Our Year in Review
May is donor reporting month at Open Cities Lab and our Founder and CEO, Richard Gevers, took some time to reflect on our 20/21 year. “Open Cities Lab (OCL) had a year of remarkable growth in all areas, which is a strange sentence to write with the backdrop of the global pandemic. We experienced being […]
Open Data Durban is now called Open Cities Lab!
Open Data Durban is proud to announce our new name, Open Cities Lab. The name Open Data Durban highlighted our thinking when we started as a meetup group back in 2015: that opening data would drive the change we were looking for, and that we wanted to be a bottom-up, city-focused initiative. On reflection, five years later, we […]
How to Write a Good Design Brief
A non-techy, a developer, and a designer walk into a bar… (This blog is part of a series of blogs) Some of you may have read our other Durban Answers blog posts discussing our ideology behind the platform, how it is going to improve lives and enable informed decision making, and about the events we’ve […]
Immersive Learning | Joining the ODD Team for a Month
Three months ago, I arrived in Durban to study South African social and political transformation at the School for International Training. During my time in Durban, I have had the opportunity to learn about the political systems in South Africa, live with families in Bonella and Wentworth, and learn a bit of isiZulu. For the […]
#AskDurban
The plan for Durban Answers is quickly taking shape. In the previous blog post, I briefly mentioned we would be kicking off Durban Answers with an online campaign aimed at crowd-sourcing questions from citizens to get a sense of the most pressing day to day challenges that people are facing. This online campaign will build […]
The Story So Far
Whether you discovered this site by chance, or have some idea of what Open Data Durban is about, I thought it would be good to give the “story so far”. Open Data Durban was born out of a deep frustration with the way we as a country, and particularly as a city, are progressing. This […]