12:30pm CST
Measuring Open Data
Moderators
Open Knowledge
Mor Rubinstein is a community coordinator at Open Knowledge, where she works on projects like the Open Data Index, a global benchmark of of open data state around the world and the Open Data Handbook. Occasionally, she is also taking part in studies at the Oxford Internet Institute...
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Speakers
3:00pm CST
The Role of Joined Up Data Standards in Meeting and Monitoring the SDGs
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Director, Omidyar Network
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General Director of Open Data, Office of the President of Mexico
Ania Calderon is the General Director of Open Data at the Coordination of National Digital Strategy in the Office in the President of Mexico, where she leads the Open Data, Data for Development, Prospera Digital: Social and Financial Inclusion and Innovation for Resilience initiatives...
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CEO, Publish What You Fund
Head of Access to Information, Development Initiatives
- Data Use
- Joined-up Data Standards
- Transparency and Accountability
4:00pm CST
How Open Data can Deliver Public Sector Innovation?
Moderators
Executive Director, ILDA
Speakers
Investments Associate, Governance and Citizen Engagement, Omidyar Network
InterAmerican Development Bank
Over 20 years of experience in open development, telecommunications, and financial services. Currently, I am working on digital government innovation projects, including the civil registry and identity agenda, open data, and data analytics for the public sector.
Director of the Digital Citizens Area, Agencia de Gobierno Electrónico y Sociedad de la Información de la Presidencia de la República de Uruguay
Directora del departamento para la gestion publica efectiva OEA, Organización de Estados Americanos
OEA Gestión pública, participación ciudadana, gobierno electrónico, acceso a la información pública, sensibilización y capacitación en estas áreas, iniciativas hemisfericas en estas áreas, programa agentes de cambio en gobierno abierto (fellowship de la OEA en Gobierno...
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4:00pm CST
Now What? Taking Action after the Action Plan on Open Commitments
Speakers
Open Data Consultant, World Bank
Laura Manley is an Open Data Consultant with the World Bank’s Transport and ICT Global Practice. Laura specializes in open data for economic growth, working with governments from low- and middle-income countries on their data policies.
Laura is also the Co-Founder for the Center...
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5:00pm CST
Data Revolution for Sustainable Development
Moderators
Speakers
Executive Secretary, ECLAC
Alicia Bárcena assumed office as the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) on 1 July 2008.She had previously served as the Under-Secretary-General for Management at United Nations Headquarters in New York, Chef de Cabinet and Deputy...
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Director, CEPEI
Over the last ten years he has been the Director of CEPEI. He has also worked as a Program Official for the Ecole de la Paix in Grenoble and has served as an adviser to the Charles Leopold Mayer Foundation in Paris, France. In the public sector he has been an advisor for the government’s...
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5:00pm CST
From Knowledge to Action: Opening Up Data is not Enough
Moderators
Speakers
Directora de Instituciones Políticas y Gobierno, Poder Ciudadano
Soy politóloga, profesora de UBA y USAL y Directora de Instituciones Políticas y Gobierno de Poder Ciudadano. Participo activamente del proceso de OGP en Argentina. Además formo parte de la Red Académica de Gobierno Abierto.
Research Manager: Africa, World Wide Web Foundation
World Wide Web Foundation
5:00pm CST
6:00pm CST
Geo Open Data 4 Official Stats
Moderators
Director, GeoCensos
He holds a Master of Arts in Economics degree from Georgetown University focused on Social Policies and he is Master of Sciences on Earth Observation at Twente University from the Netherlands. He is aswell consultant and a geo tech activist leader , having created Mapps Hackathon...
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Mapbox / OpenStreetMap US
Join the Open Mapping Revolution! https://www.mapbox.com/blog/ogp-summit-2015
Development Seed
Statistician, The Humanitarian Data Exchange
Statistician at UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and part of the Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX).
HDX is OCHA’s open platform for sharing humanitarian data. HDX’s objective is to make humanitarian data easy to find and easy to use for analysis. Visit...
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9:00am CST
So you want to Open Geo?
Speakers
Director & CTO, R&D DC, Esri
architect for ArcGIS Open Data + GeoCommons
OSGeo, Charter member
OpenWebFoundation, Charter member
10:00am CST
Open Data and Leadership
Moderators
Deputy Head of Services, Open Data Institute
Emma helps to oversee project work across the ODI’s open data services business, especially open data advisory services for governments internationally. As a consultant, she works with governments in developed and developing countries to help government and citizens gain the most...
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Undersecretary of Public Innovation and Open Government, Secretary of Modernization of Argentina
Undersecretary of Public Innovation and Open Government at the Secretary of Modernization of Argentina. With over a decade of experience working in the digital realm, Rudi is the creator and former director of the Innovation Lab and Open Government at Buenos Aires City Government...
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Directora Ejecutiva, Laboratorio de Innovación Quito LINQ - Municipio de Quito
innovation labs
open innovation
open data
open government
10:00am CST
Open Data, Transparency, and Electoral Boundary Delimitation around the Globe
Speakers
Full-time professor, ITAM
I am a political scientist at ITAM. My research deals primarily with how the interaction between institutions, parties, and elections shapes bargaining strategies in systems of separation of power. A sample of my published work includes "Gubernatorial coattails in Mexican Congressional...
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Associate Professor, University of Florida
Academic/Researcher, Public Mapping Project
Alejandro Trelles is a PhD candidate in political science at the University of Pittsburgh. His research interests are bureaucracy and the organizational design of electoral institutions in Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East. He has worked for the National Electoral Institute...
