  Between
July 10 and 12 Washington (USA) hosted the II International conference on open government’s
data organized by the World Bank and Government of USA under support of
data.gov project, open data initiatives of
the World Bank and Open development technologies alliance. The conference was
attended by lead experts on open government’s data from all over the world. The main themes of the conference were policy and
technology of use of open government’s data for increasing level of
cooperation, transparency and interactivity of citizens’ involvement in public
administration.
The conference was opened by President of the World Bank Jim Yong Kim and US CIO Steven van Roekel. The main
moderators of the conference were data.gov evangelist Jeanne Holm and the World
Bank open data evangelist Tariq Khokhar.
The main invited reports were delivered by Caroline Anstey, managing director
of the World Bank, David Eaves, and open data advocate, Canada,
and è Rufus
Pollock, co-founder of the Open Knowledge Foundation, UK.
The following sections held meetings during the conference:
- Successful adventures of open government: let’s make data work
- How to start working with open government data
- Innovative methods of data collection
- Opening financial data
- Ecosystem of open data
- Influence of open data on developing countries
- Creating transparency: advocates
- Open data for inclusive, engaging administration
- Platforms and technologies for implementation of open
data
- Engaging around open data
- How does the readiness to open data look like?
- Making use of open data: standards and accessibility
- Science and art of data visualization
- Making open data important (social, economic and intragovernmental
importance
- Creating local influence
- Open data journalism
- Open data and Partnership of open government
- Open data: challenges for the future
 On July 11,
the administration of the President of USA hosted a number of meetings between
participants of the conference and US Steven Van Roekel and US CTO Todd Park.
 The conference was attended by more than 450 participants (from more than 50 countries)
and more than 1000 people participated online. A total of 64 sessions took place, where 162 participants spoke.
Russia was represented at the conference
by Yury Hohlov at session "Open data for inclusive, engaging administration"
with a joint report by Alexander Evtyushkin, Tatiana Ershova, Yury Hohlov and Sergey
Shaposhnik "Monitoring of open government and open data: latest research
of Russian regions”.
The conference was broadcasted online, archived records can be found at: http://live.worldbank.org/international-open-government-data-conference-2012-liveblog-webcast
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