About TransparencyCamp Poland
The basis of transparency is public information. When popularized and presented adequately, it can change many things in the life of a community. Any type of data concerning public business is the subject of exchange between administration, local governments, entrepreneurs, the media, and finally – the citizens. Thanks to the transparency of actions, we are building interior accountability for public institutions, but also better conditions for social control. Moreover, public information has great business potential, which the European Union estimates to be €27 billions worth!
We are organizing TransparencyCamp Poland for the individuals, who have interest in, and work for the transparency of public life. It is a convention for people, whose everyday work is connected with the public information.
This is why we are inviting everyone who creates, processes, stores, presents, and exploits public data, both socially and in business.
150 people connected with the Internet are going to participate in TransparencyCamp Poland – the representatives of the third sector, administration and research institutes, as well as entrepreneurs, who by relying on better access to information and information processing possibilities could found the profile of their business.
The already mentioned individuals are not only inhabitants of Warsaw, but also of other localities. In order to present a wider range of perspectives, we have invited experts from Great Britain, the United States and Central and Eastern European countries.
The Camp is an informal, dynamic meeting, where many things rely on its participants – there will be no fixed list of speakers, 3 presentations are going to take place simultaneously, and behind-the-scene talks will be full of qualified persons.
A transparent country works well, because transparency changes one’s behavior!
This is why we warmly invite people representing public institutions (not only Public Information Bulletin administrators, because informatization of the administration sector is also the informatization of the public data access system) and people connected with business, which is resolutely entering the field of information managing.
We are also inviting those, who in their social activities also use public information – especially representatives of watchdog organizations.
A quality change in the way of exploiting public data needs to take place with the participation from each of those groups. This is why we humbly encourage you to participate.
During the event, we will also be looking for answers on how to present public data via the Internet, how to transfer it to different entities, where and in what specific format should they be found, and how to present them. Special attention will be placed on what should be done, in order to fully exploit the potential of the public information for other purposes than the initial reasons of their creation by the administration. In other words, we will be talking about re-using of public information.
The Transparency’s idea means such attitude of government institutions and local level administration, that enables the citizens the broadest access to the knowledge on the subject of the causes of making concrete decisions, the mechanisms of taking specific activities, and at last but not least the ways of spending of public funds. With the notion of transparency there also goes openness, responsibility and authorities accountability. Without the access to the public information data, the public departments cannot be accounted for their work, and the citizens do not have the knowledge, which would allow them to assess the quality of the administrative operations. Without these elements the state will function badly – often without the awareness of the existence of areas which determine the barrier of society’s development.
This is why a democratic country is created on the basis of transparency, openness and accountability. Transparency is also a manner of presenting and delivering the public data to the wider circle of the receivers – not only is important how the data is made available to the public, but it is also the possibility of taking advantage of it for the aim of improving the effectiveness of the state actions and the quality of public life.
Open data helps to construct such services as:
1) They work for you http://www.theyworkforyou.com/ (UK)
2) What Do They Know http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/ (UK)
3) Poligraft http://poligraft.com/ (US)
4) Farmsubsidy http://farmsubsidy.org/ and Fishsubsidy http://fishsubsidy.org/ (EU)
5) FedSpending http://www.fedspending.org/ (US)
6) TransparencyData http://transparencydata.com (US)
7) BankWatch the http://www.bankwatch.org/map/
8) CarSpotter http://www.carspotter.co.uk/ (UK and Holland)
9) HospitalRegisters http://www.hospitalregisters.com/ (US and EU)
10) Economic New Bulletin Lexis Nexis the http://www.lexisnexis.pl/spg/
You can find more interesting examples here:
the http://www.epsiplus.net/examples/directory
About the 0rganizers
The Association of Leaders of Local Civic Groups (SLLGO)
The Association of Leaders of Local Civic Groups (SLLGO) is an independent, non-partisan organization of public benefit. For more than 6 years we have been fighting for raising of the quality of public life, its transparency and honesty in particular. We are executing the following projects: On Guard (www.watchdog.org.pl), Non-governmental Center for Access to Public information(www.informacjapubliczna.org, pl), Civic Budget (www.funduszesoleckie.pl).
