We are excited to announce that we have published the third annual Global Open Data Index. This year’s Index showed impressive gains from non-OECD countries with Taiwan topping the Index and Colombia and Uruguay breaking into the top ten at four and seven respectively. Overall, the Index evaluated 122 places and 1586 datasets and determined that only 9%, or 156 datasets, were both technically and legally open.

The Index ranks countries based on the availability and accessibility of data in thirteen key categories, including government spending, election results, procurement, and pollution levels. Over the summer, we held a public consultation, which saw contributions from individuals within the open data community as well as from key civil society organisations across an array of sectors. As a result of this consultation, we expanded the 2015 Index to include public procurement data, water quality data, land ownership data and weather data; we also decided to removed transport timetables due to the difficulties faced when comparing transport system data globally.

Open Knowledge International began to systematically track the release of open data by national governments in 2013 with the objective of measuring if governments were releasing the key datasets of high social and democratic value as open data. That enables us to better understand the current state of play and in turn work with civil society actors to address the gaps in data release. Over the course of the last three years, the Global Open Data Index has become more than just a benchmark – we noticed that governments began to use the Index as a reference to inform their open data priorities and civil society actors began to use the Index advocacy tool to encourage governments to improve their performance in releasing key datasets.

Furthermore, indices such as the Global Open Data Index are not without their challenges. The Index measures the technical and legal openness of datasets deemed to be of critical democratic and social value – it does not measure the openness of a given government. It should be clear that the release of a few key datasets is not a sufficient measure of the openness of a government. The blurring of lines between open data and open government is nothing new and has been hotly debated by civil society groups and transparency organisations since the sharp rise in popularity of open data policies over the last decade.

While the goal of the Index has never been to measure the openness of governments, we have been working in collaborations with others to make the index more than just a benchmark of data release. This year, by collaborating with topical experts across an array of sectors, we were able to improve our dataset category definitions to ensure that we are measuring data that civil society groups require rather than simply the data that governments happen to be collecting.

Next year we will be doubling down on this effort to work in collaboration with topical experts to go beyond a “baseline” of reference datasets which are widely held to be important, to tracking the release of datasets deemed critical by the civil society groups working in a given field. This effort is both experimental and ambitious. Measuring open data is not trivial and we are keenly aware of the balance that needs to be struck between international comparability and local context and we will continue to work to get this balance right. Join us on the Index forum to join these future discussions.

The agreement aims to develop the work of both agencies and expand their targeted audience through exchange innovative media services.

“The agreement is part of a long term strategy to develop our services, meet our clients’ needs and keep pace with the international new media trends,” said Amr Eleraqi founder and director of InfoTimes. Eleraqi believes that creating such coalitions between entrepreneurship projects will support these projects and ensure its sustainability.

“The partnership with InfoTimes will help us to produce more professional digital content, which address the audience of social media the newest media market now,” said Kareem Farid , the founder of 16 Secs.

According this new partnership agreement, both agencies are going to produce interactive media materials that include data, figures and information presented with the newest data journalism tools in various political, economic, educational, cultural, social and sport topics.

More information:

InfoTimes has started in 2012 as the first Arabic Data journalism website in the Middle East. Infotimes supports media with visually presented data-driven stories with more than 300 infographics and interactive data visualizations in various fields.

16 Secs has started early this year as a platform for video journalism addressing social media audience and keeping pace with the changing global media industry. The agency offers several media services such as producing infographic videos to different media organizations. .

Throughout November, InfoTimes is conducting the series of 10 workshops, which were aimed at providing the essential concepts, techniques and skills to effectively work with data and produce compelling interesting data stories.

“It is a privilege for us to help Egyptian journalists learn about this new genre of reporting that takes advantage of the huge number of data sets that are available everywhere,” said Amr Eleraqi, founder and director of InfoTimes. “These courses will cover everything you need to know about infographics and data journalism,” he added.

The workshops are beneficial for both journalists, who have not ventured to do this kind of work before, and practitioners with more experience looking to brush up on the basics of the field. The workshops is also open to people in any field – from designers, developers and public information officers to citizens simply interested in knowing more about these research skills – and it may be particularly useful for editors and managers in the newsroom looking to communicate more effectively with their staff regarding data-based projects.

