I was born and raised in Casbas, a town of 5,000 inhabitants in the interior of Argentina, where bicycles line the street and doors are kept unlocked. The closeness and neighbourliness of my town influenced my idea of the collective and what it means to me. I have been working in openness, access to public information and citizen participation for 8 years now. I started my career in the Buenos Aires City Legislature, monitoring bills, following up the commissions’ work and reviewing what legislators discussed in the sessions. Having information made all the difference in my work. It was in…

The production and use of data is essential to track and project trends, impacts and effects of climate policies. Coordinated and coherent approaches from across different government agencies are deemed essential to ensure effective implementation of strategies and climate efficiency with scarce resources. The private sector and civil society can also play the roles of producers, users or intermediaries when it comes to climate data. While Latin American governments, including Uruguay, have made significant progress in collecting data related to climate change, these types of data sets are not the priority yet in open data initiatives.

Understanding how open data…

La producción y el uso de datos son esenciales para rastrear y proyectar tendencias, impactos y efectos de las políticas climáticas. Además, los enfoques coordinados y coherentes de entre las distintas agencias de gobierno son fundamentales para garantizar la implementación efectiva de las estrategias y la eficiencia climática con recursos escasos. El sector privado y la sociedad civil también pueden desempeñar funciones de productores, usuarios o intermediarios cuando se trata de datos. …

By Paul Stone, IWG Co-Chair (2018–2021)

A big part of opening up data is a cultural shift. But it’s not just about culture, new technical knowledge and skills are required to actually make it happen. The great thing is though, these new capabilities are applicable to more than just open data.

Interoperability is quite a mouthful of a word, but it seems to be making a comeback in the world of tech buzzwords. Why? Because the world is waking up (and perhaps partly accelerated by responses to COVID-19) to the fact that collaborating over data can lead to some innovative…

Por ODC & ILDA

¿Cuál es el potencial de los datos abiertos para identificar posibles casos de corrupción? ¿Cuáles son los desafíos actuales más importantes que enfrenta América Latina en la materia? ¿Qué rol tiene OGP en promover compromisos de calidad de datos abiertos para luchar contra la corrupción?

Estas son algunas de las muchas preguntas que nos hicimos junto a la Iniciativa Latinoamericana por los Datos Abiertos (ILDA) en una co-producción de una serie de tres podcasts donde indagamos en el potencial de los datos abiertos para luchar contra la corrupción, con un foco particular en latinoamérica.

• Conducción: Natalia…

As established in its Open Government Plan 2019–2020 (extended until June 2021), the government of Catalonia is pleased to share its recently published Guide for the homogenization of metadata in the open data catalogue.

This project responds to the specific commitments on:

• Promotion of common criteria for the publication of information subject to active advertising (1.2.2)
• Harmonization of open data criteria and standards used (2.2.6)
• Identification and execution of other open data quality actions (2.2.7)

Although the Guide is focused on facilitating the internal work of those responsible for open data in the Catalan Government and giving coherence to the…

by Marisa Miodosky and María Lago, BA City Statistics Bureau

The pandemic has made evident that data is crucial for policy making. Circulation measures, economic subsidies for negatively affected sectors, and vaccines provision schemes (among other decisions) were designed based on data. At the same time, there has been an increasing awareness about the importance of having good data that is periodically collected, accurate and reliable. In Argentina, this has been the case for infection rate, deaths, occupation of intensive care beds and some other indicators related to the health system.

The production of care-related activities data by different sources…

19 May 2021 (GLOBAL) — The Land Portal and Open Data Charter are launching the Open Up Guide on Land Governance, the latest addition to a lauded series of practical guides for governments to address key policy changes. This launch comes as part of the Open Gov Week (OGW), an annual call-to-action to transform the way governments serve their citizens.

Governments rarely publish their primary land tenure, use, value, and development data in open and reusable formats. …