Verified Open Source in Kenya
6 verified open source for building in Kenya. Every one has had its documentation, licensing and live status checked, not just listed. Last verified 5 Jul 2026.
CHT Core Framework
The Community Health Toolkit Core Framework by Medic is an open-source toolkit for building offline-first digital health apps for community health workers. Written in JavaScript, it is deployed in Kenya, Uganda, Mali, Nigeria and other African countries to support last-mile primary care. It is AGPL-3.0 licensed.
Ona Data (onadata)
Django and Python data-collection, aggregation and sharing platform from Ona, the Nairobi-based data company. It ingests XLSForm and ODK submissions and exposes them via API for analysis, and is used across African health, agriculture and humanitarian survey programmes. It is released under a BSD 3-clause license.
OpenMRS Core
OpenMRS is an open-source medical record system platform whose Java API and web application form the foundation for national electronic medical record systems in several African countries, including Kenya's KenyaEMR. It supports patient records, encounters and clinical data in low-resource settings. It is released under the Mozilla Public License 2.0.
Ushahidi Platform
Open-source platform for crowdsourcing, mapping and visualising crisis and civic reports, first built in Kenya during the 2008 post-election violence. Written primarily in PHP, it powers deployments for election monitoring, disaster response and human-rights reporting across Africa and worldwide. Actively maintained by the Nairobi-based Ushahidi organisation.
openAFRICA
openAFRICA is a CKAN-based open-data portal operated by Code for Africa and positioned as one of the largest independent repositories of open data on the continent. This repository holds the primary deployment scripts and configuration for the platform served at open.africa. It gives African journalists, researchers and developers a public home for datasets.
sensors.AFRICA
Citizen-science air, water and sound quality monitoring platform by Code for Africa that aggregates readings from low-cost community sensors. The web application and dashboards are written mainly in JavaScript. It addresses environmental data gaps in African cities.