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

Fri Jul 8 19:08:40 UTC 2011

Yeah, the Open Government Partnership is the forum that came to mind for 
me as it's mission seems to be pretty explicitly about developing and 
committing to these kinds of best practices.

Many of the precedents (both for principles and guidelines) have been 
listed at:
http://wiki.civiccommons.org/Open_Data_Guidelines

I also wrote a post last year that tried to look at the emerging best 
practices and standards for these kinds of principles and to highlight 
the official policies that had implemented them:
http://openplans.org/civichacker/2010/05/26/the-state-of-open-government/

I need to update this list, but the city of Ottawa's open data 
legislation and the draft legislation for New York City have both 
attempted to incorporate the 8 principles (at least in the briefing 
papers that are attached to the bills). Those official open data 
policies are listed at:
http://wiki.civiccommons.org/Open_Data_Policy

There is also an effort to build model policies that can be easily 
reused by different governments at: http://opengovernmentinitiative.org

Cheers,
Phil

On 7/8/11 10:31 AM, Javier Ruiz wrote:
> 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? ;-)
>
>         --
>         Jonathan Gray
>
>         Community Coordinator
>         The Open Knowledge Foundation
>         http://blog.okfn.org
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