[open-government] new Open Data Policy Guidelines

Mon Jul 2 09:39:59 UTC 2012

Thanks John, this is perfect for our situation in Argentina.

As you may know we have created a working group between the president of
the lower house and four organizations. We have met four times already and
our first phase is to formalize the working group through an MOU signed by
both sides. This MOU which should state what exactly Orgs want them to make
public and -we hope- in what format. They are going to share the first
draft for comment this week and have asked us to include everything we want
(but we do not want to push it that much).

As you know, too, our Congress has not been very colaborative in the past
20 years (!) or more even. Within the Latin American Network for
Legislative Transparency we have created a Legislative Transparency INdex
and have measured the state of openness in the five Congresses. Argentina
has come out last or close to last in all 33 variables. Please see a short
video we are working
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrIpS-ndfuk&feature=youtu.be>on that
illustrates the situation.

So, thanks a lot again.
María

-- 
María Baron
Directora Ejecutiva*
*
Fundación Directorio Legislativo
Av. Entre Ríos 258 3 E, C.A. de Buenos Aires
C1079ABP -  Argentina
Tel:             (54 11) 5218-4647
Fax: (54 11) 5236-4293
http://www.directoriolegislativo.org

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Josh Tauberer <tauberer at govtrack.us> wrote:

>  Nice work. I particularly liked the new emphasis on:
>
>  *Ensure sufficient funding for implementation.*<http://sunlightfoundation.com/policy/opendata/#>
>
> Like any other initiative, implementing an open data policy should be done
> with an eye on long-term sustainability. One way to do this is to consider
> funding sources for the implementation of the policy as well as its future
> maintenance. Sufficient funding can mean the difference between successful
> and unsuccessful policies. [snip]
>
>
> That's definitely been something often overlooked by advocates and
> policymakers.
>
>
> - Josh Tauberer (@JoshData)
> http://razor.occams.info
>
> On 06/29/2012 01:54 PM, John Wonderlich wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
>  Sunlight just put up some new Open Data Policy Guidelines, encapsulating
> a variety of thoughts on transparency policy into a list of possible
> provisions with extensive notes.  We'd love to hear what you think, or for
> any further feedback.
>
>  http://sunlightfoundation.com/policy/opendata/
>
>  blog post introducing them:
>
>
> http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2012/06/29/open-data-policy-guidelines/
>
>  ...we'll have a lot more on this topic soon too.
>
>
>  best,
>
>
>  John
>
>
>  John Wonderlich
> Policy Director
> Sunlight Foundation
>
> johnwonderlich at gmail.com
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