Strategize a Smooth Tenant-to-tenant Migration and Copilot Takeoff
Od afnog
1. TOWARDS THE CREATION OF
AN “AFRICA OPEN DATA
COMMUNITY” (AfrODC)
Edwin A. Opare
Technical Lead and Open Data Evangelist
www.data.gov.gh
2. Overview
Open Data concepts
Why set it free?
Which countries are opening up data
Why the need for an Africa-wide Open
Data Community
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3. What is Open Data?
Open data is the idea that
certain kinds of data should be freely
available to the public in reusable
formats to use and republish as they
wish, without restrictions
from copyright, licenses, patents &
other control mechanisms.
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4. What data and information?
Wide variety of data/information like:
Administrative
Statistical
Geospatial, maps
Meteorological
Research
Databases, real-time data
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9. How the Ecosystem works
Positive
interaction
inspires
more
government
s to follow
suit
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More data
attracts
more data
consumers
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government
org
publishes
data
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Demonstrable
use inspires
that govt. org
to publish more
Citizens &
developers
engage it,
providing
feedback
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That govt.
org
incorporates
feedback,
improving
data
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12. Why set it free?
Promote Economic
development
Enable collaboration between
ecosystem
Efficient service delivery
Evidence based policy &
decision making
Improved Data Quality
Enables inter-agency
collaboration
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