For the past year, OpenOil has collected oil concession data from all continents as a contribution to what we believe holds the potential to revolutionise natural resource management across the globe: an open data framework around the extractive industries. Today,…
Open Data Aha!
Signposting to open data being used in 'real life'
Tag: extractive industries
An Open Data Concession Map of the World – Part I, Sub-Saharan Africa
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Launched: Open Data Concession Map of the World
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Part I, Sub-Saharan Africa: 33 countries, 1750 blocks, 120+ contracts – now in one map
Extractives remediation & public health — open data advocacy in Nigeria
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Following a recent lead poisoning epidemic in the Zamfara State of Northern Nigeria — the result of the local artisanal gold mining operations — local non-profit organisation Follow The Money took immediate action against their corrupt local government who they…
Tagged with: advocacy, Aid, Bagega, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), extractive industries, Follow The Money, funds, gold, lead poisoning, Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF), mining, Nigeria, OKFN, Oludotun Babayemi, open data, Open Data Handbook, pollution, Rahul Ghosh, remediation, SaveBagega, TerraGraphics Environmental Engineering, treatment, UNICEF
Putting open data all together – the Tanzania pilot
For the past year, OpenOil has researched various aspects of open data on extractive industries. First we looked at corporate mapping – creating a network map of BP’s 1,200 subsidiaries across 84 countries with our colleagues at OpenCorporates. Then, with…
Tagged with: BP, corporate, extractive industries, financial, gold, Johnny West, mapping, oil, open data, OpenCorporates, Tanzania, the Tanzania prototype
The relationship between extractives and financing development
11 August 2015 Eddie Rich The EITI as a tool for bringing the benefits of natural resources to citizens. Many important points were made at last month’s Financing for Development Conference in Addis, Ethiopia. Moving from declarations to actions will…
An ‘EITI geek’ on open data
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31 July 2015 Christoffer Claussen The quest, challenges and exciting possibilities of unlocking data. Image: Shutterstock. Over the course of the last six months, my work has revolved around EITI data. I am what you could call an ‘EITI geek’.…
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