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

Tue Nov 2 13:50:58 UTC 2010

Hi Tim

The advocacy session I had in mind would dovetail/overlap with 2 and possibly 3. Maybe we could co-ordinate a stream of sessions generally coming from the end-re-user / transparency / non-governmental perspective -- not sure how to best define it -- to avoid the conference supermarket syndrome. 

On 1 Nov 2010, at 20:25, Tim Davies wrote:

> Thanks Jonathan
> 
> Looks like it's shaping up to be fantastic few days!
> 
> 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
> 
> Pasted in below as I'd be interested to hear if members of the list are interested or not in any of these possibilities... 
> 
> 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/ - 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...)
> 
> All the best
> 
> Tim
> 
> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
> 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.
> 
>  http://opengovernmentdata.org/camp2010/planning/
> 
> 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! ;-)
> 
> 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
> 
> More soon!
> 
> Jonathan
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