[open-government] Introduction from Data.gov

Tue Nov 16 20:19:28 UTC 2010

Sara and Tim--

Excellent!  Thanks for the pointers, and I would definitely like to make the UN connection one of our ways to connect the IOGDC and OGD Data Camp.

We have a couple of speakers from the UN here who have colleagues coming to your event, too!  Jonas Rabinovitch who is the Senior Inter-Regional Adviser and manages the KM Program at the UN in New York has coordinated with Rob Kirkpatrick coming to your Camp, so that both our conferences will get the same information.  In addition, Tomasz Janowski is the Head of the Center for Electronic Governance at UN University in Macao.  I've just spoken with both of them and they are very interested in helping to make this happen.

Joey Hutcherson from our team will be there for the OGD Camp this week, and let me know if I can participate virtually and I'll coordinate the future efforts on this with you.  Great ideas!

--Jeanne

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Thanks Tim - will read these later (am about to work the information back-end on an earthquake simulation in Bogota, which will take all my waking time til 11pm).?

I've got some interest from UN folks themselves, including Rob Kirkpatrick (director of Global Pulse), and I've been using the combined RHOK/?OpenData hackday as an excuse to push this a bit further. ?I'm going to be in New York RHOK on 4th Dec, but I really really want to see this work started somewhere in the world that day.? I was going to beg nicely to?the New York team, but do you think anyone in Oxford might be up for the challenge?? Even getting a list of what people are wanting would be a good start...

BTW, the Oxford hackathon organisation is amazing - please be flattered if I copy any of it for Birmingham.?

Thanks,

Sara.

--- On Tue, 16/11/10, Tim Davies <tim at practicalparticipation.co.uk<mailto:tim at practicalparticipation.co.uk>> wrote:

From: Tim Davies <tim at practicalparticipation.co.uk<mailto:tim at practicalparticipation.co.uk>>
Subject: Re: [open-government] Introduction from Data.gov
To: "Sara Farmer" <sara.farmer at btinternet.com<mailto:sara.farmer at btinternet.com>>
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Date: Tuesday, 16 November, 2010, 16:19

Hello Sara

Would be really interested to help on this.?

Right now in a two-day meeting in Oxford that's been exploring linked data in development (under IKM Emergent's convening:?http://wiki.ikmemergent.net/index.php/Main_Page) - and question of accessibility of UN data and other development data (as well as local sources of development data) has been a big topic.

I'll try to make sure notes get circulate here and on the OKF Development Data working group mailing list (http://wiki.okfn.org/wg/development)?

A few agencies here who might be interested too - and there should be some discussions on Thursday/Friday at the Open Data Camp in London around open data / linked data and the Millenium Development Goals - which could well have some future potential for 4th Dec hack-day activity. Brief notes at http://opengovernmentdata.okfnpad.org/session-ideas?

All the best

Tim

2010/11/16 Sara Farmer <sara.farmer at btinternet.com<mailto:sara.farmer at btinternet.com>>

Hi Jeanne,

One of the projects I'd like to propose to the 4th Dec Open Data hackathon is to start connecting up all the UN people who are working on / interested in?UN?open data and using linkeddata for UN datasets.?

Given your background, do you have any pointers on this??? I've found the UN data api project (http://www.undata-api.org/wiki/datasets?- all WHO atm) and know there was a London meeting with UN folks on linkeddata recently, but more links would be most gratefully appreciated.? As would input from anyone else who can help build this list too.

Thanks,

Sara.

Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 06:47:47 -0800
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Hi all--

It's great to be able to join the Open Government Data list.? What a wealth of information and energy in this group! I've enjoyed reading the archives.

I'm the Evangelist for the US Data.gov team, which serves to bring data up and out of federal agencies in the United States and make it accessible and searchable at http://www.data.gov<http://data.gov/>

I'm interested in exploring collaborations in a variety of areas, including advocacy for standards, approaches for federating content, enhancing access to datasets, and supporting the developer community in making sense and use of government data.

This week we'll be holding an International Open Government Data Conference in Washington DC http://www.data.gov/conference and are working with Jonathan Grey to coordinate this with the Open Government Data Camp: 2010 in the UK. This week will have lots of opportunities online and at both these events to bring groups from around the world together to focus on the challenges and opportunities in making government more transparent. I welcome your virtual participation in this event at http://www.data.gov/opendata I'll be cross-posting to both these groups to help forge a connection in the conversations.

My personal background is in leading data, information, and knowledge management activities for NASA for the last 26 years and the United Nations International Academy of Astronautics in the area of integrating space data to look at global issues of climate change, humanitarian relief, and innovation. I teach courses at UCLA and in China on social network analysis and the use of knowledge and data to drive innovation. I look forward to the collaboration.

Thanks Jonathan for the invitation!

--Jeanne Holm

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