In recent years, a diverse coalition of actors has pushed the creation and diffusion of open data programmes around the world.
The International Barcode of Life (iBOL) project, received a funding boost of $35 million from Canadian agencies for a 26-nation effort to collect specimens, sequence their DNA, and build an informatics platform using digital bar codes to store an
Researchers are quickly amassing barcodes or identifiers for a database of life forms, and developing new informatics tools and technologies.
Research ICT Africa (RIA) seeks to build an African evidence and knowledge base in support of ICT policy and regulatory processes, and to monitor and review policy and regulatory developments on the continent.