Ethical Data ManagementExecutive SummaryIn the age of data and information, it is imperative that the City of Virginia Beach strategically utilize its data assets. Through expanding data access, improving quality, maintaining pace with advanced technologies, and strengthening capabilities, IT will ensure that the city remains at the forefront of digital transformation and innovation. The Data and Information Management team works under the purpose:“To promote a data-driven culture at all levels of the decision making process by supporting and enabling business capabilities with relevant and accurate information that can be accessed securely anytime, anywhere, and from any platform.”To fulfill this mission, IT will implement and utilize new and advanced technologies, enhanced data management and infrastructure, and will expand internal capabilities and regional collaboration.Introduction and JustificationThe Information technology (IT) department’s resources are integral features of the social, political and economic welfare of the City of Virginia Beach residents. In regard to local administration, the IT department makes it possible for the Data and Information Management Team to provide the general public with high-quality services, generate and disseminate knowledge, and facilitate growth through improved productivity.For the Data and Information Management Team, it is important to maximize the quality and security of the City’s data; to develop and apply the coherent management of information resources and management policies that aim to keep the general public constantly informed, protect their rights as subjects, improve the productivity, efficiency, effectiveness and public return of its projects and to promote responsible innovation. Furthermore, as technology evolves, it is important for public institutions to manage their information systems in such a way as to identify and minimize the security and privacy risks associated with the new capacities of those systems.The responsible and ethical use of data strategy is part of the City’s Master Technology Plan 2.0 (MTP), which establishes the roadmap designed by improve data and information accessibility, quality, and capabilities throughout the entire City. The strategy is being put into practice in the shape of a plan that involves various programs. Although these programs was specifically conceived as a conceptual framework for achieving a cultural change in terms of the public perception of data, it basically covers all the aspects of the MTP that concern data, and in particular the open-data and data-commons strategies, data-driven projects, with the aim of providing better urban services and interoperability based on metadata schemes and open-data formats, permanent access and data use and reuse, with the minimum possible legal, economic and technological barriers within current legislation.Fundamental valuesThe City of Virginia Beach’s data is a strategic asset and a valuable resource that enables our local government carry out its mission and its programs effectively. Appropriate access to municipal data significantly improves the value of the information and the return on the investment involved in generating it. In accordance with the Master Technology Plan 2.0 and its emphasis on public innovation, the digital economy and empowering city residents, this data-management strategy is based on the following considerations.Within this context, this new management and use of data has to respect and comply with the essential values applicable to data. For the Data and Information Team, these values are:Shared municipal knowledge. Municipal data, in its broadest sense, has a significant social dimension and provides the general public with past, present and future knowledge concerning the government, the city, society, the economy and the environment.The strategic value of data. The team must manage data as a strategic value, with an innovative vision, in order to turn it into an intellectual asset for the organization.Geared towards results. Municipal data is also a means of ensuring the administration’s accountability and transparency, for managing services and investments and for maintaining and improving the performance of the economy, wealth and the general public’s well-being.Data as a common asset. City residents and the common good have to be the central focus of the City of Virginia Beach’s plans and technological platforms. Data is a source of wealth that empowers people who have access to it. Making it possible for city residents to control the data, minimizing the digital gap and preventing discriminatory or unethical practices is the essence of municipal technological sovereignty.Transparency and interoperability. Public institutions must be open, transparent and responsible towards the general public. Promoting openness and interoperability, subject to technical and legal requirements, increases the efficiency of operations, reduces costs, improves services, supports needs and increases public access to valuable municipal information. In this way, it also promotes public participation in government.Reuse and open-source licenses. Making municipal information accessible, usable by everyone by default, without having to ask for prior permission, and analyzable by anyone who wishes to do so can foster entrepreneurship, social and digital innovation, jobs and excellence in scientific research, as well as improving the lives of Virginia Beach residents and making a significant contribution to the city’s stability and prosperity.Quality and security. The city government must take firm steps to ensure and maximize the quality, objectivity, usefulness, integrity and security of municipal information before disclosing it, and maintain processes to effectuate requests for amendments to the publicly-available information.Responsible organization. Adding value to the data and turning it into an asset, with the aim of promoting accountability and citizens’ rights, requires new actions, new integrated procedures, so that the new platforms can grow in an organic, transparent and cross-departmental way. A comprehensive governance strategy makes it possible to promote this revision and avoid redundancies, increased costs, inefficiency and bad practices.Care throughout the data’s life cycle. Paying attention to the management of municipal registers, from when they are created to when they are destroyed or preserved, is an essential part of data management and of promoting public responsibility. Being careful with the data throughout its life cycle combined with activities that ensure continued access to digital materials for as long as necessary, help with the analytic exploitation of the data, but also with the responsible protection of historic municipal government registers and safeguarding the economic and legal rights of the municipal government and the city’s residents.Privacy “by design”. Protecting privacy is of maximum importance. The Data and Information Management Team has to consider and protect individual and collective privacy during the data life cycle, systematically and verifiably, as specified in the general regulation for data protection.Security. Municipal information is a strategic asset subject to risks, and it has to be managed in such a way as to minimize those risks. This includes privacy, data protection, algorithmic discrimination and cybersecurity risks that must be specifically established, promoting ethical and responsible data architecture, techniques for improving privacy and evaluating the social effects. Although security and privacy are two separate, independent fields, they are closely related, and it is essential for the units to take a coordinated approach in order to identify and manage cybersecurity and risks to privacy with applicable requirements and standards.Open Source. It is obligatory for the Data and Information Management Team to maintain its Open Data- Open Source platform. The platform allows citizens to access open data from multiple cities in a central location, regional universities and colleges to foster continuous education, and aids in the development of data analytics skills for citizens. Continuing to uphold the Open Source platform with allow the City to continually offer citizens the ability to provide valuable input on the structure and availability of its data. Strategic areasIn order to deploy the strategy for the responsible and ethical use of data, the following areas of action have been established, which we will detail below, together with the actions and emblematic projects associated with them.In general, the strategy pivots on the following general principals, which form the basis for the strategic areas described in this section.Data sovereigntyOpen data and transparencyThe exchange and reuse of dataPolitical decision-making informed by dataThe life cycle of data and continual or permanent accessData GovernanceData quality and accessibility are crucial for meaningful data analysis, and must be ensured through the implementation of data governance. IT will establish a Data Governance Board, a collaborative organizational capability made up of the city’s data and analytics champions, who will work together to develop policies and practices to treat and use data as a strategic asset.Data governance is the overall management of the availability, usability, integrity and security of data used in the city. Increased data quality will positively impact overall trust in data, resulting in increased use and adoption. The ownership, accessibility, security, and quality, of the data is defined and maintained by the Data Governance Board.To improve operational efficiency, an enterprise-wide data catalog will be created to inventory data and track metadata from various data sources to allow for rapid data asset discovery. Through the data catalog, the city will

