akvo open data development camp
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Akvo's Peter van der Linde opened the Amsterdam Open Data Development Camp on 12 May 2011. Here he talks about the challenges of opening up aid data and describes Akvo's work in early 2011 to bring online more than half a billion Euro of the Dutch water and sanitation aid portfolio in a transparency pilot.TRANSCRIPT
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Transparency pilot Foreign AffairsTransparency pilot Foreign Affairs
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In development aid today, a lot of good things
are happening
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More people are getting involved
Charmermrk, Flickr
Walking for Water
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Things get done
Biosand filter installation, Katombora, Zambia
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Most work remains invisible
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Some projects are displayed
S. Kim, Personal
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Most get filed away
Vlasta2, Flickr
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And can’t be compared.
CrazyVet, Flickr
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Everyone agrees about the virtues of
transparency
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Transparencyis useless
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Transparency is useless
Without clear communication
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@petervdl
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An open-source, global platform
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Online and mobile tools for development aid
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Reporting directly from the field
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Building transparency and trust
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Transparency of budgets and insight in results is limited.
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Open data will lead to more efficient development aid.
Transparency of budgets and insight in results is limited.
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Open data will lead to more efficient development aid.
2011: initiate strategy to open up development aid data.
Transparency of budgets and insight in results is limited.
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Where did the money go
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Easy to access and compare
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project budget: 100.000.000
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project budget: 100.000.000
risk of not achieving goals: high
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project budget: 100.000.000
risk of not achieving goals: highEasy to understand?
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pilot with Foreign Affairs
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The challenge
1) Open up data for 24 (€525.8M) water programs
1) Be IATI compliant
2) Be easy to use and understand
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Online displayDistributed publishing
XML exportIATI-compliant data
+
Process
Existing data format
IATI Standard
Retooled Akvo database
New IATI-compliant
Akvo data format
Project data
PDFPDFPDFPDF
PDFPDF
BeMO
CSVCSV
Pyramide
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Online displayDistributed publishing
XML exportIATI-compliant data
+
Process
Existing data format
IATI Standard
Retooled Akvo database
New IATI-compliant
Akvo data format
Project data
PDFPDFPDFPDF
PDFPDF
BeMO
CSVCSV
Pyramide
2 hour – 25 M
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Example
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Example
Open for contributions
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IATI compliant
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Challenge
PDFPDFPDFPDF
PDFPDF
Background
CSVCSV
Pyramide
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The crowd ?
Anirud Koul
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The opportunity
PDFPDFPDFPDF
PDFPDF
Background
CSVCSV
Pyramide
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Manual work, small investment - high value
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Adapt core process
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Joined effort
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A better place