Welcome to Sobanukirwa, an access to information website in Rwanda
This post originally appeared on the Sobanukirwa blog on January 28, 2015 Welcome to sobanukirwa.rw, a new access to information website in Rwanda. Sobanukirwa is designed to make it easy for anyone...
View ArticleAccess to information, open data and data journalism in Rwanda
This post originally appeared on the Sobanukirwa blog on May 15, 2015. For the last two days, members of Team Tumenye have been in Gisenyi talking about access to information, open data and data...
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TUMENYE: promoting civic tech in Rwanda
The term “civic tech” in a broad sense means any technology that is used to empower citizens or helps make government more accessible, efficient and effective. Civic tech is not a new concept. People...
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Sustainable Development Goals and The Data revolution – Where is Rwanda?
In a couple of weeks the world will convene in New York at the UN to sign and officially start the post 2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) countdown. The MDGs era was quite interesting, at least...
View ArticleFeedback on Rwanda’s draft open data policy
Last month, Rwanda’s Ministry of Youth and ICT launched an open consultation on their website inviting feedback from the public on the Government of Rwanda’s draft open data policy. At Tumenye, we’re...
View ArticleThe business side of Open Data
In September I was invited to attend the first Africa Open Data Conference in newly sworn-in President Magufuli country – Tanzania. At the conference, one of the speakers suggested that we need to...
View ArticleRwanda tops African countries in global open data index
Rwanda has the most available government open data in Africa, according to a new index. The country jumped 30 places in the Open Knowledge Global Open Data Index 2015 rankings from 74th place in the...
View ArticleReactions to Rwanda’s open data ranking
Following yesterday’s announcement of Rwanda’s great performance in the Open Knowledge Global Open Data Index 2015, there were some great reactions to the news from Rwanda and around the world. We have...
View ArticleRwanda second in Sub-Saharan Africa in 2015 Open Data Barometer
Rwanda has come second in Sub-Saharan Africa in an international open data ranking released today. Only Kenya came higher for the region in terms of how ready countries are to implement open data...
View ArticleRwanda takes the next step towards a data-driven future
If something is described as the “new black gold”, everyone from leading businesspeople to presidents tends to listen. So when a panel at last year’s Transform Africa summit in Kigali described open...
View ArticleRwanda’s Data Revolution Policy published
The National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR) yesterday published Rwanda’s Data Revolution Policy setting out the country’s blueprint for creating a data ecosystem in the country. With the aim...
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