component,code,weight,name,description,tags,Source,Provider,Report,Republish,Missing notes,Type of Data,High/Low
government,ODB.2013.C.INIT,1,To what extent is there a well-resourced open government data initiative in this country?,"This question was asked in the 2013 peer-reviewed Open Data Barometer expert survey.

An open data initiative is a plan by the government to release government data online to the public. It has four main features: (1) The government discloses data or information without request from citizens. This may be according to a release schedule or ad hoc; (2) The Internet is the primary means of disclosure. Mobile phone applications may also be used for disclosure; (3) Data is free to access and re-use, e.g. open licenses; (4) Data is in a machine-readable format to enable computer-based reuse, e.g. spreadsheet formats, Application Programming Interface (API).",political,ODB Expert Survey 2013,Web Foundation,Yes,Yes,,Primary,High
government,WEF.GITR.8.01,1,Importance of ICT to government vision.,Survey Question: How much priority does the government in your country place on information and communication technologies? [1 = weak priority; 7 = high priority],organisational,http://www.weforum.org/issues/global-information-technology,The World Economic Forum,Yes,No,,Secondary,High
government,UN.OSI,1,Government online services index,"The UN E-Government Development Survey 2012 Online Services Index is calculated based on an expert survey of each countryÕs national website, including the national central portal, e-services portal and e-participation portal, as well as the websites of the related ministries of education, labour, social services, health, finance, and environment as applicable. Researchers assess the content provided, features of these web platforms and compliance with standards. 

In the Open Data Barometer it provides a proxy indicator of the organisational capacity of the government to deliver the kinds of online services that might be required for managing an open data initiative. ",technical,2012 UN E-Government Development Survey: http://unpan3.un.org/egovkb/datacenter/countryview.aspx (Data taken from http://unpan3.un.org/egovkb/datacenter/download/2012_EGOV_Data.csv),United Nations,Yes,Yes,,Secondary,High
government,ODB.2013.C.CITY,1,To what extent are city or regional governments running their own open data initiatives?,"This question was asked in the 2013 peer-reviewed Open Data Barometer expert survey. 

Open government data does not just involve central government. Regional, city and local government may all adopt open data initiatives. 

An open data initiative is a plan by the government to release government data online to the public. It has four main features: (1) The government discloses data or information without request from citizens. This may be according to a release schedule or ad hoc; (2) The Internet is the primary means of disclosure. Mobile phone applications may also be used for disclosure; (3) Data is free to access and re-use, e.g. open licenses; (4) Data is in a machine-readable format to enable computer-based reuse, e.g. spreadsheet formats, Application Programming Interface (API).",political,ODB Expert Survey 2013,Web Foundation,Yes,Yes,,Primary,High
civil,ODB.2013.C.RTI,1,To what extent does the country have a functioning right-to-information law?,"This question was asked in the 2013 peer-reviewed Open Data Barometer expert survey. 

This indicator addresses whether the Right to Information act disclosure requirements are Òeffective.Ó The basic requirements for them to be considered ÒeffectiveÓ are whether information: is available to the public for free or at reasonable/minimal costs in a variety of venues (e.g., online, government agency offices); can be accessed by citizens within 30 days, and answers the specific request, with explanations for refusal to release information. 
",legal,ODB Expert Survey 2013,Web Foundation,Yes,Yes,,Primary,High
civil,ODB.2013.C.DPL,1,To what extent is there a robust legal or regulatory framework for protection of personal data in this country? ,"This question was asked in the 2013 peer-reviewed Open Data Barometer expert survey. 

Strong data protection regimes include a number of key features including: Broad applicability; the right of choice/consent; the right to access and correct; responsibilities for information holders; and the right of redress.",legal,ODB Expert Survey 2013,Web Foundation,Yes,Yes,,Primary,High
civil,FH,1,Political Freedoms and Civil Liberties,"Freedom in the World is an annual comparative assessment of political rights and civil liberties that this year covers 195 countries and 14 related and disputed territories. It is constructed through an expert survey and review process based on core questions organised around categories drawn from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, representing the fundamental components of freedom, which include an individual's ability to: 

* Participate freely in the political process;
* Vote freely in legitimate elections;
* Have representatives that are accountable to them;
* Exercise freedoms of expression and belief;
* Be able to freely assemble and associate;
* Have access to an established and equitable system of rule of law;
* Enjoy social and economic freedoms, including equal access to economic opportunities and the right to hold private property.

