Grace, I had said that if we do not get more data and build the demand side of data, we shall have hit the dead end with Open Data. Of course the good journalist wanted a global attention on this hence the headline. We are doing good with open data. We are hiring a scientist and support staff to make the data more palatable to ordinary citizens. Ndemo.

The Daily Nation published an article on November 10 titled 'The Kenya Open Data Initiative has hit a dead end, says PS'.This sounded like a death knell for a much vaunted project that had won the government praise the world over for adopting transparency by making public data available.Information PS Bitange Ndemo lamented the unwillingness of state institutions to release data and revealed the entrenched culture of secrecy surrounding data. Read more: http://the-star.co.ke/news/article-100706/journalists-can-save-kenya-open-da... _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet

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