At Iran Open Data, we have been working to make resources about open data and access to information available to open data advocates in Iran. The following blog post from Open Data Carter (Author: Natalia Norori) is one of the resources we have made available in Persian. This post originally appeare
At Iran Open Data, we have been working to make resources about open data and access to information available to open data advocates in Iran. The following blog post from Open Contracting Partnership (By ANTONIO HERRERA AND ELIO VAZQUEZ, INAI ) is one of the resources we have made available in Persi
The old adage ‘every crisis is an opportunity’ has been thrown around a lot this year. After all, there’s hardly been a shortage of crises, and activists and rights advocates from around the world have been working tirelessly to seize on the flux to articulate a vision of a fairer and more just glob
Gotong Royong. Wikipedia defines it as a concept of sociality familiar to large parts of Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei and Malaysia. Most translate it in English as ‘mutual aid’.It’s also how many would describe AtmaGo, a community-powered sharing platform that focuses on addressing the long-term imp
In my last blog post, I had a look at the Kenya open data portal, a well-intentioned government initiative, funded under the Kenyan Ministry of Information, Communication and Technology, that ran into a few problems.In this scenario, a team of professional technologists and data scientists are hired
As an open data practitioner I find that I’m frequently asking myself “aren’t we fighting a losing battle against misinformation?”. Can open data advocates really keep up in a world where the wealthy and powerful can buy enough skilled workers to distort reality, and spread false information to inte
2011 was a big year for the Kenya open data community. The government, with help from the World Bank, launched a national open data portal dubbed the Kenya Open Data Initiative or KODI. We are the first country south of the Sahara to launch such an initiative.At its inception, it had over 160 datase
Hello again! As you may have noticed, Open & Shut has been on a bit of a hiatus for the last year or so. This blog was first created in 2017 as a space for open data advocates and practitioners to grapple with some challenging questions around the role of the open data movement in politically closed
Since Kosovo declared independence from Serbia a decade ago, the young state’s developing institutions have been forced to grapple with a host of tough challenges. Youth unemployment currently stands at 57.7% according to UNDP, and mass emigration is feeding an ongoing crisis. Yet in the face of all
In May 2013, President Barack Obama announced to the world that his administration had issued an ambitious new Open Data Policy. This new policy was unveiled within a broader executive order that mandated reforms to ensure increased levels of data transparency and public accountability on the part o
Hello and welcome back to Open and Shut! Today we’re joined by Nathalie Sidibe, a young leader from Mali who has been a pioneer of the OpenStreetMap (OSM) platform in West Africa. She will share with us her thoughts and experiences on leading mapping initiatives in her community.OpenStreetMap is the
Welcome back to Open & Shut! For this post, we got in touch with Ngeunga Madeleine, a journalist based in Cameroon. Using Madeleine’s experiences, we’ll delve into the state of open data in her home country, and track her journey from traditional journalism, through to the wonderful world of data jo
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