2nd Africa data conference slated for July in Ghana

Ghana is to host the second Africa Open Data Conference (AODC) in July. The four-day conference is slated for the Accra International Conference Centre from July 17 – 21 is year, according to a release by Penplusbyte, an NGO.

The first edition of the AODC was organised by the Africa Open Data Collaborative in September 2015 in Tanzania hosted by the Government and supported by the World Bank, Code for Africa, Global Open Data for Agriculture & Nutrition initiative, Worldwide Web Foundation, Millennium Challenge Corporation and numerous other partners.

The 2017 Africa Open Data Conference in Accra, Ghana is set to attract more than 600 delegates drawn from all over Africa and the world at large.

This auspicious event will push the leadership role of the private sector in supplying, using, and demanding open data, and bring together brilliant innovators and visionaries to grow their networks and hone their success.

It aims to connect with sources of support, and introduce investors and donors to an expanding sector that seeks and supplies open data to achieve development goals in Africa and across the globe.

Ghana is part of the Africa open data Community and signed unto the Open Government Partnership in September 2011, which sparked off a quest for the country to open-up government data with some available on www.data.gov.gh

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