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Posted byby Dirk Slater
July 3, 2017

Data is a Team Sport: One on One with Daniela Lepiz

Data is a Team Sport is a series of online conversations held with data literacy practitioners in mid-2017 that explores the ever evolving data literacy eco-system. To subscribe to the podcast series, cut and…

Posted byby Nkechi Okwuone
January 20, 2016

The 2nd Nigerian Open Data Party, a Great Success

The open data scene is rising in Nigeria, and it has seen the birth of a vibrant community: to the North, Connected Development; to the West, BudgIT, Orodata, Code for Nigeria; to…

Posted byby Nkechi Okwuone
January 18, 2016

Data visualisation or Data narration? Data in Radio Stories

For an outsider looking at Nigeria’s news media lately, it would seem that the only things in the mind of Nigerians are politics or security-related. Breaking news are aplenty while…

Posted byby Nkechi Okwuone
November 6, 2015

Making open data accessible to data science beginners

If you’re reading this, I suspect you’re already familiar with open data, data science and what it entails. But if that’s not the case, fret not, here are a few…

Posted byby Meg Foulkes
October 8, 2015

School of Data Fellows: What Are They Up To?

Our brilliant 2015 School of Data Fellows are a busy bunch! We asked them to reflect on the first half of their fellowships; here’s a roundup of just a few…

Posted byby Nkechi Okwuone
September 3, 2015

Open Data Party Akure – Treading new grounds in Nigeria!

We took the open data party to the Southwest of Nigeria with the goal of building a data literate community in Nigeria. School of Data collaborated with the Nigeria Open data…

Posted byby Nkechi Okwuone
July 20, 2015

Data+Drinks : a meetup to engage the open data community in the South of Nigeria

Data is now available online, but what next? This is the throbbing question on the mind of open data stakeholders, both from the supply and demand side of it. As…

Posted byby Nkechi Okwuone
May 15, 2015

‘Where has this been!?’ Open Data Day in Benin, Nigeria.

In the city of Benin, located in the Edo State of Nigeria, the 21st of February was a memorable day. At the occasion of the worldwide Open Data Day, the…

Posted byby Oludotun Babayemi
March 8, 2015

May we Fetch you Some Data Skills? Exactly, at the Open Data Day in Abuja

While everyone else whines about more training time for tools to can improve their data skills at our last open data party in Abuja, we did something about it at…

Posted byby Oludotun Babayemi
October 28, 2014

Catch us if you Can: The #OpenData party moves to Calabar!

So what’s the fuss about this #Opendata party in the South South of Nigeria – It will be held in one of the cleanest city in Africa – Calabar, and…

Open Technology Research Officially Launches to Strengthen Global Research Community

The Road to a Press Freedom AI Commons

Open Knowledge Foundation Priorities for the 2025 OGP

Travis Gerke: ‘Academia is still very supportive of the singular hero scientist. But most things take teams’

Andrés Vázquez: ‘90% of technological problems can be solved with tools that have been around for decades’

Jaya Klara Brekke: ‘Know who runs your infrastructure’

Our Network Contribution to Shape the European Open Digital Ecosystem Strategy

School of Data Returns: Scaling Digital Literacy Through Trainer Multipliers

Presentation & Expert Roundtable: ‘From Software to Society — Openness in a Changing World’