Data@breakfast webinar: Getting more from government (meta) data
Paul Plantinga will be speaking on The Policy Action Network, which is a project in the Human Sciences Research Council. The project aims to connect government policy processes with research, data and stakeholder knowledge.
Bio: Paul Plantinga is a Research Specialist in the Impact Centre at the Human Sciences Research Council in South Africa. In this position he is managing the Policy Action Network project and exploring the use of digital technologies to support evidence-informed decision-making. Between 2012 and 2016 he led open innovation and open data work at The Innovation Hub. Prior to this he researched ICT governance in the Centre for Organisational and Social Informatics at Monash University, and was a solution architect and engineer in mobile telecoms and VoIP with Accenture and SAAB.