Working Groups/Development
From Open Knowledge Foundation
Contents |
Working Group on Open Knowledge in Development
Join the mailing list to get involved.
Purpose
- Act as a central point of reference and support for people who are interested in open knowledge in development.
- Collating open data and open content relevant to development - from statistical datasets to practical information.
- Encouraging best practices regarding licensing and publication of development related open content and open data.
- Act as a hub for the development of low cost, community driven projects around open knowledge in development.
Archived content
The content below is outdated and will be archived soon. Latest information is available from the website or mailing list.
Working group members
- Working Group Coordinator: Tim Davies, Practical Participation, aidinfo labs (UK)
- Cormac Nolan, Publish What You Fund (UK)
- Francis Bacon, blogger (UK)
- Evangelia Berdou, Institute of Development Studies (UK)
- John Brennan, OpenAction (US)
- John Bywater, Appropriate Software Foundation (UK)
- Karin Christiansen, PublishWhatYouFund (UK)
- Alex Coleman,Development Gateway Foundation (US)
- Jonathan Gray, Open Knowledge Foundation (UK)
- Vinay Gupta, Hexayurt (UK)
- Becky Hogge, Open Knowledge Foundation (UK)
- Rolf Kleef, Open for Change (Netherlands)
- Samuel Klein, One Laptop Per Child (US)
- Elizabeth Kountze, Global Development Commons (US)
- Andrew Lamb, Engineers Without Borders + Appropedia (UK)
- Edward Murfitt, Royal College of Art (UK)
- Simon Parrish, Aidinfo (UK)
- Rufus Pollock, Open Knowledge Foundation (UK)
- Joe Pringle, Forum One (US)
- Claudia Schwegmann Open Aid (Germany)
- Graham Steel, Patient Advocate (UK)
- Matthew Smith, International Development Research Centre (Canada)
- Chris Watkins, Appropedia (Australia)
- Pierre Guillaume Wielezynski, World Food Programme (Italy)
- Paul Uhlir, Director, IAP Program on Digital Knowledge Resources and Infrastructure in Developing Countries (US)
- Rob Worthington, AIDSPortal (US)
- Ethan Zuckerman, Research Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society (US)
- Mikel Maron, OpenStreetMap, WaterWiki, etc (Kenya)
- Tariq Khokhar, World Bank Open Data Evangelist, (UK)
- David Pidsley, (UK)
Current Projects
Knowledge Exchange
Encouraging members to share ideas and updates on current projects.
Open for Change
Supporting the development of the Open For Change network.
Registry of open data on international development
Create and maintain a registry of open data on international development in the 'International Development' group on The Data Hub
Legal and technical standards on open data in international development
Create and maintain legal and technical standards/principles for open data in international development.
Calendar of events on open data in international development
A community-maintained calendar of events relevant to open aid data.
Past Projects
Aid Information Challenge
Events held in 2010 soliciting for ideas on compelling uses of open data on international development. Parallel events in London and New York. There were plans to turn this into an ongoing series of events. Creating short films about ideas. Prizes for the best ideas.
