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INTERNATIONAL
OPEN GOVERNMENT DATA
CONFERENCE
July 10 – 12, 2012
http://www.data.gov/conference
Sponsored by Data.gov and the World Bank
EMPOWERING PEOPLE
“Sunlight is the best disinfectant.”
- Justice Louis Brandeis
THE WORLD BANK
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Welcome
Attendees From Five Continents Around The World
to the
International Open Government Data Conference
We Will Make History Together
Thank You
to our Speakers, International Guests

Table of Contents:
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What to Know
Meet Up and
Make Connections
Did you hear an interesting speaker? Find
someone doing similar work? See a solution
that you want to find out more about? Take
advantage of your time at the conference by
getting together with colleagues who share your
interests and passions. Organize a dinner on
Wednesday or host a lunch table any day on a
topic you care about by posting a note on the
“Conference Connections” board. Additionally,
the tables in the Atrium are available throughout
the conference for spontaneous meet ups and
tweetups. Let’s build on this opportunity!
Tweeting? #IOGDC
Follow us at @usdatagov and tweet about the
conference with #IOGDC. The best tweets will
show up on the Data.gov site and follow the live
blog at http://bit.ly/IOGDC-Live
Be Connected,
Stay Connected
While you are enjoying the conference in
person, we invite you to join the LinkedIn
Open Data Innovation Group
(http://bit.ly/ODNetwork) and find re-
sources at Developer.Data.gov. Join in
discussions about semantic technologies,
policies for international data sharing, tips
and tricks for creating mashups and apps,
standards, and open data and security.
Can’t find your topic? Start a new discus-
sion forum about what matters to you.
This community will form the basis for the
emergent standards in how to share data
within our governments and between gov-
ernments. Be part of the future at http://
www.data.gov/opendata.

10 July 2012 (Tuesday)
7:30am - 6:00pm Registration
Location Preston Auditorium – Plenary Sessions
8:30 – 9:15am Welcoming Remarks Dr. Jim Yong Kim, President,
World Bank Group
Welcoming Keynote Caroline Anstey, Managing Director, World Bank
The Impact of Open Government Steven Van Roekel, U.S. Federal Chief
Information Officer
9:30 – 10:00am Lightning Talks •Kenya Open Data (Al Kags, Chair of Kenya Open
Data Board) (Kenya)
•Global Open Data Stats (James Hendler, Head
Computer Science Department; Tetherless World
Constellation Professor; Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute) (U.S.)
•Additional Talks to Be Announced (Based on Actual
Presentations on Friday and Saturday)
10:00 – 10:30am Networking Break
10:30 – 11:30am Successful Adventures in Open Government:
Putting Data to Work
• Moderator: Andrew Stott, U.K. Transparency Board
and former U.K. Deputy Chief Information Officer
(U.K.)
• Kathy P. Conrad, Principal Deputy Associate Admin-
istrator, Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Tech-
nologies, U.S. General Services Administration
• Paul Kukubo, CEO, Kenya ICTboard (Kenya)
• Mario Spinelli, Secretary for Corruption Prevention
and Strategic Information, (Brazil)
• Carlos Viniegra, Head of the Digital Government
Unit, Ministry of Public Administration (Mexico)
11:30am – 1:00pm Birds of a Feather Lunch Topics to Be Determined Based on Open Data
Innovation Group Suggestions
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All Times are Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)

Conference Agenda
10 July 2012 (Tuesday) continued
Location Preston Auditorium (Policy Track) MC13-121 (Technical Track)
1:00 – 2:30pm Getting Started in Open Government Data
• Moderator: Tariq Khokhar, Open Data Evangelist
(World Bank)
• Philip Ashlock, Open Government Program Manager,
OpenPlans (U.S.)
• Eric Bensel, Programme Co-Ordinator, PARIS21
(France)
• Ninoschka Dante Piscik, Systems Analyst, AGESIC
(Uruguay)
• Maurice McNaughton, Mona School of Business,
The University of the West Indies (Jamaica)
• Mustapha Mezghani, Owner, 2CW (Tunisia)
Innovative Ways to Collect Data
• Moderator: Neil Fantom, Manager, Open Data
Initiative (World Bank)
• Amparo Ballivian Lead Economist (World Bank)
• Nathan Eagle, Chief Executive Officer, Jana (U.S.)
• Stephanie Grosser, Program Analyst, USAID (U.S.)
• Nada Hamadeh, Senior Statistician, Development
Data Group Organizer Officer, ICP World Bank Global
Office (World Bank)
• Pilar Iglesias, Chief Executive Officer, PriceStats
(U.S.)
• Michael Lokshin, Lead Economist, Development
Research Group (World Bank)
2:30 – 2:50pm Networking Break
2:50 – 4:20pm Opening Up Financial Data • Moderator: (to be announced)
• Prasanna Lal Das, Program Lead, World Bank
Finances program (World Bank)
• Rufus Pollock, Co-founder, Open Knowledge
Foundation and CKAN Project Lead (U.K.)
• Chris Taggart, Co-founder, OpenCorporates (U.K.)
• Irina Tisacova, Moldova e-Government Center/Chief
Information Office of the Government of Moldova
(Moldova)
• Amit Yadav, Program Manager, REI Systems, (U.S.)
All Times are Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)

Conference Agenda
10 July 2012 (Tuesday) continued
4:30 – 5:30pm The Open Data Ecosystem •Moderator: Randeep Sudan, Lead ICT Policy
Specialist (World Bank)
• Amadou Daffe, Chief Executive Officer/Co-Founder,
Coders4Africa Inc. (Senegal/U.S.)
• Joshua Goldstein, PhD candidate at Princeton’s
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International
Affairs; Consultant, GICT Department (World Bank)
• Ali Koné, Program Director/Co-Founder,
Coders4Africa Inc. (Senegal/U.S.)
• Erik Mannens, Research Unit Leader - Future Media
and Imaging Department, IBBT-MMLab (Belgium)
• David Megginson, Co-founder, Acclar Open Aid Data
(Canada)
• Stela Mocan, Executive Director, Moldova
e-Government Center/Chief Information Office
of the Government of Moldova (Moldova)
5:30 – 5:45pm Summary and Look Ahead • David McClure, Associate Administrator, Office of
Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies, U.S.
General Services Administration (U.S.)
6:00 – 7:00pm Reception
11 July 2012 (Wednesday)
7:30am – 6:00pm Registration
8:30 – 8:45am Welcoming Keynote David Eaves, Open Innovation Expert,
Open Government Advocate (Canada)
8:45 – 9:30am Open Data Impact on Developing Countries • Moderator: Fernando Perini, Senior Programme
Officer, International Development Research Centre
of Canada (Canada)
• Jose M. Alonso, Program Manager, Open Data,
World Wide Web Foundation (Spain)
• Tim Davies, Founder and Co-director, Practical
Participation (U.K.)
• Bjorn-Soren Gigler, Senior Governance Specialist,
Innovation Practice, World Bank Institute (World
Bank)
• Dorothy Gordon, Director General, Ghana-India Kofi
Annan Center of Excellency in ICT (Ghana)
• William Tevie, Director General, National Information
Technology Agency (Ghana)

Conference Agenda
11 July 2012 (Wednesday) continued
9:30 – 10:15am Creating Transparency: Advocates • Moderator: Hudson Hollister, Founder and
Executive Director, Data Transparency
Coalition (U.S.)
• Bill Franks, Chief Analytics Officer, Teradata (U.S.)
• David Robinson, Visiting Fellow at the Information
Society Project at Yale Law School (U.S.)
• Andrew Stott, U.K. Transparency Board and former
U.K. Deputy Chief Information Officer (U.K.)
• John Wonderlich, Policy Director, Sunlight
Foundation (U.S.)
• Thomas Whaley, President, Level One
Technologies (U.S.)
10:15 - 10:45am Networking BreakLocation Preston Auditorium (Policy Track) MC13-121 (Technical Track)
10:45am - 12:00pm Open Data for Inclusive, Participatory Governance
• Moderator: Jeanne Holm, Evangelist, Data.gov (U.S.)
• Samantha Custer, Research Associate, Innovation
Practice (World Bank)
• Anupama Dokeniya, Governance Specialist, Public
Sector Governance Group (World Bank)
• Paul Stone, Information Services Manager, New
Zealand Charities Commission (New Zealand)
Platforms and Technology for Releasing Open Data
• Moderator: Neeta Verma, Senior Technical Director,
National Informatics Centre (India)
• Nick Edouard, Executive Vice President Business
Development & Marketing, BuzzData (Canada)
• Nik Garkusha, Open Platforms Lead, Microsoft
Canada (Canada)
• Diego May, Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder,
Junar (Chile)
• Kevin Merritt, Founder and Chief Executive Officer,
Socrata (U.S.)
• Rufus Pollock, Co-Founder Open Knowledge
12:00 – 1:00pm Birds of a Feather Lunch Topics to Be Determined Based on Open Data

Conference Agenda
11 July 2012 (Wednesday) continued
Location Preston Auditorium (Policy Track) MC13-121 (Technical Track)
1:00 – 2:30pm Engagement Around Open Data
• Moderator: Tim Davies, Founder and Co-director,
Practical Participation (U.K.)
• Steve Davenport, Senior Director, Business
Development, and Partnerships, Development Gateway
(U.S.)
• Shauneen Furlong, Consultant, Territorial
Communications, Ltd. (Canada)
• Nathaniel Heller, Executive Director, Global Integrity
(U.S.)
• Mikel Maron, Co-Director, Ground Truth Initiative (U.S.)
What does Open-Data-Ready Look Like?
Participatory Workshop
• Amparo Ballivian, Lead Economist (World Bank)
• Oleg Petrov, Program Coordinator, K&L, ICT@
World Bank and Open Development Technology
Alliance (World Bank)
• Andrew Stott, U.K. Transparency Board and former
U.K. Deputy Chief Information Officer (U.K.)
• Jeff Kaplan, Senior Expert on Open Government
and Open Data, ICT Unit - World Bank; Managing
Director, Open ePolicy Solutions (U.S.)
2:30 – 2:50pm Networking Break Topics to Be Determined Based on Open Data
2:50 – 4:20pm Making Open Data Useful: Standards and
Accessibility
• Moderator: David Eaves, Open Innovation Expert,
Open Government Advocate (Canada)
• Jerry Johnston, Ph.D., Geospatial Information Officer,
Office of the Chief Information Officer, U.S. Department
of the Interior (U.S.)
• David Mitton, Director, Listpoint (U.K.)
• Matthew Welch, Senior Statistician (World Bank)
The Art and Science of Data Visualization
• Moderator: Chris Musialek, Chief Software
Architect, Data.gov (U.S.)
• John Erickson, Director of Web Science
Operations, Tetherless World Constellation,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (U.S.)
• Adrien Friggeri, Social Network Analyst, ENS de
Lyon (France)
• Marten Hogeweg, Senior Project Manager and
Product Manager, Esri, Inc. (U.S.)
• Marcela Oliva, Professor of Architecture and
Environmental Design, Los Angeles Trade and
Technical College (U.S.)
• Michael Rendler, AIA (U.S.)
• Andrew Turner, Chief Technology Officer, GeoIQ
(U.S.)
4:30 – 5:30pm Delivering on the Value of Open Data • Moderator: Theresa Pardo, Director, Center for
Technology in Government, University at Albany,
State University of New York (U.S.)
• Todd Park, U.S. Federal Chief Technology Officer
(U.S.)
• Luke Spikes, President and Chief Executive Officer,
Spikes Cavell Analytics Inc. (U.K.)
• Dan Weeks, Founder, Chief Operating Officer,
BrightScope Inc. (U.S.)
5:30 – 5:45pm Summary and Look Ahead
6:30 – 8:00pm Dinners Unconferenced (Un-Dinners) Hosts Propose Dinner Topics and Locations,
Participants Sign Up