Data, lately, has received a lot of attention from various circles such as government officials, the community, businesses, law enforcement, and also civil society. The reason is actually very simple, because credible data is the key to the quality of development and good governance. Public policy, public services, law enforcement, government performance monitoring, and business opportunities all require credible data. Unfortunately, in practice, data is still often not managed seriously. There are still many cases where there are data that not only have various versions, but often also contradict each other. The One Data Initiative, or commonly called One Data Indonesia, is one of the Indonesian government's initiatives that tries to fix problems in the implementation and management of government data. The development of this initiative is also overseen by the Open Government Indonesia Action Plan. Along with welcoming International Open Data Day which falls on March 4, 2017, As an initiative that is being promoted by the central government regarding data governance reform within the Indonesian government, One Data Indonesia is an initiative that is expected to help the integration of planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and control of development between the central government and the regions, and at the next level is the disclosure of government data that can be used by the community. In addition, the implementation of One Data is also expected to accelerate the implementation of the Electronic-Based Government System (SPBE/E-government) which is being prepared, both in terms of regulations and operational stages, by a number of related agencies involving the Presidential Staff Office, the Ministry of National Development Planning/Bappenas, the Ministry of PAN & RB, the Ministry of Communication and Informatics, and the State Administration Institution. In principle, Satu Data Indonesia strives to encourage better government data governance. Good data governance is highly dependent on quality and consistency in data management. For this reason, Satu Data Indonesia defines good data governance into three main principles. The three main principles that will be encouraged through the One Data Indonesia policy are: (i) a single standard data standard, (ii) one standard metadata, and (iii) data interoperability. With the application of these principles, it is hoped that the One Data policy will be able to realize an accountable, accurate, integrated, up-to-date, and open data management system. These three principles will be implemented through the Presidential Regulation on One Data that we are currently compiling. Currently, the initiation of One Data has reached the finalization stage of the preparation of the Presidential Regulation on One Data Indonesia. If it has been passed, the Presidential Regulation on One Data Indonesia is expected to stimulate efforts to improve government data governance in Indonesia. This means that the use of data will be more structured and will improve the quality of policies and public services in Indonesia as well. In addition, to ensure the smooth implementation later, pilot activities are also being carried out in seven ministries, institutions and also seven local governments. At the central government level, the One Data Initiative is currently being pilotedn in several Ministries, including the Ministry of National Development Planning/Bappenas and the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries. At the local government level, the implementation of One Data Indonesia has been piloted in several pilot areas, including DKI Jakarta Province, Demak Regency, Bojonegoro Regency, Semarang City, Banda Aceh City, Mojokerto City, and Pontianak City. There are actually several priorities that can be resolved in order to facilitate the implementation of One Data Indonesia. First, harmonization between the role of Presidential Regulations (Perpres) and Regional Regulations (Perda). Second, finding a clear business process for the implementation of One Data Indonesia both in the Ministries/Institutions of a region. Third, the integration of other Ministries/Institutions data portals in one portal, to facilitate access and use of data by the public. There are several things that are still challenges for the implementation of One Data in Indonesia. One of them is the process of ratifying the Presidential Regulation on One Data Indonesia which requires coordination with various stakeholders which takes a long time. In addition, there are several policies related to statistics, which need to be adjusted to the context of data governance reform within the current government. One of them is Law No. 16 of 1997 concerning Statistics which still defines data only in the form of numbers, so that other forms of data such as spatial data are not included in it. In addition, the reluctance of many parties to integrate cross-sectoral data management within the government is also an obstacle. Where there are various types of data in each sector, but without any integration with other sectors. Finally, one of the things that hinders the implementation of this initiative according to the One Data Indonesia team is the existence of non-tax state revenue (PNPB) collected from data requests. This severely limits access to open data that should be easily and free of charge accessible to the public.

