[open-development] Nigerian Statistics Office Data Portal...

[Tobias Eigen]

These are good points, thanks Rufus! Especially the (to people like us
obvious) point about value for money and reuusability.

I always wish that people designing projects like this find
http://slashopen.net/guidelines before they start their data-driven
project, or perhaps that their funders include open data in their
requirements. Perhaps you have suggestions on ways to improve the /o
guidelines - I did write that up last summer and the /o site has been
sleepy. :)

Cheers,

Tobias

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On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>wrote:

> On 20 June 2012 17:42, Tariq Khokhar <tariq at khokhar.net> wrote:
> > Thought you folks may be interested in news from Nigeria's Statistics
> Bureau
> > ( http://www.nigerianstat.gov.ng/ ) who've just launched the "Nigeria
> > Statistical Data Portal"  http://nigeria.prognoz.com/Map.aspx
>
> It is obviously great to see countries taking a more progressive
> approach but I must say this example does seem to be of the "Shiny
> Front End" variety [1] -- i.e. bunch of swish graphics (that were no
> doubt not cheap to get!) and no data (or even links to data).
>
> [1]:
> http://blog.okfn.org/2007/11/07/give-us-the-data-raw-and-give-it-to-us-now/
>
> I've looked hard (apologies if I have missed it) to locate any raw
> data anywhere on this site or the main Statistical agency site but
> come up empty (there is a form to request data:
> http://nigerianstat.gov.ng/requests).
>
> I therefore wonder whether it would not have been a better use of time
> / money to have put out the data behind those shiny graphics as simple
> CSV / JSON files ...
>
> > While this doesn't check all the boxes to be called "open data" it's
> > encouraging to see a progressive approach to the dissemination of
> national
> > data.
>
> It's not about box-checking for open data I'd argue it was about
> simple re-usability and value for money ;-)
>
> > We're finding at the World Bank that some national statistics offces are
> > quite receptive towards supporting notion of national open data
> initiatives
> > because they already have experience and mandates for handling official
> > government data. On the other hand, some are not that keen at all!
>
> I can imagine :-)
>
> > As ever, good examples from other countries in the region go a long way
> > towards building the case for opening up government data.
>
> Strong +1
>
> Rufus
>
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