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Happy Africa Day. A Luta Continua.

May 25, 2017

“We, the Heads of African States and Governments assembled in the City of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Convinced that it is the inalienable right of all people to control their own destiny, Conscious of the fact that freedom, equality, justice and … Continue reading →

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OGP Needs Parliamentarians

October 21, 2014

I recently had the honour of attending a Legislative Openness Working Group meeting in Chile organised by the National Congress of Chile and the National Democratic Institute. The LOWG is one of the five working groups launched at the Open … Continue reading →

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Post-2015 Has Provided Us All With A “Big Tent”

July 2, 2014

In their paper The Benefits of a Big Tent: Opening Up Government in Developing Countries, J Goldstein and J Weinstein argue for a “big tent”; one term under which open data and open government communities can pursue a common goal. I … Continue reading →

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An African Data Revolution for African Priorities

June 24, 2014

There has been a great deal of debate and dialogue on the data revolution. Regardless of the definition we arrive at, it is likely that the revolution will not wait for the post 2015 agenda to be agreed upon. The … Continue reading →

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The Boring Necessities of the Data Revolution

May 29, 2014

Let’s not kid ourselves. Although many of us are still trying to figure out what the data revolution is and what it looks we know a few things about what it’s not. One of those things is that it is … Continue reading →

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Designing Sustainable Citizen Engagement Initiatives

March 12, 2014

Recently I lost a relative in what seemed to be a case of profit-first-service-later after he was turned away by a private hospital. He had been run over by a car and was now sent to the Kenyatta National Hospital … Continue reading →

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Build it and the government will come: The problem with Civic Tech.

March 3, 2014

Those of us who have been involved in open data and the broader open government space may believe ourselves to be too sophisticated to believe the ‘build it and they will come’ approach will work with civic tech. However, for … Continue reading →

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APRM, OGP, What’s The Plan?

July 4, 2013

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, Academia, Open Government Partnership participating countries and donor organisations to discuss new ways of driving Open … Continue reading →

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