[kictanet] Open Data - Where does it sit?

Mon Jul 11 15:56:45 EAT 2011

That then leads to the question, why host it outside Kenya? The server seems
to be perpetually down, at least as far as the last tracert by Yawe and
myself

Edwin

From: kictanet-bounces+eonchari=lynxbits.com at lists.kictanet.or.ke
[mailto:kictanet-bounces+eonchari=lynxbits.com at lists.kictanet.or.ke] On
Behalf Of lordmwesh
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 3:44 PM
To: Edwin
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Open Data - Where does it sit?

According to informed sources, our Open Data is hosted in USA Seatle on
Soctrata platform at the SAVVIS Cloud center. The real URL address is
kenya.socrata.com. OpenData.go.ke is just a clever redirect to the
kenya.socrata.com subdomain.

On 11 July 2011 12:08, Edwin Onchari <eonchari at lynxbits.com> wrote:

I am not very good at this, but besides the high latency numbers of over
300ms, does this imply that the data is hosted outside of Kenya?

Edwin

From: kictanet-bounces+eonchari=lynxbits.com at lists.kictanet.or.ke
[mailto:kictanet-bounces+eonchari <mailto:kictanet-bounces%2Beonchari>
=lynxbits.com at lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of robert yawe
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 12:01 PM
To: Edwin

Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions

Subject: [kictanet] Open Data - Where does it sit?

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 <pkukubo at ict.go.ke>
To: robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
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

12th Floor, Teleposta Towers Koinange Street

Tel +254 20 2089061, +254 20 2211960 
Fax: +254 20 2211962
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