Programul de formare “Iniţiere în journalism bazat pe date deschise” se bazează pe teoriile învăţării situaţionale şi experienţiale, şi va focusa în mare parte pe dezvoltarea abilităţilor de bază necesare pentru abordarea diferitor tipuri de date pentru a scrie ştiri, noutăţi, crea aplicaţii pentru mobil sau web.

Aici puteti accesa AGENDA preliminara pentru program. În cadrul programului de formare, fiecare participant va avea acces la un calculator conectat la Internet, şi va avea posibilitate în timp real, de rind cu formatorii, să lucreze la crearea tabelelor, curăţarea datelor preluate de pe net, crearea vizualizărilor, etc..    

Participanţii se vor organiza în grupuri mixte, în jurul unui subiect/domeniu thematic, de ex. Alegeri, Cultură, Educaţie, Dezvoltare rurală, Infrastructură, etc.. Fiecare grup mixt, pe lîngă jurnalişti, va avea un dezvoltator TI (tehnologia informaţiei), şi un reprezentant al societăţii civile. Fiecare echipă va lucra la descrierea unei situaţii din domeniu, utilizînd datele disponibile. Acest fapt va permite echipei să dezvolte şi să descrie situaţia aleasă (noutatea/istoria din spate), precum şi să creeze partea vizuală/grafică a acesteia. 

Experţii pentru acest program de formare au o bogată experienţă în domeniul Data Journalism la nivel internaţional. Cîteva nume notiorii care se vor afla la Chişinău în perioada 14-15 Mai 2012 pentru scopul acestui program de formare:

CRAIG HAMMER –  Graig Hammer is a Media and Governance Specialist with the World Bank Institute’s Global Media Development program, a partnership-driven initiative which focuses on information and media as drivers of good governance. A licensed attorney, his work at the World Bank has included strengthening laws, policies, and regulations to enhance the enabling environment for media, as well as collaborative approaches with media practitioners (journalists, editors, media owners/managers, students, developers, and more) to strengthen the role of media as a key driver of the global knowledge economy, and as a tech-enabled, institution of transparency and accountability.

JUSTIN ARENSTEIN –  Justin Arenstein is an award winning investigative journalist and digital strategist currently helping Google and the African Media Initiative strengthen Africa’s watchdog media by working with newsrooms to implement better forensic research and evidence-based reportage. This includes helping media adopt digital tools and data journalism strategies. Justin manages the $1m African News Innovation Challenge, is spearheading the rollout of HacksHackers.com chapters across Africa, and supports newsroom-based experiments with citizen reporting, mobile news, and augmented reality platforms. Justin is also a Press Councillor in South Africa, where he also serves on a number of media industry bodies and think tanks. His investigative reportage has helped put a senator, two legislature speakers and a provincial cabinet minister behind bars, and contributed to the ouster of two provincial premiers and a number of other cabinet ministers and senior state officials on charges ranging from child rape to corruption.

JAY BHALLA – Jay Bhalla is CEO of The Open Institute. He is a technologist, digital development strategist, and open data specialist. He has been at the forefront of Kenya’s ICT development strategy for more than five years, having participated in the design of the Kenya ICT policy of 2006. Most recently, Jay played an integral role in the development and implementation of the Kenya Open Data Initiative. He continues to advise both the Kenyan government and the World Bank on tech strategies for citizen engagement, including development of the World Bank’s grassroots Mapping for Results initiative, and various community tools. Jay also spearheaded Pivot25.com, East Africa’s largest web conference and innovation competition.

AL KAGS –  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. As an Open Government enthusiast, Al 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 Communications professional who leads Goode Communications, a Marketing & Communications agency for growing organizations and businesses that have a social conscience and do good.

FRIEDRICH LINDENBERG –  Friedrich Lindenberg is a media scientist turned coder working on open government and transparency initiatives. As a developer at the Open Knowledge Foundation, he is part of OpenSpending, an international effort to make financial data accessible, as well as CKAN, a community-driven data catalogue project. He is the author of Adhocracy, a collaborative drafting software used by the Internet commission of the German Bundestag and several political parties to enable citizens to contribute to policy documents.  

