[open-development] Kabissa Open Data Directory for Africa

Fri Oct 5 16:31:09 UTC 2012

As an aside, if you're interested in looking at possible integration
between African Open Data and Kabissa, you could look at making CKAN (which
powers African Open Data) talk with your Drupal instance, for which I
understand several plugins exist:

http://ckan.org/faq/#integrate

J.

On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Friedrich Lindenberg <
friedrich.lindenberg at okfn.org> wrote:

> Hi Tobias,
>
> you should get in touch with the folks running
> http://africaopendata.org/, I think they're trying to do a similar
> thing!
>
> - Friedrich
>
> On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 8:11 AM, Tobias Eigen <tobias at saidia.org> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I trust you all are well.
> >
> > I wanted to inform you that this weekend I am participating in SocEnt
> > Weekend in Seattle where I will pitch an idea that is very inportant to
> me,
> > to create a Kabissa Open Data Directory for Africa, and am hopeful to be
> > chosen as one of the ideas that will be the focus of the weekend. It very
> > much relates to the work Kabissa has been doing over the years to support
> > African civil society on the Internet, and our interest in the last year
> or
> > two to go open data.
> >
> > If we are chosen, I'll let you know! If we are chosen we will be working
> > hard on the project over the weekend, so let me know if you are
> interested
> > in pitching in during the weekend or are interested in helping make it
> > happen generally.
> >
> > In the meantime, here is a link to a video of my 60 second pitch as it
> is at
> > this moment.. it may still change and I welcome feedback! I need to give
> it
> > tomorrow night, Friday. http://youtu.be/3phG3pd6mqs
> >
> > Warm regards,
> >
> > Tobias
> >
> > //\//\//\//\//\//\//\//\//\//\//\//\//\//\//\//\//\//\
> >
> > Tobias Eigen
> > 9670 Olympus Beach Rd NE
> > Bainbridge Island, WA 98110
> > landline: +1-206-842-1467
> > mobile: +1-206-375-7984
> > skype: tobiaseigen
> > tobias at saidia.org
> >
> > Kabissa Blog LinkedIn Facebook Twitter Google+
> >
> > //\//\//\//\//\//\//\//\//\//\//\//\//\//\//\//\//\//\
> >
> >
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