Dev into civic tech, mountains and sailing. Senior Data Engineer at @open_sanctions. @jbothma@mastodon.sdf.org on mastodon. @jdbothma.bsky.social on bluesky.
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Even if AI can answer any question you have, we must keep on educating ourselves otherwise those who build the AI end up making our decisions for us by deciding which options we see
Shout out to Charle Rei, financial adviser at @OldMutualSA who went above and beyond to help me despite international calling difficulties. I finally feel relaxed and understand my options.
Fed up of corruption in government contracts?
Learn how to track down the details and shine a light on the baddies. Let's make it way too much effort to steal from the state.
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I love that the iranian sanctions website uses recaptcha. Like "you're super evil! but your tech's nice..."
The @TreasuryRSA @vulekamali procurement data overview vulekamali.gov.za/datasets/p… shows new open procurement data is available from the OCPO
ALT Screenshot showing tenders announced in July 2024 on a time series of the number of procurement processes started each month
Does this government of national unity talk mean anything? As far as I can tell, all it means is that the ANC has invited negotiation for coalition which is literally the only option for the ANC to be included in the government.
Mr fear fokkol blames the media for the ANC's election results. Says the ANC worked hard in the election to counter MK. Maybe if the ANC worked hard on delivery, MK would not have been a threat, and the press would not have been "against"
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Hey @AsambleaVE it looks like your website is serving pop-up advertisements. Is that intentional? cc @nicveoficial
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Actually, I'm not done. @MbalulaFikile @MYANC, Zuma, in the National Assembly, said those questioning Nkandla spending, were "Clever Blacks." Your MPs cheered. Some government spokespeople, ESPECIALLY yours & Gigabas, added "702 Blacks" in PROFESSIONAL responses to Nkandla! And
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Connecting beneficial ownership data to other datasets requires reliable identifiers to be certain that the same entity is being referred to.
What are reliable identifiers and why are they important? This is the subject of the latest technical guidance published as part of the joint #OpeningExtractives programme from @OpenOwnership and @EITIorg.
Great - as always - to work with Kadie Armstrong from @opendatacoop on this
openownership.org/en/publica…
#beneficialownership #identifiers #connecteddata
At the risk of getting hassled at the airport every time I visit family in the UK, or totally destroying my current move to the UK, I do have to say something. And this sums it up well.
Day to day: @FNBSA blurring the lines between money you have, and money you can borrow on your credit card, so that you think you have more than you do and spend more and pay them interest.
I'm so excited that Quarterly Performance Reporting (QPR) indicators and results are now easily available on @vulekamali
search: vulekamali.gov.za/performanc…
summary for a department vulekamali.gov.za/2023-24/na…
This is groundbreaking work by @DpmeOfficial, @TreasuryRSA, and @OpenUpSA
