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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
Hope for a better Jamaican design future?

Hope for a better Jamaican design future?

The motivation for my last post was simple: the need to consider real human beings when we design and develop digital products. While…
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Denique Ferguson
Are real people at the heart of your digital agenda?

Are real people at the heart of your digital agenda?

There’s a slow realisation among Jamaican organisations that website/app/insert-technology-of-choice-here “users” are living, breathing…
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Denique Ferguson
The Jamaican cook shop: on the frontlines of the new Data Protection Act

The Jamaican cook shop: on the frontlines of the new Data Protection Act

What does the humble Jamaican cook shop and the pursuit of being Jamaica’s own Mark Zuckerberg have in common? Actually, quite a lot…
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Matthew McNaughton
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