Way to go for Kenya. I think this is called "walking the talk". Kudos to
Walu For once, we are in perfect agreement! This is indeed a major achievement. I am looking forward to a great deal of innovative mashup, etc coming from open gov data! Rgds, McTim On Jul 8, 2011 5:22 PM, "Walubengo J" <[email protected]> wrote: the men and women behind this great initiative and just to mention a few in Govt: Ndemo, Paul K, most likely Kate G, Google: Mucheru/Ory and many others behind the scenes.
Those outside govt may not know but to pull off this type of thing - ahead
of the Freedom of Info Act and under the entrenched govt culture of hiding data - is a great leap of faith by the folks in Govt.
You can almost say: Am almost proud being Kenyan ;-) walu.
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From: Paul M <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Government to Launch Open Data July 8th @KICC To: [email protected] Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <[email protected]> Date: Friday, July 8, 2011, 10:09 AM
Great initiative. Here is the site: http://opendata.go.ke/
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