“In God we trust; all others must bring data,” said American statistician and management theorist W. Edwards Deming – a reminder that accountability begins with evidence. Every month, my colleagues and I try to answer...
Dar es Salaam
Dar es Salaam – African Cities Report 2025
The Dar es Salaam Profiling Report is part of the African Cities Profiling project, which aims to enhance understanding of individual cities across the continent with a view to being able to allocate resources more...
When data access is at the mercy of regime change
Tanzania is credited for having been at the forefront in embracing Africa’s Open Data initiatives about nine years ago, aimed at promoting the public use of data to spur economic growth and hold government officials to...
Tanzania – Zero facts get in the way of the real Covid story
Tanzania: the Covid data void A moratorium on COVID-19 data, followed by government restrictions on information about the virus, has left Tanzanians and scientists in the dark. With more than 20 million cases of...
Tanzania Election Tracker 2020
Introduction Tanzanians are heading to the polls on the 28th October. The ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party has governed Tanzania since independence in 1961, and is the second longest-ruling party in Africa....
Losing the war on waste
SDG 12: Responsible consumption and production African governments show little interest in coming up with sustainable waste management strategies By Charles Kimani Waste generation rates are rising across the world....
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