LISA EVANS –  Lisa Evans is a Data Researcher for The Guardian. She has written more than 100 pieces for The Guardian on newsworthy data sets. Much of her research and writing focuses on government financial data, and she works with the Open Knowledge Foundation’s Open Spending initiative (and portal) to create a set of publicly available, easily comparable, government accounts. Lisa was lead researcher on Where Does My Money Go? and wrote detailed reports on the data used in this display of public spending. She has previously worked for two years as a software engineer writing C for billing software. She has additionally written perl scripts to simplify the creation of websites for the SOS Children charity, including Two Talk (a photograph conversation website she created), which was updated every day for a year by SOS staff).

MARK DE BLOIS - Mark de Blois is Managing Director of Upande Ltd, a consulting firm which provides advisory and technical development services with an emphasis the geoweb, including Geographical Information Systems development, training, and projects implementation, as well as software development and project management. Mark worked as a GIS specialist for more than 13 years. Having started in the Netherlands providing consulting services and GIS training to largely government organizations, Mark eventually joined Google Kenya where he was the Geo Lead and was in charge of geo-related work across Africa. Mark left Google in June 2011 to inaugurate Upande.  

DAVD LEMAYIAN – David Lemayian is Founder of Capefield, Ltd. He is a developer, technologist and open data specialist. David is a multiple award-winning app developer – he won the Google Android Developer Challenge in sub-Saharan Africa for his mobile application designated Olalashe, which helps users communicate when in trouble. He has also won the 2012 Mozilla+African Media Initiative Data Journalism Prize for his Kenya County Score Card app, which enables members of the public to track government spending across Kenya’s 47 counties. This app has also been shortlisted for the 2012 International Data Journalism Awards. David has additionally developed m-duka, a mobile application meant to ease the process of shopping by allowing users to order and pay for goods via mobile phones; msemakweli, an application through which users monitor the utilisation of Constituency Development Funds; and Msema Kweli, which helps monitor usage of Constituency Development Funds and remains a featured application on the Kenya Open Data portal.

AKISA OMULEPU –  Akisa Omulepu is Director of Strategy and Programs at the African Media Initiative, and has broad media experience as a journalist, television producer, host, and writer. Akisa’s journalism experience includes working for CNBC, The Source magazine, Black Enterprise Business Report and a range of additional media organizations as a freelance journalist, copy editor and writer. She received her undergraduate degree in Economics from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, and her Master’s in journalism from Columbia University. Akisa lives and works in Nairobi, Kenya.

ALEX HOWARD –  Alexander B. Howard is the Government 2.0 Washington Correspondent for O’Reilly Media, where he writes about the intersection of government, the Internet and society, including how technology is being used to help citizens, cities, and national governments solve large-scale problems. He is an authority on the use of collaborative technology in enterprises, social media and digital journalism. He has written and reported extensively on open innovation, open data, open source software and open government technology. He has contributed to the National Journal, Forbes, the Huffington Post, Govfresh, ReadWriteWeb, Mashable, CBS News’ What’s Trending, Govloop, Governing People, the Association for Computer Manufacturing and the Atlantic, amongst others. Prior to joining O’Reilly, Mr. Howard was the associate editor of SearchCompliance.com and WhatIs.com at TechTarget, where he wrote about how the laws and regulations that affect information technology are changing, spanning the issues of online identity, data protection, risk management, electronic privacy and cybersecurity. He is a graduate of Colby College in Waterville, Maine.

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Aici puteţi accesa Agenda pentru programul de formare “Iniţiere în jurnalism bazat pe date deschise” organizat recent în Kenya pentru a avea mai multă întelegere a programului de formare care va avea loc la Chişinău în perioada 14-15 Mai 2012

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