Mjumbe learns how journalists can benefit from open civic data.

Mjumbe is working on to make legislative data open and useful, by raising awareness within the developer and legislator communities. Many governments datasets are inaccessible or unusable and he’s bringing this to the attention of people who may be able to change that.

For a couple weeks in November, I was away in and around Pretoria, South Africa attending the International Conference on Appropriate Technology. Appropriate technology is technology that is designed with special consideration to the environmental, ethical, cultural, social and economic aspects of the community it is intended for. During the conference, I helped to organize and facilitate Read more…