Course Description
Governments around the world are increasingly looking for ways to harness the potential of open data for improved policy-making, and social, economic and environmental benefit. A lot of work has been done to familiarize governments with open data and help them to publish open data. There has been less focus on the longer-term process of embedding open data as standard practice and how that might happen. This course explores how organizational change within government happens to support and sustain open data in the long-term.
Course Objectives
- Introducing basic concepts related to Open Government and Open Government Data
- Understanding what open data can be used for
- Bringing the change of open data to government
- Ensuring open data initiative is sustainable and influential
- Analyzing best practices related to open government
Who Should Attend?
- Senior administrators
- Policy advisors
- Government officials
- Professionals and researchers working on open government
Course Details/Schedule
- Open data defined
- Examples of open data
- Uses of open data
- Unlocking value from open data
- Implementation of open data
- Starting an open data initiative
- Benefits of open data
- Open data policies
- Open data learning resources
- Technology options
- What does an open data catalog look like?
- Three models of an open data catalog
- Commonly used open data platforms
- Geospatial data platforms
- Demand and engagement
- Early engagement
- Capacity development
- Use & re-use
- Further development
- General standards of quality
- Data standards
- More guidance on quality and techniques
- Open government data implementation evaluation
- Open data best practices
- Recommendations and discussion
