Presentation during the AOSP Madagascar workshop.

1. LYNN WOOLFREY
CODATA-ASSAF WORKSHOP ON OPEN DATA FOR SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT GOALS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, HOTEL CARLTON,
ANTANANARIVO, MADAGASCAR, 5 - 6 SEPTEMBER 2017

2. “Information becomes more
valuable the more it is used. We
in the policy-making world need
to understand better how the
economics of information
differs from the economics of
inherently scarce physical
goods—and use it to advance
our policy goals”

3. The New Data Agenda
The 2013 UN post-MDG report notes that government
data in developing countries is not easy to find or use.
The report calls for a revolution in data publishing, in
which national data is made widely available to support
policy research.
How can governments revolutionise the use of national
data to achieve their policy goals?

4. MAKING A DATA REVOLUTION
DATA MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES AND BEST PRACTICE

5. Invest in National Data Infrastructure
• Open Data Policies
• Funding for staff and
facilities to make Open
Data possible
Policy and
Funding
• Internet backbones
• High-performance
computing
• Open Data portals
Technological
• Data services
• Training Centres
• National and regional
helpdesks
Institutional
• IT programmers and
technicians
• Data curators
• Quantitative
researchers
Human
Resource

6. Adopt Open Data Principles

7. Examples of Open Data Principles
1996 Bermuda
Principles
At a summit in Bermuda, leaders of
the Human Genome Project agreed
on a revolutionary set of principles
requiring all DNA sequence data be
publicly accessible 24 hours after
generation
2010 Open Government
Data Principles
Accessibility (non-discrimination,
non-payment, open standards
Completeness
Primacy
Timeliness
Machine-readability
Permanence

8. Data Quality Principles
Comparability Accessibility Primacy Accuracy Security
Timeliness Interpretability

9. Requirements for Certification of Data
Repositories
The data are accessible
The data are in a usable format
The data are reliable
The data are identified in a unique and persistent way
WDS-Data Seal of Approval Certification

10. DATE NAME DATA PRINCIPLE - Data should be:
Accessible
Inter-
operable
Machine
readable
Timely Secure Interpretable Permanent
Discoverable
Non-
discriminatory
Complete Primary
Data should be
online and easy to
find
Access should be on
equal terms
Data should
be made
available in
their entirety
Primary, not
aggregate
data
Standardised
open formats
Structured to
allow automated
processing
Shared in a
timely manner
Protection of
privacy of data
subjects
Good data
documentation
Preserved and
shared in the
long term
1996 Bermuda Principles
Genomics
data x x x x x
1997 Data quality principles
Government
data x x x x x
2007
OECD Principles and
Guidelines for Access
to Research Data from
Public Funding
Data from
publicly
funded
research
x x x x x x x x x
2007
Sebastopol Principles -
8 fundamental principles
for open government
data
Government
data x x x x x x x x
2010
10 Open Government
Data principles
Government
data x x x x x x x x x
2014
FAIR Data Principles
(Findable, Accessible,
Interoperable, Re-
usable)
Research
data x x x x x x
2015
ICSU-WDS Data
Sharing Principles
Research
data x x

11. QUESTIONS?
lynn.woolfrey@uct.ac.za
www.datafirst.uct.ac.za