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Opening Data for innovation: from supply-driven to demand-driven Open Data strategies
Moderators
Research Director, The Centre for Internet and Society
Title proposal: Opening Data for innovation: from supply-driven to demand-driven Open Data strategies.Biography: Sumandro leads the openness policy works (open data, open access, free software, and open educational resources) and the academic and creative research programme at...
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Speakers
Founder & CEO, FACTLY
Biography: Rakesh is a well known transparency campaigner in India with a decade of grassroots experience. He is the founder of Factly, a well known public information portal in India. He is also a co-convenor of National Campaign for People's Right to Information. He was a Right...
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Head, Digital Media division of Government of Telangana
Biography: Mr. Konatham is currently heading the Digital Media division of Government of Telangana, India's newest state. He has over 19 years of experience in the online and digital media space. He has worked for several renowned organizations like Tata Donnelly, Apollo Hospitals...
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Independent Researcher & Creator of 'Gender in Politics', NA
Biography: Bhanupriya Rao is an independent researcher and creator of the Web based project Gender in Politics <
http://genderinpolitics.org/>: a project that tracks women in politics and governance in India. Previously she has worked with the Worldwide Web Foundation on coordinating research on open data impact as part of the Open Data in Developing Countries Project and Open Data Barometer. She has been working on iss...
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Co-founder & Lead Organizer, DataMeet
Biography: Nisha Thompson has a background in online community organizing. She has worked for the Sunlight Foundation <
http://sunlightfoundation.com/> in Washington DC, with online communities to use US government data to hold elected officials accountable. She moved to Bangalor...
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Friday October 7, 2016 14:30 - 15:45 CEST
Room A