By opening up data, and making it sharable and reusable government can enable informed debate, better decision making, and the development of innovative new services. This theme addresses the policies, technologies, processes that enable the free use, reuse, and redistribution of government data by anyone.
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Open data policies and practices have been core to OGP’s culture since its inception. It is the idea that data should be freely available for everyone to access, use, and re-publish as they wish. These proactive information mechanisms are an essential complement to reactive right to information laws.
They ensure that governments do not become data monopolies. In a well-functioning, democratic society citizens need to know what their government is doing. To do that, they must be able freely to access government data and information and to analyze and share that information with other citizens.
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In April 2010, the Government of Euskadi (Basque Country) Spain launched an open data initiative called Open Data Euskadi. It soon became a reference for many public administrations that were beginning to consider opening their data. Since then a lot…
En abril de 2010, el gobierno de Euskadi (País Vasco) puso en marcha una iniciativa de datos abiertos llamada Open Data Euskadi. Pronto se convirtió en una referencia para muchas administraciones públicas que comenzaban a plantearse la apertura de sus…
See how OGP members are working to better understand and address the gender-differentiated impacts of algorithms, reduce human biases, and create artificial intelligence programs that are trustworthy, ethical, and inclusive.
En todo el mundo, las instituciones del sector público están explorando cada vez más el uso de algoritmos con el fin de mejorar el diseño de políticas públicas y la toma de decisiones con base en datos. Estos sistemas tienen…
Georgia’s open government reforms have encompassed several transformational activities over the years. Examples include creating and publishing public registries and platforms depicting important public data. Georgia is currently implementing 28 commitments from its 2018-2020 OGP action plan, which includes activities…
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