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Will Open Data Give Rise to Great Stuff?

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Sindo District Hospital

Sindo District Hospital in Western Kenya. source: Flickr - DFID-UK

There’s a health center in my village. I don’t know how many health care workers have been assigned to it, how much money it was allocated in the last fiscal year, how many people it serves or who’s in charge. I don’t know what the mortality rate is in my county or how we measure up when compared to the neighboring counties. If nothing changes, I probably never will.

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Written by Muchiri Nyaggah

July 7th, 2011 at 1:37 am

Rebooting Africa and the Semacraft Team

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We thought it was about time that we took a moment to share what has been happening here at Semacraft. Its been an exhilarating year and we’ve only reached the middle of March.

First, Semacraft Consulting Group was invited to write a series on Africa, with a particular focus on the contemporary tech sector by our good friend, Dirk Knemeyer of Involution Studios, Boston. We’ve published four articles already and here they are in order:

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Written by Semacraft Team

March 17th, 2011 at 6:03 pm

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