Use this guide to find information on Tempe data policy and standards.Open Data PolicyEthical Artificial Intelligence (AI) PolicyEvaluation PolicyExpedited Data Sharing PolicyData Sharing Agreement (General)Data Sharing Agreement (GIS)Data Quality Standard and ChecklistDisaggregated Data StandardsData and Analytics Service Standard

On October 15, 2013, Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer announced the signing of an open data policy executive order in conjunction with his compelling talk at the 2013 Code for America Summit. In nonchalant cadence, the mayor announced his support for complete information disclosure by declaring, "It's data, man."Sunlight Foundation - New Louisville Open Data Policy Insists Open By Default is the Future Open Data Annual ReportsSection 5.A. Within one year of the effective Data of this Executive Order, and thereafter no later than September 1 of each year, the Open Data Management Team shall submit to the Mayor an annual Open Data Report.The Open Data Management team (also known as the Data Governance Team is currently led by the city's Data Officer Andrew McKinney in the Office of Civic Innovation and Technology. Previously (2014-16) it was led by the Director of IT.Full Executive OrderEXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 1, SERIES 2013AN EXECUTIVE ORDERCREATING AN OPEN DATA PLAN. WHEREAS, Metro Government is the catalyst for creating a world-class city that provides its citizens with safe and vibrant neighborhoods, great jobs, a strong system of education and innovation, and a high quality of life; andWHEREAS, it should be easy to do business with Metro Government. Online government interactions mean more convenient services for citizens and businesses and online government interactions improve the cost effectiveness and accuracy of government operations; andWHEREAS, an open government also makes certain that every aspect of the built environment also has reliable digital descriptions available to citizens and entrepreneurs for deep engagement mediated by smart devices; andWHEREAS, every citizen has the right to prompt, efficient service from Metro Government; andWHEREAS, the adoption of open standards improves transparency, access to public information and improved coordination and efficiencies among Departments and partner organizations across the public, nonprofit and private sectors; andWHEREAS, by publishing structured standardized data in machine readable formats the Louisville Metro Government seeks to encourage the local software community to develop software applications and tools to collect, organize, and share public record data in new and innovative ways; andWHEREAS, in commitment to the spirit of Open Government, Louisville Metro Government will consider public information to be open by default and will proactively publish data and data containing information, consistent with the Kentucky Open Meetings and Open Records Act; andNOW, THEREFORE, BE IT PROMULGATED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER OF THE HONORABLE GREG FISCHER, MAYOR OF LOUISVILLE/JEFFERSON COUNTY METRO GOVERNMENT AS FOLLOWS:Section 1. Definitions. As used in this Executive Order, the terms below shall have the following definitions:(A) “Open Data” means any public record as defined by the Kentucky Open Records Act, which could be made available online using Open Format data, as well as best practice Open Data structures and formats when possible. Open Data is not information that is treated exempt under KRS 61.878 by Metro Government.(B) “Open Data Report” is the annual report of the Open Data Management Team, which shall (i) summarize and comment on the state of Open Data availability in Metro Government Departments from the previous year; (ii) provide a plan for the next year to improve online public access to Open Data and maintain data quality. The Open Data Management Team shall present an initial Open Data Report to the Mayor within 180 days of this Executive Order.(C) “Open Format” is any widely accepted, nonproprietary, platform-independent, machine-readable method for formatting data, which permits automated processing of such data and is accessible to external search capabilities.(D) “Open Data Portal” means the Internet site established and maintained by or on behalf of Metro Government, located at portal.louisvilleky.gov/service/data or its successor website.(E) “Open Data Management Team” means a group consisting of representatives from each Department within Metro Government and chaired by the Chief Information Officer (CIO) that is responsible for coordinating implementation of an Open Data Policy and creating the Open Data Report.(F) “Department” means any Metro Government department, office, administrative unit, commission, board, advisory committee, or other division of Metro Government within the official jurisdiction of the executive branch.Section 2. Open Data Portal.(A) The Open Data Portal shall serve as the authoritative source for Open Data provided by Metro Government(B) Any Open Data made accessible on Metro Government’s Open Data Portal shall use an Open Format.Section 3. Open Data Management Team.(A) The Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Louisville Metro Government will work with the head of each Department to identify a Data Coordinator in each Department. Data Coordinators will serve as members of an Open Data Management Team facilitated by the CIO and Metro Technology Services. The Open Data Management Team will work to establish a robust, nationally recognized, platform that addresses digital infrastructure and Open Data.(B) The Open Data Management Team will develop an Open Data management policy that will adopt prevailing Open Format standards for Open Data, and develop agreements with regional partners to publish and maintain Open Data that is open and freely available while respecting exemptions allowed by the Kentucky Open Records Act or other federal or state law.Section 4. Department Open Data Catalogue.(A) Each Department shall be responsible for creating an Open Data catalogue, which will include comprehensive inventories of information possessed and/or managed by the Department.(B) Each Department’s Open Data catalogue will classify information holdings as currently “public” or “not yet public”; Departments will work with Metro Technology Services to develop strategies and timelines for publishing open data containing information in a way that is complete, reliable, and has a high level of detail.Section 5. Open Data Report and Policy Review.(A) Within one year of the effective date of this Executive Order, and thereafter no later than September 1 of each year, the Open Data Management Team shall submit to the Mayor an annual Open Data Report.(B) In acknowledgment that technology changes rapidly, in the future, the Open Data Policy should be reviewed and considered for revisions or additions that will continue to position Metro Government as a leader on issues of openness, efficiency, and technical best practices.Section 6. This Executive Order shall take effect as of October 11, 2013.Signed this 11th day of October, 2013, by Greg Fischer, Mayor of Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government.GREG FISCHER, MAYOR

North America Government Open Data Management Platform Market size will be USD XX million in 2024 and will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.1% from 2024 to 2031. North America has emerged as a prominent participant, and its sales revenue is estimated to reach USD XX Million by 2031. This growth is majorly attributed to the region's increasing demand for Data-Driven Decision-Making.

