International Open Data RoadmapThe global open data community has come together to shape the agenda and results of the 3rd International Open Data Conference (IODC). The conference sessions aim to take stock of the rapid evolution of the open data community and chart the future of open data around the world. Sessions are organised in four areas:International Open Data ConferenceIODC_135ec41a-10b3-11e5-9afe-030d1ab4f4f1Open Data Community_135ec6e0-10b3-11e5-9afe-030d1ab4f4f1To take stock of the rapid evolution of the open data community and chart the future of open data around the world. _135ec802-10b3-11e5-9afe-030d1ab4f4f1Global AgendaUnderstand the big picture_135ec8d4-10b3-11e5-9afe-030d1ab4f4f11_135ec9a6-10b3-11e5-9afe-030d1ab4f4f1SharingShare learning, skills and good practice_135eca78-10b3-11e5-9afe-030d1ab4f4f12_135ecb40-10b3-11e5-9afe-030d1ab4f4f1ImpactBuild on what works_135ecc12-10b3-11e5-9afe-030d1ab4f4f13_135eccda-10b3-11e5-9afe-030d1ab4f4f1ActionPlan for the future_135ecdc0-10b3-11e5-9afe-030d1ab4f4f14Across our Action Areas we've been identifying key themes for action. Over the coming days we'll be writing up notes and sharing the forward plans across these different themes... About: As hundreds of members of the open data community come together for the 3rd International Open Data Conference in Ottawa in May 2015 we have a key opportunity to strengthen coordination and to set out a shared roadmap to action. With input from diverse voices from different sectors, different regions and different backgrounds, the Action Track at IODC15 will be exploring key challenges, existing activities, and the new actions that are needed to deliver truly inclusive impacts from open data. We have identified eight action areas which will have sessions at the conference. Each of these workshop-style sessions will be informed by other conference panels, pre-events, and a range of online inputs in the run up to the conference. The selection and focus of these action areas responds to inputs during the call for proposals. Each action area will develop proposals to feature within the roadmap report produced after the conference, and published by the conference organizers. The report is intended as a resource to support coordination across the open data community, and will provide a point or reference for future iterations of the International Open Data Conference.Open Data CharterDeliver the International Open Data Charter_135ece9c-10b3-11e5-9afe-030d1ab4f4f1Action Area 1Action AnchorsAction anchors are taking a lead on shaping the conversation in the run up to the conference, and facilitating the conference session. They will be blogging about the key issues to be address, and existing initiatives that respond to the challenges in this area.Stephen WalkerTreasury Board Secretariat of the Government of Canada; Executive Director, Information Management and Open Government Canada -- Stephen Walker is the Executive Director, Information Management and Open Government, with the Treasury Board Secretariat of the Government of Canada, and is responsible for leading the development and implementation of Open Government and Information Management policies and strategies for the Government of Canada. In recent years, he has lead specific work on the development and delivery of Canada’s Open Government Action Plan, the federal open government portal (open.canada.ca), and the recently issued Directive on Open Government, which establishes 'open by default' as the mandatory policy of the Government of Canada. Stephen co-chairs the Open Government Partnership’s Open Data Working Group, and holds a Master’s Degree in Electronic Commerce from Dalhousie University, as well as an undergraduate degree in Literature from the University of Ottawa.José AlonsoWorld Wide Web Foundation, Spain -- José, Program Manager, Open Data, is an Open Data pioneer and advocate with extensive experience in the eGovernment and Web standards fields. He has held various leading roles in Open Data projects and initiatives at the local, regional, national and global levels, such as co-chairing the national Open Data Initiative in Spain. He also and directs research across the Global South such as the Emerging Impacts of Open Data in Development countries (ODDC) project.Al KagsOpen Institute, KenyaMartin TisnéOGP Steering Committee; Director of Policy, Omidyar Network Ltd.; UK / Royaume-Uni -- As director of policy at Omidyar Network, Martin brings extensive experience advocating for change in government and donor policies and driving sector-level change in the field of government transparency and accountability. Martin joined Omidyar Network in early 2012. Based in London, Martin leads policy, advocacy strategy, and related investments for the global Governance & Citizen Engagement initiative. Martin began his career in open government in 2001 working for the Open Society Institute in Budapest, where he led research on the impact of anti-corruption assistance in Southeast Europe. Martin is a steering committee member of the Transparency and Accountability Initiative and the Open