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Mark Iliffe | Mark's Brain
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The work and mumblings of Mark Iliffe. GDAL Nodata and Drone Processing Pipeline. The solution for translating the nodata values has been documented here: https:/ geozoneblog.wordpress.com/2013/02/26/troubles-tiff-no-data-values-floating-point. I’ve written a simple bash script to convert this in a UNIX environment is here: https:/ github.com/WorldBank-Transport/TanzaniaDrones/blob/master/transparency batch.sh. May 11, 2016 Categories: Maps. At the Africa Open Data Conference. A longer blog will be incom...
ict4democracy.org
Tanzania :
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Promoting Access to Information and Digital Safety Awareness among Tanzanian Journalists For Upcoming Elections. By Gasirigwa G.S As the 25 October general election draws closer in Tanzania, journalists have been urged to be impartial in their reporting. Many have also taken steps to ensure that their digital communication is not compromised particularly when seeking information during the electioneering period. Bills as well as the recently passed Cybercrime Act. 2015 and Statistics Act. That brought to...
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News :
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Has Kenya’s ICT revolution triggered more citizen participation? By Making All Voices Count Communication between the state and citizens is an essential element for an equal and just society. Growing social inequalities, lack of proper public services, and denial of basic human rights all act to widen existing communication gaps. Online Civility Will Matter More Than Ever in 2017. With a large number of Kenyans, most of them young people, actively online. So provocatively described it, the least we can d...
timdavies.org.uk
Open Data | Tim's Blog
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Working for social change; exploring the details. Category Archives: Open Data. A workshop on open data for anti-corruption. Last autumn the International Open Data Charter. Was launched, putting forward six key principles for governments to adopt to pursue an ‘open by default’ approach to key data. However, for the Charter to have the greatest impacts requires more than just high-level principles. As the International Open Data Conference. For the package (closing date 28th Jan – please do share! In the...
enockseth.github.io
My 2015 in Summary
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Dec 31st, 2015. My 2015 in Summary. Computer Science and Engineering student at UMaT, Tarkwa. I love to learn. GIS enthusiast, Wikipedian, Map maker and Volunteer. Newbie developer. I love travelling and photography. One local proverb in. Even if it takes years it definitely will be called tomorrow. Is that day of the year that is farthest from January 1. It is rather the opposite between January and December. 2015 was not an easy year as well. It was rough and smooth. In every aspect of my life. Many OS...
enockseth.github.io
My 2015 in Summary
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Dec 31st, 2015. My 2015 in Summary. Computer Science and Engineering student at UMaT, Tarkwa. I love to learn. GIS enthusiast, Wikipedian, Map maker and Volunteer. Newbie developer. I love travelling and photography. One local proverb in. Even if it takes years it definitely will be called tomorrow. Is that day of the year that is farthest from January 1. It is rather the opposite between January and December. 2015 was not an easy year as well. It was rough and smooth. In every aspect of my life. Many OS...
odimpact.org
Open Data's Impact - The Govlab
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Open Education Information In Tanzania. A Tale of Two Dashboards. By Juliet McMurren, Stefaan Verhulst, Andrew Young and David Sangokoya *. Brief View 5 MINS. Full Story 20 MINS. Download The Report file download. Is a project established by the Tanzania Open Data Initiative, a government program supported by the World Bank and the United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID) to support open data publication, accessibility and use. The second, Shule ( shule.info. In countries with low I...
timdavies.org.uk
Reflective Learning | Tim's Blog
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Working for social change; exploring the details. Category Archives: Reflective Learning. Following the money: preliminary remarks on IATI Traceability. Exploring the social and technical dynamics of aid traceability: let’s learn what we can from distributed ledgers, without thinking that all the solutions are to be found in the blockchain.]. My colleagues at Open Data Services are working at the moment on a project for UN Habitat. I can envisage a number of hypothetical use cases traceability of aid.
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Hackpads are smart collaborative documents. Join Hackpad Now. Upcoming Events where Poplus community could meet - please add your events here! Pcoming Events where Poplus c. Please add your events here! Late August 2015: Hacks Hackers BAs Media Party, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 2-4 September 2015, International Anti-Corruption Conference, Malaysia. Please add your name here). 2 - 4 September 2015, YAPC: EU 2015, Spain:. Please add your name here). 4 - 5 September 2015. Africa Open Data Conference, Tanzania.
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