Tag: Open data

Wildfires versus big data: how South Africa’s 49-year-old fire warning system has stood the test of time

Everyone wants to improve our Fire Danger Index, but the old way is proving strangely resillient.

Facebook and Columbia U release massive SA, Malawi and Ghana population research data

Population maps will be used to improve internet coverage in rural areas.

Come hack government data in Pretoria, Durban, Cape Town tomorrow

We’ll be there and so should you.

[Map Monday] How did Joburg’s Weltevredenpark become the second most prolific area on Ushahidi?

Claim to fame for West Rand suburb.

What is open data, and why is it important for SA?

Data analyst and writer Jessie Rudd explains some basic concepts behind open data as a force for transparency in government and business.

Cape Town pothole & service reporting app gets just 400 requests in first year

Tiny percentage of Capetonians are using the flashy mobile reporting app for municipal woes.

17 years of SA parliamentary proceedings digitised and opened up for all

Code for South Africa has partnered with Parliamentary Monitoring Group in order to make information from South Africa’s parliament that spans over 17 years available through a PMG API.

50 African orgs call for continent-wide open data initiative

Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s World Wide Web Foundation heads call for increasing data transparency in Africa.

City of Joburg to induct 1 000 JEDIs into digital training program

Plan to upskill Joburg youth for high tech jobs gets underway at Sci-Bono.

Everything you want to know about the internet in Africa & beyond in one chart

Alliance for Affordable Internet publishes interactive tool for digging into its latest report.

Is Cape Town’s new open data portal any good?

Code4SA’s Adi Eyal takes a look at Africa’s first open data city.

Code4SA investigates which provinces earn most from speeding tickets

Someone’s racking in more than 40 times the national average… but who?

[MAP MONDAY] Why the “average” South African lives just outside of Bethlehem

Cape Town coder uses census data to find centres of population around South Africa.

How to scrape data with import.io – Join in at JoziHub

Want to learn how to force reluctant sources to give up their data? Join Hacks/Hackers on 18th November.

Western Cape plots maps of child road deaths to shock motorists into driving better

Can mapping accidents encourage motorists to slow down?

Cape Town approves plan to create open data portal, but does policy go far enough?

Cape Town becomes first South African city to formally free big data sets for public use.

Open data, smart cities and mobile disruption: GoMetro founder says South Africa is ready for all three

Transport app in the vanguard of a second mobile revolution. Let your users take control says Justin Coetzee.

No transparency, no accountability: R2K publishes “Secret State of the Nation” for SA government surveillance

PAIA compliance “sucked to begin with”, and the culture of secrecy is getting worse says R2K’s Murray Hunter.