2: Quality & Quantity
Release data that are both high in quality as well as high in quantity Other Information:
Principle 2: Quality and Quantity 6. We commit to releasing data that are both high in quality as well as high in quantity.
When releasing data, we aim to do so in a way that helps people to use and understand them. This will help to increase the
interoperability of data from different policy areas, businesses or countries. Action 2: Release of high value data -- We
recognise the following as areas of high value, both for improving our democracies and encouraging innovative re-use of data:
* Companies - Company/business register * Crime and Justice - Crime statistics, safety * Earth observation - Meteorological/weather,
agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting * Education - List of schools; performance of schools, digital skills * Energy
and Environment - Pollution levels, energy consumption * Finance and contracts - Transaction spend, contracts let, call for
tender, future tenders, local budget, national budget (planned and spent) * Geospatial - Topography, postcodes, national maps,
local maps * Global Development - Aid, food security, extractives, land * Government Accountability and Democracy - Government
contact points, election results, legislation and statutes, salaries (pay scales), hospitality/gifts * Health - Prescription
data, performance data * Science and Research - Genome data, research and educational activity, experiment results * Statistics
- National Statistics, Census, infrastructure, wealth, skills, * Social mobility and welfare - Housing, health insurance and
unemployment benefits * Transport and Infrastructure - Public transport timetables, access points broadband penetration In
accordance with the principles of "open by default" and "quality and quantity" we will work towards the progressive publication
of these data. As a first step, we will collectively make key datasets on National Statistics, National Maps, National Elections
and National Budgets available and discoverable (from June 2013), and we will work towards improving their granularity and
accessibility (by December 2013) We recognise that collective action by all G8 members has the potential to unlock barriers
and foster innovative solutions to some of the challenges we are facing. We therefore agree on a mutual effort to increase
the supply of open government data available on key functions of our States, such as democracy and environment. We will work
on identifying datasets in these areas by December 2013, with an aim to release them by December 2014. We will set out in
our national action plans how and when we will release data under the remaining categories according to our national frameworks
(October 2013)
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