The Open Data project has opened a new frontier for Kenya. I forsee lots of innovations targetting value addition and entreprenuership. Research stands to benefit most. I have now lined up many students to enteract with the data available and generate new knowledge. Muliaro Wafula ________________________________ From: Paul Kukubo <pkukubo@ict.go.ke> To: muliaro@yahoo.com Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Sent: Fri, July 15, 2011 8:08:24 AM Subject: Re: [kictanet] Open Data - Where does it sit? Listers Ŵe shall be tracking usage of this portal to understand Wananchi interest. We shall continue working with the developer teams to create information and citizen products. Some ideas that have been proposed are very novel and indeed some require financial support to operationalise. Next week the ICT Board will be announcing phase 2 of the Tandaa grants program which we delayed to enable this project to be launched. The government component of the grants will tie projects to open data. We shall repeat what we did last year in going around the country on sensitization on the same. Indeed we may find a proposal to localize the data as one likely proposal for grants. We never know. On November 1 the ICT Board will commence the incubation project and without preempting the likely candidates, some of them may well be in this area. I visited the MBlab (established earlier this year by university of Nairobi Ihub and World Bank) some of the ideas being incubated there will blow one's mind. The fact that Kenya is a leader in mobile innovation is not an overstatement. And the excitement in the dev community about open data is real. I was on k24 TV earlier today and the issues from callers had to do with getting citizen engagement. We are planning more such programs to take this to the public. Regards Paul kukubo CEO, Kenya ICT Board Tweeter: @pkukubo On Thursday, July 14, 2011, Ali Hussein <info@alyhussein.com> wrote:
Aki
Let's meet at IGF or a coffee off line? I take it upon myself to convince you of otherwise. Will you oblige? :)
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