The State of Open Data Roundtables - Series 3

The State of Open Data Roundtables - Series 3

Exploring the issues that will shape the future of open data in the years to come

virtual Événement

This series of roundtables took place April 13-20, 2023 and brought together experts to discuss the state of data and recent developments in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

Informations supplémentaires

Over the past 15 years, the open data movement has fully entered a new phase in its evolution, shifting to target real-world problems and embed open data thinking into other existing or emerging communities of practice, but big questions still remain. How are open data initiatives responding to new concerns about privacy, inclusion, and artificial intelligence? And what have we learned about how to deliver impact where it is most needed? D4D.net is hosting a series of roundtables to gather global and regional perspectives on the recent use and impact of open data around the world on issues ranging from artificial intelligence and data protection to climate action, gender, and health, and so much more. 

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Session 11: The State of Open Data and Latin America

Fabrizio Scrollini
Fabrizio Scrollini

Chairman, ILDA

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Gloria Guerrero
Gloria Guerrero

Program Manager, Fundación Avina

Dr. Silvana Fumega
Dr. Silvana Fumega

Project Director, Global Data Barometer

Arturo Muente Kunigami
Arturo Muente Kunigami

Lead Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank

Fabrizio Scrollini

Chairman, ILDA

Fabrizio Scrollini is the Executive Director of the Open Data Latin American Initiative (ILDA), and member of the Open Data Network for Development (OD4D). He co-founded Abrelatam and the Open Data Regional Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean, and is one the Lead Stewards of the International Charter of Open Data. He worked with governments, regulators and civil society at international and regional level on transparency, access to public information, open data projects and public sector reform. He holds a PhD in Government from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Gloria Guerrero

Program Manager, Fundación Avina

Gloria is an expert on data and human rights with a focus on intersectionality. She holds a master degree on Public Policy from the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. Over the last 12 years, she has worked as digital strategy advisor for local and national governments, as coordinator of civil society projects and as manager of regional alliances from private foundations to foster the ethical use of data and technology. Her work ecompasses civic and technology initiatives to change power dynamics, promote the inclusion and representation of traditionally excluded communities and strengthen the civic space in Latin America.

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Dr. Silvana Fumega

Project Director, Global Data Barometer

Silvana Fumega is a specialist on the intersection between data and inclusion. She is the co-founder of Data Against Feminicide together with Catherine D’Ignazio and Helena Suárez Val as well as a Research Affiliate at the Data + Feminism Lab, MIT and member of The Data Tank's Global Advisory Council. During her career she served as a consultant for numerous international organizations, governments, and civil society groups. She acted as Research and Policy Director of ILDA until December 2022. Since January 2023 she has been an independent consultant while also acting as Global Data Barometer project's Director. Silvana holds a PhD from University of Tasmania, Australia. She also holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand and a degree in Political Science from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Arturo Muente Kunigami

Lead Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank

Arturo Muente Kunigami has more than 20 years of experience in open development, telecommunications and financial services. Currently, he is a Lead Specialist at the Inter-American Development Bank, where he is responsible for investment projects and knowledge products around data policies, civil registries, identification, and digital government. Before joining the IDB, Arturo worked for a decade as a World Bank official, leading the design and implementation of knowledge products and investment projects in the area of ​​telecommunications, information technology-based services and smart cities in several countries around the world. Arturo is an economist from the Universidad del Pacífico (Peru) and has an MBA from Emory University (USA).

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Session 12: The State of Open Data and South, East and Southeast Asia

Michael Cañares
Michael Cañares

Founder, Step Up Consulting

Ivy Ong
Ivy Ong

Acting Regional Lead, Asia-Pacific, Open Government Partnership

Phet Sayo
Phet Sayo

Executive Director, EngageMedia

Pyrou Chung
Pyrou Chung

Director, EWMI-ODI

Michael Cañares

Founder, Step Up Consulting

Michael P. Cañares is founder and strategy advisor at Step Up Consulting based in the Philippines. He leads research and capacity development initiatives on open data, data for development, and open government across Southeast Asia. He also co-authors a blog on data empowerment. Currently, he is based in Bangkok, advising the Mekong Australia Program - Water Energy and Climate on program quality and performance.

