[open-government] Kenyan open data catalogue? (Jonathan Gray)
Anne Fitzgerald
am.fitzgerald at qut.edu.au
Wed Jul 6 02:16:34 UTC 2011
Hi Jonathan
I am following up with Kenyan contacts to see if I can get some more information on who is running the Kenyan Government's Open Government Data portal. You might be interested to know that the issue of access to government information and science data was dealt with extensively at CODATA 2010 in Cape Town, South Africa which was attended by delegates from many African countries as well as from overseas. The CODATA program (stream B1) "Access to and Reuse of Public Sector Information: Practices and Challenges" was co-chaired by Paul Uhlir (US) and Tyng-Ruey Chuang (Taiwan); abstracts are available here :http://www.codata2010.com/scientific-program.php I find it particularly interesting that the Kenyan open government data project specifically mentions the use of open licensing, such as Creative Commons.
Regards
Anne
Professor Anne Fitzgerald
QUT Law Faculty
am.fitzgerald at qut.edu.au
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2. Re: [ckan-discuss] [euopendata] Release of DataCatalogs.org
to map open data around the world (John Glover)
3. Re: [ckan-discuss] Release of DataCatalogs.org to map open
data around the world (John Glover)
4. Re: [open-economics] [okfn-discuss] Anyone interested?
Creating an "Open Knowledge Index" (Guo Xu)
5. Re: [open-economics] [okfn-discuss] Anyone interested?
Creating an "Open Knowledge Index" (Lucas Ferreira Mation)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 14:28:34 +0200
From: Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>
Subject: [open-government] Kenyan open data catalogue?
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Does anyone know anyone involved in this?
http://www.ihub.co.ke/blog/2011/07/promoting-transparency-through-open-data/
It would be great to:
* invite them to this list so everyone can meet some people from the
Kenyan open data community
* ask them for a guest blog post on OKF blog (blog.okfn.org)
* invite them to participate in datacatalogs.org
* invite them to Open Government Data Camp 2011 in Warsaw
An introduction on or off-list would be very much appreciated! :-)
All the best,
Jonathan
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 18:12:50 +0200
From: John Glover <john.glover at okfn.org>
Subject: Re: [open-government] [ckan-discuss] [euopendata] Release of
DataCatalogs.org to map open data around the world
To: John Erickson <olyerickson at gmail.com>
Cc: CKAN discuss <ckan-discuss at lists.okfn.org>,
open-government at lists.okfn.org, EU Open Data Working Group
<euopendata at lists.okfn.org>
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Thanks John, I'll make an importer and get this added to datacatalogs.org soon.
John
On 1 July 2011 01:37, John Erickson <olyerickson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Guys!
>
> RPI's list of catalogs is here:
> http://logd.tw.rpi.edu/demo/list_international_dataset_catalogs
>
> ...a downloadable CSV of the metadata is here:
> http://logd.tw.rpi.edu/sites/default/files/logd-list-internation-catalog-(v20110630).csv
>
> That is in addition to the RDF which we discussed on Edinburgh, etc...
>
> John
>
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 4:45 AM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> We?re very pleased to announce an alpha version of datacatalogs.org, a
>> website to help keep track of open data catalogues from around the
>> world. The project is being launched to coincide with our annual
>> conference, OKCon 2011 [1]. You can see the site here:
>>
>> ?http://datacatalogs.org/
>>
>> Further information about the launch (including a press release) is
>> available here:
>>
>> ?http://blog.okfn.org/2011/06/30/release-of-datacatalogs-org-to-map-open-data-around-the-world/
>>
>> We'd be *very* grateful for any help in blogging, tweeting, and
>> passing this on to friends and colleagues. We want to make this into a
>> comprehensive list of open data catalogues from around the world.
>>
>> All the best from Berlin,
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>> [1] http://okcon.org/2011
>>
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>>
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 18:15:03 +0200
From: John Glover <john.glover at okfn.org>
Subject: Re: [open-government] [ckan-discuss] Release of
DataCatalogs.org to map open data around the world
To: Martin Alvarez-Espinar <martin.alvarez at fundacionctic.org>
Cc: CKAN discuss <ckan-discuss at lists.okfn.org>,
open-government at lists.okfn.org, EU Open Data Working Group
<euopendata at lists.okfn.org>
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Great stuff Martin, we should be able to integrate that under
datacatalogs.org, I'll double check with Jonathan and get back to you.
John
On 1 July 2011 13:00, Martin Alvarez-Espinar
<martin.alvarez at fundacionctic.org> wrote:
> Hello Jonathan,
>
> We're going to adapt our faceted browser [1] to the new repository
> (datacatalogs.org). May it be integrated under datacatalogs.org or just
> linked from the website?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Martin
>
> [1] http://datos.fundacionctic.org/sandbox/catalog/faceted/
>
> On 30/06/11 10:45, Jonathan Gray wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> We?re very pleased to announce an alpha version of datacatalogs.org, a
>> website to help keep track of open data catalogues from around the
>> world. The project is being launched to coincide with our annual
>> conference, OKCon 2011 [1]. You can see the site here:
>>
>> ? http://datacatalogs.org/
>>
>> Further information about the launch (including a press release) is
>> available here:
>>
>>
>> http://blog.okfn.org/2011/06/30/release-of-datacatalogs-org-to-map-open-data-around-the-world/
>>
>> We'd be *very* grateful for any help in blogging, tweeting, and
>> passing this on to friends and colleagues. We want to make this into a
>> comprehensive list of open data catalogues from around the world.
