[open-government] Global Open Data Initiative moving forward

Fri Oct 4 17:11:39 UTC 2013

On 4 October 2013 16:34, James McKinney <james at opennorth.ca> wrote:

> Re: "Increase awareness of open data", will GODI target a specific
> audience? Otherwise I see significant overlap with the ODI UK and its
> international nodes.
>

James: the general idea is, I think, for GODI to have a specific focus
among civil society organizations, and to a lesser extent governments (to
the extent that governments provide essential information that civil
society organizations and citizens require).

Regarding overlap: I would imagine - and in some ways hope - that there is
connection with other international initiatives as this is likely
reinforcing and supportive - indeed many of the current partners in GODI
(which includes, at present, Sunlight, the Web Foundation, Fundar and Open
Institute along with the Open Knowledge Foundation) have themselves been
active for some time internationally promoting open data. Re the ODI
specifically, my understanding is that the UK's ODI is focused on business
engagement and start-up side of things rather than civil society.

Regards,

Rufus

> On Friday, 4 October 2013 08:55:37 UTC-4, Christian Villum wrote:
> From the Global Open Data Initiative blog:
>
>
> Global Open Data Initiative moving forward
> October 4, 2013 in Announcements<http://globalopendatainitiative.org/category/announcements/>
>
> 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.
>

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