Our goal is to raise the quality of public life in Poland – in particular the enhancement of its transparency and honesty, mainly on the local government level, but also on the level of central administration. Our main fields of interest are: transparency, access to public access and civic participation. We believe that such actions counteract corruption.
More about the association: the www.sllgo.pl (http://www.lgo.pl/english).
The event is organized thanks to the support of the Stefan Batory Foundation and Open Society Institute.
The Stefan Batory Foundation
The Stefan Batory Foundation works for the development of democracy and civil society – a society of people who are aware of their rights and duties, who engage themselves in the affairs of their local community, their country, and international community.
The Foundations top priority tasks are as follows:
- The enhancement of polish democracy
We support the initiatives, which serve to increase the civic participation and enhance the citizens’ sense of responsibility for the common good. We work for the sake of transparency of social life and popularization of social surveillance over the functioning of public institutions.
We aspire to raise the level of the public debate and to “socialize” the process of formulating and introducing public politics.
- Strengthening the role of public institutions in the public life
- Developing international co-operation and solidarity
The additional, supplementary goal of the Foundation is to support the initiative to level the chances of children and adolescents from the poorer environment and handicapped children.
More about the foundation: the www.batory.pl (http://www.batory.org.pl/english).
Contact and Registration
The Association of Leaders of Local Civic Groups
22/2 Ursynowska St.
02-605 Warszawa
tel/fax 228447355
www.watchdog.org.pl (Polish only)
E-mail address of the event – transparencycamp@sllgo.pl
Program
Room 1 (with translation)
- 10:00 – 10-45:
Special Guests: Richard Stirling (Data.gov.uk) and Daniele B. Silva (Esfera Brasil) - 10:50 – 11:20: Sunlight Foundation – advocacy for open government – John Wonderlich (Sunlight Foundation)
- 11:25 – 11:55: Hungary’s first anti-corruption watchdog NGO – Julia Keseru (K-Monitor Anti-Corruption Watchdog Institute)
- 12:25 – 12:55: Visulaizing Information for advocacy – John Emerson
- 12:55 – 13:25: Civic mobilization campaigns in the Internet – Iryna Shvet and Andriy Dutchak (Civil Network OPORA)
- 13:25 – 13:55: Visualizing Public Procurement – Matej Kurian (Transparency International Slovakia)
- 14:45 – 15:30: Russia for the Technology for Transparency project – Alexey Sidorenko
- 15:35 – 16:05: To take.
Room 2
- 10:50 – 11:20: Electronic availability of public information in Poland – Piotr Waglowski (VaGla)
- 11:25 – 11:55: The boundaries of privacy in access to public information. Spojrzenie w przyszłość Looking to the future – Wojciech Wiewiórowski (Inspector General for Personal Data Protection)
- 12:25 – 12:55: Open computerization of the administration – the key to an effective method of reuse and publication of official documents and personal data protection – Michał „rysiek” Woźniak (Foundation for Free and Open Source Software)
- 12:55 – 13:25: Sejmometr.pl website – tool for transparency in Polish legislation – Daniel Macyszyn and Jakub Górnicki
- 13:25 – 13:55: „MojaPolis” publicly available spatial data repository of socio-economic data – Kuba Wygnański (Klon/Jawor Association)
- 14:45 – 15:30: Implementation of Directive on the re-use of public sector information (PSI Directive) into the Polish legal sytem – Maciej Groń (MSWiA)
- 15:35 – 16:05: „I have right to know” project – Mamprawowiedziec.pl – Róża Rzeplińska (Association 61)
Room 3
- 10:50 – 11:20: Less paper, less work, greater transparency through open and free technology – Wiktor Schmidt (Netguru)
- 11:25 – 11:55: INSPIRE EC Directive expert of spatial data – Andrzej Łaszczuk (National Defence University)
- 12:25 – 12:55: How to make the consultation more accessible and transparent? – A prototype tool for online consultation – Kuba Wygnański (Stocznia)
- 12:55 – 13:25: Disclosure of funding the politics – Access to source documents – Adam Sawicki (Stefan Batory Foundation)
- 13:25 – 13:55: Map of external environment + public data + more openness = more effects of campaign – Michał Mach (CiviCRM Polska and Second Hand Bank Association
- 14:45 – 15:30: „Introduction to Technology for Transparency – Sylwia Prestley (Globalvoices.org)”
- 15:35 – 16:05: Free licenses in the public administration. Is access to public information is not enough? – Alek Tarkowski (Creative Commons Polska)
16:20 – 18:00: Lightning Talk + open disscusions
Speakers
Richard Stirling, Data.gov.uk
Richard is leading the central team on Data.gov.uk and Making Public Data Public. Before creating data.gov.uk Richard worked on the secretariat for the Power of Information Taskforce. In that role he created Show Us A Better Way, one of the first online competitions in Public Services. Prior to joining Cabinet Office Richard worked in HM Treasury where he was engaged in both tax and public spending policy.
