rowid,title,speaker,time,day,room,url,datetime,abstract,image 19,Hacking Open Data in Africa,Soila Kenya,2:00 PM,May 8 2019,Daisy Bingham Room,https://csvconf.com/speakers/#soila-kenya,2019-05-08T14:00:00,"This talk will cover the tips & tricks of community-sourcing for openAFRICA.net - the largest independent repository of open data on the African continent - used in order to digitise deadwood to give citizens actionable information. Data availability in many African countries is dismal. Files upon files of important government information lay gathering dust in abandoned storage rooms. On the other hand, journalists and citizens need this information to keep governments in check and ensure they are receiving the right services. So how do you turn paper-based government archives into machine readable & API accessible digital files?",https://csvconf.com/img/speakers-2019/skenya.jpg