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10:00am CST
The Global Impacts of Open Data
Moderators
Speakers
Co-fundador, DataUY
Co-fundador de DATA Uruguay, organización de la soc. civil que crea herramientas y hace activismo por los Datos y Gobierno Abierto local y regionalmente a través de iniciativas como ABRELATAM. Consultor en herramientas y medios digitales para multilaterales, gobiernos, sociedad...
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Project coordinator, Transparencia Mexicana
Rafael is Transparencia Mexicana's open data coordinator. Recently, he coordinated the initiative #3de3 (Three out of three) –a joint project between TM and IMCO– which seeks that candidates to public offices, as well as legislators, publish voluntarily their assets, interests...
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Director, Transparency International Slovakia
Gabriel Sipos is an executive director of Transparency International Slovakia, the most influential anti-corruption NGO in the country. His organization helped introduce radical transparency reforms in Slovakia, such as mandatory publication of government contracts as well as judicial...
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Statistician, The Humanitarian Data Exchange
Statistician at UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and part of the Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX).
HDX is OCHA’s open platform for sharing humanitarian data. HDX’s objective is to make humanitarian data easy to find and easy to use for analysis. Visit...
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Director, Omidyar Network
VP, Partnerships, Mapzen / OpenStreetMap
Open mapping data and open source approaches to mapping problems. Improving open geo data, geocoding, navigation and cartography are my interests!
11:00am CST
Open Data Charter in Subnational Governments: International Tools Applied to Cities
Speakers
Deputy Director, Open Data Charter
Knowledge and Learning Senior Associate, Inter-American Development Bank
Open Data and Civic Innovation Advocate. Currently working at the Inter-American Development Bank. Editor of Abierto al Público, a blog about Open Knowledge at the Inter-American Development Bank. Organiser of IADB Hackathons in Mar del Plata (2014), Xalapa (2014), Valdivia (2015...
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Executive Director, ILDA
11:00am CST
11:00am CST
Open Government Data Updates from Around the World
Moderators
Manager Open Contracting Program, Hivos
Daniel Dietrich is senior consultant, researcher, activist and curator at the intersection of media, technology and society. He is interested in empowering people through open knowledge and the use technology for social good. He is honoree member of the Advisory board of Open Knowledge...
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Institutional and International Relations, Relaciones Internacionales y Institucionales Centro de Estudios sobre Tecnologías Web (Ceweb.br) y W3C Brasil en NIC.br
Caroline Burle is responsible for the Institutional Relations, W3C Brazil Office and the Web Technologies Study Center (Ceweb.br) at the Brazilian Network Information Center (Brazil) and the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br) . She has a Master degree on Open Government...
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Co-fundador, DataUY
Co-fundador de DATA Uruguay, organización de la soc. civil que crea herramientas y hace activismo por los Datos y Gobierno Abierto local y regionalmente a través de iniciativas como ABRELATAM. Consultor en herramientas y medios digitales para multilaterales, gobiernos, sociedad...
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Executive Director, Ciudadanos al Día
I am a founding partner and Executive Director of Ciudadanos al Dia (CAD), a Peruvian non-profit association, created in 2002 with the aim of providing tools for the exercise of citizenship and improving governance as well as reliable source of information on topics of interest to...
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Mgr. Dir, Inst. for Analytic Journalism
Open data, journalism, computer-assisted journalism, data journalism, analytic journalism, GIS, Latin America
IATI Data Quality Analyst, Bond
12:00pm CST
12:00pm CST
12:00pm CST
Lightning Talks on Open Data
Speakers
Head of Advocacy EU Integrity, Transparency International EU
Daniel Freund leads Transparency International's work on the integrity of the EU institutions. He is responsible for EU Integrity Watch (www.integritywatch.eu), as well as the work on legislative transparency, conflicts of interest, lobbying, revolving doors and the legislative footprint...
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Open Data Project Lead, Sunlight Foundation
Stephen Larrick is Open Data Project Lead for the Sunlight Foundation, where he works as part of the policy team to promote transparency and open government at the local level. His current efforts focus on facilitating the adoption of meaningful and sustainable open data policies...
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Director of Open Data, Johns Hopkins University Center for Government Excellence
2:00pm CST
How to Find, Analyze and Apply Aid Data
Speakers
World Bank
Daniel Nogueira-Budny works for the World Bank on issues of open government and open data in Argentina, Brazil, Mozambique, and Tanzania. He holds a PhD in Political Science and is interested in ways to channel citizen demand to increase the supply of open data, enhance aid effectiveness...
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2:00pm CST
To what Extent is Open Data Contributing to Open Government in Asia and Africa?
Moderators
Open Data Research Lead, World Wide Web Foundation
Speakers
Regional Research Manager - Asia, Open Data Lab Jakarta - World Wide Web Foundation
Michael "Miko" Cañares is Open Data Lab Jakarta’s Regional Research Manager for Asia. He has more than ten years of research and development work experience at a progressive pace – from community-based project management to regional development with most of his work rooted mainly...
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Research Manager: Africa, World Wide Web Foundation
World Wide Web Foundation
2:30pm CST
3:00pm CST
Enabling the Data Revolution: An International Open Data Roadmap
Moderators
Senior Program Officer, IDRC
Speakers
General Director of Open Data, Office of the President of Mexico
Ania Calderon is the General Director of Open Data at the Coordination of National Digital Strategy in the Office in the President of Mexico, where she leads the Open Data, Data for Development, Prospera Digital: Social and Financial Inclusion and Innovation for Resilience initiatives...
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Executive Director, ILDA
5:00pm CST
The Data Revolution will be Open
Moderators
Speakers
Executive Secretary, ECLAC
Alicia Bárcena assumed office as the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) on 1 July 2008.She had previously served as the Under-Secretary-General for Management at United Nations Headquarters in New York, Chef de Cabinet and Deputy...
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Director, Omidyar Network