Open Government Data Promotes Health Journalism
summary
Kenya launches Cody the Kenya Open Data initiative that posts government and health datasets online and journalists use those files plus field checks to make concrete claims: analysis links girls drop out when schools lack toilets after comparing sanitation and attendance data, and health summaries reveal data shows family prosperity correlates with uptake of family planning, helping justify policy. Training focuses on numeracy, reading academic journals, building testable hypotheses, verifying with experts and on-the-ground reporting, and adapting personal-health tools for epidemiology.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:47Open Data in Kenya
- 1:29Open Data in Journalism
- 2:48Vanity Projects
- 3:30Training Journalists
- 4:36Conclusion
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