Open data for Ethiopia

B.Sc. LEUL CHALLA

Master's thesis

Abstract:

Governments are responsible for collecting, organising and disseminating data on different aspects of their country. This data can be accessed openly by the public or through an official inquiry. There is a recent trend of more and more governments and institutions opening up their data to the public. Therefore, open government data is not just a buzz word anymore but an essential resource for creating new business values. This thesis analyses the importance of open data and its implications for development. It discusses the open data movement, how to start an open data initiative, its demand and civic engagement. Case studies from Africa have been examined to converse the impact of open data on development. The recent open data initiative by the Ethiopian government, the Ethiopian open data portal, its merits and shortcoming were studied. This thesis also provides an analysis of open data in the current context of the country including law, technology, economy, society and organisations. Furthermore, it includes the design and implementation of an open data-driven web application on food security. The implementation also shows how a new value can be added to openly accessible data sets using freely available software tools.

Keywords

Open data, Open government, Right to Information, Data for development, Government data, Data portal

Jazyk práce: English

Datum vytvoření / odevzdání či podání práce: 30. 11. 2017

Obhajoba závěrečné práce

• Vedúci: Ing. Miloš Ulman, Ph.D.

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

Faculty of Economics and Management

Master programme / odbor:
Systems Engineering and Informatics / Informatics