[open-development] More OKF chapters in the global south: how to make it possible?

Wed Mar 12 13:19:13 UTC 2014

HI all:

Even though I'm not an Ambassador, I'm actively working as a consultant in
an 5 year program (2013/2018) for Open Government containing an Open Data
initiative for the Government of Paraguay, funded by USAID.

I was wondering if it would be possible to attend to the meeting, to check
what are the possible collaboration points, my main question would be
(given my Computer Science background) if there is a sort of lists of
shared tools for managing the process of publishind and maintaning open
data that public administrations can reuse (besides CKAN, that catalogs the
data already published), and if not, if it would make sense to create them.
Another need that I see is a tool that can manage the whole lifecycle of
open data, not only the technical opening, but also the data hunting, legal
issues (laws, licences, etc), and later data ussage and community building.
The lifecycle itself is not well defined and completely gobally agreed
either, to the best of my knowledge.

Considering that I'm also a Computer Science professor the the National
University of Asuncion, I'm actually having informatics engeneering
studends develop both abovementioned tools as their thesis, but if there is
a starting point to collaborate, or someone would be willing to
use/re-use/adapt these tools (as all of them would be complete open source
for any purpose) I'd be more than willing to collaborate.

I'm also involved in the Open Data Trentino project in Italy, where
Maurizio Napolitano (a.k.a Napo) is also working, and who knows, maybe we
might even have a local chapter in Paraguay in the future.

Greetings

Juan Pane

On 12 March 2014 00:53, Everton Zanella Alvarenga <
everton.alvarenga at okfn.org> wrote:

> That is the problem I propose we think together. Others from OKF discuss
> and open development mailing lists are welcome to join. Tom
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Everton Zanella Alvarenga <everton.alvarenga at okfn.org>
> Date: 2014-03-12 0:38 GMT-03:00
> Subject: Re: Regular hangouts, ambassadors per region and missing welcome
> parties!
> To: Open Knowledge Foundation Local Coordinators Mailing List <
> okfn-local-coord at lists.okfn.org>
>
>
> Dear colleagues from the OKF network,
>
> I would like to propose that we continue to have these meetups. I think
> there are a lot of learnings from mistakes and successes we are missing to
> share with each other, which could empower our actions aligned with our
> mission.
>
> As a way to continue these meetings, I would like to invite those
> interested to have a talk this Friday, March 14 at 2h pm GMT (11h GMT-3, my
> time), mainly for those in the global south willing to form a chapter and
> who can possibly have questions about the Brazil case. I'm still learning a
> lot and there are big challenges here to form a sustainable organization.
>
> I want submit a proposal to OKFest telling everything we did here in
> Brazil (and likely we didn't do) in the last 2,5 years when a local group
> started to form here, so your questions will be very important to me.
>
> Is someone here willing to join? If you want to discuss, please, add your
> name in the document and questions will be highly appreciated!
>
> More chapters in the global south: how to make it possible?<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZWkgOUbzc9DpRrjFtvLwXYseIXIXvsaxhHd4i50r8vo/edit>
>
> Obviously those from privileged countries are also welcome, but I want
> focus on this particular big challenge we have as the OKF central is
> willing to improve its international status. N. b. this particular
> challenge we can see in other international organizations as well, like
> Wikimedia chapters, a case I've discussed a lot in previous years.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Tom
>
>
>
>
> 2013-07-16 2:27 GMT-03:00 Everton Zanella Alvarenga <
> everton.alvarenga at okfn.org>:
>
> Hi all!
>>
>> I have started two documents, one for listing all the ambassadors per
>> region (our OKF world has 4 regions - until we find ambassadors in the
>> Poles!) and one with the forge..., err..., missing hangouts, also divided
>> per region.
>>
>> 1. OKF ambassadors: regular hangouts<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X77bKeqdEUfYD1xzAWUsJ1irVNZC2nPxNGTv1Loz_m8/edit>
>> 2. New ambassadors hangouts<https://docs.google.com/document/d/17aPqDiYXqy_m8ZT_giq21WHfSrvE-_WeP5GYhE6pNM4/edit>
>>
>> I want very much talk to my colleagues from America, mainly after the
>> open data event in Uruguay recently, and we are planning locally how to
>> develop a strategy for local ambassador because of the size of my country,
>> and I think Diane and Heath will face the same issue.
>>
>> That said, I would like to suggest:
>>
>> a) We make hangouts per region, already welcoming the new ambassador of
>> your regions. Thus, for instance, I will be responsible to organize a
>> meeting with Jorge, Diane, Heath and also Yamila and Samuel (I'll e-mail
>> you tomorrow in separate!).
>>
>> Prakash, may you, please, organize a meeting with the new ambassadors of
>> Asia/Oceania region?
>>
>> Pierre and Ansatasios, may you, please, organize the meeting with our
>> colleagues from Africa and Europe?
>>
>> Does it work? If someone wants to help to organize the hangout, please,
>> speak up. :)
>>
>> b) Please, may you add your name and country here<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X77bKeqdEUfYD1xzAWUsJ1irVNZC2nPxNGTv1Loz_m8/edit>?
>> That will help a lot to organize this regular hangouts for peer
>> assistence among our community<https://trello.com/c/NEBRl2nz/3-a-regular-hangout-for-peer-assistance-among-the-community>
>> .
>>
>> Please, if you have any thing to fix or suggest in the proposal above,
>> let us know. I hope America can already meet this week or in the beginning
>> of the next one and this work out for all regions!
>>
>> Tom
>>
>> --
>> Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom)
>> OKF Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre
>> http://br.okfn.org
>>
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