Open Government Data

The Open Government Data Film

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This website is a hub for the open government data community around the world. It is a project of the Working Group on Open Government Data at the Open Knowledge Foundation.

If you’d like to contribute something to this site, come and join the conversation by introducing yourself on the open-government mailing list.

As part of the working group, we would like to document existing open government data initiatives, including:

Open data catalogues
Open data competitions
Open data events
Comprehensive bibliography of reports, papers and documents related to legal and policy aspects of open government data.

We also want to make it easier to find and reuse open datasets by developing tools like OpenDataSearch.org and provide advice on how to open up government information the right way with our Open Data Manual.

Finally we’d like to build consensus around what open government data is – emphasising legal openness and technical reusability.

There are now open government data initiatives starting up all over the globe and it is important to encourage these to be 100% open.