Recently, the Global Open Data Initiative sought input from the community to learn more about the needs and challenges associated with open data. What follows is a summary of our most interesting findings about the global state of open data.
Continue readingThe Global Open Data Initiative Needs Your Input
Open Data has enormous unfulfilled promise to change how governments work and to empower citizenship. As more governments and issue... View Article
Continue readingAnnouncing the Global Open Data Initiative’s New Declaration on Open Data – And Inviting Your Feedback
The Global Open Data Initiative partners are excited today to share a draft Declaration on Open Data, and would welcome comments and feedback on its contents. This post was co-authored by the Global Open Data Initiative partners, and the original can be viewed here.
Open Data has enormous unfulfilled promise to change how governments work and to empower citizenship. Even as more governments and issue experts discover new potential in the public release of data, civil society groups still need clear guidelines and mechanisms for cooperation. Global Open Data Initiative hopes to help provide both, and we hope this draft declaration will help us fill that gap.
By building on existing efforts to gather guidelines and best practices, and by building a clear, joint voice made up of outside groups, Global Open Data Initiative hopes to provide a CSO-led vision for how open data should work.
Global Open Data Initiative moving forward
The Global Open Data Initiative is a coalition of civil society organisations working together in the area of open government data and open government.
Our basic goal is that citizens will have full and open access to the government data that is needed in order to build effective government and governance.
The Global Open Data Initiative will serve as a guiding voice internationally on open data issues. Civil society groups who focus on open data have often been isolated to single national contexts, despite the similar challenges and opportunities repeating themselves in countries across the globe. The Global Open Data Initiative aims to help share valuable resources, guidance and judgment, and to clarify the potential for government open data across the world.
New G8 Open Data Charter
The G8 countries today released a new declaration, and with it an Open Data Charter policy paper, which together constitute... View Article
Continue readingAnnouncing the Global Open Data Initiative
Sunlight is excited today to announce, with a few of our friends and allies, the Global Open Data Initiative, dedicated... View Article
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