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Open_Development_Fringe_Event
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Agenda
* Etherpad
Friday, 18 July 2014 from 09:30 to 17:00 (CEST)
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
23-24 Tempelhofer Ufer
10963 Berlin
Germany
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Wikimedia+Deutschland+e.V./@52.498428,13.381007,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x47a85051e51f0103:0x71aae43ff26359a2
Break up into smaller groups (8), report back, vote as a group 10:10 -11:00
* 30 minutes
A
9:30 - 10:00 Coffee,
- 10am-10:10am Welcome, introductory remarks, and quick explanation of Making All Voices Count programme (sponsor of side event) (10 minutes)
- 10:10am - 12:30 Opening Discussion (45 minutes)
- 10:10 - 10:40 Discuss Emerging Themes from the Festival and suggested discussion topics (30 minutes)
- 10:40 - 10:50 Hack the Agenda in big room and decide on topics for morning session (10 minutes)
- 10:50 - 11:00 Introduce Morning Sessions
- 11:15 - 12:45 Morning Sessions
- 12:30 -13:15 Plenary discussion
13:15 - 14:00 Lunch
- 13:45 -14:00 Introduce Afternoon Sessions
- 14:00 - 15:30 Afternoon Sessions
- International Aid Transparency Initiative DocumentSprint session: build a glossary of aid transparency terms in an hour!
- IATI Toolkit:help us discover and categorise tools that support the use of IATI data, to support the Open Development Toolkit
- Humanitarian data - mapping between IATI and HXL for early humanitarian data
- Making All Voices Count session
- 2 (TBC) Open Sessions (is there still space for discussing interactions with open science/open education/other working groups during the afternoon as suggested below? Sorry couldn't be with you at the start, we have open science fringe event happening today as well! Jenny)
- 15:30 - 16:30 Next Steps for Open Development Group
- Collective action opportunities
- 16:30 - 17:00 Final remarks
Next Steps for KR, DE, CS
CS, KR, & DE to arrive early to set up
Resources: flip charts, marker pens, post-its - can CS organise?
Food and beverages - can CS organise once we're clearer on numbers? Yes, absolutely (CS)!
Morning Sessions:
Room 1 - "Mosaik" - 99 people - 170m2
Room 2 - "Alphabet" - 30 people - 80m2
Room 3 - "Abakus" - 16 people - 40m2
Room 4 - "Synkope" - about 10 people (maybe more) - 20m2
(for food) Room 5 - "Lounge" - about 14 people - this is a central place that could be used for catering, etc. - but it could also be a space for a group - 40m2
Afternoon Sessions
Room 1 - "Mosaik" - 99 people - 170m2
Room 2 - "Alphabet" - 30 people - 80m2
Room 3 - "Abakus" - 16 people - 40m2
Room 4 - "Synkope" - about 10 people (maybe more) - 20m2
(for food) Room 5 - "Lounge" - about 14 people - this is a central place that could be used for catering, etc. - but it could also be a space for a group - 40m2
Event Description:
This is an all day fringe event organised by the Open Development Working Group. We will have a few set sessions (no Powerpoints!) in addition to open space that will allow participants to hack the agenda to ensure that we are able to discuss the important issues and relevant themes emerging from discussions at OKFestival.
Proposed Sessions:
- Privacy and protection and how to analyse risk of open data to vulnerable population (Linda Raftree and Zara Rahman)
- Fast, Open and Free? Putting a value on Open Development Knowledge. (Peter Mason and Laura Meggiolaro)
- IATI TAG ToolCamp /IATI & TAG Doc Sprint: Glossary
- Open Science for Development
Additional Suggested Topics of Discussion
- Open Development Manifesto
- Open Development Research Publishing
- Ethics and Development Projects
- Direct Citizen Engagement and its effect on Democracy
Other sessions are likely to emerge over the coming weeks and during OKFestival itself! If you would like to contribute or read more about the proposed sessions join the open development mailing list and add comments on the events etherpad.
