The United Nations Africa Data Revolution report for 2018, among others, recommends the promotion of a culture shift around the importance and ownership of government data. This is in response to a common practice in...
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Nigerian secrecy laws impede information transparency
At the Abuja-based Centre for Journalism, Innovation, and Development in Nigeria, Ijeoma Okereke, a programme officer, keeps a list of government agencies that she says respond to requests for information and those...
Access to information is guaranteed in Kenya’s 2022 elections
Contested election outcomes are common in Kenya and have been experienced in every election cycle, increasing in intensity since the advent of multipartyism some 30 years ago. The situation has resulted in numerous...
Technology – it’s personal
In the wake of “the great growling of change – technology”, as futurist Alvin Toffler so aptly put it, the need for the protection of personal information and reliable security systems has undoubtedly increased. Two...
Zimbabwe’s data recovery starts with ZimStat
The overall state of data collection in Zimbabwe remains mixed, with plenty of challenges in collecting the data the various sectors of the economy require. For Zimbabwe, where nearly 80% of the population is...
The gig economy – global but precarious
Today, more than half of the world’s population is connected to the internet. In Africa, there are more than 590 million internet users and over 800 million mobile phone subscribers. Some observers note that such...
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