[open-science] [open-development] [okfn-discuss] Introducing the Open Economics Principles

Wed Aug 7 12:35:11 UTC 2013

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On 7 August 2013 13:03, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

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> On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Velichka Dimitrova <
> velichka.dimitrova at okfn.org> wrote:
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>> Dear all,
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>> The Open Economics Working Group would like to introduce<http://openeconomics.net/2013/08/07/introducing-the-open-economics-principles/>the Open
>> Economics Principles <http://openeconomics.net/principles/>, a Statement
>> on Openness of Economic Data and Code. A year and a half ago the Open
>> Economics project began<http://blog.okfn.org/2012/02/23/alfred-p-sloan-foundation-funds-open-economics-working-group-at-the-open-knowledge-foundation/>with a mission of becoming central point of reference and support for those
>> interested in open economic data. In the process of identifying examples
>> and ongoing barriers for opening up data and code for the economics
>> profession, we saw the need to present a statement on the guiding
>> principles of transparency and accountability in economics that would
>> enable replication and scholarly debate as well as access to knowledge as a
>> public good.
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>> We wrote the Statement on the Open Economics Principles during our First<http://openeconomics.net/events/workshop-dec-2012/>and
>> Second <http://openeconomics.net/events/workshop-june-2013/> Open
>> Economics International Workshops, receiving feedback from our Advisory
>> Panel <http://openeconomics.net/about/advisory-panel/> and community
>> with the aim to emphasise the importance of having open access to data and
>> code by default and address some of the issues around the roles of
>> researchers, journal editors, funders and information professionals.
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>> Please, endorse the Principles! We appreciate your participation and
>> support.
>> http://openeconomics.net/principles/
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>> Velichka Dimitrova
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