Raj Sandhu @rajsandhu.bsky.social Currently into:
📊 data
🐦⬛ crows
🌱 arugula
🏃 running
🇩🇪 Deutsch
🗽 democracy
📜 ancient history
-- and, likely, also --
🌀 some obscure things you’re into too
Richard Carlsson @richcarl.bsky.social Free range yak farmer. @richcarl@mastodon.nu
Erlang Solutions @erlangsolutions.bsky.social We build transformative solutions for the world’s most ambitious companies.
Discover more ➡️ https://www.erlang-solutions.com/
Open Knowledge Foundation @okfn.bsky.social We provide services, tools and training to build a world open by design where all knowledge is accessible to everyone.
#TheTechWeWant #OpenDataEditor #OpenDataCommons #SchoolOfData #CKAN
OpenNews @opennews.bsky.social We help journalists connect as peers to build the skills that transform their work and the relationships that transform our industry.
Find us at SRCCON: a community-driven conference we build together!
NYC School of Data @schoolofdata.nyc We are NYC's #PiTech & #opendata community conference hosted by @beta.nyc
Join us on Saturday, March 28, and Sunday, March 29, 2026, for our TENTH anniversary! We will unpack & understand tech, data, & design.
Register today! www.schoolofdata.nyc
Mila Frerichs @milafrerichs.bsky.social Open Data Berater, Linked Open Data, CKAN Support, Metadaten, Technischer Support für Kommunen und kommunale IT-Dienstleister.
Kunden: SH, Kaiserslautern, Moers, KRZN
TechCentral @techcentral.co.za Business technology news leader in South Africa
Alastair Otter @alastairotter.bsky.social Editor of The Outlier, data communications and visualisation expert. theoutlier.co.za
@indiebio.bsky.social @indiebio.bsky.social 
OpenCorporates @opencorporates.bsky.social We are the world’s largest legal entity database. We aggregate and expose legal entity data faster and more accurately than anyone else.
Open Data Institute @odihq.bsky.social Advancing trust in data.
@dqlepiz.bsky.social @dqlepiz.bsky.social 
Kim Harrisberg @kimharrisberg.bsky.social Journalist with www.context.news
Covering (mainly) climate change, tech and inequality in Southern Africa
Proud Joburger, mama, aspiring luddite
PyConZA @za.pycon.org A conference for everyone in the Python community, from beginners to old hands. 🐍 We're based in South Africa. Website: https://za.pycon.org Mastodon: @pyconza@fosstodon.org
Tim @helloitstim.bsky.social Infosec, software dev, politics, puns. 🇿🇦 living in the tiny land of tall people.
Richard Gevers @richardgevers.bsky.social Digital Services Unit at SA Presidency. Previously Open Cities Lab, Africa Data Hub, Tenji. Non-exec Director Innovate Durban. Cities, Inclusion, Digital Gov, Data, DPI. Geeking.
Oscar Baruffa @oscarbaruffa.com Yes it's me from twitter and @bigbookofr.com!
#dataBS #RStats 
@paulyberk.bsky.social @paulyberk.bsky.social 
City of Cape Town @cityofct.bsky.social The City's social media is online from 07:30 - 17:00 Mon - Thurs, 07:30 - 16:00 on Fri and 10:00 - 14:00 on Weekends & Public Holidays. This is not.
Right2Know @r2k.site Section 10
Section 14
CoSA
amaBhungane @amabhungane.bsky.social Investigative journalism in the public interest. Digging dung, fertilising democracy. http://amabhungane.org
Zackie Achmat @zackieachmat.bsky.social Dog loving socialist. Free Palestine. Cape Town is my home. My “identities” are indivisible not intersectional.
Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social Claude Leon Foundation Chair in Constitutional Governance at UCT and author of the Blog, Constitutionally Speaking. I am not a journalist. Hopeful that everyone on this app will read before commenting.- T @tgenov.bsky.social @tgenov.bsky.social
Cedric Lombion @clombion.bsky.social Changing the world. Hopefully in the right direction. Co-founder of Civic Literacy Initiative https://civicliteraci.es
NationalCoGTA @nationalcogta.bsky.social The official account for the Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs departments ☎️ 012 334 0831/0641 📧 info@cogta.gov.za
www.cogta.gov.za
#cogta
Dries Cronje @driescronje.bsky.social Hopeful and striving for a society where we no longer cause ourselves or others pain. Oh, I also like rugby, but need to learn how to identify less with my team and appreciate the sport more 😎🇿🇦
Mark Proctor @exceloffthegrid.bsky.social Excel techniques to save time and make working late a thing of the past.
Moxii Africa @moxiiafricaza.bsky.social Striving for Open and Trusted Information.
Media Monitoring Africa is rebranding to Moxii Africa.
@billbobbird.bsky.social @billbobbird.bsky.social 
Grant Ongers @rewtd.bsky.social AppSec guy, OWASP member for life and general beardness.
Daily Maverick @dailymaverick.co.za 
Phillip de Wet @phillipdewet.bsky.social Sometimes on thestack.technology and sigstat.substack.com.
Editor, columnist, ex News24, Business Insider SA, Mail & Guardian, Daily Maverick.
Living in Canterbury, writing about tech and geopolitics, learning about AI, advocating risk-adjusted writing.
Vidal Santos @handle.invalid Librarian
[bridged from https://mastodon.social/@vid_santos on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Adam Kariv @akariv.bsky.social Open Data Hacktivist
Founder of Public Knowledge Workshop (הסדנא לידע ציבורי)
Creator of https://next.obudget.org (מפתח התקציב)
Owner at https://whiletrue.industries
Mor @morchickit.bsky.social I do data, sociology and parenting in between
@amercader.bsky.social @amercader.bsky.social 
Erin Bates @ermbates.bsky.social Award-winning freelance journalist based in Cape Town, South Africa. @carteblanche.co.za anchor and presenter. Shares ≠ endorsements. Views ≠ those of my employers.
Tebogo T @tebogotshwane.bsky.social Struggling Adult
| Mother Figure 🐶🌱
Investigative Journalist at the AmaBhungane Centre For Investigative Journalism (Non-Profit News Organisation in South Africa).
https://amabhungane.org
Tor Öhrn @tornet.bsky.social 
Ruth Hall @ruthhallplaas.bsky.social Land. Food. Agriculture...
And all things political in South Africa and everywhere.
DevConf @devconf.co.za www.devconf.co.za
Kate Thompson Davy @katetd.bsky.social “Pam Shortt’s broken both her legs and I want to dance with you”. Chock full of hoot, just a 🤏 bit of nanny... Professional word nerd. Cape Town, South Africa. She/her
Derek Eder @derekeder.com Civic tech builder in Chicago. Partner at DataMade, President Emeritus at Chi Hack Night & Oak Park Village Trustee. Entrepreneur, developer, civic technology leader, climate advocate and public servant. he/him
Jeff Thindwa @mrjeff-18.bsky.social Global citizen. All things accountable government, engaged citizenry (by any means necessary), collaborative governance.
CAST - Centre for the Acceleration of Social Technology @techforgoodcast.bsky.social UK charity. Providing free courses, resources and networking opportunities to help charities and social impact organisations harness the full power of digital and AI. Also working with funders to create an environment of support. See www.wearecast.org.uk.
Levon Terteryan @levon377.bsky.social Co-founder zeroqode.com - Top Bubble Agency & largest maker of plugins for bubble (720+). Author @ http://lifehacktics.com. Member
@ joinhampton.com
Johannes Filter @filter.bsky.social Freelance Software-Entwickler aus Berlin. https://johannesfilter.com @techfrombelow.bsky.social @vsberichte.bsky.social @cilip-de.bsky.social @limaev.bsky.social
tante @tante.cc De-Evangelist, writer and speaker. Communist. Feminist. Antifascist. Luddite. He/him. Email: tante@tante.cc | Masto: @tante@tldr.nettime.org
(Don't always see DMs cause my client can't show them since they are proprietary extensions of the protocol)
@planact.bsky.social @planact.bsky.social 
David Cabo @dcabo.bsky.social Founder of @civio, promoting Open Data/Government, transparency and data journalism.
