Hello there! Happy 2019 🙂 In December 2018, we carried out a survey using our online surveys platform polls.ke with the aim of finding out the betting habits among Kenyans. Sample population: Location distribution: Age distribution: 1) Have you participated in betting in the last 1 month? 2) What year did you start betting? (e.g 1998 …
The Kenya Open Data Initiative is a program that was launched in 2011 out of the need for Government to provide useful information to the public. Its launch followed the promulgation of the Kenya Constitution in 2010, in which Article 35 of the Bill of rights clauses states that every Kenyan citizen has a right …
How Citizen Generated Open Data Prevents Corruption and Increases Accountability.Read More »
Governments and government agencies globally are some of the largest custodians of citizen data, collected over time for various intents and purposes as prescribed by different laws. The Kenyan government is no different. This is an essential part of t…
Many reports have been written about The Kenya Open Data Initiative and how it has died. Well, it did at a point, then it came back up, then, oh well. Many have questioned how government projects run and if Open Data in Kenya is facing the same fate. From a lot of conversations and meetings …
On 11th April 2020, I had my daughter, Lucca. Being a data nerd always craving to be informed by data, I decided to track her new life’s activities that included nursing, sleeping, diapers and growth (after doctor visits). A few years ago, a friend bought me the book ‘The Human Face of Big Data’ and …
