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Six Models for the Internet + Politics Harvard Kennedy School Professor Archon Fung reviews patterns of political activity through Internet platforms, based on his recent publication "Six Models for the Internet + Politics".
Date:
December 13,
2012
Time: 12:30-2:00pm
Location: IMF HQ2 9B-073
(New IMF building)
Washington DC USA 2012 Global Sanitation Hackathon This December civic technologists will team up with subject matter experts in an intensive marathon to find innovative solutions to challenges facing the sanitation sector.
Date:
December 1-2,
2012
Time: All day
Location: Worldwide Using ICT for Improved Transparency in Bank-Financed Projects The rapid spread of ICTs, combined with a global trend towards increased public transparency, offers unprecedented opportunities for task teams to make Bank-financed projects more transparent, accountable and effective.
Date:
November 13,
2012
Time: 12:30-2:00pm
Location: World Bank Headquarters
MC C2-125 Cairo Transport App Challenge The Cairo Transport App Challenge is a multi-month process designed to engage experts in the field of transport and urban development alongside experts from the volunteer technology community in order to conceptualize and build solutions to pressing sectorial development challenges.
Date:
October 26-15,
2012
Time: All day
Location: Cairo Open Knowledge Festival The Open Knowledge Festival is a week of participatory sessions, keynote lectures, workshops, hackathons and satellite events in Helsinki.
Date:
September 17-22,
2012
Time: All day
Location: Helsinki, Finland m2Work Hackathon infoDev is hosting a global m2Work Hackathon in five countries on September 15-16, 2012, where talented ideators will have the chance to connect with fellow developers and build working prototypes with market appeal.
Date:
September 15-16,
2012
Time: All day
Location: Worldwide Coding For Democracy This 3-day hackathon, sponsored by the Open Data and Democracy Initiative (ODADI), will generate widespread interest and awareness among programmers, the media, activists, and other constituencies in the Western Cape and begin development of a wide range of open data solutions to pressing governance concerns.
Date:
August 3-5,
2012
Time: All day
Location: Cape Town, South Africa Open Government Ecosystem: Way Forward for Russia This workshop is aimed at supporting key stakeholders in Russia in their efforts to build the different components of an ecosystem around Open Government innovations by bringing international expertise as well as highlighting relevant work in Russia.
Date:
June 27,
2012
Time: 10:00-18:00 Moscow Time
Location: World Bank Office, Moscow Human Geography Data and Mapping for Economic Development and Livelihoods This meeting of the World-Wide Human Geography Data Working Group (WWHGD) is designed to build voluntary partnerships around human geography data and mapping focused on the general principle of making appropriate information available to promote human security.
Date:
June 27,
2012
Time: All day
Location: World Bank
1818 H St NW
Washington DC USA Mobilizing Knowledge Networks Conference This conference explores ways to become better providers and connectors of knowledge in a world where the sources of knowledge are increasingly diverse and disbursed.
Date:
June 19-20,
2012
Time:
Location: 1818 H St NW
Washington DC 20433 3rd e-Agriculture Forum New ICT tools such as mobile phones, GIS, repositories and a variety of software applications are making data collection and monitoring and evaluation (M&E) activities easier and less expensive to implement. This forum explores how these tools can be used, along with the challenges associated.
Date:
June 11-22,
2012
Time: All Day
Location: E-Agriculture.org Transatlantic Conference on Transparency Research The purpose of this conference is to bring together researchers from North-America and Europe in order to exchange the latest findings and insights concerning transparency and open government.
Date:
June 7-9,
2012
Time:
Location: Utrecht University
Utrecht, Netherlands Health Data Initiative Forum III: The Health Datapalooza The Health Data Initiative (HDI) Forum is a public-private collaboration that encourages innovators to utilize health data to develop applications that raise awareness of health system performance and spark community action to improve health. The 2012 Forum is the third annual event and will be the largest yet.
Date:
June 5-6,
2012
Time: All day
Location: Washington Convention Center Washington DC USA Israel ICT Innovation Day Israeli policy makers and government representatives, as well as leading IT innovators from the private sector, will present good practices and lessons learned in IT innovation for developing country contexts.
Date:
June 5,
2012
Time: 9:30am-4:15pm
Location: World Bank MC4-800
1818 H St NW
Washington DC 20433 International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2012) The dg.o meetings are an established forum for the presentation, discussion, and demonstration of interdisciplinary digital government research, technology innovation, applications, and practice.
