Online Work Africa

The Open Cities Accra project has entered its second phase. This phase is just an extension of the work done in the communities the team previously worked in earlier. Last year, we mapped and collected accurate geospatial data in Alogboshie, Alajo, Akweteyman and Nima. All 4 areas were remotely mapped…

Visuals for Gender launched its “Data for Gender-Based Violence Advocacy” Project on the 25th of November, 2019 at Mobile Web Ghana. This day marks the kick-start of the 16 Days of Activism, an international campaign against gender-based violence, which is celebrated around the world. The project is supported by the U.S…

The Open Cities Africa (OCA) 3rd regional meeting was held in Abidjan and Grand Bassam, Ivory Coast from 20th – 24th November, 2019. The regional meeting was hosted at 2 separate conferences: the Understanding Risk (UR) Conference and the State of The Map (SOTM) Conference. However, there was a closed…

The Data Upload Challenge and Hackathon was organized by Mobile Web Ghana with support from the Ministry of Communication through its implementing agency, National Information Technology Agency (NITA). The event forms part of the ongoing Ghana Open Data platform revamp project being run by SBC4D and Mobile Web Ghana (which…