This dataset contains data collected during a study "Transparency of open data ecosystems in smart cities: Definition and assessment of the maturity of transparency in 22 smart cities" (Sustainable Cities and Society (SCS), vol.82, 103906) conducted by Martin Lnenicka (University of Pardubice), Anastasija Nikiforova (University of Tartu), Mariusz Luterek (University of Warsaw), Otmane Azeroual (German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies), Dandison Ukpabi (University of Jyväskylä), Visvaldis Valtenbergs (University of Latvia), Renata Machova (University of Pardubice).

This study inspects smart cities’ data portals and assesses their compliance with transparency requirements for open (government) data by means of the expert assessment of 34 portals representing 22 smart cities, with 36 features.

It being made public both to act as supplementary data for the paper and in order for other researchers to use these data in their own work potentially contributing to the improvement of current data ecosystems and build sustainable, transparent, citizen-centered, and socially resilient open data-driven smart cities.

Purpose of the expert assessment The data in this dataset were collected in the result of the applying the developed benchmarking framework for assessing the compliance of open (government) data portals with the principles of transparency-by-design proposed by Lněnička and Nikiforova (2021)* to 34 portals that can be considered to be part of open data ecosystems in smart cities, thereby carrying out their assessment by experts in 36 features context, which allows to rank them and discuss their maturity levels and (4) based on the results of the assessment, defining the components and unique models that form the open data ecosystem in the smart city context.

Methodology Sample selection: the capitals of the Member States of the European Union and countries of the European Economic Area were selected to ensure a more coherent political and legal framework. They were mapped/cross-referenced with their rank in 5 smart city rankings: IESE Cities in Motion Index, Top 50 smart city governments (SCG), IMD smart city index (SCI), global cities index (GCI), and sustainable cities index (SCI). A purposive sampling method and systematic search for portals was then carried out to identify relevant websites for each city using two complementary techniques: browsing and searching. To evaluate the transparency maturity of data ecosystems in smart cities, we have used the transparency-by-design framework (Lněnička & Nikiforova, 2021)*. The benchmarking supposes the collection of quantitative data, which makes this task an acceptability task. A six-point Likert scale was applied for evaluating the portals. Each sub-dimension was supplied with its description to ensure the common understanding, a drop-down list to select the level at which the respondent (dis)agree, and a comment to be provided, which has not been mandatory. This formed a protocol to be fulfilled on every portal. Each sub-dimension/feature was assessed using a six-point Likert scale, where strong agreement is assessed with 6 points, while strong disagreement is represented by 1 point. Each website (portal) was evaluated by experts, where a person is considered to be an expert if a person works with open (government) data and data portals daily, i.e., it is the key part of their job, which can be public officials, researchers, and independent organizations. In other words, compliance with the expert profile according to the International Certification of Digital Literacy (ICDL) and its derivation proposed in Lněnička et al. (2021)* is expected to be met. When all individual protocols were collected, mean values and standard deviations (SD) were calculated, and if statistical contradictions/inconsistencies were found, reassessment took place to ensure individual consistency and interrater reliability among experts’ answers. *Lnenicka, M., & Nikiforova, A. (2021). Transparency-by-design: What is the role of open data portals?. Telematics and Informatics, 61, 101605 *Lněnička, M., Machova, R., Volejníková, J., Linhartová, V., Knezackova, R., & Hub, M. (2021). Enhancing transparency through open government data: the case of data portals and their features and capabilities. Online Information Review.

Test procedure (1) perform an assessment of each dimension using sub-dimensions, mapping out the achievement of each indicator (2) all sub-dimensions in one dimension are aggregated, and then the average value is calculated based on the number of sub-dimensions – the resulting average stands for a dimension value - eight values per portal (3) the average value from all dimensions are calculated and then mapped to the maturity level – this value of each portal is also used to rank the portals.

Description of the data in this data set Sheet#1 "comparison_overall" provides results by portal Sheet#2 "comparison_category" provides results by portal and category Sheet#3 "category_subcategory" provides list of categories and its elements

Format of the file .xls

Licenses or restrictions CC-BY

For more info, see README.txt

Building a comprehensive data inventory as required by section 6.3 of the Directive on Open Government: “Establishing and maintaining comprehensive inventories of data and information resources of business value held by the department to determine their eligibility and priority, and to plan for their effective release.” Creating a data inventory is among the first steps in identifying federal data that is eligible for release. Departmental data inventories has been published on the Open Government portal, Open.Canada.ca, so that Canadians can see what federal data is collected and have the opportunity to indicate what data is of most interest to them, helping departments to prioritize data releases based on both external demand and internal capacity. The objective of the inventory is to provide a landscape of all federal data. While it is recognized that not all data is eligible for release due to the nature of the content, departments are responsible for identifying and including all datasets of business values as part of the inventory exercise with the exception of datasets whose title contains information that should not be released to be released to the public due to security or privacy concerns. These titles have been excluded from the inventory. Departments were provided with an open data inventory template with standardized elements to populate, and upload in the metadata catalogue, the Open Government Registry. These elements are described in the data dictionary file. Departments are responsible for maintaining up-to-date data inventories that reflect significant additions to their data holdings. For purposes of this open data inventory exercise, a dataset is defined as: “An organized collection of data used to carry out the business of a department or agency, that can be understood alone or in conjunction with other datasets”. Please note that the Open Data Inventory is no longer being maintained by Government of Canada organizations and is therefore not being updated. However, we will continue to provide access to the dataset for review and analysis.

