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These are the early days of the data revolution in personal decision-making. I am not claiming that we can completely outsource our lifestyle choices to algorithms, though we might get to that point in the future. I am claiming instead that we can all dramatically improve our decision-making by consulting evidence mined from thousands or millions of people who faced dilemmas similar to ours. And we can do that now.
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
A2K4D + icecairo Solar Energy Meet-Up
On November 1, 2016, A2K4D’s Data Revolution Team held an exciting Meet-Up for the Solar Energy sector.
The event brought together entrepreneurs, lawyers, and researchers, as well as representatives from the International Finance Corporation and the government. Held at icecairo, a green technology hub located on the GrEEK Campus in Downtown Cairo, the event brought about a lively and engaging conversation about aspirations for -- and hesitations toward -- knowledge-sharing between major players in the sector.
Speakers included Dr. Hussein Abaza (Senior Advisor to the Ministry of Environment), who stressed the importance of the green economy, emphasizing the need to acknowledge this strategy as Egypt’s way forward. Marwan Hussein, Program Manager at Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, spoke about why knowledge-sharing is central to the success of solar energy in Egypt.
“No one knows anything about the sector, and this hurts everyone in the end,” offered Ahmed Zahran, CEO of KarmSolar. “People are lacking the most basic information,” added Marwan Hussein.
An overarching theme that structured the conversation was the inconsistency of information in the supply chain. Lawyers in the audience were particularly vexed not only by ever-changing laws, but inconsistencies within different ministries when inquiring about these changes.
A2K4D is currently in the process of constructing a comprehensive digital platform that maps the economy of the solar energy sector, in order to encourage entrepreneurship, fill gaps in the value chain, and collectively improve the economic status of the sector through knowledge-sharing.
The Meet-Up, which aimed to understand challenges in the sector, was the first step in this pursuit.
Stay tuned for updates!
Ready, Steady, Go: #ddiMENA Is Here!
Ready, Steady, Go: #ddiMENA Is Here!
Last week, we were telling you about the most exciting of events at this beginning of 2016: the Data-Driven Innovation in MENA series of workshops. All of us, be it Open MENA, be it at the IDRC, at WebRadar.me and elsewhere, have been hard at work fine-tuning the last details of the programme. Here is, in a nutshell, what you may have missed — and how not to miss out any detail anymore.
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Happy New Year! Volunteer and Power Open MENA
Happy New Year! Volunteer and Power Open MENA
We are in for 2016: Welcome and thanks. We have been busy doing research on the opportunities the data revolution provides for the MENA region and joining the freshly launched Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data to continue and extend work in that domain. We are also launching a call for volunteers, so be sure to share with others.
More and more people have been following our work…
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Champions of data do exist. Embrace them.
A Data Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
Want to make an impact in the ongoing data revolution? Get involved with Open MENA!
Our friends at the IDRC-MENA and the Access to Knowledge in Development (A2K4D) programme at the AUC invited us to discuss how to bring the #datarevolution in #MENA.
-- A Data Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
SDGs and the Data Revolution, Where Is Rwanda?
SDGs and the Data Revolution, Where Is Rwanda?
Next month, the UN will convene a summit for the adoption of the post-2015 development agenda, and kickstart and officially start the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) countdown. The SDGs are a proposed set of targets relating to future international development and will replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) once they expire at the end of 2015.
It is important to note that…
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