The Week That Was
At the beginning of November, we experienced one of those truly serendipitous moments in the OCL calendar. It was a “divide-and-conquer” type challenge to be everywhere, all at once – but we did it! The stages, conversations and impact we experienced was humbling, and a testament to a decade of showing up for African cities […]
Celebrating Women’s Day in South Africa: Honouring Trailblazers in Civic Tech
Women’s Day is an opportunity to reflect on the progress we’ve made in inclusion. We are reminded to recommit ourselves to a world where every woman’s voice is heard and valued. Today, we honour the women in civic tech who are using their skills and passion to make a positive impact on South African communities. […]
Youth engagement and active citizenship is more than casting a vote.
Open Cities Lab (OCL) hosted a webinar on 25 June 2022 with Youth Lab ZA, Africa Matters Initiative, and Young Urbanists to unpack what youth engagement and active citizenship looks like in South Africa. Anele Ngcoya hosted the discussion with three inspiring activists from three organisations: Dimpho Lekgeu (Youth Lab ZA), Roland Postma (Young Urbanists), […]
Pride in the city 2021 : 031
June is both pride month and youth month in South Africa. 29 June marks the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in 1969 New York City and 16 June marks the anniversary of the Soweto Uprising in 1976 in Johannesburg. In 2021, even though our constitution accepts the existence of queer people by law, the lived […]
Our Day with Open Data Durban
“You learn something new every day…” 22 July 2017 was indeed a memorable day for me — a fun-filled adventure that was also educational at the same time. It was a sunny, and perfectly normal Tuesday and I came to school to meet with the News and Journalism Club. We were told we would be […]
Team Training : Visual Storytelling
Open Data Durban’s team has a weekly team training session every Friday afternoon. The purpose of team training is to develop and share the skills of the team. Some of the training in the past included setting up a website, basic data wrangling using a spreadsheet, extracting pdf table data using Tabula, mapping using Carto […]
Open Data Day 2017
Open Data Durban in partnership with The MakerSpace Foundation hosted International Open Data Day in a dual-charged effort to ignite openness and participation in the Durban community. Together with environmentalists, ecologists, data wranglers, techies and active citizens we built an Arduino weather station. According to Arduino.cc “Arduino is an open-source electronics platform based on easy-to-use […]