We use a combined score out of 100 taken by adding up the Political Rights and Civil Liberties components of the 2013 ranking.",social,Freeom House Freedom in the World Rankings,Freedom House,Yes,Yes,,Secondary,High
civil,ODB.2013.C.CSOC,1,To what extent are civil society and information technology professionals engaging with the government regarding open data?,"This question was asked in the 2013 peer-reviewed Open Data Barometer expert survey. 

Campaigns for open data are often composed of civil society organizations, data technologists, informational professionals, computer experts and ordinary citizens who advocate for greater access to government data. A 10 score indicates that government officials recognize these organized campaigns and engage in discussion with community leaders about  which data to release, when and in what forms.",social,ODB Expert Survey 2013,Web Foundation,Yes,Yes,,Primary,High
entrepreneurs,ODB.2013.C.TRAIN,1,To what extent is training available for individuals or businesses wishing to increase their skills or build businesses to use open data?,"This question was asked in the 2013 peer-reviewed Open Data Barometer expert survey. 

Working with open data involves a wide range of knowledge and skills, including: web technologies; data science; data visualisation; legal aspects of open data; and business aspects of open data.

Training may be delivered through both full-time and part-time, or through professional development courses. Training may also be delivered through business incubator programmes, or short-term boot-camp training events. ",economic,ODB Expert Survey 2013,Web Foundation,Yes,Yes,,Primary,High
entrepreneurs,ODB.2013.C.SUPIN,1,"To what extent is government directly supporting a culture of innovation with open data through competitions, grants or other support?","This question was asked in the 2013 peer-reviewed Open Data Barometer expert survey. 

Governments can adopt a range of approaches to stimulate a culture of innovation around open data including: running competitions in which prize money is offered to innovators creating tools, services or commercial applications using open data; organising hackathon events which invite developers to create prototype tools and services over one or two day events; organising incubators and open data boot camps specifically targeted at supporting innovative uses of open data; offering grant funding or innovation vouchers specifically targeted at encouraging businesses to engage with open data;

Sometimes these are run as one-off activities, organised with minimal budgets by small groups of staff. To receive the highest scores there should be clear evidence of government dedicating investment to support innovation with open data, including support to private sector re-users of open data.",economic,ODB Expert Survey 2013,Web Foundation,Yes,Yes,,Primary,High
entrepreneurs,WEF.GCI.9.02,1,Firm-level technology absorption.,"From the World Economic Forum Global Competitiveness Report Expert Survey answers to the question ""In your country, to what extent do businesses adopt new technology?"" [Original scores on a 7-point scale from 1 = not at all; 7 = adopt extensively] | 2012Ð13 weighted average",economic,http://www.weforum.org/issues/competitiveness-0/gci2012-data-platform/,The World Economic Forum,Yes,No,,Secondary,High
entrepreneurs,WB.NetUsers,1,Internet users (per 100 people),"Internet users (per 100 people). Internet users are people with access to the worldwide network. The data is generated by the World Bank from International Telecommunication Union, World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report and database, and World Bank estimates.",technical,http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IT.NET.USER.P2,World Bank,Yes,Yes,,Secondary,High
innovation,ODB.2013.D1,1,Map Data,,,ODB Expert Survey 2013,Web Foundation,Yes,Yes,,Primary,High
innovation,ODB.2013.D9,1,Public transport timetables,,,ODB Expert Survey 2013,Web Foundation,Yes,Yes,,Primary,High
innovation,ODB.2013.D10,1,International trade data,,,ODB Expert Survey 2013,Web Foundation,Yes,Yes,,Primary,High
innovation,ODB.2013.D13,1,Crime statistics,,,ODB Expert Survey 2013,Web Foundation,Yes,Yes,,Primary,High
social_policy,ODB.2013.D4,1,Detailed census data,,,ODB Expert Survey 2013,Web Foundation,Yes,Yes,,Primary,High
social_policy,ODB.2013.D11,1,Health sector performance,,,ODB Expert Survey 2013,Web Foundation,Yes,Yes,,Primary,High
social_policy,ODB.2013.D12,1,Primary or secondary education performance data,,,ODB Expert Survey 2013,Web Foundation,Yes,Yes,,Primary,High
social_policy,ODB.2013.D14,1,National environment statistics,,,ODB Expert Survey 2013,Web Foundation,Yes,Yes,,Primary,High
social_policy,ODB.2013.D2,1,Land ownership data,,,ODB Expert Survey 2013,Web Foundation,Yes,Yes,,Primary,High
accountability,ODB.2013.D5,1,Detailed government budget,,,ODB Expert Survey 2013,Web Foundation,Yes,Yes,,Primary,High
accountability,ODB.2013.D6,1,Detailed data on government spend,,,ODB Expert Survey 2013,Web Foundation,Yes,Yes,,Primary,High
accountability,ODB.2013.D7,1,Company register,,,ODB Expert Survey 2013,Web Foundation,Yes,Yes,,Primary,High
accountability,ODB.2013.D8,1,Legislation,,,ODB Expert Survey 2013,Web Foundation,Yes,Yes,,Primary,High
accountability,ODB.2013.D15,1,National election results,,,ODB Expert Survey 2013,Web Foundation,Yes,Yes,,Primary,High
sectors,ODB.2013.C.UNIDATA,1,To what extent are academic institutions in the country opening up their data?  ,"This question was asked in the 2013 peer-reviewed Open Data Barometer expert survey, with data covering the period to June 2013. 

