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

[Everton Zanella Alvarenga]

Hi Juan,

you are welcome to join us. Please, add your name in the google docs.
Saludos,

Tom


2014-03-12 10:19 GMT-03:00 Juan Pane <jpane at pol.una.py>:

> 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
>
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