[open-government] We need international open government dataprinciples

[Cancio Melia, Jorge]

Dear all

some of us are working on a workshop proposal on open data and PSI re-use for the forthcoming Internet Governance Forum to be held in Kenya in September.

The IGF makes no decisions, but is a truly multistakeholder forum for exchanging ideas and belongs to the UN system.

We'll keep this list posted on any developments in this line.

Regards

Jorge
(Spanish Govt - Aporta Project - www.aporta.es)
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De: Ruth del Campo Bécares [mailto:ruthdelcampo at gmail.com]
Enviado: Friday, July 08, 2011 07:05 PM
Para: Javier Ruiz <javier at openrightsgroup.org>
CC: open-government at lists.okfn.org <open-government at lists.okfn.org>; EU Open Data Working Group <euopendata at lists.okfn.org>
Asunto: Re: [open-government] We need international open government dataprinciples

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<mailto: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<mailto: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? ;-)

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Jonathan Gray

Community Coordinator
The Open Knowledge Foundation
http://blog.okfn.org

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