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Report: Open Data Day 2025 in Owerri: Leveraging Open Data for Child Advocacy

The event ‘Leveraging Open Data for Child Advocacy in a Polycrisis Context’ was successfully held on 6th March 2025 in Imo State, bringing together child rights, teachers, advocates, policymakers, data analysts, church leaders and community leaders. The event which started at 10am focused on how open data can drive evidence-based advocacy for vulnerable children facing […]

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Report: Islam West Africa Collection: Dataset, Distant Reading, and Uses of AI for Discourse Analysis

The scientific aim of the Islam West Africa Collection (IWAC) was primarily to compile a corpus of press articles, an under-used type of sources, for two research projects: 1-Youth and Women’s Islamic Activism in Côte d’Ivoire and Burkina Faso; 2- Muslim Minorities in Benin and Togo.This open-access database provides access to press clippings from the […]