Some OKCon 2013 Highlights

Ewan KleinOKF Ambassador for Scotland

@ewanhklein | @okfnscot

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Open Everything

• Open Government Data & Governance

• Open Development & Sustainability

• Open Education

• Open Transport

• Open Science & Research

• Open Culture / GLAM

• Evidence & Stories

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Jay Naidoo

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• Technology has led to the death of geography but not to the death of injustice.

• Use the tools of Open Data and technology to bring justice and fairness into the core of our new global narrative.

• Information is power, it makes people unstoppable and we can resist oppression and require transparency.

• How do high level budget allocations percolate down to the local level so that local authorities can be held accountable?

• We need to translate understanding of budgets into local funding to deliver schools, sanitation, medical clinics, ...

Jay NaidooGlobal Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)

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Felipe EstefanFriday, October 11, 2013

• Important to bridge the supply-side and demand-side of Open Data and also the online and offline worlds.

• Open data can have positive & transformational impact on the estimated 65% of world without access to Internet.

• Governments and development agencies publish open financial data, but this information has no value if it is not being used

• Two pilot projects, in Indonesia and Kenya, to take locally relevant financial data into offline communities.

• Revealed errors in the accounting data, e.g. projects that were paid for but not completed.

Exploring the Demand of Open Financial Data

Sam Lee, Felipe EstefanThe World Bank

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Working with existing groups to discuss and share information about local development projects (road, kindergarten, women’s savings and loans program, water, and irrigation)

Community members prioritized projects, selected important data elements, and translated content into posters to help explain the impacts of the projects and relevant data in their communities.

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Maya Ganesh Emma Prest

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Tactical Technology CollectiveFriday, October 11, 2013

Abused Goddesses Campaign

Get the idea Expose Evoking reactions

Get the picture Explain Telling stories

Get the detail Explore Building journeys

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Pieter Colpaert, Chloé Bonnet

Workshop

Open Transport Data: the next step

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End-to-end travel across national boundaries

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Tristram Gräbener

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Looking Forward

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Next Year?

OKFest 2014 will take place 15–18 July, in Berlin, Germanyhttp://2014.okfestival.org

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Open Data Scotland Conference

• Tuesday 10th December, 2013, Edinburgh

• http://opendata.holyrood.com

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OKF in Scotland

• http://scot.okfn.org

• OpenDataGLA: Next meet-up Mon 18 November, in CCA

• OpenDataEDB: Next meet-up Thurs 21st November, in EDINA

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LinksOKCon Stream Archive• http://new.livestream.com/accounts/5389255/okcon

Jay Naidoo• http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/technology/news/these-digital-warriors-are-

unstoppable-1.1588685#.UlasahZZF5h

• http://www.gainhealth.org

Sam Lee & Felipe Estefan• http://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/it-takes-village-taking-open-data-offline-community-

indonesia

• http://bit.ly/OpenDemand

Maya Ganesh & Emma Prest• http://visualisingadvocacy.org

• https://www.tacticaltech.org/about

Open Transport• http://transport.okfn.org/2013/09/13/join-us-at-okcon/

• http://transport.okfn.org/2013/09/21/one-year-and-one-day-at-the-open-transport-wg/

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Credits

Abused Goddess imagehttps://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.492757864129338.1073741839.109269882478140&type=3

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