[open-development] Berlin: planning Friday group session on "Follow the Money"

Sat Jul 12 21:10:52 UTC 2014

Hello, all,

Glad to be linked up with friends and colleagues here.

I've included a short self-introduction below, but am writing to seek your
availability and interest in a working session this Friday in Berlin, for
groups focused on linking datasets from multiple sources in order to
"Follow the Money" for greater accountability and real policy change.

With Alan Hudson and the Follow the Money network (
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/FTM_network), we're proposing this
session as a morning breakout during the Fringe Event day following OKFest.

If you are working to link and "join-up" data to turn interoperability into
powerful advocacy, it's a chance to share our projects and see where the
overlaps and potential advocacy and data linkages are.

The draft session plan is attached and open for comment on a Google doc.
We've also linked it on the hackpad for Friday's Fringe Event, below:

Follow the Money Working Session Draft doc:
*http://goo.gl/ObSg4x <http://goo.gl/ObSg4x> *

Please take a look and let us know your interest and availability during
the Friday agenda. You can also share comments in the Google doc.

Looking forward to seeing you in Berlin and at the session!

With thanks,

Jed Miller

*---Open Development Fringe Event---*
https://pad.okfn.org/p/Open_Development_Fringe_Event
http://www.makingallvoicescount.org/events/open-development-okfestival-fringe-event/

*---FtM Network---*
OKFest Session early this week:
http://okfestival2014.sched.org/event/e9314f2b52131c32818ecd4b23384c68#.U7Rj9I1dWfR
FtM Google group:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/FTM_network

*About me: Currently blog editor and an organizer for T/AI's TABridge
project (http://tech.transparency-initiative.org
<http://tech.transparency-initiative.org>) and digital strategy consultant
to Natural Resource Governance Institute (formerly RWI) and the Open
Society Foundations, among other groups. I was previously Internet director
at RWI and before that at the American Civil Liberties Union. In 2013, I
worked with OKF, RWI and others to convene an early Follow the Money
session scoping options and challenges to interoperable data for advocacy
across the extractives, governance, aid, budgeting and contracting sectors.
More at @jedmiller on Twitter
and http://tech.transparency-initiative.org/keeping-in-sync-as-we-open-up/
<http://tech.transparency-initiative.org/keeping-in-sync-as-we-open-up/>.*
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