open for change

Den Haag, 18 Maart 2011

Background

Imagine

Vision Connected global development sector in which

access is getting far more important than ownership. access to information and knowledge access to tools for using this information

It supports increasing worldwide collaboration and fosters more participatory models for changes in organisations, projects and policies.

Vision Questions:

Trust, transparency, ownership, quality

Challenges: How to match skills, methods, knowledge and

technology How can we implement the principles of open access

within the sector

Mission Our aim is to increase access to data, knowledge

and software applications within the global development sector

To do so we: exchange knowledge on topics like open source, open

data, open standards on both a national and an international level;

support and promote projects within the Dutch sector; to increase a sector wide understanding of the challenges and benefits of open access to data, knowledge and software;

set up and temporary maintain missing parts of the infrastructure to support such projects.

Activities OfC Knowledge sharing platform:

http://openforchange.info Meetings (like today)

Open Data for Development Camp, May 12+13

Collaboration, through AKVO, with project WASH/DME

ODDC

Program

Decision-makers

Key concepts

Opportunities & Threats

Conditions & policies

Practitioners

Best practices &

lessons learned

Defining data sets

Open data policy for

programs & projects

Developers Hack days

Working with data

setsDeveloping tools & apps