The workshops cover:

– Basics of Data Driven Journalism.

– Collecting and Scraping Data.

– Analyzing Data.

– Data Visualization.

– Data Mapping.

– Coding for journalists.

All workshops will include videos, tutorials, reading materials, exercises and quizzes.

For more information about the workshops click her, to register please fill this form.

If you believe that you can benefit your community and want to become a School of Data fellow, the Fellowship program is now open for you to apply.

Apply for the fellowship here, here you can find the fellowship FAQ, and example profiles of the current fellows.

“Open access publications are easy to access and theoretically accessible to anyone with an Internet connection”, Mark Muehlhaeusler

On the event’s homepage, the term Open Access is highlighted as it refers to “literature and research that is digital, online, free of charge and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions”. Nevertheless, Meggan Houlihan and Mark Muehlhaeusler felt the need to start by explaining the term in more details in the first session of the event.

In the next session, Nicholas Cop from SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online), gave an introduction their bibliographic database of open access journals. SciELO initially started in Brazil, 15 years ago, yet it now have presence in 12 countries most of them are in Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula. Mr. Cop also shed the light about the status of Open Access in that region by showing some statistics. For example, in Chile, 88% of the journals are Open Access ones. Similarly, in Brazil, 63% of the articles there are OA. On SciELO’s blog there is also a study about academic journal publication models in Brazil and Spain. SciELO is meant to make it easier for anyone to search in all the member OA journals from one place. They also noticed that the language barrier for researches done in Spanish or Portuguese are limiting the access to the papers published in the OA journals there, thus they translate the papers’ abstracts. Mr. Cop also spoke about a new project they are working on to promote OA books and to allow ways for easier citations between papers and e-books.

Later on, Iryna Kuchma of Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL), spoke about 4 more projects and case studies. She started with EIFL, a not-for-profit organisation that works with libraries to enable access to digital information in developing and transition countries. Their Open Access program focuses on building capacity to launch open access repositories and to ensure their long-term sustainability, and empowering librarians and library professionals, scholars, educators and students to become open access advocates. She then introduced three other projects, OASPA, COAR and NDLTD.

The next session was a panel discussion that focused on the state of Open Access in the Arab world. The panel was moderated by Nadine Weheba and Ramy Aziz, and there were 5 panelists, Seif Abou Zeid from Tahrir Academy, Hala Essalmawi from Creative Commons Egypt, Ahmed Hussein from Open Egypt, Mandy Taha, an open access consultant, and yours truly from Open Knowledge Egypt. Seif spoke about their aim in Tahrir Academy to make university courses as well as other educational and skill sharing videos available to everyone for free. He emphasised on the importance of adopting an open license, such as Creative Commons, as opposed to many of the existing MOOC websites. Hala Essalmawi then moved to the legal aspects of OA, and how they worked in Creative Commons Egypt, not only to translate the license, but also to adapt it to the Egyptian laws. She also highlighted the positive and negative aspects of the Egyptian IP laws, and their relations to the OA goals. Since Open Egypt advocate for the use of Free and Open Source Software in Egypt, Ahmed Hussein went on to make analogies between Open Access and Open Source, how the culture of sharing and openness has helped the latter to develop in the recent years. He then called for building directories for OA journals in the region. Then, during my talk, I prefered to draw a picture about the status of OA in the region through some numbers. Then I highlighted the importance of OA, not only to make the access to research results costless, but also to make it more accessible. I used the language barrier as an example to show how the lack of free license may prevent people from translating existing researches published in foreign languages. I then had my share of analogies, by comparing OA to Open Data, and how openness here doesn’t stop at the legal aspects, but it also has to provide technical openness so that not only humans can read the published researches, but also machines for data analyses and search engines. There were discussions among the panelists and with the audience about the concepts discussed, and the case studies shown from the region. One of the discussions was taken home by Maha Bali after the session, where she continued the discussion on her blog.

Right before the final session of the day, Ramy Aziz of PLoS, showed how he encourages his students in Cairo University to blog about what they study. He also highlighted how Open Access and scientific blogging can fight pseudoscience and help researchers follow new studies in their fields. Then in the final session of the day, Ryder Kouba presented the AUC’s Digital Archive and Research (DAR).

