Open Knowledge

Kenya 27% open

Kenya is ranked #71 in the 2015 Index
Kenya's overall Index ranking is up from #85 in 2014

Rank Dataset Breakdown Location (URL) Format Info Prev. (2014) Score
7 Legislation
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http://www.kenyalaw.org:8181/e... XML, ... #6  90% 90%
7 Legislation
URL: http://www.kenyalaw.org:8181/exist/kenyalex/index.xql
Format: XML, PDF, Word

The primary format is XML. Acts and other pieces of legislation can be downloaded for free in different formats including PDF and DOC. Another viable and good source is the Kenya Parliament website: http://www.parliament.go.ke/ in pdf formats too. [According to Ahmed Maawy - No changes from 2013]

Kenya Gazettes from as far back as 2006 are also available in PDF format. Upon request, Code for Africa was able to obtain Kenya Gazettes from as far back as 1896. All of them live on the sourceAfrica platform (https://sourceafrica.net) currently.


20 Weather forecast
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http://www.meteo.go.ke/ n/a n/a n/a 55%
49 Government Budget
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http://treasury.go.ke/index.ph... n/a #59  45% 55%
49 Government Budget
URL: http://treasury.go.ke/index.php/downloads/category/34-budget-2015


Data is available in pdf-format and seemingly also exists on the Kenya Open Data (KODI) portal as well as the International Budget Partnership website (http://internationalbudget.org/budget-work-by-country/ibps-work-in-countries/kenya/), with more details (sector, county) but level of detail is varied and IBP provides analysis on the information provided.


76 National Statistics
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http://www.knbs.or.ke/ n/a #92  10% 45%
76 National Statistics
URL: http://www.knbs.or.ke/


The Kenya National Bureau of statistics which is the central government agency that collects data has statistics on census, economic activities, demographics. It has many channels through which the some of the data is distributed, with links for these pages on their website, one of which is the Kenya Open Data Initiative (KODI). However there seems to be no standard for distributing data. Some are available and open e.g. KODI but some are available on the KNBS website itself but not open. Some of these are not charged while others are. KNBS applies a statistics act and a form has to be submitted for data requests. On the plus side some include metadata, background information, data description. On the Kenya Open Data portal, the datasets are mostly from KNBS but not up to date. [According to Ahmed ]

Other areas i.e. Consumer Price Indices have regularly updated data within the site, the Statistics section has data between 2006 and 2012 which is pretty outdated at present.


36 Procurement tenders
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http://supplier.treasury.go.ke... n/a n/a n/a 45%
45 Election Results
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http://www.iebc.or.ke/index.ph... PDF #43  55% 45%
45 Election Results
URL: http://www.iebc.or.ke/index.php/resources/downloads/item/summary-of-2013-presidential-results-declared-on-932013
Format: PDF

Some of the other results were published later for example on county elections, women representatives and so on but still timely (July 2013).

Contains information on by-elections and referendums which is a great plus.

Copyright statement on site - non-open (Sander van der Waal, 20/10/2013) [Unchanged since 2013]


8 Government Spending
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n/a n/a #15  10% 10%
8 Government Spending


Data on all projects funded by donors through government can be found on National Treasury platform which is an application run and managed by the Ministry of Finance that allows users to effectively track, update, and analyze project inputs, outputs, outcomes and impact in all counties in Kenya.

Data is not publicly available since it requires login credentials as shown from the source: http://e-promis.treasury.go.ke/e-promis/

Also that's limited to donors. The year-end report and audit reports do exist according to IBP's Open Budget Survey Explorer and they're very recent according to the Open Budget Library which indicates that the data exists and is digital.


88 National Map
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n/a n/a #83  0% 5%
88 National Map


No map published by the government was found. [According to Ahmed - No changes from 2013]. Maps must be BOUGHT from the Ministry of Land, Housing and Urban Development.

However, a lot of mapping data - shapefiles, json files exist and they are pretty accurate


74 Water Quality
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n/a n/a n/a 0%
74 Water Quality


The National Environment Management Authority responsible for this information might hold data, website (http://www.nema.go.ke/) is down at the moment- no other way to ascertain whether or not official information exists.

The Ministry of Water and Irrigation does not handle water quality tests, research and regulation.


61 Location datasets
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http://kenyanswag.blogspot.com... HTML #57  0% 0%
61 Location datasets
URL: http://kenyanswag.blogspot.com/2013/05/kenya-postal-codes-addresses.html
Format: HTML

The data that is available from the official postal website by search does not have geolocations nor corresponding geospatial locations in terms of a latitude and a longitude (or similar co-ordinates in an openly published national co-ordinate system) hence the answer is data does not exist (no changed from 2013).


85 Land Ownership
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n/a n/a n/a 0%
85 Land Ownership


A National Titling Centre was commissioned by the Ministry of Land, Housing and Urban Development in May 2014 and tasked by the Government to digitize all its content. It was launched in February 2015. No information has been made available yet, at least not publicly.


79 Pollutant Emissions
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n/a n/a #73  0% 0%
79 Pollutant Emissions


There is no data available online but this does not rule out the possibility that the data may be available in paper or digitally but just not online on government websites and sources.

The Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources just launched real-time air pollution monitoring (September 1, 2015)

Hopefully, the data that's collected will be made available in the coming months.


84 Company Register
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n/a HTML #79  5% 0%
84 Company Register
Format: HTML

Data on companies is not available online from Government sources it is available upon request at the respective government office. There is a fee for the 'search' to de done and it is not clear in what format the requesting person receives the data. I am also not sure if the data at the offices is fully digital though this could be possible and unfortunately I cannot verify in good time. [According to Ahmed - No changes from 2013]

Data on company registry is available from other non-governmental sources such as the Credit Risk Monitor (https://www.crmz.com/Directory/CountryKE.htm).


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