2017 marks the Lab’s fourth year, and it passed by quickly! Here are some of the highlights of our year and a quick recap of our journey. It’s been a tough but rewarding journey In 2014, we planted the seeds for the Jakarta Lab with projects aimed to help bring open data to the […]
“Produk Tanyoe”: A bottom-up initiative empowering grassroots communities
Original photo from the Diary of a Hotel Addict, CC BY 2.0. Colour and add-on modifications by the Open Data Lab Jakarta. This is the fourth and final part of our Innovating for Open Cities blog series, featuring our interview with ICAIOS. You can read our project wrap-up and series kickstarter here, our interview with […]
Youth in Action: How Jakarta can say “No” to disaster
Original photo from the Diary of a Hotel Addict, CC BY 2.0. Colour and add-on modifications by the Open Data Lab Jakarta. This is the third installment in our Innovating for Open Cities blog series, featuring our interview with Perkumpulan SKALA. You can also read our project wrap-up and our interview with Radya Labs on […]
DARU: Firefighting at your fingertips
Original photo from the Diary of a Hotel Addict, CC BY 2.0. Colour and add-on modifications by the Open Data Lab Jakarta. The hype around “Smart Cities” has influenced discussions on urbanism worldwide. Locally in Indonesia, the concept of smart cities is becoming more popular and cities across the country are starting to integrate and […]
How are open data and public service innovation connected?
On March 22, we’re hosting an event at the Ministry of Administrative and Bureaucracy Reform in Jakarta: “Innovation in Public Services through Open Data: Learning from Indonesian Cross-Sectoral Champions”. The event will have two components – a forum and an exhibition – and aims to introduce the different actors implementing innovative, open data-driven solutions to […]
Engage, Incubate, and Collaborate: How We Innovate and Help Make Indonesian Cities More Open
Original photo from the Diary of a Hotel Addict, CC BY 2.0. Colour and add-on modifications by the Open Data Lab Jakarta. When we first started our Innovating for Open Cities project last year with the support of Making All Voices Count, we embarked on a mission to demonstrate the value of open data in […]
Open is the New Smart: Making Cities Work for Citizens
A celebration of Open Data Day in Jakarta What: “Open is the New Smart: Making Cities Work for Citizens” Event Where: Goethehaus Jakarta When: 7th of March, 16:00 to 19:00 Register: Through our Eventbrite page, or contact Antya Widita (antya@webfoundation.org) On March 7, we’re organising the “Open is the New Smart: Making Cities Work for […]
The year that was: looking back at 2016
Though a rocky year globally, 2016 was a year of growth at the Jakarta Lab. We kickstarted new partnerships that took us out of our comfort zones, helped launch open data portals, took on the challenge of blending data with culture and with smart cities, and much more. Though we faced challenges along the way, […]
A week to remember: Exhibit opening, Toolkit building, Women’s Rights, UX design
Data has been hailed as the greatest resource of the 21st century. In just a single week in November, we’ll be showing just how fundamental data is to modern society, and how many elements of our life it touches through a series of events celebrating innovation, learning and creativity. From a travelling photo exhibition, to […]
Open Data + Innovation: Making cities work for citizens
How can open data improve citizens’ lives in Indonesian cities? This is the question we keep asking as we embark on our “Innovating for Open Cities” project, supported by Making All Voices Count. We’re developing and testing open data-driven, citizen-centric solutions at the local level, working with selected like-minded innovators who share our belief in […]