Date:
June 4-7,
2012
Time: All day
Location: University of Maryland, College Park, MD RHoK Global Random Hacks of Kindness, a global community of developers innovating and developing practical open technology, is hosting RHoK Global 2012.
Date:
June 2-3,
2012
Time: All day
Location: World Bank Headquarters
1818 H St NW
Washington DC 20433 World Bank Development Data Challenge Please join the World Bank Finances team, the Open Aid Register, Development Gateway, Open Corporates, AidInfo, and the International Center for Journalists for an afternoon of ideation, inspiration, and learning to help unleash the untapped potential of open financial/spending data for development impact!
Date:
June 1,
2012
Time: 2-7pm
Location: 1818 H St NW
Washington DC 20433 Assessing operational impact through WBI’s Capacity Development and Results Framework - The case of DR Congo This event will present one of World Bank Institute (WBI)’s case studies based on its Capacity Development and Results Framework (CDRF) on ICT-mediated governance reform processes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where the ICT4Gov Program is supporting efforts to make budget processes more transparent and more participative through the use of mobile technology in the DRC. This event will also provide an overview of how the CDRF lens was used to examine the results chain and change processes, and will look at the ways and conditions in which ICT can maximize the ability of citizens to participate in processes that are more representative and more inclusive with the ultimate objective to improve public sector performance.
Date:
May 30,
2012
Time: 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. EDT
Location: J7-044, World Bank
1818 H St. NW, Washington, D.C. eLearning Africa The continent’s largest gathering of high-level policy makers, decision makers and practitioners from education, business and government, is taking place from 23rd to 25th May in Cotonou, Benin.
Date:
May 23-25,
2012
Time:
Location: Cotonou, Benin Moldova Open Innovation Week 2012 Moldova Open Innovation Week 2012 is a program of high profile events intended to build on the Government’s recent approval of the National Action Plan on Open Government and the launch of date.gov.md last year.
Date:
May 14-20,
2012
Time: All day
Location: Chisinau, Moldova IST-Africa 2012 Conference and Exhibition IST Africa 2012 focuses on the role of IST (information society technologies) for Africa's development to address social and economic challenges by sharing knowledge, experience, lessons learned and best practices.
Date:
May 9-11,
2012
Time:
Location: Kunduchi Beach Hotel
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Open Development: ICT for Governance in Africa Considering the Africa's complex sociopolitical evolution and economic development, how can policymakers mitigate the governance and capacity challenges faced in the region?
Date:
May 9,
2012
Time: 12:30-2pm
Location: World Bank Headquarters
1818 H St NW
Washington DC 20433 Large-Scale Citizen Feedback Mechanisms in Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil A common theme in the field of open government refers to the use of technologies as a means to foster citizen engagement. A closer examination, however, shows that most initiatives facilitated by information and communication technologies (ICT) have been characterized by low levels of citizen engagement.
Date:
May 8,
2012
Time: 12:30 - 2pm
Location: MC C2-137, World Bank Headquarters
1818 H St NW
Washington DC 20433 Workshop: New Tools in Mapping for Disaster and Development This workshop, hosted by the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) and InterAction, invites you to learn more about open geographic data and mapping tools are creating new opportunities for strengthening disaster risk reduction, humanitarian relief, and sustainable development.
Date:
May 3,
2012
Time: 1-6pm
Location: The World Bank - Preston Auditorium 1818 H St NW Washington DC USA Technologies for Social Inclusion and Civic Empowerment Explore lessons learned from VoIP Drupal and creative ways to extend access to information in 'un-connected' communities using voice-enabled web sites that answer calls, send SMS, Tweet, run polls, and help mobilize action within local neighborhoods.
Date:
May 2,
2012
Time: 12:30-2:00pm
Location: Room G8-090
World Bank "G" Building
Washington DC Check My School – Linking ICTs and Citizen Monitoring This event will address how Moldova is learning from the experience of CheckMySchool, an interactive and comprehensive digital platform about education services in the Philippines.
Date:
May 1,
2012
Time: 10-12:30pm
Location: World Bank I Bldg
Room I 2-250
1850 I "Eye" St NW
Washington DC USA The New African Democracy: Information Technology and Political Participation Join the ODTA's Joshua Goldstein and other innovators and practitioners at Johns Hopkins to discuss how ICT has advanced democratic participation, government accountability, and state-society relations in Africa.
