NRW publishes experience report on Open Data – more questions than answers - Blog - OKF

From Google's English:  "The opening up and reuse of one’s own data sets has been a demand in government programs and official strategies for more than a decade. The exact design and intended effects often remain vague. The economy should benefit from better data provision, transparency should be increased and, in the best case, administrative work should be supported. It is all the more astonishing how rarely official evaluation measures with specific questions are part of guidelines. Very few federal states even provide for open data progress reports and if they do, then only as a one-off review several years after a law comes into force. At the federal level, the E-Government Act stipulates in Section 12a Paragraph 11: “The Federal Government reports to the Bundestag every two years on the progress made in making data available by the federal administration as open data.” “Every two years” is, however, a flexible term – the last report was published in 2019 ."