Open Duka
- Logo
Open Duka is a free repository of data regarding Kenyan ownership information regarding entities, institutions
- URL
- http://www.openduka.org/
- Keywords
- Corporations, Kenya, entities structure, open data, organizations, database,
- Project Current Phase
- Beta version
- Project Start Date
- 2012
- Launch Date
- 2014
- Most Recent Update
- N/A
- Update Frequency
- N/A
- Thematic Focus
- Corporations
- Issue addressed
- Tracking corporate influence
- Geographic Focus
- Kenya
Experience
How does a user interact with and navigate the project?
- Narrative
- Query
- Yes
- Geographic Map
- Timelines
- Lists
- Yes
- Network Visualisation
- Other Visualisation
- Raw Data
- Yes
Description
Summary of the project and its approach
How the teams behind some likely and announced candidates are connected to
previous campaigns, administrations and organizations close to the
possible nominees
- Approach (How?)
- In partnership with Kenya Law and the Kenyan Gazette, Open Duka scraped and visualized networks of relationships between people, corporations and institutional entities in Kenya.
- Language
- English
- Commissioner
- Open Institute
- Publisher
- Open Institute (Kenya)
- Partners
- Africa Transparency and Technology Initiative, Kenya Law
Impact
Indicators of reach and impact of the project
- Target Audience
- Online Audience Reached
- N/A
- Yes (97 followers)
- Publisher's Twitter Followers
- Online Rank
- Google: 3 Alexa: N/A OSE Domain Authority Rank: 28/100 Marketing Grader Rank: 73/100 ()
- Online Rank (Publisher)
- Google: Alexa:
- News Source
- Some
- Offline Audience Reached
- National
- Outcome
- N/A
- Last updated
- Oct 8, 2015
- Attempts against the project
- N/A /
Technology
What tools and code were used to create the project?
- Tech Best Practices:
- Code Repository
- https://github.com/OpenInstitute/OpenDuka
- Tool
- MySql
- Database
- Frontend
- Javascript
- Backend
- PHP
- Data Format
- Data Standard
- Technical Documentation URL
- Technical Architecture Documentation
- Schema Documentation
- Design Documentation
- API Documentation
- http://www.openduka.org/index.php/api/documentation
Data Sources
- Data Sources
Team
Team size and expertise
- Team Size
- Medium
- Team Experience
- Research
- None
- Data Science
- Some
- Engineering
- Some
- Design
- Some
Project Methodology
What strategies were in place for managing the project?
- Project Methodology
- Traditional
- Open Source
- Yes
- Open Data
- No
- Budget
- N/A
- Contracting
- N/A
- Risk Planning
- No planning
- Sustainability Planning
- Updated
Documented Practices
Documentation about project practices
: http://www.openduka.org/index.php/faq
Plan
Practices
How projects handle different aspects of data management
- Data Modeling
- Relational
- Ethical Collection
- No guidelines
- Ethical Storage
- Data Collection
- External Sources
- Data Collection
- Data Verification
- No
- Data Cleaning
- N/A
- Data Analysis
- Classification / Tagging / Categories / Linking
- Data Description
- No
- Data Licensing
- Public
- Ethical Publishing
- Cited Sources
- Ethical Publishing
- Data Publishing Mode
- API