Africa: Open Data 'Not Enough to Improve Lives'

6 August 2015

London — Governments in developing countries must ensure the statistics they publish can be used to improve citizens' lives, practitioners told SciDev.Net following an open data meeting.

Liz Carolan, the international development manager at host organisation the Open Data Institute (ODI), said countries should instead start with real-world problems and then work out how data can be part of the solution.

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