"South Africa’s first cohort of OpenGov Fellows have helped liberate over 550 government datasets containing information intended to help citizens better understand and engage with their communities.
The data includes everything from the location of hospitals and schools, to government guidelines for medicine prices, the national government budget, environmental and economic databases, along with school examination results and other education performance statistics. “Much of this information was already online, but was often in places or formats that were inaccessible for ordinary citizens. Having easier access to data helps citizens make better decisions, like understanding how noise pollution from a proposed new runway at a Cape Town airport <http://airportnoise.code4sa.org/> will impact on them,” explains *Code for South Africa* <http://code4sa.org/> (CfSA) director, Adi Eyal..." URL: < https://medium.com/code-for-africa/opengov-fellows-liberate-100s-of-government-datasets-ebcfffbdea82 > -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
