Learning to play like yourself…updating SlashRoots’ missionLast year SlashRoots reexamined why we did this work, what success looked like for us and the communities we wanted to impact. Here is…Matthew McNaughton·Added Mar 30, 2022·4 min readMatthew McNaughton·Added Mar 30, 2022·4 min read
OGP Jamaica: Open Call for Civil Society NominationsNominate civil society representatives to help oversee the development of Jamaica’s first OGP National Action Plan. Closes June 14, 2021Denique Soutar·Added Jun 7, 2021·4 min readDenique Soutar·Added Jun 7, 2021·4 min read
Civil Society Coalition outlines key reforms of NIDS Bill to ParliamentOn Wednesday, March 31, 2021 The NIDS Focus Coalition will present before Jamaica’s Parliament on the National ID BillMatthew McNaughton·Added Apr 5, 2021·2 min readMatthew McNaughton·Added Apr 5, 2021·2 min read
Tell Your MP what matters to youToo 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…Denique Soutar·Added Jan 23, 2019·3 min readDenique Soutar·Added Jan 23, 2019·3 min read
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…David Soutar·Added Aug 20, 2018·3 min readDavid Soutar·Added Aug 20, 2018·3 min read
When you’re an intern actually doing something usefulFor 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…Dominique Lyew·Added Aug 10, 2018·3 min readDominique Lyew·Added Aug 10, 2018·3 min read
What’s in it for me? New Citizen Rights in the Data Protection ActAt our recent Data Protection Act Town Hall, two common sentiments shared among the presenters and participants were: Too few Jamaicans…Matthew McNaughton·Added Jun 4, 2018·4 min readMatthew McNaughton·Added Jun 4, 2018·4 min read
Code for Africa wants to help Jamaican journalism stay ahead of the timesWarning: This is not fake news. You are about to read something positive about journalism in 2018.Ross Sheil·Added Jun 1, 2018·2 min readRoss Sheil·Added Jun 1, 2018·2 min read
Moving the needle on Jamaica’s data use cultureDaily we allow our data to be collected and used. Sometimes it is being shared and used without our consent — and these abuses often become…Matthew McNaughton·Added May 14, 2018·3 min readMatthew McNaughton·Added May 14, 2018·3 min read
Of prisons, pain, open data and progressWhile in Cape Town, South Africa, on a recent trip for SlashRoots, I got to tour Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned. The…Denique Soutar·Added Apr 25, 2018·3 min readDenique Soutar·Added Apr 25, 2018·3 min read
