[open-government] Planning for Open Government Data Camp 2010

Mon Nov 1 20:25:11 UTC 2010

Thanks Jonathan

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Looks like it's shaping up to be fantastic few days!

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I don't know how much you are looking for additional working sessions, but
I've put a few suggestions into the Etherpad page at
http://opengovernmentdata.okfnpad.org/session-ideas

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Pasted in below as I'd be interested to hear if members of the list are
interested or not in any of these possibilities...

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*1) Measuring the impact of open data*

> *Rationale:* There have been a lot of posts on the open government data
mailing list recently about evidence on the impact of open data; this
session would give researchers, policy makers and others the chance to
discuss existing measurement of open data impacts - and to explore shared
agendas for tracking impact in future
*Proposed by* Tim Davies (@timdavies)

*2) Empowering non-technical users and re-users of data*

> *Rationale: *A lot of the focus so far of the camp looks to be on
technical and legal aspects of openning government data. This session would
explore different patterns of data use: from community activism, to use of
data inside and between levels of government - and would explore what
support non-technical end-users need (in terms of skills; capacity building
and tools-chains/technical infrastructures) to make the most of open
government data.

*Proposed by* Tim Davies (@timdavies)

*3) Open **governance **data - data from the grass-roots up*

*Rationale: *Linked to this blog post:
http://www.timdavies.org.uk/2010/11/01/open-government-data-is-not-just-a-one-way-flow/
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exploring how the creation of data of relevance of citizens and states is
happening through open data approaches - and what implications this has for
how open government/governance data infrastructures should be developed, and
for what capacity building programmes of action may be required.

(Obviously I'm not proposing to convene *all *the suggestions I've put in
above. Happy to convene one if there is interest in a specific idea, and
more than happy for others to adopt/adapt/develop the other ideas...)

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All the best

>
Tim

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> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>wrote:
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>> With Open Government Data Camp 2010 only a few weeks away, we're
>> launching some pages for participants to start planning what they'd
>> like to do at the event.
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>>  http://opengovernmentdata.org/camp2010/planning/
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>> Please see the 'work sessions' section to add your name/brainstorm
>> around things you'd like to discuss or work on in the different
>> sessions. If you'd like to propose a new session, there's a page for
>> that too! ;-)
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>> In particular, if you'd like to demo something (an application, an
>> inititiative, a website, a project, ...) please add details here:
>>
>>  http://opengovernmentdata.okfnpad.org/streetmarket
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>> More soon!
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>> Jonathan
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