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| - | This section is adapted from "[[Working paper on Open Development Initiative Strategy V.2]]https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GsdCqMbdKGqloQNK81JowbxIRlhuYqgwX0zBftOvEng/edit," last updated: 3 March 2016 | + | This section is adapted from "[[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GsdCqMbdKGqloQNK81JowbxIRlhuYqgwX0zBftOvEng/edit|Working paper on Open Development Initiative strategy V.2]]," last updated: 3 March 2016 |
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| + | ====== About Open Development Initiative ====== | ||
| - | ==== **About Open Development Initiative** ==== | ||
| We are network of organizations co-managing a common open data and open knowledge platform aggregating and sharing information, maps and data to illuminate development trends in the Mekong region at country and regional levels. The platform and network are coordinated by East West Management Institute’s Open Development Initiative, which also produces the regional website. Country websites are managed by local partners. To date, these are Open Development Cambodia, based in Phnom Penh; PanNature, managing Open Development Vietnam, in Hanoi; and Phandeeyar, managing Open Development Myanmar in Yangon. (Discussions are underway in Thailand and Laos for partners in those countries.) The ODI network is also creating a complex ecosystem of partners from local to global levels, across sectors, to contribute data, linkages, and technical expertise to the platform. | We are network of organizations co-managing a common open data and open knowledge platform aggregating and sharing information, maps and data to illuminate development trends in the Mekong region at country and regional levels. The platform and network are coordinated by East West Management Institute’s Open Development Initiative, which also produces the regional website. Country websites are managed by local partners. To date, these are Open Development Cambodia, based in Phnom Penh; PanNature, managing Open Development Vietnam, in Hanoi; and Phandeeyar, managing Open Development Myanmar in Yangon. (Discussions are underway in Thailand and Laos for partners in those countries.) The ODI network is also creating a complex ecosystem of partners from local to global levels, across sectors, to contribute data, linkages, and technical expertise to the platform. | ||
| - | ==== **ODI mission** ==== | + | ==== ODI mission ==== |
| ODI stimulates public demand, builds coalitions, and offers a constantly evolving platform to support the transparent sharing and analysis of data to improve and inform constructive dialogue and decision making for sustainable and equitable development. | ODI stimulates public demand, builds coalitions, and offers a constantly evolving platform to support the transparent sharing and analysis of data to improve and inform constructive dialogue and decision making for sustainable and equitable development. | ||
| - | ==== **Open Development approach** ==== | + | ==== Open Development approach ==== |
| //**Flagship project: Open Development Cambodia**// | //**Flagship project: Open Development Cambodia**// | ||
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| //Why are we here? How did we come to be?// | //Why are we here? How did we come to be?// | ||
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| //**Objective, apolitical, and cross-sectorial "open data" approach**// | //**Objective, apolitical, and cross-sectorial "open data" approach**// | ||
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| //Why a broad and objective “open data” approach?// | //Why a broad and objective “open data” approach?// | ||
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| The unified platform, based on a centralized CKAN database supporting multiple websites with shared standards and branding, was agreed between initial network partners in 2014. The approach natively supports crowd-sourcing data, facilitates transborder views, and creates a reliable brand, which in turn improves uptake and creates its own security. | The unified platform, based on a centralized CKAN database supporting multiple websites with shared standards and branding, was agreed between initial network partners in 2014. The approach natively supports crowd-sourcing data, facilitates transborder views, and creates a reliable brand, which in turn improves uptake and creates its own security. | ||
| - | ==== **Open Development Network dynamics, roles, and responsibilities** ==== | + | ==== Open Development Network dynamics, roles, and responsibilities ==== |
| The central platform is managed by the EWMI’s ODI team, while country websites are managed by country network members, in a coalition-franchise model. | The central platform is managed by the EWMI’s ODI team, while country websites are managed by country network members, in a coalition-franchise model. | ||
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| * participate in platform development and shared planning; | * participate in platform development and shared planning; | ||
| * identify, initiate and manage country level data-sharing and technical partnerships; | * identify, initiate and manage country level data-sharing and technical partnerships; | ||
| - | raise and manage their own funds, seeking assistance and participating in co-funding strategies with EWMI-ODI, as needed. | + | * raise and manage their own funds, seeking assistance and participating in co-funding strategies with EWMI-ODI, as needed. |
| * promote the platform to increase users and improve engagement and data uptake and use. This includes interfacing with the “open” movement especially on country level. | * promote the platform to increase users and improve engagement and data uptake and use. This includes interfacing with the “open” movement especially on country level. | ||
| - | ==== **Prioritized users**==== | + | ==== Prioritized users==== |
