The Open Data Lab Jakarta is on the lookout for awesome people to join our ever-growing team! We’re a bunch of flexible, hard-working, creative and fun people based in Southeast Asia, so we’re looking for someone similar. If you’re interested, feel like you’d qualify for one of the positions, and preferably willing to relocate to […]
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 – Hackathons are the spark, but citizens are the slow burning flame
The original post by Savita Bailur, Open Data Research Lead of the Web Foundation, could be found here. (Last) February 21, is International Open Data Day. Over 150 hackathons are being held around the world. We, at the Web Foundation, are joining in the fun and helping to organise open data events in Indonesia and […]
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 […]
Perjalanan Gerakan Data Terbuka Jakarta
Perjalanan gerakan data terbuka di Jakarta bersama-sama dengan Web Foundation sudah berjalan hampir selama 2 tahun, dimulai di awal tahun 2013. Berikut ini adalah kutipan beberapa acara yang pernah diselenggarakan oleh Web Foundation dan Open Data Lab Jakarta untuk menunjang pelaksanaan data terbuka di Jakarta: Maret 2013: Perkenalan dan pembicaraan awal antara the Web Foundation dan […]
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 […]
Recap: We had a successful launch event over a week ago!
On the evening of 5 February 2015, the Istana Ballroom of the Sari Pan Pacific Hotel in Jakarta became packed with guests celebrating the official Launch of the Open Data Lab Jakarta. The success of the Launch was amplified by over 130 attendees, including newly-appointed head of Bappeda and keynote speaker, Tuty Kusumawati, Ford Foundation […]
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 […]