I wasn’t able to attend the second day, but from the feedback on twitter, it was clear that the panel about copyright was interesting. Later in the day, Maha Bali had a session about Open Education Resources, and the session was followed by a workshop by Mark Muehlhaeusler on Open Journal System (OJS).

Days before the event, different Egyptian organizations started to collaborate and arrange for the day. AFTE, SITC and ADEF wrote on promoted the event on their websites. S3Geeks made great effort spreading the word in Upper Egypt by holding an offline event. LibreBooks called their fans to help in translating content to Arabic, while ECESR was interested in opening data related to economical and social rights.

The participating parties were able to spread the news widely, and many local and Arab newspapers wrote about the day, such as Al-Masry Al-Youm, Masrawy, Youm7, Ahram Gate, AlGareda, Arabia.io, Mandara Online and Al-Modon. Global Voices Online also wrote about the day both in Arabic and English.

S3Geeks ODD Gathering

The Association for Freedom of Thoughts and Expression (AFTE), created a video for the Open Data day. The video was widely shared on the hashtag, and S3Geeks started their gather by showing the video to the attendees.

Although he passed away last December, the words of Ali Shaath, the co-founder of the Arab Digital Expression Foundation (ADEF), were there during the day. Ali Shaath was an early believer and advocate for Openness and the Freedom of Information.

Tweets came from netizens and organizations throughout the day. Some prefered to raise the awareness about the importance of Open Government Data, while others discussed their previous experience trying to get some datasets from the government for their professional and personal needs. An aggregation for some of the tweets coming from Egypt can be seen here. Mohammad Tayseer prefered to participate with code instead. He wrote a script to scrape traffic status data from an online crowdsourcing application.

Phoebe Saad and Emad Mubarak had a side discussion about the governmental entities such as the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS), and how they deal with the data they produces, and how they excert a sort of monopoly on producing or publishing any statistical information through the article number 10 of their Establishment and Organizational Law.

The Egyptian Center for Economic & Social Rights (ECESR) decided to focus on Open Budget and related topics. They also published a handbook about the Egyptian Government Budget and the stages it takes it to be issued. ِAFTE also issued a research paper under the name, Towards Liberated Knowledge. Mostafa Hussein shared a draft Freedom of Information law written by EIPR, AFTE and SITC.

Finally, the buzz on twitter was enough for the Egypt’s Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Atef Helmy, to send a couple of tweets and a Facebook update in support of #ODD14, and to salute the efforts of S3Geeks.

أصدرت مؤسسة حرية الفكر والتعبير، بالأمس، بالتزامن مع يوم “البيانات الحرة”، ورقة بحثية حول المعرفة الحرة بعنوان “مدخل نحو تحرير المعرفة”، وذلك في إطار عمل برنامج “الحريات الرقمية”.

تتناول الورقة المفهوم العام للمعرفة الحرة ومعاييرها، والتطرق للمصطلحات والتعريفات المرتبطة والمتماسة مع تحرير المعرفة؛ مثل البيانات المفتوحة، والوصول الحر، والصيغ الحرة، والبرمجيات الحرة ورخص الاستخدام الحرة، بالإضافة إلى سرد بعض التجارب الدولية في العديد من العناوين التي تتناولها الورقة.

لتحميل الوقة البحثية بصيغة PDF (مدخل نحو تحرير المعرفة)

مركز دعم لتقنية المعلومات هو منظمة حقوقية مستقلة، تأسست كمبادرة عام 2004 واتخذت هيكل مؤسسي سنة 2006، تعمل من أجل تعزيز الحق في المعرفة وحرية تداول المعلومات في مصر، وذلك بالعمل في مجال البحث والدعوة والتدريب من أجل تعزيز حرية تداول المعلومات، والشفافية والمساءلة، وإستقلالية الإعلام

