Okay.
Information is key, it must be free. We as citizens have the responsibility to keep an eye on the government. When a new leader emerge, she has the power to erase information from her predecessor, as it has been the case in the US last week.
Now I have been looking at some websites which could suffer from these issues. What if we setup an archiving system ?
Obviously open data is way behind government's current topics ( I lack information on this, if someone have insights, thanks for sharing ). So let's build this ourselves.
Evolving from internet users to internet makers.
What do you think ?
On Jan 28, 2017 1:02 AM, S Moonesamy <sm+mu_at_elandsys.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Martin,
>
> You have probably seen the emails which I sent about Open Data. I
> don't believe that it would be consistent if I support Open Data and
> keep the discussions closed.
>
> There are very few people on the island who have shown interest in
> Open Source. I was at a stand for LUGM advocacy last week. There
> were only two persons helping out at that stand. For some people,
> the topic is academic; for other people, it is because the software
> is free.
>
> It would be very difficult to get Open Data working in Mauritius as
> there isn't an environment of "openness". There are some questions
> which have not been discussed, e.g. whether the data sources will
> still be accessible in future. Is it useful to do something about
> that? Yes. It would require a dedicated group of people who
> understand who believe that it is something useful.
>
> Regards,
> S. Moonesamy
>
Received on Sat Jan 28 2017 - 06:14:14 PST