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Develop simple tools to facilite access 

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Develop simple tools to facilite access 

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¿Qué es un pedido de acceso?

Es un requerimiento que se le puede hacer al Estado y a algunos sujetos privados para conocer y saber más sobre temas variados. El Estado está obligado a entregar la información que produce o tiene en su poder, aunque no está forzado a producirla especialmente ante un pedido (hay algunas excepciones).

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Es un requerimiento que se le puede hacer al Estado y a algunos sujetos privados para conocer y saber más sobre temas variados. El Estado está obligado a entregar la información que produce o tiene en su poder, aunque no está forzado a producirla especialmente ante un pedido (hay algunas excepciones).

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Sharing best practices
Community of learning.

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Case studies focus on things that don't work and not only on the success experiences

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Case studies focus on things that don't work and not only on the success experiences

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Training civil society and community-based organizations on the relevance of accessing quality information/data and guiding them on how to engage the relevant institutions

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Training civil society and community-based organizations on the relevance of accessing quality information/data and guiding them on how to engage the relevant institutions

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Open Governmental Data in your country

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This NGO helps with technology appropriation
SocialTIC

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SocialTIC es una organización sin fines de lucro dedicada a la investigación, formación, acompañamiento y promoción de la tecnología digital e información para fines sociales.Conoce nuestros proyectos, reflexiones y recomendaciones sobre infoactivismo, datos abiertos y seguridad digital

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Events and trainings to improve the storytelling's skills of the public servants and the data ongs`s members and the data skills of journalists

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Events and trainings to improve the storytelling's skills of the public servants and the data ongs`s members and the data skills of journalists

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How easy might it be to get e.g FOI law in a country. How might that be drafted and a campaign be started? If a country wants it, what should they consider?

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Training on data/open data/ data mining for thematic CSOs so that they can learn how to better use the data out there (CSOs that do not recognise themselves as data organizations)

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Training on data/open data/ data mining for thematic CSOs so that they can learn how to better use the data out there (CSOs that do not recognise themselves as data organizations)

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e.g https://opendatabarometer.org/

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Moving the mindset in a way of accessing information on institutional level, and not on personal level (e.g. accessing info through good personal/work relationships)

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One barrier we have encountered is that data analysts have to wrangle open data publications into an environment where they can then analyse it.
At Open Data Services we have recently developed some tools that provide open data in different formats (csv, database dumps) and in online services such as datasette.

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Understanding the underlying problem that data is supposed to help solve before start advocating for open data - publish with a purpose

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Understanding the underlying problem that data is supposed to help solve before start advocating for open data - publish with a purpose

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Explaining the value of open data standards rather than just advocating for open data standards in of themselves

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Explaining the value of open data standards rather than just advocating for open data standards in of themselves

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Understanding that to publish good data you need to help people provide you with it, and how to do so

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Understanding that to publish good data you need to help people provide you with it, and how to do so

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In order to get data and going through the process of data request, we've formed relationships with government officials in order to bond with those that support openness

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In requesting for data, government officials informed me they had sent the FOI letter to their legal department for review before sending the letter to us. Further, the legal department informed us they had sent it to the ministry of justice.

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-gov websites
-gov reports
agency reports

needs to be archieved in an environment where gov do not keep documents online.

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Publish stories in media to increase the cost of stop publishing or no publish data

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Publish stories in media to increase the cost of stop publishing or no publish data

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Spoken with the Information Commissioner (UK)

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Spoken with the Information Commissioner (UK)

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When Freedom of Information requests have been refused.

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Work with public sector to improve data capture

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Work with public sector to improve data capture

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We are fortunate at Open Data Services that we work alongside the public sector in many places and they want our help to improve their beneficial ownership collection.
Part of our work with OpenOwnership involves us reviewing forms for government departments

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Given a range of formats that data is published in we have consumed it in various ways (e.g. api, scrape) and stored/re-published these in a standard way

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For impact, at Sinar Project, Malaysia, we are working from ground up in apply best practice/standards

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For impact, at Sinar Project, Malaysia, we are working from ground up in apply best practice/standards

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For example, we focus on a specific community facing a problem eg. indigenous community deforestation, we try to see how all the different apps, or standards can directly help them in addressing the problem. Making FOI requests, data they need to ask for and should have and so on.

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Open data for citizens through platforms, webinars and science difussion.
Grounded base-collaboration

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Request information through the "Governmental Ministry" in charge of solving issues among governmental institutions.
Legal Transparency Requests (takes months).

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Good relationships with gov servants, avoid confrontational approach.

