A Roundtable Conversation, suppported by UNICEF Kenya, on the State of Devolution and the Data Revolution in Kenya was held in Nairobi. This event was aimed at drawing on both experience and evidence-based lessons to share, support and capture in the current devolution and data revolution landscape. In addition, we hope to review the progress that Kenya has made…
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There is always something exciting about carrying out a pilot exercise. It’s results show you whether the hard work you have been putting in was in vain or was worth it. You learn where the strengths and weaknesses in a project lie. You find what needs to be changed, to be improved, to be left…
Read article The first day of the #Buntwani Locally in Lanet Umoja Location flew by with much excitement and activity. Over 300 community leaders arrived promptly at 9am (most had arrived well before time) and all of them got busy organising chairs into the double classroom that had been organised. The ladies that were catering for the…
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The Open Institute is happy to release our thinking on the achievement of the Global Goals – 17 Sustainable Development Goals that World Leaders committed on at the UN General Assembly in September this year. These goals are made to guide global development over the next 15 years and range from ending extreme poverty and…
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The Open Institute have organised a Buntwani-locally event to take place in Lanet Umoja in Nakuru County, Kenya on December 3 and 4, 2015. Jointly organised with the “Tweeting Chief” Chief Francis Kariuki (@chiefkariuki), the event will be held to bring stakeholders around the community of 29,000 people to understand out how the Global Goals could…
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The Open Institute team is proud to release the alpha version of SDG Tracker – a dashboard for tracking the progress we will make on the Sustainable Development Goals. World leaders are today expected to commit to these 17 goals that aim to especially achieve three main things: Eliminate extreme poverty, Fight inequality and injustice…
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This is truly unchartered for me since I have never written a blog before – even though I have been a software geek for more than two decades (!). My job at the Open Institute is to manage technology largely and in the three years I have worked here, I have generally remained in the…
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I had the privilege to give a keynote speech at the Africa Open Data Conference in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on the first day of the conference. My reflections were a bit more caution-oriented than many of the speakers that I encountered at the conference. In the spirit of continuing the discussions that happened there, I…
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This is a guest post from Dr. Bitange Ndemo More by this Author I spent most of last week in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, attending the Africa Open Data Conference at the ultra-modern Julius Nyerere Convention Centre. I moderated one of the sessions and was also a discussant on the future of Open Data in…
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