Yesterday Mwalimu Mati contacted me about the *temporary* closure of the Mars Group Website. (http://marsgroupkenya.org/new/) . Reports on the internet that the site had been closed due to a developer creating an app that gathered information from the site. Mati says the site was closed 10 days before the developer raised the above concerns. However, the main issue here is that the developer had developed an App that used information from Mars Group, and had not bothered to inform Mars Group that he was working on such an application. The application , would have drawn more traffic from the website. Mati says this would account to higher hosting fees for the 2.3 TB that of information that Mars Group has collected so far. Furthermore, it was odd that the developer then wrongly heaped accusations on Mars Group that it was trying to keep information that belonged to the Kenyan public away from the public. This includes budget items for the last several years that Mars Group has digitised from hard copies. Developers also need to abide by ethics when developing apps that access data from other people's websites, and should have even the slightest courtesy of even informing them. As the developer realised, by informing Mars Group, he would have been aware of their planned changes to their website. -- with Regards: The Chinese are known to be entrepreneurs, and coupled with some imagination, are now playing the role of nature in food and beverage production. http://gramware.blogspot.com/2011/01/chinese-way-to-become-imaginative.html