[open-government] Session Accepted: Open Government Data updates from around the world session @ OKFestival 2014

Fri May 23 19:19:53 UTC 2014

Dear all, 

I am very happy to inform you that our joint session ha sheen accepted! :)

I am even more happy that we have brought together this fascinating line up of open data pioneers from almost 20 countries including:

Australia, Brazil, China, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Japan, Kenya, Korea, Moldova, Nigeria, Philippines, Taiwan, Nederlands, Uruguay, USA

http://pad.okfn.org/p/OGD-updates-OKFestival2014 

Looking forward this exciting exchange! 

See you at OKFestival!

All the best
Daniel

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On 27.03.2014, at 09:10, Daniel Dietrich <daniel.dietrich at okfn.org> wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> thanks to all of you who hare willing to share your open data stories at OKFestival! We have an amazing set of people from countries including: 
> 
> China, Finland, France, Greece, India, Japan, Nigeria, Philippines, Taiwan, The Nederlands, Uruguay, USA
> 
> This is amazing! We still have some space left, so if you will be at OKFestival in Berlin and have an interesting story to share, please join, by adding your name to the pad:
> 
> http://pad.okfn.org/p/OGD-updates-OKFestival2014
> 
> Looking very much fwd to this!
> 
> All the best
> Daniel
> 
> 
> --
> 
> Daniel Dietrich, co-founder & chairman
> Open Knowledge Foundation Germany
> www.okfn.de | info at okfn.de | @okfde 
> Mobile: +49 176 32768530 
> Office: +49 30 57703666 0 | Fax: - 9
> 
> Empowering people through open knowledge.
> Get involved: http://www.okfn.de/getinvolved
> 
> 
> On 15.03.2014, at 16:02, Daniel Dietrich <daniel.dietrich at okfn.org> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> this is a proposal to organize a joint community session at this years OKFestival, 16th - 18th July, in Berlin.
>> 
>> Title: Open Government Data updates from around the world
>> 
>> Description: A session with short and snappy statements from pioneers, experts and activists from around the world on the state-of-play of Open Government Data from their countries. These updates will highlight stories of success and failure and reveal current issues and trends from the global open data community. This interactive session will be lead by an interviewer. Each participant will have 2 minutes and 1 slide. These updates will be followed by a short panel discussion with your all-star-cast of open data gurus who will comment on the updates and trends (10 min).
>> 
>> We have held the same format session both at OKFest 2012 and OKCon 0213, received a lot of positive feedback, so lets do it again :)
>> 
>> 
>> If you will be at OKFest in Berlin and have an interesting story to share, you are invited you to join: 
>> 
>> http://pad.okfn.org/p/OGD-updates-OKFestival2014
>> 
>> If you are interested to be part of this, please and add your details until 30th March to the pad!
>> 
>> The session will be facilitated by Andrew Stott and Daniel Dietrich. We will select the ten most outstanding candidates aiming to draw a mosaic but comprehensive picture. Please note that we can only select 10 candidates form 10 countries, so be snappy with your description! Once we have selected 10 candidates we will follow up with them.
>> 
>> All the best
>> Daniel
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> 
>> Daniel Dietrich, co-founder & chairman
>> Open Knowledge Foundation Germany
>> www.okfn.de | info at okfn.de | @okfde 
>> Mobile: +49 176 32768530 
>> Office: +49 30 57703666 0 | Fax: - 9
>> 
>> Empowering people through open knowledge.
>> Get involved: http://www.okfn.de/getinvolved
>> 
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