President Mwai Kibaki launched the Kenya Open Data Initiative on July 8 2011, making key government data freely available to the public through a single online portal. The website is a user-friendly platform that allows for visualizations and downloads of the data and easy access for software developers. The goal of opendata.go.ke is to make core Kenya Government development, demographic, statistical and expenditure data available in a useful digital format for researchers, policymakers, ICT developers and the general public.