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…
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…
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…
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…
The Africa Open Data Conference is underway in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. I had the privilege to manage the first session of the pre-conference programme, entitled “Understanding Open Data.” This session was focused on bringing on board the members of the audience who were new to the Open Data conversation. This conference is unique from many…