County Safety

Making Citizens Aware of the Security Status in the Country

Simeon Oriko

The Standard Group Limited

• Rich heritage dating back to 1902

• Large footprint in publishing and advertising

The Problem

What are the Public Interest issues?

The Challenge

• Inconsistencies in crime reporting• Data incongruence• Unstructured and closed formats• Lack of capacity to handle data• Mindsets

How We Did It

• Built capacity for data skills• Reached out to data owners including The Kenya

Police Department and various security companies• Internal 2 day scraperthon• Design thinking and rapid prototyping• Culture change

DEMO

Future of County Safety

• Two data interns• Library team scraping data• Online team visualizing data• Dedicated server resources• Crowdsourcing efforts• Editorial push

Thank You