Posted on June 21, 2017 in Announcement, Communityby Meg FoulkesToday we’re delighted to welcome a new organisational member to our network: the Caribbean Open Institute! They will carry the Caribbean School of Data Initiative. The new Caribbean initiative is led by Maurice McNaughton who coordinates the Caribbean Open Institute, as the regional node for the Open Data for Development network activities in the Caribbean. […]
Posted on June 21, 2017 in Announcement, Fellowshipby Meg FoulkesWe’re delighted to welcome our new Fellows and Data Experts to School of Data! We wish them all every success for the year ahead. Fellows Idriss Kone, Cote D’Ivoire Idriss is a statistician and economist at the Ministry of Budget in Cote d’Ivoire where he is responsible for monitoring and evaluating customs activities including the […]
Posted on June 20, 2017 in Community, Data Blog, Event report, Researchby Dirk SlaterOur podcast series that explores the ever evolving data literacy eco-system. Cut and paste this link into your podcast app to subscribe: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:311573348/sounds.rss or find us in the iTunes Store and Stitcher. In this episode we speak with two veteran data literacy practitioners who have been involved with developing data-driven journalism teams. Our guests: Eva Constantaras is a […]
Posted on June 16, 2017 in Announcementby Dirk SlaterA series of online conversations examining the data literacy ecosystem. In this series we seek to capture learnings about the ever-changing field of data literacy and how it is evolving in response to concepts like ‘big data’, ‘post-fact’ and ‘data cofusion’. This open research project by School of Data, in collaboration with FabRiders, will produce a […]
Posted on June 6, 2017 in Community, Event report, Researchby Dirk SlaterOur podcast series that explores the ever evolving data literacy eco-system. Cut and paste this link into your podcast app to subscribe: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:311573348/sounds.rss or find us in the iTunes Store. In this episode we speak with two veteran data literacy practitioners who have been involved with directly engaging learners to get beyond spreadsheets to build confidence and take […]
Posted on May 31, 2017 in Communityby Meg FoulkesWhat does it mean to become ‘data literate’? Where do you start and how can you use data within your work and projects? To explore these questions, we would like to introduce some of our community members and data activists from around the world, who ended up working with data at some point in their […]
Posted on May 29, 2017 in Uncategorizedby helene.hahnWhat does it mean to become ‘data literate’? Where do you start and how can you use data within your work and projects? To explore these questions, we would like to introduce some of our community members and data activists from around the world, who ended up working with data at some point in their […]
Posted on May 26, 2017 in Data Blogby Vadym HudymaAuthors: Vadym Hudyma, Pavlo Myronov. Part 1 of a series on Ukrainian student data. Introduction External Independent Evaluation Testing is a single exam is used nationwide to access all public universities. As detailed in our previous article, the release of a poorly anonymised dataset by organisation in charge of the External Independent Evaluation Testing (EIT) […]
Posted on May 23, 2017 in Data Blogby Vadym HudymaAuthors: Vadym Hudyma, Pavlo Myronov. Part 1 of a series on Ukrainian student data. Introduction Ukraine has long been plagued with corruption in the university admission process due to a complicated and untransparent process of admission, especially for state-funded seats. To get it would-be students required not just a good grades from school (which also […]
Posted on March 29, 2017 in Fellowshipby Cedric LombionEn 2017, nous recrutons des Fellows dans trois pays francophones: Haïti, Côte d’Ivoire et Sénégal. Les thèmes sont les suivants : Haïti: Fondamentaux de la littératie de données Côte d’Ivoire, Sénégal: Données de l’industrie extractive. Voir l’annonce principale Vous n’êtes pas certains que le Fellowship soit fait pour vous ? Vous vous posez encore des […]
Posted on March 23, 2017 in Announcement, Events, Fellowshipby Meg Foulkes Do you have questions about what it’s like to be a School of Data Fellow? What will I learn? How can I fit Fellowship work around other commitments like work and family? Will I need to travel a lot? As part of our call for applications for the 2017 Fellowships and Data Experts, we’re […]
Posted on March 21, 2017 in Announcement, Fellowshipby Cedric LombionSchool of Data invite journalistes, associations de la société civiles – et quiconque intéressé par la promotion de la littératie de données – à candidater à son programme de Fellowship. Les candidatures pour ce programmes, qui durent d’avril à mai 2017, fermeront Dimanche 16 avril 2017. Pour le Fellowship francophones, School of Data recherche des […]
Posted on March 9, 2017 in Community, Data Blogby helene.hahnWe at Open Knowledge Foundation Germany launched a new project this year, that we’re very proud of: Datenschule (datenschule.de), the German version of School of Data. We want to encourage civil society organisations, journalists and human rights defenders to use data and technology effectively within their work to create positive social change. But what does […]
Posted on March 2, 2017 in Announcement, Fellowshipby Cedric LombionSchool of Data is inviting journalists, civil society advocates and anyone interested in pushing data literacy forward to apply for its 2017 Fellowship and Data Expert Programmes, which will run from April to December 2017. Up to 10 positions are open, with an application deadline set on Sunday, April 16th of 2017. Apply for the […]
Posted on November 23, 2016 in Data Blog, Fellowshipby Malick LinganiThe National ICT Week (SNI) is an annual event in Burkina Faso dedicated to promote ICT. Each year, thousands of people are introduced to the basics of operating computers; impactful ICT initiatives are also rewarded by a host of prizes. This year’s event, the 12th edition, was hosted by the Ministry of Digital Economy from […]
