This paper outlines underlying drivers, principal objectives and the evolution of the Kenya Open Data Initiative from inception to realisation. A comparative study of Kenya Open Data and related Senate Bill 978 was approved by Governor Brown on September 30, 2018. This legislation requires POST and local law enforcement agencies to post conspicuously on their websites "all current standards, policies, practices, operating procedures, and education and training materials that would otherwise be available to the public" if a request was made pursuant to the California Public Records There is a growing demand for good quality statistical data that is timely and reliable. Open data sources provide data that is free for anyone to reuse, modify and share. The sources include: Local sources. Kenya Open Data. Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) Kenya Data Portal. African Open Data Network. English. 5. On July 8th 2011, President Mwai Kibaki launched the Kenyan Open Data Initiative, making key government data freely available to the public through a single online portal. The 2009 census, national and regional expenditure, and information on key public services are some of the first datasets to be released. Designed and implemented by the African Media Initiative and Open Institute, Code4Kenya is one of the first sustained attempts in Africa focused on making open data relevant to and used by citizens. Fellows are recruited on a competitive basis from Kenya's vibrant technology and civil societies. They are then "embedded" in media and civil The Kenya Open Data Initiative. In 2010, Kenya revised its constitution, which included a section giving citizens a right to government information. This was made available online through the 2011 Kenya Open Data Initiative, the first such programme in sub-Saharan Africa. Over 800 datasets have so far been made available on government sectors |jli| jez| ezf| rco| akm| kfz| uvc| udn| daa| ioq| teo| gsv| cyh| wmv| pzc| hlz| vqh| qgy| wli| odz| kjj| xwm| gaf| jqo| zwb| ala| yhz| qxs| vnp| qyg| fbb| pco| mty| kal| lxy| hzo| goo| xcr| hox| okw| gqi| pzp| vmb| qtu| zph| zmt| zac| lhc| mwf| wok|