Conference Agenda
12 July 2012 (Thursday)
7:30am - 10:00am Registration
8:30 – 8:45am Welcoming Keynote • Rufus Pollock, Co-founder, Open Knowledge
8:45 – 9:45am Creating Local Impact • Moderator: Kathryn L.S. Pettit, Senior Research
Associate, Metropolitan Housing and Communities
Policy Center, Urban Institute (U.S.)
• Ben Berkowitz, Chief Executive Officer, SeeClickFix
(U.S.)
• Rudi Borrmann, Open Government and Information
Director, City of Buenos Aires (Argentina)
• Dorin Chirtoaca, Mayor, Chişinău, Moldova
(Moldova)
• Abdoulaye Kanté, Associate Director, Head
of Business Unit in Charge of Public Sector &
International Organization, Group-Link4Dev
(Senegal)
9:45 – 10:30am Breaking News! Moderator: Alex Howard, Washington Correspondent,
O’Reilly Media (U.S.)
10:30 – 11:00am Networking Break
11:00am – 12:00pm Open Data and the Open Government Partnership TBA
12:00 – 1:00pm Birds of a Feather Lunch Topics to Be Determined Based on Open Data
1:00 – 2:00pm Open Data: Challenges for the Future • Moderator: Andrew Stott, U.K. Transparency Board
and former U.K. Deputy Chief Information Officer
(U.K.)
• James Hendler, Head, Computer Science
Department; Tetherless World Constellation
Professor; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (U.S.)
• Marion Royal, Program Director, Data.gov (U.S.)
• Carlos Viniegra, Head of the Digital Government Unit,
Ministry of Public Administration (Mexico)
2:00 – 2:30pm Summary and Next Steps Jeanne Holm, Evangelist, Data.gov (U.S.)
Tariq Khokhar, Open Data Evangelist (World Bank)
2:30 – 5:30pm Unconference Networking Sessions and Networking Groups Suggested by
Participants

Speakers
the Bank after serving as President of Dartmouth College, a pre-eminent center of higher education that consistently ranks
among the top academic institutions in the United States. Dr. Kim is a co-founder of Partners In Health (PIH) and a former
director of the HIV/AIDS Department at the World Health Organization (WHO).
As President of Dartmouth – an institution that comprises a liberal arts college and professional schools of medicine, engi-
neering and business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences, a staff and faculty of 3,300, and a budget
of $700 million – Dr. Kim earned praise for reducing a financial deficit without cutting any academic programs. Dr. Kim also
founded the Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science, a multidisciplinary institute dedicated to developing new
models of health care delivery and achieving better health outcomes at lower costs.
Before assuming the Dartmouth presidency, Dr. Kim held professorships and chaired departments at Harvard Medical
School, the Harvard School of Public Health and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston. He also served as director of Har-
vard’s François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights.
In 1987, Dr. Kim co-founded PIH, a Boston-based non-profit organization now working in poor communities on 4 continents.
Challenging previous conventional wisdom that drug-resistant tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS could not be treated in develop-
ing countries, PIH successfully tackled these diseases by integrating large-scale treatment programs into community-based
primary care. As Director of the WHO’s HIV/AIDS Department, Dr. Kim led the ‘3 by 5’ initiative, the first-ever global goal for
AIDS treatment, which sought to treat 3 million new HIV/AIDS patients in developing countries with antiretroviral drugs by
2005. Launched in September 2003, the ambitious program ultimately reached its goal by 2007.
Dr. Kim’s work has earned him wide recognition. He was awarded a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship (2003), was named one
of America’s “25 Best Leaders” by U.S. News & World Report (2005), and was selected as one of TIME magazine’s “100
Most Influential People in the World” (2006).
Born in 1959 in Seoul, South Korea, Dr. Kim moved with his family to the United States at the age of five and grew up in
Muscatine, Iowa. Dr. Kim graduated with an A.B. magna cum laude from Brown University in 1982. He earned an M.D. from
Harvard Medical School in 1991 and a Ph.D. in anthropology from Harvard University in 1993. He is married to Dr. Younsook
Lim, a pediatrician. The couple has two young sons.
JIm YonG KIm, m.D., pH.D.
President
World Bank Group
Jim Yong Kim, M.D., Ph.D., became the 12th President of the
World Bank Group on July 1, 2012. A physician and anthro-
pologist, Dr. Kim has dedicated himself to international devel-
opment for more than two decades, helping to improve the
lives of under-served populations worldwide. Dr. Kim comes to

JoSÉ m. alonSo
Program Manager, Open Data
World Wide Web Foundation
José Alonso joined the World Wide Web Foundation in May 2011 to take the lead on Open Data initiatives, with
the goal of helping to build locally sustainable Open Data ecosystems in low or middle-income countries and of
producing shining, replicable examples and resources for the broader Open Data community. Alonso is an Open Data pioneer and
advocate. He has led several Open Data projects for local and regional governments in Spain, co-chaired the Open Data initiative
for the national government of Spain (awarded the most user-friendly in Europe), served on European Open Data expert panels,
managed Open Data research studies in Ghana and Chile and is currently managing the Ghana Open Data Initiative (GODI), in
support of its National Information Technology Agency (NITA). He is also a member of the Nominating Committee at the Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
Prior to joining the Foundation, Alonso held several positions at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). He managed the W3C
Office in Spain, was key in establishing and led the W3C e-Government Activity, co-chaired the W3C e-Government Interest
Group, and served as Member of the W3C Advisory Committee. He combined these roles with other positions at the Spanish
Technology Centre CTIC over several years, such as Head of e-Administration and Open Government and Senior Adviser on
Open Standards.
Multiple times, Alonso has been named one of the most influential Internet people in Spain. He has worked as IT analyst, consul-
tant and trainer, and even founded his own Web start-up in 1997.
Alonso received his bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and a postgraduate in Enterprise Application Integration, both from the
University of Oviedo (Spain), where he worked in its Research and Innovation departments as a researcher, developer and profes-
sor. He also holds a Diploma Course in Public Administration from the Open University of Catalonia (Spain).
CarolIne anSteY, pH.D.
Managing Director
World Bank
A United Kingdom national, Caroline Anstey joined the World Bank in 1995 after an earlier career in politics
and journalism. She worked as Political Assistant to the Rt. Hon. James Callaghan MP, and as Editor of the
BBC weekly current affairs program “Analysis.” Caroline also served as Secretariat member of the InterAction Council, a group
of former Heads of Government that develops recommendations on political, economic, and social issues. Caroline holds a
Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and a Post-Doctoral Fellowship from Nuffield College, Oxford.
Since 1995, Caroline has worked in various positions in the World Bank including: Country Director for the Caribbean; Director
of Media Relations and Chief Spokesperson; and Assistant and Speechwriter to World Bank President, James D. Wolfensohn.
In November 2007, she was appointed by President Robert B. Zoellick to the position of World Bank Chief of Staff. On July 1,
2010, Caroline was appointed as Vice President, External Affairs. She held that position until her appointment as Managing
Director on September 19, 2011. As Managing Director, Caroline has special responsibility for the Bank’s operational services,
policy and systems and its modernization drive, continuing her commitment to make the Bank an open, results-based and effec-
tive organization. She also has special oversight on gender issues.
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pHIlIpaSHloCK
Open Government Program Manager
OpenPlans
As the Open Government Program Manager at OpenPlans, Philip Ashlock has been leading the development
of the Open311 standard so that cities can leverage web-enabled citizen services in an open and interoper-
able way. Over the past few years, he has taken Open311 from an idea to a standardized protocol for publicly
tracking civic issues in dozens of cities around the world. In partnership with Code for America, Ashlock is also a co-founder of
Civic Commons, an initiative to help governments more easily share technology and their experiences using it. While Open311
remains his primary focus, he also facilitates broader collaboration between cities and other government bodies around open
government initiatives and the development of open standards, open source software, and best practices for civic technology.
amparo BallIvIan, pH.D.
Lead Economist
Poverty, Gender and Equity Unit in the Latin America and Caribbean Region and
Development Economics Data Group
World Bank
Amparo Ballivian has led operational engagements in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) and Africa
regions of the World Bank, and has been Country Manager for Nicaragua. Before joining the Bank she worked in academia,
the diplomatic service, private-sector development and has held senior government positions, including Minister of Housing
and Basic Services and Chairman of the Board of National Customs in her native Bolivia. Ballivian graduated with a master’s
degree in mathematical economics and a Ph.D. in econometrics from Rice University.
Ben BerKoWItz
Co-founder, Chief Executive Officer
SeeClickFix
For Ben Berkowitz’ work on SeeClickFix with his three amazing co-founders, Jeff Blasius, Kam Lasater
and Miles Lasater, he was named Huffington Post’s 2010 Technology Game Changers, Inc. magazine’s
“Entrepreneurs we love” and Government Technology magazine and the Center for Digital Government’s “Top
25 Doers, Dreamers and Drivers” for 2011. Berkowitz recently contributed an essay titled, “Power To The Community” to the
book Shift and Reset by Brian Reich. He has been a featured speaker on civic participation and open government at the SXSW,
the World Bank, the U.S. Department of State, BIF6, PICNIC in Amsterdam and many others. Outside of SeeClickFix, he enjoys
planting trees with his neighbors, hanging out with his puggle and his mutt, cycling and walking around New Haven, Connecticut,
where he is a proud citizen. His current extracurricular activities include helping to create a large public mural on a highway
underpass, http://www.insideoutnhv.com, and starting a local makerspace, makehaven.org.

