[HOT] Fwd: [CrisisMappers] Impact Stories Competition (Open Data)

[Heather Leson]

Thanks for sharing, Nico.

All- of course you are eligible. I may have to waive my input into your
potential submissions due to conflict of interest.

Rahul- please note.

Heather
On Mar 7, 2014 5:53 AM, "nicolas chavent" <nicolas.chavent at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>
> Apologies for cross posting, but I think that Heather's post to crisis
> mappers may also call for discussion in HOT.
> The crowdgov initiative and its USD 100 reward by story, can also work as
> a super mini grant but still impactive for its Author specifically in poor
> countries in Haiti WesternAfrica-Central Africa.
> Maybe worthy of action on our end and surely a great learning way for
> local and hot folks to co-work on with paid tribute to be left to locals
> and the increase of knowledge shared with all.
>
> Best,
> Nico
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: nicolas chavent <nicolas.chavent at gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 11:46 AM
> Subject: Re: [CrisisMappers] Impact Stories Competition (Open Data)
> To: crisismappers <crisismappers at googlegroups.com>
> Cc: rahul.ghosh at okfn.org
>
>
> Hi Heather,
>
> Great initiative and many thanks to share with the list.
>
> The more I have been directly working over the last year from Haiti to
> Africa (Senegal, Chad, Togo, Burkina-Faso) building, strengthening,
> supporting in a variety of ways local OSM groups active from ecosystems
> composed of Academics (mostly Departments of Geography), tech groups of
> various forms (Co-working spaces, Academic Computer Labs,
> FreeSoftwareAssociations), local government and COB/NGO related to some
> International Actors, the more I deeply felt the need for better
> documentation, knowledge and information dissemination around :
> * Open data - community re-use stories [1]
> * Open data - government re-use stories [2]
> * Open data and Open Source Software movements *tout court* and from the
> Basics, those points are still way to new and not widely enough known and
> discussed outside of circle, we are still *minoritaires*.
> * Multi lingual documentation and for the areas where I have been working
> in dire need to have French as well as Local (HT Kreyol) or African
> regional language being translated into from English.
>
> Such documents as well as more similar documents on DHN activities and key
> achievements (reports/ white papers) can really help us crisis mappers to
> make an even higher impact while operating (remotely or on_the_ground) and
> create autonomous self standing groups/ communities well articulated to our
> global forum, and its various members.
>
> I'd be happy to learn more on key resources at hand anf find the best
> fashion to get non_English speaking communities sharing stories as well as
> benefitting in return from the efforts (reports, articles, papers and other
> products) into their language so that our global efforts are better
> appreciated, our virtues better known and through the
> *immanent_power_of_virtues* our collective actions gain more chance to
> inspire thinkers and doers of this Earth to add to our thinking and action.
>
> Exciting project,
> Thanks for those at the Origin of the Initiative,
>
> Best,
> Nico
>
>
>
> [1] = http://crowdgov.wordpress.com/the-survey/
> [2] = http://okfn.org/pod/impact-stories-competition/
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 7:48 PM, Heather Leson <heatherleson at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> The Partnership for Open Data <http://okfn.org/pod/> (a partnership
>> between the World Bank, Open Data Institute and Open Knowledge Foundation)
>> is seeking to recognize great community stories around Open Data.
>>
>> More Details:
>> *http://okfn.org/pod/impact-stories-competition/*<http://okfn.org/pod/impact-stories-competition/>
>>
>>
>> Closing Date: March 24, 2014
>>
>> Eligibility: Successful candidate stories need to be from the global
>> south (or, as I like to call it: the majority world)
>>
>> If you can share within your networks, I would appreciate it.
>>
>> Rahul (cc'ed) is our point of contact at Open Knowledge Foundation.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Heather
>>
>> Heather Leson
>> heatherleson at gmail.com
>> Twitter: HeatherLeson
>> Blog: textontechs.com
>>
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