[open-government] Open Data for Africa

Tue Dec 20 13:56:41 UTC 2011

Excellent - thanks! :-)

2011/12/20 Justin Arenstein <justinarenstein at gmail.com>:
> 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
>> To: open-government at lists.okfn.org
>> Cc: data-catalogs <data-catalogs at lists.okfn.org>
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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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