>>
>> All the best from Berlin,
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>> [1] http://okcon.org/2011
>>
>
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Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 13:56:22 +0200
From: Guo Xu <digitalepourpre at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [open-government] [open-economics] [okfn-discuss] Anyone
interested? Creating an "Open Knowledge Index"
To: Daniel Dietrich <daniel.dietrich at okfn.org>
Cc: open-economics at lists.okfn.org, Open Government WG List
<open-government at lists.okfn.org>, open-development at lists.okfn.org,
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Hi Daniel,
Thanks for pointing out to the link. We haven't thought through the
entire process, but the epsiplatform scorecard is a useful departing
point - I thought of at least including the legal framework in one of
the subindices.
Once we have defined all the categories (I will write up a proposal
and put this out for circulation and discussion) we can essentially
crowd-source this, maybe first for the European countries. If we get
good feedback, we can apply for funding to carry this out for the
remaining 150+ countries, as well as extending the dataset back in
time so we can look at the development over time.
I believe crowd-sourcing would be useful. We could for example put out
a Google Doc Spreadsheet where we ask people to fill in values (along
the source) etc.
Thanks again for feedback, glad to see that there is a lot of feedback
on this idea :)
Guo
On 4 July 2011 13:21, Daniel Dietrich <daniel.dietrich at okfn.org> wrote:
> Dear Guo
>
> This is an interesting proposal. epsiplatform has done something similar for EU countries in 2009: http://www.epsiplatform.eu/examples/scorecard and is about to carry the research out again soon.
>
> So apart from defining the criteria for the index the real challenge would be to carry it out in as many countries as possible. Any idesas on this?
>
>
> Daniel
>
>
>
> On 03.07.2011, at 03:21, Guo Xu wrote:
>
>> Dear list(s),
>>
>> The OKCon has passed and generated many ideas for exciting future projects.
>>
>> One of the promising ideas I discussed with several participants was
>> to compile an index to track progress in opening data - both over time
>> and across countries. This would serve several purposes:
>>
>> 1) Enable the public to make cross-country comparisons (i.e. which
>> country performs well?) and track longitudinal developments (i.e.
>> which country has improved on opening data?)
>> 2) Serve as a useful tool for conducting open knowledge research (e.g.
>> correlating the index with socio-economic variables - does open
>> knowledge really foster innovation and growth?)
>> 3) Ideally, increase impact of OKF in public - making the "Open
>> Knowledge Index" a citable measure of open government
>>
>> There are many indices out there - for tracking democracy, corruption,
>> innovation and human development - so why not a measure to track
>> progress in opening government? Such an index (leaving aside
>> methodological problems for now) could greatly increase visibility of
>> OKF's work: A success case here is Transparency International - before
>> Ti published its corruption index, journalists had a hard time reading
>> and understanding all the reports - with the creation of the
>> Corruption Perception Index, Ti has become one of the most known NGOs
>> in fighting corruption.
>>
>> So why not have an Open Knowledge Index, released annually in a report
>> and during the OKCon? This would greatly increase media attention!
>>
>> I have some professional experience in creating indices (my research
>> institute has been compiling the German innovation index for a while
>> and we are currently drafting the funding proposal for an index of IT
>> infrastructure resilience). The Open Economics WG itself has developed
>> some experience with creating composite indices with the Yourtopia app
>> we submitted previously at the Apps4Development competition. I would
>> therefore volunteer to coordinate such an index within the Open
>> Economics group, mainly as an open academic project. The first step
>> would be to construct a prototype; in the longer run, we might also
>> consider applying for research grants in order to create the index
>> annually.
>>
>> Just wanted to start a discussion and see who would be interested - we
>> are planning to discuss this in greater detail during our regular
>> Skype meetups.
>>
>> Guo
>>
>> _______________________________________________
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>> http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
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Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 11:20:59 -0300
From: Lucas Ferreira Mation <lucasmation at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [open-government] [open-economics] [okfn-discuss] Anyone
interested? Creating an "Open Knowledge Index"
To: Guo Xu <digitalepourpre at gmail.com>, f.a.scrolini at lse.ac.uk
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Hello to all,
My name is Lucas Mation, I am an economist working at the Institute of
Applyed Economic Research (IPEA <http://www.ipea.gov.br/portal/>). I joined
the group last week, during the OKC in Berlin. It was a great conference and
I come back to Brasil full of ideas, contacts and inspiration.