Government Partnership, as well as a board member of Publish What You Fund. He holds a BA from the University of Oxford and an MSc from the London School of Economics.The challenge: In 2015, a number of countries and international organizations will face significant milestones in the journey to developing and implementing principles of open data. The G8 Open Data Charter, signed by all G8 leaders in 2013, has a 2-year lifespan which ends in 2015. In November 2014, the G20 Anti-Corruption Working Group committed to prepare a set of G20 Open Data Principles and a compendium of best practices on open data. At the same time, the United Nations are focused on articulating post-2015 development goals, which will include elements related to open data. In addition to all this, throughout 2014 the OGP Open Data Working Group has worked to develop a draft International Open Data Charter, elaborating a set of universal open data principles. As a result of this confluence of efforts and events focused on open data principles, 2015 presents a unique opportunity for the development of a set of universally-accepted open data principles. The challenge is how to articulate principles in a Charter that respond to the needs of all -- from the most technologically advanced government agencies to public sector institutions just beginning to publish and reuse data in electronic formats.Global NetworkStrengthen a global network of open data leaders in government_135ecf82-10b3-11e5-9afe-030d1ab4f4f1Action Area 2Open Data Leaders in GovernmentAction AnchorsAction anchors are taking a lead on shaping the conversation in the run up to the conference, and facilitating the conference session. They will be blogging about the key issues to be address, and existing initiatives that respond to the challenges in this area.Liz CarolanThe Open Data Institute, UK / Royaume-Uni -- Liz manages the Open Data Institute’s collaboration with the World Bank, the "Partnership for Open Data". She joined the ODI in 2014 from the Institute for Government (IfG), where she developed and project managed learning programs for politicians, public officials, and those engaging with government. While at the IfG, she took a secondment to the Africa Governance Initiative, providing support to new cabinet leaders in Sierra Leone.Beth NoveckGovLab, Director / directrice, USA / États-Unis -- Beth Simone Noveck directs The Governance Lab (www.thegovlab.org) and its MacArthur Research Network on Opening Governance. Funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and Google.org, the GovLab strives to improve people’s lives by changing how we govern. The Jacob K. Javits Visiting Professor at New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and a visiting professor at the MIT Media Lab, Beth is a professor of law at New York Law School. She served in the White House as the first United States Deputy Chief Technology Officer and director of the White House Open Government Initiative (2009-2011). UK Prime Minister David Cameron appointed her senior advisor for Open Government, and she served on the Obama-Biden transition team. Among projects she's designed or collaborated on are Unchat, The Do Tank, Peer To Patent, Data.gov, Challenge.gov and the Gov Lab's Living Labs (livinglabs.thegovlab.org) and training platform (thegovlabacademy.org).Natalia CarfiGovernment of Chile, Open Government Coordinator, Chile / Chili -- Natalia Carfi is the Open Government Coordinator at the Modernization and e-government Unit,Ministry General Secretariat of the Presidency, Chilean Government. She is in charge of datos.gob.cland is General Coordinator of Condatos 2015.Mike MoraOrganization of American States, Specialist on Electronic Government, USA / États-Unis -- Mike is a Specialist at the Organization of American States (OAS- www.oas.org), in Washington DC, with the Department for Effective Public Management, Secretariat for Political Affairs. He acts as a Lead Specialist on electronic government and currently serves as the OAS Cadastre Coordinator. He has been responsible for initiatives of the OAS portfolio of the Network of Electronic Government Authorities of Latin America and the Caribbean (RedGealc – www.redgealc.net), including open data (ILDA -- www.idatosabiertos.org), and the Inter-American Network of Government Procurement (INGP - www.ricg.org); were he served as Technical Secretary until March 2014. Facilitated by the OAS, these two networks congregate the top national authorities from countries in the Americas for policy and technical exchanges on eGovernment and public procurement. Authorities meet regularly throughout the year for technical and sub-regional exchanges, annually at the levels of Directors and bi-annually at the Levels of Ministers, in the case of eGovernment. Mike also has vast experience on municipal management modernization and training programs for public officials; all lines of work for what he has been responsible for at the OAS throughout his more than 7 years with the Organization. During his career he has also worked with the Public, Private, NGOs, and Diplomatic