WHY OPEN DATA IS A NECESSARY BUT NOT SUFFICIENT PRECURSOR TO OPEN GOVERNMENT: OGP SUMMIT 2016
The Open Government Partnership was launched in 2011 to provide an international platform for domestic reformers committed to making their governments more open, accountable, and responsive to citizens. I wrote a blog post for the Open Government Partnership in 2013. The post called for an international body, independent of the OGP, to oversee OGP country commitments. At the time I named the Open Data Institute (ODI) as a possible neutral world leading organization to oversee, rank and hold accountable countries that made commitments. 3 years passed and I realize the ODI is not the right vehicle. One of the global NGOs like the World Bank might be a possibility as a watchdog. Open Government: Ambiguity through “Open Washing” I read the Yu and Robinson article “The New Ambiguity of Open Government” a few years ago. I disagree that the edge of open government is going away. Yes there are data sets being published that have nothing to do with accountability. Yes there are Open Data