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
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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
Thoughts from NDI Conference: Open Data & Elections
This past week I was invited by the National Democratic Institute team in Kenya to speak at a conference they organised in Nairobo to discuss the elections.
The Power of Open: my reflections
I said yesterday that, I am likely to have more to say as part of the discussion started by Nathaniel Heller of Global Integrity Commons, wherein he wondered whether Open