Regardins Guo?s idea (which I very much like) :
1) I think that constructing an index (a statistic, something that agregates
information) is a second step. The first step would be to collect the data,
i.e. quantify OGD initiatives in different places. What we really need is a
standard (although flexible) questionare that we can use to investigate
diferent areas of a specific government level.
2) I spoke about a similar idea with Frabizio Scrollini Mendez (copied,
uruguaian PHD Student in Government Studies at LSE) during the OKC. What we
were talking is having a standard questionaire (link in 1) that could be
applyed to map what areas of the gvt. are what areas aren?t providing OGD
and with which quality. The idea was to apply this in different countries in
Latin America. Frabizio, if you are interested please join this list:
open-economics at lists.okfn.org
3) Creating a cross country index is just one of the ways to agregate that
information. But we can have less agregated ways if displaying it also.
4) I can?t help much with creating the questionaire. But once that exists I
can find a way to implement it in the Federal Government in Brasil. It will
be interesting to compare different areas, etc.
abra?o
Lucas
Eu sugeri um estudo classificando as v?rias bases de dados.
f.a.scrolini at lse.ac.uk
9) Frabizio Scrollini Mendez, uruguaio, PHD Student in Government Studies,
LSE. Eu sugeri um estudo classificando as v?rias bases de dados.
f.a.scrolini at lse.ac.uk
Dear Guo,
That is a cool idea.
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Guo Xu <digitalepourpre at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> Thanks for pointing out to the link. We haven't thought through the
> entire process, but the epsiplatform scorecard is a useful departing
> point - I thought of at least including the legal framework in one of
> the subindices.
>
> Once we have defined all the categories (I will write up a proposal
> and put this out for circulation and discussion) we can essentially
> crowd-source this, maybe first for the European countries. If we get
> good feedback, we can apply for funding to carry this out for the
> remaining 150+ countries, as well as extending the dataset back in
> time so we can look at the development over time.
>
> I believe crowd-sourcing would be useful. We could for example put out
> a Google Doc Spreadsheet where we ask people to fill in values (along
> the source) etc.
>
> Thanks again for feedback, glad to see that there is a lot of feedback
> on this idea :)
>
> Guo
>
> On 4 July 2011 13:21, Daniel Dietrich <daniel.dietrich at okfn.org> wrote:
> > Dear Guo
> >
> > This is an interesting proposal. epsiplatform has done something similar
> for EU countries in 2009: http://www.epsiplatform.eu/examples/scorecardand is about to carry the research out again soon.
> >
> > So apart from defining the criteria for the index the real challenge
> would be to carry it out in as many countries as possible. Any idesas on
> this?
> >
> >
> > Daniel
> >
> >
> >
> > On 03.07.2011, at 03:21, Guo Xu wrote:
> >
> >> Dear list(s),
> >>
> >> The OKCon has passed and generated many ideas for exciting future
> projects.
> >>
> >> One of the promising ideas I discussed with several participants was
> >> to compile an index to track progress in opening data - both over time
> >> and across countries. This would serve several purposes:
> >>
> >> 1) Enable the public to make cross-country comparisons (i.e. which
> >> country performs well?) and track longitudinal developments (i.e.
> >> which country has improved on opening data?)
> >> 2) Serve as a useful tool for conducting open knowledge research (e.g.
> >> correlating the index with socio-economic variables - does open
> >> knowledge really foster innovation and growth?)
> >> 3) Ideally, increase impact of OKF in public - making the "Open
> >> Knowledge Index" a citable measure of open government
> >>
> >> There are many indices out there - for tracking democracy, corruption,
> >> innovation and human development - so why not a measure to track
> >> progress in opening government? Such an index (leaving aside
> >> methodological problems for now) could greatly increase visibility of
> >> OKF's work: A success case here is Transparency International - before
> >> Ti published its corruption index, journalists had a hard time reading
> >> and understanding all the reports - with the creation of the
> >> Corruption Perception Index, Ti has become one of the most known NGOs
> >> in fighting corruption.
> >>
> >> So why not have an Open Knowledge Index, released annually in a report
> >> and during the OKCon? This would greatly increase media attention!
> >>
> >> I have some professional experience in creating indices (my research
> >> institute has been compiling the German innovation index for a while
> >> and we are currently drafting the funding proposal for an index of IT
> >> infrastructure resilience). The Open Economics WG itself has developed
> >> some experience with creating composite indices with the Yourtopia app
> >> we submitted previously at the Apps4Development competition. I would
> >> therefore volunteer to coordinate such an index within the Open
> >> Economics group, mainly as an open academic project. The first step
> >> would be to construct a prototype; in the longer run, we might also
> >> consider applying for research grants in order to create the index
> >> annually.
> >>
> >> Just wanted to start a discussion and see who would be interested - we
> >> are planning to discuss this in greater detail during our regular
> >> Skype meetups.
> >>
> >> Guo
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> okfn-discuss mailing list
> >> okfn-discuss at lists.okfn.org
> >> http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
> >
> >
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