Tea, Coffee and Snacks will be available!
More information About Proposed Sessions:
Sessions:
1.) Privacy and protection and how to analyze risk of open data to vulnerable populations (Zara and Linda) Session would have to be in the morning as Zara leaves in the afternoon
- What guidelines/initiative exist that could be used or adapted to "open data"? Who else is working on this topic?
- How can we talk about privacy / security in language that INGOs understand? How to bridge the gap?
- What would "open development" look like if we considered people's privacy/data security first rather than afterwards?
From perspective of 'infomediary going from government to citizen'
Civil society organisations who work closely with government – advise them that they need to do surveys – making it as easy as possible for government to collect the information that they need
Problems with publishing incorrect- out of date – government information as strengthening inequalities – opens up government for legal action if inaccurate
Challenges:
→ to convey government data (neutral) – if you interpret it, in a way that government doesn't like, that you are protected
→ holding public meetings to share what government are doing with citizens – take reports from these meetings and take it back to government
→ being constructive with your suggestions
→ data that government shares that has people's names listed – deleting them as a CSO (eg. A survey of homeless people, with their names) – making people's names public makes them more vulnerable
Infomediaries between citizens and governments- CSOs and journalists
- type of interpretation of the information
- the form of analysis that they're doing on these datasets
- scale - national level data, or information, that you're sharing from local to national level
- anonymisation - small communities, very difficult to anonymise without pointing towards certain people, especially vulnerable communities
- system underlying the data collection - are there any prejudices in the very design of the project?
Citizen perspective
- importance of breaking 'citizens' down into subsets - power dynamics within that group
- perceived privacy risks vs real privacy risks (if people don't really understand how the data is being used - but then, people who are designing projects might not understand what the risks are)
- making sure data is not disaggregated to 'too small' levels - because then very easy to identify who might be giving negative feedback
- SMS reporting working well in urban areas vs not very rural areas - political ties are more distributed within urban area
- who is asking for accountability ?donors pushing NGOs to strive towards a certain level of disaggregation can put them at risk
- threat models from tech community aimed at people trying to hack into your system, whereas actual risk could be much more tangible/close to home
Governments
- 'risk register' - risk analysis tool from UK government, to do before you release any kind of data
- privacy used as an excuse not to release data (role of one of the intermediary roles to push for this)
- not releasing data 'well' - eg. NYC taxis, deanonymising taxi data very easily
- governments are not homogenous -different contexts, eg. norway releasing complete tax data of all citizens
- cordaid - releasing data- takes two steps to try and make the data acceptable - asks for permission, and merges datasets -
- the 'right to be forgotten' or not to be published about
- aggregating is also problematic - even if you think you've aggregated it out to a certain level, there's still the risk of being able to identify people
- health data - UK releasing huge amounts of health data, anonymised, but still controversial because people are worried about being able to be identified.
2.) Fast, Open and Free? Putting a value on Open Development Knowledge. (Peter and Laura Meggiolaro) https://pad.okfn.org/p/FastOpenFree
- In the rush towards open connected development information systems, how do we measure the impact of bringing together open content for development?
- How do grassroots organizations contributing to open platforms sustain their work when they can’t demonstrate usage of their content?
- Where traditional methods of tracking information on the Internet fail to record usage, what new metrics can we use?
- Looking at the example of the Land Portal, and the work of knowledge services team at the Institute of Development Studies, we would like to explore the issues in making content open, if we need new measures to assess value and whether we need new engaging ways to explain the benefits of what we do to funders and providers of content.
3.) IATI TAG Doc Sprint: Glossary
- An opportunity for IATI Community members to get together to establish and document some accurate and succinct descriptions for many of the IATI specific vocabulary terms in use.
- By working together we especially aim to tackle the more challenging and contentious items on the list to obtain clear descriptions that the entire community can benefit from.
- We'd also like to discover opportunities and work towards expanding this documentation effort into other languages.
