[open-government] A Brief Legal History of Open Government Data

[Michael Roberts]

Hi Josh,

Recently I put together this site that had been dormant for some time.  It is still very much a work in progress.    http://www.idmlinitiative.org 
It contains information for researchers about early examples of donors and NGO's sharing open aid data through organizations such as INDIX (early 1990's), Aida - now Aiddata.org,  and through protocols such as IDML (1998) and CEFDA. They are early examples of projects that have had similar ambitions to initiatives such as IATI.   It is really incredible to see the groundswell of support at the moment for open government data from all levels of government.

Cheers,
Michael

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