Our solution
Whythawk ran a series of seminars and workshops for the National Computer Board in Mauritius:
- Institutional support for open data
- Open data for journalists
- Foundations for open data
- Introduction to Python and open source software development
- Advanced data analysis and presentation for open data
- Open data for app development
The first two seminars were pitched as a strategic overview of what it takes to run a successful open data initiative, and what others – at the government and private-sector level – are doing, both successfully and unsuccessfully.
Outcomes
These were well-attended events and there was a great deal of good-natured discussion and debate both during the seminar, and during the breaks in-between sessions. The session for journalists highlighted the public interest in the open data initiative, as well as their requirements for having some predictable mechanism for requesting data.
