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

[Burt Lum]

Thanks for the update Feng. Please keep me posted on next year's event. I
am interested in attending.

Aloha,
Burt

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 1:16 AM, FENG GAO <gaofeng860918 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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