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Data scraping to pull together budgets for Rwanda and Uganda › Open Development Toolkit
http://www.opendevtoolkit.org/2014/05/13/budget-data-scraping.html
Data scraping to pull together budgets for Rwanda and Uganda. Written by Simon Peters and Gertrude Nandyona. The Development Initiatives Africa Hub analysts have been ‘data scraping’ to make the first spreadsheets of the Uganda and Rwanda budgets in soft copies. Gertrude Nandyona and Simon Peters, Development Initiatives Analysts, blog from the front lines of the Data Revolution to explain how they did it and why it matters. Why do we need soft copies of Uganda and Rwanda Budget data? Report to understan...
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Case Study: Steve Kenei, Technical Analyst at Development Initiatives in Nairobi, Kenya › Open Development Toolkit
http://www.opendevtoolkit.org/2014/04/20/case-study-steve-kenei.html
Case Study: Steve Kenei, Technical Analyst at Development Initiatives in Nairobi, Kenya. Is the only Technical Lead working at the Development Initiatives. Office in Nairobi, Kenya; spoke via Skype on April 10th, 2014. Colleagues at the Development Initiatives office in Nairobi come to me to find out how/where to get the data they need, to convert it into a format they can work with, and to manipulate the data. I normally work directly with the IATI Datastore. For example, or the UNDP’s open data portal.
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World Humanitarian Data and Trends, 2013- report review › Open Development Toolkit
http://www.opendevtoolkit.org/2014/02/18/humanitarian-data-trends.html
World Humanitarian Data and Trends, 2013- report review. The United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) recently released a new report, World Humanitarian Data and Trends 2013. The report highlights the limits of the data included from the very beginning, but despite this, there are some interesting conclusions and points mentioned throughout. There were also some frank admissions within the report:. The solution suggested here:. In particular, the model of short term respons...
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Development data projects from around the internet › Open Development Toolkit
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Development data projects from around the internet. All around the internet, people are doing some brilliant things with development data; mapping conflicts, showing migration flows across the world, or highlighting corruption in their country. Here, we’ll begin to collect some examples that we’ve come across - but as always, your suggestions are very welcome. Drop them in this etherpad. The state of the world’s chidren 2014 in numbers. Where my money dey? The MIT Observatory of Economic Complexity.
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The effect of human rights abuses on aid policy decisions - diving into Ugandan aid data › Open Development Toolkit
http://www.opendevtoolkit.org/2014/02/26/uganda-anti-homosexuality-bill.html
The effect of human rights abuses on aid policy decisions - diving into Ugandan aid data. Uganda’s president, Yoweri Museveni, recently signed a bill that imposes harsh penalities for homosexual offences , using the terms mercenaries and prostitutes to describe gay people. His homophobic comments. Towards private sector initiatives, aid agencies and rights organisations, and the Netherlands also announcing that they will be witholding aid. So how might this affect aid flows to Uganda? Rather than raw IAT...
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Open Development Toolkit - February update › Open Development Toolkit
http://www.opendevtoolkit.org/2014/02/21/february-toolkit-update.html
Open Development Toolkit - February update. We’ve been hard at work consolidating notes from the IATI TAG. Speaking to many of you within the open development community, and as a result, and we have some plans for the next couple of months that we wanted to share, including the new Online IATI tools. To begin with, work around the toolkit will be focused on aid data. Ie the data-user side, rather than the data-producer side. Initially, we’re collecting information on all of the existing. This will be dra...
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Open Development Events › Open Development Toolkit
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There’s a lot going on within the Open Development community, and in the spirit of avoiding duplication and promoting collaboration, we’d love to encourage sharing when workshops are taking place. Events from the Open Development guide on Lanyrd. Are embedded below; we’re aware that lots of more informal events and workshops don’t make it to Lanyrd though, so if you’d like to let the community know about upcoming events you’re organising, drop Zara a line on zara.rahman[at]okfn.org. Mangled by Zara Rahman.
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The Day We Fight Back; the role of mass surveillance in humanitarian crises › Open Development Toolkit
http://www.opendevtoolkit.org/2014/02/11/surveillance.html
The Day We Fight Back; the role of mass surveillance in humanitarian crises. Today, February 11th, is The Day We Fight Back. A global online and offline protest against mass surveillance. It has been organised primarily as a protest against NSA surveillance - so, you might wonder, what does that have to do with Open Development data? In 2013, which provided national ID cards for 500,000 young people. The Open Knowledge Foundation. And researchers around the world; see the Responsible Data Forum. To make ...
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