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Explore examples of initiatives harnessing Open Government Data (OGD) directly to achieve sustainable development for Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 1 to 17
CommonSense provides farmers with weather forecasts and other satellite based
information to help them make better planting decisions and improve their livelihood/reduce poverty. (Also provides access to insurance.)
Kibera’s openschoolskenya.org map shows where Kenyan schools are located
and the percentage of children not attending, highlighting under-served areas.
ILO and WIEGO reconceptualised the measuring instruments for informal
employment, exposing systematic under-reporting of women’s work (ILO &
WIEGO, 2013; Buvinic & Levine, 2015).
The AfDB has created a Gender Equality Index.
The Electricity Supply Monitoring Initiative (ESMI), based on an Indian project,
uses a cheap and straightforward IoT device to create Open Data that can be
used to highlight areas systematically experiencing bad or no power.
A proof-of-concept demonstration in the Orange D4D Challenge showed the
feasibility of using CDR data as a proxy for electricity consumption and thus
for electrification planning
The National Compendium of Women Competencies (COCOFCI) interactively
profiles more than 10 000 women professionals, for advancing their political
and economic opportunities.
Seedi (formerly MSME-ASI) uses open data and related transparency/advocacy
tools to promote entrepreneurship and small business; with a focus on youth
and women
A data journalist report lamenting the ‘freeze’ on welfare support to disabled
and elderly which is traced back to systemic failures to track public money
distributions (IODC, 2015).
U-Report receives crowdsourced SMS reports on health, education, WASH by
age, gender, location, reportedly 2 million reports in 19 countries in 2016 (UN,
2016)
OpenStreetMap Burkina Faso maps Ouagadougou, “to facilitate decision-
making by local institutional actors and favour the [impacts] for citizens of
community projects”
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) created drought insurance
and uses satellite imagery to prepare pastoral farmers against climate risks to
become financially independent and self-sufficient
The WWF combines several open data sources to estimate greenhouse gas
emissions in Gauteng to propose interventions for lowering them (Lewis et al,
2016; WWF South Africa, 2016)
GlobalFishingWatch (GFW ) uses satellite data and machine learning to
monitor commercial fishing in order to promote sustainable fishing through
transparency
The Abalobi project helps small-scale fishers support the sustainability of
the maritime resources and adapt to climate change. Fishers record oceanic,
atmospheric and fisheries data and use dashboards to visualise it. Although
they own the data, they can be shared with fisheries stakeholders. App source
code is also Open Source
GlobalForestWatch tracks forestry cover/loss based on satellite data since
2001 to date (2017) with dynamic map view or detailed country statistics.
There is promising PoC work to use satellite imaging to track wildlife in underresourced conservation areas.
African Network of Centers for Investigative Reporting (ANCIR) was supported
by World Wide Web Foundation and others to resources and have a coordinated
analysis of Panama papers (50 media articles in 20 African countries).
AidData used by journalists to monitor foreign aid spending by governments
and foreign investment (The Economist, 201).
Furthermore, the sponsors of this report including the World Wide Web
Foundation, UNDP, IDRC, and many other supra-national organisations such
as the World Bank, the Africa Open Data Network (AODN); AODC; CAFDO;
Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN), etc. are very active
in this space by researching the area themselves as well as sponsoring a large
number of organisations, projects and research reports.
