Open data portals
Links to official Kenyan sources, African and global open-data platforms, and publishing standards. This directory does not host their data.
Prefer Kenyan official producers (KNBS, IEBC, Treasury, CRA, Parliament) for authoritative figures. CitizenGuide hosts curated civic datasets separately.
Kenya — official and public sources
Start here for authoritative Kenyan statistics and government data. Always prefer the original publisher for formal citation.
10 links — Kenya — official and public sources
- Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS)
- Official national statistics producer — census, economy, social indicators.
- Kenya Open Data (historical / government open data)
- Government open-data initiative portal. Availability of datasets can change — verify current content on the site.
- Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC)
- Elections, boundaries, registration and official electoral publications.
- The National Treasury
- Public finance, budget documents and related economic publications.
- Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA)
- Revenue sharing, county resources and related devolution data.
- Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA)
- Fuel and energy regulatory notices and price publications.
- Parliament of Kenya
- Hansard, bills and parliamentary publications (authoritative PDFs).
- Kenya Law / National Council for Law Reporting
- Laws, Gazette notices and legal information.
- Office of the Registrar of Political Parties
- Official political party registration information.
- eCitizen
- Government service portal (transactions). Not a bulk open-data catalogue — use for services, not downloads.
Africa — regional and research
Continental and country portals useful for comparison and research context.
5 links — Africa — regional and research
- openAFRICA
- Continental open-data repository for African datasets.
- Afrobarometer
- Public attitude surveys across African countries.
- Ghana Open Data Portal
- National open-data portal (Ghana).
- South Africa Open Data / data.gov.za
- South African government open-data catalogue.
- Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX) — Africa
- Humanitarian and development datasets, including Kenya crises and baselines.
Global open-data platforms
International catalogues and research hubs. Useful for methodology and cross-country work.
12 links — Global open-data platforms
- data.gov.uk
- UK public-sector open data (inspiration for catalogue design).
- data.europa.eu
- European data portal aggregating EU and member-state catalogues.
- data.gov (United States)
- US federal open-data catalogue.
- World Bank Open Data
- International development indicators, including Kenya series.
- Google Dataset Search
- Search engine for datasets across the web.
- Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX)
- Global humanitarian open data.
- OpenStreetMap
- Collaborative geographic data (map features, not government stats).
- CKAN
- Open-source data portal software used by many governments.
- Gapminder
- Global development statistics for teaching and exploration.
- Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS)
- Health and demographic survey programme data.
- Office for National Statistics (UK ONS)
- UK official statistics — reference for quality standards, not Kenya figures.
- House of Commons Library (UK)
- Research briefings that explain data — model for plain-language data notes.
Standards and guidance
How open data should be published and reused. We use these as quality references, not as membership badges.
4 links — Standards and guidance
- Open Data Institute — Open Data Maturity Model
- Framework for assessing open-data practice in organisations.
- Open Government Licence (UK) — reference
- Widely cited open licence model for public-sector information.
- Five Stars of Open Data (Berners-Lee)
- Simple ladder for open-data quality (from PDF to linked data).
- DCAT — Data Catalog Vocabulary
- W3C standard for interoperable data catalogues.
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