sectors.Virginia PardoSystem Engineer, graduated from Universidad de la República Oriental del Uruguay. Currently, the Digital Citizenship Area Director for the e-government Agency of Uruguay (AGESIC), responsible for carrying out projects related to Multichannel Citizen Service, Government Open Data, Citizen e-participation, and e-government regulatory framework Member of the Public Information Access Unit (UAIP) and the Personal Data Control and Regulatory Unit (URCDP). Among others, her responsibilities are to articulate and promote the Open Government in Uruguay therefore, she is the local representative for the Open Government Partnership (OGP)Has vast experience in project management, specifically in the e-government area, IT information and telecommunications. She has also been Software Development Project Manager for implantation and process improvement and standards in Administracion Nacional de Telecomunicaciones (ANTEL), as well as teaching Project Management and IT Service Management.The challenge: Sustained political leadership is fundamental to the success of national open data initiatives. There is increasing political support behind open data around the world, as demonstrated by the growth in membership of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) from 8 members in 2011 to 65 in 2014. Open data can increase transparency about what governments are doing – which promotes accountability and good governance, enhances public debate, helps to combat corruption, and supports the design and delivery of better public services. It is therefore essential for governments to support each other in the implementation of open data initiatives, notably through international collaboration and sharing of best practices and lessons learned in open data. The creation of a global network of open data leaders in government can reinforce the political support already demonstrated by many governments around the world, and can ensure sustainable government involvement in the global open data movement.Good PracticesPromote good practices on open data standards_135ed068-10b3-11e5-9afe-030d1ab4f4f1Action Area 3Action AnchorsAction anchors are taking a lead on shaping the conversation in the run up to the conference, and facilitating the conference session. They will be blogging about the key issues to be address, and existing initiatives that respond to the challenges in this area.James McKinneyOpen North, Canada -- Websiteopennorth.ca/ -- James McKinney is the Executive Director of Open North, a Canadian nonprofit that creates websites to promote government transparency and civic participation. With respect to open data standards, James was a member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Government Linked Data Working Group, which produced the Data Catalog Vocabulary (DCAT), and was a consultant to the Web Foundation for the Open Contracting Data Standards. He is the editor of the Popolo specifications, which have been adopted by dozens of civil society organizations to develop reusable, interchangeable, composable open source software through networks like Poplus and Open Civic Data. He is a frequent contributor to open data standardization efforts.Yasodara CórdovaW3C Brazil Office, Project Leader / Chef de projet, Brazil / Brésil -- Yaso works for the W3C Brazil Office, hosted by the Steering Internet Committee of Brazil (CGI.br) and for CeWeb.br, a research center for Web technologies located at the Brazilian Network Information Center (Nic.br). As project leader, she is responsible for researching issues around Web technologies that can change perspectives and kickstart initiatives to foster a more democratic and free Internet. She is also co-chair of the W3C Working Group Best Practices for Data on the Web. She previously worked for ONU at UNDP as a technical consultant for innovation processes in democracy. Within this area she worked at the Presidency of Brazil working on the creation of better tools for citizen participation in the digital world. Also at the United Nations, she worked with public consultation for law-making processes, regarding the Marco Civil Framework, and other related bills and laws such as personal data and privacy.Philip AshlockData.gov, USA / États-Unis -- Phil helps create digital civic infrastructure to support open government and civic engagement. He's spearheaded community-driven civic technology initiatives with global reach like the Open311 standard for interacting with government through an open feedback channel. He is currently the Chief Architect at Data.gov where he leads an open development process and helps implement a federated architecture to support open data and APIs across government. Previously, he served as a Presidential Innovation Fellow working with the GSA and the White House Office of Digital Strategy on Project MyUSA.The challenge: Promoting good practices on open data standards is key to scaling the impact of open data. Far too often users of open data face small but time-consuming technical hurdles that slow down progress towards open data impact. Balancing the