[open-government] African Open Data

Fri Sep 30 11:13:00 UTC 2011

Fred,

Hi. You asked for guidance on how to start advocacy for open data.

A group of us involved in open data / open gov / data journalism campaigns
in east & southern Africa are starting to pull together a pan-African
coalition or community under the aegis of the Open Africa Foundation. If
you're interested in linking up, shout & I'll connect you with the folk
running the outreach programme there.

I'm also helping roll out an African network of HacksHackers.com chapters to
help both geeks and media to start using available data. We're about to
launch chapters in both Ghana (the core organising group actually met at the
Kofi Annan Center in Accra during the AppCirus Showcase last week) and in
Nigeria (1st in Lagos, & then in Abuja). Shout if you'd like to participate.

Cheers,
Justin

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> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:36:24 +0000
> From: Fred Yeboah <fredyeboah at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [open-government] [datameet] Is Open Data a Good Idea for
>        the Open Government Partnership?
> To: "Jose M. Alonso" <josema at webfoundation.org>
> Cc: open-government at lists.okfn.org, datameet at googlegroups.com
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> Dear Jose and all,
> I am new to open data but feel it could help in research. In a
> developing country context how do I start the advocacy process? What are
> some of the impact of existing initiatives? Thank you
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> Best regards,
> Fred. Yeboah
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