[open-government] Just finished the "Open Data in China" Workshop on 21 Oct

Thu Oct 23 11:16:36 UTC 2014

Dear friends:

With the generous funding and tremendous support from the World Bank, Open
Data China <http://opendatachina.com> and Lab for Digital and Mobile
Governance, Fudan University successfully held the first ever "Open Data in
China" Workshop on 21 Oct. This workshop brought government officials from
7 different open data initiatives in China, 6 representatives from demand
side, and 5 international and regional open data experts into together to
share their experience, challenges, concerns and ideas on open data
development in China.

We feel really honor that we can have Mrs Amparo Ballivian from the World
Bank and Mr Joel Gurin from the GovLab, NYU as our keynote speakers. Their
talks on latest evidence on open data for economic growth and social
innovation really inspire Chinese Gov audience to understand the concept
and why they should do it.

We also feel really glad that this time we can have 7 government
representatives which feature: Shanghai initiative, Beijing Initiative,
Wuhan Initiative and NanHai District (under the Foshan City, GuangDong
Province) Initiative .

We'll soon share more about this workshop at workshop.opendatachina.com (in
Chinese now) and an english Agenda is attached for your connivence now.

But, one highlight and big surprise we'd like to share you now is that the
open data already becomes the new sightseeing at the bund, Shanghai. Why?
please have a look at here:
https://twitter.com/OKFNCN/status/525241834444836864

We are now starting thinking about next year's workshop and let us know if
you have interest in coming :)

thanks

Feng

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