[open-government] Citizens Engagement in Open Gov't Data

Mon Apr 30 22:03:12 UTC 2012

The Open Data Handbook has:

<http://opendatahandbook.org/en/how-to-open-up-data/choose-datasets.html>

As that suggests, and as Tim highlighted asking people is always a
great idea! This is something, for example the UK government did very
early on and you always get some interesting suggestions -- at the
same time you have to be ready (if you are a government) to deal with
the problem of not being able to make available some datasets people
will want (though at least you can know what to prioritise
internally).

I'd also be wary of arguments about resource constraints -- while it
is true that some datasets may be costly to open up, in many cases
opening up datasets may be an immediate net cost reduction for
government via reduced FOI requests, greater inter-agency efficiency
etc.

Rufus

On 28 April 2012 12:36, Fabio Shida Fukuda <shidafukuda at un.org> wrote:
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> Dear All:
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> I would like to have some comments and ideas on how to capture and measure social and citizens demands to the design of strategies of Open Gov't Data.
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> In many countries, opening data might be a costly process due to human and financial resources constraints - thus selecting the datasets which respond to civil society demands can be a good way to start the design the strategy since many public bodies are/can be involved in this process.
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> Thank you in advance for sharing your thoughts!
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> Best regards,
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> Fabio
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