[open-government] African Open Data

[Fred Yeboah]

Dear Justin,

I am interested!.

On 30/09/11 11:13, Justin Arenstein wrote:
> 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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>     Message: 2
>     Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:36:24 +0000
>     From: Fred Yeboah <fredyeboah at gmail.com <mailto: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
>     <mailto:josema at webfoundation.org>>
>     Cc: open-government at lists.okfn.org
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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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