fopiyo – EsriEA | Blog https://www.blog.esriea.com Keeping you Posted Wed, 03 Aug 2022 11:48:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 https://www.blog.esriea.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cropped-logo-black-32x32.png fopiyo – EsriEA | Blog https://www.blog.esriea.com 32 32 Esri Eastern Africa Launches Online Store https://www.blog.esriea.com/esri-eastern-africa-launches-online-store/ https://www.blog.esriea.com/esri-eastern-africa-launches-online-store/#respond Fri, 10 Jun 2022 12:35:51 +0000 https://www.blog.esriea.com/?p=100 Nairobi 25 April 2022: Esri Eastern Africa has today announced the launch of its online store. The Online Store will allow ArcGIS fans and customers across the region to enjoy easy access to Esri’s wide range of products, including core GIS software, apps, and extensions.

Speaking at the launch, Clifford Okembo, Chief Executive Officer for Esri Eastern Africa said “We noticed that most consumers have gone online to buy things, from groceries to electronics. This was accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic when most professional worked from home. We have added an online store for our customers to find it easier to buy our products and solutions. This shall bring about efficiency and convenience is the buying process.”

To shop online visit https://ea-store.esri.com/en-ke/store/overview or navigate from esriea.com

About Esri Eastern Africa

Esri Eastern Africa is a professional geospatial solutions company which inspires, educates, and enables our customers with working GIS solutions in partnership with world leading geo-technologies from Esri Inc, Trimble, CHCNAV, Harris Corporation and Airbus.

For more info visit www.esriea.com

]]> https://www.blog.esriea.com/esri-eastern-africa-launches-online-store/feed/ 0 Transforming citizen services through efficiency https://www.blog.esriea.com/transforming-citizen-services-through-efficiency/ https://www.blog.esriea.com/transforming-citizen-services-through-efficiency/#respond Thu, 09 Jun 2022 06:45:02 +0000 https://www.blog.esriea.com/?p=40 Kenya Open Data Initiative (opendata.go.ke), was Africa’s first online open government data portal, launched by the by the former President Hon. Mwai Kibaki on July 8th 2011. Its major intent was, to maintain a website that would make Government development, demographic, statistical, expenditure, health and education datasets available in a digital format for researchers, policymakers and the general population. This initiative is in support of the Government’s drive to consistently inform and be accountable to its citizens. And also in view of promoting transparency, accountability, efficiency, greater citizen participation and sharing of information between government agencies.

The Challenge

The initiative has faced quite a few challenges since its adoption leading to its Re-launch in July 2015. The inability to visualize all the data correctly especially with regard to statistical information of county and constituency boundaries has been one of the major challenges faced. This has been due to the fact that the provider then, was more US-Centric thus, lack of local mapping support.  This meant that local Kenyan insights and perspectives could not be seen directly on the portal. “There wasn’t enough localization in terms of providing local Kenyan boundaries at local scales”. Says Sifa Mawiyoo, Open Data Geospatial Technologist.

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