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  • 1. Open data at UN-Habitat Challenges and opportunities Pontus WesterbergTransparency and Digital Projects Officer

2. UN-Habitat is the UN agencyfor human settlements2 3. UN-Habitat is increasingly focusing on open dataand involved in developing open-source tools3 4. Why transparency?4 5. Aid information covered by thefreedom of information principleshall be made available on theweb in an open format.- The Swedish aid transparencyguarantee5 6. [The UN should build] a shared international commitment to strengthen aidtransparency and commitment, including by promoting a global declaration andagenda for humanitarian aid transparency and effectiveness.- Secretary-General Ban Ki-moons five-year action agenda6 7. The Open UN-Habitat project 8. SLIDE ABOUT THE DOCS8 9. 9 10. 10 11. UN-Habitat paper culture11 12. Syncing UN reporting with IATI reporting12 13. Automating the reporting process13 14. Use the tools!14 15. 15 16. 16 17. All the code is available on Github17 18. Encouraging other UN agencies to publish open data18 19. Thank you [email protected] @pontusw Photos credits:Open sign: aidypoos on Flickr, Ban Ki-moon: Africa Renewal on Flickr, Aids ribbon:ttfnrob on Flickr, come in were open source: tima on Flickr