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Open_Development_Fringe_Event
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-development-okfestival-fringe-event-tickets-12088917277

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 


9:30 - 10:00 Coffee,
13:15 - 14:00 Lunch 


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:
Additional Suggested Topics of Discussion 
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

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

3.) IATI TAG Doc Sprint: Glossary

4.) IATI TAG ToolCamp 

5.) Open Science and Development, Open Education in Development - Joining up other OKF Working Groups 

6.) Follow the Money Working Session (Alan Hudson, Jed Miller)

Discussion Topics: 










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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
2. Timing proposed 10:00 -17:00 (10 mins)
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: 
  1. Purpose in relation to the OPen Knowledge Festival 
    1. 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)
      1. Some great submission were not accepted, might be an opportunity 
    2. Questions- Opportunity to sit together and actions for the next year? 
    3. 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 
    4. 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) 
    5. 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) 
    6. IATI TAG: Looking at 2 poential items:
      1. Tool Camp (with Zara) to work towards opening out the existing toolkit docs and information
      2. Doc sprint, based on recent work to expand on IATI docs, for example fleshing out a Glossay of IATI terms
  2. Smaller Groups vs Open Space 
    1. 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...)
    2. There are certain groups that might want to address specific issues - ie IATI TAG, should schedule these sessions 
  3. 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)
  4. Some input from Responsible Data Forum


Questions About the Rooms:
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)
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
  1. Responsible Data Forum - outputs (we can move this to the open space above on privacy)
  2. TAG 
    1. How to explain/promote IATI with leadership at INGOs/NGOs? How to gain buy-in? (suggested by Martina/Plan US)
  3. Open Science for Development 
  4. Personal Security for those working on the more activist end
  5. Engaging Citizens Directly, what is the relationship with elected
  6. 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: 


Something on joinup with other working groups?
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:


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 -