Pathways to Open Data Advocacy in Africa; the roles ofAcademics by Oluwaseun David ADEPOJU. Oluwaseun is Founder, TECHmIT Africa

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”

6. The conversation continues….