Online data repositories

Open data portals and platforms

What is a data repository?

A data repository is a large database infrastructure — or several databases — that collect, manage, and store data sets for data analysis, sharing and reporting.

• A data repository is also known as a data library or data archive. This is a general term to refer to a data set isolated to be mined for data reporting and analysis.

What is open data?

• Open data is data that is openly accessible, exploitable, editable and shared by anyone for any purpose, even commercially. Open data is licensed under an open licence.

Where to find procurement data in open data portals and platforms?

Following concerns about misuse of funds allocated for emergency spending, The Office of the Chief Procurement produces dashboards which cover spending related to Covid-19 procurement and disaster response funds (such as recepts from flooding in kwaZulu Natal).

While these dashboards are excellent, accessing the underlying data can be tricky. For this reason, OpenUp maintains a repository of data which is collected from the COvid-19 dashboard at Keep The Receipts.

Other important general repositories and resources

Contextualising South Africa

Statistics South Africa : This web site requires JavaScript

Wazimap: Making Census Data Easy to Use

Youth Explorer | Explore, visualise and interact with youth-centered data

GCRO Quality of Life (QoL) survey viewer

South African Budget Data Portals

Vulekamali | OpenUp

Municipal MoneyMunicipalMoney

Keep the Receipts

Raw data files of procurement data

• Public sector tender data

• OCPO COVID19 procurement data

• OCPO Disaster response procurement data

National Treasury procurement data

• Disaster Response Transactions Dashboard

• Government wide Covid-19 Transactions Dahsboard

• Transversal Contracting — Publication of Bidders

• Database of Restricted Suppliers

• Deviations and Expansions Data

  • Procurement Watch Report on Procurement Risk Trends by Corruption Watch

The E-tender portal

• Public sector tender opportunities in South Africa

Auditor-General South Africa

• Public Finance Management Act (PFMA) consolidated general reports

• The Municipal Finance Management Act (MFMA) consolidated general reports

• Special audit reports (including COVID-19 audit reports)

Entrepreneurship

Company information is useful when we are trying to know better about a supplier (its director, areas of businesses etc.)

• B2BHint (Company info)

• BizPortal (CIPC portal for company registration information)

• World Bank Doing Business Data and New Business Density Survey

• Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Data

• Global Entrepreneurship and Development Institute (GEDI) Data

Other examples of useful data sources or resources

• Procurement module of Vulekamali

• OpenUp data portal

• Nemisa k4i Digital Skills Survey

• OpenGazettes

• CIPC Business and IP Search

• Open Knowledge Foundation Global Open Data Index

• UN Data

• University of Cape Town’s DataFirst microlibrary

• African Development Bank’s Data Portal

• National Research Foundation (NRF) South African Data Archive

• Open Data Africa

• OpenAfrica Data Portal

• National Research Foundation (NRF)’s Committee on Data for Science and Technology’s Database of Data Resources in Africa

• Africa: Tracking Internet Progress in Data & Numbers