4.) IATI TAG ToolCamp
- There has been a huge effort already by OKF in creating an Open Development Toolkit. We'd like to see if we can bolster this effort by pulling together knowledge and expertise from the community to provide further documentation and resources.
- Particularly looking at the tools available to use and consume IATI Data, and a focus on instructional guides to replicate, install, customise and utilise these tools for a variety of different use cases.
5.) Open Science and Development, Open Education in Development - Joining up other OKF Working Groups
- Open science for development would love to present some case studies of what we've been looking at and get feedback from anyone who is interested, as well as discussing intersections between the working groups. We have our own fringe event running on the same day at the Museum für Naturkunde (20 mins away by U-Bahn) but a group could split off and join you.
- Open Education would also love to be able to talk about how we could work together in the future! We'll talk about some of our recent work in making links (Making it Matter workshop & open education data activities).
6.) Follow the Money Working Session (Alan Hudson, Jed Miller)
- FtM and "joined-up data" efforts are proliferating, but as we work in parallel we want to stay mutually aware, avoid duplication.
- We will use the session to get each other up to speed on data interoperability projects that seek to Follow the Money for transparency and accountability;
- to document the content, scope and status of the projects represented and populate a living matrix of related efforts;
- to identify data-linkages and collaborations that offer clear mutual benefit.
- See - see https://docs.google.com/document/d/1moyOBfUMLB0eiPqO86gBWxWgbbZ_ONM95pm1jPGZToU
Discussion Topics:
- Open Development Manifesto
- Kersti: I just saw the manifesto discussion the other day. Would it be an idea to discuss a potential manifesto from the open development perspective?
- Zara- I like this idea - what do we mean when we talk about 'open development', if it's not too fuzzy to discuss that (maybe have as a goal to have a few guidelines/draft manifesto written by the end of the day?)
- Sam: Agreed, I think this could be useful, especially if we combine this effort to pull together ideas on what open development is with a road map towards common action we want to see to move this agenda forward. Should this be a session or a discussion in the open space?
- Alan H: Worth looking at the Open Data Manifesto efforts http://okfestival2014.sched.org/event/2f805f5a391e07f93f763821266d0121#.U8V6x41dWfQ
- Open Development Research Publishing
- Raed: I know there has been some occasional special journal issues either focused on/related to open development (e.g., http://itidjournal.org/itid/issue/view/40) and in other cases pieces published in different venues, but do you think it would be useful to have a dedicated open access journal on open development with the goal to:
- be a main source for those interested/working in the filed
- promote more academic and action research-- in my opinion there is a serious need for more work on theories, methodologies, cases, impact, etc.
- Not sure if this requires a special session or just leave it for the open discussion period. Thoughts?
- Ethics Within Development Projects
- The topic of data ethics within development projects is coming up more and more often...what can we do to help this advance? (eg. gathering key issues, questions, resources?)
- (or, how is data being used? Going past the push for 'open your data'... are people using it, is it being collected responsibly, are the right data points being collected to make it 'useful' - and, useful for whom? Whose interests in mind?
- Sam: I like this idea of going past the push for "open your data" a lot. Would be good to talk about what should be included in an ideal world and bring in real-world examples from the experiences of the group in engaging citizens around data in countries around the world.
- What do citizens need to know about their local governments' performance to be able to engage knowledgably in discussions about development priorities and progress? How can the open development community help?
- We often talk about making resource flows transparent and accessible, but what about granular data on local governance. Without it, how can people "vote with their feet" and create the right incentives for their governments to listen and act upon the voices of their citizens?
- Does engaging citizens in open development undercut or revitalize democracy? Are their ways in which open development initiatives can be designed that reinforces and complements the role that elected representatives play?
- IATI and OC Data uses at the Country Level Bindu:
- Discussion of IATI data use at the country level -- we can discuss our DRC pilot and talk about the reactions that other countries have had to using IATI data in their country systems.
