<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV>The Open Data project has opened a new frontier for Kenya. I forsee lots of innovations targetting value addition and entreprenuership. Research stands to benefit most. I have now lined up many students to enteract with the data available and generate new knowledge.</DIV>
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<DIV>Muliaro Wafula<BR></DIV>
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Paul Kukubo <pkukubo@ict.go.ke><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> muliaro@yahoo.com<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Cc:</SPAN></B> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Fri, July 15, 2011 8:08:24 AM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [kictanet] Open Data - Where does it sit?<BR></FONT><BR>Listers<BR><BR>Ŵe shall be tracking usage of this portal to understand Wananchi interest.<BR><BR>We shall continue working with the developer teams to create<BR>information and citizen products. Some ideas that have been proposed<BR>are very novel and indeed some require financial support to<BR>operationalise. Next week the ICT Board will be announcing phase 2 of<BR>the Tandaa grants program which we delayed to enable this project to<BR>be launched. The government component
of the grants will tie projects<BR>to open data. We shall repeat what we did last year in going around<BR>the country on sensitization on the same. Indeed we may find a<BR>proposal to localize the data as one likely proposal for grants. We<BR>never know.<BR><BR>On November 1 the ICT Board will commence the incubation project and<BR>without preempting the likely candidates, some of them may well be in<BR>this area. I visited the MBlab (established earlier this year by<BR>university of Nairobi Ihub and World Bank) some of the ideas being<BR>incubated there will blow one's mind. The fact that Kenya is a leader<BR>in mobile innovation is not an overstatement. And the excitement in<BR>the dev community about open data is real.<BR><BR>I was on k24 TV earlier today and the issues from callers had to do<BR>with getting citizen engagement. We are planning more such programs to<BR>take this to the public.<BR><BR>Regards<BR><BR><BR>Paul kukubo<BR>CEO, Kenya
ICT Board<BR>Tweeter: @pkukubo<BR><BR><BR><BR>On Thursday, July 14, 2011, Ali Hussein <<A href="mailto:info@alyhussein.com" ymailto="mailto:info@alyhussein.com">info@alyhussein.com</A>> wrote:<BR>> Aki<BR>><BR>> Let's meet at IGF or a coffee off line? I take it upon myself to convince you of otherwise. Will you oblige? :)<BR>><BR>> Regards<BR>><BR>> Ali Hussein - Sent from my BlackBerry®<BR>><BR>> -----Original Message-----<BR>> From: aki <<A href="mailto:aki275@gmail.com" ymailto="mailto:aki275@gmail.com">aki275@gmail.com</A>><BR>> Sender: kictanet-bounces+info=<A href="mailto:alyhussein.com@lists.kictanet.or.keDate" ymailto="mailto:alyhussein.com@lists.kictanet.or.keDate">alyhussein.com@lists.kictanet.or.keDate</A>: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 13:53:31<BR>> To: <<A href="mailto:info@alyhussein.com" ymailto="mailto:info@alyhussein.com">info@alyhussein.com</A>><BR>> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<<A
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