Feedback from the 2016 Summer Camp: Precious
From May 15th to 21st, 40 people from 24 countries gathered at Ibúina in Sao Paulo, Brazil, for the 2016 School of Data Summer Camp. Precious Onaimo, a 2016 School…
Building an Open Data Ecosystem in Tanzania with trainings and stakeholder engagement
Open data is often defined as a product: events, portals, hackathons, and so on. But what does the process of opening data look like? In Tanzania, among many other things,…
Feedback from the 2016 Summer Camp – Kabu
From May 15th to 21st, 40 people from 24 countries gathered at Ibúina in Sao Paulo, Brazil, for the 2016 School of Data Summer Camp. Kabukabu Muhau, a 2016 School…
Using data for improving cyclist community in Riga, Latvia
Would you believe that a socially relevant, data-driven project can be accomplished without a budget, a big team and full-time staff? How? This question was the focus of the ‘How…
Reflections from the field #1: It’s not enough to do great work. Talk about it
A lot of projects using data are making a great impact. We just don’t notice them because people don’t tend to advocate about their work During #CodaBR, the first ever…
Feedback from the 2016 Summer Camp: Malick
From May 15th to 21st, 40 people from 24 countries gathered at Ibúina in Sao Paulo, Brazil, for the 2016 School of Data Summer Camp. Malick Lingani, a 2016 School…
Data Journalism in Turkey: still a new topic
School of Data now counts among its ranks a local group in Turkey led by Pınar Dağ, an experience Data Journalist and Journalism professor based in Istanbul. As part of…
Data Harvest: Planting seeds of journalism collaboration
From a tiny sprout of 35 people who were interested in EU spending on Farming Subsidies six years ago, this year Data Harvest grew to a 350+ attendees conference that…
Meet the 2016 School of Data Fellows!
For the past three years, School of Data has been identifying and selecting outstanding data-literacy practitioners around the world. Our Fellows have led the way in bringing data-literacy knowledge and…
Join #MappingEcuador
On April 16th, a magnitude-7.8 earthquake hit the coast of Ecuador. As the victim count reached near 300 people on Sunday, the Open Data community around the globe organized to…