JaY BHalla
Co-founder and Executive Director
The Open Institute
Jay Bhalla helped design the Kenyan government’s 2006 Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
policy that kick-started the nation’s digital start-up culture, and more recently played a leading role in shaping
the Kenya Open Data Initiative (KODI). He continues to advise both the Kenyan government and the World
Bank on tech strategies for civic engagement and appropriate technology. He has also helped build proof-of-concept grassroots
community tools for monitoring government delivery and tracking state expenditures. Outside of his Open Data work, Bhalla
spearheaded East Africa’s largest mobile web gathering, Pivot25, and also co-founded the world’s first kiSwahili text-to-speech
start-up.
ruDI Werner Borrmann
Open Government and Information Director
City of Buenos Aires
Rudi Borrmann is the Open Government & Information Director for the City of Buenos Aires, a local initia-
tive designed by him which focuses in two main areas: Open Data and Open Government Culture, and
officially launched in March 2012. Previously, he was the Social Media Editor at the New Media Office,
working since 2009 in the development of the social infrastructure for the City of Buenos Aires. Rudi also teaches Social
Media at the Journalism School at Universidad del Salvador and is the organizer of Vimeo Offline Buenos Aires, a
non-profit event that promotes local independent filmmakers. Previously to his work in Government, he worked for the
digital agency “Lanzallamas” and was the editor of the young culture magazine “Plan V”.
DorIn CHIrtoaCa
Mayor
Chisinau
Dorin Chirtoaca is currently the Mayor of Chisinau, capital of Moldova, and has held this position since
2007. He is actively supporting the e-transformation that is taking place at the local level. In the City Hall,
he implemented the Alerte.md dashboard that illustrates the issues around the city by the nature of the
problem and its location. In addition to this initiative, Chisinau City Hall is the pioneer of open data at the
local level. Mayor Chirtoaca is committed to optimizing internal operations and increasing efficiency through the use of
technology, delivering electronic services and granting access to all public information and data to citizens.
Dorin Chirtoaca is currently the Co-President of the Conference of the Regional and Local Authorities for the Eastern
Partnership (CORLEAP) and the vice-president of the Liberal Party of Moldova. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Legal
Sciences from University of Bucharest and master’s degree in European Law from the Sorbonne.
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SamantHa CuSter
Consultant
World Bank Institute
Samantha Custer is working with the Open Development Technology Alliance to capture knowledge and
lessons learned on how Open Data and technology are transforming the nature of engagement between
citizens, their governments and international organizations. She has co-authored three research papers
on Open Data in developed and developing countries, including a global assessment as well as in-depth case studies of
initiatives in Moldova and Kenya. At present, she is completing a new research series related to leveraging Open Data
with Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to create mechanisms for direct citizen feedback on develop-
ment projects and is advising on a World Bank pilot project, “On Track,” in this regard.
Involved in international development for more than 12 years, Custer previously worked for NGOs focused on improved
access to development for vulnerable children and ethnic minorities. With Save the Children, she provided oversight and
performance audits for sponsorship-funded programs throughout Latin America. She then directed SIL International’s
education and development programs in Asia, supporting partners in 13 countries and overseeing country offices in Ban-
gladesh and Indonesia. She is also a dual master’s degree candidate in Foreign Service and Public Policy at Georgetown
University, with interests in governance, innovation and social accountability. She can be contacted at scuster@world-
bank.org.
amaDou DaffÉ
Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder
Coders4Africa
Amadou Daffé is the CEO and Co-Founder of Coders4Africa (C4A), a nonprofit organization founded in
2010. Coders4Africa’s mission is to create and support a Pan-African community of competent, interna-
tionally certified IT professionals focused on developing IT tools for African agriculture, business, educa-
tion, health care, government and communities. Since January 2010, Coders4Africa – using conferences, boot camps,
workshops and other initiatives in multiple African countries – has built a community of more than 1,000 IT professionals
as C4A members from all over Africa. This community is already working on an initial set of open-source solutions that
respond to local African problems.
Daffé is originally from Senegal, and educated in the United States. He is a software architect with a decade of software
engineering and enterprise application-development experience as well as extensive experience in the financial, retail,
software and legal industries. He is currently Enterprise Application Architect at one of the largest law firms in Philadel-
phia, Pennsylvania. Daffé and the other C4A co-founders form a team with deep experience in the software engineering
and development field as well as a deep understanding of the culture and needs of the African IT professionals they serve.
nInoSCHKa Dante pISCIK
Head, Citizenship Management Division
Agencia de gobierno electrónico y sociedad de la información (AGESIC)
Ninoschka Dante Piscik is responsible for the Open Government program and e-Commerce program in
Uruguay and the Departments of Communication and Training of AGESIC, and serves as Technical As-
sistant to the national coordination in the MERCOSUR DIGITAL Project.

A systems analyst, for 15 years she has been working in projects related to: legal aspects of electronic commerce, electric
certification, development and implementation of websites, accessibility and usability, implementation and management of
virtual communities, Open Goverment Data, and procurement.
StepHen Davenport
Senior Director of Innovation and Partnerships
Development Gateway
Stephen Davenport directs the Business Development/Innovation team at Development Gateway, which
covers research and innovation, marketing and communications, and external partnerships. With more
than 10 years in the areas of technology, aid management, and information transparency, Davenport has
been at the forefront of the latest in cutting-edge Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D)
innovations. With an emphasis on developing countries, his most recent achievements have focused on web- and mo-
bile-phone-based visualizations of aid flows, budget information, and results designed to empower developing-country
stakeholders to enforce resource efficiency and mutual accountability. His efforts have also led to contributions to interna-
tional data standards such as the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). Prior to joining the organization in 2000,
Davenport worked with the World Bank, IBM, Computer Associates, and BearingPoint, developing technology solutions
for the public and private sectors. He holds a master’s degree in international business administration from Georgetown
University, and a bachelor’s degree from Washington and Lee University.
tIm DavIeS
Founder and Co-director
Practical Participation
Tim Davies is a Ph.D. student in the Web Science Doctoral Training Centre and Faculty of Human and
Social Sciences at the University of Southampton, United Kingdom, where his research focuses on the
impacts of open government data. He consults for AidInfo on the development of technology and intermedi-
ary communities around the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), and has worked with IKM Emergent exploring
the use of linked open data in development. Davies is also founder and co-director of Practical Participation, a UK-based
consultancy working with local governments and the third-sector to promote social justice through participation, engagement
and appropriate use of social technology. He recently co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Community Informatics on
Open Data and Community Informatics. He tweets as @timdavies and blogs at http://www.timdavies.org.uk.
anupama DoKenIYa, pH.D.
Governance Specialist
Public Sector and Governance Group
World Bank
Anupama Dokeniya works on the implementation of the World Bank’s Governance and Anti-corruption
Strategy, and leads analytical and strategy work on implementation Right to Information reforms in developing
countries. She has delivered learning programs on transparency and accountability, open government, leadership development,
and media policy to World Bank staff and government officials and other stakeholders in several countries in Africa and Asia.
She has also done extensive analytical and consulting work on Information and Communications Technology policy and
applications and telecommunications reform. She holds a Ph.D. in Communications from Cornell University.
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natHan eaGle, pH.D.
Chief Executive Officer
Jana
Nathan Eagle is the CEO of Jana, a company that provides consumers in emerging markets with free
mobile phone airtime to incentivize data collection. He also serves as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at
Harvard University and Research Assistant Professor at Northeastern University. His Ph.D. on Reality
Mining was declared one of the “10 technologies most likely to change the way we live” by the MIT Technology Review.
Dr. Eagle has been named one of the world’s top mobile phone developers by Nokia and was elected into the Technology
Review’s TR35 as one of the top global innovators under 35. In June 2012, he was awarded the prestigious Kiel Prize for
Global Economics by the President of Germany, Joachim Gauck.
DavID eaveS
Open Innovation Expert, Open Government Advocate
An expert in innovation, David Eaves works with leading companies, nonprofits and governments on
strategy and management. His clients include Code for America, the World Bank and Greenpeace as well
as several governments and companies. As an open government expert, Eaves serves on the Canadian
Federal Government’s Open Government advisory Panel, served on the Australian Gov 2.0 International
Reference Group and advises numerous other governments. In 2009, his work with the Mayor of Vancouver led to the draft-
ing of the Open Motion, which initiated the city’s open data portal and other initiatives. Eaves writes and is invited to speak
on politics, public sector renewal, open source and innovation as well as foreign policy and other subjects. He posts several
times a week on his blog (eaves.ca), publishes regularly in various forums including the Toronto Star, the WeGov Blog at
Personal Democracy Media and has chapters in numerous books, including the O’Reilly Media book on Open Government.
Born and raised in Vancouver, Eaves is a graduate of Queen’s University and Oxford University.
nICK eDouarD
Executive Vice President, Business Development and Marketing
BuzzData
Nick Edouard joined BuzzData in September 2012 to lead BuzzData’s business development and marketing
activities, having already been involved with the company since its inception as an investor. Edouard spends
a considerable amount of time talking with companies and organizations looking to better share data – both
openly with the world and internally within teams and across organizations. He recently led the Economist Intelligence Unit
and BuzzData’s global Best City Contest crowdsourcing project. You can see his current open data projects at
http://buzzdata.com/nick_edouard.
Prior to BuzzData, Edouard established and ran the North American operations of Nomad Digital, a U.K.-based telecom
company, delivering on-train Wi-Fi solutions for Amtrak, VIA Rail and others. He previously co-founded the U.K.’s leading site
management company for emerging wireless technologies and spent five years as a strategy consultant principally with Arthur
D. Little. He has an M.A. in Classics and Philosophy from Trinity College, Oxford.

JoHn S. erICKSon, pH.D
Director of Web Science Operations
Tetherless World Constellation (TWC)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
John S. Erickson, Ph.D., has spent nearly two decades studying the unique social, legal, and technical
problems that arise when managing and disseminating information in the digital environment. At RPI,
John coordinates group projects including the Linking Open Government Data (LOGD) Portal and the International Open
Government Dataset Search (IOGDS) and TWC U.S. Government Dataset Search applications. Prior to joining TWC,
Erickson was principal investigator on research projects at Hewlett-Packard Labs focusing on policy-based management
and personalization of distributed, heterogeneous digital object repositories, content processing architectures and col-
laboration systems. Before joining HP Labs, he was the architect for Copyright Direct™, the first real-time, Internet-based
service to fully automate the complex copyright permissions process for a variety of media types, and LicensIt/@ttribute,
the first digital rights management (DRM) technology to facilitate dialog between content creators and users through the
dynamic exchange of metadata.
neIl fantom
Manager, Development Data Group
World Bank
Neil Fantom manages the World Bank’s Open Data initiative in Washington, D.C, and leads the team
that provides open access to the World Bank’s databases on development, including World Develop-
ment Indicators and Global Development Finance. Much of his career has involved helping developing
countries improve their statistical capacity, in positions at the Department for International Development (DFID) and the
European Commission (Eurostat); he spent several years working in Malawi and Botswana helping their statistical offices
improve their official statistics and making them more accessible and useful. Fantom studied statistics, education, and
mathematics, at the British Universities of London, Oxford, and Durham.
BIll franKS
Chief Analytics Officer
Teradata
As Chief Analytics Officer for Teradata’s global alliance programs, Bill Franks provides insight on trends
in the Advanced Analytics space and helps clients understand how Teradata and its analytic partners can
support their efforts. In addition, Franks is a faculty member of the International Institute for Analytics and
the author of the book Taming The Big Data Tidal Wave (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., April, 2012). He is also an active speaker
and blogger. Franks’ focus has always been to help translate complex analytics into terms that business users can under-
stand and to then help organizations implement the results effectively within their processes. His work has spanned clients
in a variety of industries for companies ranging in size from Fortune 100 companies to small nonprofit organizations. Learn
more about Franks at http://www.bill-franks.com.
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aDrIen frIGGerI
Social Network Analyst/Data Scientist
A Social Network Analyst/Data Scientist in Inria, France, Adrien Friggeri established a quantitative theory
of social cohesion and mathematically characterized the notion of social community. His interests lie in the
study of real-world networks, both from structural and dynamic points of view. He has a hands-on approach
to research and is a firm believer in web experimentation (e.g., Fellows and Happy Flu). Throughout his
career, he has applied quantitative network methodologies to a broad array of subjects, ranging from psychosociological
datasets to political interactions, from information diffusion on the blogosphere to the epidemiology of nosocomial infections.
SHauneen furlonG, pH.D.
Consultant
Territorial Communications Ltd.
Shauneen Furlong is an independent consultant and part-time professor who lectures on eGovernment
and project management with the University of Toronto and University of Ottawa. Over the last couple
of years, she has presented and worked in the United Kingdom, Middle East, Europe, East Africa,
Egypt, China, Canada, Washington and Turkey. Furlong has executive-level management experience in a number of
Government of Canada central agencies and departments over a period of 20 years, most recently as Executive Director,
Government On-Line, Government of Canada. She has published articles and peer reviewed papers for a number of
international journals and conferences. She was awarded an IBM Fellowship; has a Ph.D. in Computer Science, an M.A.
in Business Administration Economics; an M.B.A. in Project Management, a B.A. in Philosophy, and is a Project Manager
Professional (PMP). Dr. Furlong was nominated by IT World Canada as one of Canada’s key eGovernment drivers, and
was profiled by ComputerWorld Canada.
nIK GarKuSHa
Open Platforms Lead
Microsoft Canada
Nik Garkusha is often referred to as the “Head of Open Sourcery” at Microsoft Canada. He is responsible
for a number of Open Source, Open Data and Open Government innovation programs in Canada.
His expertise stems from his involvement with municipal and regional Open Data catalogues; building
frameworks for citizen engagement, crowdsourcing and community involvement around Open Gov Initiatives; and consulting
on technologies and approaches to successfully build cost-effective and future-proof solutions to Open Data mandates
across Canada. Garkusha is also the founder of OpenHalton, a citizen-led Open Gov initiative in the Halton Region, Ontario,
and is an Open Data and technology evangelist, web architect and “professional geek.” Previously, he led development of
Open Source programs at UNISYS Corp. and worked as a web developer and IT consultant.