consistency and re-usability of data with the great variation in national and regional structures, cultures and political processes requires carefully designed data standards, and common approaches to build the right levels of interoperability. With good standardisation practices, it becomes possible to innovate more rapidly, and to identify the solutions that work in one place, and build on them to apply that solution elsewhere. For this reason, governments, citizens, civil society organisations and the private sector need to come together to identify and promote good practices on open data standards. This requires global efforts on awareness and education about standards, as well as close collaboration between jurisdictions to promote common approaches to data standardization.Standardization CoordinationCoordinate among standardization groups_135ed176-10b3-11e5-9afe-030d1ab4f4f1Action Area 4Standardization GroupsAction AnchorsAction anchors are taking a lead on shaping the conversation in the run up to the conference, and facilitating the conference session. They will be blogging about the key issues to be address, and existing initiatives that respond to the challenges in this area.Bill AndersonDevelopment Initiatives, UK / South Africa -- Bill is an information architect leading Development Initiatives' work on joined up data, global data standards and the development data revolution. He is also the technical lead on the secretariat of the International Aid Transparency Initiative.The challenge: Decision-makers and those that hold them to account, whether at local, national or global level, require access to usable, meaningful information that throws light on the problems they are seeking to solve. Finding this information often involves joining up data from a variety of sources. In the past five years advocates of open data have had successes persuading both governments and others to open their data and today there are a now hundreds of public portals containing a huge variety of datasets. Yet many of these repositories are silos: containing similar data, yet in different formats, structures and standards. One of the biggest barriers to joining up data is a lack of compatible standards. We are faced with different rules for access, different data formats, different data definitions, different quality guidelines, and different recommended codelists and reference data. Even where standards have emerged, or are emerging, such as for aid, contracting, extractives and budget data, there are many missed connections, and both data publishers and users can be left confused by the diversity of technical and policy approaches that each adopts. Joining up data better requires finding the points of connection between different standards, adopting common building blocks, developing shared infrastructures, and creating tools to map data between formats and standards. This needs to be informed by clear user demand and needs, and supported by greater coordination between standardization groups.Public-Interest InnovationStrengthen networks of public-interest Innovation_135ed27a-10b3-11e5-9afe-030d1ab4f4f1Action Area 5Private SectorCivil Society OrganizationsDevelopersCitizensGovernmentsAction AnchorsAction anchors are taking a lead on shaping the conversation in the run up to the conference, and facilitating the conference session. They will be blogging about the key issues to be address, and existing initiatives that respond to the challenges in this area.Katelyn RogersOpen Knowledge, Project Coordinaor and Community Manager / coordonnatrice de projets et gestionnaire de communauté, UK and Germany / Royaume-Uni et Allemagne -- Katelyn Rogers is a project coordinator and community manager at Open Knowledge, where she works on various projects including the Open Government Fellowships and the Open Data Handbook. Katelyn is passionate about the use of data and information for both social and economic development and is particularly interested in how communities are using data and technology to improve services. Prior to joining Open Knowledge, she worked as a project coordinator at Wateraid on their WASHwatch initiative and as a freelance translator, researcher and editor for various NGOs in France. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and a masters in Public Policy from King’s College London, where her research was focused on open data policies.Martin ParrGlobal Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition Secretariat (GODAN), Operations Director -- Martin Parr is the Operations Director for the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition Secretariat (GODAN) and works in CABI’s Knowledge Services for International Development and is the Head of Open Data at CABI. Martin has over fifteen years of experience working in international development for agriculture and on mobile internet, web-based products, and research communication services.Sander van der WaalOpen Knowledge, UK / Netherlands -- As projects director at Open Knowledge, Sander oversees projects in the various areas of open knowledge, including