[kictanet] Updated Informaiton on Open Data Development Camp 2012

[alice at apc.org]

Dear all,

See below updated information on the open data camp.
celebrating one year of our Open Data initiative. Happy birthday!

Best
Alice

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www.openforchange.info.

Open Data organises Strathmore Camp and turns one year


The Open Data Development Camp 2012 will be held on 27th and 28th June at
Strathmore University. The two day camp is part of The Kenya Open Data
Pre-Incubator Program and aims at attracting more than 200 participants in
the field.

At the same event, a cocktail has been organized to mark the launch of the
Kenya Open Data Initiative Portal which turns one year. On July 8 2011,
President Mwai Kibaki launched the Kenya Open Data Initiative, making key
government data freely available to the public through a single online
portal.

Registration for the camp has been ongoing and the event is expected to
attract a diverse group of policy-makers, academia, and development aid
workers, researchers, journalists, ICT-staff and software developers. The
aim is to share experiences and networks, build tools, and show the power
of Open Data.

Going by the tagline, “We are open for change – are you?, the event will
be seeking to shed more light on open data in stimulating the country
growth.
This is a six-month experiment to help accelerate and make sense of data
and to galvanize engagement around critical public issues.  It promises a
combination of keynote speakers, workshops, best practices, speed geeking,
hack space, networking, exchange of knowledge and needs, sharing data
sets, co-creation, open data visualizations, and inspiration.

Dr Bitange Ndemo, PS, Ministry of Information and Communication, Johannes
Zutt, Worldbank Country Director, Paul Kukubo, CEO, Kenya ICT Board, and
Pieter Dorst, Head of the Aid Effectiveness Division, Netherlands Ministry
of Foreign Affairs are some of the high profile speakers at the camp.

Organizers of the open data development camp 2012 include:  ICT Board
Kenya, Kenya Open Data Initiative, Open for Change, World Bank, NaiLab,
@iLabAfrica, Akvo, 1%CLUB, Hivos, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the
Netherlands, and Development Gateway.

Detailed information about the event are available on

www.openforchange.info.