text: purely technical point of view, transparency, accountability and efficiency in government are 
  
  quickly becoming accessible to most African citizens through mobile networks rather than through 
  
  the "traditional" Internet. However, there are still too few public departments and procedures that 
  
  use digital documents and procedures on a scale large enough to generate meaningful volumes of 
  
  digital data that could be then published online. 
  
  While we write, Kenya is laying the legal groundwork to support Open Data. Permanent Secretary 
  
  for Information and Communications, Dr. Bitange Ndemo is reported as having been championing 
  
  for quite some time. In practice, big challenges remain for Open Data usage in Kenya. The easiest 
  
  one to solve is to technical, that is find skilled people that can package the data in ways that the 
  
  public can consume (even on mobile phones...). The real problem, however, is the fact that 
  
  (summarizing from Thinking About Africa's Open Data): 
  
  There is a lot of Kenya data but it isn't accessible. The entities that hold the most public 
  and infrastructure data are always government institutions. Getting information from 
  them can be very hard indeed. We don't know who to go to to get the data we need, and 