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

Fri Oct 28 15:16:32 UTC 2011

Hi Tim,

Thanks for sharing this notes. A couple things I'd like to add from my side. I actioned myself based on discussion on "evidencing impact" at the end, to start collecting use cases, case studies, stories, anecdotes… anything that could be of use to the broader community, and curate them in a good and reusable way.

Besides, I'm still extremely interested in talking more about Monitoring and Evaluation of Open Data initiatives, which is clearly in its infancy, and sustainability models for those initiatives. 

Cheers,
Josema.

El 26/10/2011, a las 18:33, Tim Davies escribió:
> 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. 
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> 	• 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. 
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> 	• Better co-ordination of 'open data in developing countries' pitch through collaboration between World Bank, NGOs and grass-roots civil society organisations.
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> 	• Tim looking at developing Capacity Building training around Open Data Governance, building on Internet Governance Capacity Building models
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> 	• 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/+ ) - 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) 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
> 	• 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.
> 	• Martin 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://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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