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" <jwalu@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Way to go for Kenya.  I think this is called "walking the talk".  Kudos to 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.
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> 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.
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> You can almost say: Am almost proud being Kenyan ;-)
> walu.
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> --- On Fri, 7/8/11, Paul M <paulitrix@gmail.com> wrote:
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> From: Paul M <paulitrix@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Government to Launch Open Data July 8th @KICC
> To: jwalu@yahoo.com
> Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> Date: Friday, July 8, 2011, 10:09 AM
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> Great initiative. Here is the site: http://opendata.go.ke/
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