- Open contracting pilot in Nepal. Sharing challenges and lessons learnt about how to operationalize the OC standard.
- Suggestions From Call
- Responsible Data Forum - outputs (we can move this to the open space above on privacy)
- How to explain/promote IATI with leadership at INGOs/NGOs? How to gain buy-in? (suggested by Martina/Plan US)
- Personal Security for those working on the more activist end
- Engaging Citizens Directly, what is the relationship with elected
- Tracking resource flows, tracking governance and openness indicators
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Agenda for the call
Hangout link: https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/g7f3o4tvp7gpdz6ju6c3rsrqiaa?authuser=0&hl=en-GB
Quick introductions - 5 MINS (15 people on the call so just name, country, and organisation)
1. Confirmation on physical space (5 Minutes) Claudia
- How many rooms, capacity of rooms, coffee, food?
- How many participants
- *5 rooms, various sizes and there is flexibility if we want to merge some of these rooms
- Room 1 - "Mosaik" - 99 people - 170m2
- Room 2 - "Alphabet" - 30 people - 80m2
- Room 3 - "Abakus" - 16 people - 40m2
- Room 4 - "Synkope" - about 10 people (maybe more) - 20m2
- Room 5 - "Lounge" - about 14 people - this is a central place that could be used for catering, etc. - but it could also be a space for a group - 40m2
- *Opportunity to request tea, coffee and lunch
- *Central localtion: https://www.google.de/maps/place/Tempelhofer+Ufer+23%2F24/@52.4984931,13.3812153,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x47a8502d92764e55:0x4286e88029c5e259
2. Timing proposed 10:00 -17:00 (10 mins)
- How do we break down the time?
3. Suggest Sessions 13:00-15:00 (25 mins)
4. Allocate session leaders and teams (5 mins)
5. Meetup Page (2 mins)
6. Blog Post - Publication on OKFestival site (2 mins)
Notes From Call:
- Purpose in relation to the OPen Knowledge Festival
- Duncan - enable the Open Dev group to talk about areas not in main programme, reflect, enable people to spend time with one another (develop relationships and connections)
- Some great submission were not accepted, might be an opportunity
- Questions- Opportunity to sit together and actions for the next year?
- Open Science Group - Open Science for Development touches on many of the things that the open development group is working on, take the opportunity to talk some
- Ben - Keep the session pretty open, guided by what we wanted to address on the day, think about what the open development working group is (need open space)
- Zara: The topic of data ethics within development projects is coming up more and more often...what can we do to help this advance? (eg. gathering key issues, questions, resources?) (or, how is data being used? Going past the push for 'open your data'... are people using it, is it being collected responsibly, are the right data points being collected to make it 'useful' - and, useful for whom? Whose interests in mind? (More generally: data within the international development sector - the whole ecosystem)
- IATI TAG: Looking at 2 poential items:
- Tool Camp (with Zara) to work towards opening out the existing toolkit docs and information
- Doc sprint, based on recent work to expand on IATI docs, for example fleshing out a Glossay of IATI terms
- Smaller Groups vs Open Space
- Open Space: Could be getting together in the morning, seeing who wants to do what on the day? ("unconference" style? could think about getting a facilitator if so...) (Dirk?)- yes, if he's in Berlin - otherwise I know a couple of other people here who might be good (and I could try and call in a favour or two, let me know...)
- There are certain groups that might want to address specific issues - ie IATI TAG, should schedule these sessions
- Will people stay for the extra day if there are no concrete plans (other than people on this call) (I get the impression a few people are staying for the weekend anyway - so would lean towards yes! we could maybe write some suggested/potential topics up, get it up on the OKFestival site)
- Some input from Responsible Data Forum
Questions About the Rooms:
- What type of seating we want? A couple of tables and mostly chairs
- (within the wikimedia space, it's quite easy to move stuff around, definitely enough chairs for us all!)
Proposed sessions
930-10:00 Coffee
*why not start with a debrief of the week and from there we can get to know each other and surface topics for open space?
