That k you GG for sharing. Great article, very valuable information on the importance and the need for open data initiative. I'm just wondering if new data is contantly being availed in the open data platform, is there a frequency on the updates? And what innovations have comeout of the initiative? Being a researcher, I know writing is hard. That article has figures I find hard to believe! It says in 2011-2012, Safaricom earned a revenue of ksh16B on MPESA alone. Is that corrrect really? I also don't see how the MPESA innovation is linking into the great Opendata article. On 19/08/2013, Grace Githaiga <[email protected]> wrote:
On July 8, 2011, President Mwai Kibaki officially launched the Kenya Open Data Initiative at a public event attended by more than 3,000 people. The new Internet portal compiled previously scattered or hard-to-access government information and made it available to the public for free. Kenya launched its initiative at a time when a number of countries were also putting government information online. The United States led the global open data movement, launching its site in 2009. Britain’s official data site went online a year later. Within three years, 31 countries — including Australia, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Estonia, Italy, Moldova, Morocco, the United Arab Emirates, and Uruguay — had created similar portals. Multilateral organizations embraced the concept as well; The World Bank inaugurated its own open data website in 2010. Read on. http://www.africahot.com/en/2013/08/17/bridging-kenyas-data-divide-by-rushda...
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