1. Some OKCon 2013
Highlights
Ewan Klein
OKF Ambassador for Scotland
@ewanhklein | @okfnscot
Licensed under CC Attribution v3.0
Friday, October 11, 2013
3. 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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5. • 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 Naidoo
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)
Friday, October 11, 2013
7. • 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 Estefan
The World Bank
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8. 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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11. 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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12. Pieter Colpaert, Chloé Bonnet
Workshop
Open Transport Data:
the next step
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16. Next Year?
OKFest 2014 will take place 15–18
July, in Berlin, Germany
http://2014.okfestival.org
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17. Open Data Scotland
Conference
• Tuesday 10th December, 2013,
Edinburgh
• http://opendata.holyrood.com
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18. 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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19. Links
OKCon 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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