[open-government] Open Data for Africa

[Justin Arenstein]

Jonathan,

Hi there. We actually raised this with AfDB & the WBI (which is helping
AfDB to bring their datasets online). I'll feed through any response that
we get from the folk in Tunis.

Cheers,
Justin



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Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:00:50 +0000
> From: Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>
> Subject: [open-government] Open Data for Africa
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> This looks interesting!
>
> http://www.afdb.org/en/knowledge/statistics/open-data-for-africa/
> http://opendataforafrica.org/
>
> Just added to datacatalogs.org:
>
> http://datacatalogs.org/catalog/open-data-for-africa
>
> Unfortunately the terms of use don't seem very open:
>
> "Unless otherwise indicated, the Site and all content on the Site are
> the proprietary property of Company or its licensors or users. You are
> granted a limited, non-sublicensable license to access and use the
> Site and services." [1]
>
> Does anyone know anyone who was involved with this? Would be great to
> clarify whether the data itself is freely reusable!
>
> J.
>
> [1] http://opendataforafrica.org/legal/termsofuse
>
>
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> Jonathan Gray
>
> Community Coordinator
> The Open Knowledge Foundation
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