Open Government Data, Open Access to research and Open Data for Development. Sander builds connections across the groups that make up the global Open Knowledge network and helps ensure the open data projects will make a positive impact on the world. Sander is a computer scientist and philosopher with a strong background in the open source world, having advised academic projects on open source software development at OSS Watch and contributed to projects at the Apache Software Foundation.Fabrizio ScrolliniILDA, Research Coordinator, Uruguay -- Fabrizio Scrollini is the Research Coordinator of the Latin American Open Data Initiative. He is a PhD candidate at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Chairman of DATA, an Uruguayan based NGO working on transparency, open data and human development. As an academic Fabrizio is interested in accountability institutions, access to information, transparency and open data.Chris AddisonCTA, Senior Programme Coordinator, Knowledge Management -- Chris Addison is Senior Coordinator for Knowledge Management (KM) at the ACP-EU Technical Centre for Agriculture and Rural Development (CTA). He has worked in the ICT and knowledge management for development sector for the last 18 years and as director of the non-profit One World Europe. He has worked with a range of development organisations with their online KM needs. He contributed to the OpenAire Open Data report as joint author of the Agriculture chapter. Whilst at IFPRI, he commissioned the conversion of the Global Hunger Index data to linked open data and is currently working on a project to publish the CTA archive as a linked open dataset. He is currently running a series of CTA activities to support better use of data for agriculture and nutrition through the Data Revolution for Agriculture project. CTA is a steering committee member of GODAN.Juan PaneParaguay -- Juan Pane is a Lecturer and researcher for Open Data at the National University of Asunción, Paraguay. He is also researcher of the Latin American Open Data Initiative (ILDA) and a consultant for the Democracy and Governance Program for the Paraguayan Government funded by USAID and implemented by CEAMSO, Paraguay. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Trento in March 2012, where he later stayed as a post-doc research fellow (2012-2013). He led the development of Multilingual Open Source tools for Open Data Integration such as OpenDataRise and CKAnalize for semi-automatically extracting semantics from open datasets for the Open Data Trentino (Italy) project (dati.trentino.it). He contributed to the EU funded OpenKnowledge project in the area of semantic matching and to the Insemtives project in the areas of semantic annotations models and semantic disambiguation in Folksonomies, all these aimed at data integration. His current research and development activities focus in ICT based Innovations for Open Data and Open Government initiatives by applying Semantic technologies and on designing automatic tools for Software Quality Assurance. He has authored several scientific publications and journal articles.Matthias JaegerOrganization of American States (OAS), USA / États-Unis -- Matthias coordinates the "OAS Fellowship on Open Government in the Americas", a new regional network of young change agents from the public sphere, civil society and the private sector created to facilitate a targeted knowledge transfer and exchange of experiences and innovative ideas across the Americas (www.oas.org/OpenGovFellowship). Before joining the OAS in 2014 and developing the Fellowship program, Matthias worked on democratization and good governance issues at the German Bertelsmann Foundation, where he coordinated the foundation’s Transformation Index (www.bti-project.org) and the global young-leaders program Transformation Thinkers. He is particularly interested in capacity development in the fields of governance, transparency and civic participation. Matthias holds an M.A. degree in Law and Latin American Studies from Bielefeld University, Germany, and a Master of International Public Policy degree from the Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington D.C.The challenge: While making data available is a crucial step towards promoting and facilitating inclusion, innovation, and development, data must be used and analyzed effectively and innovatively in order to maximize its value. In the domain of data innovation, the private sector, civil society organizations, developers, citizens and governments have an important role to play. Lessons can be drawn from the open data community’s experiences to inform future work and make the best use of available resources. This kind of collaboration not only helps to avoid duplication of efforts, it can also support creative thinking and innovation by bringing together diverse actors to tackle complex, global problems.Economic ValueRelease the economic value of open data around the world_135ed392-10b3-11e5-9afe-030d1ab4f4f1Action Area 6Action AnchorsAction anchors are taking a lead on shaping the conversation in the run up to the