Nairobi, June 7 -- 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.

The proposed National Data Governance and Emerging Technologies Council will facilitate the sale of at least 1,000 datasets from various sources over the next five years, creating a new revenue stream for the government.

Data market

Data collected by the Kenya National Bureau ...