[open-development] OKFest: Re: Open Development at Ok Festival: update and planning

[Raftree, Linda]

Just quickly, Pernilla at SIDA mentioned in a recent email to the group that SIDA may be able to support travel for some ‘developing country’ participants.

Love the idea of inviting Robert Chambers. He’s been quite interested in things like open street map, etc.
http://aidontheedge.info/2011/02/10/whose-paradigm-counts/
http://aidontheedge.info/2011/02/15/whose-paradigm-counts-2/

Agree it would be good to include someone who can talk from a “user” experience, especially experience from a ‘developing country’. Who are some civil society organizations that are taking advantage of ‘open’?
Linda

From: tim.g.davies at gmail.com [mailto:tim.g.davies at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Tim Davies
Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2012 4:10 PM
To: Johns, Sarah
Cc: open-development at lists.okfn.org; Claudia Schwegmann; V?litalo, Mika; Raftree, Linda; mark herringer; Mark Brough; Juha Huuskonen; Duncan Edwards
Subject: OKFest: Re: Open Development at Ok Festival: update and planning

Hello all,

Thanks Sarah for the proactive work on this. Some inline responses below, including link to funding one-pager draft (http://bit.ly/L61Lm0)...

•         Key note speakers: this needs to be finalised as soon as possible. I’m a bit conscious that we don’t really have a theme other than .. Where Next? So if anyone has a good idea, bring it out into the open!

 We could go with something like 'Openness for all' - taking a critical look at how to ensure the benefits of openness really reach the grassroots...
Tim has approached Warren Krafchik, director of the International Budget Partnership, and Civil Society Co-Chair of the Open Government Partnership, who seems keen if he has free space in his diary. Everyone ok with this? Need two backup ideas. I’d like to see Warren balanced with some who’ll talk about OpenDev from a ‘user’ perspective. What about Robert Chambers talking about power and participation? Not usually seen in OpenDev circles but it’d be great to unite both aspects (government and community) and might attract more development people?

I really like this idea.

It might fit into the idea of a collaborative keynote or panel discussion in the main room too. I notice from the schedule for Thursday (http://bit.ly/JG5TsK) mention of Hans Rosling too - so I wonder if we can construct a good one or two keynote talks, and then lead into a panel with some key thinkers bringing in really different perpectives on what open development means.


•         Supporting attendance for participants (non EU/US): possible contact for bursary for participants from Asia: Jeurgen Neumann ( http://www.junes.eu<http://www.junes.eu/>, j.neumann[at]junes[dot]eu)  has a contact Sylvia Cadena - ISIF Project Officer at APNIC - http://isif.asia/  that he'd be happy to send info to, for funding delegates from Asia. He needs a one-pager on what the funding would be for. Tim/Mark/Mika/Siem – any movement on creating the one-pager and approaching funders/sponsors? What about using tech to open access out or partnering with iHub in East Africa or something?

I've just drafted a one pager here: http://bit.ly/L61Lm0 - please do take a look and make changes direct / add comments / start using with funders you know.

 •         We need extra hands to team up and organise the three workshops (which can be in any format you choose). The three are:
1. Open development and aid flow. Tim. Also responsible for inviting Open Economics, Open Government streams.

Anyone who can help out do drop me a line. Also would love to hear from anyone wanting to provide an input into this session to start getting an idea of how we might structure it.

All the best

Tim



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