قام المركز بكتابة ثلاث أوراق بحثية هامة، البحث الأول يعرف المعلومات الحكومية ذات الصيغ المفتوحة ويتناول الأسس والقوانين التي توجه الدفة تجاه حكومة مفتوحة في مصر، ومع الدعوة لإتاحة المعلومات الحكومية  دائما ما تتعنت الحكومات وترفض الإفصاح عن المعلومات بدعوى حماية الأمن القومي، ومن ثم قدم مركز دعم لتقنية المعلومات ورقة بحثية أخرى تساعد في فهم المعايير الدولية لحجب المعلومات على أساس حماية مصالح الأمن القومي

الورقة الثالثة تتعلق بمراصد مراقبة البيانات التي يقوم عليها مواطني الدول المختلفة والمنظمات غير الحكومية، الورقة توضح أهداف تلك المراصد البرلمانية ونطاقات عملها وتضرب أمثلة بمراصد موجودة في بلدان عربية وأوروبية

نحن هنا نعيد نشر النص العربي ونترك لكم مناقشة ما فيه، بما في ذلك أرائكم حول فكرة إستخدام كل الوسائل المشروعة والغير مشروعة في سبيل إتاحة المعلومات للجميع، وهل أنتم مع ذلك التوجه الذي يشبه توجه أرسين لوبين – المسمي باللص الشريف -أم لا؟

المعلومة تعني القوة. لكن مثلها مثل مصادر القوى اﻷخري، الكل يريد أن يحتفظ بها لنفسة. التراث الثقافي والعلمي العالمي، المنشور منذ عقود بكتب والمجلاّت تمّ رقمنته وغلق النفاذ إليه من طرف مجموعة من المؤسسات. هل تريد قراءة مقالات تقدّم أشهر النتائج العلمية؟ إذن يجب عليك أن تدفع مبالغ باهظة لناشرين مثل “ريد ألسيفر”.  هناك من يناضلون من أجل تغيير هذا الوضع. ناضلت حركة النفاذ الحر لتضمن أن العلماء والباحثين يقومون بمشاركة منشوراتهم وأبحاثهم بشكل مفتوح على اﻷنترنت دون التقييد بحقوق الطبع والنشر ولكن حتى في أكثر السيناريوهات تفاؤلا، فإنّ سياسة النفاذ الحر لا تنطبق إلا على المنشورات المستقبلية. كل ما تم نشره في الماضي قد فُقد بالفعل. نحن ندفع ثمنا باهظا نتيجة للسياسات الحالية، مثل إجبار الأكاديميين على دفع نقود ليتمكنوا من مطالعة أعمال زملائهم، أو رقمنة مكتبات بأكملها بينما يتمكن موظفو غوغل_الذين بقومون بتحميلها على اﻷنترنت_ وحدهم من اﻹطلاع على محتواها كاملا، أوإتاحة المقالات العلمية لكبراء الباحثين في أفضل جامعات في الدول المتقدمة، في حين أن أطفال وطلبة البلدان الأخرى لا يمكنهم لنفاذ إليها؟ هذا أمر مشين وغير مقبول. العديد يقولون “نحن موافقون لكن ماذا يمكن ان نفعل؟ فالمؤسسات لها الحق في اﻹحتفاظ بحقوق الطبع والنشر وجني أموال طائلة، وهوأمرطبيعي وجائز قانونيا وبالتالي لا توجد طريقه لمنعه.. لكن يمكننا فعل شيء: هو الرفض والمقاومة. الطلبة، أمناء المكتبات، العلماء، أنتم من لكم الحق في النفاذ إلى هذه الموارد، لديكم هذه الامتيازات و يمكنكم الاستفادة من كم هائل من المعلومات المحجوبة عن الآخرين. لكن أنتم لستم ملتزمون _حقيقة أنه أخلاقيا، لا يمكنكم_ باﻷحتفاظ بهذا الكم من الامتيازات وحدكم بينما يمنكم تبادل كلمات السر مع زملائكم، وتحميل الملفات لأصدقائكم. لديكم دور في توزيع و مشاركة هذه الموارد مع آخرين. وفي نفس الوقت، بالنسبة لمن تم حرمانهم من النفاذ للمعلومات واستبعادهم من هذه الوليمة، لا تنتظروا مكتوفي الأيادي. قوموا بالتسلل إلى الثغرات وتسلّقوا الحواجز لفتح النفاذ للمعلومات المؤمنة من قبل الناشرين لتوزيعها على أصدقائكم. إن كل هذه الأعمال تدور وقائعها في الخفاء وتنسب إليها كُنية السرقة أو القرصنة وكأن التخلي عن نشر هذه المعلومات ومشاركتها مع الآخرين يعتبر بمثابة جريمة لا تغتفر. لكن المشاركة ليست شيئا لا أخلاقيا بل على العكس، هي واجب أخلاقي . من يرفض مشاركة المعلومة مع أصدقائهم ومع اﻵخرين هم فقط هؤلاء ذوي الجشع اﻷعمى. الشركات الكبرى المتعددة الجنسيات، بطبيعة الحال، يعميهم الطمع. القوانين الحاكمة تفرض هذا، لأن المساهمين سوف يثورون. بينما السياسيون يدعمون طريق مصادقة القوانين التي تعطيهم السلطة الحصرية لتقرر من الذي يحق له الحصول على المعلومة. لا عدالة في الخضوع لقوانين هي نفسها غير عادلة من اﻷساس. حان الوقت للخروج من الظلال والاعتماد على العصيان المدني، لتأكيد معارضتنا على جريمة مصادرة الثقافة العامة. نحن بحاجة لجمع المعلومات حيث يتم تخزينها ، للحصول على نسخ منها، لنتشاركها مع العالم. يجب علينا استغلال هذا الملك العمومي الذي يمثل جزءا لا يتجزأ من أرشيفنا . يجب شراء قواعد البيانات السرية ووضعها على شبكة الانترنت. يجب علينا تحميل المقالات العلمية و وضعها على شبكات وخدمات تبادل الملفات. يجب علينا خوض معركة حرية النفاذ على طريقة العصابات أو الجوريلا. عندما نصبح أكثر ويتزايد عددنا في العالم، لن نُرسل فقط رسالة قوية لمعارضة خصخصة المعرفة: بل سنضمن أنها أمرأنتهى وينتمي للماضي. فهل أنتم معنا؟

