Hello nice people,
Mid last year, I attended the launch of OpenData by the Kenyan government. This initiative was driven by the ICT board of Kenya. At the launch the President said that this data collection was funded by public funds and so it should be available for free and openly under the public domain. It has been a gradual but successful process as some of the data has to be digitized first.
Under this Kenya Opendata, data includes: various dimensions of population data; local and national government authority expenditure; public health indicator data and statistics including hospital locations; education data such as
enrollment rates and school locations; parliamentary proceedings (digital Hansard); weather information and detailed census statistics on topics such as access to electricity, water and
sanitation, education,religion etc.
Hope that helps;)
//Stephen
thanks andy and dominic for the important hints.
we actually already have access to the contents available on open street map also from other sources; but it is a very good idea to link our work with OSM.
we are still looking for data related to housing, access to water and energy, population, density, administration, history, monuments, museums, religion, sport. The Liberia's national archives is a very good idea.
please let me know if you have any other idea. please note that contents and data are not only in Africa.
all the best
iolanda
Il giorno 11/giu/2012, alle ore 16:25, Andy Mabbett ha scritto:
> On 11 June 2012 14:07, Iolanda Pensa <iolanda@pensa.it> wrote:
>
>> with WikiAfrica we are trying to get contents and data on African cities,
>> villages and territories on Wikipedia.
>
>> We would be really pleased if you can contact us if you have ideas,
>> suggestions or links to existing databases (or to GLAMs we can contact to
>> have access to data). please do not hesitate to forward the message to
>> people who might be interested in the initiative.
>
> Not GLAMs, but you could ask the OpenStreetMap community for
> assistance - a dump of their data on placenames and boundaries for
> instance - and they may have someone who has a specialist interest or
> access to further sources..
>
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