[open-development] OKFest: Open Development stream next steps

Fri Apr 27 14:14:51 UTC 2012

Hello Sarah,

Thanks for pulling these notes together and highlighting the key issues.

In terms of keynote speakers:

   - One suggestion would be to invite Warren Krafchik, Director of
   International Budget Partnership (
   http://internationalbudget.org/who-we-are/staff/?staff=warren-krafchik)
   and recently made co-chair of the Open Government Partnership. This could
   provide for a keynote that can make the connection between Open
   Development, Open Economics and Open Government in a really positive way -
   and I'm sure Warren could then be invited to input into a number of other
   sessions.

   - I've been trying to think who could keynote to really articulate the
   idea of 'open development' - but whilst lots of names come to mind of
   people who talk about elements of this - I've not yet hit upon one person
   who immediately come to mind as having articulated what open development is
   about.

   It might be that (1) our challenge for Helsinki is to do some of the
   articulation so that someone can speak about it in future; (2) it might be
   (and is quite likely that) I'm forgetting someone here who should have
   immediately come to mind and who we could invite; or (3) it might be that
   we can think about putting together a 'collaborative keynote' with a few
   key people who can provide perspectives on what 'open development' is
   about...

   I'm quite liking the idea of exploring (3), but open to (1)/(2) being
   the case.

All the best

Tim

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Johns, Sarah <
Sarah.Johns at plan-international.org> wrote:

>   Adding to Mika’s email below, there’s three actions from the *OKFest
> OpenDev* planning session that we’d encourage you to comment on, either
> directly at
> http://opengovernmentdata.okfnpad.org/open-development-okfest2012 ****
>
> or by joining the next Skype session on either Fri 11th May 8:30 GMT or
> Tue 16th May 9 GMT depending on your votes:
> http://www.doodle.com/rdkraep9uwdm5cfc****
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> ** **
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> **1.       **Topics within the stream – at the moment there are 3
> identified topics and 2 side events. Is everyone ok with this?****
>
> **a.       ***Open development and aid flow *exploring developments in
> the International Aid Transparency Initiative, and tracking aid to
> developing countries.****
>
> **b.      ***Open = accessible?* What are the practical issues for
> citizens in developing countries accessing open information? ****
>
> **c.       ***Technologies for open development.** *What role do ICTs and
> open technologies such as FLOSS or open hardware play in open development?
>  ****
>
> **d.      **Plus two side events: 1 event for Finnish NGOs to come and
> learn more, and 2. A workshop/hackday or similar to take one specific
> sector (e.g. water, health) and practically work out how open data can make
> a difference.****
>
> The OKFest organisers will use these topics in the second call for
> proposals/papers, so it’s important to get them right. Please note that our
> friends from the Open Economics e-list may also be joining us, so they may
> have additional topics.****
>
> ** **
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> **2.       **We need to decide a central theme (eg. Open Development –
> where next?) and book in some key note speakers. ****
>
> ** **
>
> **3.       **A proposal was made to create a central bursary in order to
> support delegates from Asia, Africa and the Americas. We need to know who’s
> interested in supporting this proposal with funding, or if anyone has good
> ideas about trusts/foundations to approach.****
>
> ** **
>
> BTW, I’m conscious that not everyone in the OpenDev e-list will be
> interested in preparations for the conference.  We’ll  tag emails OKFest,
> you’ll know you can hit delete ;O) I do think it’s important to keep the
> discussion here though so that everyone can see what’s going on.****
>
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> Cheers,****
>
>
> Sarah****
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> *From:* Välitalo, Mika
> *Sent:* 27 April 2012 13:35
> *To:* Claudia Schwegmann; open-development at lists.okfn.org; Johns, Sarah;
> Tim Davies
> *Subject:* Open Dev. Skype planning sessions ****
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> Hi everyone,****
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> ** **
>
>  Juha, Sarah, Tim, Siem and me had a good kick-off discussion today. You
> can read the minutes here: http://okfnpad.org/jW3lnOiStZ and catch-up on
> what’s going on with Open Dev. Stream planning. ****
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> ** **
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> The next Skype session will be either Fri 11th May 8:30 GMT or Tue 16thMay 9 GMT depending on your votes:
> http://www.doodle.com/rdkraep9uwdm5cfc****
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> Cheers, Mika****
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