[governance] FW: [CivicAccess-discuss] Open Government Partnership - Virtual Participation Opportunities

Fri Apr 6 06:42:13 EDT 2012

For background on the Open Government Partnership (OGP) and Open Government
Data (OGD) see

http://www.guardian.co.uk/public-leaders-network/2012/apr/03/brasilia-2012-o
pen-government-partnership?newsfeed=true 

(BTW, the OGP is a very interesting example of an emerging global
multi-stakeholder partnership with normative, advocacy, and training
components -- and others likely to emerge quite quickly out of this event
and those that will follow...

For a somewhat more skeptical/critical/community informatics based
perspective on OGD see below (and other of my blogposts on OGD

http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2010/09/02/open-data-empowering-the-empowered-
or-effective-data-use-for-everyone/

http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2011/07/03/are-the-open-data-warriors-fighting
-for-robin-hood-or-the-sheriff-some-reflections-on-okcon-2011-and-the-emergi
ng-data-divide/

http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2011/07/11/a-data-divide-data-%E2%80%9Chaves%E
2%80%9D-and-%E2%80%9Chave-nots%E2%80%9D-and-open-government-data/

The Journal of Community Informatics http://ci-journal.net will be
publishing a special issue on Community Informatics and Open Government Data
next week in anticipation of the OGP meeting in Brasilia...

M

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Subject: [CivicAccess-discuss] Open Government Partnership - Virtual
Participation Opportunities

Hello everyone:

The first annual meeting of the Open Government Partnership
www.opengovpartnership.org/ is taking place in Brasilia on April 17-18,
2012! Many people working on open government may not be able to attend in
person, so the OGP has worked with a number of external partners to come up
with numerous ways for you to participate virtually from wherever you may
be. Here are some of the online activities that OGP will be hosting during
the annual meeting in Brasilia. Please join us online on April 17-18!

Online Content. The program and materials provided to those in Brasilia will
be available on the OGP website in advance of the meeting.  Photos from the
event will be posted each day of the event.  OGP will also publish blog
posts summarizing each day's events and outcomes. Want to view the OGP
meeting materials? 

Visit the meeting page! 

Webcast & Interviews. From the speeches given by world leaders to the
breakout panel discussions with open government practitioners, all of the
activities in Brasilia will be broadcast live on the web.  During breaks in
the program, the webcast will feature live interviews with presenters,
government representatives, and open government leaders in attendance.
Online viewers will be able to pose questions to those being interviewed.

Live Chat. Alongside the webcast, OGP will host a live chat where visitors
can post comments directly. 

Tweets and 

Facebook updates discussing the OGP meeting will also be viewable in the
chat (be sure to use hashtag #OGPBrasilia2012 and #OGP2012 on Twitter). We
will poll viewers in real-time to see who is watching, where they are, what
their interests are, and what are their thoughts on the program. We will
also provide analysis of the conversation happening via social media. Want
to participate in the webcast and live chat? 

Please register!Guardian Digital Hub. 

Guardian Public Leaders Network, the digital media partner for the annual
meeting in Brasilia, developed an 

OGP digital hub supporting the online coverage of the upcoming OGP Brasilia
2012 Annual Meeting. The hub features articles from co-chairs Maria Otero
and Jorge Hage, interviews and interactive content. During the event
Guardian will be blogging live from Brasilia, posting exclusive videos and
providing expert analysis on the key issues arising at the meeting. For more
information please visit the 

 Guardian OGP Digital Hub.  

Meetup Everywhere. We are also encouraging open government practitioners
around the world to get together in person to watch the event and discuss
ways to move open government forward at the local level. 

These Meetups can help move the discussion in Brasilia, online and at home.
If you live in Washington, DC (US), Capetown (South Africa), London (UK), or
Nairobi (Kenya), you can join the local Meetups that have already been set
up and you can find information on them here: 

www.meetup.com/Open-Gov-Partnership.

Transparency Hack Day. Daniela Silva from Transparency Hacker, Brazil will
be providing notes on the event throughout the two days of transparency
hacking during the OGP Annual Meeting. The "Hack Day" will be covered via
Webcast, Live Twitting and Blogging.  For more information on the Hack Day,
please see 

a description here.

Innovation Village. Felipe Heusser, Director of 

Ciudadano Inteligente will be covering the Innovation Village session with
live interviews that will be broadcasted via our webcast, and Alex Howard,
from 

O'Reilly Media will be conducting interviews with the speakers and
panelists. For more information on the innovation village, please see our 

call for village participants.

Recognizing our Partners. None of this would be possible without the support
of several key organizations that are contributing their time and energy to
the OGP meeting at little or substantially reduced cost.  The Open
Government Partnership would like to express our gratitude to the following
groups for their help with all of the interactive features described above:

* Global Voices/AmericaSpeaks - Live Blogging/Tweeting* One Counts - Web
Cast* Global Integrity - Meet Ups* World Bank Institute - Twitter Cloud*
Ciudadano Inteligente - Blogging* Transparency Hacker - Multimedia Wall,
Blogging* Guardian Media - Digital Hub* O'Reilly Media - Live Online
Coverage  

Harvey Low on behalf of Paulina Ibarra of OGP  
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