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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Authored by Nick Hargreaves and cross posted from his blog. It’s slightly over two years since the government of Kenya launched the Kenya Open Data portal; a move that was hailed around the globe and seen by many as a path towards transparency in a corruption ridden government. Kenya became the second, after Morocco, in…
Read articleAfrican Data Journalists and Code for Africa Hacktavists this week traveled to Nepal to be part of the country’s Open Data Initiative launch. The grassroots initiative dubbed Open Nepal week, is a series of week-long activities that is aimed to catalyze and spur the Open Data Movement in Nepal. The week began with a Media…
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