We are glad to bring you much news in this April issue! An exciting webinar with WASHWeb, a new partnership announcement, and a new dataset.
Together with openwashdata, WASHWeb is hosting a webinar about innovations working towards an improved WASH data ecosystem. We have a fantastic line-up of guest speakers from Akvo, Aquaya, IRCWASH Systems Academy, mWater, openwashdata, Segura Consulting, WASHAI, and WASHNote. Do not miss it on April 4 and sign up today!
Event website: https://openwashdata.org/pages/events/2024-04-04-webinar-washweb
Date: Thursday, April 04, 3:00 - 4:30 PM (Central European Time)
Webinar Zoom registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUpfuGqqjoqEtEzlGdETK1t7dPsfswHnozN#/registration
rwpfunctionality released!The dataset rwpfunctionality is about water point monitoring data associated with the paper "Rural water point functionality estimates and associations: evidence from nine countries in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia"(Murray, Anna L et al., 2024).
- rwpfunctionality: Water point functionality assessment in nine sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia countries.
We proudly announce the strategic partnership with SOIL, a non-profit organization working in Haiti to combat the sanitation crisis. openwashdata and SOIL have formed a strategic partnership to collaborate on data stewardship. Together, we will assess existing data management practices, formulate a preliminary data management strategy, and pinpoint datasets ready for open publication.
Applause to our new team member Margaux Götschmann who developed the dataset rwpfunctionality. Margaux will continue to develop data packages for the next few months. Welcome to the openwashdata community!
We truly believe that openwashdata project prospers when we have YOU work together and promote open science and data practice! No matter what background you are from, we come up with some ways for you to get involved: