<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Way to go for Kenya. I think this is called "walking the talk". Kudos to the men and women behind this great initiative and just to mention a few in Govt: Ndemo, Paul K, most likely Kate G, Google: Mucheru/Ory and many others behind the scenes.<br><br>Those outside govt may not know but to pull off this type of thing - ahead of the Freedom of Info Act and under the entrenched govt culture of hiding data - is a great leap of faith by the folks in Govt.<br><br>You can almost say: Am almost proud being Kenyan ;-)<br>walu.<br> <br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 7/8/11, Paul M <i><paulitrix@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Paul M <paulitrix@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: [kictanet] Government to Launch Open Data July 8th @KICC<br>To:
jwalu@yahoo.com<br>Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke><br>Date: Friday, July 8, 2011, 10:09 AM<br><br><div id="yiv1968713795">Great initiative. Here is the site: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://opendata.go.ke/">http://opendata.go.ke/</a><br>
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