Europe Government Open Data Management Platform Market USD XX million in 2024 and will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.4% from 2024 to 2031. High investment in technological development is expected to aid the sales to USD XX million by 2031

On August 25th, 2022, Metro Council Passed Open Data Ordinance; previously open data reports were published on Mayor Fischer's Executive Order, You can find here both the Open Data Ordinance, 2022 (PDF) and the Mayor's Open Data Executive Order, 2013 Open Data Annual ReportsPage 6 of the Open Data Ordinance, Within one year of the effective date of this Ordinance, and thereafter no later than September1 of each year, the Open Data Management Team shall submit to the Mayor and Metro Council an annual Open Data Report.The Open Data Management team (also known as the Data Governance Team is currently led by the city's Data Officer Andrew McKinney in the Office of Civic Innovation and Technology. Previously, it was led by the former Data Officer, Michael Schnuerle and prior to that by Director of IT.Open Data Ordinance O-243-22 TextLouisville Metro GovernmentLegislation TextFile #: O-243-22, Version: 3ORDINANCE NO._, SERIES 2022AN ORDINANCE CREATING A NEW CHAPTER OF THE LOUISVILLE/JEFFERSONCOUNTY METRO CODE OF ORDINANCES CREATING AN OPEN DATA POLICYAND REVIEW. (AMENDMENT BY SUBSTITUTION)(AS AMENDED).SPONSORED BY: COUNCIL MEMBERS ARTHUR, WINKLER, CHAMBERS ARMSTRONG,PIAGENTINI, DORSEY, AND PRESIDENT JAMESWHEREAS, Metro Government is the catalyst for creating a world-class city that provides itscitizens with safe and vibrant neighborhoods, great jobs, a strong system of education and innovationand a high quality of life;WHEREAS, it should be easy to do business with Metro Government. Online governmentinteractions mean more convenient services for citizens and businesses and online governmentinteractions improve the cost effectiveness and accuracy of government operations;WHEREAS, an open government also makes certain that every aspect of the builtenvironment also has reliable digital descriptions available to citizens and entrepreneurs for deepengagement mediated by smart devices;WHEREAS, every citizen has the right to prompt, efficient service from Metro Government;WHEREAS, the adoption of open standards improves transparency, access to publicinformation and improved coordination and efficiencies among Departments and partnerorganizations across the public, non-profit and private sectors;WHEREAS, by publishing structured standardized data in machine readable formats, MetroGovernment seeks to encourage the local technology community to develop software applicationsand tools to display, organize, analyze, and share public record data in new and innovative ways;WHEREAS, Metro Government’s ability to review data and datasets will facilitate a betterUnderstanding of the obstacles the city faces with regard to equity;WHEREAS, Metro Government’s understanding of inequities, through data and datasets, willassist in creating better policies to tackle inequities in the city;WHEREAS, through this Ordinance, Metro Government desires to maintain its continuousimprovement in open data and transparency that it initiated via Mayoral Executive Order No. 1,Series 2013;WHEREAS, Metro Government’s open data work has repeatedly been recognized asevidenced by its achieving What Works Cities Silver (2018), Gold (2019), and Platinum (2020)certifications. What Works Cities recognizes and celebrates local governments for their exceptionaluse of data to inform policy and funding decisions, improve services, create operational efficiencies,and engage residents. The Certification program assesses cities on their data-driven decisionmakingpractices, such as whether they are using data to set goals and track progress, allocatefunding, evaluate the effectiveness of programs, and achieve desired outcomes. These datainformedstrategies enable Certified Cities to be more resilient, respond in crisis situations, increaseeconomic mobility, protect public health, and increase resident satisfaction; andWHEREAS, in commitment to the spirit of Open Government, Metro Government will considerpublic information to be open by default and will proactively publish data and data containinginformation, consistent with the Kentucky Open Meetings and Open Records Act.NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THELOUISVILLE/JEFFERSON COUNTY METRO GOVERNMENT AS FOLLOWS:SECTION I: A new chapter of the Louisville Metro Code of Ordinances (“LMCO”) mandatingan Open Data Policy and review process is hereby created as follows:§ XXX.01 DEFINITIONS. For the purpose of this Chapter, the following definitions shall apply unlessthe context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.OPEN DATA. Any public record as defined by the Kentucky Open Records Act, which could bemade available online using Open Format data, as well as best practice Open Data structures andformats when possible, that is not Protected Information or Sensitive Information, with no legalrestrictions on use or reuse. Open Data is not information