Slides of OKCon2013 Session: Connecting Open Resource Flows for Development see http://okcon.org/open-development-and-sustainability/#session-a

1. Connecting Open Resource
Flows for Development
OKCon, 16 September 2013

2. Open Data
• “A piece of data or content 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.”
• http://opendefinition.org

3. Resource flows
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Budgets
Aid
Humanitarian
Climate Finance
Extractives
• Contracts
• Organisation IDs

4. Initiatives
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EITI (extractives)
IATI (aid)
GIFT, OBI (budgets)
Open Contracting

5. Agenda
• Introduction, key concepts
• Brief introduction from each organisation
– You work in your main resource flow
– Work that crosses into other resource flows
• Challenges, opportunities
• Next steps

6. Aid
• Our main work is on the International Aid
Transparency Initiative (IATI)
• Annual Index of 67 donors
• Aid Transparency Tracker to analyse and
push improvements in data quality
• Limited work on data use

7. Aid + budgets
• Work to link the two together
• Built a visualisation to demonstrate
potential

10. Challenges and opportunities
• What can we already do/see
– Within/between resource flows
– Similarities (or not) between resource flows
• What do we need to solve
– Organisation IDs; classifications; tools
• How do we get there
– What initiatives, institutions can we work
through

11. Other events
• Tuesday 1445 - Human Centred Data:
What Should Public Spending Data Tell us?
• Wednesday 1030 – Follow the Money