BJorn-Soren GIGler, pH.D.
Senior Governance Specialist, Innovation Practice
World Bank Institute
Soren Gigler is leading the Mapping for Results Initiative at the World Bank Institute. He is a political
economist and since the end of the 1990s has worked on issues related to innovative uses of information
and communications technology (ICT) for development and empowerment. He coordinates the Mapping
for Results Initiative, which aims is to visualize the location of donor-funded projects to better monitor project impact,
improve aid effectiveness, and enhance transparency and social accountability. Gigler previously held the position of Visiting
Assistant Professor for Political Economy at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and the McDonough School
of Business at Georgetown University. He has taught and carried out research on multidimensional aspects of poverty,
human development, and ICT for development at the London School of Economics, Georgetown Univeristy, the Universidad
Católica Boliviana, Bolivia, and the Universidad los Andes, Colombia. He holds a Ph.D. in Development Studies from the
London School of Economics, an M.S. in Economics from the Munich Graduate School of Economics, and an M.A. in
International Affairs from George Washington University. His main research field is the impact of ICTs on enhancing the
well-being of poor communities and their potential for enhancing the governance and transparency of governments and
international donors.
JoSHua GolDSteIn
Consultant - ICT Knowledge Platform
World Bank
Joshua Goldstein is a Ph.D. candidate at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and In-
ternational Affairs and a consultant in the World Bank Group’s GICT Department. With a regional interest
in sub-Saharan Africa, he has worked extensively on technology policy and open development projects
with the United States Government, Google Inc., and UNICEF.
DorotHY K. GorDon
Director-General
Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT (AITI-KACE)
Dorothy K. Gordon is the Director-General of Ghana’s Advanced Information Technology Institute, the
Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT (AITI-KACE). She leads a team of world-class
technology professionals committed to using the opportunities that exist globally to bring development to
Africa. Her vision is to move Africa from a situation where it consumes technology developed outside the continent and
designed for other markets, to where technology consumed in Africa is the result of African innovation that provides solu-
tions for overall socio-economic development.
Gordon has been actively involved in shaping Ghana’s Information and Communications Technology scene for close to 20
years. After obtaining degrees from the University of Ghana and the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) of the Univer-
sity of Sussex, U.K., she joined the United Nations Development Programme. Her career as a specialist in international
development spans over 25 years. Her extensive experience within the United Nations is complemented by work in the
private sector and with global civil society organizations. Her leadership and management responsibilities include imple-
mentation of multimillion dollar projects and programs throughout Africa and in South Asia as well as strategy, change
management and evaluation consulting for major companies such as PricewaterhouseCoopers.
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Gordon is a Council Member of the Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa (FOSSFA), Chair of the Com-
mission on E-Government for the World IT Forum (WITFOR); Board member and Africa Spokesperson for the World
Summit Awards; and Director, UNESCO International Institute for Capacity Building in Africa (IICBA). She sits on interna-
tional and national boards focusing on technology, job creation and the achievement of a more favorable environment for
women to participate equally in the technology for development process. Gordon speaks both English and French fluently
and has lived and worked in over 20 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America.
StepHanIe GroSSer
Presidential Management Fellow
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
Stephanie Grosser is a Presidential Management Fellow at USAID, where she serves as the communica-
tions specialist for USAID’s Development Credit Authority. In this role, Grosser finds creative and innovative
ways of telling the story of credit guarantees as a powerful tool to unlock private resources for development.
Prior to joining USAID, Stephanie was the Assistant Director at the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society where she worked to pro-
mote refugee and immigrant rights. She received a bachelor’s degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and a
master’s degree in Government from Johns Hopkins University.
naDa HamaDeH
Senior Statistician, Development Economics
World Bank
Nada Hamadeh is the Team Lead for the World Bank’s pilot study on Crowdsourced Price Data Collec-
tion Using Mobile Phones and one of the few worldwide experts on international comparisons of eco-
nomic performance. She has been working since 2003 on the International Comparison Program (ICP),
led by the World Bank, and led various methodological developments in the area. The ICP is the world’s largest statistical
program, covering about 200 countries. It produces internationally comparable price and volume measures for Gross
Domestic Product (GDP) and its component expenditures based on Purchasing Power Parities (PPPs). Hamadeh holds a
master’s of science degree in Finance from the George Washington University.
natHanIel Heller
Executive Director
Global Integrity
Nathaniel Heller has split time between social entrepreneurship, investigative reporting and traditional
public service since 1999, when he joined the Center for Public Integrity and began to develop the Integrity
Indicators and conceptual model for what would become Global Integrity. At the Center, Heller reported
on public service and government accountability; his work was covered by the Associated Press, The Washington Post,
The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, Moscow Times, The Guardian (London), and
Newsweek. He and his colleagues’ reporting on the human rights impact of post-9/11 U.S. military training abroad won
awards from both Investigative Reporters and Editors and the Society for Professional Journalists. In 2002, he joined the
U.S. State Department, focusing on European security and transatlantic relations. He later served as a foreign policy fellow
to the late-Senator Edward Kennedy in 2004. In 2005, Heller returned to stand up Global Integrity as an independent
international organization and has led the group since. You can learn more about Heller by visiting http://integrilicio.us.

JameS HenDler, pH.D.
Head, Computer Science Department
Tetherless World Constellation Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
In addition to his leadership positions at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, James Hendler is also a faculty
affiliate of the Experimental Multimedia Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), serves as a Director of the U.K.’s
charitable Web Science Trust and is a visiting professor at the Institute of Creative Technology at DeMontfort University
in Leicester, U.K. Hendler has authored approximately 200 technical papers in the areas of Semantic Web, artificial
intelligence, agent-based computing and high-performance processing. One of the inventors of the Semantic Web, Hendler
was the recipient of a 1995 Fulbright Foundation Fellowship, is a member of the U.S. Air Force Science Advisory Board, and
is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, the British Computer Society and the IEEE. He is also the
former Chief Scientist of the Information Systems Office at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
and was awarded a U.S. Air Force Exceptional Civilian Service Medal in 2002. He is the Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of IEEE
Intelligent Systems and is the first computer scientist to serve on the Board of Reviewing Editors for Science. In 2010,
Hendler was named to the “honor roll” of the 20 most innovative professors in America by Playboy magazine. Hendler also
serves as an “Internet Web Expert” for the U.S. government, providing guidance to the Data.gov project.
marten HoGeWeG
Senior Project Manager and Product Manager
Esri, Inc.
Marten Hogeweg has M.S degrees in mathematics and in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and over
15 years of experience working with GIS. For more than 10 years, he has worked on Spatial Data Infrastruc-
tures (SDI) both within the United States (at federal, state, and local government level) and abroad, focusing
on sharing, discovery, and use of open government data. He has managed the U.S. Geospatial One-Stop Portal, its succes-
sor Geo.data.gov, and the Federal Geospatial Platform. He also supports U.S. federal programs related to transparency and
accountability (Recovery.gov). Currently, he implements an agency-wide platform for collaboration and sharing of geospatial
information related to the Department of the Interior’s landscape management policies. He also frequently travels to Indonesia
where he implements a national geospatial platform for government data sharing. He is Product Manager for the open-source
ESRI Geoportal Server and for ArcGIS for INSPIRE, Esri’s technologies that support SDI around the world.
HuDSon HollISter
Founder and Executive Director
Data Transparency Coalition
Hudson Hollister is the founder and Executive Director of the Data Transparency Coalition, a U.S. trade as-
sociation that supports the publication and standardization of government data. Prior to founding the Data
Transparency Coalition, he served as counsel to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the
U.S. House of Representatives and as an attorney fellow in the Office of Interactive Disclosure at the Securities and Exchange
Commission. Before his government service, he was a securities litigator in the Chicago office of Latham & Watkins LLP.
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Jeanne Holm
Evangelist
Data.gov
As the Evangelist for Data.gov (an open government flagship project for the White House managed by the
U.S. General Services Administration), Jeanne Holm leads collaboration and builds communities with the pub-
lic, educators, developers, and international and state governments in using open government data. Jeanne
is the Chief Knowledge Architect at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, driving innovation through social media, virtual worlds,
gaming, ontologies, and collaborative systems, including the award-winning NASA public portal (www.nasa.gov) and pioneer-
ing knowledge architectures within the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). She is a Fellow of the United Nations International
Academy of Astronautics and a Distinguished Instructor at UCLA, with more than 130 publications on information systems,
knowledge management, and innovation. Holm is a graduate of Claremont Graduate University and UCLA, where she is an
instructor in knowledge management, social network analysis, and collaborative systems. She has worked at Disney, in TV and
radio, and as CIO for a technology start-up. She has been awarded numerous honors, including the NASA Exceptional Service
Medal for leadership (twice), three Webbys from The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, three best-practice
awards from the APQC, and led NASA to an unprecedented four global Most Admired Knowledge Enterprise (MAKE) awards.
alexanDer B. HoWarD
Washington Correspondent
O’Reilly Media
Alexander Howard chronicles how technology is being used to help citizens, cities and national governments
solve large-scale problems. He is an internationally recognized expert on the use of collaborative
technologies in open government and digital journalism. Howard has reported extensively on the intersection
of the Internet and society, including big data, open innovation, technology policy, cybersecurity, mobile health, open data,
electronic privacy, and open source software. He has contributed to the National Journal, Forbes, the Atlantic, the Huffington
Post, Govfresh, ReadWriteWeb, Mashable, CBS News’ What’s Trending, Govloop, and the Association for Computer
Manufacturing, among others. He also maintains a global audience of more than 200,000 followers and subscribers on
Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, WordPress, YouTube and Google+. Howard is a frequent public speaker, including talks at
Harvard University and the National Congress of Brazil, and highly sought-after moderator and facilitator at conferences and
workshops, including the Open Government Partnership, Sushi, Stanford University, Columbia University, the New America
Foundation, World Bank, Club de Madrid and the U.S. National Archives and State Department, among many others. In 2011,
he was Visiting Faculty at the Pointer Institute. Howard was the associate editor of SearchCompliance.com and WhatIs.com
at TechTarget, where he wrote about how laws and regulations that affect IT are changing, spanning the issues of online
identity, data protection, enterprise security and risk management. He is a graduate of Colby College in Waterville, Maine.
pIlar IGleSIaS
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
PriceStats
Pilar Iglesias is responsible for building the PriceStats team, its core processes, technology and partner-
ships. In addition, she directly manages the development of alternative applications of the PriceStats
databases. Prior to PriceStats, she was a consultant with Booz & Company in New York. She was also the
co-founder and COO of Digicuenta (now part of Dineromail Inc), the leading online-payment company in Latin America. She
holds a B.A. in Economics from Universidad de San Andres (Argentina), and an M.B.A. from MIT.

