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The Open Development Ecosystem
Uganda Open Development MeetingHotel Africana, Kampala
11th September 2012
Decide on priority data to collect
Statistics department collects data
Analyse and draw conclusions
Apply results to policies & plans
Publish & disseminate results
What we have always known – a hierarchical uni-directional system
With respect to data & development the model was ......
Decide development priority & data in some government ministry
Assign the collection and preliminary analysis data a statistics office
Engage consultants (responding to pre-determined Terms of Reference) or semi-autonomous institutions and University departments tin deeper analysis
Draw conclusions, and make recommendations; Publish the outcomes in some (authoritative) official
document/s; And on a few occasions, conduct a workshop or symposium to
“disseminate” the final product.
But approach ........
Ignored different interests , needs and inputs of a range of stakeholders
Assumed that selected priorities were always right and worked in the best interests of citizens
Created opportunities for “hiding” some aspects of information
De-prioritised the interactive nature of development Limited transparency & accountability
Even when transparency (openness) agenda grew .....
The focus was on “bits and pieces” of opennessOpen governmentAid transparencyExtractive industries transparencyCivil society transparency Open dataTransparency of private flows
The open development concept helps us to ........
Conceptualise development in a series of “stakeholder interrelationships”
See the mutuality of “vertical” and “horizontal” links
Agree on the “values” before putting in place systems
Incorporate citizen empowerment Continuously assess “value added”
(accountability)
Works in the same way as “An ecosystem”
A natural system consisting of all plants, animals and microorganisms, which function with all the physical factors of the environment
........ interconnected components?
Not about ........ Complex data
Or computer systems .......
Or ..... Advanced communications systems
Or ..... Media images
It is more about ........ Community development
Or .... Better still
But this must recognise a level of mutualism
.... And some of it is delicate mutualism
More recently though it has been changed by ......technology
....... Technology!!!
The Open development ecosystem
The open development “system” is a combination of, and interaction between many different parts and stakeholders a key challenge is linking up these parts towards a common objective
Data producers & analysts
Technology, applications &
communications
Think tanks & academia
Development & policy
entrepreneursMedia
Government Ministries/Sectors
Citizens & community-
based organisations
Government, CSOs, private
sector & development
partners??
Government of Kenyaopen data initiative
www.opendata.go.ke@KenyaOpenData
A stakeholder-based open development ecosystem