Let’s get cranking with OPEN DATA

The words “Open Data” is being bundled around lately. It simply means data being made available however, emphasis is on governments and public institutions opening up their data.  Such as financial and contract information, geographical information, statistics, weather data, projects, and the list goes on. With public access to such data; it will improve socio-economic development, businesses will build on the findings of public-funded research, provision of value added services to the original public service data provided by a government. (Innovation) and providing insight.

Ghana Open Data Initiative is organizing Ghana Open Data Day 2013; an Open Data Hackathon where participants will be exposed to new ways of solving and analyzing problems using open public data. They will be asked to discover, define and propose new ideas to develop applications on topics relevant to overcome societal challenges. They will be inspired to seize every opportunity to connect, share ideas and create life changing applications in the areas of Health, Education, Telecommunication, Energy, Agriculture, Sanitation, Real Estates, Crime reduction, Road traffic management and many more.

Schedule

• 9:00 – 10:00: Registration of participants
• 10:10 – 10:20: Opening Remarks and Introduction of teams for presentation
• 10:20 – 11:00: Coffee Break
• 11:00 – 12:00: Presentation of data Boot-camp projects and Status of the project
• 12:05- 12:15: Q and A
• 12:15 – 13:00: Brainstorming session: open data ideas and projects
• 13:00- 13:15: Pitching & Voting on App Ideas
• 13:15 – 14:00: Lunch Time
• 14:00 – 14:15: Scraping Tutorials
• 14:15 – 14:30: Visualization Tutorials
• 14:30 – 15:30: Breaking into groups & Hacking
• 15:30 – 15:35: Coffee Break
• 15:35 – 16:30: Show & Tell
• 16:30 – 17:00: Q and A, Closing remarks

Venue: Kofi Annan ICT Centre

Date: 23^rd February, 2013 -  9:00 AM to 5:00 PM

The Ghana Open Data Initiative (www.data.gov.gh) is an initiative by the Ministry of Communications which is being spearheaded by the National Information Technology Agency (NITA), the IT implementing agency of Government.

The objective of the GODI includes making public government data available in reusable formats to create business opportunities, drive innovation and promote transparency in government transactions