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Ghana Open Data Initiative
Ghana Open Data Initiative
Agency overview
FormedJanuary 2012 (2012-01)
JurisdictionGovernment of Ghana
HeadquartersAccra
Agency executives
  • Mr. Kwaku Ofosu-Adarkwa, Steering Committee Chair
  • Prof. Nii Narku Quaynor[1], Steering Committee Co-Chair
  • Mr. William Tevie[1], Project Director
  • Mr. Eric Akumiah[1], Project Manager
  • Mr. Wisdom Donkor[2], Technical Lead & Open Data Evangelist
Parent agencyNational Information Technology Agency
Websitedata.gov.gh

Ghana Open Data Initiative (GODI) was started in January 2012 by the National Information Technology Agency (NITA) in partnership with the Web Foundation (WF), to make Government of Ghana data available to the public for re-use. The establishment of GODI is meant to promote efficiency, transparency and accountability in governance as well as to facilitate economic growth by means of the creation of Mobile and Web applications for the Ghanaian and world markets. The project was scheduled for completion in 2014 and aimed to create a sustainable Open Data ecosystem for Ghana. GODI was launched with a 100 data sets categorized as political, legal, organizational, technical, social or economic. The vision of GODI is to develop an open data community involving the Government of Ghana, civil society organizations, industry, developer communities, academia, media practitioners, and the citizenry, to interact with one another with the aim of developing an open data portal to bring about transparency, accountability and efficiency in government.[1][3][4][5]

  1. ^ a b c d GNA (October 24, 2012). "Open Government Data Portal Ready By December 2013". ghana.gov.gh. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved May 29, 2013.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference theafricareport was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ BiztechAfrica (November 3, 2012). "GODI project to get US tech support". biztechafrica.com. Retrieved June 2, 2013..
  4. ^ GODI. "About GODI". data.gov.gh. Archived from the original on August 18, 2013. Retrieved May 29, 2013..
  5. ^ José M. Alonso (Feb 1, 2012). "New Project: Ghana Open Data Initiative (GODI)". World Wide Web Foundation. Retrieved June 2, 2013..

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