2. Open Open Open Massive
Academic
Open Open Online
Design! Seating! Open
Publishing! budgets! Space! Courses!
(MOOCs)
Open Open
Source! …and why are people Cities!
putting the word Open
Open
Knowledge!
‘open’ in front of Educational
Resources!
everything these days? (OER)
Open
Data! Open
Hardware!
Open
Open Open Geodata! Open Open Open
Government! Classrooms! Research! Science! Sauna!
3.
4. ‘Open’ is not a new concept
Democracy and participation represent an opening up of
decision-making processes to more people1.
Transparency and accountability are about opening up
organizations, people and processes to scrutiny and
feedback2.
New technologies allow additional spaces and channels
for participation and feedback (for some, not everyone!)
1,2Matthew Smith, IDRC
6. Huge opportunity… and some gaps
Civil
Donors? INGOs? Society?
The
Country general
Communities? governments? public?
7. Take Plan, for example
Communities?
Our local partners?
The public?
Institutional Donors?
Program $$ goes to
admin?
Reporting burden?
Loss of our ‘edge’?
Questions, misundersta
ndings?
9. International Level
National Level
Sub-National / District Levels
Community Level
10. International Level
National Level
Sub-National / District Levels
Community Level
11. International Level
National Level
Sub-National / District Levels
Community Level
12. Perhaps the question for Open
Development to explore this week is…
How to take advantage
of opportunities that
arise from new
technologies and the
open data movement
while being mindful of
power dynamics and
issues of access and
inclusion?
13. When we think about “open
development” we might think about:
Things that
have
nothing to
do with
tech
Hinweis der Redaktion
We have to just take the plungeBut we traditionally think about ‘downward accountability’ so we care a lot about how people in communities, including youth, will benefit from and participate in these more open processes; and especially, if and how they can drive them