The Daily Nation published an article on November 10 titled 'The Kenya Open Data Initiative has hit a dead end, says PS'. This sounded like a death knell for a much vaunted project that had won the government praise the world over for adopting transparency by making public data available. Information PS Bitange Ndemo lamented the unwillingness of state institutions to release data and revealed the entrenched culture of secrecy surrounding data. The current state of the project is at variance with the fanfare that greeted the launch of the initiative by President Kibaki in July last year...
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