Gordon Inggs @gord1i.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy Former civil servant, Data Engineer and well known raconteur.
searchable by tootfinder!
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://fosstodon.org/@Gord1i, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
@gaileddy.bsky.social @gaileddy.bsky.social 
Julian de Visser @jdevisser.bsky.social Guitarist. Musician. Food lover/eater. Non Specious. Occasional Ignoramus. Earns a crust in Land Management.- L Laura López González @llopezgonzalez.bsky.social Science & health writer ✍🏼 VICE, Al Jazeera, Guardian, et. al. Tips? DMs open | laura(at)lauralopezgonzalez.press
- F Freakonomics @freakonomics.bsky.social
Troy Hunt @troyhunt.com Founder & CEO of @haveibeenpwned.com, the most trusted name in data breach intelligence. Speaker, blogger, Microsoft Regional Director. Gold Coast, Australia.
Peter van Heusden (he/him) 🗿 @pvanheus.bsky.social #bioinformatics at @SANBI_SA, building bioinformatics workflows for (Pan-)African PH. health & justice! married. @pvanheus@mstdn.science
Datopian @datopian.bsky.social Simple #OpenData publishing. #CKAN hosting and services. Fueled by a passion for #DemocratizingData, we empower orgs with high-quality #Data and tooling.
CKAN @ckanproject.bsky.social The world's most trusted #opensource #opendata #datamanagement platform. Powering http://data.gov.uk, http://data.gov & hundreds of portals around the world: http://ckan.org. Join us!
Open Contracting Partnership @opencontracting.bsky.social Opening up and transforming the world’s $13 trillion of public procurement and contracts so they are fairer and better for people and planet. #opencontracting
KarynMaughan @karynmaughan.bsky.social News24 journalist. Proud South African. Eternal optimist, rooting for the underdog.
Rozanne Stevens @rozannestevens.bsky.social Wholefood chef, cookery tutor and broadcaster working in sustainability at the intersection of SDG3 and SDG12. #zerowaste #SDGs #sustainability #adoptdontshop #circulareconomy
Dublin and Cape Town
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com Technical Fellow, @honeycomb.io
American by birth, Chinese by heritage, Australian by choice
living on occupied and unceded Gadigal and Musqueam/Squamish/Tsleil-Waututh land
she/it
Jodi Allemeier @urbanjodi.bsky.social Quietly innovating on urban governance and implementing projects for the future of cities
Imali Yethu Coalition @imaliyethu.bsky.social A coalition of civil society organisations in South Africa working to make public budget, planning and procurement data more accessible, user-friendly and empowering. #CoCreation #PublicParticipation #OpenData #AntiCorruption 
Gareth Dwyer 🇳🇱🇨🇭🇿🇦 @sixhobbits.bsky.social Bootstrapping Ritza.co - a technical writing agency. Follow me for slightly cynical takes on tech and marketing.
I mainly use BlueSky to post about Eskom data and loadshedding. See Twitter.com/sixhobbits for startup/tech stuff.
daniel:// stenberg:// @daniel.haxx.se I write curl. I don't know anything. I am @bagder@mastodon.social
My mastodon posts are mirrored to Blusky here: https://bsky.app/profile/bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Weekly email at https://lists.haxx.se/listinfo/daniel
Rachel Rank @rachelerank.bsky.social Advising openclimatefix.org | Started threesixtygiving.org | Previously COO globalcanopy.org & Deputy ED publishwhatyoufund.org
@kvakvs.bsky.social @kvakvs.bsky.social 
Nicola Cloete Foster @cltnic004.bsky.social Statistical epidemiologist @lshtm, @ucl & @equicalcs with a focus on tuberculosis, chronic respiratory diseases and equitable distribution of health 🌍
Daniel Dietrich @3dstechlab.bsky.social Professional frustrator. Electronics, technology, 𝑨𝑴𝑰𝑮𝑨, 16bit computer, pinball, eMobility.
