Open data study in Uganda and Kenya

ODDC Network meeting in London: April 2013

Beatrice Mugambe Executive Director DRT Uganda

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Indicators Uganda Kenya

Population (Millions) 34.1 41.9 (2011)

Population growth (% per annum) 3.4 3.2

Poverty (% below poverty line) 24.5 19.7

Maternal mortality (per 100,000) 438 360 (2010)

Life Expectancy (years) 53.5 57.7 (2013)

Under 5 mortality rate (per 1,000 live births)

90

Literacy 73 87.4

Net primary Enrolment (%) 96

Completion to Primary 7 (%) 54

GDP (US$ Billions) 17.1 67.2

GDP per capita (US$ per annum) 516 1,507

HIV Prevalence 7.3

Uganda & Kenya: Socio-economic indicators 2010/11

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2007 2008 2009 2010 20110

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12,000,000

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16,000,000

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Uganda Phone subscribers, 2007-2011

Fixed Telephone Cellular Phone

• ICT sector has grown rapidly over the past years

• Grew by 30.3% in 2009/10 accounting for 3.3% of GDP

• About 50% of the population use cell phones

• 3% of the population subscribe to internet

Technical Context Uganda

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• Communications sector grew at 5.9% in 2010.

• Internet usage is at 12m, up from 7m in 2010.

• Mobile phone users has risen from 9m ( 2006/07) to over 25m (2010/11).

Technical Context Kenya

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2006/07 2007/08 2008/09 2009/10 2010/11

CapacityNo. Subscribers

Legal context (related to Open data)Uganda Constitution Article 41

• “right of access to information in the possession of the State or any other organ or agency of the State,” and requires Parliament to “make laws prescribing . . . the procedure for obtaining access to that information”

• Ug. Access to information Act, 2005

Kenya Constitution Article 35

• Has freedom of information clause that compels govt to avail info & put in place the institutional arrangements for access to information.

• Kenya has Freedom of Information Bill

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Open data organisational contextUganda has no central govt owned open data

•Biggest initiative is the Uganda Open Development Partnership.Other initiatives: Devtrac, UREPORT, Twaweza

Kenya has Kenya Open Data Portal, launched in July 2011

Other initiatives: YET TO BE MAPPED

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Uganda Open development

partnership platform

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Open data study in Uganda & Kenya:

How open data could contribute to poverty eradication in Kenya and Uganda through its impact on resource allocation

Implementation

Study tool designed and piloted Interviews carried out with 10 organisations including: Govt ministries,

NGOs and academia, Similar process is yet to start in Kenya

Challenges Understanding the concept of open data Limited initiatives to refer to

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Ureport

Governance issues

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Resource allocation to poverty reduction sectors – to identify areas where open data is being used (or planned) in policy debates & CSOs advocacy programs.

Transparency and accountability apects – to trace evolution of institutions working on these issues and how open data has or will be used.

Changing technological landscape - we will assess how availability of internet & mobile phones have and will influence changes in use of open data.

Open datasets involved

•KODI/ www.opendata.go.ke uses various datasets – poverty, local & national public expenditure, health, education, etc.

www.opendev.ug / www.data.ug - datasets on aid & budgets to health, education and agric sectors; and datasets on intra-sector issues.

•U Report - not using any particular data sets, but can benefit from datasets on socio-econ & pol devet such as water & sanitation, healthcare, education services,

•DevTrac - uses various datasets on national services e.g. schools, health centers, water points etc.

Case Studies

• KODI,

• Uganda Open Development partnership,

• U-Report

• Devtrac.

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Thank you

• Beatrice Mugambe bmugambe@drt-ug.org

• Charles Lwanga-NtaleCharles.Lwanga-Ntale@devinit.org www.devinit.org

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