Posted on November 16, 2016 in Data Blog, Fellowshipby Omar LunaFor five years, El Salvador has had the Public Information Access Law (PIAL), which requires various kinds of information from all state, municipal and public-private entities —such as statistics, contracts, agreements, plans, etc. These inputs are all managed under the tutelage of PIAL, in an accurate and timely manner. As well as the social control […]
Posted on November 15, 2016 in Data Blog, Fellowshipby Malick LinganiAs a 2016 School of Data Fellow, my focus area of work is Extractives Data and I work with NRGI to advance data literacy in that sector in Africa, particularly in Burkina Faso. Burkina Faso is experiencing a mining boom mainly due to the exploitation of gold. With a production of 5.6 tons of gold […]
Posted on November 5, 2016 in Data Blog, Fellowshipby Malick LinganiThe Open Data Community The Burkina Open Data Initiative (BODI), set by the National Agency for the Promotion of ICT (ANPTIC), leads the open data community in Burkina Faso. Created in 2013, BODI has undertaken many activities, including building a strong community of local Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), Government Bodies and […]
Posted on November 4, 2016 in Data Blog, Fellowshipby Raisa Valda AmpueroTo start my work as a School of Data fellow this year, I needed to survey the Open Data community in Bolivia. I wanted to rediscover and meet its members, those that are driving us towards the goal of making the data in our country open, and identify the concerns and the challenges we face. […]
Posted on October 11, 2016 in Announcement, Communityby Cedric LombionDuring the 2016 School of Data Summer Camp, a new Steering Committee has been elected by our members. Replacing the “transition” Steering Committee, which oversaw the transformation of School of Data into a network-driven project, the new Steering Committee is elected for 2 years, as will be future ones. Along with overseeing the budget, strategy […]
Posted on September 6, 2016 in Eventsby Pınar DagOn September 25, The First National Open Data Conference will be held in Antalya. The conference is being organized by the Open Data and Data Journalism Association (Açık Veri ve Veri Gazeteciliği Derneği (AVVG). The conference carries the first conference feature for the development of open data ecosystem. One-day programs of the conference will be […]
Posted on September 6, 2016 in Event report, Fellowshipby Ximena VillagránSchool of Data’s first data journalism workshop in Guatemala was a total success. We invited 14 journalists, video journalists and graphic designers in Guatemala to attend a four hour workshop at “Casa de Cervantes”, to learn the basic tools of data journalism. Journalists from the most important newspapers and magazines of the country attended: Soy502, […]
Posted on September 5, 2016 in Event report, Fellowshipby Vadym HudymaWorking on Responsible Data is about asking some key questions: how can we ensure the right to consent for individuals and communities? How can we preserve privacy, security and ownership around their data. These issues should be balanced with the need to create meaningful impact with a project or a story. Which makes journalists one […]
Posted on August 20, 2016 in Fellowship, HowToby Daniel VillatoroIf you’re a journalist (or a researcher), say goodbye to printing all your docs in a file, getting them into a folder, and highlighting those with markers, adding post-its and labels. This heavy burden of reading, finding repeated information and highlighting it can be done for you by DocumentCloud: it allows you to reveal the […]
Posted on August 18, 2016 in Events, Fellowshipby Nika AleksejevaPhoto from a data visualization training in Istanbul, 2014. Author: Nika Aleksejeva ‘Data-driven journalism against prejudices about migration’ training course for young media-makers, human rights activists and developers Berlin, 12 – 20 November 2016 Deadline for receiving applications is: 31st August 2016, 23:59h CET. School of Data fellow, Nika Aleksejeva, in collaboration with European Youth […]
Posted on August 18, 2016 in Event report, Fellowshipby Cedric LombionData is the core substance required for evidence-based policies and decision-making. “How do we make Latvia the country that makes most use of data to inform its decision-making?” was the question that Latvian MP’s and civil-society representatives tried to answer during 1,5 hours on the hot morning of July 2nd, at the occasion of the […]
Posted on August 16, 2016 in Event report, Fellowshipby Precious OnaimoFrom May 15th to 21st, 40 people from 24 countries gathered at Ibúina in Sao Paulo, Brazil, for the 2016 School of Data Summer Camp. Precious Onaimo, a 2016 School of Data Fellow from Nigeria, shares his thoughts about the event. Aerial view of venue for Summer Camp 2016, Ibiuna, Sao Paulo, Brazil Amidst Sao […]
Posted on August 14, 2016 in Community, Event reportby Joachim MangilimaOpen data is often defined as a product: events, portals, hackathons, and so on. But what does the process of opening data look like? In Tanzania, among many other things, it’s a gradual, iterative process of building capacity in Tanzanian government, civil society and infomediaries to manage, publish and use open data. Of late, the […]
Posted on August 12, 2016 in Event report, Fellowshipby Kabu MuhauFrom May 15th to 21st, 40 people from 24 countries gathered at Ibúina in Sao Paulo, Brazil, for the 2016 School of Data Summer Camp. Kabukabu Muhau, a 2016 School of Data Fellow from Zambia, shares her thoughts about the event. SCODA 2016 Fellows. Left to right; Raisa, Danny, Ximena, Omar, Malick, Paul, Kabu, Vadym, […]
Posted on August 10, 2016 in Event report, Fellowshipby Nika AleksejevaWould you believe that a socially relevant, data-driven project can be accomplished without a budget, a big team and full-time staff? How? This question was the focus of the ‘How we did it?’ meetup in Riga, Latvia. It was the final point of #Velodati – a data-driven project that crowdsourced geographic data about cycling mobility […]
Posted on August 8, 2016 in Event report, Fellowshipby Daniel VillatoroA lot of projects using data are making a great impact. We just don’t notice them because people don’t tend to advocate about their work During #CodaBR, the first ever Brasilian Conference of Data Journalism, the last session of the event was a showcase of the groundbreaking work of Latin American journalists. So often, we […]
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