Notes from the Open Data for Development Summit (OD4D Summit), part of the International Open Data Conference 2016, and held in Madrid, Spain, on 3 October 2016. More notes on this event: od4dsummit and iodc16.
Random notes during the session:
Strengthening global coordination
Coordination for what? Why coordination?
Strengths
- Ability to bridge the top-down approach with the bottom-up approach.
Weaknesses
- Regional representatives
Opportunities
- Need for asset-mapping in communities to create communities.
Threats
- Making connections shouldn’t be left to chance.
- We talk about open data but have no open resources or open tools.
The role of multi-donor coordination in open data field
Strengths
- Emerging network.
- Different expertise.
- Research done.
Weaknesses
- How donors communicate with each other.
- Target countries.
- Mainstream use of data.
Opportunities
- Better use of open data.
- Leverage existing investments in the field.
- Sectorial problem solving.
- Consolidate as a resource.
Threats
- Different proposals to different donors
- Make it sustainable
- Proliferation of global initiatives that forget about the local
- Disperse information
Exploring how we can improve gender outcomes and drive new gender and data projects
Strengths
Weaknesses
- Gender unbalances can mask the real impact of open data.
Opportunities
Threats