آرون سوارتز يوليو/تموز ٢٠٠٨ ، إيطاليا

Open Data Index provides first major assessment of state of open government data

In the week of a major international summit on government transparency in London, the Open Knowledge Foundation has published its 2013 Open Data Index, showing that governments are still not providing enough information in an accessible form to their citizens and businesses.

The UK and US top the 2013 Index, which is a result of community-based surveys in 70 countries. They are followed by Denmark, Norway and the Netherlands. Of the countries assessed, Cyprus, St Kitts & Nevis, the British Virgin Islands, Kenya and Burkina Faso ranked lowest. There are many countries where the governments are less open but that were not assessed because of lack of openness or a sufficiently engaged civil society. This includes 30 countries who are members of the Open Government Partnership.

Open Government Data initiatives have a critical impact on countries’ future development, especially in countries having long sufferred repressive regimes and inadequate economic development strategies. Open Data initiatives should focus on enabling access to information that helps improving peoples’ lives and the society at large. Citizens in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have demanded more open and inclusive governments as well as increased transparency and public engagement, pre-requierements for government accountability.

The Index ranks countries based on the availability and accessibility of information in ten key areas, including government spending, election results, transport timetables, and pollution levels, and reveals that whilst some good progress is being made, much remains to be done.

According to the World Bank, access to information and public engagement mechanisms in MENA are among the weakest in the world. This year’s Open Data Index is the first assessment of openness of fundamental government data in the region. The Index includes full scorecards for six countries (Israel, Tunisia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Yemen) while partial scorecards for Morocco and Lybia were for now removed.

Chloropleth map of Open Data Index scores. Darker colours reflect higher scores, whereas grey indicates an absence of data.

Rufus Pollock, Founder and CEO of the Open Knowledge Foundation said:

Opening up government data drives democracy, accountability and innovation. It enables citizens to know and exercise their rights, and it brings benefits across society: from transport, to education and health. There has been a welcome increase in support for open data from governments in the last few years, but this Index reveals that too much valuable information is still unavailable.

The UK and US are leaders on open government data but even they have room for improvement: the  US for example does not provide a single consolidated and open register of corporations, while the UK Electoral Commission lets down the UK’s good overall performance by not allowing open reuse of UK election data.