JerrY JoHnSton, pH.D.
Geospatial Information Officer
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
As Geospatial Information Officer at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Jerry Johnston leads
EPA’s efforts to coordinate and implement geospatial technology across the Agency to meet a wide range
of mission goals. This includes providing a vision for geospatial interoperability throughout the EPA
enterprise, as well as guidance and perspective on opportunities for adopting place-based approaches more broadly
across Agency lines of business. Additionally, Johnston serves as the EPA lead for coordinating geospatial activities
across the Federal government and frequently works with partners across a wide range of Departments and Agencies on
projects and programs that benefit and advance the federal geospatial enterprise. He holds a B.S. in Environmental Sci-
ence from Michigan State University as well as M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Environmental Science from Indiana University,
Bloomington. Johnston is a member of the Executive Steering Committee of the Federal Geographic Data Committee
(FGDC) and a member of the National Geospatial Advisory Committee (NGAC).
al KaGS
Chairman
Kenya Open Data Task Force
Al Kags is a founder of the Kenya Open Data Initiative, and is Chairman of the Kenya Open Data Task
Force inaugurated by the Government of Kenya in 2011. He is also a Trustee of the Open Institute. As an
Open Government enthusiast, Kags has a keen interest in working with African governments to open up
development data and to avail it in a useful and simple-to-appreciate manner. He is additionally a marketing and communica-
tions professional who leads Goode Africa, a Marketing and Communications agency for growing nonprofit organizations and
businesses that have a social conscience and do good.
aBDoulaYe KantÉ
Associate Director, head of Business Unit in charge of Public Sector & International
Organization
Group-Link4Dev
Abdoulaye Kanté is co-founder Group-Link4Dev and is Associate Director heading its Business Unit in charge
of Public Administration and International Development organization.Group-Link4Dev advises and supports
the development of organizations and public administration in developing context to implement process optimization and pro-
ductivity through the use of information technology and communication. K’santé vision of open data extends beyond the African
continent, to the Francophonie. He recently launched the forumfrancophonedesdonneesouvertes.org, and dreams about gath-
ering – through networking – a community of open data and open government experts. Kanté was assigned high responsibili-
ties as Information and Communications Technologies for Development (ICT4D) manager at NGO Enda Lead Africa, as well as
in his role as senior technical adviser for a number the Ministry of ICT of the Government of Senegal.
A graduate of the University of Paris Nanterre in the section Design and Implementation of Digital Public Policies, his areas
of expertise are public ICT policies in the context of developing countries and analysis of usage arising from the wave of the
Internet community (open data, open government, open innovation, social media, e-gov and mobile development. Kanté is very
familiar with the context of the ICT in sub-Saharan African countries and is a member of several networks of experts working for
the development of information technology in Africa, transparency, democratization of content and citizen participation.
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Jeff Kaplan
Senior Expert on Open Government and Open Data, ICT Unit – World Bank
Managing Director, Open ePolicy Solutions
Jeff Kaplan is a strategic management consultant to government agencies and multinational companies
on Open Data, Open Innovation and technology policies. A recognized global expert in these areas,
Kaplan is currently working with the Republic of Tunisia, Moldova, Macedonia, Kenya and Nigeria’s Edo
State on their Open Government, Open Data and Open Innovation agendas. He also currently acts as Lead Facilitator for
the Open Data Innovations Network, a global community of practice launched by the World Bank. Previously, he worked
on client engagements as diverse as Saudi Arabia’s National Digital Content Strategy and policy framework for public-
private partnerships in e-services, drafting Azerbaijan’s first National e-Government Strategy and the updating of Jordan’s
National e-Government Program.
Kaplan was also Founder and Director of the Open ePolicy Group, a pioneering, global network of government CIOs and
industry executives based at Harvard’s Berkman Center, which published the Roadmap for Open ICT Ecosystems, a set
of policy tools for use of open technologies to drive interoperability and innovation.
Kaplan received a J.D. degree with honors from Harvard Law School and a B.A. with honors from Yale University. He was
also an International Affairs Fellow in e-government at the Council on Foreign Relations from 2000-2001.
tarIq KHoKHar
Open Data Evangelist, Development Data Group
World Bank
Tariq Khokhar is the World Bank’s Open Data Evangelist. His interests lie where technology,
transparency, poverty and data meet. He guides the World Bank’s strategy on Open Data and Open
Development and is responsible for internal and external outreach and execution. Prior to joining the
Bank, Tariq led innovation and community engagement work at Aidinfo and the International Aid Transparency Initiative
(IATI). He was formerly a director of Bond U.K. and the Chief Development Officer of Aptivate, where he delivered
technology policy, strategy and implementation projects for governments, NGOs and international organizations. He
holds degrees from the University of Cambridge, has close relationships in the global Open Data and Open Government
communities and currently lives in Washington, D.C.
alI KonÉ
Co-founder and Program Director
Coders4Africa
Ali Koné was born in the United States of Malian parents. He spent most of his childhood in western Africa
and was educated in the United States. He is a computer and software enthusiast who likes to share his
passion with others in order to address some of the most pressing problems of our times and increasing
the effectiveness of our daily activities. Koné is a software technical lead and architect for Bentley Systems in Pennsylvania.
He worked as a software engineer in a variety of industries such as defense, education, finance, e-commerce and software,
using many different programming styles and programming languages including Microsoft and Oracle Java technologies. He
specializes in software architecture and agile development processes, such as Scrum and Extreme Programming. He holds
a B.S. in Electrical Engineering with minor in Computer Science.

praSanna lal DaS
Lead Program Officer, Controllers
World Bank
Prasanna Lal Das leads the open financial data program at the World Bank. Stops in the past include content
strategy, computer games, knowledge management, journalism, experience design, and management consult-
ing. You can follow him on Twitter @prasannalaldas and read his blog at http://prasannalaldas.blogspot.com.
mICHael loKSHIn, pH.D.
Adviser, Manager, Computational Tools Team, Development Research Group
(Poverty Team)
World Bank
Michael Lokshin received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1999,
then joined the research group at the World Bank as a Young Economist (YE program). His research focuses
on the areas of poverty and inequality measurement, labor economics, and applied econometrics. Recently, he has been involved
in the Bank’s efforts to develop the methodology of evaluating the effect of crisis and public policies on households in developing
countries. He leads the group of researchers in development of tools for applied economic analysis and data collection.
erIK mannenS, pH.D.
Research Unit Leader, Future Media & Imaging Department
IBBT-MMLab
Erik Mannens received his M.Sc. degree in Electro-Mechanical Engineering (1992) at KAHO Ghent, and his
M.Sc. degree in Computer Science (1995) at KU Leuven University. In 2011, he received his Ph.D. degree
in Computer Engineering at Ghent University with his doctoral thesis entitled “Interoperability of Semantics
in News Production.” Before joining IBBT-MMLab in 2005 as a senior project manager, he was a senior software engineering
consultant and Java architect for more than a decade. His major expertise is centered around metadata modeling, semantic
Web technologies, broadcasting workflows, iDTV and Web development in general. He is now Research Unit Leader of the
Future Media & Imaging Dept. and is involved in several projects as Sr. researcher/project manager.
Mannens is co-chair of World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Media Fragments Working Group and actively participating in
other W3C semantic Web standardization activities (IBBT’s AC Rep, Media Annotations WG, Provenance WG, eGov WG,
and Multimedia Semantics XG). On all these subjects he has published more than 60 papers and book chapters (20-plus ISI
Journals & 30-plus Conference Proceedings). He is also an active member of the technical committees of MTAP, ACM Mul-
tiMedia, IEEE CCNC, IEEE MMTC, SAMT, MMWeb, and MAReSO. His full biography/c.v. can be obtained from both http://
www.mmlab.be/emannens or http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=2917007.
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mIKel maron
Co-founder
Ground Truth Initiative
Mikel Maron is a programmer and geographer working for impactful community and humanitarian uses of
open source and open data. He is co-founder of Ground Truth Initiative, and of the Map Kibera project. He’s
on the Board of the OpenStreetMap (OSM) Foundation, and President of the Humanitarian OpenStreet-
Map Team, which helped to facilitate the OSM response to the Haiti earthquake. He has traveled widely, organizing projects
in India, Palestine, Egypt, Swaziland, and elsewhere. Previously, he co-founded Mapufacture and worked on collaborative
platforms, geoweb standards, and various applications, with a wide spectrum of organizations, from the United Nations and
government agencies to anarchist hacker collectives.
DIeGo maY
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
Junar
Diego May co-founded Junar in 2010 with a vision to create a world where data is freed and global innova-
tion surges. Junar’s mission has since been to enable organizations to open and unlock the value of their
data. Prior to launching Junar, May, a 16-year veteran of the tech sector, was the interim CEO for Lidersoft
Internacional and has held management roles at Intel, Verizon and Lucent. Throughout his career, he has been committed
to using technology to change the world through innovation. His Brazilian martial art training and semi-professional tennis
career have fueled his drive to always succeed. May holds a degree in Industrial Engineering from Argentina and an M.B.A.
from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
DavID mCClure, pH.D.
Associate Administrator, Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies
U.S. General Services Administration (GSA)
Dave McClure was appointed Associate Administrator of the U.S. General Services Administration Office
of Citizen Services and Communications effective August 24, 2009. In 2010, the office was re-established
as the Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies (OCSIT). As Associate Administrator, Mc-
Clure advances GSA’s responsibilities in serving the American people through open and transparent government initiatives
to provide increased government accessibility to the public. McClure also identifies and applies new technologies to improve
government operations and service delivery.
OCSIT is a powerful advocate for making government operations more open, transparent, and participatory. Through the
use of innovative technologies, the office connects the public to government information and services through various chan-
nels, including collaborative and public dialogue tools, call centers, and other emerging new media and citizen engagement
technologies. As part of this effort, the office runs the award-winning USA.gov, the official website of the federal government,
Data.gov, created and hosts Challenge.gov, and several other high profile transparency federal web sites. In addition, he
oversees the Federal Cloud Computing PMO which is responsible for implementation and evolution of the Apps.gov web
site, creation of FedRamp (a governmentwide security accreditation, certification, and authorization program), assists OMB
in governmentwide data center consolidation. He serves on the Federal CIO Council Executive Committee.
McClure previously served as the managing vice president for Gartner Inc.’s government research team. There, he managed