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Ivy Ong

Acting Regional Lead, Asia-Pacific, Open Government Partnership

Ivy joined the Open Government Partnership in February 2018. Her main role is to provide guidance and assistance to governments, civil society organisations, and other key actors across Asia-Pacific, supporting the development and implementation of open government reforms. Ivy’s past lives include: shaping the design and implementation of the first ever Metro Manila Civic Innovation Fellowship at Five by Five, leading the Open Data Lab Jakarta of the World Wide Web Foundation as its Lab Director, and serving as Co-coordinator and Outreach Lead of the inter-government agency team that built the Open Data Philippines program. She was in government service from 2012 to 2016 as senior staff at the Office of the Chief Information Officer at the Department of Budget and Management, Government of the Philippines. She holds a degree in Development Studies with a Minor in Global Politics from the Ateneo de Manila University.

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Phet Sayo

Executive Director, EngageMedia

Phet Sayo is Executive Director of EngageMedia. He brings decades of experience in information, communications, and technology for development, and Internet governance. Prior to joining EngageMedia, he served 15 years as a Senior Program Officer at the International Development Research Center (IDRC). Phet brings vast stakeholder engagement experience, including engagements with national level policy- and decision-makers, researchers, and advocates for social justice in the networked society.

Pyrou Chung

Director, EWMI-ODI

Pyrou Chung has extensive experience in the development sector in the conservation and human rights, including extensive work with EWMI’s Open Development Initiative (ODI) and its partners in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, and Myanmar. She’s an ecologist and sustainable development practitioner and has worked between the nexus of environmental governance, conservation, and human rights with an emphasis on implementing integrated biodiversity, natural resource management, and land rights initiatives with indigenous, forest-dependent or rural communities.

Session 13: The State of Open Data and Sub-Saharan Africa

Leonida Mutuku
Leonida Mutuku

Founder, Intelipro

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Bernard Sabiti
Bernard Sabiti

Engagement and Partnerships Manager, Development Initiatives

Muchiri Nyaggah
Muchiri Nyaggah

Executive Director, Local Development Research Institute

Leonida Mutuku

Founder, Intelipro

Leonida Mutuku is the founder of Intelipro, an African company that builds data analytics platforms for financial and retail institutions. She is also a Board Director and AI Research Lead at the Local Development Research Institute, a Nairobi-based think-tank whose work contributes to the efforts of African governments to end extreme poverty, hunger and reduce inequalities. She is an experienced data scientist, published in several peer-reviewed journals and a sought-after global keynote speaker on the opportunities of big data and AI to improve access to financial services, climate-smart agriculture and good governance. She holds a BSc. in Actuarial Science and a Masters in Business Analytics and Big Data. She was privileged to be named one of Forbes Africa’s Top 30 under 30 in 2018.

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Bernard Sabiti

Engagement and Partnerships Manager, Development Initiatives

Bernard Sabiti has 10 years of experience as a researcher and public policy analyst exploring the intersection of Africa's data revolution and the complex realities of its development trajectory. Currently working as a senior Engagement and Partnerships Manager at Development Initiatives (DI), an independent international organization that focuses on putting data-driven decision-making at the heart of poverty reduction and Sustainable Development. He is based in Kampala from where he supports DI's Africa regional efforts leveraging key partnerships with governments and other Stakeholders to increase access to and use of development data.

Muchiri Nyaggah

Executive Director, Local Development Research Institute

Muchiri serves as the Executive Director at the Local Development Research Institute. He has worked in technology and innovation consulting for 15 years some of which was spent at Semacraft Consulting Partners, a Nairobi-based multi-disciplinary practice he founded which helped leaders identify opportunities to create and deliver new value for citizens in Africa. His work explores the implementation of practical, evidenced informed measures to address hunger, poverty and inequality. He is particularly focused on agricultural transformation especially the role of extension services and the adoption of new value chains and new approaches by smallholder farmers in Africa. His work also explores how international initiatives impact local development and how empowering policy actors and citizens with the right data can result in better development outcomes for all.

