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Nov 28, 2024 Workshop: Engaging Kenyan Researchers on "Database as Book"

Nation Article: "Do Health Ministry Figures on Covid-19 Really Add Up?"

This news article published in the Nation online highlighted questions that we have discussed amongst some members of the RDS group regarding the accuracy of the official COVID-19 statistics in the country. Most noticably, how can the number of new cases exceed that of the total cumulative cases...Read more

AOk. Google chose Nairobi for its African regional base because the Kenyan government embraced the Internet

This excerpt from the TIMES article repasted below explains that Nairobi was seen as attractive for American technology company, Google, to set up a regional office because of government support...Read more

META: What discourses shape the way people in this setting talk about and conceptualize qualitative data infrastructure and capacity, right-to-know, freedom of information, the potential of expanded public participation, and so on?

Perry, A. (2011, June 30). Silicon Savanna: Mobile Phones Transform Africa. Time.

Analytics Across Scales and Systems: Qualitative Data Capacity

Kijiji Yeetu. 2020. "COVID-19 Chronicle."

How is “Nairobi”, “Kenya”, and/or “Africa” invoked when data (sharing) is mentioned?

COVID-19 Recommendations from the People of Mathare

WW: I first saw the image circulated on a Whatsapp group then found the source on a page off the Mathare Social Justice Centre website. I have found the communication around COVID-19 in Kenya has tended to be one-way, usually central government to the people. But this is a citizen-generated...Read more

1884-85: Berlin Conference where European imperialist powers met to “regulate the ‘scramble’ for Africa
1888: Imperial British East Africa Company given a royal charter to administer the area allocated to Britain
1890: The British

Angela Okune, S. Adebowale, E. Gray, A. Mumo, and R. Oniang'o. "Discussion on Open Access (in Africa)," [Transcript], 2020, Research Data Share.

Discussion on Open Access in Africa

March 31, 2020

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Nairobi

Participants (listed alphabetically):

Sulaiman Adebowale
Eve Gray

Nov 28, 2024 Workshop: Engaging Kenyan Researchers on "Database as Book"

Nation Article: "Do Health Ministry Figures on Covid-19 Really Add Up?"

AOk. Google chose Nairobi for its African regional base because the Kenyan government embraced the Internet

META: What discourses shape the way people in this setting talk about and conceptualize qualitative data infrastructure and capacity, right-to-know, freedom of information, the potential of expanded public participation, and so on?

Perry, A. (2011, June 30). Silicon Savanna: Mobile Phones Transform Africa. Time.

Kijiji Yeetu. 2020. "COVID-19 Chronicle."

How is “Nairobi”, “Kenya”, and/or “Africa” invoked when data (sharing) is mentioned?

COVID-19 Recommendations from the People of Mathare

Misinformation: Masks ordered by Germany lost in Kenya

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A swirl of contextual events in/on/related to Kenyan (tech) research

Angela Okune, S. Adebowale, E. Gray, A. Mumo, and R. Oniang'o. "Discussion on Open Access (in Africa)," [Transcript], 2020, Research Data Share.

Kenyan citizens protest in Nairobi against government corruption

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"Open data for good governance": ossified funding regime but continued unmet need for mobilized citizenry

What double bind is apparent here?

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