10:00 - 12:00 - Open Space
1. Privacy and protection and how to analyze risk of open data to vulnerable populations (Zara and Linda)
- 1.1 (Session would have to be in the morning as Zara leaves in the afternoon)
- 1.2 What guidelines/initiative exist that could be used or adapted to "open data"? Who else is working on this topic?
- 1.3 How can we talk about privacy / security in language that INGOs understand? How to brige the gap?
- 1.4 What would "open development" look like if we considered people's privacy/data security first rather than afterwards?
2. Fast, Open and Free? Putting a value on Open Development Knowledge. (Peter and Laura Meggiolaro)
- In the rush towards open connected development information systems, how do we measure the impact of bringing together open content for development?
- How do grass-roots organizations contributing to open platforms sustain their work when they can’t demonstrate usage of their content?
- Where traditional methods of tracking information on the Internet fail to record usage, what new metrics can we use?
Looking at the example of the Land Portal, and the work of knowledge services team at the Institute of Development Studies, we would like to explore the issues in making content open, if we need new measures to assess value and whether we need new engaging ways to explain the benefits of what we do to funders and providers of content.
12:00- 13:00 Food
13:00 - 15:00 - Parallel Sessions - Note: Some of these issues might require a good deal of prep
- Responsible Data Forum - outputs (we can move this to the open space above on privacy)
- TAG
- How to explain/promote IATI with leadership at INGOs/NGOs? How to gain buy-in? (suggested by Martina/Plan US)
- Open Science for Development
- Personal Security for those working on the more activist end
- Engaging Citizens Directly, what is the relationship with elected
- Tracking resource flows, tracking goverance and openness indicators
15:00-15:30 Coffee
15:30- 17:00 - Open Space
Open Development Fringe Event
Venue and Event Details
Duncan Edwards d.edwards@ids.ac.uk
Christopher Wilson wilson@theengineroom.org
Pernilla Näsfors pernilla.nasfors@sida.se
Adrian Collier (TAG) adrian@akvo.org
Linda Raftree lindaraftree@gmail.com
Martina Foote martina.foote@planusa.org
Kate Ezzes kate.ezzes@planusa.org
Rebecca Latourell rlatourell@aiddata.org
Samantha Custer scuster@aiddata.org>
Raed Sharif rmalshar@syr.edu
Zara Rahman Zara@opendevtoolkit.net
Claudia Schwegmann claudia.schwegmann@okfn.org
Daniela Mattern Daniela.Mattern@okfn.org
Ben Taylor btaylor@twaweza.org
Peter Mason: p.mason@ids.ac.uk
Lucy Von Sturmer lsturmer@hivos.org
Tom Olijhoek tom.olijhoek@gmail.com
Jenny Molloy jenny.molloy@okfn.org
Kersti Wissenbach krwissenbach@gmail.com
Marieke Guy - marieke.guy@okfn.org
Tom Salmon - tomsalmon@yahoo.com
Wikimedia Flyer
file:///C:/Users/Claudia/Downloads/Wikimedia%20Deutschland%20-%20Brosch%C3%BCre%20-%20Offene%20R%C3%A4ume%20KLEIN%20(5).pdf
From Duncan's email:
My initial ideas for the side event would be to give space for some sessions for open space to discuss themes or issues emerging from the formal OKFestival programme – this seemed to work really well in Geneva.
It would be good to also have some more structured sessions for different areas of open knowledge in relation to open development. Off the top of my head and these are only a few suggestions – I’m sure you’ll have others J
· Data: emerging issues in data (IATI, OpenContracting, OpenBudgets, etc)
· Content: emerging issues in open content (LandPortal, GOKH, etc)
· Tracking usage of open knowledge – how can we track the usage of open data and content? How can this help in advocacy for “open”? Does this get us any closer to assessing impact?
Claudia: I would like to talk about outreach -- connecting to people and organisations in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and LatAm and bring them into the discussion: to what extent are the discussions in our group relevant from a "South" perspective!
