[open-government] Completeness of Open Data Index and other related to Index topics

[Ivan Begtin]

Dear colleagues,
   recently I've collected data from Open Data Index (http://index.okfn.org)
for countries and tried to do some simple research and measurement of it's
completeness and how it relates to inter-governmental organizations.

What I did:
- parsed data from http://index.okfn.org/country
- marked all countries by formal status. For example "Isle of Man" is not a
country but self-govering territory same as Hong-Kong. Regions like
Gibraltar, Jersey and Guersey are British overseas territories.
- marked all countries by it's membership: G8, OGP, BRICS, European Union +
Candidates, OECD, G20, Eastern Europe and Post Soviet
- prepared sub-indexes for all groups like OGP, G8 and etc
- measured completeness of country list, average index value for each group
and so on


There are results of it
- list of countries -
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AphaFpvgzsyhdEstUThoU29DNy1aNlFZYjl1NjdVOXc&usp=sharing
- rating by country groups -
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AphaFpvgzsyhdEstUThoU29DNy1aNlFZYjl1NjdVOXc&usp=sharing#gid=1
and more as sub-indexes

It's not finished and probably I could make some mistakes. Also not all
country groups included some of country groups.

But a few questions arise.

1. I don't really think that non-country level regions could be measured
against counties (UN members). Self-govering and overseas territories have
different governance and they are not counties.

2. Some of EU countries like Luxemburg, Estonia, Latvia are not indexed.
Nearly 49% OGP members are not indexed. Most of PostUSSR countries are not
indexed too.
How it could be fixed?

P.S.
   Data at http://datahub.io/dataset/open-data-index-2013 is not easy to
parse. Is it possible to get it as JSON file?



-- 
Best Regards,
  Ivan Begtin

Director of NGO "Informational Culture"
email: ibegtin at infoculture.ru
phone: +7 499 500 96 58, +7 910 426 68 83
website: http://infoculture.ru
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