conference, and facilitating the conference session. They will be blogging about the key issues to be address, and existing initiatives that respond to the challenges in this area.Andrew StottThe World Bank / la Banque mondiale, Senior Open Data Consultant with Transport and ICT Global Practice, USA / États-Unis -- Andrew was theDirector for Transparency and Digital Engagement for the United Kingdom Government. He led the work to open up government data and create "data.gov.uk". Following his retirement he continues to advise UK Ministers as well as other governments in Open Data issues. As a senior consultant in the Transport and ICT Global Practice he has worked on Open Data and e-Government issues. He is also on the Advisory Council of the Open Knowledge Foundation and of Open Corporates.Maurice McNaughtonMona School of Business & Management, University of the West Indies; Director, Centre of Excellence for IT-enabled Innovation, Jamaica -- Websitemsbm-uwi.org -- My research interests span the domain of emerging Open ICT ecosystems, and includes open source software, open data, mobile and cloud computing. Currently actively involved in the embryonic open data movement in the Caribbean as a founding member of the Caribbean Open Institute, a regional coalition of Caribbean organizations that has become a catalyst and facilitator of open data initiatives within the region. The COI engages and works with regional governments, researchers, journalists, technologists, NGOs and academics, to raise awareness, strengthen capacity and foster collaborations towards the adoption of open development approaches.The challenge: While the potential social impacts of open data are undeniable, it is important to recall that open data may also enable substantial economic growth and prosperity. Estimates have put the annual potential economic value of open data as high as $3-5 trillion -- and with the benefits shared between data-driven businesses themselves and the end-users of the services provided by those businesses. However the route for achieving these levels of benefit on a global scale is not clearly understood. Without a good understanding, policies and interventions cannot be designed to maximise and accelerate the achievement of the benefits. There are already disparities not just between developed countries and developing countries but also within regions. The WISE/Demos Europa study suggests that some EU countries would gain double the per-capita benefits of others because of structural and skills differences. Likewise, a few countries such as Kenya, Ghana, and Senegal are already outpacing other African countries in bringing data-driven applications to market and delivering benefits to the users of those services. Moreover, some leading governments have moved past their initial approach of leaving open data exploitation to the market alone, and are now investing significant time and resources in working with businesses. This can be seen, for instance, in the current program of "business open data roundtables" by departments of the United States Government. Finally, some in developing countries have started to question the extent to which the release of their data will benefit other countries at the expense of their own. Through this track, we hope to bring together innovators from different sectors and different parts of the world to share experience of what already works and what is still needed in terms of policies and supporting ecosystems. This is an important first step to fully and fairly realizing the economic potential of open data for the benefit of all people, including marginalized peoples, in all parts of the world.MetricsMeasure Open Data_135ed4e6-10b3-11e5-9afe-030d1ab4f4f1Action Area 7Action AnchorsAction anchors are taking a lead on shaping the conversation in the run up to the conference, and facilitating the conference session. They will be blogging about the key issues to be address, and existing initiatives that respond to the challenges in this area.Carlos IglesiasWorld Wide Web Foundation, Senior Open Data Researcher, Spain -- Carlos has extensive hands-on international experience acquired by the setup of close to fifty Open Data projects and initiatives all around the world, including continuous advisory services for the Spanish Open Data initiative. During the last six years, he has been helping governments and other organisations to engage in initiatives to release their data. He has participated in the development of pioneer Open Data methodologies and conducted diverse research and measurement studies. Some examples are several Open Data readiness assessments, the Open Data Barometer or the Open Data in Development Countries state of the art study. Carlos is also an active participant at various global communities and working groups related to Open Government, Open Data and the Web, such as the World Wide Web Consortium, the Open Knowledge Network, the World Bank community of expert consultants, the OGP Open Data working group or the ISA programme for interoperability solutions at the European level.Barbara