Last year, we worked on an action-research project looking at how open data can help promote gender-inclusive development in two districts in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. You can read more of our lessons learned from this project through our paper, “Can We Use Open Data to Advance Gender-inclusive Development?”. On a regular day, Iin Narniyati from Yogyakarta, […]
Exploring Opportunities on Engaging Citizens with Open Contracting: Pilot Testing in Bandung City Government
The Web Foundation’s Open Data Lab in Jakarta, in collaboration with the World Bank, is working on a project that will demonstrate different ways in increasing citizen engagement with open contracting data. This is part of the World Bank programme implemented in the city of Bandung in Indonesia, that starts off with the disclosure of […]
Jakarta Lab in Numbers: 2017
“We are happy that you still continue supporting us and our work”. This was what Ashkalani, Coordinator of GeRAK Aceh told our Regional Research Manager, Michael Cañares, when they last met. GeRAK Aceh, an anti-corruption organisation based in Banda Aceh, Indonesia is one of our very first local partners when we started our work in […]
2017: Where we are and how we got here
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 […]
Can we use open data to promote gender-inclusive development?
From the outset, the Web Foundation’s Open Data Lab Jakarta has engaged partners in Indonesia and all over Southeast Asia to unlock the social, political, and economic benefits of open data in the region. Open data and closing the gender divide One thing we’ve learned from our experiences is that open data initiatives impact men […]
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 […]
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 […]
From Placard to Policy: Why capacity building matters
How Indonesian civil society used open data to shift mining policy At the Jakarta Lab, we’re lucky to find many reasons to celebrate – from what we do, to where it takes us and what we learn along the way. Just recently, we had another reason to be proud of our work: our partner GeRAK […]
When government and citizens collaborate to open health data
We have two new how-to guides based on our open data project in Banyuwangi In June this year, we concluded the implementation of the “Strengthening Local Bureaucracy Reform through Open Data” project, which focused on how open data can be used to strengthen relationships between government and civil society in order to achieve governance reforms […]
A timeline of the Jakarta Lab at work
In action: Participants of the Data2Life. Life2Data. project learning to capture data’s impact through photography. Since our soft launch in 2014, it’s been at the core of the Jakarta Lab to do our part in realising the potential of open data in order to reap its benefits for social change. Fast-forward to now, here’s a […]