By Al Kags I. A Nation in the Mirror On the night of October 29th, as a curfew descended on Dar es Salaam and Mwanza, a familiar pattern unfolded: frightened elites invoked “security,” the internet slowed to a crawl, and …
Last year, I attended the very successful Africa Open Data Conference and there I said some things that I was later told are unpopular within the Open Data industry – particularly in the civil society. On reflection, I find that …