Date:
May 1-2,
2012
Time: All day
Location: Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
1740 Mass Ave NW, Washington DC USA The Closed World of Company Data
Open data in the corporate world: Why is it important? Where are the problems? How do we solve them?
Date:
April 25,
2012
Time: 12:30-2:30pm
Location: J1-050
World Bank
Washington DC USA Transparency vs Corruption: The Internet as Disinfectant Join a team of experts, including representatives from the World Bank, George Mason University and Georgetown University in a roundtable discussion on how the Internet and other social communication technologies can be used to fight corruption.
Date:
April 17,
2012
Time: 9-10:30am EST
Location: George Mason University
3351 Fairfax Drive
Arlington VA 22201 The New Ambiguity of Open Government “Open government” used to carry a hard political edge: It referred to politically sensitive disclosures of government information. However, over the last few years, this traditional meaning and the boundaries between the technologies of open data and the politics of open government have blurred.
Date:
April 12,
2012
Time: 12:30-2pm EST
Location: World Bank Headquarters
1818 H St NW ICT in Governance - Where Are the Results? This event focuses on results emerging from an ongoing evaluation of the World Bank Institute's ICT4Gov project that supports participatory budgeting using technologies in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Date:
April 12,
2012
Time: 12:30 - 2pm
Location: World Bank
Room J9-044
Washington DC Open Government: ICT for Citizen Engagement This webinar, organized by the ICT4Gov Program at the World Bank Institute, will provide a comprehensive overview of how governments may reap the benefits gained from citizen engagement and how technology may enhance these processes. It shall look at concrete cases of ICT-facilitated citizen engagement, and how they can be replicated and scaled within different contexts.
Date:
March 22,
2012
Time: 9-10am EST
Location: World Bank Webinar International Video-Seminar on Open Budget Data This workshop will provide the stakeholders in Moldova and Macedonia jointly with international experts and an international audiences joining by video and live webcast to discuss next steps in the area of open budget data in the context of Moldova and Macedonia’s emerging open government ecosystems, based on an overview of international best practices in this area.
Date:
March 12,
2012
Time: 10am-12pm EST
Location: World Bank
1818 H St NW 20006 ICT Learning Days As part of the 2012 Social Development Network (SDN) Forum, the ICT sector of the World Bank is excited to host two ICT Learning Days, February 29 and March 1, featuring a series of lectures, workshops and lunches that highlight the use of technologies in development projects.
Date:
February 29-1,
2012
Time: All Day
Location: World Bank Headquarters
1818 H St NW
Washington DC 20433 Workshop on ICT for Social Accountability Join the teams from Social Accountability, Demand for Good Governance, and ODTA as we discuss the various uses of ICT to enhance social accountability in the East Asia / Pacific region (EAP).
Date:
February 28,
2012
Time: 2:30-3:30pm
Location: 1818 H St NW
Washington DC 20433 Open Government Partnership: Preparing National Action Plans As part of the World Bank supported knowledge exchange on Open Government, this workshop aims to provide a core group of policy makers from Macedonia and Moldova and other countries with relevant and timely input based on experiences of leading countries, such as Brazil, the United Kingdom and USA.
Date:
February 28,
2012
Time: 9 - 11:30am
Location: World Bank
JB1-075 ICT Day at the 2012 SDN Forum The 2012 edition of the SDN (Sustainable Development Network) Forum kicks off on February 21. The week-long event features the ICT Sector Day on February 23, for which registration is now open. The keynote speaker is Vivek Kundra, former U.S. CIO, followed by discussions involving several World Bank Directors and champions of ICT.
Date:
February 23,
2012
Time: 8am - 5:30pm
Location: World Bank Headquarters
1818 H St NW
Washington DC 20433 Brown Bag Lunch: Open Government Partnership You are cordially invited to a presentation on the Open Government Partnership initiative by Caroline Mauldin, of the U.S Department of State and Juan Pardinas, General Director of the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness, civil society representative for Mexico at OGP Steering Committee. Nathaniel Heller, Executive Director of Global Integrity will serve as discussant.
Date:
February 14,
2012
Time: 12:30 - 2:00pm
Location: MC C2-131
World Bank Headquarters Open Government and Transparency: The UK Experience You are cordially invited to a presentation on the UK's experience of Open Data and Government Transparency by Francis Maude, MP, the UK’s Minister for the Cabinet Office. Mr Maude is responsible for taking forward the UK Government’s transparency agenda. One example is the UK’s new Government Licensing Framework, under which management of Government intellectual property defaults to be open and free.
