Ghana and Malawi Data Bootcamp
Since 2012, the Open Institute, in partnership with the World Bank Institute, Africa Media Initiative and Google, has been running data bootcamps for various intermediaries
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APRM, OGP, What’s The Plan?
In May 2013, delegates convened in Mombasa for the first OGP Africa Regional Meeting; a two-day conference that brought together representatives from Civil Society Organisations,
Do Rural Folk Know About Open Data?
I have spent the last couple of days in Wote, Makueni County with Sam Lee and Felipe Estefaan from the World Bank Institute in Washington
Announcing the Global Open Data Initiative
The Open Institute is excited to announce the Global Open Data Initiative, which it is spearheading together with the Sunlight Foundation, Worldwide Web Foundation, Open Knowledge
From Feedback to Action: 5 Principles for Sustainable Citizen Engagement.
There’s a basic premise held by many in the citizen agency space. Empower citizens with the right information and the right tools and they will
AfricanSpending – Monitoring The Money in Africa
The Open Knowledge Foundation, in partnership with the Open Institute in Kenya and the African Media Initiative have submitted a proposal to the Knight News Challenge
Lessons from KODI: Completing the Job
Perhaps to answer the question we should start by reviewing what we hoped to do when we started the process. The KODI task force
Code4Kenya Launch
Below the speech delivered by Jay Bhalla, Executive Director of The Open Institute Trust, during the Code4Kenya Launch Event held on the 24th of January
GotToVote! A way to bring Open Data to the ground
The Open Institute is really proud to have helped birth an exciting new viral web campaign that is driving Kenyans to register and go vote.The
Open Africa Summit – Beyond the Hype
This weekend, leading lights in the global Open Data scene will attend the Open Africa Summit, a “Think/Do” meeting to be held in Zanzibar between October