Open Duka

	Open Duka is a free repository of data regarding Kenyan ownership information regarding entities, institutions
Home page	http://www.openduka.org/
Approach	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.
Phase	Beta version
Tags	Corporations, Kenya, entities structure, open data, organizations, and database
Practices	Collect
Partners	Africa Transparency and Technology Initiative and Kenya Law

Project Start Date	2012
Launch Date	2014
Thematic Focus	Corporations
Issue addressed	Tracking corporate influence
Geographic Focus	Kenya

Experience

How does a user interact with and navigate the project?

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Lists	true
Raw Data	true

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

Impact

Indicators of reach and impact of the project.

Target Audience : Online Audience Reached : Twitter : (97 followers) Publisher's Twitter Followers : Online Rank : Google: 3 Alexa: OSE Domain Authority Rank: 28/100 Marketing Grader Rank: 73/100 () Online Rank (Publisher) : Google: Alexa: News Source : Some Offline Audience Reached : National Outcome : Last updated : Oct 8, 2015 Attempts against the project : /

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

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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 : true Open Data : false Budget : Contracting : Risk Planning : No planning Sustainability Planning : Updated

Documented Practices

Documentation about project practices

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 : false Data Cleaning : Data Analysis : Classification / Tagging / Categories / Linking Data Description : false Data Licensing : Public Ethical Publishing : Cited Sources Ethical Publishing : Data Publishing Mode : API