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Build, facilitate, celebrate: A look back at our 2015 highlights

December 23, 2015 by Open Data Labs 1 Comment

2015 is almost over, and it’s paved the way for a lot of learning for us. We took on the challenge of listing down five out of the many Lab highlights for 2015. To know what they are, read on!

    1. We celebrated our official launch!
      The Open Data Lab Jakarta officially launched on 5 February. The event at the Sari Pan Pacific Hotel in Jakarta was bustling with over 130 distinguished guests from government institutions, international and local organisations, civil society, media, and partners from across the Asia-Pacific region. Highlights of the evening included the ‘rice cutting’ ceremony, performances of Indonesian traditional dances, and guest presentations from our partners from across Indonesia, India and the Philippines. For us, this official launch emphasised our commitment to advancing open data in the Global South, particularly in Indonesia and Southeast Asia.

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    2. We facilitated the development of a regional open data agenda
      Parallel to the launch, we also held the first Regional Open Data Agenda-Setting for Asia workshop from 4 to 6 February in Jakarta. The event brought together participants working in various sectors from over eleven countries across Asia-Pacific. Joined by members of the Web Foundation Open Data team, we developed an agenda for open data for the region moving forward.This workshop was conducted as part of the Harnessing Open Data to Achieve Development Results in Africa and Asia project, and gave birth to Open Data Asia 2020, which laid the foundation for the selection and design of research projects with partners in Malaysia, Nepal, Indonesia, and the Philippines.

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    3. We moved from pilot to policy in Banda Aceh
      Our project in Banda Aceh took a leap this year. With the finish of the first two phases focusing on education and health services, we published our first Lessons Learned Paper. Additionally, in November we participated in the “GCF Knowledge Exchange and Learning Event” organised by the Asian Development Bank. Here, we experienced firsthand the growing interest in the ‘Responsive Open Data Model’ we used for this project detailed in our How-to Guide. These papers, along with results from the earlier project phases, and using inputs from case studies around the world, led to our current third phase, which delves into the creation of a legal framework for open data. Together with the City Mayor, and using the Jakarta PerGub 181/2014 as reference, the goal is to create a Perwali or City Mayor’s Decree to make government agencies in Banda Aceh proactively publish their data. This has also been brought about by findings and research showing that the most effective means to ensure the open data initiative’s sustainability is to provide a legal basis for proactive disclosure.

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    4. We helped civil society use open data for fiscal transparency
      October marked the culmination of our Open Data for Transparency (OD4T) project. Kicking off in June 2014, the OD4T project had us working with four civil society organisations from Indonesia and the Philippines, with the goal of capacitating them to effectively use open data in their fiscal transparency advocacies. With each of our partners’ and the overall projects’ lessons learned identified, we put together a Lessons Learned Paper, which inspired the How-to Guide that outlines the model we used to implement this project. We also have partner interviews in the line up and all these will be released in January 2016, so watch out for them!

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    5. We built new partnerships across Indonesia and Southeast Asia
      2015 was peppered with conferences, workshops, trainings and events. While we would love to talk about them all, a few stood out.

      • 3rd International Open Data Conference in Ottawa: our team members presented at the conference, stimulating a critical dialogue for how open data is approached in the Global South using the Lab’s on-the-ground perspectives. Quite often, we forget that the resources, cultures, organisations, and capacities differ from context to context—and this is where we also come in to test different models and see which would work best in each situation.
      • Research Partners Workshop for Southeast Asia:  as part of our Open Data Asia 2020 program, we kickstarted four new projects in the region with our partners CIPG (Indonesia – From smart to open cities), CLRG (Philippines – Follow-the-money intiative), Sinar Project (Malaysia – Capacity and tools building in countries with limited data availability), and Young Innovations (Nepal – Bridging the current information gap between parliament, government agencies, and citizens).
      • New project to introduce open data as a new tool in Banyuwangi: we are working with GIZ Transformasi and the Ministry of Administrative and Bureaucracy Reform to introduce open data to the local government and civil society in initially exploring issues like HIV/AIDS, civil registry and school registration.
      • Exploring open data as a tool to prevent corruption: in Jakarta, we are also working with GIZ and the Anti-Corruption Commission to explore ways of making asset declaration data easily accessible and usable.

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2016 is bound to be an exciting year ahead, with lots of new projects and progress happening for the Jakarta Lab. To keep track of our activities and know the latest from us, visit our project pages or follow us on Twitter @ODLabJkt!

Filed Under: Blog, Freedom of Information, Jakarta Lab, Open Data for Transparency, Projects Tagged With: #ODAsia2015, 2015, Banda Aceh, banyunwagi, jakarta, KemPAN, kpk, od4t, odasia2020, open data, recap

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  1. blog says

    April 7, 2016 at 7:05 pm

    Hello, the whole thing is going nicely here and ofcourse every one is
    sharing data, that’s actually good, keep up writing.

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