Chapters/Brazil/reports/mar2012

Projects and events in progress
Apps competition being held in São Paulo organized by Open Knowledge Foundation Brazil and the City Council of São Paulo.
 * Apps for São Paulo:
 * Date: firs week of May
 * Local: City Council of São Paulo
 * Partners: City Council of São Paulo and University of São Paulo


 * Legal Leeks in Sphinx and page template as Open Data Handbook:
 * Date: planned to finish by mid April.


 * Open Data Handbook in Portuguese review and publshed:
 * Date: by the end of April (? depends on partner)
 * Partners: W3C Brasil + volunteers reviwing


 * Open Educational Resources event from UNESCO:
 * Date: 28 and 29 March
 * Local: Rio de Janeiro
 * Partners: Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Brasil


 * Hackathon:
 * Date: end of May
 * Local: Recife
 * Partners: Wikimedia Brasil


 * Research on access of information (Transparencia y Silencio):
 * Date: not defined, depend on funding for partners
 * Local: São Paulo
 * Partners: University of São Paulo, Article 19, Access Info

Planned projects and events

 * Lecture on access to information and open data + open data meet up:
 * Date: April 19

After the annual Open Government Partnership meeting, OKFn Brazil is organizing a meeting up with Helen Darbishite (Access Info) to discuss about access ot information and opendata. After that, we will have a meet up with some Paulista pizza. :)

OKFn Brazil have been workig with the Regional Economy Council of São Paulo State (CORECONSP) since November of 2011. We have attended to monthly meetings and discussion is in progress for publishing Odilon Guedes handbook on São Paulo city budget.
 * Open Spending Guide to Brazilian cities:
 * Partners: CORECONSP, Open Data Brasil, Wikimedia Brasil