Kersti: Nice idea and maybe we could also see what the main (potential) obstacles are to join the discussions > increasing inclusiveness of the working group / open dev community
Sam: This is really important and I think would be a great use of some of the time on Friday, especially when tied in to the future of the group.
+1 Raed -- Can we identify some of those folks who are attending the OKFest and might be staying on Friday? What about remote participation? Should we identify a few people from each region and see if they can join us virtually?
Kersti: I just saw the manifesto discussion the other day. Would it be an idea to discuss a potential manifesto from the open development perspective?
Zara- I like this idea - what do we mean when we talk about 'open development', if it's not too fuzzy to discuss that (maybe have as a goal to have a few guidelines/draft manifesto written by the end of the day?)
Sam: Agreed, I think this could be useful, especially if we combine this effort to pull together ideas on what open development is with a road map towards common action we want to see to move this agenda forward. Should this be a session or a discussion in the open space?
Raed: I know there has been some occasional special journal issues either focused on/related to open development (e.g., http://itidjournal.org/itid/issue/view/40) and in other cases pieces published in different venues, but do you think it would be useful to have a dedicated open access journal on open development with the goal to:
1- be a main source for those interested/working in the filed
2- promote more academic and action research-- in my opinion there is a serious need for more work on theories, methodologies, cases, impact, etc.
Not sure if this requires a special session or just leave it for the open discussion period. Thoughts?
The topic of data ethics within development projects is coming up more and more often...what can we do to help this advance? (eg. gathering key issues, questions, resources?)
(or, how is data being used? Going past the push for 'open your data'... are people using it, is it being collected responsibly, are the right data points being collected to make it 'useful' - and, useful for whom? Whose interests in mind?
Sam: I like this idea of going past the push for "open your data" a lot. Would be good to talk about what should be included in an ideal world and bring in real-world examples from the experiences of the group in engaging citizens around data in countries around the world.
Sam: Two other ideas:
- What do citizens need to know about their local governments' performance to be able to engage knowledgably in discussions about development priorities and progress? How can the open development community help?
- We often talk about making resource flows transparent and accessible, but what about granular data on local governance. Without it, how can people "vote with their feet" and create the right incentives for their governments to listen and act upon the voices of their citizens?
- Does engaging citizens in open development undercut or revitalize democracy? Are their ways in which open development initiatives can be designed that reinforces and complements the role that elected representatives play?
Something on joinup with other working groups?
- Open Education: Following on from the Making it Matter workshop (Marieke Guy marieke.guy@okfn.org)
- Open Science:
Jenny:
Open science for development would love to present some case studies of what we've been looking at and get feedback from anyone who is interested, as well as discussing intersections between the working groups. We have our own fringe event running on the same day at the Museum für Naturkunde (20 mins away by U-Bahn) but a group could split off and join you.
Bindu:
- Discussion of IATI data use at the country level -- we can discuss our DRC pilot and talk about the reactions that other countries have had to using IATI data in their country systems.
- Open contracting pilot in Nepal. Sharing challenges and lessons learnt about how to operationalize the OC standard.
Adrian: Some descriptive information about the 2 proposed TAG agenda items:
IATI TAG Doc Sprint: Glossary
An opportunity for IATI Community members to get together to establish and document some accurate and succinct descriptions for many of the IATI specific vocabulary terms in use.
By working together we especially aim to tackle the more challenging and contentious items on the list to obtain clear descriptions that the entire community can benefit from.
We'd also like to discover opportunities and work towards expanding this documentation effort into other languages.
IATI TAG ToolCamp
There has been a huge effort already by OKF in creating an Open Development Toolkit. We'd like to see if we can bolster this effort by pulling together knowledge and expertise from the community to provide further documentation and resources.
Particularly looking at the tools available to use and consume IATI Data, and a focus on instructional guides to replicate, install, customise and utilise these tools for a veriety of different use cases.
Confirmation on Space -