[kictanet] Open Data - Where does it sit?

[Paul Kukubo]

Listers

Indeed this is a journey.

I have just received a call from someone who is totally blown away by his
ability to visualize some of the data.  I urge listers to do deep into the
site.
http://www.opendata.go.ke/Counties/Proportion-of-Parcels-Operated-by-Owners-with-Titl/5im7-udpm
This is one where the visualization was for Proportion of Parcels Operated
by Owners with Title Deed by
county<http://www.opendata.go.ke/Counties/Proportion-of-Parcels-Operated-by-Owners-with-Titl/5im7-udpm#revert>
.

As of now the portal has 290 data sets on the portal. This is unprecedented
for Kenya.

My humble advice, get the mathematicians, statisticians, marketers out there
to work with the techies to do interesting interpretations. Use the data. It
is open. Citizens need to be engaged and this provides opportunities.


Regards
Paul Kukubo
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On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Rad! <conradakunga at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am interested in getting partners to run some solutions as IAAS and SAAS
> and being a patriotic Kenyan I first attempted to get quotes for what I
> wanted. My findings I am sad to say were
>
>
>    1. Few providers even understand the concept of SAAS & IAAS. To
>    spare embarrassment to employees who have on their payroll engineers unable
>    to differentiate the cloud from websites, I won't name names
>    2. Those that do have laughable prices. I fiercely love my country and
>    its people but my friends I refuse to pay 10-45 times the prices I am
>    getting at Amazon / Microsoft / Rackspace because the providers are Kenyan.
>    (Yes. That was 45 times)
>
> This is why I am saying i have no problem hosting abroad until local
> providers get their act together and can have reasonable prices and
> services.
>
> Remember the Ministry also has a fiscal responsibility to spend our taxes
> wisely.
>
> If all things are held constant I will pick a local provider any day of the
> week and twice on sunday but at 45 times the price? And with no redundancy?
> I am afraid not.
>
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