In September 2012, DFID’s Trade Policy team commissioned three ‘hack days’ in London, Cape Town and Lagos. Working with ReWired State, RLabs and Co-Creation Hub, teams of volunteer ‘hackers’ – software developers, web designers, data analysts and statisticians were challenged to ‘hack’ various trade data sets and come up with interesting, easy to use websites or mobile apps that would make trade data accessible to citizens.
The project was a pilot to test assumptions about the relationship between trade tariffs and consumer prices, but already one of the tools produced has attracted seed funding for further development.
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