Kenya Open Data Initiative: The bigger picture

Now that Kenya has launched its open data portal (www.opendata.go.ke), the OGP taskforce is becoming less focused on the programmers and more focused on civil society leadership. This week, Kenya’s open data initiative organized a workshop (with the World Bank and the African Media Initiative) for media leaders and journalists. They introduced the portal and discussed the importance of the media as a vehicle for public dissemination of the data. The taskforce is planning similar outreach events in other sectors to encourage public use of the data.