the global government research agenda and analyst support, and was lead researcher on government information technol-
ogy management practices. McClure also served on the Obama-Biden transformation, innovation, and government reform
transition team, which examined federal agency IT plans and status for the incoming administration.
Before working at Gartner, McClure served as vice president for e-government and technology at the Council for Excel-
lence in Government. He founded the CIO SAGE program that provides mentoring advice from prior government CIOs
to newly appointed CIOs. Previously, McClure had an 18-year career with the Government Accountability Office, where
he conducted wide-ranging reviews of major systems development and IT management capabilities in almost all major
Cabinet departments and agencies. McClure has also provided key input on major federal government IT reform legisla-
tion, such as the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996 that created federal government CIOs and IT business-case requirements,
and the e-Government Act of 2002. He is a four-time winner of Federal Computer Week’s “Top Federal 100” (1998, 2001,
and 2004, 2012) for impact on government IT directions and improvements. He received the Fed100 Government Eagle
Award in March 2012, the highest recognition for impact on federal IT. He was elected a Member of the National Acad-
emy of Public Administration in 2009, received AFFIRM’s 2010 Government-wide IT Leadership Award, AFCEA Bethesda
2011 Award for Cloud Computing Leadership, the 2011 AFFIRM Leadership Award for Advancement of Open Govern-
ment, and was selected by InformationWeek in February 2012 as one of the top 10 most influential people in government
security. His office has received numerous national and international awards for government innovation activities.
McClure received his B.A. and a master’s degree in political science from the University of Texas, and a doctorate in
public policy from the University of North Texas. He also completed post-graduate work in IT management at Harvard and
George Washington universities.
maurICe mCnauGHton, pH.D.
Director, Centre of Excellence, Mona School of Business
University of the West Indies
Maurice McNaughton is an Engineering Graduate and pursued his Ph.D. studies in Decision Sciences
at Georgia State University. He combines that accomplishment with more than 15 years senior manage-
ment and leadership experience in the planning and direction of enterprise-level Information Technology
in organizations. He is currently Director of the Centre of Excellence at the Mona School of Business, where he is evolving
an Application-oriented Research Agenda around the use of ICTs to enable Business Innovation in the Small Medium En-
terprise sector in Jamaica and the Caribbean. His research interests span a range of emerging Open ICT’s including open
source software, cloud computing and open data. He has a strong passion for higher education and teaches courses in
software engineering, software economics, decision support systems and IT governance.
DavID meGGInSon
Co-founder
Acclar Open Aid Data
David Megginson has been involved with open technologies for two decades, including a stint as chair of
the World Wide Web Consortium’s XML Core Working Group. As a consultant, Megginson has spent the
past 15 years helping public and private organizations implement open information technology, including
creating the XML schema for the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). David is also the author of two books on
open information standards, Structuring XML Documents (Prentice-Hall, 1998) and Imperfect XML (McGraw-Hill, 2004), and
is the 2000 winner of the “Java Technology Achievement Award For Outstanding Individual Contribution to the Java Commu-
nity” from Sun Microsystems.
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KevIn merrItt
President and Chief Executive Officer
Socrata
Kevin Merritt founded Socrata, a Seattle-based venture-backed start-up, in 2007 with a vision to create a
cloud software platform that democratizes access to data and unlocks its potential to deliver a new genera-
tion of consumer web and mobile experiences. Under Merritt’s direction, Socrata has pioneered the use of
data-as-a-platform technologies to drive innovation in Open Data since 2008, earning the trust of the world’s most progres-
sive, data-savvy organizations. Merritt is a software engineer and entrepreneur with roots in internet-scale software platforms
and big-data application services. Prior to Socrata, Merritt founded MessageRite, a cloud-based email archiving software de-
veloper and service provider that ultimately grew to 150 people and 500 customers, and was acquired by Microsoft in 2005.
Merritt is passionate about customer success and draws on his own experience as CIO at Smith Barney to foster a
customer-focused culture. He can be reached at kevin.merritt@socrata.com or on Twitter @kmerritt.
muStapHa mezGHanI
Owner
2CW
Mustapha Mezghani is a founding member (Secretary) of a political party, Afek Tounes, in April 2011 (after
the Tunisian Revolution) that succeeded to have four representatives in the Tunisian National Constitutive
Assembly. Not in agreement on how this party was doing, he resigned in November 2011 and contributed to
the foundation of Kolna Tounes (Tunisia is All of Us), an association doing intelligence and acting as a think tank on political,
economic and social issues.
As expert in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and e-government, for more than 20 years, Mezghani worked
on several strategic projects on dividing or evaluating e-government strategies in several northern and sub-Saharan African
countries. He has also participated in many meetings of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and has been ac-
tive in Tunisian and African private-sector groups.
Mezghani holds an IT Design Engineer degree (1989), a master’s degree in IT and e-commerce (2001) and an Executive
M.B.A. degree (2008).
DavID mItton
Director
Listpoint
David Mitton is a reference data specialist, innovator and expectant father. With over 20 years experience
within the IT sector, including ERP, CRM and Business Intelligence, he now focuses his attention and interest
toward the better management of code lists and classifications. An evangelist for the “bottom up” approach to
data integration, Mitton’s efforts, through Listpoint, are helping to support the development of data standards across a number
of Public Administration projects, including extensive work within the Criminal Justice space. He is also an active member of
working groups that support Public Administration policy within both the U.K. and the European Commission’s Joinup program.
In both instances, efforts are centered on helping to support greater interoperability across government departments and Euro-
pean Union member states, through the sharing, re-use and better management of reference data.

Stela moCan
Executive Director
Moldova e-Government Center (eGC)/Chief Information Office
Stela Mocan has helped lay the foundations for the National e-Governance Transformation Agenda and
create the Moldova e-Government Center in August 2010. Currently, Mocan leads a fast-growing team of
22 people with the mission to improve public services through technology. Prior to creating eGC, she was
adviser to the Prime Minister. From 1998 to 2008, she worked in international development organizations like UNDP, USAID,
and IRI where she has built extensive expertise in the areas of democracy building and governance, political party strength-
ening and women’s empowerment, civil society and local economic development in Moldova. While earning her Master’s in
Public Administration degree from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, Mocan was also a Mason & Kok-
kalis Fellow. In addition, she received a post-graduate diploma in Political Science from the National School of Political and
Administrative Studies in Romania.
CHrIStopHer muSIaleK
Chief Software Architect
Data.gov
An open source and open standards advocate, Chris Musialek is the Chief Software Architect for Data.gov,
where he leads the architectural strategy and provides overall technical direction to the program. Additionally, he
serves as the program manager for geo.data.gov and geoplatform.gov, two collaborative, geospatial data efforts.
marCela olIva, pH.D.
Architecture and Environmental Design Leader, LATTC Green Workforce
Division, Construction, Design & Manufacturing Department, Architecture and
Environmental Design
Los Angeles Trade Technical College
Marcela Oliva is the Architecture and Environmental Design Leader for the LATTC Green Workforce Division, a
member of the Federal Knowledge Management (KM) Team and Knowledge Architect for the LACCD Sustainable Building Pro-
gram. She participated with NASA KM as a principal investigator for the Cyber-Physical Systems National Science Foundation
Grant, and she is a recipient of the California Governor’s Award in Geospatial Technologies. Professor Oliva runs a high-tech studio
as an “atelier,” and the students’ learning outcomes and e-portfolio show 100 percent transfer and 100 percent job placements. The
United Negro College Fund and Hispanic Association for Universities and Colleges have identified her program as a role model
for Urban Teaching. With local students’ talent and as part of a high-tech team, she facilitated the LACCD e7 Architecture Studio
to produce geospatial repository and scientific visualization tools that support decision making. She integrates social, natural, and
built environments in creative and participatory learning laboratories, and she has partnered with the Los Angeles Unified School
District’s high school iSEE (I’m a Student Exploring Excellence) program to create the first and largest initiative program for students
interested in architecture and engineering. Professor Oliva was a three-time competitive presenter for the California Higher Educa-
tion Sustainable Symposium. She has presented at forums that encompass education, technology innovation, and global crises,
including for the University of Southern California (USC) Building Information Modeling (BIM) executives, at USC International AIA
Technology Forum; Caixa Forum Barcelona; USC Focus the Nation; the Great Thinker Forum; Enterprise Architecture in Washing-
ton, D.C.; Innovative Education at Eureka International Mexico City, IBCon Intelligent High Performance Building and others.
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Oliva advocates for a self-organizing system that unites the mind, the built environment, and the natural environment — a
method towards a CyberONE existence. She believes that through this interdependence, we can find the right relation-
ship and patterns to bring order, balance, and harmony to our planet Earth. Oliva holds a bachelor’s degree in Architecture
from USC and a master’s degree in Architecture and Building Science from Columbia University. She is the USC recipient
of the Alpha Rho Chi Medal awarded to the graduating senior in a school of architecture who has shown an affinity for
leadership and was awarded the LATTC’s 2012 Educator of the Year.
tHereSa parDo, pH.D.
Director
Center for Technology in Government (CTG), University at Albany
Theresa Pardo works with a variety of government, corporate, and university partners to lead applied
research projects on the policy, management, and technology issues surrounding information and
information technology use in the public sector.
Pardo’s current portfolio includes the development of a public value assessment framework for U.S. federal government open
government initiatives funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), and the development of models of social and
technical interactions in cross-boundary information sharing and integration as well as information technology enterprise gover-
nance. Her most recent NSF-funded effort is as the principal investigator for a project to develop a data interoperability frame-
work for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) region by working with stakeholder communities involved in the
growth of coffee in Mexico that is distributed, brewed, and consumed in Canada and the United States. In addition to funding
from NSF, Pardo’s research at CTG has been funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, U.S.
Department of Justice, the U.S. Library of Congress, the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, the United Nations
and New York State and local government agencies, among others.
Pardo is a Research Associate Professor at the Rockefeller College of Public Administration and Policy and an affiliated faculty
member of the College of Computing and Information at the University at Albany. She is one of the founding developers of the
highly ranked Government Information Strategy and Management curriculum at Rockefeller College. The academic program
focuses on the policy, management and technology dimensions of information and technology use in the design and delivery of
government programs. In 2008, Theresa received the University at Albany’s Excellence in Teaching Award.
toDD parK
United States Chief Technology Officer
As United States Chief Technology Officer, Todd Park serves as an Assistant to the President. Park joined the
Administration in August 2009 as Chief Technology Officer of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Ser-
vices (HHS). In this role, he served as a change agent and “entrepreneur-in-residence,” helping HHS harness
the power of data, technology, and innovation to improve the health of the nation. Prior to joining HHS, Mr. Park
co-founded Athenahealth and co-led its development into one of the most innovative health IT companies in the industry. He also
co-founded Castlight, a web-based health care shopping service for consumers. Park has also served in a volunteer capacity as a
Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, where he focused on health IT and health reform policy, and as senior health
care adviser to Ashoka, a leading global incubator of social entrepreneurs, where he helped start Healthpoint Services, a venture
to bring affordable telehealth, drugs, diagnostics, and clean water to rural India. Park graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta
Kappa from Harvard College with an A.B. in economics.

fernanDo perInI, D.pHIl.
Senior Programme Officer
International Development Research Center (IDRC)
Fernando Perini is involved in the development of policy-oriented research projects that aim to understand how
information networks positively and negatively affect developing countries’ citizens, especially citizens belong-
ing to marginalized communities. The projects focus particularly on transformations in the areas of creative
industries, governance, learning and science. Perini has worked particularly on policy-oriented research related to the information
and communication technologies (ICTs) in Latin America and the Caribbean and their potential for improving education, citizen
participation in decision making and productivity in the public and private sectors.
Previously, Perini was Lecturer and D.Phil. researcher in Innovation Management at Science and Technology Policy Research
(SPRU)-University of Sussex. With background in Electronic Engineering and Technology Management (M.Sc.) from the Tech-
nological University of Parana in Brazil (UTF-PR), he has experience as a research and development engineer and as consultant
for large multinational companies such as Infineon (Germany), Siemens Telecommunications and other technological institutes.
His research examined the evolution of technological capabilities in the multinational companies and the formation of the knowl-
edge networks in the Brazilian Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector during the last decade.
KatHrYn l.S. pettIt
Senior Research Associate, Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center
Urban Institute
Kathryn Pettit’s research focuses on measuring and understanding housing markets and neighborhood
change. She is also a recognized expert on local and national data systems useful in housing and urban
development research and program development. She co-directs the National Neighborhood Indicators
Partnership (NNIP), a collaborative effort by the Urban Institute and 36 local partners to further the development and use of
neighborhood-level information systems in local policymaking and community building. She recently completed its project on the
impact of foreclosures on children in three cities and is directing a project on the intersection of NNIP and Open Data. Her other
projects include a study on housing needs on Native American reservations and evaluation of the Choice Neighborhood. Pettit
also assists the national management and local teams of the Annie E. Casey Foundation. She has led the Institute’s work on
providing data and analytic content for DataPlace, a national web-based resource for small-area indicators, and has expertise in
a wide variety of small-area federal and local administrative data sources.
rufuS polloCK, pH.D.
Co-Founder, Open Knowledge Foundation and CKAN Project Lead
Dr. Rufus Pollock is co-Founder and Director of the Open Knowledge Foundation, a Shuttleworth Foundation
Fellow, an Associate of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law at the University of Cambridge
and a fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce (RSA). He
has worked extensively as a scholar and developer on the social, legal and technological issues related to the
creation and sharing of knowledge and acted as an official adviser on open data to several governments.
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mICHael renDler, aIa
Michael Rendler has taught at various Community Colleges and State Universities in Architecture, CAD/BIM
and GIS since 1999. He started his innovative understanding of computer-aided design for the built environ-
ment in 1991. His architectural work – projects such as the Venable House and Mariposa Apartment Buildings
– has been published in international and national magazines. In 1987, he partnered with Glen Small (founder
of the Biosphere) and ran a successful practice in the City of Santa Monica for more than 10 years. During
this period, they built structural innovation and spectacular systems, which caught Hollywood’s attention, culminating with “Idol
House.” In 1994, he had an installation at the Los Angeles Gallery “LA SEMILLA” (SEED), which gained the attention of the press
and the field of higher education. During this installation, he investigated the connection between urban spaces and the neigh-
borhood’s need empowered by technology. In addition, Rendler was a keynote speaker at the 2009 National AIA with “Putting It
ALLTogether WhatTools Which Process.” With local student talent and as part of a high-tech team, he designed the LACCD e7
Architecture Studio to produce the largest geospatial repository and scientific visualization tools that support decision making for
a building’s life cycle. Rendler is a national leader with the buildingSMART Alliance, working on how to implement new technolo-
gies in the Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Owner-operated (AECO) world. He is also working with the U.S. Depart-
ment of Homeland Security and Safe School project to virtualize educational environments following national standards, energy
demands and first-response scenarios. A 1985 graduate of SCI ARC (Southern California Institute of Architecture), Rendler holds
an architectural license in California.
DavID roBInSon
Visiting Fellow, Information Society Project
Yale Law School
Before going to Yale Law School, David Robinson was the founding Associate Director of Princeton Univer-
sity’s Center for Information Technology Policy, a joint venture that combines computer science and public
policy. Together with colleagues from Princeton, he is an author of Government Data and the Invisible Hand
(2009) and The New Ambiguity of “Open Government” (2012). He holds bachelor’s degrees in philosophy from Princeton
and Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and a J.D. from Yale, where he focused on Internet-related law and policy.
marIon a. roYal
Program Director, Data.gov
Marion A. Royal is a nationally recognized and Agency spokesperson on a diverse range of issues
related to Electronic Government with specific emphasis on Enterprise Architecture, Data Interoperability
and Collaboration.
As a priority Open Government Initiative for President Obama’s administration, Data.gov increases the ability of the public
to easily find, download, and use datasets that are generated and held by the United States federal government. Data.
gov provides descriptions of the federal datasets (metadata), information about how to access the datasets, and tools that
leverage government datasets.
Royal has worked on a number of governmentwide projects during his 20-year tenure at the U.S. General Services Administration.
Working with federal agencies, commercial organizations, and industry forums, he has served as a catalyst to advance Interna-
tional Data Harmonization, Governmentwide Electronic Messaging, Electronic Directories (X.500), Public Key Infrastructures, and
Information Management and XML. He also served as Chief Architect during the Quicksilver task force that launched significant
e-gov initiatives and he remains active with the Architecture and Infrastructure Committee chartered under the CIO Council.

