- Value [1] Cooperation
- With steady cooperation, demonstrable will from participants and leaders, and sufficient resources in time and funding, the
open data experiments now cropping up among several groups can develop in a climate that supports more regular, deliberate
collaboration.
- Value [2] Demonstrable Will
- Value [3] Collaboration
- Value [4] Linkages
- The more consciously we link our activities and findings, the more seamlessly we will be able to link our data, and the more
shared knowledge will result.
- Value [5] Power in Numbers
- In the campaign for open data, as in all transparency and accountability work, there's more than safety in numbers, there's
power.
- Value [6] Strategic Alignment
- ... alignment of efforts is already underway at the policy level. In recent months, the G8 countries, the European Union and
the Canadian government have each made new commitments to open data practices, following the historic actions of the U.S.
Congress and regulators opening up oil and mining payments in the 2010 Dodd-Frank reforms. The Open Government Partnership
says open data is central to many of the 300 commitments made by participating countries.
- Value [7] Transparency
- In the words of Martin Tisné, former T/AI director and now policy director for T/AI funder the Omidyar Network, "Transparency
is now seen as a key pillar of development - a necessary (but not sufficient) condition to enable growth, accountability and
social change."
- Value [8] Linked Data Tools
- Meanwhile, the tools for linking data sets are gaining adoption beyond the technology community. In the past 18 months, both
the United States and the United Kingdom moved their public data portals onto CKAN, a community repository for data sharing
created by the Open Knowledge Foundation. The World Bank announced several new initiatives in June that seek to collect and
open up data, including a collaboration with OpenCorporates.com on private sector data. The World Bank Institute also continues
to help define good practices and data-driven tools that support open contracting by governments. And, as another of many
examples, the African Development Bank launched a new Open Data Platform in July to help "scale up the collection, management,
analysis, and sharing of quality statistics relating to the continent's development."
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