Introducing the Global Open Data Initiative - presentation by Christian Villum & Sander van der Waal.

1. Global Open
Data Initiative

2. Global open data initiative
Partnership of Civil Society
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Initial partnership of 5 organisations
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Committed to working openly
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Main goal to define what a meaningful open data
commitment means

3. Draft Declaration
A Citizens’ Call to Action on Open Data
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Build on pre-existing work and initiatives
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First draft open for comments
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Encourage civil society organisations to engage

4. 1. Open By Default
Ultimately entrenched in law
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Release without extra effort
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Develop policies that encourage unrestricted reuse

5. 2. Put the users first
Involve users from the start
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Encourage sharing and reusing data within gov
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CSOs and businesses should be equal stakeholders
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Involve all stakeholders identifying key datasets

6. 3. Provide no-cost access
No additional cost to release data that is
already being collected
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Remove existing fees for access
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Publish in open standards so no proprietary licenses are
needed to use the data
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Harmonise data publishing across departments

7. 4. Accountability at the core
Empower citizens to hold governments
accountable
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Text to support your narration (not make you superfluous).
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Datasets fundamental to citizen-state accountability should
be released
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Transparency policies should underline comprehensive data
release

8. 5. Invest in capacity
Rapidly broadening and deepening
capacity
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Make data simple to navigate and easy to understand
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Support training for officials, SMEs and CSOs to tackle lack of
data skills

9. 6. Improve data quality
Remove a major barrier to unlocking the
full potential
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Governments should develop plans to implement the Paris21
2011 Busan Action Plan
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Bring statistical efforts into line with international data
standards and schemas

10. 7. More open governance
Create more open, transparent and
participatory governance
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Uphold basic rights to freedom of expression, information
and association

11. Next steps
Rapidly broadening and deepening
capacity
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Make data simple to navigate and easy to understand
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Support training for officials, SMEs and CSOs to tackle lack of
data skills

12. Inviting feedback
Comment on the declaration until Nov 8