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Notes from the field.
Ona Insights Visits AkiraChix to Talk Data, AI, and the Future of Analytics
At Ona Insights, we believe that the future of data in Africa is only as strong as the pipeline of talent we invest in today. That belief took shape recently when our team had the privilege of sitting down with a room full of bright, inquisitive students at AkiraChix.
Securing the Future of Feedback: CaseFusion CFMHub Achieves Grade A Rating
In the world of Community Feedback Mechanisms (CFM), data isn't just information, it's a trust exercise. We're excited to share the results of our recent, multi-phase security pentesting conducted in partnership with the United Nations International Computing Centre (UNICC) Redunit team.
Empowering Climate Accountability with Visual Storytelling
How Ona and UNICEF built NDCs for Every Child: A Digital Platform for Climate Accountability. Today, nearly half of the world's children live in extremely high-risk countries, exposed to severe climate and environmental hazards, shocks, and stresses.
Transforming Community Health Data Ecosystem
The Living Goods Data Architecture in Kenya: A Blueprint for Modern BI. As a technical partner to the Ministry of Health, Living Goods plays a critical role in supporting the Kenyan government's Universal Health Coverage Policy.
Standardizing the understanding of African Health Supply Chains
Strategizing Data Collection and Extraction. This inaugural piece in our Data Portals Blog Series focuses on the vital 'Extract' stage of data analytics projects — introducing a shared framework that enables comparable insights across 55 African countries for the first time.
Building a Data Warehouse for a Million Learners: Our Partnership with Imagine Worldwide
Since 2022 we've worked alongside Imagine Worldwide to design, build, and now stabilise a ClickHouse-based data warehouse that ingests data from thousands of solar-powered learning tablets across Malawi, Tanzania, and Sierra Leone — supporting their mission to deliver foundational literacy and numeracy to millions of children.
Introducing Ona Insights: Building Data and AI Systems for Social Impact
Over the past decade, I've had the privilege of working with some of the most forward-thinking organizations using data to improve lives across Africa and beyond — across public health, education, climate resilience, livelihoods, and humanitarian response.