 Thank you very much and good afternoon everyone. So I stood here about a year ago at the Summit 2014 and talked a little bit about the challenges that leaders face implementing open data in government. At that point in time, we had an idea in our heads that if we could only find a way to connect some of these individuals who we were encountering driving this change around the world to each other, they would find ways to support each other, to share ideas, to share inspiration. So we did that. This year we launched a project called the Open Data Leaders Network. And rather than me explaining it, we have some fantastic colleagues in Lightweight Media who helped us produce a short video. And I've been told if I say the words video and step back, it'll magically appear. The ODI's Open Data Leaders Network is a small group of open data practitioners drawn together from countries all around the world for a week of shared learning and training. Seven heads have opened their initiatives, exchanging stories and insights and ideas, meeting with different experts and people who can skill them up. We share our success stories, share our values, share ideas, talk about challenges. The biggest challenges we face championing open data within the government is a lack of understanding of just what open data is. You represent a new philosophy inside government and usually government are very complex spaces. We don't have standard roadmap, we don't have something that has been done before we're trying to adopt. You're basically treading on tread grounds if you can see that. And that's a pretty difficult one. One of the things that's great about bringing people together from different countries is that they have very similar problems. You understand that nobody's doing everything and everyone is getting something right. You find out that those challenges you're facing is not new, you know, alone in it, and someone has probably solved the problem you're facing in your own country. Coming here to meet with this network has reminded me how lonely we are back home. We do it amongst our small team of three, but that's not really giving us new perspectives as a result. So it's very therapeutic to come and talk to others. All these people were willing to share what they were doing and what was working and what wasn't. Just the camaraderie of being sole evangelists amongst a nation of people that we have to compare. I get very agile when I'm back from attending events because I always have something new to implement. We hope that each open data leader leaves feeling inspired, motivated and equipped. And we really hope that this contributes to strengthening the impact and sustainability of government open data initiatives around the world. We're really quite proud of what mostly they have been able to build. There's now 14 heads of initiatives who are sharing ideas and moral support across four continents. It should be noted that they're sharing that information not on the beautiful, perfectly curated online platform that we built but on a WhatsApp group. And that's, I think, quite wonderful. In the same way that we did all our research and we knew that building trust was important to build a network. So we had lots of trust building exercises. And then one night they kind of ignored our dinner reservation we'd made for them and got lost on the tube trying to find various landmarks and came in the next day with a bond that could never be broken. So we have a full kind of lessons learned on the project coming out towards the end of the year, which we're happy to share with anybody. But what I wanted to take a few minutes to talk is to share with you all today is some of the things that we have learned from these guys as individuals. We kind of see them as public sector entrepreneurs and they're really at the cold face of driving some of this change in government. And they're experiencing and approaching that in very interesting ways. We think for the open data sector as a whole. And actually a couple of these insights come from the fact that our first cohort who were seven individuals, now that we're kind of nine months after they've been through the program, five of them are actually no longer leading open data initiatives in their country. Instead they've been promoted and are heading up various larger government reforms. And they're taking actually a lot of the tools that we're developing in this sector into reforming those broader, those bigger policy areas. But also it probably shouldn't have surprised us that we have seen these transitions, that we have seen these changes because a lot of the initiatives are approaching a tipping point. So what we're seeing is we're seeing open data starting from something where you need a kind of entrepreneurial, an entrepreneurial public sector innovator who's able to get those kind of early pioneers, get the early adopters excited about a new idea and willing to take a risk on trying something, on trying a new innovation. Those early adopters are now on board and their initiatives are getting into the space of how do we get the majority on board and how do we start to think about the laggards? And it is, it's a very different job getting yourself from, getting an idea from zero to having enough people kind of on board to get it from there to thinking through of a consolidation or building role. And in fact it requires a reframing of reform away from a high risk, high reward innovation for something routine and frankly something quite mundane, especially in a government context. And we see in this a broader lesson for those of us working in the open data sector. We're increasingly getting to a tipping point where our role is changing from getting enthusiastic early adopters on board and trying to convince, to trying to convince the majority that open data is useful and frankly mundane. This requires us adopting new approaches and practices and potentially even sort of changing our language and our way of working on things. A second observation that we've seen is that in the case of a lot of the members of the network there's definitely been a sort of a maturation, a sort of a growing up in a way of their projects and of the implementation of open data in their governments. Whereas 12 months ago what we primarily were seeing still was a data first approach. So starting by publishing some data, then thinking about publishing more data and better data and then getting on to thinking about use which is sort of where I think most initiatives start and they should start. What we're seeing now is that the best initiatives are starting to evolve and they're starting to work with problem owners and with use from the very beginning. And in those cases what we're seeing is the heads of initiatives looking at open data as a means of achieving the ends of others. So for example in Mexico, Enrique is one of our members of the network and they have a very serious problem of low birth weights among indigenous mothers. So the team there who are embedded within the presidency are running a couple of pilot projects which bring together behavioral economics, mobile technologies and the creative use of open data and of bringing together different data sources. So what that team there have decided to do is to stop thinking about having open data as the headline in the stories that they wanna write and start thinking about it as maybe in the second paragraph or maybe the kind of punchline at the end. So some positive things are happening and it is because of open data. And we can see this evolution through go down and through lots of other work that's happening in our sector as well. Because in order to scale in order to really start cementing the impact that we're seeing, we need all to shift from a data first approach to a problem first approach and to sort of let some of our evangelism which I'm guilty of on many occasions let that take a bit of a backseat and really try and figure out where people are at. So we see in these lessons two key questions for the open data community as a whole. As reformers now that in many places we have the early adopters on board how are we going to adapt our practices so that we can appeal to empower and permit others to find a way that open data can help them solve their problems? Or to put it more simply how are we going to change our tactics so that we can truly scale? And secondly as advocates how can we shift from a data first approach to a problem first approach? And how can we think about taking our tools and our perspectives to help solve the problems of others? These are just two of the questions that we'll be exploring next year as part of our international development work which we're very grateful as part of the open data for development network funded by the IDRC which is part of the Canadian government. And we're always looking for partners and for collaborators in doing that. I'm going to ask a couple of my colleagues to stand up and maybe if you're able to partner with us if you're interested in being a participant in any of these programs do join us. We have Richard, Emma, Fiona, Dawn and Will are all in the room. So come grab us at the break and have a chat. Thank you.