Open data: new continents
Two new(ish) Open Data sites are being developed, for Africa and Latin America
- OpenDataAfrica
- OpenDataLatinoAmerica. Its founders write about it at the International Journalists Network.
These are both in development. The majority of data on the Africa site at the moment is from Kenya; the Latin America site currently has data from Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, and a few others, though nothing from Brazil.
The Latin America site is explicitly focused on the potential for open data to improve government accountability; the Africa site seems to emphasize archiving and access to data. Both are sponsored by the World Bank and have involvement from local journalism.
Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »