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The Open Gov Guide is a resource for people working to make their governments more transparent, responsive, accountable and effective. It was designed in particular to support the Open Government Partnership (OGP). Download Summary Guide The summary guide gives an…

By Alvaro Herrero Access to Information (ATI) is not only a fundamental human right but also a key instrument contributing towards transparency and accountability to build more open institutions, and generating useful public knowledge. Furthermore, it is a valuable tool…

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…

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…