Access to Information Act (AIA)

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Open Data, Open Development

Barbara Birungi | Hive Colab | September 27, 2012

Last week I attended the Open Knowledge Festival (OKFest) organized by the Open Knowledge Foundation in Helsinki Finland. [My] interest and reason for attending was to find out as much as I could about open Data, Development as I could from people that had already started on the open journey in their countries and some even gotten their governments to sign on... Read More »

The Uganda Open Development And Open Data Process: Is The Tide About To Change?

Charles Lwanga-Ntale | Development Initiatives | October 1, 2012

There is currently a sea change in the East African governance landscape and you only need to go back to just over a year ago – to Kenya – to understand this. On 8 July 2011, President Mwai Kibaki launched the Kenya Open Data Initiative (KODI), making Kenya the first developing country to have an open government data portal, and second only to Morocco on the African continent. Those who crafted KODI did not mince their words. They wanted to see Kenya take steps to improve governance, and they saw availability and access to data and vital development information as one way of achieving this.
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