[open-development] OKFest: Open Development stream next steps
Tim Davies
tim at timdavies.org.uk
Thu May 3 14:37:30 UTC 2012
Hello all,
Thanks for all the great suggestions re: keynotes - and surfacing the great
articulations of open development that are already out there. I've added
these to the resource list at http://open-development.okfn.org/resources/ -
though that resource list could definitely do with some more attention.
Anyone interested in volunteering to develop it more most welcome...
Anyway, a few quick reflections/thoughts/updates:
- Matthew: your distinction between open development, and 'open/free
markets' is absolutely key. I've also been working to highlight that these
are not the same, and that we have choices over whether we seek for greater
openness to drive change through market mechanisms, or through more
collaborative and co-production mechanisms. This said, I think in terms of
'open economics' that the OKF's open economics strand of work is not so
much about open/free markets, but is about opening up information on the
operation of economic systems - for example - through making country budget
information accessible at http://www.openspending.org. In that sense,
there are some strong overlaps with the transparency elements of the open
development space.
- It might be though that we're not combined as a track with open
economics: their proposal for a separate stream might be going in to OKFest
in June separately. I think we have to wait and see on this.
- There have been some great suggestions for keynotes. I guess the key
question for us to work out is what we want out to a keynote. I think the
framings of open development shared by Alan from One, Mathew from IDRC, and
that could come from Aleem, Sanjay or Soren from the World Bank present key
insights into aspects of open development, but perhaps only capture some
parts of what different actors within this network are working on*.
I'm leaning towards the idea of encouraging a keynote that is either a
collaboration of a few folk, or where we ask someone to provide a survey of
the broad open development space: but it might be that having a particular
framing put forward is a better way to inspire all the other people who
will be a OKFest to understand the development dimension to the world of
open...
What do you think?
When the next planning call takes place (doodle here:
http://www.doodle.com/rdkraep9uwdm5cfc) then I think we should be able to
get a list of possible keynotes to put to OKFest team and to get invites
to.
All the best
Tim
*Again - happy to be proved wrong. I'm learning that either pretending not
to know about all your great work, or stating things like this is a good
way to get list involvement ;)
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Matthew Smith <msmith at idrc.ca> wrote:
> I saw my name mentioned, so I thought I’d throw in my 2 cents on some
> things.****
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> First, I’m going to start by following Alan’s lead and blow our own
> trumpets -- at the IDRC we’ve been thinking about these issues for a bit –
> starting under a very awkward term (open ict4d) and later transitioning to
> open development (some references:
> http://itidjournal.org/itid/issue/view/40****
>
> http://itidjournal.org/itid/article/view/489 &
> http://web.idrc.ca/uploads/user-S/12271304441Open_ICT4D_Draft.pdf.****
>
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>
> Note that the position we take on Open Development differs from the WB’s
> and others. The WB focuses mostly on opening up the data and processes of
> international development institutions, whereas our notion is broader
> looking at how ‘openness’ (open models) might play a role across a whole
> range of sectors, and not just in transforming the operating model of
> development institutions. Thus it allows for, as Duncan mentions, bringing
> in issues like open access and IP issues. ****
>
>
> Second, I saw that Tim mentioned one keynote who might be able to bring
> together “Open Development, Open Economics and Open Government”. If I may
> offer my unsolicited opinion on this… I would argue that there is a very
> important distinction, for example, between open development – and how it
> brings social value – and open markets. They should not be lumped under an
> all-inclusive moniker of ‘openness’. Indeed, open models are often
> innovative fixes for market and public sector failures. So – my ears perked
> up when I saw that there was some discussion about linking open development
> and open economics – two things that are not only very different but can be
> antithetical at times. Linking the two through the common term ‘open’
> obscures some of its key features that makes it so socially valuable. This
> conceptual slippage happens all the time. Recently I was asked to provide
> comments on a panel the WB put together on Open, smart and inclusive
> development, and the main speaker causally conflated open markets with open
> development. This is a big mistake, IMHO. Anyway – obviously a sensitive
> point for me, but I’m certainly open to discussion about it ;-)****
>
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> Best to all!
> Matthew****
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> *From:* open-development-bounces at lists.okfn.org [mailto:
> open-development-bounces at lists.okfn.org] *On Behalf Of *Duncan Edwards
> *Sent:* April 27, 2012 12:10 PM
> *To:* tim at timdavies.org.uk; Johns, Sarah
> *Cc:* Raftree, Linda; Claudia Schwegmann; Välitalo, Mika;
> open-development at lists.okfn.org; Juha Huuskonen
>
> *Subject:* Re: [open-development] OKFest: Open Development stream next
> steps****
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> Hi Tim,****
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>
> Apologies to be so late to the conversation! ****
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> I know some of you but as a quick intro – I work for the Institute of
> Development Studies looking at how to use new technology to get the
> findings of new development research into policy and practice. We’ve
> developed an Open API (http://api.ids.ac.uk ) to open up the dataset we
> use to run www.eldis.org and bridge.ids.ac.uk. We’re also exploring
> linked open data and semantic approaches to add value to what we’re doing
> and demonstrate to other knowledge intermediaries the value in open
> approaches. You might be interested to take a look at a Linked Data Wrapper
> VU-Amsterdam have written to our API (
> http://semweb4u.wordpress.com/tag/institute-of-development-studies/ ).****
>
> ** **
>
> I’m wondering whether Laurent Elder or Matt Smith from IDRC might be good
> people to articulate the idea of Open Development. They were at ICTD 2010
> at Royal Holloway and ran an interesting and nuanced session on Open
> Development.****
>
> ** **
>
> Just a small bit of feedback on the topics within the open development
> stream, and apologies again for entering the conversation so late – much of
> the talk about Open Development focuses around aid flows and accountable
> governance but misses areas such as the potential of open development in
> the fields of knowledge management, research communications, and access to
> other forms of information/knowledge. The Open Access debate seems to be
> really gathering momentum and media attention with the Wellcome Trust and
> DFID stipulating open access as a condition of funding, and the World Bank
> releasing their Open Knowledge platform. Do you have any thoughts on
> whether we could include something on these areas?****
>
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> Best wishes,****
>
> Duncan****
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> *From:* open-development-bounces at lists.okfn.org
> [mailto:open-development-bounces at lists.okfn.org] *On Behalf Of *Tim Davies
> *Sent:* 27 April 2012 15:15
> *To:* Johns, Sarah
> *Cc:* Raftree, Linda; Claudia Schwegmann; open-development at lists.okfn.org;
> Välitalo, Mika; Juha Huuskonen
> *Subject:* Re: [open-development] OKFest: Open Development stream next
> steps****
>
> ** **
>
> 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****
>
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>
> Tim****
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> 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****
>
> ****
>
> 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.****
>
> ****
>
> 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,****
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> 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 ****
>
> ****
>
> 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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> 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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