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Adding to other people's comments. Open Data Services and openDemocracy have a project that collects declarations of interests and republishes them to a standard.
There appears to be a standard for local authorities - i.e. what they must publish - but that might range in form from electronic to scanned pdfs

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When measuring quality of information, we use examples civic tech that works such as those in the UK, or international standards

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When measuring quality of information, we use examples civic tech that works such as those in the UK, or international standards

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When trying to implement, build or measure data against these examples of civic tech or international data standards, we learn what data we lack either in access or quality.

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Gatekeeping by other organizations

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Poor knowledge of freedom of information act on the side of public officials

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Poor knowledge of freedom of information act on the side of public officials

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Gov services may not be fully equiped and resourced with delivering services that may be new in related countries such as FOI, digital services.

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Forms used for data collection do not collect all of the data required for a full open data publication

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Forms used for data collection do not collect all of the data required for a full open data publication

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I'm specifically thinking of beneficial ownership here. At Open Data Services we work with OpenOwnership to help governments collect beneficial ownership data.
We provide feedback on the forms that companies fill in to inform the state of who their beneficial owners are.
We have seen instances where very limited information is being asked for and some examples of poor form design.

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Due to different boundaries, data may only be available at state level and lacks granularity

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Government officials' negative perception on information requested, they in most cases feel the information will be used to exposed certain corrupt act 

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Government officials' negative perception on information requested, they in most cases feel the information will be used to exposed certain corrupt act 

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Not availability because it is filed as national security issue (lack of transparency).
The information about epidemiological issues is not being generated nor shared.
People are beholding the information because they used private funds.
The information is on paper or non readable pdf

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Range of repressive and vague laws for access to information/data in Malaysia. 

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Range of repressive and vague laws for access to information/data in Malaysia. 

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Official Secrets Ac, Sedition Act, Penal Code 143(A) on public officials sharing information. Contrasted with government open data initiatives and directors, along with efforts at better digital government services provision. Access to quality information and civic tech therefore can be tied to the legal framework for access to information.

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A clearing house for data that's been made available to date

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A clearing house for data that's been made available to date

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Many projects make data available but it's difficult to track them over time. That's why we track civic data repositories, data standards, etc. at https://directory.civictech.guide/listing-categories

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e.g. Facebook has funded multiple civic tech groups to collect civic data and allowed that data to be shared with the rest of the world

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Programs that make data available and useful for civil society

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Programs that make data available and useful for civil society

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develop personal relationships to get access to research data

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develop personal relationships to get access to research data

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Most valuable data lives on private platforms that are inconsistent partners

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Most valuable data lives on private platforms that are inconsistent partners

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E.g. research depends on social media data and platforms have been very inconsistent about sharing it reliably over time, and with enough data to be meaningful (e.g. raw data vs a hosted visualization whose format changes)

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Are there particular challenges in including children as rights holders in the creation, management, and monitoring of quality information for your civic tech projects?

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Are there particular challenges in including children as rights holders in the creation, management, and monitoring of quality information for your civic tech projects?

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UK law providing access to public sector datasets

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UK law providing access to public sector datasets

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https://github.com/mysociety/whatdotheyknow-theme/issues/1032

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Help page section on requests for material from datasets · Issue #1032 · mysociety/whatdotheyknow-theme

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The "dataset" provisions of FOI are powerful. If anyone requests an element of a dataset that prompts a requirement for a public body to publish that dataset, and keep the published dataset up to date. Under Section 19(2A) of the Freedom...

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Research how access to information laws apply to datasets and how those laws work in practice

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Research how access to information laws apply to datasets and how those laws work in practice

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Ticket for UK research on this subject https://github.com/mysociety/whatdotheyknow-theme/issues/1044 but such research could be carried out across a range of jurisdictions.

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Research how the datasets provisions of the UK FOI act is working in practice · Issue #1044 · mysociety/whatdotheyknow-theme

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Are there any cases where a FOI request has actually prompted a public body to release a dataset and keep it up-to-date ? How have dataset related requests on WhatDoTheyKnow been dealt with. Have they been recognised by public bodies? Se...

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Alaveteli websites enable people to make requests for information, including datasets, in public.

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Personal data present in public datasets

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Personal data present in public datasets

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Contact details for public bodies can be withheld on the basis they contain personal data eg. if the email contact held for a public body is of the form firstname.lastname@ ... rather than contact@

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The Government doesn't have the data you might expect it to hold. WhatDoTheyKnow.com probably has the largest database of UK public bodies. The Government doesn't appear to have a central database we can co-ordinate that database with. Where there are public databases they can be out of date, and not presented in a manner intended for reuse.