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

Sun Jan 12 12:19:41 UTC 2014

Thanks for sharing this, Jed. I’m in Abuja on the dates being proposed for the roundtable before the government meeting. I will also be able to help mobilise partners with whom we work on transparency and accountability to participate, if so requested.

Happy New Year, Jed, Antoine and Jim.

Dauda

From: Jed Miller [mailto:jed at jedmiller.com]
Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2014 6:37 PM
To: Antoine Heuty; Jim Cust; Dauda Garuba
Subject: Fwd: [open-government] Open data / open government discussions start in Nigeria

Antoine, Jim and Dauda,

This likely came to you through other channels, but in case not, it could be useful to pursue.

All best regards,

Jed

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From: Justin Arenstein <justinarenstein at gmail.com<mailto:justinarenstein at gmail.com>>
Date: January 11, 2014 at 4:28:34 AM PST
To: open-government at lists.okfn.org<mailto:open-government at lists.okfn.org>
Subject: [open-government] Open data / open government discussions start in Nigeria
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

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