[od-discuss] Fwd: Help reviewing terms of use for Kenya Open data policy

Wed Nov 9 16:34:09 UTC 2011

On 8 November 2011 19:58, Mike Linksvayer <ml at creativecommons.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
>> On 13 July 2011 21:02, Ory Okolloh <ookolloh at gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
>> There is some standard citation and integrity stuff in citing data section viz:
>>
>> <quote>
>>
>> The agency's preferred citation for each dataset is to be included in
>> its metadata. Users should also cite the date that data were accessed
>> or retrieved from www.opendata.go.ke. Finally, users must clearly
>> state that www.opendata.go.ke and the Kenya ICT Board cannot vouch for
>> the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been
>> retrieved from www.opendata.go.ke.
>> </quote>
>>
>> But that does not seem to be obviously problematic in any way.
>
> But there's also
>
> <quote>
> However, third parties who use the information should represent it accurately
> </quote>
>
> which is rather vague (should? accurately?) and subject to discussion
> similar to http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/od-discuss/2011-October/000067.html
> (about which, I'm curious as to what others think).

Good spot Mike. This is raising a general question of policy towards
these sorts of "accuracy" requirements. Perhaps we should boot a
separate thread on this issue alone.

Rufus

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