Data; Open data in developing countries; Getting citizens
engaged; Global public data goods; Company data, NGO use of it; Information
collaboration & Evidencing impact

So - if you took any notes on Saturday that you can share with this list,
please do. If you've blogged about the session, or written about it anywhere
else, I'm sure list members would also value a link to your posts.

A list of participants who offered introductions in the session, and a list
of some of the possible actions I jotted down, is below.

All the best

Tim

*Possible Action Points*

   - Find funding for a part-time 'Community Co-ordinator' for
   open-development working group. Open for Change to explore...

   - Setting up a web page for the Open Development working group and using
   this to start collection a list of the 'public good' datasets (like
   administrative boundaries etc.) people would like to see opened up and made
   more accessible.

   - Supporting more collaboration on Open Data Manuals - including by
   starting a manual on http://www.flossmanuals.net and sharing work between
   Open for Change, OKF and World Bank.

   - Better co-ordination of 'open data in developing countries' pitch
   through collaboration between World Bank, NGOs and grass-roots civil society
   organisations.

   - Tim looking at developing Capacity Building training around Open Data
   Governance, building on Internet Governance Capacity Building models

   - Work to encourage governments to use their own datasets: making
   building on open data a default for the way governments work internally

*Who took part: *

   - *Rolf Kleef* - Open For Change Network

   - *Tariq** Kohkhar*  - World Bank - Working on Open Data in Developing
   Countries

   - *Oleg** Petrov* - World Bank - Working on World Bank and Web Foundation
   Community of Practice on Open Data in Developing Countries -
   http://linkd.in/opendata-cop

   - *Alice Powell *- Publish What You Pay - Campaigning for Transparency in
   Oil and Gas Sector. Information just becoming available. Looking to explore
   theory of change that moves from 'transparency' to 'accountability'

   - *Martin** Kliehm** **(**http://klie.hm/+* <http://klie.hm/+>* ) **- *web
   developer exploring potential open development projects, particularly in
   the Tibetan community and Ethiopia, member of the Pirate Party and a small
   opposition fraction within the Ci`ty Council of Frankfurt/Germany,
   Invited Expert at W3C HTML Working Group, W3C Accessibility Task Force, W3C
   eGovernment Interest Group.

   - *Claudia** Schwegmann** - Germany - OpenAid - *Promoting open data in
   development cooperation through advocay work in Germany and in Europe.
   Presentations, conferences, communcation, dialogue with watchdogs and
   parliamentarians about the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI)
   and open aid data more generally. Among the future projects planned are a
   communication campaign on open aid data and to work with migrant in Germany
   to create "monitoring communities" around development projects.

   - *Chris Taggart
**(**http://twitter.com/countculture)*<http://twitter.com/countculture)>
   * OpenCorporates - *Want URLs of every company in the world. NGOs can't
   share information on companies they work with (e.g. in campaining) because
   they don't have shared identifiers. Open Corporates could be part of
   solution in helping NGOs tie their data together.
   http://OpenCorporates.com <http://opencorporates.com/>

   - *Simon Parish - Aid Info - *Promoting Data Availability and
   Accessibility of Information;  Supporting users to make use of the data;
   Providing evidence of the impact of open data use: how is it being   and
   changing the world. Thinking about how to develop effective evaluation
   methodologies for this type of work. Also looking at broader use of
   'development resource' data on Gate Foundation funded project.

   - *Jay Bhalla - World Bank and Kenya Open Data Initiative - *How can we
   get citizens to use data? We have nice portal - but citizens are not using
   it. And how can we get NGOs and corporates to understand the use of data.

   - *Al Kags* - Chairing open data kenya taskforce. Working on how to
   institutionalise open Kenya. After the launch and first splash you want to
   make sure there is constant flow of data. Also dealing with changing regime
   from national to regional finances: how to make sure these also align to an
   open system from the start. A lot of Kenya's new systems are semi-digital
   and so there is an opportunity to start the country (and the sub-regions)
   off as OPEN.

   - *Mar**tin** Keegan - *Project lead for Open Spending and director of
   OKFN. Taking budget information in CSV format and making it accessible. Gave
   demo of http://www.mbwd.co.uk/IATIviz/uganda.htm

   - *Anna Taranenko - IREX (International Research and Exchanges
   Board)/Bibliomist program*, library modernization, looking into ways how
   libraries can utilize open data projects, in particular link government and
   communities bibliomist.org, irex.ua facebook.com/bibliomist

   - *Jose** M. Alonso (Josema)* - Web Foundation - developing sustainable
   open data projects in developing countries. Looking at generating resources
   to support development; also offering technical expertise; going to the
   field. Released preliminary studies into OGD initiatives in Ghana and
   Chile, see
   http://www.webfoundation.org/2011/05/open-government-data-reports-published/
   .

   - *Pelle **Aardema**- *Open For Change initiator. Being invited to board
   rooms of non-profits in Netherlands right now. They're not sure how to start
   with open data. Need to offer the right support.

   - *Steven Flower - *Based in Manchester. 'Open Data Cajoller'.

   - *Nuno Moniz* - Working on open data in portugal

   - *Ricardo Lafuente* - Working on Portuguese tranparency hack day portal.
   Specialising in parliament information and working with transcripts and data
   analysis around proceedings and transcripts.

   - *Elf Pavlik *- Try to support development of community
   self-organisation: local and worldwide. How can recent information,
   communication technologies be used to support creation of moneyless or
   governmentless societies, embracing diversity and freedom of choice. (
   https://wwelves.org/perpetual-tripper )

   - *Justin** Arenstein* - pan-African, journalist working with
   investigative centers in East, West and North Africa, focusing on
    corruption/social justice/money laundering issues. Interested in getting
   beyond the hype of open data > Finding out where there is real
   grassroots engagement & where it is making a tangible difference in real
   lives. Also interested in aid / charity / development data as mechanism to
   monitor non-profit sector + to 'liberate' research and raw data held by
   NGOs.

   - *Ruth Del Campo - *Working at New York Law School on
http://<http://www.openaidregister.org/>
   www.openaidregister.org to help people publish their Aid Data as IATI.
   Interested in possibilities and synergies around. How can we work more
   together to make a bigger impact. Challenges: to create awareness and to
   explain what this is all about to the NGOs.

   - *Tim Davies - *Runs Practical Participation looking at citizen
   engagement, open data, social change. 2-days a week with AidInfo working
   on http://www.aidinfolabs.org and use of IATI data. Just starting PhD at
   Southampton looking at use and governance of open data. @timdavies

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