Putting open data into policy: lessons from leaders around the world | News | Open Data Institute

"In February, the Open Data Institute brought together outstanding open data leaders from governments around the world as the inaugural cohort of the Open Data Leaders Network, starting with an intensive week of peer-to-peer learning and discussing shared challenges, led by experts Liz Carolan and David Tarrant. The open data leaders came from four continents and seven countries: Malaysia, Macedonia, Chile, Morocco, Moldova, the UK and Mexico. One of the exciting things about open data as a policy area is that even the longest-running and most successful open data programmes are little more than five years old. 'Best practice' is not fully entrenched, and collaboration between government, the private sector, academia and civil society is not only desirable but essential to the success of an initiative. Without use and reuse of open data, an open data policy has very limited usefulness. With all this in mind, there is more space than in other, more established policy areas for officials from different countries to learn from one another and innovate together ..."