Open development

Open knowledge and

open development

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