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From open data to a collaborative community – looking ahead with TCdata360
June 5, 2017 Editor 0
TCdata360: Your Source for Open Trade and Competitiveness Data It’s now been about a month since the Trade & Competitiveness Global Practice of the World Bank Group launched TCdata360, our new platform for open trade and competitiveness data from the Bank and external sources. The initial response has been overwhelmingly positive, and it has included […]
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How to Make Development Finance and Procurement Data Exciting
November 19, 2013 Editor 0
Efforts to make spending information more relevant and actionable often suffer from low levels of financial literacy, complexity, and just the unfavorable common perception that financial data is boring and hard to understand. At some level, “money” is the universal common denominator. However at scale and without context, it becomes harder to conceptualize and may […]
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8 Steps to Publish Open Data and Prepare for IATI
November 11, 2013 Editor 0
Siobhan Green, the founder of Sonjara attended the Technology Salon exploring How Can USAID Development Partners Implement IATI? and was inspired to define 8 steps to publish Open Data to prepare for the day when we all will need to be compliant with the International Aid Transparency Initiative standards. Here is her list: 1. Stop […]
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Open Data in Developing Countries -Monitoring and Evaluation study on Kenyan OD technologies
May 24, 2013 Editor 0
By Elly Okutoyi iHub Research For the past six weeks, iHub Research has been conducting an ongoing Monitoring and Evaluation study on the impact of open data applications and technologies in promoting access to information . The focus for this study include technologies born out of the Code4Kenya (http://www.code4kenya.org/) pre-incubator initiative as well as those […] […]
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The Trouble With Open Data
November 16, 2012 Editor 0
By Conrad Akunga (cakunga@innova.co.ke) Unless you have been living under the proverbial rock, you must have come across the term OpenData, either professionally or personally. However as with many novel concepts penetrating the local ICT lexis, much more heat than light has been generated about OpenData.
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Introduction to Infographics and Data Visualization
October 31, 2012 Editor 0
Visualization, according to Nathan Yau in Visualize This , is one of the best ways to explore and try to understand large data sets. The Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas is launching its first “massive open online course” or MOOC, a new kind of e-learning program designed for a large number of students – it is free […]
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