that is treated as exempt under KRS61.878 by Metro Government.OPEN DATA REPORT. The annual report of the Open Data Management Team, which shall (i)summarize and comment on the state of Open Data availability in Metro Government Departmentsfrom the previous year, including, but not limited to, the progress toward achieving the goals of MetroGovernment’s Open Data portal, an assessment of the current scope of compliance, a list of datasetscurrently available on the Open Data portal and a description and publication timeline for datasetsenvisioned to be published on the portal in the following year; and (ii) provide a plan for the next yearto improve online public access to Open Data and maintain data quality.OPEN DATA MANAGEMENT TEAM. A group consisting of representatives from each Departmentwithin Metro Government and chaired by the Data Officer who is responsible for coordinatingimplementation of an Open Data Policy and creating the Open Data Report.DATA COORDINATORS. The members of an Open Data Management Team facilitated by theData Officer and the Office of Civic Innovation and Technology.DEPARTMENT. Any Metro Government department, office, administrative unit, commission, board,advisory committee, or other division of Metro Government.DATA OFFICER. The staff person designated by the city to coordinate and implement the city’sopen data program and policy.DATA. The statistical, factual, quantitative or qualitative information that is maintained or created byor on behalf of Metro Government.DATASET. A named collection of related records, with the collection containing data organized orformatted in a specific or prescribed way.METADATA. Contextual information that makes the Open Data easier to understand and use.OPEN DATA PORTAL. The internet site established and maintained by or on behalf of MetroGovernment located at https://data.louisvilleky.gov/ or its successor website.OPEN FORMAT. Any widely accepted, nonproprietary, searchable, platform-independent, machinereadablemethod for formatting data which permits automated processes.PROTECTED INFORMATION. Any Dataset or portion thereof to which the Department may denyaccess pursuant to any law, rule or regulation.SENSITIVE INFORMATION. Any Data which, if published on the Open Data Portal, could raiseprivacy, confidentiality or security concerns or have the potential to jeopardize public health, safety orwelfare to an extent that is greater than the potential public benefit of publishing that data.§ XXX.02 OPEN DATA PORTAL(A) The Open Data Portal shall serve as the authoritative source for Open Data provided by MetroGovernment.(B) Any Open Data made accessible on Metro Government’s Open Data Portal shall use an OpenFormat.(C) In the event a successor website is used, the Data Officer shall notify the Metro Council andshall provide notice to the public on the main city website.§ XXX.03 OPEN DATA MANAGEMENT TEAM(A) The Data Officer of Metro Government will work with the head of each Department to identify aData Coordinator in each Department. The Open Data Management Team will work to establish arobust, nationally recognized, platform that addresses digital infrastructure and Open Data.(B) The Open Data Management Team will develop an Open Data Policy that will adopt prevailingOpen Format standards for Open Data and develop agreements with regional partners to publish andmaintain Open Data that is open and freely available while respecting exemptions allowed by theKentucky Open Records Act or other federal or state law.§ XXX.04 DEPARTMENT OPEN DATA CATALOGUE(A) Each Department shall retain ownership over the Datasets they submit to the Open DataPortal. The Departments shall also be responsible for all aspects of the quality, integrity and securityPortal. The Departments shall also be responsible for all aspects of the quality, integrity and securityof the Dataset contents, including updating its Data and associated Metadata.(B) Each Department shall be responsible for creating an Open Data catalogue which shall includecomprehensive inventories of information possessed and/or managed by the Department.(C) Each Department’s Open Data catalogue will classify information holdings as currently “public”or “not yet public;” Departments will work with the Office of Civic Innovation and Technology todevelop strategies and timelines for publishing Open Data containing information in a way that iscomplete, reliable and has a high level of detail.§ XXX.05 OPEN DATA REPORT AND POLICY REVIEW(A) Within one year of the effective date of this Ordinance, and thereafter no later than September1 of each year, the Open Data Management Team shall submit to the Mayor and Metro Council anannual Open Data Report.(B) Metro Council may request a specific Department to report on any data or dataset that may bebeneficial or pertinent in implementing policy and legislation.(C) In acknowledgment that technology changes rapidly, in the future, the Open Data Policy shouldshall be reviewed annually and considered for revisions or additions that will continue to positionMetro Government as a leader on issues