Date:
January 30,
2012
Time: 12:30 - 1:40 p.m. EST
Location: 701 18th Street, NW
J1-080 (J Building)
Washington, DC 20433 The Aakash, India's $35 Tablet for Education and Development The Aakash has been described by supporters as heralding a new 'Internet revolution' within Indian education, with the potential to be as revolutionary for educational computing as the mobile phone has been for personal communications, prompting this discussion about the future of the device.
Date:
December 8,
2011
Time: 1pm - 3:30pm EST
Location: Washington, DC Mapping and Technology to Improve Governance of Natural Resources To facilitate a knowledge exchange, the World Bank Institute’s Governance for Extractive Industries team (GEI) invites you to a panel and open-format workshop event in Washington DC, on using ICT tools for better governance in the extractive sector and explore next steps for available mapping tools.
Date:
December 6,
2011
Time: 2pm - 3:45pm EST
Location: Washington, DC Old Meets New: Community Radio for Transparency and Accountability Radio not only brings information to people; it is also gives voice to people. This event features public radio icon Bill Siemering, President of Developing Radio Partners, exploring concrete examples in Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia and Sierra Leone of the use of community radio in fostering transparency.
Date:
November 29,
2011
Time: 12:30pm - 2pm EST
Location: Washington, DC Open Information Solutions for the Urban Poor The World Bank Institute (WBI) has launched a work program exploring current approaches using ICT for empowering the urban poor. This event will present some examples of the use of ICT in low-income areas with a particular focus on lessons learned.
Date:
November 22,
2011
Time: 12:30pm - 2pm EST
Location: Washington, DC WaterHackathon Challenging water experts and software developers from around the world to co-create the innovative solutions needed to help solve today's water problems.
Date:
October 21-23,
2011
Time: All Day
Location: Global sites,
Cairo, Nairobi, Bangalore,
Kampala, Washington DC, London
Open Government Data in Developing Countries The cases of Kenya and Moldova will be highlighted in the launch of the Open Government Data Community of Practice (CoP). A recorded webcast is available.
Date:
October 3,
2011
Time: 1:00-3:00 pm EST
Location: Washington DC ICEGOV 2011 ICEGOV focuses on the use of technology to transform relationships between government and citizens, businesses, civil society and other arms of government, and for establishing foundations for good governance and sustainable national development.
Date:
September 26-28,
2011
Time: All Day
Location: Talinn, Estonia e-Democracy 2011 The e-Democracy is dedicated to the regional promotion of democratic processes, transparency, accessibility and accountability based on ICT.
Date:
September 25-27,
2011
Time: All Day
Location: Ohrid, Macedonia Tech@State: Data Visualization The next in the Tech@State series will feature keynotes from innovators in data visualization, and new and fascinating techniques.
Date:
September 23-24,
2011
Time: All Day
Location: Washington, DC How ICT Applications Enhance Accountability This event, organized by the Technology for Accountabiliy (T4A) Community of Practice of ODTA, will include discussion of how the implementation of ICT applications can enhance accountability and delivery of public services, including e-democracy and electoral modernization solutions in developing countries.
Date:
September 14,
2011
Time: 12:00 - 2:00pm
Location: Washington DC PICNIC Festival The annual PICNIC festival in Amsterdam mixes creativity, science, technology, media and business to explore new solutions in the spirit of co-creation.
Date:
September 14-16,
2011
Time: All Day
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands World Symposium on e-Government Samia Melhem, Senior Operations Officer of Global ICT and the World Bank, is a keynote speaker at this follow-up to the 2005 Tunis WSIS agenda.
Date:
June 9-11,
2011
Time: All Day
Location: Yasmine Hammamet, Tunisia ICT Days @ The World Bank 2011 Click the link below to view schedules and video recordings of this week-long event hosted at the World Bank about how ICTs help innovate, connect and transform.
Date:
March 28-31,
2011
Time: All Day
Location: Washington DC Mobile Applications: Case Studies and Business Model Analysis This global event will connect specialists and practitioners from countries across four regions to share the latest World Bank study on the use of mobile applications for the health sector and the agriculture and rural development sector.
Date:
January 20,
2011
Time: 8:00 - 11:15pm
Location: Washington DC
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