[open-government] Romanian Hackathon?

Thu Mar 7 12:51:50 UTC 2013

Dear Christian,

Thank you for your support! I will try to keep you updated with our
activities from now on!
We have actually translated together with other NGOs the open data handbook
in Romanian and I have been in contact with Lucy Chambers regarding her
project related to budget information.

What I would like to ask you is whether you had any project on open
educational resources as we plan to promote the concept in Romania but we
don't really have experience in this issue, so any information would be of
use. 

I will contact you regarding future events and activities on which we can
collaborate!

Best regards,
Andra.

From:  Christian Villum <christian.villum at okfn.org>
Date:  Wednesday, March 6, 2013 10:32 PM
To:  Andra Bucur <abucur at soros.ro>
Cc:  Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>,
"open-government at lists.okfn.org" <open-government at lists.okfn.org>
Subject:  Re: [open-government] Romanian Hackathon?

Dear Andra,

Thank you for this insight. I am the open government data community manager
with Open Knowledge Foundation - and a colleague of Jonathan's.

It's a very interesting development indeed. We would be very interested in
staying in tune with all the open (government) data activities you are
outlining here as well as future ones. Would it be possible for you to keep
this discussion list updated from time to time, so we can follow? Or is
there another way for us to keep up? Newsletter-list or something similar.

Additionally, is there any way we at Open Knowledge Foundation can support
your efforts and activities?

Best regards,
Christian Villum

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On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Andra Bucur <abucur at soros.ro> wrote:
> Dear Jonathan,
> 
> This hackathon was organized by the Department of Online Services and Design
> which has been recently set up under the prime-minister, after one year of
> consistent advocacy efforts from Soros Foundation Romania, The Association for
> Technology and Internet (APTI) and other NGOs, as well as from the American
> Chamber of Commerce. It is the first time this is happening in Romania, which
> is an incredible change, but still the websites created are not yet functional
> or fully functional. Radu Puchiu, adviser of the prime-minister on this issue
> and coordinator of the Department of Online Services, is responsible for the
> hackathon and recent open data initiatives in the government.
> 
> Open data has been introduced in the governmental agenda and things seem to be
> slowly moving into the right direction. We will continue to push for the
> implementation of these commitments.
> 
> Best regards,
> Andra.
> 
> Andra Bucur
> Legal advisor
> Soros Foundation Romania
> 33 Caderea Bastiliei
> District 1, Bucharest
> www.soros.ro <http://www.soros.ro>
> Tel: +40 21 212 1032 <tel:%2B40%2021%20212%201032>
> Fax: +40 21 212 10 32 <tel:%2B40%2021%20212%2010%2032>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> From:  Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>
> Date:  Friday, March 1, 2013 8:05 PM
> To:  "open-government at lists.okfn.org" <open-government at lists.okfn.org>
> Subject:  [open-government] Romanian Hackathon?
> 
> Does anyone know anyone who was involved with this?
> 
> http://blog.opengovpartnership.org/2013/03/hackathongov-ro/
> 
> Great to see some activity from Romania and would be good to get in touch re:
> some of the prototypes and to see whether they will be doing more like this in
> the future (and more in the way of data release!)...
> 
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