When it goes online within half a year, a new portal will allow any individual with an internet connection to explore and download data on development indicators.

Developed by a team of five experts from the Technology & Innovation Institute over the past year, the National Development Indicators Dashboard (NDID) will be overseen, monitored and regulated by the National Planning & Development Commission.

Reaching 90pc completion, the system will be tasked with collecting, organising, storing and communicating development indicators for four clusters, namely social, economic, macroeconomic and good governance. Each cluster has Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), which measure the value that demonstrates how effectively a sector is achieving its key objectives with automated reporting.

The portal is essential, since the country does not have an organised system that offers accurate and reliable data, according to Gebre Alamne, team leader of the National Development Indicator Dashboard at the Institute.

"It will help the government identify gaps, make informed decisions and suggest ways forward," he said, "after finalising the process, the dashboard will be open to the public in five months."

Gebre also said that the portal would be used to accelerate the new 10-year plan, which the Commission is currently designing, supported by organised and profound information.

Under social clusters, there are development indicators for educational training, women and children, green development, science and technology, culture and tourism, and health. Under health, for instance, development indicators include HIV prevalence, death and birth rate, reproductive health and access to health coverage.

The economic cluster incorporates rural development and food security, industrial development, logistics, energy, information and communication. The macroeconomic cluster has economic growth and poverty reduction, economic and structural change, domestic finance and investment development, and foreign trade development under its umbrella. Good governance has sections on capacity building and developing a democratic culture under it.