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Issue Brief: Disclosing contracts in the natural resource sector

Contract disclosure helps address the severe trust deficit in the natural resource sector, and cultivates an atmosphere of cooperation among those deeply invested in the success of, and are greatly impacted by, extractives operations: governments, companies, and communities. Disclosure helps…

Star Commitments in OGP

Each OGP government partners with civil society to promote transparency, empower citizens, fight corruption, and harness new technologies to improve governance. OGP has become a global movement of reformers working to make government more effective and responsive to its citizens.…

Building open data capacity through e-skills acquisition

Despite the reported importance of e-skills for successful open goverment data (OGD) initiatives, there are no studies found reporting on this topic. Hence, using the case study methodology, this study has explored e-skills needed for efficient and effective provision of…

Recommended standards and best practices for open data

While reports suggest that open data can add trillions of economic value as well as support developing countries, the same sources describe significant barriers that must be overcome. The lack of standardization across jurisdictions is one major barrier; it makes…

User centred methods for measuring the value of open data

A project to identify metrics for assessing the quality of open data based on the needs of small voluntary sector organisations in the UK and India. For the purposes of the project we assumed the purpose of open data metrics…

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