(This is a copy of an article published on Open for Change)
Today, Ben Knapen, the Dutch State Secretary for development cooperation, presented the “Resultatenrapportage”, the “reporting of results” on Dutch efforts in development aid in the period 2009-2010. He used the occassion to also present the first release of Dutch government data in the IATI standard format, making The Netherlands the fifth signatory to deliver on its commitment for phase 1 of the IATI agreement.
BoF "Open data in development" at OKCon (via Tobias Eigen)
But what did we learn from open source? Two days of Open Knowledge Conference gave lots of food for thought. And lots of inspiration as well: plenty of projects doing interesting work, and experiences to share. And to add a cherry to the cake, we had a great “open lunch for development” with several people active in development aid. My (delayed) take-aways for Open for Change.
(This is a copy of an article published on Open for Change)
At the Activate Conference, Aleem Walji of the World Bank Institute gave a brief overview about their first experiences with open data (their data catalogue website gets more visitors than their home page now, and Google translated the top indicators they saw people were searching for into 39 languages), and how they hope to connect their aggregate data with the detailed service delivery we can now collect and make available, to build a “Yelp for Development”.
(This is a copy of an article published on Open for Change)
Two weeks ago was the Ecampaigning Forum (ECF) organised by Fairsay in Oxford, and directly after that, the Open Data for Campaigning Camp (ODCC) put together by Tim Davies, Javier Ruiz and myself. One direct result of our efforts to promote the use of open data in campaigning organisations is Greenpeace’s experiments to make their measurements of radiation levels near Fukushima available as raw data: http://www.greenpeace.org/fukushima-data (way to go, Andrew! That’s two-star open data). Good to remember that the teams have to deal with lots of logistics and radioactive decontamination, so publishing spreadsheets isn’t at the top of their priorities.
By the way, next week, I’ll be at re:publica and re:campaign in Berlin, again talking with NGOs and campaigners about open data.
I just returned from an intense week in the UK: an IKM Emergent workshop in Oxford, and the Open Government Data Camp in London had me almost drowning in “open data” examples and conversations, with a particular angle on aid data and the perspectives of international development.
As the result of that, I think we’re ready for a “Debian for Development Data”: a collection of data sets, applications and documentation to service community development, curated by a network of people and organisations who share crucial values on democratisation of information and empowerment of people.
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Recollection
My “Fundstücke” around the web
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