Kampala2015

Kampala is joining many other cities around the world to celebrate Open data day on 21st February 2015.

Outbox, DatadotUG and Development and Training Initiatives have come together to organise the annual open data day in Kampala.

Open data day is a collection of citizens around the world to write applications, liberate data, create visualizations and publish analysis using open public data to show support for and encourage adoption of open data policies by the World's local, regional and national governments.

Who should attend?

Developers: Come wrangle data in order to create something useful

Designers: We need you to make something amazing

Stasticians: You will do the number crunching for us.

Citizens: We need cheerleaders, ideas and friends to spread the world

Librarians: You will scour the earth for interesting data we can use. Help us understand what is important

Why should you attend open data day?

+ Learn more about open data

+ Engage local non-profits and companies in the uses of open data for the product and missions

+ Meet and network with tons of cool people in Kampala and around the world

+ Voice your opinion and share ideas with the people attending

+ Find out about apps being created, and get to play with them as well

+ Help out with parts of conceptualization, creation, design, advertisement and testing of apps.

You can help us make this Open data day amazing right away by doing the following:

+ Submit ideas for sessions you would want to deliver or ideas you would want to pursue in open data

Should you want to share a session during open data day or even work on a given topic, feel free to suggest something on our Google form

+ Share with us data sets you have that can be used on open data day

Send an email to research@outbox.co.ug

+ Register for the event

The registration link is on eventbrite. Please register in order to come and engage with amazing people. The event is free

+ Share

Tell your friends about the event. Share it using #ODD15 #ODDUganda #ODDKampala

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