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Oct 21, 2021

How Your Vote Counts

South African local elections are set for Monday 1 November 2021. You can check your voter registration details here.

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Apr 25, 2017

The Question of Traffic Fines | Durban Answers

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Jun 1, 2021

What is Civic Tech?

“So, what do you do?” is a question that has become a frequent conversation starter in this period of my life. I take a…

Open Cities Lab in Open Cities Lab

Sep 30, 2021

Building Inclusive Cities

The idea of an “Inclusive City” is not new. The notion that cities should be able to serve all citizens equally…

richard gevers in Open Cities Lab

Dec 6, 2019

Open Data Durban is now called Open Cities Lab!

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Mar 15, 2016

The Story So Far

Whether you discovered this site by chance, or have some idea of what Open Data Durban is about, I thought it would be good to give the “story so far”. Open Data Durban was born out of a deep frustration with the way we as a country, and particularly as a city, are progressing. This is not to…

Aliasgher Janmohammed in Open Cities Lab

Sep 7, 2022

Dexter: The Media Monitoring Machine

Dexter was conceived in 2015 by Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) for two key reasons. Firstly to…

Sophie McManus in Open Cities Lab

Jul 20, 2017

How to write a good design brief

A non-techy, a developer, and a designer walk into a bar…

Open Cities Lab in Open Cities Lab

Sep 6, 2022

Building Inclusive Cities

The idea of an “Inclusive City” is not new. The notion that cities should be able to serve all citizens equally…

Megan in Open Cities Lab

Mar 31, 2020

A convention of air quality citizen scientists on Open Data Day

Open Data Day was an opportunity for Open Cities…

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