[open-government] Open data / open government discussions start in Nigeria

Sat Jan 11 12:28:34 UTC 2014

Hi everyone.

Code for Africa <http://codeforafrica.org> and the World Bank are convening
the 1st in a series of planned roundtables with open data and digital
democracy activists in Nigeria to help ensure that ordinary users' voices
are heard during planning of the country's proposed national open data
initiative.

The government open data initiative will be framed at a government
consultative meeting in Abuja between January 30-31.

We are therefore convening a roundtable before the government meeting (Jan
28-29), bringing together thought-leaders from local open data movement,
the media, civil society, and grassroots citizen movements to ensure that
they get a chance to shape the agenda + government's priorities.

If you know of anyone who should be at the table, or if you're based in
Nigeria and part of participate, give me a shout at nigeria (dot)
codeforafrica (dot) org.

Cheers,
Justin

Justin Arenstein
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