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Forum => Kenya Discussion => Topic started by: Kim Jong-Un's Pajama Pants on September 05, 2014, 01:02:39 PM

Title: How Can the Kenyan Open Data Thing Be Made Useful?
Post by: Kim Jong-Un's Pajama Pants on September 05, 2014, 01:02:39 PM

It's been sitting out there since 2011.  The data is real and accessible with API to boot.  The question, what do people want to do with it?

The site is @ https://opendata.go.ke/

They have a survey going on @ http://fs12.formsite.com/ICTAuthorityKE/OpenData2014/index.html

Title: Re: How Can the Kenyan Open Data Thing Be Made Useful?
Post by: RV Pundit on September 05, 2014, 01:12:06 PM

More data; more data; more data;

Title: Re: How Can the Kenyan Open Data Thing Be Made Useful?
Post by: Kim Jong-Un's Pajama Pants on September 05, 2014, 01:29:58 PM

Agreed.  They could also use some updating with more recent data sets.  The use of provinces automatically begs for some data that allows mapping to counties.

But what are the typical scenarios?  What would a person do with information about hospitals?  Schools?  Urbanization?

Quote from: RV Pundit on September 05, 2014, 01:12:06 PM

More data; more data; more data;

Title: Re: How Can the Kenyan Open Data Thing Be Made Useful?
Post by: RV Pundit on September 05, 2014, 02:23:41 PM

Decision making; decision support; you never know the utility; let them just dump as much data as possible; latest data; old data; ditigize reports from 1900s; and dump them.

Quote from: Terminator on September 05, 2014, 01:29:58 PM

Agreed.  They could also use some updating with more recent data sets.  The use of provinces automatically begs for some data that allows mapping to counties.

But what are the typical scenarios?  What would a person do with information about hospitals?  Schools?  Urbanization?

Quote from: RV Pundit on September 05, 2014, 01:12:06 PM

More data; more data; more data;

Title: Re: How Can the Kenyan Open Data Thing Be Made Useful?
Post by: veritas on September 05, 2014, 07:45:18 PM

Thanks for this! This is gold for researchers/statisticians.