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

Tech Soup

The Open Aid Partnership , held Open Nepal Week’s Data Literacy Bootcamp, which gathered over 80 Nepali journalists, developers, coders, and civil society representatives to find, extract, and analyze and visualize public data.

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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

Tech Soup

Although Vietnam is regarded as a developing country, it has a literacy rate of 94 percent. " The ASEAN Vision 2020 also intends to "use the ASEAN Foundation as one of the instruments to address issues of unequal economic development, poverty and socio-economic disparities." The country spans eight time zones.

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Reflections on the Science Center World Congress

Museum 2.0

Casual discussions were steeped in government policies, national literacy rates, and worldwide attitudes towards science. The Congress exposed some places and issues in severe need of attention, but I fear these are indignations quickly raised, quickly forgotten. And these conversations weren't exclusive to the program events.