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

[Tomoaki Watanabe]

Hi. I don't have any particular literature to cite, but I believe
that open government data policies often have different
objectives than open government policies.

While open government is mostly about improving government,
- its process, operations, accountability, quality of its decisions,
etc., open government data policies usually aims at improving
society at large. If a private company makes money by making
use of open government data, that is a gain from open data
policy's perspective. But it is an irrelevant issue from open
government perspective.

For this reason, I think open government data is about any data
that happens to be in the hand of government. It is not just about
government's operations.

just my 2cents.


Best,

Tomo
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 Tomoaki Watanabe, Ph.D.
 OKF Japan/ CC Japan/ GLOCOM
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On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Daniel Dietrich
<daniel.dietrich at okfn.org> wrote:
> Dear Konrad,
>
> I would recommend also have a look at
>
> Yu, Harlan and Robinson, David G., The New Ambiguity of 'Open Government' (February 28, 2012).
> 59 UCLA L. Rev. Disc. 178 (2012). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/Summary=2012489
>
> and:
>
> Open Government Data for Citizen Engagement in Managing DevelopmentToolkit (OGDCE Toolkit), Section I - What is open government data? at:
>
> http://www.unpan.org/DPADM/ProductsServices/OpenGovernmentDataandServices/tabid/1536/language/en-US/Default.aspx
>
>
> All best
> Daniel
>
>
>
> On 7 Apr 2013, at 21:35, Konrad Reiche <konrad.reiche at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for all the reply. This was very helpful, especially the
>> additional material. In fact, I am currently implementing quality
>> metrics to measure the quality of metadata records of government data
>> repositories.
>>
>> In one of my works it says "... and Application on Open Government
>> Data". But data repositories like govdata.de, data.gov.uk, etc. are
>> really just "Public Government Data" and I think this is the term I was
>> really looking for.
>>
>> Best,
>> Konrad
>>
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