This week we’re in Buenos Aires, Argentina for IODC18 — the International Open Data Conference. Taking place September 27-28, IODC brings the global open data community together to share, plan, and collaborate to make sure the future is open. We’ll be joining innovators, activists, researchers and policymakers to learn and to share our experiences working with […]
Digital Literacy and Young Girls in Indonesia: Bridging the Gap
In July, we held a workshop, “Starting them Young”, for girls to help build their digital literacy skills and use these to tackle social issues. Understanding the problem of the digital divide Indonesia is one of the largest and most populous countries in the world; it is also the fastest growing country in terms of […]
Open Data Charter Principles – The Measurement Guide is out now!
This post originally appeared on the Web Foundation website. This post was written by Ana Brandusescu (Web Foundation) and Danny Lämmerhirt (Open Knowledge International), co-chairs of the Measurement and Accountability Working Group of the Open Data Charter. Measurability of the Open Data Charter principles We are pleased to announce the launch of our Open Data Charter Measurement Guide. The guide is […]
Data for Development: What’s next? [New Research]
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Digital data offers a great many opportunities for development by enabling actors to strengthen decision-making processes, improve service delivery, elicit meaningful citizen participation, and increase responsiveness in humanitarian services. At the same time, it can generate new forms of exclusion, new methods of surveillance and threatens individual privacy. In a new report, Data for Development: What’s […]
Using Photography to Capture Data in Everyday Life
To celebrate Open Data Day 2018, we’re releasing our Lessons Learned Paper for the Data2Life. Life2Data. project As with the previous years, we’re celebrating Open Data Day – an annual celebration of open data all over the world. We’re doing it in two ways: we’re having a Twitter Q&A (ask us your #OpenData and #DataEmpowerment […]
Three ways to rebuild citizens’ trust through open government
This post, written by Andreas Pawelke, Director at the Open Data Lab Jakarta, was originally published by Open Government Indonesia. With declining faith in governments around the world, we face a global trust crisis. Citizen engagement with government is at risk as people cease to see political leaders and officials as reliable partners. Governments urgently need to act to […]
Fighting corruption one dataset at a time
This piece is written by Open Data Lab Jakarta’s Lab Manager, Antya Widita. Follow him on Twitter at @AntyaWidita for more. Corruption is brutal – its impact harms society economically, politically, and even environmentally. The current President of Indonesia, Joko Widodo, calls corruption an “extraordinary crime that requires extraordinary measures”. Eye-opening events on tackling corruption […]
Before the year ends, here’s where you can catch us!
2017 is fast coming to an end—but before it does, we still have a couple of events and workshops to organise, speak at or simply attend. Come say hi to us if you find yourself in any of the following happenings! This November is full of events we’re looking forward to: Open Data Conference, Shanghai, […]
That co-creation buzzword: reflections from the open government for public service delivery workshop in Manila
This post originally appears on the Open Government Partnership website, as part of a series on public service delivery for open government. A friend of mine hates development buzzwords. Ever since Andrea Cornwall and her colleagues published “Deconstructing Development Discourse: Buzzwords and Fuzzwords” in 2010, said friend has always been conscious about her work language […]
2016: Jakarta Lab in Numbers
Three years ago, we soft- launched the Open Data Lab Jakarta with the goal of doing our part for an inclusive and sustainable open data revolution in Southeast Asia. Since its inception, the Jakarta Lab has been working with policy-makers, researchers, and practitioners to develop and test effective solutions to complex social and governance-related challenges […]