[kictanet] Open data initiative - how open is it?

[Muchiri Nyaggah]

Hi Gitau,

On the last question, you can make a request for a dataset on the portal.
I'm not clear on the process and how long it takes for the dataset to show
up.


Kind regards,



*Muchiri* Nyaggah

Principal Partner

@muchiri

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On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 12:43 PM, John Gitau <jgitau at gmail.com> wrote:

> quick query on the governents open data:
>
> Is there any way i can get actual raw data from the government portal for
> me to run my own visualizer/ algorithm against?
>
> What sort of data is available?
>
> Can i get a look at that data? How open to analysis is it?
>
> How much of it is there, how fast are updates? For instance if i wanted to
> know the total number of students enrolled for kcse every year since 1990 to
> date, categorised by county, gender, nationality etc...
>
> how many Id's were issued month on month since 1990?
>
> How many hospitals have been built since 1990, expansions? How much was
> spent on health care vs education vs infrastructure vs education ?
>
> Or maybe if i wanted to track governements spend per province since 1990,
> broken down to each project, is that data available now? If not will it be
> available in 2020 .... Ie is it being captured in a manner that will allow
> us to make sense out of it, in ways we're probably not even thinking of yet?
>
> I imagine as a net/cit-izen this data would be quite useful, if digested
> and presented in a useful format. It would trigger interesting localized
> debates etc...So if its not available, how can this be availed? how can we
> access it?
>
> Gitau
>
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