[okfn-za] Open Data Census and Open Data in South Africa (was: Re: Open Data and Access)

Fri May 3 13:34:17 UTC 2013

Taking this back on list (but in a separate thread)!

On 1 May 2013 19:51, Nimi Hoffmann <Nimi.Hoffmann at gmail.com> wrote:
> Excellent. Agreed on both fronts (separate thread + matrix).
>
> To be honest, I'd like to start looking at this later in the year. My aim at
> the moment is to develop an open database of mining corporations' human
> rights violations (including environmental justice violations) across

this sounds really interesting!

> Africa. However, more on this this weekend. I'll be sending out a request
> for advice and help. As you can probably tell, I have a better understanding
> of econometrics than of programming ;)

That's often much more valuable - having a problem or data is more
useful than the coding skills, and open regression can be worth fifty
fancy visualizations :-) (i was an economist myself for a while!)

> However, let's keep this one going. When I have time, I can chat with the
> guys at OPHI who developed the MPI using the Alkire-Foster method, which is
> a fairly robust methodology for creating a multidimensional indicator. It
> woud be a lot of fun to apply it to the area of open data :)

Please just keep sharing - this is a really useful discussion!

Rufus