[open-government] Open Data license in the Kenya Open Data Portal

Tue Feb 5 16:25:58 UTC 2013

Hi all,

I've forwarded this to Al Kags who's with the Kenya Open Data Taskforce.

best,
Ton
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On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>wrote:

> Hi Michelle,
>
> The openness of the Kenyan Open Data portal has been extensively discussed
> both by this working group and more specifically by the  Open Definition
> Advisory Council <http://opendefinition.org/advisory-council/> (the issue
> originally being raised by Ory Okolloh)
>
> It was concluded based on those discussions that the license is *not *open
> (not open definition conformant) due to possible restrictions on commercial
> use. Specifically, non-conformance was discussed and agreed at the March
> 2012 meeting of the Open Definition Advisory Council<http://opendefinition.org/2012/03/24/notes-from-advisory-panel-meeting-march-2012/> following
> previous discussion on list (see e.g. [1])
>
> [1]: http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/od-discuss/2011-November/000070.html
>
> Notice was sent in August but no response has been received (we have
> emailed twice since) (see forwarded email sent
> http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/od-discuss/2012-December/000223.html).
>
> This information was discussed at the join Open Definition / Open
> Government Data Working group call on the 6th September 2012, see the
> minutes posted here:
>
> http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/open-government/2012-September/002314.html
>
> All this being said it seems reasonably clear (see other contributions to
> this thread) that the *intent* is for the data to be fully open. The
> issue being that the previous license language does not make this clear.
>
> What is interesting is that they now seem to have 2 sets of terms of
> service:
>
> 1. https://opendata.go.ke/page/terms-of-service (cited by Tariq and what
> was originally available)
>
> This still has the old language:
>
> "no restrictions to the non-commercial reproduction, re-publication and
> re-distribution of any information published on its website"
>
> 2. https://opendata.go.ke/terms-of-service (cited by Ton)
>
> Which modifies the original language to include commercial (perhaps
> suggesting an update in response to the feedback we sent):
>
> "no restrictions to the commercial and non-commercial reproduction,
> re-publication and re-distribution of any information published on its
> website"
>
> What this highlights is potentially the need for archiving and tracking
> terms of use over time on Open Data portal sites - something which the Open
> Definition group has already been discussion. Thoughts on the value of this
> would be very welcome.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rufus Pollock
>
>
>
> On 4 February 2013 20:10, Michelle Alves de Lima <alvesdelima at un.org>wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> We are trying to find out if the Kenya Open Data Portal (
>> https://opendata.go.ke/) has open data license. How can we get more
>> information about this?
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Michelle
>>
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