Open Aid Data Conference

Programme

28th of September

9.00 hrs – 17.00 hrs

9.00 hrs – Registration

9.30 hrs – Kick-off for both events

10.00 hrs – 17 hrs – Two parallel sessions:

Aidinfo (UK) Training on data sources and data analysis for development policy

Open Knowledge Foundation: Hackday using IATI data and other aid data sources

19.00 hrs – Informal Get-Together in Restaurant close to the venue: http://www.casalot.de/

29th of September 2011

8.30 hrs – Registration

9.00 hrs – Welcome

9.30 hrs – First plenary session

The potential of aid transparency and the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) for aid effectiveness.

Beris Gwynne (International NGO Accountability Charter): Why aid transparency matters to aid effectiveness.

Ronald Siebes (Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs): Implementing IATI – the experience of the Netherlands.

Prasanna Lal Das (Worldbank): Pioneering Transparency – the Open Data Initiative of the Worldbank

11.00 hrs – Break

11.20 hrs – Walk-the-Talk!

Interactive exploration and group discussions of transparency and open data examples in development cooperation.The examples presented in this session will be the

• AKVO platform from the Netherlands, by Thomas Bjelkemann Peterson
• The Geocoding Project of Development Gateways and its partner organisations, by Anna Lauridsen
• Aid Monitoring in Georgia by the Open Society Funds, by Irina Lashki
• The International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), by Isabel Bucknall, aidinfo
• Crowdsourcing of beneficiary Feedback in Nigeria by TransparentAid in Collaboration with the Heinrich Böll Foundation, by Fola Yahaya
• Aid Transparency in the education sector, Andreas Westerwinter, Paris.

13.00 hrs – Lunch

13.50 hrs – Second Plenary Session

Beyond Aid – Open Data is coming!

Friedrich Lindenberg (Open Knowledge Foundation): Introduction to open data in the public sector – trends across Europe, the political, administrative and economic value, costs and benefits.

14.15 hrs – Walk-The-Talk!

Interactive exploration and group discussions of open data projects in different public sectors in Europe. The examples for open data projects will be

• Frankfurt gestalten, Christian Kreutz, (OKFN)
• Offener Haushalt, Friedrich Lindenberg (OKFN)
• Abgeordnetenwatch (tbc)
• Berlin Open Data Platform
• Omvard.se; Claudia Schwegmann
• Geographische Daten, Frank Wehrmeyer

15.30 hrs – Break

15.45 hrs – Open Data in Your organisation? Group discussions on how to move ahead with transparency.

1.  NGO transparency – facilitated by Rolf Kleef of the Dutch NGO network Partos and the Open4Change Network.
2. Transparency in government development cooperation – facilitated by Dr. Alexander Schellong (Capgemini).
3. Open aid data activism for transparency – (tbc) .

16.30 hrs – Key Note Speech

Peter Eigen (TI, EITI): Overcoming the fear of transparency

17.00 hrs – Closure of the conference