UbaldiOECD, France / Italy -- Websiteoecd.org/gov/open-government-data-review-of-poland.htm -- Barbara has extensive experience on digital government, ICT and knowledge management acquired working in international contexts. She served for over seven years as Programme Officer at the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs in New York where she was responsible for the full scale management of technical cooperation programmes. Since 2009, Barbara has led the the OECD work on Digital Government within the Division for Public Sector Reform of the Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate. In this capacity, Barbara has managed a number of thematic reviews on digital government and participated in several Public Governance Reviews, which include Denmark, Greece, Mexico, Italy, Estonia, Egypt, Spain and France. Barbara co-ordinates the work on the use of new technologies, social media and Open Data in governments (OGD) to enhance the public sector’s openness and innovation. Specifically on OGD, Barbara oversees the development of the OECD OURdata index, which assesses governments' efforts to implement open data in three critical areas: Openness, Usefulness and Re-usability of government data.Mor RubinsteinOpen Knowledge, Community Coordinator / coordonnatrice communautaire, UK / Royaume-Uni -- 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 as a research assistant. Prior to her work at Open Knowledge she used to work as a community coordinator at the Israeli Open Data NGO, The Public Knowledge Workshop (in which she still volunteers in even today). As part of her work there she helped to organise national advocacy campaigns in Israel. Mor holds a BA in Politics and Jewish History from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a MSc. in Social Science of the Internet from the Oxford Internet Institute, where she focused on open government data measurements in Europe.Eric V. SwansonOpen Data Watch, Inc., Co-Founder and Director of Research, USA / États-Unis -- Open Data Watch is a not-for-profit, non-governmental organization founded by three development data specialists. The Open Data Watch team has extensive experience in development data management and statistical capacity building in developing countries. We are committed to making high-quality data open and available in all countries and development agencies. My current project is an Open Data Inventory (ODIN), which evaluates the coverage and openness of official statistics offerings of developing countries.The challenge: While the practice of open data is becoming widespread and the potential impacts and benefits of open data are frequently discussed, evidence on the actual release, use and impact of open data remains limited and fragmented. To tackle this evidence gap, a range of different efforts have emerged to measure the various aspects of open data, yet little coordination exists among them. We need to be able to compare and evaluate the outcomes of open data initiatives and the impact of open data on key issues such as the effectiveness of government spending, how governments perform their programs, and success rates of public initiatives, and the fight against corruption, amongst others. Governments, developers, researchers and civil society are continuously seeking for both quantitative and qualitative evidence that can be used to inform analysis, benchmark performance, and improve practice. For that to be possible a deeper understanding of the whole value chain of open data is required. Clear, rigorous and relevant approaches to measuring progress towards open data, including readiness, implementation, use and impacts, are vitally important to drive continued improvement in practice. Common and global measurement methods are needed that can shed light on the ways in which open data can better deliver its economic and social change promise. That in turns requires collaboration among existing and emerging studies and organizations, securing the best use of available resources to deliver a set of relevant questions and methods for building an useful global evidence base.Capacity BuildingBuild capacity for all_135ed61c-10b3-11e5-9afe-030d1ab4f4f1Action Area 8Action AnchorsAction anchors are taking a lead on shaping the conversation in the run up to the conference, and facilitating the conference session. They will be blogging about the key issues to be address, and existing initiatives that respond to the challenges in this area.Michael CanaresStep Up Consulting, Managing Consultant, Philippines -- Websitesteupconsultants.com -- Michael Cañares is managing consultant of Step Up Consulting based in the Philippines. He manages five research projects related to open data: the Open LGU Research Project which looks into open data initiatives at the local level in the Philippines; an agency-readiness assessment on open data of Philippine national departments; two synthesis papers -- one on Open Data and Intermediaries and another on Open Data at the Sub-national Level; and action research on modes of capacity building on open data for civil society