[p4od] Welcome to the Partnership for Open Data mailing list - Please introduce yourself!

Mon Jun 2 10:27:25 UTC 2014

Good morning all!

Thanks for getting the ball rolling Daniela - let me introduce myself to
the list!

I am the project manager for the POD for the Open Data Institute
<http://theodi.org/> - I have been in post since February and am looking
forward to getting to know all of you on this list in the coming months.

ODI is a London based organisation set up with support from the UK
Government to provide support to the emergence of an open data ecosystem
domestically and internationally. We do training, create tools (for example
the free to use Open Data Certificate <https://certificates.theodi.org/>),
do some research and project work. We also incubate start-ups
<http://theodi.org/start-ups> using open data, and engage quite a bit with
the private sector <http://theodi.org/membership>.

At the moment we are doing some thinking on the leadership, change
management or political side of open data. ODI has a particular mandate
within the POD to support governments who wish to undertake open data
initiatives, and in the conversations I have been having over the past few
months with leaders, the issue of how to bring about change within
government or from a political perspective has been especially pertinent -
any thoughts, insights or work being done on this?

Looking forward to hearing from you all!

Best,

Liz

*Bio*
My background is in learning, research and governance - I joined the ODI
from the Institute for Government
<http://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/> - a London based organisation
that supports effective government. In the 3.5 years there, I led the
development of learning products for government leaders (ministers,
opposition and officials) and project managed multiple initiatives -
including a collaboration with a UK research council to support academics
who wish to engage with the policy making process. During my time at IfG, I
was privileged to be asked to spend 6 months supporting the new Cabinet in
Sierra Leona via the African Governance Initiative
<http://www.africagovernance.org/africa>. Before this I worked mainly in
community development, managing an inner city project for migrants and
refugees in Dublin, working with a local organisations on women's
participation in post-conflict Kosovo and Bosnia.

On 28 May 2014 11:58, Daniela Mattern <daniela.mattern at okfn.org> wrote:

> Hey all!
>
> we created this mailing list in order to discuss the activities of the
> Partnership for Open Data and how the Partnership can help to build
> sustainable open data ecosystems in developing countries.
>
> My name is Daniela and I am the project manager for Partnership for Open
> Data at Open Knowledge. I will soon share what we have so far about the
> Partnership so that we can start the discussion.
>
>
>
> *Today I am writing to ask you to briefly introduce yourself. *
>
> *It would be great if you shared a bit about your background, where you
> are currently living, what is your interest in Open Data and how you think
> the Partnership for Open Data should work in developing countries. *
> I will start :)
>
> I am Daniela, I joined Open Knowledge in London in February. Before this I
> have been working for 11 years in Brazil - at first 7 years with leadership
> training and advocacy work in a slum and then 4 years with Open Data and
> Technology. I have been mainly working with geospacial data and
> collaborative mapping - we created a tool for this:
> http://maps.mootiro.org and are currently building a new version of it -
> the idea is to have an open repository for geospacial data with API and
> collaborative editing. I am passionate about freedom of information
> requests and how to use them in advocacy work - mostly I have worked with
> urban housing movements and also sustainable transport. The other questions
> I am looking for an answer is "how to engage low income communities - young
> people and community leaders from slums - with the open data movement" and
> "how to achieve real change for people in low income communities with open
> data".
>
> Looking forward to having your introduction.
>
> Daniela
>
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>
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*Liz Carolan *
*International Development Manager *
*@UKODI <http://www.theodi.org>*
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