On 22 December 2011, ICT4Peace’s Daniel Stauffacher adressed over 60 Swiss Parliamentarians, Senior Government Officials and buy xenical from canada ICT Business Representatives in Bern Switzerland at a buy xenical from canada dinner organised by the pro Open Government Data Parliamentary Group called “Digitale Nachhaltigkeit”, on the buy xenical from canada potential of Open Government Data for Crisis Information Management and Aid efficiency.

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He then buy xenical from canada introduced a series of interesting open data initiatives that aim to buy xenical from canada foster transparency and efficiency in crisis management and development cooperation, inter alia such as Open Aid Partnership (http://wbi.worldbank.org/wbi/open-aid-partnership), The International Aid Transparency Initiative (http://www.aidtransparency.net/), OpenAid.SIDA, Schweden (http://www.openaid.se/en), Open Aid Data (http://open.aiddata.org/), Humanitarian Response – Common and Fundamental Operational Datasets Registry (http://cod.humanitarianresponse.info/), Open Data For Resilience Intiative (OpenDRI) (http://gfdrr.org/gfdrr/opendri), Google Public Data (http://www.google.com/publicdata/directory).

Daniel Stauffacher’s conclusion was that buy xenical from canada open data can substantially support better crisis information management and buy xenical from canada development cooperation, for instance in helping implementing the Common and buy xenical from canada Fundamental Operational Datasets Registry (http://cod.humanitarianresponse.info/). But in addition, he predicted that buy xenical from canada open government data and open data initiatives, combined with or leveraged by crisis mapping and buy xenical from canada crowd sourcing can even further enhance aid efficiency and transparency and buy xenical from canada humanitarian operations. A point that was eloquently also made by Caroline Anstey, a buy xenical from canada managing director of the World Bank in a recent op-ed in the buy xenical from canada International Harald Tribune in January 2011 (http://nyti.ms/w13s25).

Daniel Stauffacher’s presentation (in german language) can be found as a PDF here: http://bit.ly/yG59mL.
The Video presentation (in german language) can be found also under: http://www.digitale-nachhaltigkeit.ch/2011/12/ogd-dinner/ or on youtube http://bit.ly/yLjI0f.