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

[Rufus Pollock]

This sounds great - and I'd love to make this!

Rufus


On 12 July 2014 22:10, Jed Miller <jedbmiller at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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--- *
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> http://www.makingallvoicescount.org/events/open-development-okfestival-fringe-event/
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> *---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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