[open-government] Global index of primary public government (ideally open) data sources? Ideally with an API?

Wed Apr 25 20:42:59 UTC 2012

There are a lot of lists like this. I've actually been trying to maintain a
meta list of such lists at:
http://wiki.civiccommons.org/Initiatives#Comprehensive_Lists_of_Open_Government_Data_Catalogs

2012/4/25 Tariq Khokhar <tariq at khokhar.net>

> Hi Folks,
>
> I work on  http://data.worldbank.org/  and as you may know, we have
> "country pages" that list our data for countries and regions around the
> world. Index at:   http://data.worldbank.org/country -  And here's
> Kenya:  http://data.worldbank.org/country/kenya
>
> I'd like to also start listing primary data sources on all these country
> pages, so for Kenya, we'd at least have links to:
>
> http://opendata.go.ke/  (national open data initiative)
> http://www.knbs.or.ke/  (national stats office)
>
> And ideall any other ministries or departments with public (ideally open)
> data. A lot our data also comes from other sources (e.g. FAO or the ITU) so
> being able to link to the data pages of these institutions would also be
> great.
>
> Does anybody know of a well maintained and curated index of primary
> government (ideally open) data sources (including publishing
> ministries/departments) with the index available as an API the World Bank
> could pull from while making our country pages?
>
> If there isn't something like this, ideas for how to do it much
> appreciated - we'd be happy to host and help put something together.
>
> The UN's list of stats offices may be a good start:
> http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/inter-natlinks/sd_natstat.asp but I
> don't know how they license this.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Tariq
>
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