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Session 14: Global Observations on the State of Open Data

Tim Davies
Tim Davies

Director of Research & Practice, Connected by Data

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Renata Avila
Renata Avila

CEO, Open Knowledge Foundation

Jenna Slotin
Jenna Slotin

Senior Director of Policy, Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data

Alek Tarkowski
Alek Tarkowski

Director of Strategy, Open Future

Lorrayne Porciuncula
Lorrayne Porciuncula

Executive Director, Datasphere Initiative

Tim Davies

Director of Research & Practice, Connected by Data

Tim is Director of Research and Practice at Connected by Data, a non-profit seeking to give communities a powerful voice in data governance. He was formerly co-editor of the State of Open Data: HIstories and Horizons, open data research lead at the World Wide Web Foundation, and co-founder of Open Data Services Co-operative, a workers co-op involved in developing and maintaining global data standards. His work looks at the intersection of technology, democracy and participation. He was a 2019 resident in AI at the Rockefeller Bellagio center, and helped to create the Global Data Barometer as an expert survey-driven study of data for the public good.

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Renata Avila

CEO, Open Knowledge Foundation

Renata is an international lawyer, author and advocate. She brings nearly 20 years of experience in access to knowledge, freedom of expression, policymaking and global digital rights. Renata is a Network Affiliate with the Stanford Institute of Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. Renata is part of the World Economic Forum Expert Network on Digital Technologies and a member of the Advisory Council of Creative Commons, the Board of Trustees of Open Future, the Advisory Board of the Hamburg New Hanse Initiative for Digital Commons and the Global Board of Trustees of Digital Future Society, among other affiliations in a vast professional network extending across Europe, Latin America and North America. She co-founded the <A+> Alliance for Inclusive Algorithms, the Progressive International and the Polylateral Association - an international collaborative for South-based experts.

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Jenna Slotin

Senior Director of Policy, Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data

Jenna Slotin is Senior Director of Policy at the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data where she leads on policy engagement and oversees the data values agenda. She has over 15 years’ experience in the development sector specializing in political analysis and influencing, research and thought leadership, and program design and implementation. She has led programs that aimed to influence public sector decision-making on data and technology, sustainable development, and peacebuilding.

Alek Tarkowski

Director of Strategy, Open Future

Alek is the Director of Strategy at Open Future. He has over 15 years of experience with public interest advocacy, movement building and research into the intersection of society, culture and digital technologies. He is a sociologist by training and holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the Polish Academy of Science. In 2010 he established Centrum Cyfrowe, one of the leading Polish organizations promoting openness and internet users’ rights. Before founding Centrum Cyfrowe, he was a strategic advisor to the Prime Minister of Poland. In 2005, he co-founded Creative Commons Poland and is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Creative Commons organization.

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Lorrayne Porciuncula

Executive Director, Datasphere Initiative

Lorrayne Porciuncula is the Executive Director of the Datasphere Initiative. For the last 15 years, her professional and academic experiences have been focused on issues around data, Internet governance, infrastructure regulation, and communication policy. Prior to leading the Datasphere Initiative, she was the Director for the Data Program at Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network (2020-2021), where the Datasphere Initiative was incubated. She worked at the OECD (2014-2020) as the Strategic Advisor and Internet Economist for Digital Economy Policy Division. Prior to the OECD, Lorrayne worked as an economist at the ITU, in the Secretariat of the UN-BBCom (2012-2014). Lorrayne is an affiliate to the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. She holds a Master’s degree in Development Economics from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Switzerland, an Executive MBA from the Quantic School of Business and Technology, and an International Relations bachelor’s degree from the University of Brasilia (UnB), Brazil.

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