6 blocks of open data
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6 BLOCKS OF OPEN DATA
The Kenyan ExperienceBy Al Kags, Chair
Kenya Open Data Taskforce
THE OPEN DATA INITIATIVE MIND MAPTHE OPEN DATA INITIATIVE MIND MAP
THE SIX BLOCKS
• LEADERSHIP• POLICY & LEGAL FRAMEWORK• TECHNOLOGY & APPS• CAPACITY BUILDING• CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT• INNOVATION & FINANCING
(COLOUR CODE FROM MINDMAP)
LEADERSHIP (KEY POINTS TO THINK
ABOUT)•The arguments for different
audiences – Development vs. Accountability, Selling Open to Politicians
•The availability of a champion – Someone who understands how to navigate the politics and the technocracy to win support across the board.
•Support at the highest level – The President of Kenya has been at the forefront of
supporting Open
POLICY & FRAMEWORKS(KEY POINTS TO THINK
ABOUT)•Legislation & Constitution – Article
35 of Kenyan Constitution, Freedom of Information Bill etc.
•Cabinet Leadership – Create the necessary structures to ensure continuous supply side (publishing of data), creation & strengthening of necessary government bodies to manage process
•Judicial perspective – to promote openness through precedents and enforcement
TECHNOLOGY & APPS(KEY POINTS TO THINK
ABOUT)•Solid World Class Platform – For
data curation and visualisation (Kenya used Socrata)
•Encourage Application Development – For interesting narrative development depending on relevance
CAPACITY BUILDING(KEY POINTS TO THINK
ABOUT)•Demonstrate benefits of Open for
development – To C-Level Government executives in order to promote supply of data
•Facilitate knowledge of technical data handlers – For better curation, for more data acquisition (enable them to see more creative data as they come across it, and better narrative creation)
•Facilitate knowledge of ICT Officers – for better definition of ICT projects to support Open
CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT(KEY POINTS TO THINK
ABOUT)•Grow user community –
Academia, Non-profits/ Development workers, private sector, media•Link the user community to app
developers – to enable better visualisation and narrative development
INNOVATION & FINANCING(KEY POINTS TO THINK ABOUT)
•Encourage Application development – Hackerthons & User competitions, Media Data Journalism
•Encourage private sector participation – make it a sustainable endeavour for growing the knowledge economy
Importance of Partnership
• Successful Open Data initiatives are Partnerships between Governments, Civil Societies and Private Sector– In Kenya, the World Bank was an important
facilitator and partner of this (access to information, expertise and finance)
• Successful national Open Data initiatives must be actively led by Government (for sustainability)
IT WAS A LABOR OF LOVE BY COMMITTED PEOPLE.
Roll Credits (the Kenya Open Data Task
Force)• Dr. Bitange Ndemo, PS,
Information & Communications• Al Kags, Chairman• Paul Kukubo, Kenya ICT
Board• Kaburo Kobia, Kenya ICT
Board• Cleophas Kiio, Kenya National
Bureau of Statistics• Jay Bhalla, Independent
Consultant• Chris Finch, World Bank• Tracey Lane, World Bank• Athman Mohamed,
Trademark East Africa
• Angie Gachui, Triple Bottom line Associates
• Gladwell Otieno, Africog• Michael Murungi, Kenya
Law Reports • Ory Okolloh, Google• Dennis Gikunda, Google• Daudi Were, iHub• Juliana Rotich, iHub, • Vincent Mugambi,
Microsoft• Philip Thigo, Sodnet
http://www.opendata.go.ke
Contact Al Kags
alkags@good.co.ke
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