الصورة من موقع مرصد المجلس الوطني التأسيسي التونسي

We are excited to announce that we have published the third annual Global Open Data Index. This year’s Index showed impressive gains from non-OECD countries with Taiwan topping the Index and Colombia and Uruguay breaking into the top ten at four and seven respectively. Overall, the Index evaluated 122 places and 1586 datasets and determined that only 9%, or 156 datasets, were both technically and legally open.

The Index ranks countries based on the availability and accessibility of data in thirteen key categories, including government spending, election results, procurement, and pollution levels. Over the summer, we held a public consultation, which saw contributions from individuals within the open data community as well as from key civil society organisations across an array of sectors. As a result of this consultation, we expanded the 2015 Index to include public procurement data, water quality data, land ownership data and weather data; we also decided to removed transport timetables due to the difficulties faced when comparing transport system data globally.

Open Knowledge International began to systematically track the release of open data by national governments in 2013 with the objective of measuring if governments were releasing the key datasets of high social and democratic value as open data. That enables us to better understand the current state of play and in turn work with civil society actors to address the gaps in data release. Over the course of the last three years, the Global Open Data Index has become more than just a benchmark – we noticed that governments began to use the Index as a reference to inform their open data priorities and civil society actors began to use the Index advocacy tool to encourage governments to improve their performance in releasing key datasets.

Furthermore, indices such as the Global Open Data Index are not without their challenges. The Index measures the technical and legal openness of datasets deemed to be of critical democratic and social value – it does not measure the openness of a given government. It should be clear that the release of a few key datasets is not a sufficient measure of the openness of a government. The blurring of lines between open data and open government is nothing new and has been hotly debated by civil society groups and transparency organisations since the sharp rise in popularity of open data policies over the last decade.

While the goal of the Index has never been to measure the openness of governments, we have been working in collaborations with others to make the index more than just a benchmark of data release. This year, by collaborating with topical experts across an array of sectors, we were able to improve our dataset category definitions to ensure that we are measuring data that civil society groups require rather than simply the data that governments happen to be collecting.

Next year we will be doubling down on this effort to work in collaboration with topical experts to go beyond a “baseline” of reference datasets which are widely held to be important, to tracking the release of datasets deemed critical by the civil society groups working in a given field. This effort is both experimental and ambitious. Measuring open data is not trivial and we are keenly aware of the balance that needs to be struck between international comparability and local context and we will continue to work to get this balance right. Join us on the Index forum to join these future discussions.

The agreement aims to develop the work of both agencies and expand their targeted audience through exchange innovative media services.

“The agreement is part of a long term strategy to develop our services, meet our clients’ needs and keep pace with the international new media trends,” said Amr Eleraqi founder and director of InfoTimes. Eleraqi believes that creating such coalitions between entrepreneurship projects will support these projects and ensure its sustainability.

“The partnership with InfoTimes will help us to produce more professional digital content, which address the audience of social media the newest media market now,” said Kareem Farid , the founder of 16 Secs.

According this new partnership agreement, both agencies are going to produce interactive media materials that include data, figures and information presented with the newest data journalism tools in various political, economic, educational, cultural, social and sport topics.

More information:

InfoTimes has started in 2012 as the first Arabic Data journalism website in the Middle East. Infotimes supports media with visually presented data-driven stories with more than 300 infographics and interactive data visualizations in various fields.

16 Secs has started early this year as a platform for video journalism addressing social media audience and keeping pace with the changing global media industry. The agency offers several media services such as producing infographic videos to different media organizations. .

Throughout November, InfoTimes is conducting the series of 10 workshops, which were aimed at providing the essential concepts, techniques and skills to effectively work with data and produce compelling interesting data stories.

“It is a privilege for us to help Egyptian journalists learn about this new genre of reporting that takes advantage of the huge number of data sets that are available everywhere,” said Amr Eleraqi, founder and director of InfoTimes. “These courses will cover everything you need to know about infographics and data journalism,” he added.

The workshops are beneficial for both journalists, who have not ventured to do this kind of work before, and practitioners with more experience looking to brush up on the basics of the field. The workshops is also open to people in any field – from designers, developers and public information officers to citizens simply interested in knowing more about these research skills – and it may be particularly useful for editors and managers in the newsroom looking to communicate more effectively with their staff regarding data-based projects.

The workshops cover:

– Basics of Data Driven Journalism.

– Collecting and Scraping Data.

