The sharing track provides an opportunity for in-depth discussions and hands-on workshops on specific open data issues.
Slides from a number of sessions are available below.
- Session: Data Publishing Methods
- Session: Mapping the Opportunities and Challenges of Civic Tech Communities
- Session: Money in Politics: Political Finance Regimes Across the Globe from an Open Data Perspective
- Session: Open Aid Data
- Session: Open Contracting Data Standard: From Design to Action
- Session: Open Data + Right to Information = Right to Data
- Session: Open Data Advocacy Clinic
- Session: Open Data for Public Participation – Canada’s Digital Diplomacy Experience
- Session: Open Dialogue on Open Government – Opening up the Data
- Session: Opening Data, Protecting Privacy
- Session: Post-2015 Data Test
- Session: School of Data
- Session: What Happens After the Hack: Canada’s Approach to National Hackathons
Blog posts
- Open Data for Public Participation – Canada’s Digital Diplomacy Experience June 9, 2015 – A guest post by Mélanie Brunet. Canada’s digital diplomacy experience was the subject of a panel at the 3rd International Open Data Conference, an interesting intermingling of academic research, data science, and diplomacy. Martha McLean of the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (DFATD) defined digital diplomacy as the application of new technology and social media to traditional diplomacy, … Read More
- Civic tech leaders from around the world gather to discuss opportunities and challenges June 5, 2015 – A guest post from Madeleine McGreevy, reflecting on the Civic Tech panel at IODC15. Key #civictech strategy is to build partnerships w/ local community organizations #IODC15 @opendatacon pic.twitter.com/I0cwvgocpk — Madeleine McGreevy (@mermadeleine) May 29, 2015 “Civic tech” refers to apps, platforms and other software that spur civic engagement to build better communities. Key civic tech goals include open and improved … Read More
- Publishing Open Data for Availability and Accessibility June 5, 2015 – A guest post by Mélanie Brunet and Lynne McAvoy on a sharing session from IODC15. Packed room at #IODC15 for the "Data Publishing Methods" workshop. pic.twitter.com/6Ma8R6gtxd — Tariq Khokhar (@tkb) May 29, 2015 Making data available is one thing, doing it well is another. How data is published has a big influence on it’s accessibility and usability. Moderated by Steven Da Costa of Open … Read More
- CKANCon pre-event digs into data portals June 3, 2015 – A guest post from Ashley Cassovan about the CKANCon 2015 IODC pre-event. CKANCon 2015 was a great opportunity for the international CKAN Community to gather and discuss current questions and the future plans of the open source data portal software as well as learn more about the new CKAN Association. From detailed presentations about adding spatial capabilities to CKAN to the … Read More
- The global push for (open) data: what next for developing countries? May 31, 2015 – A guest post from Ahmed Tareq Rashid reflecting on panels on ‘Delivering the International Open Data Charter’ and ‘Global Partnership on the Data Revolution for Sustainable Development’ The Third International Open Data Conference showcased the tremendous interest in open data by governments, civil society organizations, funding agencies, practitioners and academics. Particularly impressive was the number of government representatives and civil society activists … Read More
- ONE Campaign announces call to Open Data community to track progress of UN Sustainable Development Goals at IODC 2015 May 29, 2015 – A cross-post from David McNair, ONE.org As world leaders prepare to launch a new set of global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aimed at ending extreme poverty by 2030, we have joined forces with the Citizen Cyberscience Centre and SciFabric to launch an open call for ideas on how crowdsourcing can help tackle extreme poverty, corruption and gender inequality. The Open … Read More
- Introducing the OGP Explorer May 29, 2015 – A cross-post from Paul Maasen, OGP. Today OGP is launching a new tool, the OGP Explorer. The core idea behind the OGP Explorer is to give the OGP community – civil society, academics, governments, journalists – easy access to the wealth of data that OGP has collected. It will make it much easier to answer questions like: What have countries … Read More
- Donors create fund to support Open Data for Development May 29, 2015 – Open Data offers an important opportunity to support development goals and spur new social innovation. Recognizing the need for open data work that enhances global cooperation, reduces duplication, and supports the scaling of development solutions that work, a group of Donors have joined together to support a program that funds innovative open data initiatives around the developing world. The initial … Read More
- How entrepreneurs and civil society organizations are collaboratively mapping open data use May 29, 2015 – A guest post from Joel Gurin & Laura Manley of the Center for Open Data Enterprise Yesterday, the Center for Open Data Enterprise launched the Open Data Impact Map as a project of the OD4D network. The Map is a “big tent” project, designed to pull together examples of all kinds of open data use cases from around the world. It … Read More
- Network of Innovators: Expert Networking for Open Data May 29, 2015 – A guest post from Arnaud Sahuguet, Andrew Young, Beth Simone Noveck at The Governance Lab Open data is a growing but still nascent field where innovators need all the help they can get to find technical, policy, and practical expertise for opening data and translating that data into impact. At the IODC, we are testing the Network of Innovators, an expert network … Read More
Sessions
View a list of the sharing sessions below.