The Open Data Census – Tracking the State of Open Data Around the World | Open Knowledge Foundation Blog

"Recent years have seen a huge expansion in open data activity around the world. This is very welcome, but at the same time it is now increasingly difficult to assess if, and where, progress is being made. To address this, we started the Open Data Census in order to track the state of open data globally. The results so far, covering more than 35 countries and 200 datasets, are now available online at http://census.okfn.org/. We’ll be building this up even more during Open Data Day this weekend.  This post explains why we started the census and why this matters now. This includes the importance of quality (not just quantity) of data, the state of the census so far, and some immediate next steps – such as expanding the census to the city level and developing an 'open data index' to give a single measure of open data progress ..."