The Africa Freedom of Information Centre, AFIC has been invited to attend African Union consultation on the continent’s strategy for the next 50 years- AU Agenda 2063. We have informed AU Commission our intention to consult our members and partners who for one reason or another are not to be physically consulted by the African…
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Two weeks ago London was host to the Open Government Partnership Summit in which government representatives and civil society from over 60 countries convened over three days to discuss among other government transparency, accountability and issues relating to the release and reuse of open data. From Global Open Data Initiative’s side we took part in…
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This is a cross-post by Julia Keserü from the Sunlight Foundation, taken from both the Global Open Data Initiative blog and the Sunlight Foundation blog. Open Data has enormous unfulfilled promise to change how governments work and to empower citizenship. As more governments and issue experts discover new potential in the public release of data,…
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This past week, as primary school pupils in Kenya started their Kenya Certificate of Primary Examinations (KCPE) – a landmark examination in any Kenyan’s life, we released some data that we have collected in recent months. Through the Kenya Open Data Initiative and with the help of the Ministry of Education and Kenya’s National Examinations…
Read articleThis is a Post written by Jennifer Lentfer for OXFAM America Tech geek proclaims the unthinkable! Says that when it comes to aid transparency, “There’s something more important than data.” “Even in a country like Kenya, with a dynamic information and communication technology (ICT) sector, simply making data available is only one step in a longer…
Read articleOver the last month or two, we’ve made a strategic decision to dedicate a huge part of our work to serve grassroots communities and we’ve increasingly found ourselves thinking about how our work in the Open Data and Open Governance space impacts them. On Thursday November 7th, 2013, we hosted a Google Hangout on Air…
Read articleAs we bridge gaps between open data ecosystems, we continually ask ourselves what impact our work has on grassroot communities and how open data can be used to improve their lives. But who are these people that we are talking about? Who are the grassroots? In our attempt to unravel the term, we often come…
Read articleThe Global Open Data Initiative partners are excited today to share a draft Declaration on Open Data, and welcome comments and feedback on its contents. Open Data has enormous unfulfilled promise to change how governments work and to empower citizenship. Even as more governments and issue experts discover new potential in the public release of data, civil society…
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This is a cross post from Greg Brown Kenya’s open data portal is floundering. Despite the excitement that surrounded its launch in July 2011, the portal has not been updated in eight months, has seen stagnant traffic, and is quickly losing its status as the symbolic leader of open government in Africa. For a number of reasons,…
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When we started out in 2011, we were incubated by the Africa Media Initiative to implement the Code4Kenya project (it later scaled up to an organisation) and we worked on projects that tried to get infomediaries such as media and others to understand and use data for citizen benefit. We worked with AMI until August…
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