Africa Open Data Group - JohnTigue/idots GitHub Wiki

The Africa Open Data Group (AODG) is:

Open Data is a transformational trend in Open Governance that is generating empowerment and economic growth. Around the world, cities, states, and nations are publishing Open Data and creating new data supply chains and ecosystems that are managing scarce water resources, improving land use and agricultural security, enhancing transportation and traffic flows, and generating new high-tech jobs and tax revenues. Governments themselves are benefiting because published Open Data is free of organizational barriers that hold back departments from sharing information and collaborating.

This Group is designed to be interactive, informative, and fun. It will involve diverse skills and experiences, and showcase real live examples of how Open Data works, African Challenges and opportunities, and example applications. There will be online and real face to face meetups and conferences, online collaboration in global communities working to help Africa become a leader in Open Government and Open Data. Our goal is to create new global relationships that bring passionate Open Data communities together to share common challenges and build new solutions. It doesn't matter where you live, where you were born, or where you work. We are looking for Citizens of the World to work together to help African countries embrace Open Government and Open Data.

Meetup page
This project (EbolaMapper, not AODG) got started because John Tigue was really bothered by the lack of Ebola2014 visualizations on the Web. Then he opened his big mouth on the 2014-11-07 AODG conference call committing to banging out a visualization in order to confirm some of the data found during the Ebola Data Jam. What was supposed to be a day or so of banging out a nifty visualization using the official data turned out to be much more than that.

Meetup page
John Tigue prepared a report, AODG Report 1 from John Tigue, for the December conference call.