Dmitrii 'Mamut' Dimandt @dmitriid.bsky.social Opinions on things I know nothing about
PyCon Namibia @pyconna.bsky.social PyCon Namibia 2026. Namibia's most important international open-source software conference. Join us in Windhoek, Namibia from February 20 - 26 , 2026.
Cory Zue @coryzue.com Went from CTO to solopreneur, and now building an empire one business at a time. Currently growing https://saaspegasus.com
Sahil Lavingia @shl.bsky.social Founder of Gumroad
Wogan May @handle.invalid Business systems architect. Software engineer. Entrepreneur. Mainly build things using Laravel and VueJS.
🌐 woganmay.com 
@dancunningham.bsky.social @dancunningham.bsky.social 
Krzysztof Izdebski @kizdebski.bsky.social Transparency, Participation, Anti-Corruption. Technology, Democracy. Stay Rude. Stay Rebel.
Poland, CEE, EU. Lawyer and civic lobbyist.
Schalk Venter @schalkventer.bsky.social 🔨 Software Engineering | 🎨 Interaction Design | 📚 Mentoring and Teaching | 🧠 Destigmatizing Mental Illness
GroundUp News @groundup.org.za GroundUp brings you #NewsThatMatters.
We report human rights stories across South Africa.
Visit https://groundup.org.za/
Nick Budlender @nickbudlender.bsky.social Urban policy researcher working on housing, cities and urban development. Everyone deserves a safe and decent home! 🇿🇦
Astrid Radermacher, PhDingus @dataccino.bsky.social Silly sausage, R programmer, molecular biologist (in a former life), painter (in this life), intersectional feminist, napper, all-round vibe, lover of life and my wife
Emily Stark @estark.bsky.social Encryption, HTTPS, certificates, web security, security UX, software engineering and management, TMI about parenting. Opinions are my own.
Stephen Abbott Pugh @stephenabbottpugh.bsky.social Beneficial ownership transparency, UBO data and standardisation expert.
Technical consultancy support https://www.beneficialownership.co.uk/
Talk to me about the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard https://www.beneficialownership.co.uk/data-standard
Justin Arenstein @justinarenstein.bsky.social Investigative journalist & #CivicTech strategist. Co-CEO @ICFJ+. Manages pan-African innovation fund + tech labs. Founder at @Code4Africa + @afriLEAKS +@AfricanCIR +@PesaCheck
@regrum.bsky.social @regrum.bsky.social 
Open Data Charter @opendatacharter.org 
Firdose Moonda @firdosem.bsky.social 🏏Cricket Correspondent and Broadcaster.
🧘🏽♀️Yoga Teacher Trainer and Scholar.
📚Book Lover.
🏃🏾♀️Slow Runner and Swimmer. 🏊🏾♀️
Rudi Borrmann @donrudi.bsky.social Comms Director at @opengovpart (former #OGPLocal Director)🇪🇺. Former Deputy minister at InnovacionAr 🇦🇷 former director at Datosgobar + LABgcba //
Marthelize @konfytbekkie.bsky.social Don't let the winged eyeliner fool you. I have no idea what I'm doing.
HealthZA @healthza.bsky.social A long and healthy life for all South Africans
www.health.gov.za
Chris Fourie @robobonobo.bsky.social MLOps / research engineer in digital health, medical doctor
Research interests: collective intelligence, complexity science, NeuroAI
Grassroots independent research community co-founder, SisonkeBiotik
More at https://www.chrisfourie.africa/
Chris Roper @chrisroper.bsky.social Deputy CEO at @Code4Africa, Former Ed-in-Chief: Mail & Guardian and 24. com. Knight Fellow at ICFJ 2015-2019. He/him
Darren Olivier @darren.africandefence.net Director at African Defence Review (@africandefence)
Covering African conflicts with a specific focus on Southern Africa.
Email: dolivier@africandefence.net
Signal: darren.13
Jade Abbott @alienelf.bsky.social CTO & Co-founder Lelapa.AI | Co-founder Maskahane | 🌍🇿🇦 🏳️🌈 | 
ALT Advisory @altadvisory.africa An African-rooted public interest consultancy based in South Africa and Kenya, and partnering with change-makers around the world.
Find our work: altadvisory.africa.