December 20, 2019
In an effort to awareness and encourage public discourse on the increasing of Police Brutality in Nigeria, Citizen Commons (eCove) in partnership with CivicHive hosted a Townhall in Abuja.
December 15, 2019
CitizenCommons/ eCove graduates the first Cohort of Open Gov Social Impact Challenge (OSIC) Fellows.
After a week of intensive training, Abuja Finalists of the Open Gov Social Impact Challenge Finalists successfully graduated and pitched their social ideas.
December 8, 2019
The 20 finalists (10 each for Abuja and Lagos) will proceed to the next stage of the project by participating in a 5 Day Accelerated BootCamp where experts, mentors, seasoned social entrepreneurs and program staffers will work with them to further refine their solutions. The Bootcamp presents an opportunity to improve their ideas; using top of the line resources and tools that will help them to map out the best practical and sustainable path to achieve scale and impact for their ideas.
November 8, 2019
Open Gov Social Impact Challenge (OSIC) is a competition that seeks to identify practical, original and social impact ideas (especially those that promote open government, accountability and improved citizen engagement - broadly defined) promoted by emerging social entrepreneurs across Nigeria. Designed as a pilot, the program is presented as a platform that gives emerging social entrepreneurs an opportunity to showcase their solutions and access some resources (mentorship, training, and workspace) and potentially funding