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

Tue Jun 3 11:06:04 UTC 2014

Dear all,

I would also like to introduce myself: I'm Christian, and I work as
International Community Manager for Open Knowledge. Specifically, I support
our growing global network of Local Groups, which operate in almost 50
countries around the world. I see a great potential for overlaps of Open
Knowledge Local Group / POD activities and look forward to be part of this
list to pursue such synergies.

I'm based in Copenhagen, so do give a shout if you're ever around these
parts.

-Christian

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On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Emma Beer <emma.beer at okfn.org> wrote:

>  Dear all,
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> Thanks Daniela.
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> I’m Emma Beer.  I’ve just started at Open Knowledge and will be managing
> various European projects here including the Open Data Census
> <http://national.census.okfn.org/>. I’ll also be helping out on one of
> the workpackages for Partnership for Open Data.
>
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> I live in Paris at the moment but will be moving back to London in July.
>  While in Paris I worked in communications for the OECD for issues such as
> Green Growth.  I have a background in project/programme management and
> communications, education and technology, and digital content in museums,
> libraries and archives.
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> Looking forward to meeting you all in the future!
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> Emma
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> On 2 June 2014 12:27, Liz Carolan <liz.carolan at theodi.org> wrote:
>
>> 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.
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>> On 28 May 2014 11:58, Daniela Mattern <daniela.mattern at okfn.org> wrote:
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>>> 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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>>> Daniela Mattern
>>>
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>>>
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>> *Liz Carolan *
>>  *International Development Manager *
>> *@UKODI <http://www.theodi.org>*
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