 My name is Willy Beck, Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisher. We've taken this issue very seriously because agriculture and information is very critical in economic developments of the African countries. Having informed and accurate information will help in shaping up and promoting and accelerating agricultural growth so that it can contribute more to the economic development of the African countries. The old question of agriculture and land ownership is a question which will determine whether Africa will be self-sufficient in food or not. Either of the land ownership issues would still contribute to food efficiency depending on the policies and the structure of of the system which would facilitate either of the system to contribute more to food production. Coming to Kodan and the Kenyan situation is that Kenya is committing itself to championing the advancement of the open data in Africa and also in the South-South areas and in this way Kenya is now calling for a focal point in Kenya so that we can plan and see how we can influence and bring in more partners to come and share in this novel idea of opening up the data. Kenya is in a unique position because it has opened up data in government. It has legislated the data availability. Now every Kenyan in Kenya is a right for them to access information not only in the area of agriculture but government information. Seventy percent of the population in Africa are engaged in agriculture and therefore the only serious way to grow economies and to and eliminate hunger is through agriculture and agriculture can only move forward if decisions in the area of agriculture is evidenced best is based on data. What need to happen though now is how do we get the data? How do we build capacity so that data is collected from all where the data is generated? How are we going to develop this data in a very consumable manner in a way which every small scale farmer can find it useful to use it in its activities of agriculture and how are we going to sensitize the population to see the importance of the data? This is what we are doing as champions of this open data. A lot of work still needs to be done but we think this is a good beginning point for open data initiative to the group not only in Africa but globally.