Open Government Partnership Global Summit

This workshop will begin with a briefing on the current status of open data measurement. The audience will then be divided into small groups to discuss and propose changes to various parts of the current open data assessment framework - the goal is to refresh and update our current view on assessments, and to improve them for use by governments and civil society.

This workshop consists of short panel discussions and dynamic presentations on sharing, evaluating and enhancing geo data for big and small ideas. Facilitators will provide abridged descriptions of tools and methodologies for opening and promoting geo data in several small groups.

This session will bring together experts from around the world (Latin America, Africa, and the United States) to compare experiences with redistricting. The panelists will reflect on emerging tools and methods, discuss the potential benefits of including open data policies in the process of boundary delimitation, and core requirements for facilitating broad participation and transparency. Here is a brief description of the Public Mapping Project Mexico and its objectives and here you can watch a short video of District Builder. More information related to the Public Mapping Project in the USA is available here.

This session features brief presentations from representatives of cities adopting the Open Data Charter, after which the audience will be divided into two groups for a participatory discussion dynamic.

This session will begin with Steering Committee members giving an overview of the OD WG's work to date in each of its four work streams (Principles, Standards, Measurement of Impact, and Capacity Building). Participants will then break out into small groups and discuss key questions regarding the OD WG workplan for 2016, including initiatives worth supporting and desirable linkages or relationships. Finally, the OD WG co-anchors will give a summary of discussions and offer concluding remarks.

A session with short and sharp statements from pioneers, experts and activists from around the world on the state-of-play of Open Government Data from their countries. These updates will highlight stories of success and failure and reveal current issues and trends from the global open data community. Each participant will have 2 minutes and 1 slide. These updates will be followed by a short panel discussion with an all star cast of open data gurus who will identify trends and issues on the fly and comment on them: you, the audience.

In this session, expert facilitators will show various aid data portals, walk participants through hands-on analyses of the information they contain using Excel and other analytics tools, and explore real-world applications for this information via an interactive forum.

A critical stock take of the state of open data contributing to open government in Asia and Africa, building on the Web Foundation's 17 country study as well as current phase of research focusing on Asia and Africa. We ask - first, what have we learned of state of open data in Asia and Africa (a broad question but one we will ask based on the Open Data Barometer as well as other studies), and second, to what extent does this contribute to open government? What are the challenges and recommendations? There is an assumption that a) open data is good and b) open data contributes to open government. We want to explore both assumptions and the links between them. This will be a critical piece on the benefits and challenges of open data contributing to open government. Which countries might be leaders in this, which might be stragglers?