The City's Open Data Policy outlines the purpose, principles, and major mechanics of Rochester, NY's Open Data Program.This policy was created by the City's Data Governance Committee and was formally adopted by the City's Senior Management Team on March 1st, 2020.For more information on the Data Governance Committee, please see its charter document here.

We have used Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to derive the priorities of all the factors in the evaluation framework for open government data (OGD) portals. The results of AHP process were shown in the uploaded pdf file. We have collected 2635 open government datasets of 15 different subject categories (local statistics, health, education, cultural activity, transportation, map, public safety, policies and legislation, weather, environment quality, registration, credit records, international trade, budget and spend, and government bid) from 9 OGD portals in China (Beijing, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Guangdong, Guizhou, Sichuan, XInjiang, Hong Kong and Taiwan). These datasets were used for the evaluation of these portals in our study. The records of the quality and open access of these datasets could be found in the uploaded Excel file.

On October 15, 2013, Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer announced the signing of an open data policy executive order in conjunction with his compelling talk at the 2013 Code for America Summit. In nonchalant cadence, the mayor announced his support for complete information disclosure by declaring, "It's data, man."Sunlight Foundation - New Louisville Open Data Policy Insists Open By Default is the Future Open Data Annual ReportsSection 5.A. Within one year of the effective Data of this Executive Order, and thereafter no later than September 1 of each year, the Open Data Management Team shall submit to the Mayor an annual Open Data Report.The Open Data Management team (also known as the Data Governance Team is currently led by the city's Data Officer Andrew McKinney in the Office of Civic Innovation and Technology. Previously (2014-16) it was led by the Director of IT.Full Executive OrderEXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 1, SERIES 2013AN EXECUTIVE ORDERCREATING AN OPEN DATA PLAN. WHEREAS, Metro Government is the catalyst for creating a world-class city that provides its citizens with safe and vibrant neighborhoods, great jobs, a strong system of education and innovation, and a high quality of life; andWHEREAS, it should be easy to do business with Metro Government. Online government interactions mean more convenient services for citizens and businesses and online government interactions improve the cost effectiveness and accuracy of government operations; andWHEREAS, an open government also makes certain that every aspect of the built environment also has reliable digital descriptions available to citizens and entrepreneurs for deep engagement mediated by smart devices; andWHEREAS, every citizen has the right to prompt, efficient service from Metro Government; andWHEREAS, the adoption of open standards improves transparency, access to public information and improved coordination and efficiencies among Departments and partner organizations across the public, nonprofit and private sectors; andWHEREAS, by publishing structured standardized data in machine readable formats the Louisville Metro Government seeks to encourage the local software community to develop software applications and tools to collect, organize, and share public record data in new and innovative ways; andWHEREAS, in commitment to the spirit of Open Government, Louisville Metro Government will consider public information to be open by default and will proactively publish data and data containing information, consistent with the Kentucky Open Meetings and Open Records Act; andNOW, THEREFORE, BE IT PROMULGATED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER OF THE HONORABLE GREG FISCHER, MAYOR OF LOUISVILLE/JEFFERSON COUNTY METRO GOVERNMENT AS FOLLOWS:Section 1. Definitions. As used in this Executive Order, the terms below shall have the following definitions:(A) “Open Data” means any public record as defined by the Kentucky Open Records Act, which could be made available online using Open Format data, as well as best practice Open Data structures and formats when possible. Open Data is not information that is treated exempt under KRS 61.878 by Metro Government.(B) “Open Data Report” is the annual report of the Open Data Management Team, which shall (i) summarize and comment on the state of Open Data availability in Metro Government Departments from the previous year; (ii) provide a plan for the next year to improve online public access to Open Data and maintain data quality. The Open Data Management Team shall present an initial Open Data Report to the Mayor within 180 days of this Executive Order.(C) “Open Format” is any widely accepted, nonproprietary, platform-independent, machine-readable method for formatting data, which permits automated processing of such data and is accessible to external search capabilities.(D) “Open Data Portal” means the Internet site established and maintained by or on behalf of Metro Government, located at portal.louisvilleky.gov/service/data or its successor website.(E) “Open Data Management Team” means a group consisting of representatives from each Department within Metro Government and chaired by the Chief Information Officer (CIO) that is responsible for coordinating implementation of an Open Data Policy and creating the Open Data Report.(F) “Department” means any Metro Government department, office, administrative unit, commission, board, advisory committee, or other division of Metro Government within the official jurisdiction of the executive branch.Section 2. Open Data Portal.(A) The Open Data Portal shall serve as the authoritative source for Open Data provided by Metro Government(B) Any Open Data made accessible on Metro Government’s Open Data Portal shall use an Open Format.Section 3. Open Data Management Team.(A) The Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Louisville Metro Government will work with the head of each Department to identify a Data Coordinator in each Department. Data Coordinators will serve as members of an Open Data Management Team facilitated by the CIO and Metro Technology Services. The Open Data Management Team will work to establish a robust, nationally recognized, platform that addresses digital infrastructure and Open Data.(B) The Open Data Management Team will develop an Open Data management policy that will adopt prevailing Open Format standards for Open Data, and develop agreements with regional partners to publish and maintain Open Data that is open and freely available while respecting exemptions allowed by the Kentucky Open Records Act or other federal or state law.Section 4. Department Open Data Catalogue.(A) Each Department shall be responsible for creating an Open Data catalogue, which will include comprehensive inventories of information possessed and/or managed by the Department.(B) Each Department’s Open Data catalogue will classify information holdings as currently “public” or “not yet public”; Departments will work with Metro Technology Services to develop strategies and timelines for publishing open data containing information in a way that is complete, reliable, and has a high level of detail.Section 5. Open Data Report and Policy Review.(A) Within one year of the effective date of this Executive Order, and thereafter no later than September 1 of each year, the Open Data Management Team shall submit to the Mayor an annual Open Data Report.(B) In acknowledgment that technology changes rapidly, in the future, the Open Data Policy should be reviewed and considered for revisions or additions that will continue to position Metro Government as a leader on issues of openness, efficiency, and technical best practices.Section 6. This Executive Order shall take effect as of October 11, 2013.Signed this 11th day of October, 2013, by Greg Fischer, Mayor of Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government.GREG FISCHER, MAYOR

