Angela Okune

2019-03-07 Fieldnotes from NGEC Monthly Meeting

I was invited to attend the monthly public meeting of the Gender Based Violence Commission because they were discussing gender data and how to coordinate NGO-collected data. Over lunch at that meeting, I met a lady who lives in Mukuru (one of the informal settlements) and works with a Community...Read more

AO. Tranparency

AO: Page 18 states that opening up government data is important to "create transparent public procurement process, public oversight of expenditure and ensure value-for-money towards citizen...Read more

JUSTIFICATION: What reasons are given to describe why data for development is necessary?

Querying Data for Development

Okune & Mutuku. 2019. Opening Remarks at "Archiving Kenya's Past and Futures." November 12, 2019. McMillan Library: Nairobi, Kenya.

AO: This is the powerpoint presentation that Leo and I used for our opening remarks.Read more

Photo: Room in McMillan Library

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2019_Nov_7 Angela Okune's University of Nairobi Institute of Development Studies Seminar Presentation

AO: These are the slides for a talk I gave on November 7, 2019 at the University of Nairobi's Institute of Development Studies (IDS) which hosts a regular seminar talk.Read more

Opening Remarks at Archiving Kenya's Past and Futures

Transcript of Opening Remarks at "Archiving Kenya’s Past and Futures: Stewardship and Care of Research Data" November 12, 2019 Venue: McMillan Library Speakers: Angela Okune Leonida Mutuku Initial transcript done by https://otter.ai and cleaned and edited by Trevas Matathia. Angela Okune 0:00 Maybe...Read more

News: KTDA to pay woman Sh1.5m for photo

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Notes from African Studies Association of Africa (ASAA) conference at USIU (Day 2 Plenary)

October 25, 2019 African Studies Association of Africa (ASAA) conference at USIU 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Day 2 Opening Plenary Walter Mboya (Mkuki na Nyota) What is the difference from American mining company, extracts and goes away and nothing returns except you are left with the moonscape where...Read more

Org Data Interview Guide_May 2019

AO: This guide was developed loosely borrowing from:

Carlson, Jake. 2010. “The Data Curation Profiles Toolkit Interview Worksheet.” Purdue University Libraries / Distributed Data Curation Center.

191029_001 Being Researched in Kibera Discussion Guide

AO: This is the discussion guide that I developed in preparation for the discussion on October 29, 2019 at a social hall in Kibera with people who had signficant experience both with conducting research and also participating in research projects. I did not follow the guide strictly, especially...Read more