World Health Goals Need Indicators
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are a focus of the WHO’s World Health Assembly beginning May 19. Informing the debate: World Health Statistics for 2014 were published earlier this month.
Open Data for Africa
During my time as an intern at Open Data Watch, I reviewed the availability and openness of data in poor, developing countries. I wanted to get a general idea of what the data environment looks like in the developing world. I asked myself: “If I were a citizen of country X and I wanted to find data about my country, could I do so and how difficult would it be?”