# Towards the Development of Agenda 2063 Geo-Portal to Support Sustainable Development in Africa
## 4 Demonstration  
In this section, we aim to present the functionality of the prototype geoportal. We will showcase its front, user access, and data upload interfaces, development indicators, and charting capabilities. Furthermore, we will demonstrate the ability of the geoportal to display development trends such as access to electricity, manufacturing value addition, GNI per capita growth, and tax revenue information. We also highlight the geoportal's capability to tabulate inter-country comparisons of specified development indicators. The visual and integration functions are depicted by applying map overlay operations using the human settlements layer and SPOT 6 satellite imagery. The Agenda 2063 Geoportal shown in Figure 4 in this project demonstrates that geoportals are a powerful web-based interactive platform to upload, access, explore, visualize, analyse, and disseminate geospatial data related to the sustainable development of the African continent. Although in the pilot  
Figure 3: Data access restrictions. Data interoperability is achieved using Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards. However, access to sensitive datasets is restricted at the user level. phase, the Geoportal demonstrates the primary functionality of geoportals in terms of its capability to discover, analyse, share, and download geospatial datasets as evident on the following web link: [http://agenda63 sdgs.sansa.org.za/nepad/](http://agenda63 sdgs.sansa.org.za/nepad/). In this case, we used a number a geo-datasets such as statistical development indicators, demographic statistics, satellite imagery, vector data sets for transport networks, and administrative boundaries, hazard layers, land use and land cover base layers, and digital elevation models as shown by the product layers in Figure 5.  
The interactive nature of the Geoportal allows the overlay of vector and raster datasets and to make comparisons between countries, regions, and provinces aided by graphical analysis. The browsing and viewing capability are aimed at the general public and more advanced functio  
Figure 4: Front end interface for interacting with the geoportal. Figure 5: Base layers can be viewed on the maps and overlaid for visual and quantitative analysis. comparisons is designed for authorized users of the geoportal. In order to protect the integrity and confidentiality of the datasets, three levels are users are designated. Access to information and more advanced functionality of the geoportal is granted through user registration and password security as shown in Figure 6 below. The geoportal has the capability to allow authorized officials from national statistical offices to independently upload official datasets as shown in Figure 7 below. In this geoportal, we selected several development indicators related to the strategic impact areas of shared prosperity, wealth creation, and transformative capacities. The snapshot in Figure 8 below illustrates the results of our implementation. We show for each country, the high-level strategic impact, the indicator, and the Agenda 2063 target. Figure 8: High-level strategic impacts, indicators, and the Agenda 2063 targets. Figure 6: User rights administration. Figure 7: Data upload capabilities for data updating and sharing. The charting capability of the geoportal is demonstrated in Figures 9 and 10 below. We show the ability of the geoportal to provide graphical plots of the development indicators over time to support trend analysis. In this paper, we used the access to electricity development indicator to showcase the geoportal graphical plotting capabilities. Comparison of development indicators between different member states and regional economic communities is another essential function offered by the geoportal as shown in Figure 11. This functionality allows users to compare the rates of development among African states and learn from the  
Figure 10: Example of a chart displaying the percentage of the population with access to electricity and how this varies over time.