How can open data be used to reduce poverty and corruption? Pernilla Näsfors, transparency and social media manager at Sida - the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, shows different open data sources, standards and APIs and some interesting crowdsourcing and open source projects that support global development and democracy. A talk given at #ggm12 - Geek Girl Meetup at Tekniska Muséet in Stockholm 26 May 2012

1. Open Data for a
Better World
Geek Girl Meetup 2012-05-26
#GGM12 Stockholm
Pernilla Näsfors
Twitter: @pernillan
pernillan.se <3

2. Save the world?
- How can open data corruption?
reduce poverty and
be used to
- Projects using open data, APIs, to
crowdsourcing and open source
support global development and
democracy
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3. Open Data
A piece of content or data is
open if anyone is...
free to use, reuse,
and redistribute it
...subject only, at most, to
the requirement to attribute
and/or share-alike.
– opendefinition.org

4. #OData
Open government data
Open standards #OpenGov
#REST
Public Sector Information
APIs
#PSI
#XML
Open Data
#OpenData
Open aid #IATI
Open development
#OKFest Open knowledge #ICT4D
Open source
Open innovation
#FOSS

5. Openaid.se

6. Openaid.se
- Hub forSwedish development
about
statistics and documents
cooperation from the 70s until today
- Open aid – Open API

7. IATI =
International
Aid
Transparency
Initiative

9. Open
Aid
Maps
- Geocoded
Malawi Aid
- Poverty
statistics

10. Akvo.org
- Open source as a service
- Built to improveaid projects and
visualization of
transparency
- Akvo FLOW –etc. that can betime,
geolocation
pictures, video,
verified against digital certificates

11. Ushahidi.com
- Ushahidi = testimony in Swahili
- DevelopedKenya after the of
violence in
to map reports
post-
election fallout in 2008
- Activism, citizen journalism and
geotagging using open source

12. FrontlineSMS.com
- Send SMS to big groups
- Free and Open Source Software
- Used together with Ushahidi on e.g.
Harassmap.org

13. ipaidabribe.com
- Report a bribe where you had
to pay
when and
- Spin-offs like ipaidabribe.or.ke

15. #ICT4D =
Information and
Communication
Technologies for
Development

16. #OKFEST =
OGDcamp + OKCon.
Helsinki, Finland.
17-22 Sept 2012.
- Open Knowledge in Action
- Open Development stream with
Open Aid Hackathon

17. Thank You!
Now go and save
the world!
pernilla.nasfors@sida.se
pernilla@openhearted.se
Pernilla Näsfors
Twitter: @pernillan
pernillan.se <3