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Category: Gov 2.0

SMS based real-time monitoring of census data collection using mobile phones

November 18, 2013

Rwanda conducted it’s latest and the 4th Population and Housing Census (PHC) in August 2012. In this massive exercise, around 16,700 enumerators, each assigned to one of the Enumeration Areas (EAs), visited every household in the country. The fieldwork, consisting … Continue reading →

Posted in Communication, Gov 2.0, ICT, Uncategorized

Designing a responsive National Strategy for the Development of Statistics (NSDS)

June 25, 2013

As we deliberate post-2015 agenda chalking out global development directions after the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), there’s a renewed interest in the availability, quality and accessibility of data and statistics for guiding policy, monitoring progress, measuring results, and supporting analysis. … Continue reading →

Posted in Communication, Gov 2.0, Open Data

Monitoring and Evaluation should be about Open Data

May 28, 2013

Essentially, Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) is about learning and finding out what is or is not working in a project or programme set-up. An effective M&E system facilitates tracking this. However, setting up an M&E system to attain this objective … Continue reading →

Posted in Gov 2.0, ICT for Development

Getting data used

June 4, 2012

In late 2003, when I was looking for content and services for the telecentres (or ICT Kiosks) in Orissa-India, one of the things that kept on coming up in discussions within our team was, ensuring their usage. And that meant, … Continue reading →

Posted in Communication, Design, Gov 2.0, ICT, Open Data, Website

Designing NISR website

May 29, 2012

I do realise that designing a website is a complex job! And this realisation was reinforced recently – when I embarked on creating the new website of the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR). Being the national statistics office … Continue reading →

Posted in Communication, Design, Gov 2.0, ICT, Website

Open Data – Rwanda

September 28, 2011

In July 2010, I was invited to be the Advisor in the reference group for the ‘Open Data Study’ – commissioned by the Transparency & Accountability Initiative, c/o Open Society Foundation, UK. Under the initiative, apart from a report on Open Data Study, two … Continue reading →

Posted in Gov 2.0, Open Data

Something interesting is happening with ‘data’!

July 21, 2010

Not long ago, I had shared an announcement with my colleagues in the national statistics office (NSO) that I’m currently working with, “Data.WorldBank.org Launched Today on Drupal”. In that announcement, more than the ‘Data’ part, I was excited for the … Continue reading →

Posted in Gov 2.0, ICT4D

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