– Analyzing Data.

– Data Visualization.

– Data Mapping.

– Coding for journalists.

All workshops will include videos, tutorials, reading materials, exercises and quizzes.

For more information about the workshops click her, to register please fill this form.

أطلق موقع إنفوتايمز المتخصص في صحافة البيانات قسماً خاصاً يتيح من خلاله لمصممي وصحفيي البيانات أن ينشروا موضوعاتهم، إن كانت بصيغة تصماميم الإنفوجرافيك، أو ملفات وخرائط تفاعلية، وذلك من خلال رابط انشر تصميمك المتوفر بالموقع.

يقول عمرو العراقي -مؤسس الموقع- إن الموقع منذ انطلاقه بنهاية عام ٢٠١٢ يهدف لأن يكون منصة لجمع وعرض أعمال المهتمين بمجال صحافة البيانات، مشيراً إلى أن الموقع يوفر أيضا بعض الأدوات المجانية التي تساعد الصحفيين على تصميم البيانات، كالجداول والخرائط الشجرية والمتوفرة في خدمة “أنشئ تصميمك”.

موقع “إنفوتايمز” يعد من المواقع الإلكترونية الرائدة في

مجال صحافة البيانات في العالم العربي، ويغطي الموقع العديد من القطاعات الصحفية المختلفة كالسياسة والفن والاقتصاد والرياضة والصحة والسفر وغيرها من القطاعات التي تتفق مع اهتمامات القارئ العربي.

توفر جيت هب بالتعاون مع بعض شركائها مجموعة من الأدوات الخاصة بتطوير البرمجيات وإستضافة المواقع بشكل مجاني للطلبة، في محاولة لتشجيع الطلاب في الإنخراط في تطوير المواقع والبرمجيات.

يمكنكم معرفة المزيد عن حقيبة الطالب المطور هنا

The Fellowship is a chance for people who love to solve problems through code to spend 10 months working with an news organizations such as The Guardian, New York Times or Washington Post doing work that matters and people will see. Fellows also get to travel the world to teach, learn, and speak with other people interested in journalism, code, data, design, and more.

No particular programming language or development background is required
to apply, just experience with code and an interest in journalism. Does
that sound like you? If so, apply here.

If you believe that you can benefit your community and want to become a School of Data fellow, the Fellowship program is now open for you to apply.

Apply for the fellowship here, here you can find the fellowship FAQ, and example profiles of the current fellows.

تنظم مؤسسة المعرفة المفتوحة مهرجانا سنوايا للمهتمين بالبيانات والمعرفة المفتوحة وحق الوصول للمعلومات والأبحاث العلمية والمواضيع المرتبطة بهذه المجالات، المهرجان، أو الملتقى، سيقام في برلين في يوليو القادم .. يمكنكم شراء التذاكر من هنا لحضور المؤتمر .. هناك أيضا فرص للتطوع في تنظيم المؤتمر، والمتطوعون سيحصلون على تذاكر مجانية، يمكنكم ملء هذه الإستمارة للتطوع، وبالنسبة لمصاريف السفر والإقامة، فهناك منح تقدم لمن يمتلك أفكارا جديدة تثري الملتقى بالإضافة لإستعداده للتطوع والمشاركة في التنظيم، الحصول على المنح من هذا الرابط

Morph.io, a new scraping platform

يمكنك كتابة البرامج النصية على مورف باستخدام لغات الكتابة مثل بايثون وروبي وبي إتش بي ليقوم البرنامج بعدها بجمع البيانات من صفحات الويب وكتابتها إلى قاعدة بيانات إس كيو لايت في دليل العمل.

الكود الخاص بالكاشطة يتم حفظه في مستودع على جيت هاب والذي يكون متصلا بالكاشطة عن طريق مورف. البيانات الناتجة من العملية يتم تخزينها في قاعدة بيانات ويمكن الإستعلام عنها عن طريق واجهة المبرمج، أو يمكنك تحميل البيانات بصيغة جيسون أو صيغة سي إس في يمكنك تنزيلها كجدول بيانات، أو يمكنك تحميل قاعدة بيانات إس كيو لايت ثنائية كاملة.

Open Steps pinpointing their trip on a map

They started their trip in July 2013 and for one year, they are travelling through South-East Europe, Turkey, India, South-East Asia, Japan and South-America. They wrote a guest post in OKFN about their encouters with hackerspaces in Europe, then they documented their trip in India, and in a third post, they wrote about the two and a half months they spent to explore South-East Asia, Hong Kong and Japan.

