[HOT] One for the NGOs and people in Africa

[Mojgan Jadidi]

Dear John,
I will be happy to work with folks to help for open data dissemination and
integration into already existing system such as Open Street Map.

Please let me know if you want go further.
Best regards
Mojgan

*Mojgan (Amaneh) Jadidi, Ph.D.*
*Intern, Applied Research & Corporate Monitoring*
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*Postdoctoral Research Fellow*
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On 17 March 2016 at 14:15, john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yesterday one of my local Universities was offering free coffee and a
> presentation on Open Data.  So clutching my discounted pensioner bus pass
> in one hand and my coffee mug in the other I drifted along.  The Canadian
> Treasury Board did a presentation at the Ottawa International Open Data
> conference so they are familiar with the ground and I think it was Kent who
> did the presentation.  Kent and Ashley presented whilst I drank my coffee.
> It wasn't bad coffee either.
>
> Also there was someone who had recently been working in Ghana with NGOs
> who mentioned that what struck him was the fact there seemed to be lots of
> different NGOs all gathering the same data.
>
> Now we get to the interesting bit.  Mojgan very carefully went through the
> Government of Canada's open data license recently in order to import some
> address data into OpenStreetMap and those who double checked her work in
> CA-talk mailing list confirmed that it is compatible with OSM licensing.
>
> Ashley, hopefully I've got her email address correct, is currently working
> with at least one African government on Open Data.  So it would seem we
> could save a chunk of effort if we could get behind the Open Data side in
> Africa and more to the point if Ashley can persuade a few governments to
> copy the license then importing schools etc becomes a lot simpler from the
> licensing point of view.  It might also be possible to exchange data
> between NGOs.
>
> I suggest you contact her directly, perhaps bug Kent if I have her email
> address incorrect.
>
> Note to Mojgan I Bcced you since your part was actually quite critical.
> There is a fair amount of GIS data floating around in Africa but aligning
> the licenses has been a problem.
>
> Cheerio John
>
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