The original post by Savita Bailur, Open Data Research Lead of the Web Foundation, could be found here. In this extended blog post, Savita Bailur, the World Wide Web Foundation’s Open Data Research Lead, reflects on last week’s ‘Data Revolution in Africa’, held in Addis Ababa. The World Wide Web Foundation was delighted to be […]
How to ‘open’ data and more
Have you ever wondered how to properly ‘open’ data? What skills, background knowledge and software are needed and could be used for it? The Lab’s resident Data Analyst took to the challenge of explaining, training and showcasing his data expertise in mentoring workshops with our Open Data for Transparency partners, E-Net Philippines and INCITEGov. Last […]
See you at Rightscon!
The Web Foundation’s Open Data Lab Jakarta will be attending Rightscon from 24-25 March 2015 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Metro Manila, Philippines. Our highlight session will take place from 11:00 AM to 1:30 PM on the 24th of February entitled “A Right to Data? Challenges at the Intersection of Freedom of Information and Open […]
Our sister regional agenda-setting workshop
The World Wide Web Foundation will hold the ‘Rebooting Open Data in Africa’ event on the 27th of March 2015 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia under the Open Data for Development network. Bringing together open data leaders and advocates, the workshop will seek to energise and strengthen a network of self-sustaining and African-owned organizations working on […]
Part 2: A deeper look at the Regional Open Data Agenda-Setting Workshop
The Regional Open Data Agenda-Setting workshop took place last 4–6 February 2015 in Jakarta, Indonesia and was hosted by the Web Foundation’s Open Data Lab Jakarta. To know more about the event, what took place leading to it and how the kick-off was, read the first part of our post. Continuing from there, here are […]
Part 1: A deeper look at the Regional Open Data Agenda-Setting Workshop
The Regional Open Data Agenda-Setting Workshop, hosted by the Web Foundation’s Open Data Lab Jakarta, took place last 4–6 February 2015 in Jakarta, Indonesia. The workshop is part of the Harnessing Open Data to Achieve Development Results in Africa and Asia project, conducted in partnership with the Open Data for Development Network, and financially supported […]
Open Data Day Jakarta: A crash course in data wrangling
Last Saturday, 21 February, Open Data Day was celebrated globally. Definitely not about to miss out on this occasion, the Open Data Lab Jakarta and OpenStreetMap Indonesia came together to bring about “Open Data for Nonprofits”, an open data training dedicated to data extraction and cleaning. The event attracted a total of 14 data enthusiasts […]
Looking back at 2014
Time flies fast: we’ve entered the second month of 2015 and already our Jakarta Lab’s been active with our on-going initiatives. Additionally, we worked together as a well-oiled team to organise and bring about the Regional Open Data Agenda-Setting Workshop 2015 and the official Launch of the Open Data Lab Jakarta, both held over a […]
Open Data (Day) for nonprofits in Jakarta
The Open Data Day is taking place this Saturday, 21 February 2015, in various cities around the world, with the underlying theme ‘Open Data + You + Your Community + Your Timezone = Around the World’. Naturally, we at the Open Data Lab Jakarta made sure to join in on the fun too! Together with […]
Why we need more open data advocates – and what we are doing about it
In recent years, several stakeholders have pushed for the creation and implementation of programs related to open data especially in the context of governments, aid agencies, businesses, academics, civil society organizations, and civic hackers. It is argued that greater openness in data will address problems, issues, and challenges related to governance, economic growth, service delivery, […]