Open Data for a Better World

Open Data for a Better WorldGeek Girl Meetup 2012-05-26

#GGM12 StockholmPernilla NäsforsTwitter: @pernillanpernillan.se <3

Save the world?- How can open data be used to

reduce poverty and corruption? - Projects using open data, APIs,

crowdsourcing and open source to support global development and democracy

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Open DataA piece of content or data is open if anyone is...

free to use, reuse, and redistribute it

...subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and/or share-alike.

– opendefinition.org

Open Data

#OpenGov

#OKFest

Open development

Open knowledge

Open aid

#OData

Open standards

#FOSS

#OpenData

APIs

Open source

Open government data

Open innovation

Public Sector Information

#IATI

#PSI

#REST

#IATI

#XML

#ICT4D

Openaid.se

Openaid.se

- Hub for statistics and documents about Swedish development cooperation from the 70s until today- Open aid – Open API

IATI =InternationalAidTransparencyInitiative

Open AidMaps- Geocoded

Malawi Aid- Poverty

statistics

Akvo.org- Open source as a service - Built to improve transparency and

visualization of aid projects- Akvo FLOW – pictures, video, time,

geolocation etc. that can be verified against digital certificates

Ushahidi.com- Ushahidi = testimony in Swahili- Developed to map reports of

violence in Kenya after the post-election fallout in 2008- Activism, citizen journalism and

geotagging using open source

FrontlineSMS.com- Send SMS to big groups- Free and Open Source Software- Used together with Ushahidi on e.g.

Harassmap.org

ipaidabribe.com- Report when and where you had

to pay a bribe- Spin-offs like ipaidabribe.or.ke

#ICT4D =Information and Communication Technologies for Development

#OKFEST =OGDcamp + OKCon. Helsinki, Finland. 17-22 Sept 2012.

- Open Knowledge in Action- Open Development stream with

Open Aid Hackathon

Thank You! Now go and save

the world!pernilla.nasfors@sida.se

pernilla@openhearted.sePernilla NäsforsTwitter: @pernillanpernillan.se <3