One Padmore Place, Nairobi
In April The Local Development Research Institute organized a data chat event focused on AI for Agriculture: The Case for Smallholder Farmers in Africa. The data chat event took place on Twitter space moderated by Leonida Mutuku, the Research…
Background Information About This Event: Datafication has impacted many people’s lives and the world in unimaginable ways. We understand that leveraging data for the public benefit necessitates solid governance, data regulations, and proper data re-use across sectors and regions. In…
The monthly resource list for April 2022 puts together content including a reading list, avenues for capacity building, and events from different stakeholders across the globe on the use of open data for better service delivery in sectors such as…
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) remains dependent on biomass fuels, which provide over 60% of the total energy demanded. With only 30% of the population in Africa having access to electricity, biomass fuels play a critical role in household energy, mostly in…
Background information on this session: With advancements in technology, governments and other stakeholders are increasingly turning towards AI to support decision-making in the Agriculture and nutrition sector. Technological solutions based on AI have the capacity to allow farmers to increase…
Over the last few years, climate-smart agriculture(CSA) has been fronted as a way to help smallholder farmers cope with the effects of climate change and remain food and nutrition secure. In Sub-Saharan Africa, up to 80% of the population…
Our March 2022 resource list comes at a special time when the world’s celebrating Open Data Day and International Women’s Day concurrently and at a time when the world is making deliberate efforts to build back better. As we celebrate…
The Centro de Pensamiento Estratégico Internacional (Cepei) and the Local Development Research Institute (LDRI) signed a cooperation agreement to strengthen the production and use of data for sustainable development in Africa and Latin America, and the Caribbean. Philipp Schönrock, Executive…
The monthly resource list for February 2022 puts together content including a reading list, avenues for capacity building, and events from different stakeholders across the globe on the use of (open)data and for better service delivery in sectors such as…
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an escalation of public interest in the availability of related data, as everyone is keen to know the number of infections, the finances allocated in fighting the disease, the number of facilities that…