Daniela B. Silva, Esfera
Daniela is a co-founder of Esfera, a think tank based in São Paulo, Brazil. Esfera is trying to incentive the openness culture in local and federal governments, but it mainly focuses on engaging groups in the society to be part of a new context of openness and participation (by parsing, collecting, using and remixing government data on the web, as an example). To achieve these goals, Esfera organizes Transparency HackDays, putting developers, designers, journalists and politicians together to think and produce apps based on government data; and they are setting up Transparency Hacker, a community of practice to discuss, create and implement political projects on the web. Daniela Silva is also a researcher for politics, transparency and technologies. She studies how transparency changes on a networked public sphere, becoming an important value for open governments and allowing many possibilities of political participation through the networks. She is a University of Texas at Austin and Knight Center for The Journalism in the Americas alumna, and she was part of the International School of Digital Transformation 2010 Faculty and a facilitator of one of the first P2P University courses in Portuguese, about Civic Hacking.
Alexey Sidorenko
Born in Moscow. Graduated from the Moscow State University and defended Ph.D thesis there. Currently finishing MA thesis in the Warsaw University, Poland. Worked in Carnegie Moscow Center from 2005 till 2008 in the “Society and Regions” program. More events at his blog http://altzgamer.ru/
Andrij Dutchak, Civil Network OPORA, Ukraine, Lviv
For two years already Andriy Dutchak works as a project manager for CN OPORA. The main sphere of his work is monitoring of election process in Ukraine in the field of their legitimacy and corrupt prevention. In his free time Andriy tries to develop new media technologies in Ukraine through translating foreign study materials. In 2009 Andriy together with other OPORA members held the first Ukrainian Internet mobilization campaign in order to motivate voters to vote at the Presidential elections. In 2010 Andriy translated study materials of Tactical Tech organization about the methods of planning, conducting and analysis of civic campaigns in the Internet.
At the same time, Andriy administers OPORA’s web-sites and its profiles in social networks.
Iryna Shvets, Civil Network OPORA, Ukraine, Lviv
Starting from 2005, Iryna works for Civil Network OPORA as a media director and project manager. Her main responsibilities include communication with editors and journalists, writing articles about organizations’ activity and conducting public events. Apart form this, Iryna works as a trainer in media technologies, media and public relations for NGO environment. Iryna’s thematic interests are community organizing and EU integration processes, including establishing cooperation between European and Ukrainian NGOs to exchange their experience and knowledge.
John Emerson, Social Design Notes
John Emerson is an activist, graphic designer, writer, and programmer based in New York City. He has designed web sites, printed materials and motion graphics for leading media companies as well as local and international non-profit organizations. Since 2002, he has published Social Design Notes, a weblog of writings and clippings on the intersection of design and activism at http://backspace.com/notes/.
Maciej Groń, MSWiA
Maciej Groń, a lawyer, graduated from Adam Mickiewicz University, completed the prosecutor application. Since 2008 he has served as Chief of the Division of Standardization at the Department of Information Technology in The Ministry Of Interior and Administration. He took an active part in the recent amendment of the Law on the computerization of entities performing public functions and in drafting executive regulations to the Act. Currently conducts implementation of Directive 2003/98/EC of the Council of Europe and the European Parliament on the reuse of public sector information into the Polish legal sytem. Since 2003 he has taught criminal law at the Faculty of Administration and Social Sciences of Warsaw University of Technology and since 2009 has taught the law of new technologies. Favorite hobbies include skiing, mountain bike and motorization, and for several months – son Szymon.
