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By Sonia Khan and Joseph Foti Many have predicted that open government data will lead to major gains in political accountability, generate economic value, and improve the quality of government services. Yet, there is a growing consensus among practitioners and…

This paper is based on the conclusions of a workshop entitled ‘Perspectives on Open Government in Latin America’, organised by the Latin America International Affairs Program (LAIAP) of LSE IDEAS on 30 October 2013. Sponsored by the World Bank Group,…

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…

The co-leads of the OGP Open Data Working Group wrote automated scripts to automatically collect, normalize and analyze data from catalogs, in order to both set a baseline and identify gaps and opportunities for standardization. The bulk of this document…

The Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) in 2011 implemented the Full Disclosure Policy which directs local government units (LGUs) to post public finance documents including receipt and utilisation of funds in LGU websites. The objective is to make…

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…

The impact of open data and technology-enabled transparency does not lie solely in the economic sphere. Government openness produces tremendous other benefits for our societies through increasing state or institutional responsiveness, reducing levels of corruption, building new democratic spaces for…