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State plans sale of eCitizen data to researchers, businesses
President William Ruto during the launch of eCitizen services, the GavaMkononi app and Gava Express at the KICC in Nairobi on June 30, 2023. The State plans to create a marketplace for the sale of anonymised government data collected through platforms such as eCitizen.
The State plans to start selling non-personal data collected through platforms such as eCitizen in a bid to generate additional revenue from information sought by researchers, businesses, non-governmental organisations and innovators.
Under a new policy proposal, the Ministry of Information, Communications and the Digital Economy (MICTDE) will establish an agency to aggregate data from government institutions and oversee its commercialisation.
