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How can open data be used to reduce poverty and corruption? Pernilla Näsfors, transparency and social media manager at Sida - the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, shows different open data sources, standards and APIs and some interesting crowdsourcing and open source projects that support global development and democracy. A talk given at #ggm12 - Geek Girl Meetup at Tekniska Muséet in Stockholm 26 May 2012
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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
www.slideshare.net/pernillanasfors
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
