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
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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10:00am CST
Open Data, Transparency, and Electoral Boundary Delimitation around the Globe
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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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11:00am CST
Open Data Charter in Subnational Governments: International Tools Applied to Cities
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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
2:00pm CST
How to Find, Analyze and Apply Aid Data
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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?
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Open Data Research Lead, World Wide Web Foundation
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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