Jakub Górnicki, a spokesman for Sejmometr
Moreover – a coach, journalist, blogger. He writes for Dziennik Internautów and Global Voices. Jakub taught multimedia journalism in Georgian Institute of Public Affairs in Tbilisi. Participant and presenter at many international conferences eg Citizen Media Summit in Chile, Interra Forum in Novosibirsk, Barcamp Nairobi in Kenya, or Social Innovation Camp Caucasus. On KosmoBlog he combines passion for traveling with a passion for travel relations – he presents places to visit, technology to use technology and he hopes that, for journalism – the best is yet to come.
Júlia Keserű, K-Monitor Anti-Corruption Watchdog Institute
Júlia Keserű holds an MA in international studies and currently works as the development director of K-Monitor Institute. The organization is Hungary’s first anti-corruption watchdog NGO to fight for transparency with the help of information technologies and to draw constant attention to issues of corruption with different databases. After graduating from Corvinus University Budapest in 2007, Júlia started to work for another Hungarian NGO as development and communication director. She’s been working for K-Monitor since 2009.
Matej Kurian, Transparency International Slovakia
Matej Kurian recently joined Transparency International Slovakia, a watchdog dealing with corruption and accountability. A geeks-fan, Matej is interested in putting technology to solving governance issues, including visualization of public spending. Matej is a political scientist interested in non-democratic regimes and a (former) debater.
Andrzej Łaszczuk, Academy of National Defence
He is angaged in the importance of geographical space in human’s activity, especially space information and its visualisation and he is also interested in geospatial information systems (GIS). He is the co-author of many scientific researches and studies. He is a public figure; found Public Activity Group – a group of which activities promote local and democratic society integrity. He is an editor and journalist in a local press. In his private life, he is a fan of sightseeing and touring, Nordic Walking and he takes up photography.
Michal Mach, CiviCRM Polska, Stowarzyszenie Bank Drugiej Ręki
Consultant, project manager, software designer, analyst and programmer and just regular participant in many projects in NPO sector over last 14 years. Member of Non-profit Trainers Association, occasionally runs trainings for NGOs and informal groups on using technology in advocacy work and planning innovative social projects. Co-founder and board member of Second Hand Bank Association, working on facilitating access to technology tools for nonprofits. Currently works on CiviCRM, open source constituent relationship management (CRM) software targeted at non-profit organisations and advocacy groups (http://civicrm.org).
Sylwia Presley, Global Voices Poland
The social network marketing consultant for NGOs, blogger, author and editor of Global Voices Poland, photographer. Organizer of local events related to new media such as Voice Tweetup, Twestival Oxford, Oxford Barcamp and Barcamp Transparency. At the moment, Sylwia is working on another edition of Barcamp Transparency UK and the first edition of Barcamp Nonprofits. She works also as researcher and reviewer for the international platform of Transparency Technology, which collects and presents information on projects devoted to transparency in governments around the world.
Adam Sawicki, Stefan Batory Foundation
He specializes in issues relating to the transparency of financing election campaigns and political parties. He has coordinated monitoring of the presidential campaign finance (2005), local government (2006) and the European Parliament (2009). He participates (as a guest) in sessions of the Parliamentary Special Committee for consideration of certain bills of the electoral law.
Wiktor Schmidt, Netguru
Victor is responsible for developing technology of companies Netguru, Humanway and TwojProjekt. He is responsable for implementation of internal integration of external sources of data for clients such as BZWBK, ESKK and Siepomaga. Privately fan of long distant traveling and recently running.
Alek Tarkowski, Creative Commons Polska
Obtained MA in sociology from the University of Warsaw and PhD in sociology from the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Science. Director of the Centrum Cyfrowe Projekt: Polska, Coordinator of Creative Commons Poland. Member of the Board of Strategic Advisors to the Prime Minister of Poland, responsible for matters related to digital media and technologies. Sociologist of new media, interested in the intersection of technology, intellectual property, culture and society. His interests include new models of cooperation, production and distribution of digital goods; open models in culture, science and education; and the use of digital technologies to further cultural, social and civic participation.
