The Global Open Data Initiative aims to define a meaningful open data commitment through a partnership of five organizations, encouraging civil society engagement. Key principles include making data open by default, prioritizing user involvement, ensuring no-cost access, promoting accountability, investing in capacity building, improving data quality, and supporting open governance. Stakeholders are invited to comment on the draft declaration until November 8.

1. Global Open
Data Initiative

2. Global open data initiative
Partnership of Civil Society
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Initial partnership of 5 organisations
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Committed to working openly
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Main goal to define what a meaningful open data
commitment means

3. Draft Declaration
A Citizens’ Call to Action on Open Data
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Build on pre-existing work and initiatives
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First draft open for comments
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Encourage civil society organisations to engage

4. 1. Open By Default
Ultimately entrenched in law
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Release without extra effort
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Develop policies that encourage unrestricted reuse

5. 2. Put the users first
Involve users from the start
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Encourage sharing and reusing data within gov
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CSOs and businesses should be equal stakeholders
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Involve all stakeholders identifying key datasets

6. 3. Provide no-cost access
No additional cost to release data that is
already being collected
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Remove existing fees for access
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Publish in open standards so no proprietary licenses are
needed to use the data
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Harmonise data publishing across departments

7. 4. Accountability at the core
Empower citizens to hold governments
accountable
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Text to support your narration (not make you superfluous).
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Datasets fundamental to citizen-state accountability should
be released
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Transparency policies should underline comprehensive data
release

8. 5. Invest in capacity
Rapidly broadening and deepening
capacity
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Make data simple to navigate and easy to understand
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Support training for officials, SMEs and CSOs to tackle lack of
data skills

9. 6. Improve data quality
Remove a major barrier to unlocking the
full potential
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Governments should develop plans to implement the Paris21
2011 Busan Action Plan
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Bring statistical efforts into line with international data
standards and schemas

10. 7. More open governance
Create more open, transparent and
participatory governance
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Uphold basic rights to freedom of expression, information
and association

11. Next steps
Rapidly broadening and deepening
capacity
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Make data simple to navigate and easy to understand
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Support training for officials, SMEs and CSOs to tackle lack of
data skills

12. Inviting feedback
Comment on the declaration until Nov 8