2017 Summer Camp dispatch #1: Thank You

Posted on October 3, 2017 in Event reportby Cedric LombionSchool of Data’s 2017 Summer Camp has reached an end and was, by most metrics, a resounding success! This is especially when one considers the leap of faith we took on several aspects: the first three days included a new mix of sessions, which we tried to broadcast live; the last 2 days featured an […]

Ten Cool Things I Learned at DataJConf

Posted on August 18, 2017 in Events, Fellowshipby Yan Naung OakThis article was cross-posted from its original location at the Open and Shut blog I had a fantastic time at the European Computational and Data Journalism Conference in Dublin on 6-7 July in the company of many like-minded data journalists, academics, and open data practitioners. There were a lot of stimulating ideas shared during the […]

Data is a Team Sport: Government Priorities and Incentives

Posted on August 13, 2017 in Data Blog, Event reportby Dirk SlaterData is a Team Sport is a series of online conversations held with data literacy practitioners in mid-2017 that explores the ever evolving data literacy eco-system. To subscribe to the podcast series, cut and paste the following link into your podcast manager : http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:311573348/sounds.rss or find us in the iTunes Store and Stitcher. The conversation in this […]

Data is a Team Sport: Mentors Mediators and Mad Skills

Posted on August 7, 2017 in Community, Data Blog, Event reportby Dirk SlaterData is a Team Sport is a series of online conversations held with data literacy practitioners in mid-2017 that explores the ever evolving data literacy eco-system. To subscribe to the podcast series, cut and paste the following link into your podcast manager : http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:311573348/sounds.rss or find us in the iTunes Store and Stitcher. This episode features: Emma […]

Data is a Team Sport: One on One with Friedhelm Weinberg

Posted on July 29, 2017 in Data Blog, Event reportby Dirk SlaterData is a Team Sport is a series of online conversations held with data literacy practitioners in mid-2017 that explores the ever evolving data literacy eco-system. To subscribe to the podcast series, cut and paste the following link into your podcast manager : http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:311573348/sounds.rss or find us in the iTunes Store and Stitcher. Friedhelm Weinberg is the […]

The Genesis of The School of Data Fellowship

Posted on July 20, 2017 in Fellowshipby Katelyn RogersIn 2013, data literacy was, and in many ways remains, a nascent field. Unsurprisingly, finding reliable trainers to carry out School of Data missions around the world was a struggle. We started our Fellowship programme, as a way to address the lack of data literacy trainers throughout the world. Even in 2013, it was clear […]

Data is a Team Sport: One on One with Heather Leson

Posted on July 19, 2017 in Community, Data Blog, Event reportby Dirk SlaterData is a Team Sport is a series of online conversations held with data literacy practitioners in mid-2017 that explores the ever evolving data literacy eco-system. To subscribe to the podcast series, cut and paste the following link into your podcast manager : http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:311573348/sounds.rss or find us in the iTunes Store and Stitcher. This episode features a […]

Rethinking data literacy: how useful is your 2-day training?

Posted on July 14, 2017 in Researchby Cedric LombionAs of July 2017, School of Data’s network includes 14 organisations around the world which collectively participate to organise hundreds of data literacy events every year. The success of this network-based strategy did not come naturally: we had to rethink and move away from our MOOC-like strategy in 2013 in order to be more relevant […]

Data is a Team Sport: Advocacy Organisations

Posted on July 12, 2017 in Community, Data Blog, Event reportby Dirk SlaterData is a Team Sport is our open-research project exploring the data literacy eco-system and how it is evolving in the wake of post-fact, fake news and data-driven confusion.  We are producing a series of videos, blog posts and podcasts based on a series of online conversations we are having with data literacy practitioners. To subscribe […]

Data is a Team Sport: One on One with Daniela Lepiz

Posted on July 3, 2017 in Community, Data Blog, Event reportby Dirk SlaterData is a Team Sport is a series of online conversations held with data literacy practitioners in mid-2017 that explores the ever evolving data literacy eco-system. To subscribe to the podcast series, cut and paste the following link into your podcast manager : http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:311573348/sounds.rss or find us in the iTunes Store and Stitcher. This episode features a one on one conversation […]

Announcing our new member: ‘Caribbean School of Data’

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. […]

Welcoming our 2017 Fellows and Data Experts!

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 […]

Data is a Team Sport: Data-Driven Journalism

Posted on June 20, 2017 in Community, Data Blog, Event reportby Dirk SlaterData is a Team Sport is a series of online conversations held with data literacy practitioners in mid-2017 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 […]

Data is a Team Sport: Enabling Learning

Posted on June 6, 2017 in Community, Event reportby Dirk SlaterData is a Team Sport is a series of online conversations held with data literacy practitioners in mid-2017 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 […]

How do you become data literate? Part 3

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 […]

How do you become data literate? Part 2

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 […]

De-anonymising Ukraine university entrance test results

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) […]

The lost privacy of Ukrainian students: a story of bad anonymisation

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 […]

[French] Le Fellowship de School of Data : Questions et réponses

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 […]

Ask Your Questions to Former School of Data Fellows

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 […]

[French] Postulez maintenant! Candidatures ouvertes pour les programmes de School of Data

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 […]

How do you become data literate? Part 1

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 […]

Apply Now! School of Data’s Fellowship and Data Expert Programmes

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 […]

SNI 2016: ICT and Open Data for Sustainable Development

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 […]

Who works with data in El Salvador?

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 […]

Understanding the extractives data community in Burkina Faso

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 […]

The state of Open Data in Burkina Faso

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 […]