Open Data Day 2018: You are invited again!
On 04 March last year, Open Development Cambodia (ODC) successfully celebrated "Open Data Day 2017" at Emerald Hub, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. There were many participants from various background including developers, students, researchers and NGOs' staffs, who were interested in data, and would like to learn and contribute to Open Data Movement.
Mr.THY Try, ODC's Executive Director, presenting during the event Open Data Day 2017
Group photo of ODC's Executive Director with guest speaker from TechSoup and participants during the Open Data Day 2017
Having seen the success of last year event and in order to promote of Open Data movement in Cambodia, this year Open Development Cambodia (ODC) in collaboration with Open Data Communities, Open Data Activists, Open Source Enthusiast and Educator, representative of the Advocate for Free Culture & Open Knowledge in Cambodia and CSOs in both national and international, the organizer team members team is enthusiastic to organize and to welcome the public to join the International Open Data Day 2018 again under theme "Open Contacting for Sustainable Development", which will be happened on Saturday March 3rd from 8:00 to 16:30 at Emerald HUB, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
If you have an idea for using open data, want to find an interesting project to contribute towards, learn about how to visualize or analyse data or simply want to see what's happening, then definitely come participate! This year there will be an excited agenda for our participants who are interested in data sharing and in contributing to Open Data movement.
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) team is excited to welcome participants to join Open Data Day 2018.
Mr. THY Try, ODC Executive Director, and Mr. SOK Ty, ICT Specialist are holding “Open Data Day 2018” announcement.
"Your participation is a core value of Open Data Day. You are free to voice your opinions in a constructive manner. No matter your skill-set or interests, we are encouraging you to foster opportunities to learn and help the global open data community grow."
Please kindly take a look at the activity video of the International Open Data Day, which was took place in 2017 as attached below.
Register to Open Data Day 2018
Free online registration: please click here!
Tentative agenda
Date: Saturday, March 3rd, 2018
Location: Emerald HUB, 11th Floor of PPIU Building, St. 169, Sangkat Veal Vong, Khan 7 Makara, Phnom Penh. (Google Map)
Time | Activities | Facilitator |
8:00 - 8:30 | Registration | Co-organizers team |
8:30 - 8:35 | Welcoming speech | Mr.THY Try, Executive Director/Editor-in-Chief, Open Development Cambodia |
8:35 - 8:45 | Opening speech | Mr. OUM Vantharith, Advocate for Free Culture & Open Knowledge in Cambodia (TBC) |
8:45 - 9:00 | Open Development Cambodia and Open Contracting | Mr. PRUM Punwath, Data Researcher and GIS Officer, Open Development Cambodia (ODC) |
9:00 - 9:15 | Open Government Partnership (OGP) | Representative from OGP-CSO in Cambodia (TBD) |
9:15-9:30 | Important Open Contract in the Extractive industry | Ms. LIM Soklinn, Country Director, Oxfam Cambodia |
9:30 - 9:45 | Q & A | Co-organizers team |
9:45 – 10:15 | Coffee and break | ODC team |
10:15 – 10:30 | Data Approaches for Sustainability: A case of India | Mr. Vivek Anand Asokan, Research fellowship from Tokyo University, Open Development Cambodia (ODC) |
10:45–11:00 | The Danger of Open Data | Co-presenters: - Mr. WEEKS John , ODC’s Board of Director, IT/Open Source Enthusiast and Educator - Ms. PARNELL Terry, Founder of Open Development Cambodia (ODC) |
11:00 - 11:15 | Open Urban Data | Mr. SOEUNG Saran, Executive Director, Sahmakum Teang Tnaut - STT |
11.15- 11.30 | ICT4D: Open Education Platform in Cambodia | Mr. Mak Puthea, Network Coordinator of Cambodia ICT4D Network |
11:30 - 12:00 | - Q & A - Light talk and sharing experience from participants about open data in Cambodia | All participants |
12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch Break | Co-organizers team |
13:30 - 16:00 | Hackathon sessions: - Instruction of the metadata fill-in on CKAN DataHub - Announce Data Contribution | ODC Team |
16:00 - 16:30 | Closing Remarks | Representative of co-organizers |
*The agenda might be subject of amendments by the organizer, upon the necessity.
For detail information about the event, please contact to Ms. SIV Vatana, ODC Editor – Researcher by email at vatana@opendevcam.net.
