https://apero.thedataareclean.com/tags/open-source/ Recent content in open-source on cube Hugo -- gohugo.io en CC BY 4.0 Mon, 01 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://apero.thedataareclean.com/project/noral/ Mon, 01 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://apero.thedataareclean.com/project/noral/ Background The Northern Alliance of Scotland is a regional improvement collaborative, spanning across and supporting eight local authorities and their associated school settings to improve education and reduce the poverty related attainment gap. Within these settings, children, young people and their families live across a diverse range of urban and rural settlements. The aim of this collaboration is to determine what data sources and analytical techniques best reflect the challenges of child poverty, and subsequently provide a means to assess the poverty related attainment gap as a result – which will further allow individual school settings, local authorities and other bodies to plan targeted interventions to reduce it. https://apero.thedataareclean.com/project/girl-ed/ Thu, 01 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://apero.thedataareclean.com/project/girl-ed/ Background CivicDataLab partnered with HAQ: Centre for Child Rights (HAQ-CRC) and Malala Fund on a project to strengthen financial accountability towards girl education in Uttar Pradesh. The project aims at monitoring the financing of education related scheme with a special focus on promoting girl education in the state. This project will serve as a means to measure the progress towards SDG Goal 4 & 6 and will also strengthen accountability measures in public financing of education by creating a knowledge pool which will further help policy making to promote girl education. https://apero.thedataareclean.com/blog/cdl/2021-02-18-budget-reco-ed/ Thu, 18 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://apero.thedataareclean.com/blog/cdl/2021-02-18-budget-reco-ed/ Photo by marif shaik from Unsplash. COVID-19 and Education The COVID-19 pandemic changed the education landscape of India overnight. Educational institutes were compelled to adopt various digital learning alternatives to sustain timely growth of children. In a country where only 4.4% of rural and 23.4% of urban households own computers, the challenge becomes even bigger. Moreover, this gap gets wider with only 42% of urban households having a computer with an internet connection, and the same being available to only 14. https://apero.thedataareclean.com/project/foss/ Mon, 01 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://apero.thedataareclean.com/project/foss/ Background CivicDataLab in partnership with Omidyar Network India conducted a research study to develop a deeper understanding of the Free & Open Source Software (FOSS) ecosystem of India, its current stakeholders, challenges faced by the FOSS movement, and explore ways to support FOSS communities and accelerate adoption in India. The research also chronicles the journey of FOSS in India, research and map out the pioneers of the FOSS movement: tracing projects, local communities, big tech contributors and current adoption by State and Central Governments.