<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div>How about the Western governments as a good place to start?</div><div><br></div><div>It is interesting to see that a lot of these initiatives are relevant to the developing world and not the developed world.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div>Sammy</div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> Evans Ikua <<a href="mailto:ikua.evans@gmail.com">ikua.evans@gmail.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Thursday, October 31, 2013 3:18 PM<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> Sammy Buruchara <<a href="mailto:Buruchara@me.com">Buruchara@me.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> [kictanet] Open Data Vital, says web inventor<br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><p>The inventor of the World Wide Web has said governments and companies
"must not shy away" from giving the public free access to sensitive
information. </p><p>Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who launched the web on Christmas Day 1990,
argued that open data was essential in " fighting poverty, accelerating
industry and innovation, and reducing corruption". </p><a href="http://www.talktalk.co.uk/news/technology/article/open-data-vital-says-web-inventor/107215/">Read more</a><br></div>
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