Open data and charities | Nominet Trust

abernard102@gmail.com 2012-07-22

Summary:

Use the link to access the report from Nominet Trust. “Nominet Trust was established in January 2008 by Nominet, one of the world’s largest Internet registries, which maintains the .uk register of domain names.  As part of Nominet’s public purpose, Nominet Trust was set up to fund internet-based projects that make a positive difference to the lives of disadvantaged and vulnerable people.” An overview of the report reads as follows: “Open data involves a paradigm shift in the way organisations manage their information and data: moving from a default of charities keeping data resources locked up in under-used internal systems, to building a shared ‘Web of Data’. The emergence of the open data movement has supported powerful new models of creativity, innovation and public engagement. Although most of the recent stories of progress and success in the open data field come from government and research where open data is more established, this report sets out to explain the ways in which open data is increasingly coming to play a role in the charitable sector. Existing open government data can be used by charities to add value to their work, to target services better, to improve advocacy and fundraising, and to support knowledge sharing and collaboration between different charities and agencies. Crowdsourcing of open data also offers a new way for charities to gather intelligence, and a wide range of freely available online tools can support charities to analyse open data resources. Realising the potential of open data will require charities to meet a number of technical and organisational challenges. Indeed many charities will need to address key issues relating to open data, whether they choose to pursue benefits from open data or not (as regulatory, funding and performance indication is published online by researchers, by government and by others in the sector). This report reviews open data as it relates to the charitable sector, drawing on long experience of developing open data in research and government, as well as early work exploring open data with charities and third-sector organisations. It defines open data, describes the background context of a knowledge economy, and outlines key opportunities and challenges of open data in the charity sector...”

Link:

http://www.nominettrust.org.uk/knowledge-centre/articles/open-data-and-charities

Updated:

08/16/2012, 06:08

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oa.new oa.data oa.government oa.crowd oa.uk oa.economic_impact oa.nominet_trust oa.charitable_sector oa.third_sector oa.reports

Authors:

abernard

Date tagged:

07/22/2012, 13:06

Date published:

07/22/2012, 14:15