An Election Data Browser for Afghanistan Elections
Eric Gundersen of DevelopmentSeed details the value of opening up raw data via open source in ” Opening Afghanistan’s Election Data: An Open Source Data Browser.”
Why should you read up on this project?
Open data and open source
Working with open source tools gave us the flexibility to build a highly custom solution for NDI and building on top of Managing News let us build it faster. In some ways this application serves as a living monitoring and evaluation report that shows the results of what a $300 million foreign donor funded election looks like. The “living” part is what is key here, since this M&E report is really about helping future projects in real time.
It is exciting to see how fast talk about open data can turn into real systems at USAID. This tool from NDI is one of the first large open data wins at USAID, but based on the chatter here in Washington, DC, it is just the beginning of a new trend
