GODAN will organize a pre-meeting for partners at the Africa Open Data Conference in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The meeting will bring GODAN partners together for meetings and discussions that foment independent or Secretariat-facilitated partnerships going forward, and provide engagement with high-level GODAN goals. All are welcome to this annual meeting about public and private sector use of open data for agriculture and nutrition. This is a chance to get to know the GODAN initiative and learn more about what the GODAN partners are working on.
Date and time:
Thursday, 3 September, 17:00-18:30
Location:
Room TBD, National Museum, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Conference website:
http://www.africaopendata.net/
Provisional Agenda
- Introduction from Secretariat on GODAN progress and ideas from GODAN/ODI Discussion Paper
- Informal partner introductions
- Partner Carousel: Activities for partners to get to know one another
- Conclusions: Capturing real world problems with open data solutions. Conclude with take away points from Partner Carousel
- Get feedback from the Partner Carousel and relate it to GODAN’s Statement of Purpose objectives:
- Advocating for a focus on Agriculture & Nutrition
- Releasing common datasets
- Increasing awareness
- Promoting collaborations
- Advocating for programmes that enable open data use especially by the poor
- Continued discussion at our Networking Reception!
Register for the partner meeting here.