OKF Egypt and OpenMENA also encourages people in the region to write about the state of the Open Knowledge related ecosystem and activities in their countries, and we would be happy to re-publish their posts here.

Morph.io, a new scraping platform

You can write scripts on Morph using Python, Ruby or PHP to collects information from web pages and writes it to an SQLite database in its working directory.The scraper code is kept in a repository on GitHub which is linked to the scraper on Morph. The resulting data is stored in a database that you can query through an API. Or you can just download all the data as JSON or as a CSV (you can import into a spreadsheet) or just download a whole binary SQLite database.

Days before the event, different Egyptian organizations started to collaborate and arrange for the day. AFTE, SITC and ADEF wrote on promoted the event on their websites. S3Geeks made great effort spreading the word in Upper Egypt by holding an offline event. LibreBooks called their fans to help in translating content to Arabic, while ECESR was interested in opening data related to economical and social rights.

The participating parties were able to spread the news widely, and many local and Arab newspapers wrote about the day, such as Al-Masry Al-Youm, Masrawy, Youm7, Ahram Gate, AlGareda, Arabia.io, Mandara Online and Al-Modon. Global Voices Online also wrote about the day both in Arabic and English.

S3Geeks ODD Gathering

The Association for Freedom of Thoughts and Expression (AFTE), created a video for the Open Data day. The video was widely shared on the hashtag, and S3Geeks started their gather by showing the video to the attendees.

Although he passed away last December, the words of Ali Shaath, the co-founder of the Arab Digital Expression Foundation (ADEF), were there during the day. Ali Shaath was an early believer and advocate for Openness and the Freedom of Information.

Tweets came from netizens and organizations throughout the day. Some prefered to raise the awareness about the importance of Open Government Data, while others discussed their previous experience trying to get some datasets from the government for their professional and personal needs. An aggregation for some of the tweets coming from Egypt can be seen here. Mohammad Tayseer prefered to participate with code instead. He wrote a script to scrape traffic status data from an online crowdsourcing application.

Phoebe Saad and Emad Mubarak had a side discussion about the governmental entities such as the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS), and how they deal with the data they produces, and how they excert a sort of monopoly on producing or publishing any statistical information through the article number 10 of their Establishment and Organizational Law.

The Egyptian Center for Economic & Social Rights (ECESR) decided to focus on Open Budget and related topics. They also published a handbook about the Egyptian Government Budget and the stages it takes it to be issued. ِAFTE also issued a research paper under the name, Towards Liberated Knowledge. Mostafa Hussein shared a draft Freedom of Information law written by EIPR, AFTE and SITC.

Finally, the buzz on twitter was enough for the Egypt’s Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Atef Helmy, to send a couple of tweets and a Facebook update in support of #ODD14, and to salute the efforts of S3Geeks.

مؤسسة حرية الفكر والتعبير تشارك في يوم البيانات المفتوحة

تشارك المؤسسة في هذا اليوم، بإطلاق ورقة بحثية حول «المعرفة الحرة»، كما سيتم إنتاج فيديو إرشادي حول أهمية البيانات المفتوحة، هذا بالإضافة إلى نشر مجموعة من التغريدات والمنشورات على شبكات التواصل الاجتماعي للتعريف بأهمية البيانات المفتوحة. وتدعو مؤسسة حرية الفكر والتعبير جميع المهتمين بهذا الشأن، بالمشاركة في هذا اليوم بالكتابة عن البيانات المفتوحة، سواء بالتدوين أو غيره من الطرق المتاحة لنشر الأفكار

Ada Lovelace is often described as the world’s first computer programmer

One problem here, is that the current curriculum in the Egyptian schools doesn’t teach children how to code. Another problem is the digital divide between males and females. Even though a woman, Ada Lovelace, is considered to be the first computer programmer ever, surveys indicate that less than 12% of Computer Science bachelor’s degrees were awarded to women at US PhD-granting institutions in 2010-11. To tackle those two problems, Rails Girls initiative was born in Finland. It is now a global non-profit volunteer community and they are going to run their first two day workshop for women in Egypt by the end of this month.

