open development
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Open Classrooms!
…and why are people putting the word ‘open’ in front of everything
these days?
Open Source!
Open budgets!
Massive Open Online
Courses!(MOOCs)
Open Knowledge!
Open Sauna!
Open Space!
Open Seating!
Open Educational Resources!
(OER)
Open Research!
Open Academic
Publishing!
Open Science!
Open Cities!
Open Design!
Open Geodata!
Open Hardware!
Open Government!
Open Data!
“Open Knowledge Festival (OK Fest) will explore the
benefits of opening up knowledge and information,
look at the ecosystems of organizations that can benefit
from openness, and discuss the impact that more transparency
can have in our societies”(OKFest website)
‘Open’ is not a new concept
Democracy and participation represent an opening up of decision-making processes to more people1.
Transparency and accountability are about opening up organizations, people and processes to scrutiny and feedback2.
New technologies allow additional spaces and channels for participation and feedback (for some, not everyone!)
1,2Matthew Smith, IDRC
Open Development (theory of change)
Accessible, less restricted data and information
Enhanced transparency, accountability, sharing, collaboration
Better development processes
Country governments?
Huge opportunity… and some gaps
Who are transparency and accountability and
openness for?
Who is development
about?
Donors?
Communities?
INGOs?Civil
Society?The
general public?
Take Plan, for example
But how can we push
others to be more open if we are not?
To whom should Plan
be more open?
Why should Plan strive to be more
open?
Communities?
Institutional Donors?
What might be the risks/ implications?
Reporting burden?
Questions, misunderstandings?
The public?
Loss of our ‘edge’?
Program $$ goes to admin?
Our local partners?
On top of the institutional questions…
Is availability of mobiles, Internet
and open data enough to make
development open?
What if attitudes are not open,
openness is fake, ‘opaque
transparency’?
How can the most
marginalized be involved in this process?
(Do they care? Is it relevant?)
International Level
National Level
Sub-National / District Levels
Community Level
Transparency Initiatives (IATI, Open Gov’t
Partnership)Aid Coordination Aid Effectiveness
AccountabilityData Mapping
Mandate Accountability
International Level
National Level
Sub-National / District Levels
Community Level
Transparency Initiatives (IATI, Open Gov’t
Partnership)Aid Coordination Aid Effectiveness
AccountabilityData Mapping
Mandate Accountability
Trickle-down openness,
transparency and accountability?
International Level
National Level
Sub-National / District Levels
Community Level
Transparency Initiatives (IATI, Open Gov’t
Partnership)Aid Coordination Aid Effectiveness
AccountabilityData MappingGap:
Dataaccess
andutility
Mandate Accountability
Gap:
Local inputand
valida-tion
Perhaps the question for Open Development to explore this week is…
How to take advantage of opportunities that
arise from new technologies and the open data movement while being mindful of power dynamics and issues of access and
inclusion?
When we think about “open development” we might think about:
Multi-directional
accountability
Blended approaches (tech and non-tech)
The role of info-
mediaries
Information literacy and
digital literacy
Power dynamics
Approaches to ‘open’
that reduce exclusion
Things that have
nothing to do with
tech
Open attitudes