Data Liberation
Turning deadwood paper archives into a digital resource. Hosting Data liberation scraperthons to unlock knowledge held in academia and citizen groups.
IgalaDigital is a people-driven non-profit empowering active citizentry and civic watchdogs to help keep and build Igala's Data and Content digital/Open.
About UsHow We Do This
Data Tools
We supports the development of citizen driven data solutions and champions its reuse wherever appropriate.
Data Fellowship
Each fellow builds proof-of-concept services, helps to develop internal policy, data platforms and recruitment/staff strategies.
Data Skills
We bring in data pioneers such as International Center for Journalists, Google, Hacks/Hackers to synchronize and amplify their programs.
IgalaDigital is Not Limited!
IgalaDigital operates as a federation of autonomous town-based digital innovation organisations that Plans to initiate Igala labs’ in nine towns and major projects in a further 15 towns
Igala Commons
We support a community effort to strengthen the CivicCommons platform, by helping evolve the project beyond its current life as a simple catalogue into a dynamic community portal.
Projects
Rhetoric is easy. It is what you actually do that counts. Here are some of the early open source prototypes that IgalaDigital has helped grassroots partners.
HURUmapw: Helping storytellers use data to add context and depth to stories.
openAFRICA: The continent's largest volunteer-run open data repository.
Hundreds of Open Source projects by Humans trying to digitizing Igala. Get your hands dirty.
People
IgalaDigital therefore bases its teams in public tech hubs or incubators, as IgalaLabs, where citizens or journalists can walk in for help or to share space to build their own projects.
Partners & Sponsors
Achieving Open Data and Open Community on a continental level is a mammoth task. IgalaDigital's founding partners are:
Sponsors
Contribute
Achieving Open Data and Open Government on a continental level is a mammoth task. IgalaDigital's welcomes Contribution