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

Sun Jul 13 17:49:56 UTC 2014

Dear Rufus, Oludotun et al,

Thank you for your enthusiastic replies! We've changed the settings so that
in-line comments are enabled at the link below. Please post any thoughts
there:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1moyOBfUMLB0eiPqO86gBWxWgbbZ_ONM95pm1jPGZToU/edit?usp=sharing

Looking forward to seeing you in a day or so,

Jed

On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 2:02 AM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>
wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>>
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>> 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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