We are so excited to find out that Open Duka has won the Honesty Oscars (Special Effects category), following nominations and widespread voting. Like the Academy Awards’ “Best Special Effects” this category honors new technologies, innovative strategies and tools, and creative campaigns that (in our context) call attention to issues of transparency, accountability and corruption.…
Read article Every day in the week leading up to the Academy Awards, February 17th to 21st, ONE and Accountability Lab will unveil a category for our Honesty Oscars 2015, an award that honors not Hollywood films, but the creative work of activists and organizations that fight global corruption. Vote for your favorites, and we’ll announce the…
Read articleOpen Data Day is back After a very successful Open Data Day 2014, Kenya is once again gearing up for 2015 edition of the International Open Data Day. A gathering of citizens in cities around the world to develop applications, liberate data, create visualisations, publish analyses using open public data to show support for and…
Read articleOPEN DATA DAY 2015 is coming and a coalition of partners have come together to provide a limited number of micro-grants designed to support communities organise ODD activities all over the world ! Open Data Day (ODD) is one of the most exciting events of the year. As a volunteer led event, with no organisation…
Read articleOur founder, Al Kags is happy to publish Players or Spectators – Observations on CSO Participation in the Open Government Partnership, a culmination of a study that he conducted while interning at OpentheGovernment.org in August and September this year. “The experience that I gained at OpenTheGovernment.org under the guidance of Patrice McDermott and her colleagues…
Read articleOpen Institute and M-Power would like to jointly invite developers out there to the Open Duka Hackathon. We are happy to invite you to the second Open Duka Hackathon on the 22nd and 23rd of November 2014 at Jaffery Institute of Professional Studies. The event will be open to Software and Web Developers, who will either…
Read articleKenya is one of the 65 participating countries of the Open Government Partnership (OGP), a multilateral initiative that seeks to make governments more open, accountable and responsive to citizens. Overseen by representatives from governments and civil society organisations, the multi-stakeholder effort aims to secure concrete commitments from governments to promote transparency, empower citizens, fight corruption and harness…
Read articleThe just concluded Buntwani 2014 Conference which brought together stakeholders in citizen engagement was a tremendous success! Government officials (from both the national and county governments), members of civil society organisations (CSOs) and academia, technologists and donors converged at the Kenya School of Government on the 7th and 8th October 2014 to share knowledge, insights…
Read articleSPEECH BY MS. ANNE WAIGURU, OGW, CABINET SECRETARY, MINISTRY OF DEVOLUTION AND PLANNING, DURING THE BUNTWANI CONFERENCE ON 7TH OCTOBER 2014 AT THE KENYA SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT, NAIROBI. Vice President, Africa TechSoup Group; Founders, Open Institute; Members of Advisory Group; Senior Government Official; Distinguished Guests; Ladies and Gentlemen, It gives me great pleasure to…
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The Open Institute & TechSoup Globalpartnered to organise the Buntwani 2014 conference that was held in Nairobi on October 7th – 8th. The aim of Buntwani 2014 was to bring together leaders in government (both national and county), civil society, the private sector and other stakeholders in the Devolution space in Kenya. The landmark conference fostered…
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