[open-development] Nigerian Statistics Office Data Portal...

Mon Jun 25 19:10:43 UTC 2012

Hi Rufus,

Let's do connect /o with the open data handbook, which I just perused for
the first time and think is excellent and will really help folks adopt open
data in their organizations. Maybe we could have a skype call to brainstorm?

Cheers,

Tobias

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On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>wrote:

> On 20 June 2012 20:10, Tobias Eigen <tobias at saidia.org> wrote:
> > These are good points, thanks Rufus! Especially the (to people like us
> > obvious) point about value for money and reuusability.
> >
> > I always wish that people designing projects like this find
> > http://slashopen.net/guidelines before they start their data-driven
> project,
>
> Great site (I'm not sure I'd seen it before surprisingly!)
>
> I think material connects with the "How to Open Data" section of
> http://opendatahandbook.org/en/
>
> > or perhaps that their funders include open data in their requirements.
>
> Good point.
>
> > Perhaps you have suggestions on ways to improve the /o guidelines - I did
> > write that up last summer and the /o site has been sleepy. :)
>
> Yes! I also wonder if we could interlink this with the How to Open
> Data section of the Handbook mentioned above.
>
> Rufus
>
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Tobias
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> > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> On 20 June 2012 17:42, Tariq Khokhar <tariq at khokhar.net> wrote:
> >> > Thought you folks may be interested in news from Nigeria's Statistics
> >> > Bureau
> >> > ( http://www.nigerianstat.gov.ng/ ) who've just launched the "Nigeria
> >> > Statistical Data Portal"  http://nigeria.prognoz.com/Map.aspx
> >>
> >> It is obviously great to see countries taking a more progressive
> >> approach but I must say this example does seem to be of the "Shiny
> >> Front End" variety [1] -- i.e. bunch of swish graphics (that were no
> >> doubt not cheap to get!) and no data (or even links to data).
> >>
> >> [1]:
> >>
> http://blog.okfn.org/2007/11/07/give-us-the-data-raw-and-give-it-to-us-now/
> >>
> >> I've looked hard (apologies if I have missed it) to locate any raw
> >> data anywhere on this site or the main Statistical agency site but
> >> come up empty (there is a form to request data:
> >> http://nigerianstat.gov.ng/requests).
> >>
> >> I therefore wonder whether it would not have been a better use of time
> >> / money to have put out the data behind those shiny graphics as simple
> >> CSV / JSON files ...
> >>
> >> > While this doesn't check all the boxes to be called "open data" it's
> >> > encouraging to see a progressive approach to the dissemination of
> >> > national
> >> > data.
> >>
> >> It's not about box-checking for open data I'd argue it was about
> >> simple re-usability and value for money ;-)
> >>
> >> > We're finding at the World Bank that some national statistics offces
> are
> >> > quite receptive towards supporting notion of national open data
> >> > initiatives
> >> > because they already have experience and mandates for handling
> official
> >> > government data. On the other hand, some are not that keen at all!
> >>
> >> I can imagine :-)
> >>
> >> > As ever, good examples from other countries in the region go a long
> way
> >> > towards building the case for opening up government data.
> >>
> >> Strong +1
> >>
> >> Rufus
> >>
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