Open data is not just an issue for central governments. Open data in science and academic research is also an important topic. 

A number of governments have introduced policies requiring state funded research to be deposited with Ôdata archivesÕ for long-term preservation, and Universities or national disciplinary programmes are increasingly developing their own thematic data archives. This question explores whether, in addition to Ôopen accessÕ policies (which generally focus on access to publications)  or Ôdata archivalÕ policies, academic institutions are also implementing open data policies that lead to the publication of datasets under open licenses. 

This question also asks about whether academic institutions are publishing administrative data as open data. For example, www.data.ac.uk in the United Kingdom brings together open data published by a small number of UK universities on facilities and equipment.",,ODB Expert Survey 2013,Web Foundation,Yes,Yes,,Primary,High
sectors,ODB.2013.C.BIZDATA,1,"To what extent are businesses in the country opening up their own data?
","This question was asked in the 2013 peer-reviewed Open Data Barometer expert survey, with data covering the period to June 2013. 

Open data is an idea that can apply to companies as well as to governments. Businesses can publish a wide range of datasets as open data, including: Product catalogues and inventories; Timetables and service details; Environmental performance data; Research data; and Geographic data.

To quality as open data publication a business should be: Providing the data online; Providing it in machine readable formats; Providing it under an open license.

Where no license is given, or the license for access to the data restricts how a third-party can reuse it then the data does not count as open data. 

Researchers were instructed to spend up to 30 minutes searching for examples of business open data. ",,ODB Expert Survey 2013,Web Foundation,Yes,Yes,,Primary,High
sectors,ODB.2013.C.CSDATA,1,To what extent are civil society in the country opening up their own data?,"This question was asked in the 2013 peer-reviewed Open Data Barometer expert survey, with data covering the period to June 2013. 

Civil society organisations hold a range of datasets that can be made available as open data. Projects like the International Aid Transparency Initiative or hGrant are encouraging charities to publish details on their funding, or encouraging foundations to publish open data on the grants they give. Charities can also publish data collected through research as open data. For the purpose of this question researchers could also consider journalism to be a sector of civil society, such that if news outlets are publishing open data from their own research this would count as an example of a civil society sector publishing open data. To quality as open data the datasets a charity publishes should be: Provided online; Provided in machine readable formats; Providing under an open license. 

Research for this question does not include examples where charities or civil society organisations are simply republishing or visualising government open data. ",,ODB Expert Survey 2013,Web Foundation,Yes,Yes,,Primary,High
political,ODB.2013.I.GOV,1,To what extent has open data had a noticeable impact on increasing government efficiency and effectiveness?,"This question was asked in the 2013 peer-reviewed Open Data Barometer expert survey, with data covering the period to June 2013. 

Open data could lead to improvements in government efficiency and effectiveness in a number of ways including: by enabling government departments to better plan and target resources; by allowing outside actors to scrutinise government use of resources and highlight areas for savings; by enabling outside actors to build new services on top of open data which deliver more effective public services; and by supporting collaboration between different government departments.

The score for this question is based upon an expert review of available online media and academic publications that attribute impacts of these forms explicitly to open data. The greater quantity, and the greater the credibility, of the materials identified, the higher the score given. Given the early stage of development of open data in most countries assessed, scores are preliminary, and should be used with care. ",,ODB Expert Survey 2013,Web Foundation,Yes,Yes,,Primary,High
political,ODB.2013.I.ACCOUNT,1,To what extent has open data had a noticeable impact on increasing transparency and accountability in the country?,"This question was asked in the 2013 peer-reviewed Open Data Barometer expert survey, with data covering the period to June 2013. 