| * Front-end (website) targeted users are journalists, students/youth, private sector and citizen groups. Journalists/media, including citizen journalists and social media influencers, are particularly prioritized because of the role they play in utilizing data and data visualizations to produce better-informed stories which will reach a broader public. The goal is to move from limited, case-based news to broader and more analytical stories on trends, supported by data. | * Front-end (website) targeted users are journalists, students/youth, private sector and citizen groups. Journalists/media, including citizen journalists and social media influencers, are particularly prioritized because of the role they play in utilizing data and data visualizations to produce better-informed stories which will reach a broader public. The goal is to move from limited, case-based news to broader and more analytical stories on trends, supported by data. | ||
| * Prioritized back-end users are research and technical groups who can can add reliable data to the database, also meeting database standards, and bring their expertise to bear on vetting data (in their own areas). An anticipated, parallel discussion platform is intended to engender discussion and collaboration on new research, improving data, and contributing to shared datasets. | * Prioritized back-end users are research and technical groups who can can add reliable data to the database, also meeting database standards, and bring their expertise to bear on vetting data (in their own areas). An anticipated, parallel discussion platform is intended to engender discussion and collaboration on new research, improving data, and contributing to shared datasets. | ||
| - | ==== **What we don't do** ==== | + | ==== What we don't do ==== |
| * We are not an advocacy group, although we may advocate our own interests, for instance, in regard to open data, telecoms and internet access and use, and access to and re-use and redistribution of information. | * We are not an advocacy group, although we may advocate our own interests, for instance, in regard to open data, telecoms and internet access and use, and access to and re-use and redistribution of information. | ||
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| * We are not a training group, per se, although we do train partners, both country managers/network members and data contributors. We may also provide training and educational materials via the website and may conduct training in regard to the use of the platform and its tools to the broader public. | * We are not a training group, per se, although we do train partners, both country managers/network members and data contributors. We may also provide training and educational materials via the website and may conduct training in regard to the use of the platform and its tools to the broader public. | ||
| - | ==== **How can we insure that the platform has strategic impact?** ==== | + | ==== How can we insure that the platform has strategic impact? ==== |
| * **Platform** - providing compelling, timely, relevant information products at both country and regional level and making the platform easy to navigate and use; | * **Platform** - providing compelling, timely, relevant information products at both country and regional level and making the platform easy to navigate and use; | ||
| * **Partnerships** – identifying, prioritizing and nurturing those partnerships to enable crowd-sourcing and dispersed content development, based on needed expertise and commitment to a common approach. | * **Partnerships** – identifying, prioritizing and nurturing those partnerships to enable crowd-sourcing and dispersed content development, based on needed expertise and commitment to a common approach. | ||
| - | Positioning – maintaining an objective voice and agnostic presentation of data and information while also informing analysis, especially through effective data visualizations. Also identifying and participating in the national and international movements to create demand for open data. | + | |
| + | * **Positioning** – maintaining an objective voice and agnostic presentation of data and information while also informing analysis, especially through effective data visualizations. Also identifying and participating in the national and international movements to create demand for open data. | ||
| * **Promotion** – proselytzing for open data and our platform through events, social media, and trainings. Social media should be a key element of our promotional planning, particularly related to improving our visibility and user engagement with Facebook. Similarly promoting use of the platform to journalists and social media influencers is key. | * **Promotion** – proselytzing for open data and our platform through events, social media, and trainings. Social media should be a key element of our promotional planning, particularly related to improving our visibility and user engagement with Facebook. Similarly promoting use of the platform to journalists and social media influencers is key. | ||
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| * **Planning** - internally and with partners, to set specific, shared objectives, and prioritize and organize work for the coming year, and | * **Planning** - internally and with partners, to set specific, shared objectives, and prioritize and organize work for the coming year, and | ||
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| * **People** - a staffing and recruitment strategy that will help us meet our objectives. | * **People** - a staffing and recruitment strategy that will help us meet our objectives. | ||
| - | ==== **Strategic content priorities** ==== | + | ==== Strategic content priorities ==== |
| To remain of high relevance, EWMI-ODI must be responsive to and driven by the development trends with the greatest potential impacts at both country and regional level. | To remain of high relevance, EWMI-ODI must be responsive to and driven by the development trends with the greatest potential impacts at both country and regional level. | ||
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| While priorities are identified annually the ODI network also needs to remain responsive to critical issues as they emerge. | While priorities are identified annually the ODI network also needs to remain responsive to critical issues as they emerge. | ||
| - | ==== **Strategic platform development priorities** ==== | + | ==== Strategic platform development priorities ==== |
| In addition to ensuring an easy, enjoyable and educational user experience, it is also critical to provide tools and processes that will: | In addition to ensuring an easy, enjoyable and educational user experience, it is also critical to provide tools and processes that will: | ||
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