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Pathways to Open Data Advocacy in
Africa; the roles of
Academics.
Oluwaseun David ADEPOJU
Founder, TECHmIT Africa
Research Methods Faculty, African Leadership University, Kigali
Rwanda
Data: Definition or Action
“I will rather tell you what data can do rather than define what it is”
Juho-Lee, 2016
Debunking definitional culture and embracing action based culture about data.
Data Granularity
Academics are insightful
people, they can break rocks
into stones and stones into
pebbles and pebbles into sand
and sand into chaffs
Data granularity is the
process of breaking a data
model down to the lowest
level of detail.
The “Universal-ty”
“Universities have been
pivotal to Policy-Push
globally”
“A University is universal
and so the data thereof”
“Universities as hubs of
Open data curation”.
Opendata.gov
“The open data destination is
as important as the data
source”. The roles of
Academic Libraries.
“Academics using more
Open Data for research
and reporting it in
research Abstracts”
Data Polity by the Academics
“When the gown is dirty, the
town cannot but stink”
The conversation continues….

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Pathways to Open Data Advocacy in Africa; the roles of Academics

  • 1. Pathways to Open Data Advocacy in Africa; the roles of Academics. Oluwaseun David ADEPOJU Founder, TECHmIT Africa Research Methods Faculty, African Leadership University, Kigali Rwanda
  • 2. Data: Definition or Action “I will rather tell you what data can do rather than define what it is” Juho-Lee, 2016 Debunking definitional culture and embracing action based culture about data.
  • 3. Data Granularity Academics are insightful people, they can break rocks into stones and stones into pebbles and pebbles into sand and sand into chaffs Data granularity is the process of breaking a data model down to the lowest level of detail.
  • 4. The “Universal-ty” “Universities have been pivotal to Policy-Push globally” “A University is universal and so the data thereof” “Universities as hubs of Open data curation”. Opendata.gov “The open data destination is as important as the data source”. The roles of Academic Libraries. “Academics using more Open Data for research and reporting it in research Abstracts”
  • 5. Data Polity by the Academics “When the gown is dirty, the town cannot but stink”