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The KDZ - Centre for Public Administration Research in cooperation with the Austrian chapter of the Open Knowledge Foundation is hosting a hackathon on
 * big data and poverty (friday, 22nd, in English) 
 * transparency in public finance data (saturday, 23rd, in German).

If you are planning to attend please add your name to the participants list!

= Friday, February 22nd - UNDP/World Bank Data Dive: Measuring Poverty =

''“Africans should not have to wait for a decade after a survey is fielded to adjust their country’s GDP or estimate poverty numbers. For example, Kenya will need to wait for almost ten years to get new poverty estimates“''

Wolfgang Fengler, World Bank

Governments and development organisations worldwide are struggling with an increasingly big challenge: official statistics take years to gather and analyse whilst a globally interconnected world requires increasingly fast responses. Could big data provide an answer to this? Could we, for example, analyse social media to provide proxy indicators that would allow policy makers to get closer to real time measurement of poverty?

Come to this session with Andrey Ivanov, Poverty Specialist with the United Nations Development Programme and Prasanna LalDas, Lead Program Officer of the World Bank’s Controllers unit to delve into data and discuss whether we could use big data analysis to inform the work of development organisations and policy makers that are trying to tackle poverty issues.

What you can expect:
 * Andrey and Prasanna will introduce datasets from UNDP and the World Bank and additional datasets that are being released exclusively for this event
 * We will delve into the data and see whether they can get closer to defining indicators for real time measurement of poverty (and possibly other issues of interest to policymakers – e.g. corruption)
 * We will identify data gaps and additional sources of data which should be secured in order to achieve the goal of real time, evidence based decision making

The whole development sector, as well as policy makers around the world need your help.

Agenda

 * 13:30 - 14:00 registration, arrival, networking, coffee
 * 14:00 - 14:30 introduction to the UNDP/World Bank Data Dive
 * 14:30 - 15:30 Brainstorming on challenges
 * 15:30 - 15:45 Presentation of discussion
 * 15:45 - 17:30 Reality check: Data analysis and work on ideas
 * 17:30 - 18:00 Debrief: projects share what they have accomplished and learned during that day, share next steps and commitments

What we offer

 * WiFi
 * conference room for ~ 20 people (we probably have to close registration after ~ 20 people, so be quick ;-)
 * other smaller office rooms for breakout of small teams
 * coffee and refreshments during the day
 * OKFN.at experts for open knowledge

What we are looking for

 * experts on indicators for poverty

Links

 * Vienna2013 Datasets for DataDive
 * Q&A: Can open/big data cast new light on poverty reduction?
 * Interested in big and open data and tackling poverty? 3 reasons (at least!) to come to Vienna on 22 February
 * Can big data help deliver better operational results?
 * Big data and development organizations: What happens when you move from theory to practice?
 * http://www.okfn.at
 * http://www.kdz.or.at
 * http://www.unglobalpulse.org/BigDataforDevWhitePaper
 * http://www.unglobalpulse.org/applyingbigdatatodevelopment
 * http://www.unglobalpulse.org/blog/new-data-landscape

Participants Friday 22nd - UNDP/World Bank Data Dive

 * Bernhard Krabina @krabina of KDZ @KDZ_Austria
 * Andrey Ivanov, Giulio Quaggiotto and Jura Khrapunov of UNDP Bratislava Regional Centre @UNDP_Europe_CIS
 * Anna Lang Propeople
 * Julian Ausserhofer @boomblitz Blog
 * Stefan Kasberger @stefankasberger Open Science Projekt
 * Marc Pietkewicz @murdelta murdeltas.wordpress.com
 * Christopher Kittel @chris_kittel Open Science Projekt
 * Christian Kreutz crisscrossed.net
 * Dominik Hofbauer
 * Ira Lee Kuhn
 * Andreas Trawöger @atrawog Kartenwerkstatt
 * Erik Ritschl und Wolfgang Ritschl @WolfgangRitschl, ORF (Austrian Broadcasting)
 * Levente Polyák http://lakatlan.crowdmap.com, http://www.kek.org.hu
 * Andreas Buranich http://www.neuundkuehn.at
 * Andreas Brandner http://www.km-a.net
 * Martin.Dusek http://www-teradata.com
 * Stefan More @stefan2904
 * Bernhard Hayden @burnoutberni
 * add your name here...

