Projects/Open Dev Toolkit

Vision
The Open Development Toolkit is a project from Development Initiatives and the Open Knowledge Foundation which began in 2014. The Toolkit will be a centralised hub around open development, bringing together tools and training materials with the aim of increasing data literacy around international development data. The Toolkit is focused on meeting the needs of civil society and journalists in low-income countries, and will focus initially on increasing accessibility of international aid data.

Why we're doing it
Data availability is not the same as data accessibility; more and more data in the international development sector is being made available (for example, through the International Aid Transparency Initiative

What we do

 * Curating existing tools and resources for understanding aid data (online here)
 * Writing an Aid Curriculum for School of Data
 * Conducting interviews with developers who have worked with IATI data, to build a picture of already existing technical resources
 * Writing about how open development data is being used in the international development sector on the [http:// Toolkit blog

Further we collect inspiring data stories and how they were conceived and told on our blog.

Share your Ideas

 * Join the Open Development mailing list and share your ideas.
 * Follow and tweet to us @OpenDevToolkit.
 * Tweet interesting Data Stories for our Data Roundup with the hashtag #DataRoundup
 * Drop Zara a line on zara.rahman[at]okfn.org

Blog
Did you do something interesting with development data? Did you just build something you're proud of and want to share what you have learned? If yes: Write a guest post for the School of Data blog! Check out the blogging guidelines and contact us on [mailto:schoolofdata@okfn.org schoolofdata@okfn.org].

Write a Course Module
If you have knowledge on a specific data skill, tool or data set that you would like to teach, why not write a new course module for the upcoming Aid Curriculum? Contact us at [mailto:schoolofdata@okfn.org schoolofdata@okfn.org] and tell us about your ideas. We'll get you up and running!

Contribute to the Toolkit
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