organizations. He also works part-time as project manager of the Web Foundation’s Open Data Lab Jakarta.Zara RahmanOpen Knowledge, Germany -- Websiteschoolofdata.org/ -- Zara is based in Berlin, Germany, and leads work on School of Data's Fellowship scheme, working to build up data literacy among civil society and journalists around the world. Prior to her role with School of Data, she led work on the Open Development Toolkit, focusing on making aid data useful to those in aid-recipient countries, and before joining Open Knowledge in 2013, she worked as a researcher at OpenOil working on transparency and governance in the extractive industries. Zara holds British and Bangladeshi nationalities, and speaks fluent French, Spanish, and German.Ania CalderónCoordination of National Digital Strategy in the Office in the President of Mexico, General Director of Open Data, 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, Digital Inclusion and Innovation for Resilience initiatives. She holds a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from Columbia University with a specialization on Urban Policy and International Media Advocacy and Information and Communication Technologies, and obtained the Fulbright-García Robles fellowship. She was part of the Digital Government Delegation of the Transition Team of the President-Elect (2012-2018) of Mexico. Before this, Ania was co-founder of Pase Usted AC, a non-profit organization focused on creating platforms to promote citizen engagement around the public agenda of Mexico City. She directed the program Genera, "technology for the city", an incubator of digital innovation projects that seek to improve the quality of urban life.Marcio VasconcelosAvina Foundation, Chief Technology for Social Change / Premier dirigeant de la technologie du changement social, Brazil / Brésil -- Márcio Vasconcelos is the Chief Technology for Social Change at Fundación Avina (www.avina.net), is responsible for harnessing the potential of ICTs at Avina’s programs. He is also the General Coordinator of Latin American Civic Innovation Accelerator Fund (appcivico.net/), and alliance with Omidyar Network to foster civic software development. Mr. Vasconcelos is also a civil society representative for Latin America at OGP Open Data Working Group Steering Committee and co-lead its Capacity-Building workstream. He is the co-author of "Techyredes: Methods to boost social networks dedicated to causes using web tools and interaction protocols" (techyredes.wordpress.com/).Enrique Zapata B. PérezOffice of the President, Director of Public Innovation, Mexico / Mexique -- Director of Public Innovation of the Coordination of National Digital Strategy in the Office of the President of Mexico, where he is one of the main responsible of the development and implementation of the Mexican Open Data Policy. Enrique holds a Master of Public Policy from the University of Oxford, with specialization in economic development, and obtained the British Council’s Chevening Scholarship. Previously, he worked at the Mexican Ministry of Economy, where he was responsible of coordinating the North American Competitiveness Agenda and trade negotiations with Asia Pacific. He was part of the editorial board of the Global section for one of the main newspapers in Mexico. Internationalist from Universidad Iberoamericana, he is part of the Mexican Council of Foreign Affairs.The challenge: When it comes to open data, nobody should be left behind. While some countries and cities possess the technical capability, relevant skills and social capital to implement open data initiatives quickly and easily, in other parts of the world capacity is constrained, and resources scarce. It is incumbent upon those who are already advanced in the world of open data to support those hoping to take advantage of data’s potential benefits. It is also important to avoid a one-size-fits-all approach to capacity building: identifying ‘best fit’ strategies for different countries, contexts and domains. Thinking about the open data ecosystem in terms of both supply and demand, there are two largely separate audiences to be addressed by capacity building initiatives. On the supply side are governments, who might need support in opening up their own data, incorporating it into their own workflows, and using it internally. On the other, are what could be called "data intermediaries" and users -- civil society, and journalists who need the skills to be able to understand how to use the data in their work, and make those results accessible to the public. Only by supporting both sides of the ecosystem can we ensure that open data lives up to its full potential. By supporting global and local programs for data literacy, capacity building, and public service training, civil society organizations, governments (national and sub-national), the private sector, media and citizens can help to ensure that open data can have a positive impact on the lives of all people, regardless of where they live.2015-05-282015-05-292015-06-11http://opendatacon.org/roadmap/OwenAmburOwen.Ambur@verizon.net