= Saturday, February 23rd - Open Budget Data =
 * Visualizing data from Austrian municipalities - probably using Open Spending Software
 * Using/Grabbing data not yet available in OGD catalogues (from PDF-documents)
 * maybe submitting what has been developed to the apps4Austria award

Agenda

 * 9:30 - 10:00 registration, arrival, networking, morning coffee
 * 10:00 - 10:15 opening remarks by organizers
 * 10:15 - 10:30 results from the first day
 * 10:30 - 11:00 an introduction to open budget data in Austria (how to interpret the CSV-Files of Vienna, Graz, Engerwitzdorf, etc.) - KDZ experts
 * 11:00 - 11:30 discusson and project outlines: participants outline what projects they will be working on for the rest of the day
 * 11:30 - 14:00 Hacking, making, analyzing, writing and all other forms of open data work, parti I
 * 14:00 - 14:30 Lunch break (pizza)
 * 14:30 - 17:00 Hacking, making, analyzing, writing and all other forms of open data work, parti II
 * 17:00 - 18:00 Debrief: projects share what they have accomplished and learned during that day, share next steps and commitments

What we offer

 * WiFi
 * conference room for ~ 20 people (we probably have to close registration after ~ 20 people, so be quick ;-)
 * other smaller office rooms for breakout of small teams
 * coffee and refreshments during the day
 * pizza fur lunch
 * KDZ domain experts for public finances (how to read and interpret a budget of an Austrian City or Region)
 * OKFN.at experts for open knowledge

What we are looking for

 * data wranglers
 * visualisation experts
 * app developers
 * data journalists

Ideas/Projects
If you have an idea how to work with the data, please add it here.

www.offenerhaushalt.at - Setting up an open spendig server in Austria, visualizing already published data

 * Open Spending Software: http://openspending.org/help/index.html
 * the Domain www.offenerhaushalt.at will be available for us - thank you to Max Kossatz!
 * Examples: http://haushalt.frankfurt-gestalten.de/ (and http://openspending.org/frankfurt-budget )
 * Released datasets: Graz, Linz Engerwitzdorf
 * KDZ will try to organise datasets of further Austrian cities

Links

 * Event on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/324669414308159/
 * KDZ: Offene Haushaltsdaten führen nicht zwangläufig zu mehr Transparenz
 * http://www.okfn.at
 * http://www.kdz.or.at

Graz
OGD Graz

Die Links zu den Rechnungsabschlüssen 2009 und 2010 sind nicht richtig verlinkt. Die korrekten Links sind:
 * Rechnungsabschluss 2009
 * Rechnungsabschluss 2010
 * Rechnungsabschluss 2011

Participants Saturday 23rd - Open Budget Data

 * Thomas Lohninger
 * Bernhard Krabina @krabina, Clemens Hödl and Manuel Köfel of KDZ @KDZ_Austria
 * Andreas Zobl
 * Peb Aryan @pebaryan
 * Andreas Trawöger @atrawog Kartenwerkstatt
 * Stefan Kasberger @stefankasberger Open Science Projekt
 * Marc Pietkewicz @murdelta murdeltas.wordpress.com
 * Christopher Kittel @chris_kittel
 * Andreas Schlapsi @aschlapsi
 * Joerg Fuchslueger @jfuchslueger
 * Marion Breitschopf http://www.meineabgeordneten.at
 * Dominik Hofbauer
 * Ira Lee Kuhn
 * Erik Ritschl und Wolfgang Ritschl @WolfgangRitschl, ORF
 * Levente Polyák http://lakatlan.crowdmap.com, http://kek.org.hu
 * Andreas Buranich (http://www.neuundkuehn.at)
 * Valentin Dander @SEmmLBM, FREIRAD105.9, Bildungswiss./Univ. Innsbruck
 * Stefan More @stefan2904
 * Bernhard Hayden @burnoutberni
 * add your name here...

= Location = KDZ Guglgasse 13 (U3 Gasometer -> Guglgasse on the left hand side of the Gasometer buildings, after the big entry to the Statistics Austria (dont't go in there) is a garage entrance and right after that the KDZ entrance on Guglgasse)

= Links =

Was gibt's? http://hoeha.offenerhaushalt.at/