Ronald, I vote for the Open data for the welfare and empowerment of marginalised groups and communities(e.g. data for small farmers) ________________________________ From: Ronald Ojino <ronojinx@gmail.com> To: "isoc@lists.my.co.ke"" <isoc@lists.my.co.ke> Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 1:10 AM Subject: Re: [ISOC_KE] OPEN SOURCE RESEARCH PROJECT Dear all in the research team, Kindly take the shortest time possible to mull over the following topics and vote for the most viable (expressing the reason for choice). -Open data in local and national budgeting processes -Open data for legislation processes and elections -Open data in judicial systems -Open data for smarter cities -Open data for the delivery of privately provided public services -Open data for the regulation of markets (e.g. extractive industries) -Open data for the welfare and empowerment of marginalized groups and communities (e.g. data for small farmers) -Open data and international development The reason for this exercise is for the purpose of avoiding unforeseen research problems ; therefore we need to delve into an area that is manageable. Kindly lets have the responses by the end of the day as i need to allocate tasks. Speed is of essence Best regards, Ronald Ojino -- Faith is a living and unshakable confidence. A belief in God so assured that a man would die a thousand deaths for its sake. _______________________________________________ isoc mailing list isoc@orion.my.co.ke http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/isoc