Online data repositories
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A data repository is a large database infrastructure — or several databases — that collect, manage, and store data sets for data analysis, sharing and reporting.
A data repository is also known as a data library or data archive. This is a general term to refer to a data set isolated to be mined for data reporting and analysis.
Open data is data that is openly accessible, exploitable, editable and shared by anyone for any purpose, even commercially. Open data is licensed under an open licence.
Following concerns about misuse of funds allocated for emergency spending, The Office of the Chief Procurement produces dashboards which cover spending related to Covid-19 procurement and disaster response funds (such as recepts from flooding in kwaZulu Natal).
While these dashboards are excellent, accessing the underlying data can be tricky. For this reason, OpenUp maintains a repository of data which is collected from the COvid-19 dashboard at Keep The Receipts.
Company information is useful when we are trying to know better about a supplier (its director, areas of businesses etc.)
B2BHint (Company info)
BizPortal (CIPC portal for company registration information)
World Bank Doing Business Data and New Business Density Survey
Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Data
Open Knowledge Foundation Global Open Data Index
University of Cape Town’s DataFirst microlibrary
African Development Bank’s Data Portal
National Research Foundation (NRF) South African Data Archive
National Research Foundation (NRF)’s Committee on Data for Science and Technology’s Database of Data Resources in Africa
Africa: Tracking Internet Progress in Data & Numbers