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luKe SpIKeS
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Spikes Cavell Analytics Inc.
Spikes Cavell Analytic equips public agencies and higher education institutions with the spend intelligence,
online tools and analytical insight they need to find savings, become more transparent and benchmark procure-
ment performance. Luke Spikes has a 25-year track record of achievement in the information industry, which
includes four data-based start-ups that have generated more than £35m in revenues, created 250 jobs and attracted more than
£7m in venture funding. Spikes Cavell became an active participant in the world of open data with the launch in May 2010 of
spotlightonspend – a managed online transparency solution that leverages the company’s data transformation and management
expertise to make it straightforward and inexpensive for public bodies to publish information about their spend on goods and
services in a manner that is more relevant, meaningful and easier for citizens to understand. Already deployed by more than 50
public bodies in the U.K., the first U.S. public agency (the City of Naperville, Illinois) went live with spotlightonspend in June 2012.
marIo vInICIuS ClauSSen SpInellI
Secretary of Corruption Prevention and Strategic Information
Office of the Comptroller General – Presidency of The Republic of Brazil
A career official of the Office of the Comptroller General, Mario Spinelli has served as Secretary of Cor-
ruption Prevention and Strategic Information of the Office of the Comptroller General of Brazil (CGU)
since 2001. He is a member of the Council for Finance Activities Control of Brazil, a financial intelligence
unit. He holds a master’s degree in Public Administration from Fundação João Pinheiro, a private University in Brazil. In
his current role, he is coordinator of corruption prevention policies in the Brazilian Federal Government (transparency,
public oversight, etc.). He is also winner of CLAD (Latin American Centre for Development Administration) international
award in 2009 for his research about the importance of citizen participation in corruption prevention.
Spinelli is also a professor in the post graduate program of the Finance Administration School (ESAF), teaching the sub-
ject “Comptroller’s Office, transparency and public oversight”; National Capacity-Building and Training Program to Combat
Corruption and Money Laundering, and “Fraud Investigation in Public Procurement Procedures.”
Author of many articles and reviews about corruption, transparency and social control, Spinelli is one of the authors of the
books Corruption, Articles and Reviews and Reviews celebrating the 10 years of the Fiscal Responsibility Law.
paul Stone
Information Services Manager
New Zealand Charities Commission
Paula Stone’s Information Technology career spans 19 years. For the last five of these, he has managed
IT at the New Zealand Charities Commission. A key highlight of this has been the Commission’s widely ap-
plauded release of the New Zealand Charities Register as open data. Stone is also part of the Secretariat
for the Open Government Data and Information Re-use CE Steering Group. This small but nimble team is responsible for
driving an “all-of-government” program to change the culture of government agencies and support them in releasing data for
re-use. When he’s not busy with open data, Stone enjoys cross-country running over the hills of his home town, Wellington,
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anDreW Stott
United Kingdom (U.K.) Transparency Board and
former U.K. Deputy Chief Information Officer
Andrew Stott was the U.K’.s first Director for Transparency and Digital Engagement. He led the work to open
government data and create data.gov.uk. After the 2010 election, he led the policy development and imple-
mentation of the new government’s commitments on transparency of central and local government. His role
also included responsibility for increasing the U.K. government’s capability to use the Internet to communicate and collaborate
with the public, including the crowdsourcing of ideas for spending reductions and legal and regulatory reform, and the greater
use of social media platforms including Facebook and Twitter. Following his formal retirement in December 2010, Stott was
appointed to the U.K. Transparency Board to continue to advise U.K. Ministers on open data and e-government policy. He also
advises other governments on Open Data, both bilaterally and through the World Bank and the World Wide Web Foundation.
He is a expert adviser on Open Data strategy to the European Union Citadel On The Move program. Stott continues to con-
tribute to the international development of the Open Data and Open Government agendas, and he was a keynote speaker at
Europeana Tech 2011, Open Knowledge Conference Berlin 2011 and Open Government Data Camp Warsaw 2011. Between
2004 and 2009, Stott was U.K. Government’s Deputy Chief Information Officer and Chair of its Chief Technology Officers’
Council. In this strategic cross-government role, he personally led the work on the U.K.’s e-government, open source, cloud
computing and procurement strategies and on supplier performance improvement. He previously worked in Director-level IT
roles in both strategy and large-scale implementation, as well as in other senior civil service roles in public policy, finance and
program management. He is a graduate of the University of Cambridge, where he studied both Mathematics and Law.
ranDeep SuDan
Lead ICT Policy Specialist, Global ICT Department
World Bank
Randeep Sudan leads the practices on e-Government and IT industry development at the Information and
Communication Technology (ICT) Sector Unit in the World Bank. He is currently working on ICT projects in
Africa, Central Asia, East Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America and South Asia. He is responsible for guiding
strategies and policies on e-government and IT industry development for World Bank projects led by the ICT Sector Unit.
Prior to joining the World Bank, he held senior government positions in India, as a member of the Indian Administrative Ser-
vice. He was Special Secretary to the Chief Minister and ex-officio Secretary Information Technology in the state of Andhra
Pradesh, and was closely associated with policies and strategies for leveraging ICT for development. He has been the Chief
Executive of APFIRST, an organization focused on promoting investments in the ICT sector, and also of AP Technology
Services, a company specializing in the use of ICTs in government. His areas of expertise include ICT policy, e-government,
investment promotion, infrastructure development and public-private partnerships. He has a master’s degree from the Lon-
don School of Economics. He has taught as a visiting faculty at the Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo.
CHrIS taGGart
Co-founder
OpenCorporates
Chris Taggart is the co-founder of OpenCorporates, the largest openly licensed database of companies in
the world. OpenCorporates has a simple (but huge) goal: an entry for every corporate legal entity in the
world. It already has over 40 million companies in 50 jurisdictions despite having been launched just 18
months ago, and is working with governments and intergovernmental bodies to increase corporate transparency. A former
magazine journalist, Chris has been working full-time in the field of open data for the past three years.

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WIllIam tevIe
Director General
National Information Technology Agency (NITA) of Ghana
William Tevie has been involved in the information technology (IT) industry since the 1980s, in areas includ-
ing software development, IT, telecommunications, management consultancy, network routing and leadership
training. He was one of the first engineers working in the commercial Internet in Ghana and played a key role
in building the modern Internet in Ghana and West Africa. He is the Tech point of contact for the .GH top level Domain. Over his
20-year involvement in IT, Tevie has worked with the Internet Society, African Network Operators’ Group and the African Network
Information Center in the network space.
IrIna tISaCova
Open Government Coordinator
Moldova e-Government Center
Irina Tisacova has been leading the e-Government Center’s Open Government agenda since August
2011 and is the program manager for date.gov.md, Moldova’s Open Data Portal. She is specifically
responsible for cooperation with ministries and civil society, aimed at opening even more government
data and at ensuring its use by business and civil society to promote economic growth and citizen engagement. She has
previously worked at the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Moldova to the United Nations in New York and at the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C. She studied international relations, economics and statistics at the George
Washington University in Washington, D.C., and Sciences Po Paris.
anDreW turner
Chief Technology Officer
GeoIQ
Andrew Turner is the co-founder of Mapufacture, acquired by GeoIQ in August 2008. He is actively
involved in open-data projects such as OpenStreetMap and VoteReport, as well as open-source projects
like Mapstraction and GeoPress. He has consulted with companies such as MapQuest, the BBC, and
the United Nations in developing their geospatial and community components, and he regularly speaks at conferences
on the benefits of open-source software and geospatial standards. Andrew wrote the O’Reilly shortcut “Introduction to
Neogeography” and “Trends in Where2.0” business report. He is also published in MacTech and Make magazine on his
home-automation hacking. Turner received his bachelor of science in Aerospace Engineering and Computer Science from
the University of Virginia and his Master of Science from Virginia Tech.

