The Open Institute works with governments, civil society, private sector companies, media organisations and others to realize citizen-driven open societies in Africa, managed by informed, fact-driven citizens. They aim to do this through various community-level initiatives and forging partnerships with other organisations in this space.
The Changes They Seek
Through their work they aim to achieve two main changes in their societies: they want to see governments that proactively open everything that is relevant to development into the sunlight and to give value to citizen voices.
The Things They Do
Operating at the intersection of policy thinking, grassroots citizen desires and technological solution building, they work to deliver meaningful solutions that impact both citizens and governments.
They appreciate the value of data to citizen empowerment and therefore innovating its curation and presentation with a view to making it effectively usable.
They develop agile experiments and research into the best ways and means that citizens can contribute to government priorities and to development work.
Mission
Open Institute’s objectives work towards the future tjhey see.
They envision a world where citizens have freedom to participate in their society’s governance and development and the power to influence change. In the world that they envision, every human being has a voice that is heard by their leaders and other citizens and their governments listen and are responsive to the citizens’ needs.