Open Data in Africa

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As part of a series of mini blogposts, Inquisition asked Tim Kattlic from oAfrica.com to expand on what he believes to be emerging technology in Africa. He spoke to us about the concept of open data:

A Better Way to Teach Learning

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Whilst catching up on news this morning, the story of Jack Andraka, a 15 year old scientist, caught my eye. Not only was Jack's story of creating a cheap (226,000 times less expensive), near 100% accurate method of detecting pancreatic, lung and ovarian cancer amazing but so too was the story of how he started out in science. I think this is the most important lesson you can teach your kids and the most important way to push co-workers to gather new knowledge and test ideas.

If you're paying for effort you're doing strategy wrong

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I've witnessed a rather disturbing phenomenon recently: businesses aren't paying for strategic thought, they're paying for pages and time. Recently I worked with a team who wanted to develop a strategy for an institution of higher learning. The client was not happy with their one-page strategy clearly defining the problems at hand, and how to solve them. They wanted something "more substantial", and in their minds, more appropriate for the scale and scope of their challenges as a business.

Geeks. Status: Online

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While every business is different and needs unique processes depending on the team and projects, the basics remain the same. Number one in terms of productivity and success, communication. At Inquisition I make sure the crew run projects which meet deadlines, and oversee the production outputs of the team - this has necessitated developing a system specifically tailored to our small business. I want to share some of the tools I use to make talking to the geeks at Inquisition painless, and effective.

Modern Tribalism

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It’s a given that the internet connects people, but it’s not as simple as that – it connects people who choose to be connected to each other. Hence the development of communities – or the trendy word for them, tribes – from communities conceived and grown organically online, to offline communities that have made the shift to web.

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