Dear Worlds Leading Developers and Programmers (well it is true, and a bit of flattery never hurt anyone either)
Bit of blurb below on the aid transparency hack/barcamp/event below. We are working with donated datasets from the World Bank, DFID etc and some scraped sets that we are hoping to work with scraperwiki on. But we really need your help to prove that this data is needed and aid transparency can work. Please do sign up, and forward to anyone you think might interested. Advice, thoughts and suggestions also welcome. April 10th 2010 in *London *The Guardian newspaper – http://www.aidinformationchallenge.org/ and to register aidinformationchallenge.eventbrite.com thanks Karin (director of Publish What You Fund - www.PublishWhatYouFund.org) <http://aidinformationchallenge.eventbrite.com/>------ We think great things can happen when people who understand aid information and top developers and programmers with an eye for data get together. So we hosting a series of events globally to analyse innovate and make cool visualisations around aid data. The idea is to team people up from different disciplines for the day to rummage through lots of datasets – big datasets like AidData, The World Bank and DfIDs but many others also – to come up with stories, apps and visualisations that show what the future of aid transparency will look like. Please do join us, you can grab a ticket for DC here<http://www.aidinformationchallenge.org/opendev.eventbrite.com> and for London here<http://www.aidinformationchallenge.org/aidinformationchallenge.eventbrite.com> . *WHEN, WHERE AND **HOW CAN I GET INVOLVED?* There two events currently planned, one on each side of the Atlantic. - March 12th 2010 in *Washington DC* at The World Bank – details and discussion about plans for the event is taking place here<http://opendev.ning.com/> and you can register here <http://opendev.eventbrite.com/> - April 10th 2010 in *London *The Guardian newspaper – further details of this event are on this site, and to register please go here<http://aidinformationchallenge.eventbrite.com/> For the London event, any questions thoughts or comments can be directed to contact [email protected] -- Karin Christiansen Director, Publish What you Fund 1 London Bridge, Downstream Building (3rd floor), London, SE1 9BG Tel: +44 20 7022 1905 US cell + 1 757 348 0738 Mobile: +44 781 6839 533 [email protected] www.PublishWhatYouFund.org twitter @aidtransparency
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