Open data could lead to improvements in government transparency and accountability in a number of ways including: through supporting journalism and data journalism which uncovers wasteful spending, corruption or other wrongdoing by government departments or officials; supporting the creation of applications which allow citizens to report on their experience of government services (for example, when a directory of schools or hospitals helps third-parties build a school or healthcare performance reporting application for citizens); supporting scrutiny of government decision making; and supporting greater citizen engagement in policy making. 

The score for this question is based upon an expert review of available online media and academic publications that attribute impacts of these forms explicitly to open data. The greater quantity, and the greater the credibility, of the materials identified, the higher the score given. Given the early stage of development of open data in most countries assessed, scores are preliminary, and should be used with care.
",,ODB Expert Survey 2013,Web Foundation,Yes,Yes,,Primary,High
social,ODB.2013.I.ENV,1,To what extent has open data had a noticeable impact on environmental sustainability in the country?,"This question was asked in the 2013 peer-reviewed Open Data Barometer expert survey, with data covering the period to June 2013. 

Open data could lead to impacts on environment sustainability in a number of ways including: through enabling greater scrutiny of pollution impacts or environmental impacts of government projects or private enterprise; through supporting greater attention to be paid to environmental factors in planning projects; through encouraging government buildings to make more efficient use of energy; through raising citizens awareness of their own environmental impacts; and through supporting campaigns on environmental issues.

The score for this question is based upon an expert review of available online media and academic publications that attribute impacts of these forms explicitly to open data, including both data published by government, and data published according to a government mandate (e.g. in cases of 'targeted transparency' mandates from government [Fung et. al. 2007]). The greater quantity, and the greater the credibility, of the materials identified, the higher the score given. Given the early stage of development of open data in most countries assessed, scores are preliminary, and should be used with care.

Fung, A., Graham, M., & Weil, D. (2007). Full Disclosure: The Perils and Promise of Transparency (1st ed., p. 300). Cambridge University Press.",,ODB Expert Survey 2013,Web Foundation,Yes,Yes,,Primary,High
social,ODB.2013.I.INC,1,To what extent has open data had a noticeable impact on increasing the inclusion of marginalised groups in policy making and accessing government services?  ,"This question was asked in the 2013 peer-reviewed Open Data Barometer expert survey, with data covering the period to June 2013. 

All societies have certain groups who are marginalised. This may be on grounds of age, gender, race, tribe, caste, class, disability, geographic location, and levels of poverty. Whilst these groups are not prohibited by licenses or technical mechanisms from accessing and using open data, they may not always be able to have effective access to open data. It has been argued however that open data can lead to more inclusive policy making and government services. 

This may happen through the direct use of open data by marginalised groups, or through the work of intermediary organisations who support marginalised groups to access and use data, or who use data to campaign for the greater inclusion of marginalised groups in decision making or in receiving the benefits of public services. 

The score for this question is based upon an expert review of available online media and academic publications that attribute impacts of these forms explicitly to open data. The greater quantity, and the greater the credibility, of the materials identified, the higher the score given. Given the early stage of development of open data in most countries assessed, scores are preliminary, and should be used with care.
",,ODB Expert Survey 2013,Web Foundation,Yes,Yes,,Primary,High
economic,ODB.2013.I.ECON,1,To what extent has open data had a noticeable positive impact on the economy?,"This question was asked in the 2013 peer-reviewed Open Data Barometer expert survey, with data covering the period to June 2013. 

Open data may impact on the economy in a number of ways, including: through supporting the creation of new businesses based on open data; through supporting existing businesses to lower their costs or become more efficient (for example, using weather or tranport data to better plan their operations); and through supporting better economic planning.

The score for this question is based upon an expert review of available online media and academic publications that attribute impacts of these forms explicitly to open data. The greater quantity, and the greater the credibility, of the materials identified, the higher the score given. Given the early stage of development of open data in most countries assessed, scores are preliminary, and should be used with care.
",,ODB Expert Survey 2013,Web Foundation,Yes,Yes,,Primary,High
economic,ODB.2013.C.ENTR,1,To what extent are entrepreneurs successfully using open data to build new businesses in the country?,"This question was asked in the 2013 peer-reviewed Open Data Barometer expert survey, with data covering the period to June 2013. 

Open data can provide an input for entrepreneurs to innovate and create new products and services, and to build new businesses.

The score for this question is based upon an expert review of available online media and academic publications that attribute impacts of these forms explicitly to open data, including in this question, both open data from government, and open data from other sources (for example, crowdsourced data such as open street map). The greater quantity, and the greater the credibility, of the materials identified, the higher the score given. Given the early stage of development of open data in most countries assessed, scores are preliminary, and should be used with care.
",,ODB Expert Survey 2013,Web Foundation,Yes,Yes,,Primary,High