1. The Open Development Ecosystem Uganda Open Development Meeting Hotel Africana, Kampala 11 th September 2012

2. Decide on priority data to collect Statistics department collects data Analyse and draw conclusions Publish & disseminate results Apply results to policies & plans What we have always known – a hierarchical uni-directional system

3. With respect to data & development the model was......  Decide development priority & data in some government ministry  Assign the collection and preliminary analysis data a statistics office  Engage consultants (responding to pre-determined Terms of Reference) or semi-autonomous institutions and University departments tin deeper analysis  Draw conclusions, and make recommendations;  Publish the outcomes in some (authoritative) official document/s;  And on a few occasions, conduct a workshop or symposium to “disseminate” the final product.

4. But approach........  Ignored different interests, needs and inputs of a range of stakeholders  Assumed that selected priorities were always right and worked in the best interests of citizens  Created opportunities for “hiding” some aspects of information  De-prioritised the interactive nature of development  Limited transparency & accountability

5. Even when transparency (openness) agenda grew.....  The focus was on “bits and pieces” of openness  Open government  Aid transparency  Extractive industries transparency  Civil society transparency  Open data  Transparency of private flows

6. The open development concept helps us to........  Conceptualise development in a series of “stakeholder interrelationships”  See the mutuality of “vertical” and “horizontal” links  Agree on the “values” before putting in place systems  Incorporate citizen empowerment  Continuously assess “value added” (accountability)

7. Works in the same way as “An ecosystem” A natural system consisting of all plants, animals and microorganisms, which function with all the physical factors of the environment

8. ........ interconnected components?

9. Not about........ Complex data

10. Or computer systems.......

11. Or..... Advanced communications systems

12. Or..... Media images

13. It is more about........ Community development

14. Or.... Better still

15. But this must recognise a level of mutualism

16. .... And some of it is delicate mutualism

17. More recently though it has been changed by......technology....... Technology!!!

18. The Open development ecosystem  The open development “system” is a combination of, and interaction between many different parts and stakeholders  a key challenge is linking up these parts towards a common objective

19. A stakeholder-based open development ecosystem