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Community building around Edo state Open data Portal in NigeriaPRESENTED BYOkwuone NkechiSchool of data Fellow Nigeria@enkayfreda21st November, 2015.
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What we will be talking about
1. What is a community
2. Why starting one was important
3. My community building experience
4. Challenges of organizing a community in Nigeria
5. Some generous tips
6. Reference and Resources
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Target Audience
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This should be useful to ...● Civil Societies
● NGOs
● Tech Communities
● other Enthusiasts
… and anyone that has a pressing social problem and does
not want to solve it alone.
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What is a community?
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A community: what is it ?
Wikipedia
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Why starting one was important..
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What is the Open data community like in Nigeria?
● Open data is a very new topic
● Transparency is not a much talked about topic.
● Inclusive and participatory governance has not been our
way of life
● Advocacy and civic engagement is mostly done without
technology
● Edo state is the only state out of 36 states that has an
open data portal
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Some problems couldn’t be solved alone
● There was a disconnect between the supply and user
demand of open data
● Demand was being placed on us for open data to
translate into economic use
● The stakeholders (Government, CSOs) were interested
in exploring how this can work.
● Open data is a new jargon in Nigeria and people can’t
just understand what the fuss is all about
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My Community building experience
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To get a pulse of the open data community?
● We sent out surveys to find like minds
● Did an hangout to create awareness and a community
needs assessment
● We created a communication system (both offline and
online)
● Drew out a road map to actively engage them for the first
6 months.
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Lessons Learnt•A community is as vibrant as its leader
•If you are not registered/associated or backed up, you are
not recognized
•You will have to learn on your community and re-strategise
regularly
•The community will always plateau
•Double effort is needed to make a case as to why you have
chosen your goal for starting a community
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Lessons Learnt Contd...•Be empathetic but disciplined and focused
•You alone cannot change the world. - Pick a problem and
get good at solving it.
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Challenges of organizing a community in Nigeria
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Existing challenges
•Literacy level is quite low - 59.6% (wikipedia)
•Internet penetration is low - 30% (network world)
•There are more offline than online people
•People are easily distracted or dissuaded
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How we work around these challenges
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Low literacy level•We always test our audience with little task to know how
basic we should go.
•We have an agenda but keep it a bit open to cater for side
interests
•When talking about open data - We have more time for
questions than actually teaching
•Use cases are actually our best cases.
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Low internet penetration•We use charts, markers, stick notes
•We don't use and online
presentation documents and always
give them a take home folder of
resources
•Get them to document their ideas,
this form as input to next sessions.
•if we have to use the internet, We
always have a plan B
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More People Offline than online
● We try to visualize and
conceptualize on paper
● We still use fliers, group letters
and word of mouth for publicity
● Seek for opportunities for
collaboration on their ideas and
projects
● We end events by collecting
their skill needs and hold regular
meetups to address them
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Thinking about Nigeria? ● Come with an open mind
● Have a bucket load of patience
● Resilience and consistency is a must have skill
● Never expect too much
● Always have a plan B in all your plans
● You have to be dogged
● Be prepared to go as basic as basic
What do we need?
what would be the outcome?
how will we make it sustainable?
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Questions
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Resources
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_literacy_rate
2. http://www.networkworld.com/article/2860254/tech-telecom-contribute-
10-percent-of-nigerias-gdp-ict-minister-says.html