[od-discuss] follow up todo: "contact the Kenya Open Data Initiative on OD compliance"

Mon Aug 13 20:57:34 UTC 2012

Good point! As I am not a native speaker, could you perhaps help me putting this into a nice wording, so that it sounds friendly but encouraging them to make it better?

Daniel

On 13 Aug 2012, at 22:42, Herb Lainchbury wrote:

> Personally, I would consider removing the word "Sadly".  It pre-supposes is that this will be received as bad news when in fact the license is in pretty good shape and is closer to conformance than many.
> 
> H
> 
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 3:20 AM, Daniel Dietrich <daniel.dietrich at okfn.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When writing the summary of the last call on the open definition and spotted an open TODO:
> 
> "contact the Kenya Open Data Initiative on the issue." Here is a draft mail. Please comment/change.
> 
> All best
> Daniel
> 
> -- snip --
> 
> Subject: Compliance of the Kenyan Open Data Policy with the Open Definition
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> my name is Daniel Dietrich, Open Data Evangelist of the Open Knowledge Foundation [1] and Project coordinator of the Open Definition [2]. I am contacting you today, on behalf of the Open Definition Advisory Council, because of the compliance of the Kenyan Open Data Policy with the Open Definition.
> 
> The Open Definition Advisory Council reviewed the Kenyan Open Data Policy [3] as used in the Kenyan Government open data portal. Sadly the group agreed that the Kenyan Open Data Policy was non-compliant with the Open Definition because of it's non-commercial restrictions:
> 
> <quote>
> As such, and subject to any minor restrictions that may be imposed by the law of copyright regarding the use of public information, the Kenya ICT Board and the government agencies whose information is provided on this website impose no restrictions to the non-commercial reproduction, re-publication and re-distribution of any information published on its website.
> </quote>
> 
> This implies only permission for non-commercial use whereas open definition requires that the data be freely usable for any purpose including commercial ones. We think this is an important issue since this affects the Open Data Ecosystem. International interoperability of datasets is key to build a sustainable open data ecosystem.
> 
> The Open Definition sets out principles to define ‘openness’ in relation to content and data and is widely recognized as the international standard to evaluate license compliance.
> 
> We would be please if we could discuss this issue and explore possibilities how we could help you make the Kenyan Open Data Policy compliant with the Open Definition. It would be great if we could have a call by phone or skype at any time soon.
> 
> 
> Kind regards
> Daniel Dietrich
> on behalf of the Open Definition Advisory Council
> 
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