Call For Participants: iWatch Africa’s 2020 Open Data Day Forum

Gideon Sarpong February 27, 2020

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iWatch Africa in collaboration with GOIF and with support from Open Knowledge Foundation is inviting all interested persons to apply to attend our Open Data Day Forum on 7th March, 2020 at the Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT (AITI-KACE), Accra-Ghana. Time is 9am prompt.
The theme for the event is: Leveraging the power of public domain satellite and drone imagery to track deforestation and water pollution in West Africa.
You may visit our social media pages @iwatchafrica for more details.

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Gideon Sarpong February 27, 2020

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Gideon Sarpong

Gideon Sarpong is a policy analyst and media practitioner with close to a decade of experience in policy, data and investigative journalism. Gideon is a co-founder of iWatch Africa. He is an author; a fellow of the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI), Thomson Reuters Foundation, Commonwealth Youth Program ,Free Press Unlimited and Bloomberg Data for Health Initiative. Gideon is the Ghana Hub Lead of Sustainable Ocean Alliance. He was a 2021 Policy Leader Fellow at the European University Institute, School of Trans-national Governance in Florence, Italy and 2020/21 Open Internet For Democracy Leader. Gideon was also a 2021/22 Visiting Scholar/Reuters Fellow at the University of Oxford, UK and was selected as a 2022 TRF/Trust Conference Changemaker. He is currently the Africa Regional Cordinator for Environmental Justice Foundation and a 2023/24 Pulitzer ORN Fellow. Email: gideonsarpong@iwatchafrica.org.