[open-development] OK Festival: final text for Open Development stream proposal. Last chance for comments

Wed Apr 18 12:26:57 UTC 2012

Hello all,

Please find below the final text for the Open Development stream proposal for OK Festival. Last chance to make comments/changes/additions, before I submit it tomorrow. Also, I kind of made up a definition of open dev so would welcome a better version!

NB. cc’d to the OKFest co-ordinators list for information.

Sarah

Submission to OKFest coordination team - proposal for Open Development stream/days

Title: Open Development Stream

Description:  An OK Fest stream (one/two/all days?) focused around open development (the application of open knowledge in make development activities more effective). In this time of declining natural resources and an increasingly volatile climate, open access to information is absolutely key to both government and citizens in low and middle income countries in order to support development. It is also key in monitoring aid donors spend and ensuring that the money goes to where it's needed most.

This stream will be the first ever (I think!) event on the practice of open development. It will share real-world successes and failures and have hands-on sessions to explore new and innovative practical applications of OpenDev. Participants will include Finnish NGOs, other European/international NGOs and hopefully the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. We hope to have participants from developing countries, but this depends on resourcing/timescales. The stream will have a number of core topics, each of which will have practical workshops/sharing sessions and unconference activities. A the end of the stream, there will be a tangible ideas to take forward, for example a petition, campaign or initiative.

·         Topic A: Open development and aid flow: exploring developments in the International Aid Transparency Initiative, and tracking aid to developing countries. Exploring who really benefits from IATI, and what is needed to ensure IATI has an impact? Sharing inspirational examples of how communities/civil society organisations could use this information to monitor government budget and spending and increase the effectiveness of aid. Also looking at new open funding models, such as crowd sourced microfinance, that are emerging, and asking do they work?

  *   Additional satellite event: Open development in the non profit sector: Introductory event in collaboration with the Finnish NGO Network trageting Finnish NGOs (or Nordic NGOs?) working in development cooperation to explain the WHY and HOW of open data and IATI. This could be followed by examples of NGO transparency activities (e.g. Partos in the Netherlands and Oxfam in the UK). For this stream to succeed some communications work prior to the event will be necessary to interest the NGO community.

Cross-collaboration with: Open Government, Open Funding sessions

·         Topic B: Open = accessible? What are the practical issues for citizens in developing countries accessing open information? Drawing on community informatics research: Is Open data accessible data? What additional communication channels are needed to engage more rural communities in open government and open development - eg., what about those who are not able to access data due to language/connectivity? is the data that's being opened useful to communities for local level transparency and accountability work? how can grassroots communities be involved in inputting information, especially local tacit knowledge that is not currently available to confirm/contest data that's on OG portals? what about infomediaries at community level?

Cross-collaboration with: Open Democracy, Open Government sessions

·         Topic C: Technologies for open development. What role do ICTs and open technologies such as FLOSS or open hardware play in open development? Mobile technology, app development, mapping and digital data collection, developing great partnerships between development organisations, communities and tech agencies ie Frontline SMS. Will Include presentations from attendees who presented at ICT4D 2012.

Cross-collaboration with: TBC

·         Topic D: Open Development: Sector-focused workshop event: One of the discussions in Warsaw was, that we need to demonstrate that "open" can really make a difference. The idea for this workshop is to take one specific sector (e.g. water, health) and analyse in detail the current lacks of communication/information and how open data can make a difference in very concrete terms. The type of event would be a workshop of at least half a day together with sector specialists.
Cross-collaboration with: Open Government sessions

Keywords: development, open data, government, ICT for development, ICT4D, democracy, citizens, mobile, technology, social media, IATI, humanitarian, FLOSS, map, digital, community, accountability, transparency, Finland, NGO, civil society

Team members TBC but the following are supporters of this proposal:

- Bill Anderson, IATI / AidInfo
- Mark Brough, Publish What You Fund (@mark_brough)
- Ruth del Campo, Open Aid Register (@openaidreg)
- Tim Davies, Practical Participation / AidInfo (@timdavies)
- Duncan Edwards, Institute of Development Studies, (d.edwards at ids.ac.uk) / duncan_ids
- Mark Herringer, (@markherringer)
- Sarah Johns, Plan International  (@GeoGrr)
- Emily Kallaur, Development Gateway (@dgateway)
- Rolf Kleef, Open for Change (@rolfkleef and #openforchange)
- Pernilla Näsfors, Openaid.se & SIDA Sweden (@pernillan & @sida)
- Matthew O'Reilly, Indigo Trust (@indigotrust)
- Linda Raftree, Plan International USA (@meowtree)
- Claudia Schwegmann, OpenAid @OpenAidGermany
- Mika Valitalo, Plan Finland
- Tuulia Virhia, Plan Finland

This proposal is a shared effort/collaboration between all the members of the OKFN Open Development e-list. Particular thanks are due to: Tim Davies, Mark Herringer, Linda Raftree, Claudia Schwegmann and Mika Valitalo.

Links  Discussion, proposals etc are on the Open Development Etherpad here:

http://opengovernmentdata.okfnpad.org/open-development-okfest2012

and are on-going on the OK Foundation Open Development e-list.

Additional information: This proposal is a live document and the topics may change - this proposal gives a snapshot of the plans as they stand at 18 April 2011.

Contact person name Sarah Johns

Contact person email sarah.johns at plan-international.org

Contact person phone +44(0) 1483 733 207

Questions for OK Fest organisers Do you have any guidance or help with arranging a satellite event for participants who may not be delegates at OK Fest?

Sarah Johns

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