Eva Vozárová, Fair Play Alliance
Eva Vozárová is a journalist, internet consultant and activist. In the Fair Play Alliance she manages the development of Datanest.sk, a crowdsourcing project for collecting and spreading official data about the way Slovakia is governed. Since 2007 she’s been writing for the country’s biggest economical weekly Trend and its media-oriented website Medialne.sk. She covers topics of media and internet business and still retains this position while working for the Fair Play Alliance.
Piotr VaGla Waglowski, VaGla.pl
Piotr Waglowski – prawnik, publicysta i webmaster, autor serwisu VaGla.pl Prawo i Internet. Dyrektor ds. koordynacji działań prawnych Związku Pracodawców Branży Internetowej IAB Polska i Przewodniczący Rady Fundacji Nowoczesna Polska. Konsultant, trener, wykładowca, autor publikacji dotyczących prawnych aspektów społeczeństwa informacyjnego. W 1995 założył pierwszą w Internecie listę dyskusyjną na temat prawa w języku polskim, Członek Założyciel Internet Society Poland, pełnił funkcję Członka Zarządu ISOC Polska i Członka Rady Polskiej Izby Informatyki i Telekomunikacji, był również Członkiem Rady Informatyzacji przy MSWiA pierwszej kadencji. Autor książki „Prawo w sieci. Zarys regulacji Internetu”.
John Wonderlich, Sunlight Foundation
John Wonderlich is the Policy Director for the Sunlight Foundation and one of the nation’s foremost advocates for open government. John spearheads Sunlight’s goal of changing the culture of the federal government by opening up key data sources and expanding the use of new media tools by elected officials in order to make them more accountable to their constituents. He is one of the foremost authorities on lobbying reform, franking and social media use in Congress as well as efforts to shed light on the congressional legislative process.
Michał ‘rysiek’ Woźniak, FOSSF
Assistant to the Board of the Free and Open Source Software Foundation, network and system administrator at the BRAMA Mobile Technologies Laboratory at the Warsaw University of Technology; Philosophy student at the Warsaw University; Free and Open Source Software advocate; biker and sailor.”
Wojciech Wiewiórowski, GIODO
The Inspector General for the Protection of Personal Data (GIODO) The Diet appointed Wojciech Wiewiórowski the Inspector General for the Protection of Personal Data, and on August 4th, 2010 he started his four-year term of office. Wojciech Wiewiórowski was born on June 13th 1971. In 1995 he graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Gdańsk, and in 2000 he was awarded the academic degree of Doctor in constitutional law. After graduation he was editor and then publisher in legal publishing houses. In 2002 he began to work as lecturer at Gdańsk College of Administration, and since 2003 he was assistant professor and head of Legal IT Department at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Gdańsk, with which he has been associated since 1995. Since 2006 he has been working for public administration. He was among others adviser in the field of e-government and information society for the Minister of Interior and Administration, as well as Vice-president of the Regulatory Commission of the Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church. In 2008 he took over the post of the Director of the Informatisation Department at the Ministry of Interior and Administration. He also represented Poland in committee on Interoperability Solutions for European Public Administrations (the ISA Committee) assisting the European Commission. In 2010 he was appointed the member of the Archives Council to the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. He is a member of the Polish Association for European Law. He is the author of numerous studies, publications and lectures in the field of personal data protection, IT law, e-government and legal informatics. His areas of scientific activity include first of all Polish and European IT law, processing and security of information, legal information retrieval systems, informatisation of public administration, electronic signature and application of semantic web and legal ontologies in legal information processing.
Kuba Wygnanski, Klon /Jawor Association
Sociologist, graduated from UW, a fellow at Yale University. One of the animators of mouvent of non-governmental organizations in Poland since the early 90′s. Participant in the Polish Round Table Negotiations. Among others co-founder of the Association for Non-Governmental Initiatives Forum, co-founder of Data Bank for Non-Governmental Organizations conducted by the Klon/Jawor and the portal www.ngo.pl and www.mojapolis.pl. Member of the Public Benefit Works Council. Co-founder of the statute on public good activity and volunteering. Author of numerous publications dedicated to issues of civil society and social economy. The winner of the Andrzej Bączkowski Prize and Totus Tous Prize. Married, 3 children.
