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Data Digest: Open Data for Africa Platform, Silent Data Revolution in MENA and Data Strategies

Tech Soup

The platform has been rolled out to 54 African countries and will support the gathering, access, management and analysis of quality data from African countries. In this post Madeleine Clark, an AidData Summer Fellow, talks about the need for open data programs to be responsive to citizens needs.

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President's Update: Summer 2008

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Human Rights Patrick Ball recently spent a month at the International Criminal Court (ICC), where he held office hours and helped prosecutors use quantitative data and statistical analysis to pursue war crimes cases. Our work in Liberia, funded by the State Department in support of the Truth Commission (TRC) continues.

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