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.

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.
 

--- On Fri, 7/8/11, Paul M <paulitrix@gmail.com> wrote:

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

Great initiative. Here is the site: http://opendata.go.ke/

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