Rails Girls Cairo, 28th February – 1st March 2014

Ruby on Rails is an open source web development framework built using the Ruby programming language. Since released in 2004, Ruby on Rails played an influential role in the web development industry and remains to be seen as one of the most famous web development frameworks until today. It is used by Twitter, Github and Groupon (among many other famous companies). Participants in the Rails Girls two day workshop will learn sketching, prototyping, basic programming and get introduced to Ruby on Rails framework. The workshop is free and participants don’t need any previous knowledge about programming, all we ask them for is a laptop and some curiosity.

Dates: Friday February 28th – Saturday March 1st
Venue: JuiceLabs premises (14th Midan Masged Al Sahaba Sq., Off Mosaddak, Dokki, Giza)

Sign up for the event here.

اليوم العالمي للبيانات المفتوحة

بالنسبة لمصر فتوجد هنا بعض المقترحات لما يمكن أن تقومون به، ومرحبا بأي مقترحات جديدة، بمكنكم أيضا تنظبم ندوات في مدينتكم ودعوة المهتمين بمجال الشفافية والحكومات المفتوحة للحوار والتحدث .. وكما هو موضح في الرابط، فالنشاطات تسع أيضا كل من القانونببن والمبرمجين والمدونين والمترجمين، أو أي من المهتمين، كل في مجال خبرت

الهاش تاج الخاص بالفعالية موضح أدناه

#ODD2014

في إنتظار مشاركاتكم يوم السبت ٢٢ فبراير ٢٠١٤

وأحب أن تخبروني عن مشاركاتكم لأنوه عنها أيضا

Open source means freedom #OpenEgypt

— Ali (@Alitwtr) February 14, 2013

RIP Ali Shaath

من فليكر، منشورة تحت رخصة المشاع الإبداعي

تم مؤخرا إصدار تحديث جديد من رخصة المشاع الإبداعي والتي تعني بحقوق الملكية الفكرية من خلال عدة تنويعات توضح الحقوق التي يحتفظ بها المؤلف و الحقوق التي يتنازل عنها للآخرين، مما ينتج عنه كون “بعض الحقوق محفوظة” عوضا على كون “جميع الحقوق محفوظة”. فمثلا من يقوم برفع صورة قد قام بإلتقاطها يمكنه أن يتيح لأي كان إستخدامها في أي غرض طالما ذكر إسم صاحب الصورة الأصلي، أو قد يلجأ موسيقي لتلك الرخصة لنشر أعماله مع حصر إستخدامها في الأنشطة الخيرة والغير تجارية، إلى أخر تلك التنويعات المختلفة من الرخصة، يمكن معرفة المزيد عن المشاع الإبداعي من خلال هذا الفيديو القصير

الإصدار الرابع من الرخصة به بعض التحديثات الهامة، وكممثلين لمؤسسة المعرفة المفتوحة هنا، سنسلط الضوء على الجزء الخاص بالبيانات من الرخصة، فواحدة من النقاشات التي كانت تدور في الفترة الأخيرة حول إستخدام رخصة المشاع الإبداعي عند نشر البيانات هي فكرة حق الناشر في حصر إستخدام البيانات ككتلة واحدة ومنع نسخ وإعادة إستخدام أجزاء منها، والمعروف بإسم حق سواي جينيريس، لذلك في الإصدار الرابع من المشاع الإبداعي تم إدراج هذا الحق

بالإضافة لذلك فقد تم تعديل صياغة بعض أجزاء الرخصة وإستخدام مصطلحات أكثر سهولة ومؤامة للبلدان المختلفة، وتم أيضا إعادة صياغة الجزء الذي يمكن صانع العمل في إشتراط عدم ذكر إسمه حفاظا على سريته أو سلامته الشخصية، وأخيرا، في السابق كانت الرخصة تعتبر لاغية عندما يخالف المرخص له شروط الرخصة، لكن في النسخة الجديدة تم إضافة مهلة ثلاثون يوما ليعدل أوضاعه خلالها

للمساهمة في ترجمه رخصة المشاع الإبداعي والوثايق المرتبطة بها إلى العربية يمكنكم زيارة هذا الرابط

نموذج لأحد البيانات السيئة

الموقع مفتوح المصدر مثله مثل باقي تطبيقات المؤسسة، ويمكنكم مشاهدة وتعديل الشفرة المكتوب بها هنا، هذا بالإضافة لإمكانية المشاركة في إضافة نماذج أخرى
لبيانات سيئة الصياغة والهيكلة

عنوان الموقع كالتالي
http://okfnlabs.org/bad-data/

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