We Need a New Data License: Ian Henshaw ODINC CEO
We Need a New Data License I am in Ireland for the Open Government Partnership (OGP) European Summit . Today as I was attending the Civil Society Day that precedes the summit and was listening to people talking about privacy issues, something crystallized in my mind that had been percolating for a while – we need a new data license. As the CEO for the Open Data Institute node in North Carolina , our mission is to evangelize open and unfettered access to data, more specifically Open Data. Open Data is defined as data that is machine readable in a non-proprietary format, is easy to access, use and reuse without license at no cost to the user. Open Data does not contain any personally identifiable information (PII), confidential information or information of a security nature. Personal Data and Privacy Concerns But what about all this government data (and other data) that is available when requested as a public record via something like a FOIA request? This data can and does contain