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Mapping and Technology to Improve Governance of Natural Resources
Start Date: December 06, 2011Location: USA

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Tuesday December 6, 2011
2 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.: Panel Discussion
4 p.m. – 6 p.m.: “Barcamp” and happy hour

Venue: Eugene Black Auditorium at the World Bank, 600 19th St NW, Washington, D.C.

Several organizations have been increasingly using interactive mapping tools to promote transparency and good governance in a variety of natural resource sectors. Governance experts, extractive industries practitioners, software developers, technology experts and mapping professionals don’t always have opportunities to share experiences and learn from each other.

To facilitate this the World Bank Institute’s Governance for Extractive Industries team (GEI) invites you to a panel and open-format workshop event in Washington DC, on using ICT tools for better governance in the extractive sector and explore next steps for available mapping tools.

We will interact with a panel and participate in a “BarCamp” to learn about currently available interactive mapping platforms and tools, and strategize on how to use ICT tools to promote transparency, engage citizens and monitor the impacts of extractive activities. 

Discussants
Marinke van Riet, International Director, Publish What You Pay
Alex Barth, Development Seed, Developer and Strategist
Mr. Peter Van Acker, Counselor, Development Cooperation, Embassy of Belgium

Panelists
James Duncan, World Bank Institute, Mapping for Transparency and The Extractive Industries Map of Ghana
Matthew Steil, World Resources Institute, Forest Governance in Central Africa: Two Approaches towards Increased Transparency
Leo Bottrill and Charles Huang, World Wildlife Fund, Mapping the future of forests: An introduction to Moabi 

To RSVP write to Jim Duncan 

This event is sponsored by the World Bank Institute's Governance for Extractive Industries program with support from the Belgian Government and the Technology for Accountability (T4A) Community of Practice. The Open Development Technology Alliance (ODTA) is a joint initiative by WBI and the World Bank's Transport Water and ICT group.

Panel:

  • The World Bank Institute and the Ghana Country Office will introduce its Extractive Industries Map of Ghana. This tool accesses and visualizes information related to the oil, gas and mining sectors in Ghana, including extractive activity locations, government revenues and contracts.
     
  • The World Resources Institute will present its Forest Transparency Initiative and Interactive Forest Atlases. With this atlas mining concessions can be displayed and queried in the context of forest management and timber operations.
     
  • The World Wildlife Fund will present the Moabi platform, which uses social networking principles to receive and map user reports of mining and other activities in the forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo.


Barcamp:
To spur collaboration and new ideas for improving interactive ICT efforts in the sector, we will use the open ‘unconference’ or ‘BarCamp’ format. A range of ICT solutions to gather citizen feedback have been developed for other sectors. Their transfer to the extractives sector requires input and brainstorming between groups such as extractive industry advisors and software developers. This event will bring together these diverse groups with the goal of surfacing quick, practical ideas for developing and implementing ICT-mediated monitoring systems in the extractives sector.

 

Discussant

Marinke van Riet, International Director, Publish What You Pay
Alex Barth, Developer and Strategist, Development Seed
Mr. Peter Van Acker, Counselor, Development Cooperation, Embassy of Belgium

Speakers

James Duncan, WBI, Mapping for Transparency and The Extractive Industries Map of Ghana
Matthew Steil, WRI, Forest Governance in Central Africa: Two Approaches towards Increased Transparency
Leo Bottrill and Charles Huang, WWF, Mapping the future of forests: An introduction to Moabi 

 

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