If you thought BudgITwas the most awesome thing that happened to data, think again.
Three final year students of theFederal University of Technology Akurehave created a Nigeria Open Data Access (NODA) portal, with the support of Connected Developmemt, Open Data For Development and School of Data.
The NODA project was unveiled on Saturday at an event in Akure which was be graced by data experts including Seun Inigbinde of BudgIT, Nkechi Nkwuone from the School of Data and Oludotun Babayemi from Connected Development.
The Nigeria Open Data Accessis a platform for making data in Nigeria available for Nigerians and the World, free of charge and without any restriction. The data will be available in the public domain and downloadable inExcel,XMLandPDF formats.
The portal has very ambitious plans. There will be data on all schools, all hospitals, all water points, all road data, rivers, and settlements.
Also included on the platform are data from last year’s budget concerning Education, Health, Transportation, Government expenditure and Telecoms – MTN, Airtel and Globalcomm, excluding Etisalat.
Three final year students of theFederal University of Technology Akurehave created a Nigeria Open Data Access (NODA) portal, with the support of Connected Developmemt, Open Data For Development and School of Data.
The NODA project was unveiled on Saturday at an event in Akure which was be graced by data experts including Seun Inigbinde of BudgIT, Nkechi Nkwuone from the School of Data and Oludotun Babayemi from Connected Development.
The Nigeria Open Data Accessis a platform for making data in Nigeria available for Nigerians and the World, free of charge and without any restriction. The data will be available in the public domain and downloadable inExcel,XMLandPDF formats.
The portal has very ambitious plans. There will be data on all schools, all hospitals, all water points, all road data, rivers, and settlements.
Also included on the platform are data from last year’s budget concerning Education, Health, Transportation, Government expenditure and Telecoms – MTN, Airtel and Globalcomm, excluding Etisalat.
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