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Steven l. vanroeKel
United States Chief Information Officer and Administrator
Office of Electronic Government, Office of Management and Budget
Steven VanRoekel was appointed as the second United States Chief Information Officer by President
Obama on August 5, 2011. In this role, he is spearheading a transformation in the Federal Government’s
use of technology by “Innovating with Less.” VanRoekel is driving savings and promoting innovation across
the Federal IT portfolio by upgrading our nation’s cyber security capabilities, creating new open data policies, fostering deliv-
ery of mobile services to citizens, consolidating data centers, and promoting the Government’s transition to cloud computing.
Wired magazine recently named VanRoekel one of the United States’ top 10 cloud influencers and thought leaders.
Prior to his position in the White House, VanRoekel served as the Executive Director of Citizen and Organizational En-
gagement at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and as Managing Director of the Federal
Communications Commission (FCC). At the FCC, VanRoekel oversaw all operational, technical, financial, and human re-
source aspects of the agency. He also led the FCC’s efforts to introduce new technology and social media into the agency.
Before joining government in 2009, VanRoekel spent his entire private-sector career at Microsoft Corporation, including a
stint as Speech and Strategy Assistant to Bill Gates, the corporation’s co-founder, and most recently as Senior Director of
the Windows Server division. He received a B.A. in Management of Information Systems from Iowa State University.
neeta verma
Senior Technical Director
National Informatics Centre (NIC)
Neeta Verma has over 20 years of experience in the field of information technology. She has worked in
the domain of Software Engineering, Multimedia Systems, Web Technologies, Electronic Governance,
and Data Centre Operations and Open Government Data. She has led the development of the National
Portal of India “india.gov.in,” operating successfully for the last six years. She is the national coordinator of the project.
She has authored Guidelines for Indian Government Websites to be complied with by all central government departments.
She had also developed an e-governance toolkit for developing countries on behalf of UNESCO. She is also responsible
for setting up the first Government Data Centre in 2002. This data centre is presently hosting more than 5,000 government
websites, portal, complete government mail system as well large number of e-gov applications. She holds a master’s
degree in Physics with solid-state electronics from Lucknow University. She has a post-graduate diploma in Computers
from University of Roorkee, now known as IIT Roorkee.
She is very closely associated with India’s Open Data Initiative and has led the development of the Open Government
Platform (OGPL) from the India side. OGPL, an Open Government Platform, is developed through an India and U.S.
government collaboration.
Her areas of Interest are Open Data, Search Engines, Cloud Computing and Web technologies. She is presently working
as Senior Director and heading Data Centre & Web Services division of the National Informatics Centre (NIC). NIC is a
government organization, consulting Indian government on Application of ICT in various initiatives as well support delivery
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CarloS vInIeGra Beltrán
Head of the Digital Government Unit
Ministry of Public Administration (SFP)
Carlos Viniegra graduated in economics from the Autonomous Metropolitan University; he earned an
M.B.A. from the American Institute of Business Management (IPADE); a diploma in Technology Enter-
prise Networks from the Technological Institute of Superior Studies (ITESM) and another diploma in
Theory and Parliamentary Practice from the Autonomous Metropolitan University.
Viniegra has wide experience in the public sector; he was General Director of Informatics and Telecommunications at the Ministry of
Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT); General Director of Promotion of Efficiency and Quality in Services at the Ministry of
Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food (SAGARPA); General Director of Information and Energy Studies at the
Ministry of Energy and at the present he is the Head of the Digital Government Unit at the Ministry of PublicAdministration (SFP).
He is an experienced economics Professor at the Faculty of Law in the Panamerican University (UP).
tHomaS WHaleY
President
Level One Technologies
Thomas Whaley has more than 25 years experience in the transportation industry, founding, organizing and
managing two successful companies, including Metro Express Transportation Services. His desire to seek a
competitive edge through the use of technology directly led to the formation of Level One Technologies. When
Whaley learned that the technology he sought did not exist, he formed Level One Technologies to build and share it with other
industry members. Since then, Level One has expanded beyond transportation and is continuing to explore new opportunities.
Dan WeeKS
Founder and Chief Operating Officer
BrightScope
Dan is the founder and Chief Operating Officer of BrightScope, focusing on the day-to-day operations of
the company. He is a 25-year Hewlett-Packard (HP) veteran holding five engineering patents. During his
tenure with HP, he spearheaded multiple commercialization efforts for consumer software products including
HP Image Zone Express and HP Smart Web Printing. He also led due diligence during HP’s acquisition of www.Tabblo.com
and served as integration manager post-acquisition. His experience includes managing development of embedded software,
Mac software, Windows software and software quality organizations to test the solutions before they are shipped to millions of
customers around the world. Weeks was the original solo founder of 401k Sidekick, which later became Sidekick Technologies
and eventually became BrightScope. In his spare time, Weeks is a member of the Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo Computer Science
Department Industrial Advisory Committee and has served two times as Chairman. He was a past recipient of the Cal Poly
College of Engineering Medallion Award “in recognition of extraordinary leadership and commitment in support of the Computer
Science Department.” He is also is a member of the Founder’s Circle for the Cal Poly Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship.
Weeks graduated magna cum Laude from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo with a degree in Computer Science. He was valedictorian
of the University of California, San Diego, Executive Program for Scientists and Engineers.

Speakers
mattHeW WelCH
Senior Statistician
Development Economics: Development Data Group:
Household Survey Development Team
World Bank
Matthew Welch is project manager for the World Bank Microdata Library and member of the International
Household Survey Network (IHSN) Team. The IHSN develops tools and best practice guidelines for survey management
and dissemination, which are being used in national statistics offices in over 60 countries.
JoHn WonDerlICH
Policy Director
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 government by opening up key data
sources and information to make government more accountable to citizens. He is one of the foremost au-
thorities on transparency policy, from legislation and accountability in the U.S. Congress to ethics and information policy in the
Executive Branch. Wonderlich has spoken internationally on technology and transparency and has testified before the Senate
Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee and the House Energy and Commerce Committee. He has appeared
on NPR, Fox News and C-SPAN, and his expertise has been cited by The New York Times and other media outlets.
amIt YaDav
Program Manager
REI Systems
Amit Yadav has helped advance the cause of Open Government by serving as architect and program
manager to develop Data.gov, USASpending.gov and Performance.gov for the U.S. General Services
Administration (GSA) and Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Recently, he oversaw development
of the Open Government Platform under the joint sponsorship of GSA and the Government of India. Yadav is a senior
executive with REI Systems and is proud to have focused recent years on open source software that allows governments
to take control of the tools they use, as well as the data they share with their stakeholders. In part through his leadership,
open-source Drupal software has become the tool of choice among U.S. agencies from the White House and OMB to
GSA, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Department of Energy. Yadav’s current focus includes supporting the
World Bank in consolidating its web presence toward Drupal, and assisting the City of New York to create more robust
financial transparency, again using open-source software.

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Parking
Many parking facilities are available in close proximity to the
World Bank. They include:
Parking Management Inc.
1729 G Street, Northwest
(202) 785-9191
Central Parking
1750 Pennsylvania Avenue, Northwest
(202) 496-4200
Matomic Operating Co
1717 H Street, Northwest
(202) 659-9096
Central Parking
1750 H Street, Northwest
(202) 293-3773
By Metro
The nearest station on the Orange Line is Farragut West
(about 2 blocks from the main World Bank building). The
nearest station on the Red Line is Farragut North (about 3–4
blocks from the main building).
Most trains arriving to Washington, DC arrive at Union Station.
To get to the World Bank, either take a taxi or take the Red
Line Metro from Union Station to Farragut North. From there,
it is about 3–4 blocks to the main World Bank building.
Location
The International Open Government Data Conference is being held at the World Bank Headquarters, 1818 H Street, NW,
Washington, DC. Enjoy the sights in Washington, D.C., while you’re here. Helpful information about attractions can be
found on the following pages.

Restaurants
roti mediterranean Grill
1747 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest
(202) 466-7684
roti.com
10:30AM – 8:00 PM
Bread line
(202) 822-8900
breadline.com
7:30 AM – 3:30 PM
upper Crust pizzeria
(202) 463-0002
theuppercrustpizzeria.com
11:00 AM – 10:00 PM
Jimmy John’s Gourmet Sandwiches
1717 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest #150
(202) 223-3353
jimmyjohns.com
11:00 AM – 8:00 PM
au Bon pain
(202) 393-8809
aubonpain.com
6:00 AM – 7:00 PM
potbelly Sandwich Works
(202) 775-1450
potbelly.com
7:00 AM – 7:00 PM
primi piatti (Italian)
2013 I Street Northwest
(202) 223-3600
primipiatti.com
11:30 AM – 2:30 PM, 5:30 PM – 10:30 PM
el Chalan peruvian Cuisine
(202) 293-2765
elchalandc.com
11:30 AM – 3:00 PM, 5:30 PM – 10:00
PM
Chalin’s restaurant (Chinese)
(202) 293-6000
chalinsrestaurantdc.com
10:30 AM – 10:30 PM
taberna del alabardero (Spanish)
(202) 429-2200
alabardero.com
11:30 AM – 2:30 PM, 5:30 PM – 10 PM
Cafe asia
(202) 659-0756
cafeasiadc.com
11:30 AM – 11:00 PM
Cafe Soleil
839 17th St NW # B
(202) 974-4260
cafesoleildc.com
10:30 AM – 12:00 AM
mcDonald’s
750 17th Street Northwest
(202) 828-8311
mcdonalds.com
5:00 AM – 11:00 PM
Cosi
1700 Pennsylvania Avenue
Northwest
(202) 638-7101
getcosi.com
6:30 AM – 8:00 PM
Spice express (Indian)
Northwest
(202) 347-4555
spiceexpressdc.biz
10:30 AM – 5:00 PM
the exchange Saloon
1719 G Street Northwest
(202) 393-4690
theexchangesaloon.com
11:00 AM – 2:00 AM
Kinkead’s (Seafood)
Northwest
(202) 296-7700
kinkead.com
11:30 AM – 10:00 PM
Johnny rockets
Northwest
(202) 822-1260
johnnyrockets.com
11:00 AM – 9:00 PM
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Below you will find a listing of some
restaurants near the World Bank.
Hours are provided for weekdays only.

Attractions
Washington, D.C. attractions
Destination Hours Phone
Fees/Tickets
Free unless
otherwise stated
Corcoran Gallery of Art
17th St. & E St. NW
10.00-17.00 W, F-M
10.00-21.00 Th
202-639-1700 $10; kids free
DAR Museum
17th St. & D St. NW
9.30-16.00 M-F
9.00-17.00 Sa
• Guided tours 10.00-14.30 on weekdays
202-628-1776
Frederick Douglass Museum
A St. NE and 3rd St. NE
9.00-17.00 daily 202-426-5960
International Spy Museum
8th St. & F St. NW
10.00-18.00 daily 866-779-6873 $20; $15 kids
Library of Congress
Thomas Jefferson Building
1st St. & Independence Ave. SE
8.30-16.30 M-Sa
Tours: 10:30, 11:30, 1:30, 2:30, 3:30
(except Sa)
202-707-9779
U.S. Capitol
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Attractions
Washington, D.C. attractions continued
Destination Hours Phone
Fees/Tickets
Free unless
otherwise stated
Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum
10th St. & F St. NW
10.00-16.00 M-Th
10.00-18.00 F-Su
202-942-7300 $20; $15 kids
National Aquarium
15th St. & E St. NW
9.00-17.00 daily 202-482-2825 $9; $4 kids
National Building Museum
4th St. & F St. NW
10.00-17.00 M-Sa
11.00-17.00 Su
202-272-2448
National Museum of Crime
and Punishment
7th St. & E St. NW
10.00-19.00 Su-Th
10.00-20.00 F, Sa
202-621-5550 $20; $15 kids
National Law Enforcement
Officers’ Memorial
4th St. between E & F Streets NW
24 hours, 7 days a week 202-737-3400
National Portrait Gallery
8th St. & F St. NW
11.30-19.00 daily 202-633-8300
National Postal Museum
N. Capitol St. & Massachusetts Ave. NE
10.00-17.30 daily 202-633-1000
Newseum
6th St. & Pennsylvania Ave.
9.00-17.00 daily 888-639-7386 $20; $13 kids
Phillips Collection
21st St. & Q St.
10.00-17.00 Tu, W, F, Sa
10.00-20.30 Th
11.00-18.00 Su
202-387-2151
Weekends,
Special
Exhibitions $10
Renwick Gallery
17th St. & Pennsylvania Ave. NW
10.00-17.30 daily 202-633-2850
Smithsonian Air and Space Museum
(National Mall Building)
Independence Ave. at 6th St., SW
11.30-17.30 daily 202-633-1000
Union Station
Massachusetts Ave. & 1st St. NE
10.00-21.00 M-Sa
12.00-18.00 Su
202-289-1908
U.S. Botanic Garden
Maryland Ave. & 1st St. SW
10.00-17.00 daily 202-225-8333
U.S. Supreme Court Building
1st St. & E. Capitol St. NE
9.00-16.30 M-F 202-479-3211
White House Visitor Center
15th St. & E St. NW 7.30-16.00 daily 202-208-1631
U.S. Capitol Building Visitors Center
1st St. & E. Capitol St. NE
8:30 a.m. to 16:30 M-Sa 202-226-8000

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