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The insights page is the place where the index team and the OK network share their findings and learnings from the Global Open Data Index (GODI). We do so to record outcomes, share knowledge and to create a discussion about issues that are important to the open data community.

The GODI 2016/17 Report: The State Of Open Government Data In 2017

This is Open Knowledge International’s first State of Open Government Data report. Based on key findings from our work on the Global Open Data Index (GODI) 2016/17 it outlines the obstacles to open government data publication, and suggests steps that will allow progress in the field of open data.
The report identifies three problem areas: 1) Data is hard (or even impossible) to find online, 2) data is often not readily usable, 3) open licensing is rare practice and jeopardised by a lack of standards. As such, institutions are producing information which is encoded in forms that are preventing data publishers and public users from communicating with one another. We propose that dialogue is critical to produce relevant data that can be used by civil society and GODI - more than only a benchmark - provides the platform for this dialogue. For GODI 2016/17, we ran a public dialogue between governments and data users for the first time to foster the production of meaningful data. The learnings and outcomes from this process are documented in our final report. It also explains important variables to further elaborate this dialogue model. The report is open to debate in order to continue learning from your experiences. We would love to hear your feedback in our discussion forum.

Translations of the GODI 2016/17 report

The GODI 2016/17 Report is also available in Turkish.

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