[open-government] Definitions of Open Government and Open Government Data

[Muchiri Nyaggah]

I have seen some debate on whether open government data refers to


   - Data published under open license by a government

or

   - Data published by an open government.


I believe the former presents the best way to look at it rather than the
latter. A government may not be open but could publish data under an open
license and also not all data published by an open government is licensed
as open.




Kind regards,

Muchiri Nyaggah | LEAD FELLOW, CODE4KENYA
@muchiri
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On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 10:14 PM, Ton Zijlstra <ton.zijlstra at gmail.com>wrote:

> Also see
> http://opensource.com/government/10/12/what-%E2%80%9Copen-data%E2%80%9D-means-%E2%80%93-and-what-it-doesn%E2%80%99tand in particular the Venn diagram.
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> On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 8:48 PM, Konrad Reiche <konrad.reiche at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> There are always the "8 Principles of Open Government Data"
>>
>> http://www.opengovdata.org/home/8principles
>>
>> I think the problem with these definitions is, that the ideal data and
>> the not so ideal data are reside at the same repositories.
>>
>> Am 07.4.2013 20:34, schrieb James McKinney:
>> >> But what about Open Government Data? I think it would be too harsh to
>> >> define it as Open Data provided by the government, because there is so
>> >> much government data out there which is not open, but accessible
>> >> nonetheless.
>> >
>> > I think that is precisely how most people would define it, however. If
>> you want to talk about publicly available government data more generally,
>> maybe "publicly available government data" would be a suitable identifier.
>> >
>> > James
>> >
>> >
>> > On 2013-04-07, at 1:52 PM, Konrad Reiche wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hello everyone,
>> >>
>> >> I am writing my thesis in Computer Science in the context of Open
>> >> Government Data. Lately, I am dealing a lot with the definitions of
>> >> Open Data, Open Government and Open Government Data.
>> >>
>> >> I would say, Open Data is more or less quite well-defined, but I have
>> >> my problems with narrowing it down for Open Government and Open
>> >> Government Data. Recently I have started to read "Open Government,
>> >> Collaboration, Transparency, and Participation in Practice" published
>> >> by O'Reilly Media. For Open Government it says:
>> >>
>> >> "What is open government? In the most basic sense, it’s the notion that
>> >> the people have the right to access the documents and proceedings of
>> >> government."
>> >>
>> >> But what about Open Government Data? I think it would be too harsh to
>> >> define it as Open Data provided by the government, because there is so
>> >> much government data out there which is not open, but accessible
>> >> nonetheless.
>> >>
>> >> So I would rather read it as ((Open Goverment) Data), data provided by
>> >> the government, where people have the right to access them.
>> >>
>> >> Does someone know whether these terms are discussed somewhere in more
>> >> detail, something that I could reference?
>> >>
>> >> Best,
>> >> Konrad
>> >>
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