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Civic Tech
Growing Communities Through Data
"Alone, we can do so little; together, we can do so much." - Helen Keller
Data
Journalism & Media
Data, Digging & Doggedness: Investigating the National Lottery Commission
It all started in a lecture hall when about a dozen investigative journalists came together to talk shop and drink wine out of polystyrene cups…
Visualisations
Who play's the lottery?
The lottery in South Africa is hugely supported by poor and low income earners, with 73% of players earning less than R5,000 a month - and of those…
Opinion
Civic Tech
OpenUp
Ten things I learnt at OpenUp
As we wrap up our work in corporate, we decided to reflect on a few of the lessons learnt along the way.
Data
Citizen Empowerment
Journalism & Media
Investigating private entities with open data
As part of OpenUp's Transparent Corporates project, we've got some tips on how to investigate private entities using open data.
Government
Civic Tech
Corporate tax: a balancing act
How does the Corporate Tax Income rate affects the average taxpayer and what are the ways in which we can start to curb tax evasion?
Opinion
Who really benefits from company ownership?
In this next article we look at beneficial ownership and the need for global improved transparency, as well as a registry here in South Africa.
Data
Citizen Empowerment
Civic Tech
Opening up corporate data
In this next article we’re going back to the beginning and will look at why we’re branching out to corporate data.
Data
Journalism & Media
Government
Law
Tax havens and evasions
What is tax evasion and what does it actually mean to call somewhere a tax haven?
Civic Tech
Data
Citizen Empowerment
OpenUp
Why should you care about Open Data?
For Open Data Day 2017, we asked the OpenUp staff to weigh in on why Open Data is important and what it means to them.
Citizen Empowerment
Law
Shareholder requests and the access battle
The state of transparency within company ownership and how the law facilitates access to this type of information.
Law
Government
Tools
Civic Tech
Read all about it, use Open Gazettes
Open Gazettes changes the way journalists use government gazettes to do stories, by allowing users to search and track important public information.

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