There is a very disappointing degree of openness of company registers across the board: only 5 out of the 20 leading countries have even basic information available via a truly open licence, and only 10 allow any form of bulk download. This information is critical for range of reasons – including tackling tax evasion and other forms of financial crime and corruption.

Less than half of the key datasets in the top 20 countries are available to re-use as open data, showing that even the leading countries do not fully understand the importance of citizens and businesses being able to legally and technically use, reuse and redistribute data. This enables them to build and share commercial and non-commercial services.

The six countries from the Middle East, featured in the Index, globally show very low openness. Israel, Tunisia and Egypt rank among or close to the average-open countries. Bahrain and Yemen are among the 10 least open countries worldwide showcasing perfect enclosure of fundamental government data. Egypt’s data is often available online, but is rarely in a machine readable format and is never openly licensed (as per the Open Definition). Jordan, the only Mid-Eastern country having joined the Open Government Partnership, is unfortunately absent due to lack of contributors.

Proportion of countries in which each dataset is “open” according to the Open Definition (public, machine-readable, and openly licensed).

Pollock:

For the true benefits of open data to be realised, governments must do more than simply put a few spreadsheets online. The information should be easily found and understood, and should be able to be freely used, reused and shared by anyone, anywhere, for any purpose.

CONTACT:

Open Knowledge Foundation on +44 (0)1223 422159 or index@okfn.org.
To see the full results: http://index.okfn.org.
For graphs of the data: https://index.okfn.org/visualisations.

CONTACT EGYPT:

Tarek Amr (@gr33ndata), Open Knowledge Foundation Egypt Ambassador | Rayna S, Open Data Index 2013 MENA Editor

NOTES FOR EDITORS

The Open Data Index is a community-based effort initiated and coordinated by the Open Knowledge Foundation. The Index is compiled using contributions from civil society members and open data practitioners around the world, which are then peer-reviewed and checked by expert open data editors. The Index provides an independent assessment of openness in the following areas: transport timetables; government budget; government spending; election results; company registers; national map; national statistics; legislation; postcodes / ZIP codes; emissions of pollutants.

Countries assessed (in rank order): United Kingdom, United States, Denmark, Norway, Netherlands, Australia, Finland, Sweden, New Zealand, Canada, Iceland, Moldova, Bulgaria, Malta, Italy, France, Austria, Portugal, Slovenia, Switzerland, Israel, Czech Republic, Spain, Ireland, Greece, Croatia, Isle Of Man, Japan, Serbia, Russian Federation, Ecuador, South Korea, Poland, Taiwan R.O.C., China, Indonesia, Hungary, Brazil, Germany, Mexico, Jersey, Guernsey, Slovak Republic, Bermuda, Romania, Costa Rica, Bangladesh, Tunisia, Singapore, Lithuania, South Africa, Cayman Islands, Egypt, Nepal, Senegal, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Gibraltar, Belgium, Hong Kong, Barbados, Bahamas, India, Bahrain, Yemen, Burkina Faso, Kenya, British Virgin Is.,  Saint Kitts & Nevis, Cyprus. NB: a number of countries were not assessed, often because they were not open enough to have an active civil society able or free to safely carry out the research.

Open Data is information which can be freely used, reused and shared by anyone, anywhere, for any purpose. Truly open data demands a range of both technical and legal qualities which ensure that anyone can reuse it freely, for maximum benefit, and the Open Data Index assesses all of these. The Open Definition sets out the principles which define “openness” in relation to data and content.

The Open Knowledge Foundation is an international non-profit working to open up information around the world so it can be used to empower citizens and organizations to build fair and sustainable societies.

The annual summit for the Open Government Partnership will take place in London on 31st October to 1st November. More details at: http://www.opengovpartnership.org/

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OKFN Egypt

We are delighted to have our presence in Egypt now. As you may know, the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF) is a non-profit organisation that is dedicated to promoting Open Data and Open Content in all their forms – including government data, publicly funded research and public domain cultural content.

We are here now to encourage local Open Data initiatives, organize workshops and meetups, and brings those who work in the fields of Open Data together.  You can also join our Facebook page here.