Open Data

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By opening up data and making it sharable and reusable, governments can enable informed debate, better decision making, and the development of innovative new services.

Technical specifications: Policies, technologies, processes that enable the free use, reuse, and redistribution of government data by anyone. Commitments that are tagged as “Open DataBy opening up data and making it sharable and reusable, governments can enable informed debate, better decision making, and the development of innovative new services. Technical specifications: Polici...” explicitly refer to the term “open data” or refer to the publishing of government data based on open data principles (e.g. machine readability of data). Not all commitments pertaining to transparencyAccording to OGP’s Articles of Governance, transparency occurs when “government-held information (including on activities and decisions) is open, comprehensive, timely, freely available to the pub... More mechanisms such as portals or websites are open data by default. They are likely e-government initiatives before they are open data (unless the commitmentOGP commitments are promises for reform co-created by governments and civil society and submitted as part of an action plan. Commitments typically include a description of the problem, concrete action... explicitly refers to open data principles).