This past week I had the privilege of attending and participating in the International Conference for e-Democracy and Open Government (CeDEM14), at the Danube University Krems in Austria. This year’s conference brought together 133 participants from 33 countries to discuss issues related to e-democracy, e-participation and open government. I presented on the Kenya’s open data journey, looking back…
Read articleAt Open Institute we are thrilled that our very own Al Kags has been selected as one of the inaugural cohort of Washington fellows, under the Young African Leadership Initiative. Joining 45 other Kenyan fellows, he will be in the US for three months most of which will be spent at Open The Government, a…
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In November last year, as the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education exams were being held, we released data that we have collected relating to primary (or elementary in some countries) school education in Kenya. Through KCPE Trends, we released KCPE results data with the view of stimulating conversations about education standards in Kenya. In doing…
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It has been just over a year since Kenya formed a decentralised form of government, devolving into 47 county governments accompanied by central government. The rationale behind devolution was to transfer the power and responsibility from central to local governments in the spirit of empowering citizens by empowering their local leaders with the responsibility, resources…
Read articleThe Council of Governors (CoG) hosted to a two-day inaugural Devolution Conference held on 3rd and 4th April in Kwale County. The conference, titled “One Year into Devolution: Celebrating the Milestones, Overcoming the Challenges” saw leaders from across the country descend upon Kwale to reflect and learn from the experiences they faced in implementing devolution.
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December 2013 – April 2014 When we left the incubation by AMI, our first project was Open Duka, which soon became a pet project. It was supported by Hivos East Africa. Through Open Duka, we aim to provide citizens, journalists, and civic activists with a practical and easy-to-use tool to understand the ownership structure of…
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GUEST BLOGGER: MICHAEL MURUNGI, CEO, KENYA LAW Leafing through a print edition of the Kenya Gazette has always been more like looking for a morsel of information in an encyclopaedia or a newspaper. The weekly publication containing government notices and other legal notices prepared by Kenya’s Government Printer is wordy and averages 70 pages per…
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I recently had the honour of participating in the Dialogue on Data for accountability within the post-2015 agenda framework earlier this year in New York. Organised by the UNDP, it was refreshing to be amongst people who were for the most part not from the traditional open government and open data fraternity. They brought a…
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The open data movement has grown exponentially in a relatively short period of time. Many countries and cities have been rolling out initiatives and embracing the potential value that comes with opening up their data. However, as much as open data holds great promise, there is a real danger of initiatives failing.
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This is a cross-post from Global Integrity Submitted by Nathaniel Heller on 21 February , 2014 – 12:53 PM – Open Duka, Tech for Transparency, and Learning Kung-Fu The great folks over at the Open Institute just released a new open source software package, dubbed Open Duka, that allows users to visualize the relationships between entries on database…
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