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Invisible Citizens: How I was swindled out of my land by a powerful politician

Conversations & CommunitiesBy Open InstituteJuly 2, 2019Leave a comment

 Our Open Extractives team was last week in Lamu County, where communities have been actively engaged in a fight against the establishment of a Coal Plant near the UNESCO Heritage island town. Lamu County is also the site designated by the government of Kenya for an expansive infrastructure programme called the Lamu Port, South Sudan,…

The great thing about fellowship programmes

Open InstituteBy Open InstituteMay 23, 2014Leave a comment

At Open Institute we are thrilled that our very own Al Kags has been selected as one of the inaugural cohort of Washington fellows, under the Young African Leadership Initiative. Joining 45 other Kenyan fellows, he will be in the US for three months most of which will be spent at Open The Government, a…

Lessons from KODI: Completing the Job

Open Data, Open InstituteBy Open InstituteMarch 3, 2013Leave a comment

  Perhaps to answer the question we should start by reviewing what we hoped to do when we started the process. The KODI task force had four streams of activities: Gathering & collating data – At the time that we started this process, any data that the government had, was in disparate places – mostly in…

GotToVote! A way to bring Open Data to the ground

Open Data, Open Governance, Open InstituteBy Open InstituteNovember 22, 2012Leave a comment

The Open Institute is really proud to have helped birth an exciting new viral web campaign that is driving Kenyans to register and go vote.The GotToVote! campaign is the latest civic engagement project built by the pioneering Code4Kenya initiative. It was built in just 24hrs, by just two people, based on important but almost unusable…

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Thoughts from NDI Conference: Open Data & Elections

Open Data, Open Governance, Responsive GovernmentBy Open InstituteSeptember 9, 2012Leave a comment

This past week I was invited by the National Democratic Institute team in Kenya to speak at a conference they organised in Nairobo to discuss the elections. They asked me to discuss lessons from the Kenya Open Data Initiative that might be useful in thinking about elections management in Kenya and other countries. In the last few…

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The Power of Open: my reflections

Open Data, Open InstituteBy Open InstituteAugust 24, 2012Leave a comment

I said yesterday that, I am likely to have more to say as part of the discussion started by Nathaniel Heller of Global Integrity Commons, wherein he wondered whether Open Data is a good idea for the Open Government Partnership. Of course, I hold that it is a necessary component of any truly open government. Today I met with a young…

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