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Nicolas Dickinson

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Rotterdam

My open source work revolves around sustainable water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in Africa and sustainable energy and the systems that need to be in place for these services to meet the needs of people. There is a need to strengthen the capacity of WASH and energy colleagues to understand and use digital technologies and open source. I use my time to provide peer support to colleagues in African governments and NGOs and to develop or share innovative approaches that non-developers would not think about.

But now I need more sponsorship to really kick off this work! We are starting here:
https://github.com/WASHNote/WASHWeb/

My focus at the moment is to stimulate the creation of a healthy digital ecosystem for sharing information water, sanitation and energy data. I am committed to working with open source communities, standards organizations, and data providers to ensure an open WASH Web built on the best standards for data access, security and privacy.

The WASH Web will be where you go to easily find all the public information on what has happened in a service area. This will ensure users, civil society, new district staff, NGOs and the private sector all have access to key information and insights needed to discuss, plan and achieve the water and sanitation related Sustainable Development Goals.

For more info:
https://washnote.com/washweb/
https://github.com/WASHNote/WASHWeb/

I also like to code and organize interactive animations and exhibitions when time allows and always with open source software.

Featured work

  1. CSS
  2. nickdickinson/WASHCost-tool

    The WASHCost tool: for analysing the life-cycle costs of water and sanitation services

    Ruby
  3. nickdickinson/WASH-network-analysis

    Creating a network of WASH organisations, datasets and what they are committed to and what they are doing for the purpose of speeding up collaboration and innovation.

    R

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