[kictanet] Open Data - Where does it sit?- its just the beginning.

Wed Jul 13 08:44:53 EAT 2011

--- On Tue, 7/12/11, robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>Does't this indicate a failure in the KICT Board that we do not have a data centre of >>international standards?

Yawe, strictly speaking, ICT board mandate is to market  Kenya as an ICT destination - not  necessarily build  Data Centers ;-)

But on a more serious note, an  operational data center requires more than one agency to deliver. You need reliable power  (KP&L), you need reliable water supply (City Council?), you need reliable security (read vandalism/cable cuts), you need laws (Data-Protection Act to begin with) and yes -  even if you had all the above, you will still need reliable Political stability before anyone can trust you enough to let you host their data locally.

am afraid in Kenya we do score slightly below average on all the above - for now even though slowly improving. And so we should not complain too much for having found our government data sitting somewhere in the US.

my 2cents,

walu.

--- On Tue, 7/12/11, robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

From: robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Open Data - Where does it sit?
To: jwalu at yahoo.com
Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Date: Tuesday, July 12, 2011, 6:50 PM

Hi Paul,
The government data centre is at tender stage as we think which indicates that we shall not be bringing the data home for at least 3 years.  
Does't this indicate a failure in the KICT Board that we do not have a data centre of international standards?
I noted someone indicate that hosting is being done in the US because there is better hosting facilities a situation that was the responsibility of the board to remedy.  

Regards
 Robert Yawe
KAY System Technologies Ltd
Phoenix House, 6th Floor
P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
Kenya

Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696

From: paul kukubo <paulkukubo at ict.go.ke>
To: robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: pkukubo at ict.go.ke; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Sent: Mon, 11 July, 2011 14:04:30
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Open Data - Where does it sit?

Robert
Right now the website sits on the platform at Socrata, who are hosting the visualization platform. This will be migrated to the government data centre as soon as the hosting resources are in place.

Because the data is open, any user can download and deploy the data as they wish, as long as there is reference to the opendata source.
may regards.

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 12:01 PM, robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

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
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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
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PO Box 27150 - 00100
Nairobi, Kenya

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Fax: +254 20 2211962

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