Open data will be part of the next Databeers Málaga dedicated to Open Government

Databeers Malaga XIV
September 30 2019

The event, framed in the International Congress of Transparency, will take place as a crown jewel of the first day of this congress, on September 30, in Le Grand Café Center of Malaga. The event will offer presentations by journalists, technologists, activists and other expert profiles on this subject, networking and beer for free to attendees.

The XVI edition of Databeers Málaga will take place on Monday, September 30, starting at 7.30 pm, at Le Grand Café Centro, in the heart of Malaga. The capacity will allow to accommodate the usual community of Databeers and any citizen interested in the subject, as well as the numerous people registered in the International Transparency Congress to be held in the city between September 30 and October 2.

Hence, on this occasion the talks, brief and informative, revolve around citizen participation, open data and other topics related to transparency and the so-called Open Government in public administrations:

  • The first talk will be given by Juan Romero Raposo, co-founder of one of the pioneer citizen groups in promoting these principles in Spain, OpenKratio. Under the title of “Organizational Paradigms for Open Government”, he will explain how companies and other organizations have been reviewing their organization to adapt it to the open culture and technological and social advances, something that does not always happen when we talk about political organizations.
  • Next, Victoria Anderica, expert in Transparency, Citizen Participation and Open Government and currently advisor of the Municipal Group Mas Madrid in the City of Madrid, will show the evolution and some of the current challenges of transparency in Spain.
  • Then, journalist Iván Gómez, editor of GobiernoTransparente.com, will provide an international vision, on practical cases, of government plans as an accountability tool and active transparency in which open data and visualizations are put into practice.
  • Another journalist with extensive experience in open innovation and citizen participation, driving force behind the open government plan of the Basque Country IREKIA, Nagore de los Ríos, will ask whether transparency in administrations today, a decade after having joined these policies after the Obama effect, is in accordance with the new times.
  • Next, a vision of social innovation with Matías Nso, director of kuorum.org, who will explain how, according to his words, although "citizen participation allows to design public policies and services better adapted to the needs of each municipality, if we don't use the right tools we can misinterpret the data”.
  • The event will close with the presentation, by David Aurusa and Arantza Lozano, of the OpenODS project, developed by two cooperatives, Enreda and Creating Consciousness. It is a comprehensive system that allows, through data, to identify and visualize actions, as well as measure the impact on the achievement of goals and objectives of each organization or institution regarding to the 2030 Agenda.

In addition to the support of the International Transparency Congress, in this edition, Databeers Málaga has ITRS as a sponsor, and collaborators such as photographer Koke Pérez, Diario Sur and Cervezas San Miguel, which, within the framework of its commitment to Malaga economic and social development, supports Databeers Málaga since the beginning of 2018. The place chosen for this, Le Grand Café Centro, is precisely one of the TapStation -spaces with different varieties of draft beer inspired by the style of various cities in the world - that San Miguel has in Malaga.

Registration for the event is, as always, free, but due to the limited capacity it is essential to previously register online.

Databeers Málaga is coordinated and organized by María Sánchez, a Journalism professor and researcher at the University of Malaga and an Innovation technician at the International de Andalucía.

You can learn more about Databeers through this article and the interview we conducted with María Sánchez and Marcelo Soria, organizers of Databeers and Databeers Málaga respectively.