Since Kosovo declared independence from Serbia a decade ago, the young state’s developing institutions have been forced to grapple with…
Writings
Young Malaysian Volunteers Are Taking a Leading Role in Flood Relief Efforts
Four years ago, I coordinated my first flood relief with my best friend, Sze Ming, on the east coast of…
Turning data into action: what we learned from conducting social audits on public housing communities in Malaysia
**This blog was originally published from Open Knowledge International blog** In our previous blog post, we provided an overview of the…
Sinar Project in Malaysia works to open budget data at all levels of government
**This post was originally published in Open Knowledge International blog** “Open Spending Data in Constrained Environments” is a project being…
The State of Open Data in Southeast Asia
**This blog was first published in Open Knowledge blog.** There are few countries in Southeast Asia region – Vietnam, Myanmar,…
Understanding How Transparency Works For The US Government
The State of Transparency in the United States In May 2013, President Barack Obama announced to the world that his administration…
Transitioning from Traditional Journalism to Data Journalism in Cameroon
Welcome back to Open & Shut! For this post, we got in touch with Ngeunga Madeleine, a journalist based in…
Finding the Right Tools — How We Rebuilt Iran Open Data On CKAN
In November 2016, Small Media launched the Iran Open Data platform — a civil society-developed open data platform that is…
What I learned from being a remote contractor
For the past 3 years, I have been working remotely as a contractor, from a civil society organization to a…
My First #RightsCon
I have pop my #RightsCon cherry This year I’ve pop my #RightsCon cherry. In my 2nd year with Sinar Project,…
