[open-government] We need international open government data principles

[Ruth del Campo Bécares]

Hi all,

I would like to join this discussion. I think it is really important  
matter and it would be awsome if we could move forward to get a high  
level agreement paper on this issue. I have already had some thoughts  
about it and I would like to share with you.

In the international area, the organizations which could make a kind  
of international agreement are the OECD and UN.

- The OECD is very good on doing some papers, some of them they cover  
open government principles but it have also some drawbacks. First  
because OECD do not represent all countries, only 34 members belong to  
OECD http://www.oecd.org/pages/0,3417,en_36734052_36761800_1_1_1_1_1,00.html
Second, because all agreements and papers are "only" recommendations.  
That means they do are not binding to any country, so the real  
efectiveness of the OECD papers although important, are somehow  
limited. A high level paper takes a couple of years to get approved.

- The UN covers many more countries and their agreements are binding.  
Therefore, thinking in long term perspective, they should be the ones  
who deal with this matter. which agency in the UN system should cover  
this issue?  Not sure about this. Maybe the UNGIS which is a body  
which deal with information society or maybe the UN Secretary General  
itself, dont know

With regard to the World Bank, I dont know much about them, but I have  
my doubts if they could lead this, because their aim is completely  
different.

I think the hardest question now is how to start. There should be a  
high level representative that should start advocating for it so that  
other key stakeholders could join this.

This kind of agreements require lots of consensus and advocacy to get  
it aproved.

Best,
Ruth



El 08/07/2011, a las 10:31, Javier Ruiz escribió:

> John and Rufus
>
> you are participating in this
>
> http://www.state.gov/g/ogp/index.htm
>
> do you think this is going to be the international governance space  
> for open data?
>
> javier
>
>
> 2011/7/8 John Wonderlich <johnwonderlich at gmail.com>
> Here are two:
>
> https://public.resource.org/8_principles.html
>
> http://sunlightfoundation.com/policy/documents/ten-open-data-principles/
>
> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 7:13 AM, Jonathan Gray  
> <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
> I just posted this on the OKF blog:
>
> http://blog.okfn.org/2011/07/08/we-need-international-open-government-data-principles/
>
> I'd really like to try and start a conversation around this again -
> with key stakeholders from around the world.
>
> The key thing in my mind is consensus - rather than new content. We
> have lots of good conceptual work, and clear wording to build on. What
> is needed is to bring key people to the table and to agree on
> something very short and very clear.
>
> Anyone interested? ;-)
>
> --
> Jonathan Gray
>
> Community Coordinator
> The Open Knowledge Foundation
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