The Transforming Education Pakistan (TEP) programme was a multi-year DFID-funded campaign aiming to increase political will to deliver education reform in Pakistan. A data observatory platform hosting definitive and accessible data sources on education data (infrastructure, financial, enrolment, and performance) was integral element of the campaign.
The Public Health Research Data Forum are a group of major international funders of public health research. They have committed to work together to increase the availability of data emerging from their funded research, in order to accelerate advances in public health.
Edo State Government and the World Bank set out to develop Nigeria’s first open data service as part of their commitment to greater transparency. Edo State Government required comprehensive knowledge transfer to take place so they would have full responsibility for the support and development of their data service.
The Government of New South Wales has an existing portal based on the Drupal content management system. They would like to launch a more sophisticated site with a data management service combined with a CMS, based on Drupal, for editorial and user interaction.
South Australia deployed a standard version of CKAN, the open data publishing portal, as their state data service. The base system did not offer fulfill all their requirements, and they requested enhancements as part of a general CKAN upgrade.
Healthcare institutions are busy places. A 400-bed hospital can see hundreds of thousands of patients a year. Millions of blood tests will be taken, analysed and the results sent back for diagnosis and medical intervention. The chance of error is small, often only 2 in every 1,000 tests, but the consequences can be enormous. And, with so many tests being processed, even a small chance of error means that thousands take place in every hospital, every year.
