fyi... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dimitris Kotzinos <kotzino [ at ] teiser [ dot ] gr> Date: Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 1:10 AM Subject: Re: Documentary - Budget Monitoring Organisations To: Lucy Chambers <lucy [ dot ] chambers [ at ] okfn [ dot ] org> Cc: Despoina Mitropoulou <des [ dot ] mitropoulou [ at ] eellak [ dot ] gr>, "Theodoros G. Karounos" <karounos [ at ] eellak [ dot ] gr>, Prodromos Tsiavos <prodromos [ dot ] tsiavos [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com>, dioikitiko-symboylio-ellak [ at ] ellak [ dot ] gr Dear Lucy, let me thank you once more for taking the time and meeting with me today! It has been both very interesting as a discussion and very exciting as food for thought and I hope that we can repeat it in the near future! I think that Open Data and open Source meet in too many places, so I am looking forward to the future. Best of luck in your next stops and I am eagerly waiting for the results. I hope we can keep in touch and I will do my best to become more active in the OKFN. Best, Dimitris P.S.: Many thanks to Despina, too, for the introductions! :) Despoina Mitropoulou wrote: > > Dear Lucy, > > I would like to introduce you to Dimitris who is a member of the board > of GFOSS and also an Assistant Professor at the Department of > Geoinformatics and Surveying of TEI of Serres. He could meet you while > you will be visiting Thessaloniki so if you are interested and have some > free time you could contact him and arrange to meet up. > > Kind Regards, > Despina > > > 2012/7/7 Lucy Chambers <lucy [ dot ] chambers [ at ] okfn [ dot ] org > <mailto:lucy [ dot ] chambers [ at ] okfn [ dot ] org>> > > > Dear Despina, > > Many thanks for getting in contact. Prodromos has been busily > helping to arrange a great schedule for me in Athens and I could > meet either tomorrow (Sunday) or perhaps early on Monday? > > My schedule in Thessaloniki is a little more relaxed than here (so > far) in Athens so it would be great to meet a member of the team if > it is not possible to meet up in Athens. > > Theodoros, I would also love to meet up with the GFOSS team if > anyone is around! > > Looking forward to it, > > Lucy > > > > On Wednesday, July 4, 2012, Despoina Mitropoulou wrote: > > Hi Lucy, > > My name is Despina and I am working for GFOSS. Theodoros > forwarded your email to me. Can you please tell me your schedule > while you will be visiting Athens in order to arrange a meeting? > Also have you arrange to meet with someone while you will be > visiting Thessaloniki? We could probably arrange for you to meet > with some of our associates there if you want. > > Kind Regards, > Despina > > > > 2012/7/2 Theodoros G. Karounos <karounos [ at ] eellak [ dot ] gr> > > We will arrange with our colleagues and let you know by > tomorrow. > > Regards, > Theodoros. > > On Jul 1, 2012 9:32 PM, "Lucy Chambers" > <lucy [ dot ] chambers [ at ] okfn [ dot ] org> wrote: > > Hi Both, > > Just wondering whether you had had any more chance to > think about this one? I'm hoping to be in Athens from > Friday and Thessaloniki the following Tuesday, so anyone > you can recommend me to get in touch with would be much > appreciated! > > Lucy > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Lucy Chambers > <lucy [ dot ] chambers [ at ] okfn [ dot ] org> wrote: > > Brilliant, thanks Prodromos, > > Theodoros - nice to meet you and look forward to > hearing from you! > > Lucy > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Prodromos Tsiavos > <prodromos [ dot ] tsiavos [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com> wrote: > > Hi Lucy, > > > > I m forwarding this to Theodoros from GFOSS as > well and will get back to you > > asap! > > > > All the best, > > pRo > > > > > > On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Lucy Chambers > <lucy [ dot ] chambers [ at ] okfn [ dot ] org> > > wrote: > >> > >> Dear Prodromos, > >> > >> I don't believe we have met in person, but > believe you have met my > >> colleague, Kat Braybrooke? My name is Lucy > Chambers and I am the > >> community coordinator on the OpenSpending.org > project here at the Open > >> Knowledge Foundation. > >> > >> I'm currently working on a project to map out > the technical needs of > >> organisations working in the field of budget > monitoring. It's a > >> project supported by OSI - more here: > >> > >> > http://openspending.org/blog/2012/01/12/civil-society-and-spending-data-who-is-mapping-the-money.html > >> and as part of this, I'm hoping to travel around > Europe next month > >> interviewing and doing a video-documentary about > the challenges these > >> organisations face, which tools they use to work > with their data etc. > >> > >> Greece is on my list and I'd love to interview > some people there, but > >> I'm having a hard time to get hold of civil > society organisations > >> whose explicit aim is budget transparency - e.g. > it's apparently not a > >> topic that Transparency International deal with > in Greece. Do you know > >> of anyone I should get in contact with while I > am there? > >> > >> The documentary is quite informal, we are > looking to interview > >> organisations who work in the area of budget and > expenditure > >> monitoring, social auditing etc, Issue Advocacy > e.g. Gender budgeting > >> / Youth budgeting, Transparency (Process > Advocacy) - people who > >> campaign for information to be released... , > Academic / Economists who > >> do research using financial data, Technology and > Data Advocates, Media > >> / Journalists researching financial topics, > Parliamentarians - the > >> individuals within governments responsible for > analysing and making > >> policy based on these types of data. We expect > to make some 5-10 > >> minute long mini-films on the issue of budget > transparency and they'll > >> be published on OpenSpending.org. > >> > >> Any ideas you have for people I should contact > would be most > >> appreciated, and if you have any thoughts on the > topic yourself, I > >> would be delighted to hear them! > >> > >> Kind regards, > >> > >> Lucy > >> > >> -- > >> Lucy Chambers > >> Community Coordinator, > >> OpenSpending & Data Journalism > >> Open Knowledge Foundation > >> Skype: lucyfediachambers > >> Twitter: @lucyfedia > > > > > > > > -- > Lucy Chambers > Community Coordinator, > OpenSpending & Data Journalism > Open Knowledge Foundation > Skype: lucyfediachambers > Twitter: @lucyfedia > > > > > -- > Lucy Chambers > Community Co > > _______________________________________________ > > Dioikitiko-symboylio-ellak mailing list > Dioikitiko-symboylio-ellak [ at ] ellak [ dot ] gr > http://lists.ellak.gr/listinfo/dioikitiko-symboylio-ellak > > > > > > -- - Jiddu Krishnamurti: If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem. - http://karounos.gr/blog/