Hi Paul, The government data centre is at tender stage as we think which indicates that we shall not be bringing the data home for at least 3 years. Does't this indicate a failure in the KICT Board that we do not have a data centre of international standards? I noted someone indicate that hosting is being done in the US because there is better hosting facilities a situation that was the responsibility of the board to remedy. Regards Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696 ________________________________ From: paul kukubo <[email protected]> To: robert yawe <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected]; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, 11 July, 2011 14:04:30 Subject: Re: [kictanet] Open Data - Where does it sit? Robert Right now the website sits on the platform at Socrata, who are hosting the visualization platform. This will be migrated to the government data centre as soon as the hosting resources are in place. Because the data is open, any user can download and deploy the data as they wish, as long as there is reference to the opendata source. may regards. On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 12:01 PM, robert yawe <[email protected]> wrote:
C:\>tracert opendata.go.ke
Tracing route to opendata.go.ke [216.227.229.160] over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.2 2 5 ms 4 ms 4 ms 41.139.207.241 3 4 ms 9 ms 15 ms 41-139-255-93.safaricombusiness.co.ke
[41.139.25
5.93] 4 4 ms 4 ms 4 ms 41-139-255-94.safaricombusiness.co.ke [41.139.25 5.94] 5 5 ms 5 ms 4 ms 41-139-255-49.safaricombusiness.co.ke [41.139.25 5.49] 6 5 ms 4 ms 4 ms 196.201.222.33 7 93 ms 93 ms 98 ms if-4-2-2.core1.MLV-Mumbai.as6453.net [209.58.105 .25] 8 314 ms 295 ms 294 ms if-8-1-0-0.tcore1.MLV-Mumbai.as6453.net [180.87. 38.17] 9 297 ms 298 ms 297 ms if-2-2.tcore2.MLV-Mumbai.as6453.net [180.87.38.2 ] 10 289 ms 289 ms 289 ms if-6-2.tcore1.L78-London.as6453.net [80.231.130. 5] 11 293 ms 296 ms 300 ms if-7-2.tcore2.NJY-Newark.as6453.net [80.231.130. 54] 12 298 ms 295 ms 304 ms if-9-0-0-1108.core3.NTO-NewYork.as6453.net [66.1 98.111.50] 13 296 ms 288 ms 288 ms cr2-pos-0-8-0-3.nyr.savvis.net [208.173.129.29]
14 351 ms 350 ms 349 ms cr1-pos-0-3-1-1.Seattle.savvis.net [204.70.200.6 ] 15 * 387 ms * hr2.se2-pos-9-0-0.se2.savvis.net [208.172.81.222 ] 16 342 ms 343 ms 342 ms 209.67.77.62 17 * * * Request timed out. 18 * * * Request timed out. 19 * * * Request timed out. 20 * * * Request timed out. 21 * * * Request timed out. 22 * * * Request timed out. 23 * * * Request timed out. 24 * * * Request timed out. 25 * * * Request timed out. 26 * * * Request timed out. 27 * * * Request timed out. 28 * * * Request timed out. 29 * * * Request timed out. 30 * * * Request timed out.
Trace complete. Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya
Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
________________________________ From: Paul Kukubo <[email protected]>
To: [email protected] Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, 7 July, 2011 18:48:50 Subject: [kictanet] Government to Launch Open Data July 8th @KICC
Listers
The Government of Kenya, through the Ministry of Information of Communications will launch a new Government Open Data Portal on July 8, 2011 at the KICC that will, for the first time, make several large government datasets available to the general public in an easy to search and view format.
The launch will be presided over by HE President Mwai Kibaki .
Program commences at 9.30 tomorrow.
The web portal will allow citizens and the private sector to search and display national and county level data in graphs and maps and allow for easy comparison and analysis between datasets.
For web and software developers, the portal will avail data in useable formats like cvs, Excel and will even include APIs for each dataset.
The portal will be one of the first and largest government data portals in sub-Saharan Africa. With this launch, Kenya will become a leader among developing countries in the adoption of open data - a movement that is gathering momentum globally.
What is open data? Public information and searchable information are two different things. Much public data is already available by law but it's often not usable because it is in a format that is not easy to find, use and re-use. Published PDF files do not constitute "open data" and are not helpful to large-scale users.
To be open, data must be: * easily found through search engines (meta-tagged) * available in machine readable formats (CSV, XML, APIs not PDF) * accessible by third party tools/applications (interoperable) * allow others to use and re-use for non-commercial and commercial use (e.g Creative Commons Licences) Open Data not only increases transparency and accountability but also promotes greater efficiency and effectiveness in the delivery of public services by allowing users to easily consume and interpret data
This is therefore to invite you to the launch. You can register at the door on your arrival.
Paul Kukubo Chief Executive Officer, Kenya ICT Board PO Box 27150 - 00100 Nairobi, Kenya
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