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Visualizing Kenya's overall results

See the detailed results for all of our five clusters visualized in one chart: Access, Digital Rights, Media and Journalism, Society, and Innovation. Please click to enlarge the image.

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This image allows you to see status of digital participation in Kenya in our five clusters: Digital Rights, Access, Media and Journalism, Society and Innovation. 

Kenya scores especially high in the thematic areas of access and innovation. Kenya is one of the most wired nations in Africa. It's innovation scene is well-established and origin of Kenya's homegrown innovations such as Ushahidi, M-Pesa and the iHub. However, digital rights are under threat. As well, journalists are facing growing backlashes within their work. 

Each spoke represents the results of one of our clusters. That means that the length of the spoke visualizes the magnitude of digital participation for the respective cluster. As well, all of the spokes together form a surface that indicates the level of participation through a colour range. The colour ranges from red in the middle to green in the outer part of the spokes. All in all, the radar chart enables to see the overall results as well as the cluster-specific results in one view. 

To read more about the colour code of the #speakup barometer, please follow this link. 

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