Celebrate Open Data Day 2021 with UCT Libraries
We are hosting our Open Data Day event a day earlier (not on the weekend) to make sure you can participate. We are planning a variety of short (max. 10-minute) lightning talks, to get you inspired by your colleagues’ different open data practices.
There will be three rounds of lightning talks, from within and outside UCT. After each round there will be a Q&A session.
Here is a link to the conference proceedings on ZivaHub: https://zivahub.uct.ac.za/UCT_Open_Data_Day_2021
UCT Open Data Day 2021
Event Schedule
TIME: Friday, 5th March 2021, 08:30 - 13:30
(internationally, Open Data Day is celebrated on Sat, 6th March)
VENUE: MS Teams
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Speaker(s) |
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Organising team log-in |
08:30 - 09:00 |
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Introduction: Housekeeping |
09:00 - 09:05 |
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Opening address: |
09:10 - 09:25 |
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Limits of Openness? Financial Sanctions and Access to Open Resources |
09:30 - 09:40 |
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Open Data as a tool to ignite smart citizenship and open innovation |
09:45 - 09:55 |
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2020 in Review: The Year Crude Populism and Polarisation Took Hold (As Seen Through Twitter) |
10:00 - 10:10 |
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Q&A with the speakers (1) |
10:10 - 10:25 |
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The Africa Geoportal – Geospatial content and tools for Africa |
10:25 - 10:35 |
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Getting more from government (meta) data |
10:40 - 10:50 |
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Open Data for Inclusive Cities |
10:55 - 11:05 |
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The City of Cape Town Open Data Portal Project |
11:10 - 11:20 |
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Q&A with the speakers (2) |
11:20 - 11:35 |
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Two years into the UCT Data Stewards community of practise with DLS |
11:35 - 11:45 |
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Developing non-text-based Living Archives |
11:50 - 12:00 |
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Ibali: UCT Libraries Digital Collections and some Developing Showcases |
12:05 - 12:30 |
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Q&A with the speakers (3) |
12:30 - 12:45 |
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The eleventh Open Data Day is the annual global celebration of open data, where we gather to reach out to new people and build new solutions to issues in our communities using open data. It is an opportunity to show the benefits of open data and encourage the adoption of open data policies in government, business and civil society. The suggested themes are: (1) Environmental data, (2) Tracking public money flows, (3) Open mapping, and (4) Data for equal development. The event as organised at UCT will take place one day early, on Friday 5th March 2021. You can find the event details on the global map on the Open Data Day website.
Please connect with others and spread the word about Open Data Day using the #OpenDataDay and/or #ODD2021 hashtags.
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Contact:
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Digital Library Services: dls@uct.ac.za
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Open Data Day team: opendataday@okfn.org