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Tell Your MP what matters to you

Tell Your MP what matters to you

Too many of us are accustomed to not having a voice, leaving officials (whom we may or may not have voted for) to make decisions that…
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Denique Ferguson
Fixing Castries’ traffic problem, but what about Kingston!?

Fixing Castries’ traffic problem, but what about Kingston!?

I’m writing this in-between flights on the way back from St Lucia where we just held our first open data meet-up, part of a six-month…
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David Soutar
When you’re an intern actually doing something useful

When you’re an intern actually doing something useful

For the past two months I’ve been ‘the SlashRoots intern’. While I haven’t gotten to make any coffee or do filing; I have been working on a…
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Dominique Lyew
What’s in it for me? New Citizen Rights in the Data Protection Act

What’s in it for me? New Citizen Rights in the Data Protection Act

At our recent Data Protection Act Town Hall, two common sentiments shared among the presenters and participants were: Too few Jamaicans…
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Matthew McNaughton
Code for Africa wants to help Jamaican journalism stay ahead of the times

Code for Africa wants to help Jamaican journalism stay ahead of the times

Warning: This is not fake news. You are about to read something positive about journalism in 2018.
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Ross Sheil
Moving the needle on Jamaica’s data use culture

Moving the needle on Jamaica’s data use culture

Daily we allow our data to be collected and used. Sometimes it is being shared and used without our consent — and these abuses often become…
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Matthew McNaughton
Of prisons, pain, open data and progress

Of prisons, pain, open data and progress

While in Cape Town, South Africa, on a recent trip for SlashRoots, I got to tour Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned. The…
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Denique Ferguson
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