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Digital Impact was created by the Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford PACS and was managed until 2024. It is no longer being updated.

Bill Anderson

Bill is the Technical Lead in the Secretariat of the International Aid Transparency Initiative, and works on joined-up data and global data standards. Bill posses 13 years as an intelligence analyst for the African National Congress of South Africa. 10 years as MD of a software house doing Electronic Data Interchange. Consultant specialising in public information systems in Africa.

Posts by Bill Anderson

March 26, 2015

Adventures in the Data Revolution: What Revolution?

Bill Anderson

Field Notes, MFG Archive

  On Sunday 29 March ministers from 54 African countries will gather in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia to endorse an African Data Consensus, a roadmap for the Data Revolution in Africa. Which begs the question: are we really talking about a revolution and, if so, what kind of revolution?   Talk of a data revolution […]

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February 26, 2015

Adventures in the Data Revolution: Collecting Ugandan Data

Bill Anderson

Field Notes, MFG Archive

  Here at Development Initiatives and Development Research and Training (DRT) we are currently piloting a ‘Joined-Up Data’ study in Uganda. We have been working in the rural districts of Kitgum and Katakwi, following the emergence of two issues: (1) the really bad results of students completing primary education, and (2) the unacceptably high number of women still […]

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