“This [open data] would boost cumulative G20 GDP by around 1.1 percentage points of the 2% growth target over five years,” the report Open for Business, by Lateral Economics and commissioned by Omidyar Network, said.
“The G20 should ensure that data released by G20 working groups and themes are in line with agreed open data standards,” Martin Tisné, Police Director, Omidyar Network (UK) wrote in a blog on the report. He calls on “G20 economies to sign up to the Open Data Charter”, which has been signed by the G8 countries.
Beyond releasing government and publicly-funded research data, governments should “also create conditions in which private organisations opened more of their data”, the report said.
The report recommends that G20 government “should adopt specific open data targets” under each of the G20 priority areas - fiscal and monetary policy, anti-corruption, trade, employment, energy and infrastructure, Tisné wrote.
Governments should also be able to measure quantity and quality of open data that is published. For example, Tisné suggested “using the Open Data Institute’s Open Data Certificates as a bottom-up mechanism for driving the adoption of common standards”.
The report added that such open data actions should respect privacy concerns of citizens. “If this is done, as the public and private sector share of information grows, there will be increasing positive returns,” Tisné said.
The report concluded that “there are minimal losers and widespread winners from open data because it simply makes better use of already existing resources”, “whereas other reforms often involved painful cuts and winners winning at the cost of losers”.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Medha Basu
Quelle/Source: futureGov, 19.06.2014
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