[Open-data-census] country v jurisdiction

Fri Nov 8 14:53:10 GMT 2013

Hi Ivan

I recommended to Christian at the OKF OGP pre-summit meeting that they
consider a minor switch from "country" to "jurisdiction".  Although Isle of
Man country editor, I also decided to review and upload data on most of the
other offshore jurisdictions in the league table, primarily to baseline and
benchmark the Isle of Man with relevant peers with similar budgets and
internal skills.  The offshore jurisdictions have a high profile role in
the global transparency debate so open government seems a good strategy to
progress.  It seems sensible to include all jurisdictions in the league
table to prompt some uploads from jurisdictions where the open government
score is 0 but particularly to backfill some core jurisdictions such as
Luxemburg, Estonia, Latvia.

The groupings are useful to support automated enquiries and visualisations
and hopefully could include more groupings such as EEA, free trade
agreements, IATI, EITI, etc.

Graeme Jones
Isle of Man country editor, etc.
http://uk.linkedin.com/in/graemejonesiom

On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Ivan Begtin <ibegtin at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> > Dear colleagues,
> >    recently I've collected data from Open Data Index (
> > http://index.okfn.org) for countries and tried to do some simple
> research
> > and measurement of it's completeness and how it relates to
> > inter-governmental organizations.
> >
> > What I did:
> > - parsed data from http://index.okfn.org/country
> > - marked all countries by formal status. For example "Isle of Man" is not
> > a country but self-govering territory same as Hong-Kong. Regions like
> > Gibraltar, Jersey and Guersey are British overseas territories.
> > - marked all countries by it's membership: G8, OGP, BRICS, European Union
> > + Candidates, OECD, G20, Eastern Europe and Post Soviet
> > - prepared sub-indexes for all groups like OGP, G8 and etc
> > - measured completeness of country list, average index value for each
> > group and so on
> >
> >
> > It's not finished and probably I could make some mistakes. Also not all
> > country groups included some of country groups.
> >
> > But a few questions arise.
> >
> > 1. I don't really think that non-country level regions could be measured
> > against counties (UN members). Self-govering and overseas territories
> have
> > different governance and they are not counties.
> >
> > 2. Some of EU countries like Luxemburg, Estonia, Latvia are not indexed.
> > Nearly 49% OGP members are not indexed. Most of PostUSSR countries are
> not
> > indexed too.
> > How it could be fixed?
> >
> > P.S.
> >    Data at http://datahub.io/dataset/open-data-index-2013 is not easy to
> > parse. Is it possible to get it as JSON file?
>
>
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