Listers Indeed this is a journey. I have just received a call from someone who is totally blown away by his ability to visualize some of the data. I urge listers to do deep into the site. http://www.opendata.go.ke/Counties/Proportion-of-Parcels-Operated-by-Owners-... This is one where the visualization was for Proportion of Parcels Operated by Owners with Title Deed by county<http://www.opendata.go.ke/Counties/Proportion-of-Parcels-Operated-by-Owners-with-Titl/5im7-udpm#revert> . As of now the portal has 290 data sets on the portal. This is unprecedented for Kenya. My humble advice, get the mathematicians, statisticians, marketers out there to work with the techies to do interesting interpretations. Use the data. It is open. Citizens need to be engaged and this provides opportunities. Regards Paul Kukubo Chief Executive Officer, Kenya ICT Board PO Box 27150 - 00100 Nairobi, Kenya 12th Floor, Teleposta Towers Koinange Street Tel +254 20 2089061, +254 20 2211960 Fax: +254 20 2211962 website: www.ict.go.ke local content project: www.tandaa.co.ke, www.facebook.com/tandaakenya twitter:@tandaaKENYA BPO Project: www. doitinkenya.co.ke Digital Villages Project: www.pasha.co.ke personal contacts _______________ Cell: + 254 717 180001 skype: kukubopaul googletalk: pkukubo personal blog: www.paulkukubo.co.ke personal twitter: @pkukubo ____________________ Vision: Kenya becomes a top ten global ICT hub Mission: To champion and actively enable Kenya to adopt and exploit ICT, through promotion of partnerships, investments and infrastructure growth for socio economic enrichment On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Rad! <conradakunga@gmail.com> wrote:
I am interested in getting partners to run some solutions as IAAS and SAAS and being a patriotic Kenyan I first attempted to get quotes for what I wanted. My findings I am sad to say were
1. Few providers even understand the concept of SAAS & IAAS. To spare embarrassment to employees who have on their payroll engineers unable to differentiate the cloud from websites, I won't name names 2. Those that do have laughable prices. I fiercely love my country and its people but my friends I refuse to pay 10-45 times the prices I am getting at Amazon / Microsoft / Rackspace because the providers are Kenyan. (Yes. That was 45 times)
This is why I am saying i have no problem hosting abroad until local providers get their act together and can have reasonable prices and services.
Remember the Ministry also has a fiscal responsibility to spend our taxes wisely.
If all things are held constant I will pick a local provider any day of the week and twice on sunday but at 45 times the price? And with no redundancy? I am afraid not.
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Paul, This really does feel like M-Pesa back in 2003-2004. I think your next Tandaa grants should be for people/organizations which use this data to build information services. i.e. from Data to Information to Knowledge. However you have a huge challenge keeping this platform up to date any ideas on how you will do so? Best Regards, John -- ** * Whive.org Head Office: Mlab East Africa 3rd Flr Bishop Magua, Ngong Road, Nairobi Sales Office: 2nd Flr Timau Plaza, Arwings Khodek, Nairobi TEL: +254 020 2023351 , +254 020 3875435 MOBILE: +254 720 114607, +254 0725 274191, +254 0720 484 049, +254 0705 036 284 EMAIL: info@whive.com * On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Paul Kukubo <pkukubo@ict.go.ke> wrote:
Listers
Indeed this is a journey.
I have just received a call from someone who is totally blown away by his ability to visualize some of the data. I urge listers to do deep into the site. http://www.opendata.go.ke/Counties/Proportion-of-Parcels-Operated-by-Owners-... This is one where the visualization was for Proportion of Parcels Operated by Owners with Title Deed by county<http://www.opendata.go.ke/Counties/Proportion-of-Parcels-Operated-by-Owners-with-Titl/5im7-udpm#revert> .
As of now the portal has 290 data sets on the portal. This is unprecedented for Kenya.
My humble advice, get the mathematicians, statisticians, marketers out there to work with the techies to do interesting interpretations. Use the data. It is open. Citizens need to be engaged and this provides opportunities.
Regards Paul Kukubo Chief Executive Officer, Kenya ICT Board PO Box 27150 - 00100 Nairobi, Kenya
12th Floor, Teleposta Towers Koinange Street
Tel +254 20 2089061, +254 20 2211960 Fax: +254 20 2211962 website: www.ict.go.ke local content project: www.tandaa.co.ke, www.facebook.com/tandaakenya twitter:@tandaaKENYA BPO Project: www. doitinkenya.co.ke Digital Villages Project: www.pasha.co.ke
personal contacts _______________
Cell: + 254 717 180001
skype: kukubopaul googletalk: pkukubo personal blog: www.paulkukubo.co.ke personal twitter: @pkukubo
____________________ Vision: Kenya becomes a top ten global ICT hub
Mission: To champion and actively enable Kenya to adopt and exploit ICT, through promotion of partnerships, investments and infrastructure growth for socio economic enrichment
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Rad! <conradakunga@gmail.com> wrote:
I am interested in getting partners to run some solutions as IAAS and SAAS and being a patriotic Kenyan I first attempted to get quotes for what I wanted. My findings I am sad to say were
1. Few providers even understand the concept of SAAS & IAAS. To spare embarrassment to employees who have on their payroll engineers unable to differentiate the cloud from websites, I won't name names 2. Those that do have laughable prices. I fiercely love my country and its people but my friends I refuse to pay 10-45 times the prices I am getting at Amazon / Microsoft / Rackspace because the providers are Kenyan. (Yes. That was 45 times)
This is why I am saying i have no problem hosting abroad until local providers get their act together and can have reasonable prices and services.
Remember the Ministry also has a fiscal responsibility to spend our taxes wisely.
If all things are held constant I will pick a local provider any day of the week and twice on sunday but at 45 times the price? And with no redundancy? I am afraid not.
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