{"id":1864,"date":"2016-11-17T17:43:49","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T17:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labs.webfoundation.org\/id\/southeast-asia-open-data-innovation-week-why-were-doing-it-what-its-about-and-whos-going-to-be-there\/"},"modified":"2016-11-17T17:55:07","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T17:55:07","slug":"southeast-asia-open-data-innovation-week-why-were-doing-it-what-its-about-and-whos-going-to-be-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/labs.webfoundation.org\/id\/southeast-asia-open-data-innovation-week-why-were-doing-it-what-its-about-and-whos-going-to-be-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Southeast Asia Open Data Innovation Week: Why we\u2019re doing it, what it\u2019s about, and who\u2019s going to be there"},"content":{"rendered":"

You\u2019ve hopefully come across our announcements<\/a>, but we\u2019ll still say it once again: next week, from the 22nd to the 24th of November, the Southeast Asia Open Data Innovation Week will take place!<\/b> The event is a collaboration between the Web Foundation\u2019s Open Data Lab Jakarta and Goethe-Institut Indonesien, with the support of Making All Voices Count and Ford Foundation, and aims to gather innovators from across the Asia-Pacific region. We\u2019ll be building tools to improve the design, practice and implementation of open data initiatives because we believe open data can help solve the region\u2019s most pressing social challenges. That\u2019s a real mouthful, so we broke down the highlights for you\u2014read on to learn more about why we\u2019re doing this project, or skip down to see the participants<\/b><\/a> and public event agenda<\/b><\/a>!<\/b>
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Details<\/h1>\n

Public Event Date:<\/b> 24 November 2016, 16:00 to 20:00
\nVenue:<\/b> Sequis Centre<\/a> Auditorium, 11th floor
\nReservations:<\/b> Visit our EventBrite page to reserve your ticket.<\/a><\/p>\n

Closed-door Workshop:<\/b> 22-24 November 2016
\nReservations:<\/b> By invite only.
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Why we\u2019re doing this and what we hope to achieve<\/h1>\n

Open data is not for the faint-hearted<\/a>: it requires persistence, dedication and patience not only to open up data but also make sense of it. Since our launch in 2014, we\u2019ve witnessed the growth of open data across the globe, and we at the Jakarta Lab think it\u2019s notable that open data is finally starting to evolve from a niche endeavor to the mainstream of public service delivery. More governments are implementing<\/a> it<\/a>, more civil society organisations are using it<\/a>, and more citizens are benefiting from it<\/a> than ever before.<\/p>\n

In Indonesia, this development is reflected by national and local governments proactively publishing data on the national portal<\/a> and sub-national portals from Jakarta<\/a>, Bandung<\/a> and Banda Aceh<\/a>. On the civil society front, examples of organisations working with open data include Perludem<\/a> on election data, Publish What You Pay Indonesia<\/a> on data from the extractives industry, Indonesia Procurement Watch<\/a> on procurement data, and the Jakart<\/a>a Lab<\/a>, with projects tackling fiscal transparency, health, open cities and more.<\/p>\n

However, open data has only begun to scratch the surface of its potential, and there are several factors holding back progress<\/a>. A major factor identified is the strong focus on outputs like portals, apps and platforms. While these outputs are important, many organisations and governments fail to bridge these products with social impact.<\/p>\n

With the Southeast Asia Open Data Innovation Week, our end goal is to equip the open data community with tools – and by tools we don\u2019t mean tech products but more methods, approaches and tactics – to design and implement better, more impactful open data projects in the region. Through a closed-door workshop, we will collaborate with the participants to build the \u2018open data innovation toolbox\u2019, which will have methods and approaches to help with assessing dataset usability, environment mapping, stakeholders and relations analysis, and more. At the end of it, we\u2019re holding a public event for the participants to present their tools to the public, particularly targeting those working in the innovation, tech and open data space.<\/p>\n

In the coming weeks following the workshop, we will publish all the tools in open license online for anyone and everyone to freely use and build upon.
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Participants<\/h1>\n

After our Call for Tools and with the recommendation of our partner organisations, we managed to bring together an awesome pool of 21 participants from across Southeast Asia and beyond\u2014including Australia, India, South Africa and Taiwan. The participants have varying backgrounds, expertise and skills in open data and innovation, so we\u2019re excited to see what they bring to the event!<\/p>\n

In alphabetical order of countries:<\/p>\n