# Towards the Development of Agenda 2063 Geo-Portal to Support Sustainable Development in Africa
## 7 Conclusions  
Our prototypic geoportal implementation demonstrates that a web- geoportal can be used for accessing, integrating, visualizing, analysing, and disseminating multi-datasets to support the monitoring of the Agenda 2063 sustainable development indicators. It provides a single data platform for integrating multiple data sources that can be compared over space and time. Most importantly, the geoportal allows governments across Africa to share their development information in support of Agenda 2063 and enables them to visualize and to compare their data with those of other African countries on a common online platform. Timely information is a critical input in the design, monitoring, and evaluation of multi-sectoral sustainable development policies. The integration of satellite imagery into the Geoportal provides a data visualization functionality that can be used to visually illustrate the current situations with regards to access to basic services such as schools, health care facilities, electricity, urban and infrastructure development, flooding events, agriculture, and surface water resource evaluations. The graphical functionality of the Geoportal allows users to monitor trends between different countries and regional blocks. The Geoportal provides an open and common platform for sharing, monitoring, and evaluation in support of evidence-based planning, reporting, and decision-making. In this paper, we have been able to demonstrate that while most geoportals have a national and project focus, it is feasible to have a continent-wide geoportal that serves a common digital platform for data discovery, visualization, storage, analysis, uploading, and dissemination. This geoportal will assist in providing access to sustainable development data aligned with Agenda 2063 and will enable the user to compare development trends across Africa. It will also allow development funders to quickly access information on the impact of their development programmes in different regions of the continent on a data-rich web platform. The success of a geoportal is evaluated by its functionality for end users, geoportal management, geoportal data security and geoportal interoperability, and interface customization. We aimed to develop a demonstration geoportal through rapid prototyping and concurrent engineering. Through the demonstration held with the regional economic communities in Africa, the African Union Commission, and selected member states the value of a geoportal for integrated reporting, monitoring, and evaluation were ascertained. The Geoportal was seen as a pragmatic and unified way of consolidating development information to support the monitoring of the Agenda 2063 goals. The user functionality demonstrated by the portal in terms of data visualization, querying, discovery, analysis, charting, and sharing is valuable for integrated planning, monitoring, and evaluation. Access rights are a key issue in information management, in this, we successfully showed the functionality of the monitoring and evaluation geoportal for by providing registration and access rights to three levels of users that are can be authenticated and validated. The uploading of official and credible information was also an important consideration in the development of this geoportal. We achieved this through a validation done after registration on the system, whereby rights to upload relevant information is only granted to approved officials in member states. The Geoportal management is ensured by granting administrator and publisher User-IDs and passwords. Geoportal data security was achieved through user authentication options available in PostgreSQL. To ensure interoperability, the geoportal supports a wide range of metadata standards and a variety of common electronic data communication standards. Given the successful demonstration of this live geoportal prototype, a consolidated user requirement will be drawn up and an operational geoportal will be developed as the next step.