On October 15, 2013, Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer announced the signing of an open data policy executive order in conjunction with his compelling talk at the 2013 Code for America Summit. In nonchalant cadence, the mayor announced his support for complete information disclosure by declaring, "It's data, man."Sunlight Foundation - New Louisville Open Data Policy Insists Open By Default is the Future Open Data Annual ReportsSection 5.A. Within one year of the effective Data of this Executive Order, and thereafter no later than September 1 of each year, the Open Data Management Team shall submit to the Mayor an annual Open Data Report.The Open Data Management team (also known as the Data Governance Team is currently led by the city's Data Officer Andrew McKinney in the Office of Civic Innovation and Technology. Previously (2014-16) it was led by the Director of IT.Full Executive OrderEXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 1, SERIES 2013AN EXECUTIVE ORDERCREATING AN OPEN DATA PLAN. WHEREAS, Metro Government is the catalyst for creating a world-class city that provides its citizens with safe and vibrant neighborhoods, great jobs, a strong system of education and innovation, and a high quality of life; andWHEREAS, it should be easy to do business with Metro Government. Online government interactions mean more convenient services for citizens and businesses and online government interactions improve the cost effectiveness and accuracy of government operations; andWHEREAS, an open government also makes certain that every aspect of the built environment also has reliable digital descriptions available to citizens and entrepreneurs for deep engagement mediated by smart devices; andWHEREAS, every citizen has the right to prompt, efficient service from Metro Government; andWHEREAS, the adoption of open standards improves transparency, access to public information and improved coordination and efficiencies among Departments and partner organizations across the public, nonprofit and private sectors; andWHEREAS, by publishing structured standardized data in machine readable formats the Louisville Metro Government seeks to encourage the local software community to develop software applications and tools to collect, organize, and share public record data in new and innovative ways; andWHEREAS, in commitment to the spirit of Open Government, Louisville Metro Government will consider public information to be open by default and will proactively publish data and data containing information, consistent with the Kentucky Open Meetings and Open Records Act; andNOW, THEREFORE, BE IT PROMULGATED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER OF THE HONORABLE GREG FISCHER, MAYOR OF LOUISVILLE/JEFFERSON COUNTY METRO GOVERNMENT AS FOLLOWS:Section 1. Definitions. As used in this Executive Order, the terms below shall have the following definitions:(A) “Open Data” means any public record as defined by the Kentucky Open Records Act, which could be made available online using Open Format data, as well as best practice Open Data structures and formats when possible. Open Data is not information that is treated exempt under KRS 61.878 by Metro Government.(B) “Open Data Report” is the annual report of the Open Data Management Team, which shall (i) summarize and comment on the state of Open Data availability in Metro Government Departments from the previous year; (ii) provide a plan for the next year to improve online public access to Open Data and maintain data quality. The Open Data Management Team shall present an initial Open Data Report to the Mayor within 180 days of this Executive Order.(C) “Open Format” is any widely accepted, nonproprietary, platform-independent, machine-readable method for formatting data, which permits automated processing of such data and is accessible to external search capabilities.(D) “Open Data Portal” means the Internet site established and maintained by or on behalf of Metro Government, located at portal.louisvilleky.gov/service/data or its successor website.(E) “Open Data Management Team” means a group consisting of representatives from each Department within Metro Government and chaired by the Chief Information Officer (CIO) that is responsible for coordinating implementation of an Open Data Policy and creating the Open Data Report.(F) “Department” means any Metro Government department, office, administrative unit, commission, board, advisory committee, or other division of Metro Government within the official jurisdiction of the executive branch.Section 2. Open Data Portal.(A) The Open Data Portal shall serve as the authoritative source for Open Data provided by Metro Government(B) Any Open Data made accessible on Metro Government’s Open Data Portal shall use an Open Format.Section 3. Open Data Management Team.(A) The Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Louisville Metro Government will work with the head of each Department to identify a Data Coordinator in each Department. Data Coordinators will serve as members of an Open Data Management Team facilitated by the CIO and Metro Technology Services. The Open Data Management Team will work to establish a robust, nationally recognized, platform that addresses digital infrastructure and Open Data.(B) The Open Data Management Team will develop an Open Data management policy that will adopt prevailing Open Format standards for Open Data, and develop agreements with regional partners to publish and maintain Open Data that is open and freely available while respecting exemptions allowed by the Kentucky Open Records Act or other federal or state law.Section 4. Department Open Data Catalogue.(A) Each Department shall be responsible for creating an Open Data catalogue, which will include comprehensive inventories of information possessed and/or managed by the Department.(B) Each Department’s Open Data catalogue will classify information holdings as currently “public” or “not yet public”; Departments will work with Metro Technology Services to develop strategies and timelines for publishing open data containing information in a way that is complete, reliable, and has a high level of detail.Section 5. Open Data Report and Policy Review.(A) Within one year of the effective date of this Executive Order, and thereafter no later than September 1 of each year, the Open Data Management Team shall submit to the Mayor an annual Open Data Report.(B) In acknowledgment that technology changes rapidly, in the future, the Open Data Policy should be reviewed and considered for revisions or additions that will continue to position Metro Government as a leader on issues of openness, efficiency, and technical best practices.Section 6. This Executive Order shall take effect as of October 11, 2013.Signed this 11th day of October, 2013, by Greg Fischer, Mayor of Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government.GREG FISCHER, MAYOR

This document serves as an overview of the different mechanisms and areas of governance in the BigCode project. You can also find a version of The BigCode Project Governance Card on arXiv. It aims to support transparency by providing relevant information about choices that were made during the project to the broader public, and to serve as an example of intentional governance of an open research project that future endeavors can leverage to shape their own approach.The first section, Project… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/bigcode/governance-card.

The dataset contains the case studies findings in tables referenced and used in the ongoing research paper titled "Non-profit organisations’ capabilities to reduce open government data barriers: a conceptual framework", submitted to the EGOV-CeDEM-ePart conference, September 1-5, 2024, Ghent University and KU Leuven, Ghent/Leuven, Belgium.

A log of dataset alerts open, monitored or resolved on the open data portal. Alerts can include issues as well as deprecation or discontinuation notices.

This systematic review of the literatu was conducted with the PRISMA method, to explore the contexts in which the use of open government data germinates, identifying barriers to its use and identifying, the role of data literacy among those barriers to use; and the role of open data in promoting informal learning that supports the development of critical data literacy. This file includes a codebook of the main characteristics that were studied in a systematic literature review, where data from 66 articles related to Open Data Usage were identified and coded. Also, the file includes an analysis of Cohen's Kappa, a concordance statistic used to measure the level of agreement among researchers in classifying articles on the characteristics defined in the Codebook. Finally, it includes main tables of the results' analysis.

This codebook was used to analyze the interview data (from 11 interviews) in the master thesis project titled "Enhancing Open Research Data Sharing and Reuse via Infrastructural and Institutional Instruments: a Case Study in Epidemiology" which is openly available on TU Delft Education Repository.

The City of Detroit Open Data Style Guide details standards that, when implemented, improve the public understandability and accessibility of the City's open data. The Style Guide is broken up into two sections. The dataset section outlines best practices for data formatting, quality, and accessibility. The metadata section provides guidance on creating rich and informative dataset descriptions, column-level descriptions, and more. Eventually, all items on the Open Data Portal will adhere to the Style Guide.

The data management plan is developed to provide guidance on data management practices and standards for research institutions and teams working on Africa RISING program. The document is organized as follows: Section 2 discusses open data access, Africa RISING Program data sources and types, metadata management, and data standardization. Section 3 discusses Program data management and access tools. Section 4 discusses internal and external diffusion of Program data. Section 5 discusses data storage and transmission.