Hi Eddy, Ish, Dan,
At 01:08 01-11-2015, Eddy Young Tie Yang wrote:
>This is for those who attended the workshop: has there been any study in why
>governments fail to adopt Open Data? Surely, if a government is committed to
>transparency, via "freedom of information" or other, the next sensible step
>is Open Data.
There is some information about the Kenya Open Data portal failing at
https://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2013/09/23/why-kenyas-open-data-portal-is-failing-and-why-it-can-still-succeed/
Currently, there isn't any legislation to guarantee access to
information. There was a question during the workshop about what if
the government agency does not update the datasets which were
released. The answer from a World Bank official was that it would be
difficult for the government agency to do that if a company was
generating commercial value from the datasets.
Thanks to Ish for posting the "Quickwin" datasets [1]. Dan might be
interested that.
Regards,
S. Moonesamy
1.
http://hacklog.mu/open-data-in-mauritius/
Received on Sun Nov 01 2015 - 11:16:45 PST