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tunde_bello

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Civic tech, open data and making public budgets readable.

  • Abuja, Nigeria
  • Joined 2 August 2026
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How do you make public budget data readable for people who do not use spreadsheets?

Public budget data, once cleaned, still looks like a spreadsheet, and the people who most need it are not spreadsheet people. What makes a budget tool usable for them? And where the work is unpaid to begin with, how should that be said to...

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Publish the plain version of a data tool first

A public data tool does not have to be pretty before anybody can use it. One dataset, searchable, with a chart that loads on a slow connection, is already useful to a journalist or a citizen. Publish that, see who uses it and for what, and...

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