The State of Big Data for Development in Africa was a research project designed to map emerging use cases of big data and related technologies being deployed on the African continent towards achieving the goals of sustainable development. This is…
Local Development Research Institute (LDRI), an action-oriented think tank that supports African countries in their efforts to end hunger, poverty and inequality in Africa.We are currently accepting RFPs for a native mobile application solution for one of our ongoing projects.…
Background The Research Assistant will support the work undertaken by the Local Development Research Institute (LDRI) under the Africa Open Data Network Program. The Assistant will conduct legal and factual research on topics relevant to Kenya’s Openness agenda since 2011…
The Africa Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) is a continental level platform used to promote and enhance good governance through peer to peer learning and active public participation. Kenya has engaged on the platform from the early 2000s and it has…
The importance of data in informing sustainable and inclusive development in Africa cannot be understated. The use of data for development has long been framed as providing a foundation for meaningful policy making and implementation, efficient resource allocation, (public) service…
Agriculture is the backbone of Kenya’s economy due to its significance in contributing to economic growth. Farmers in Kenya are involved in both small and large-scale farming of crops and/or livestock. The VBA project being implemented by LDRI in Kiambu…
LDRI welcomes Jessica Musila to the AODN fellowship 2020, as the Open Government Fellow. We caught up with her to find out more. Where are you from Jessica? I am a Kenyan from Kilome Constituency in Makueni County, Kenya Can…
Kenyan farmers have limited access to extension services which has attributed to a higher ratio of extension officers to farmers. According to NASEP (2012), the ratio is 1:1000 against the FAO recommended ratio of 1:400. This situation has hindered most…
AODN had a chance to meet with Amos Lasana from Sierra Leone, an AODN Fellow – 2019 on his perspectives on Open Data in his country. Prior to 2013, there was very little work in terms of making Open Data and transparency a…
While there are instances where food production has recorded an increase [Abate, et al., 2015] factors that transformed maize productivity in Ethiopia, Africa’s food production has not grown significantly in the last 20 years. Where gains are recorded, the increase…