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

Tech Soup

In this post Madeleine Clark, an AidData Summer Fellow, talks about the need for open data programs to be responsive to citizens needs. Open Source data NetSquared big data' A short competition also enabled participants to put what they learnt to practical use by conceptualizing business plans.

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President's Update: Summer 2008

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

It is open source software, but we're experimenting with a revenue model to sustain the project over the long term. Our work in Liberia, funded by the State Department in support of the Truth Commission (TRC) continues. Route 66 Literacy was put on the back burner last year because it ran out of funding.

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